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[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That depends entirely on the "people" you're talking to... There's plenty of people who would think of the Avatar films.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the vast majority of people, aka normies, would think of the blue dudes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

for a long time I have thought both were from the same universe.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I only think of the blue people.

I watched the last airbender movie. It wasnt that good... haha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Have you seen the last airbender show? The movie was a soulless mockery of it with absolutely no sense or real inspiration from its source material. If you haven't seen the show, trust me, it's more than more than worth the watch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

t r i g g e r e d

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I haven't seen the second Bluvatar movie because the first one was just scifi trope: the movie. He actually named the macguffin "unobtanium" ffs. Not even close to what I've come to expect from the person that gave us The Abyss, Aliens, and T2.

Meanwhile, The Last Airbender is the only cartoon to ever make me cry.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The second one felt like an extended visual demo.

I can name 2 characters from the entire movie. And one of them was a side character. Jake Sully and Spider.

The story was inconsequential (meaning everything that happened progressed nothing) and forgettable.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the "unobtanium" was just lampshading. It would come off better if the rest of the plot was more innovative or self-aware, but I think they knew what they were doing for that bit at least.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Avatar is one of the greatest animated shows to have been released in at least the last 30 years

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It's the greatest animated kids show ever made.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The biggest cultural impact from the Avatar movies is on the technology developed that will be used for other movies. The stories, characters and even world-building are not all that great, however the film-making is astounding and will reverberate through the industry for decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Definitely, but I feel like the second had a much lesser impact than the first

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It's amazing how this meme/whinging was going on for a decade on the internet, only for James Cameron to make a second movie and even that made 2 billion dollars (and could have surpassed the first one had there not been an outbreak in China).

And even after all of that, you guys actually think that people don't care or remember about the films?

[–] starman2112 7 points 7 months ago (16 children)

I think that people know and care about the films, but I've never seen anyone make a reference to it outside of discussions that are explicitly about it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The films are super popular but again after the sequel it was like everyone immediately went back to literally never mentioning the Na’avi or Pantera.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

The *people you hang around with

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I disagree: for most of my country, whenever the term 'Avatar' was mentioned before WotW was announced, it was always that movie with the blue aliens that blew away their minds back in 2009; most of the adults, whenever we discussed the latest hollywood flicks always asked me if there was any news about the second movie. the visuals of Avatar was something that stuck deeply with them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The movies seem to be something for the cinema. I think they lose a lot of magic at home, mostly because they were designed 100% for the 3d tech which is now dead.

You could show it in VR, but wearing a headset for 3 hours is not going to be a particularly enjoyable experience, and nobody really seems interested in bringing them all to VR anyway. Apparently Disney are planning on having it on the ludicrously expensive Apple VR thing, so hopefully somebody will rip it in it's variable framerate 3D glory so I can watch it on my lesser peasant VR headset.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Avatar was just Fern Gully remastered.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

An avatar is a profile picture in old phpbb forums for me.

Don't know anything about the last airbender apart from its existence, and Space Pocahontas was a meh movie with great effects.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When I hear "avatar" I think of a PFP.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Meh, I've always got to ask because while it's certainly only every going to be the first thing in my mind I know way more people that have watched the movie with blue people and not the show.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've neverwatched the show. Still I think of the show rather than the movie (which I have seen) when someone says Avatar

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I hear "Avatar", I instantly think "Ultima".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I saw Avatar in the theater in 2009, it was a family outing while visiting relatives. I thought it was an Avatar: The Last Airbender movie and wondered why everyone had chosen it. I knew very little about Airbender (still don't), but must have seen previews or something for the actual Airbender movie that came out in July the next year, while I somehow missed seeing anything about Avatar. It was maybe five minutes into the movie when I realized this wasn't a preview for some sci-fi flick, it was the actual movie I was there to see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Movie is shit, the more recent one is ok but still nothing does justice to the show XD

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

for millions of people, avatar has nothing to do with either movies or shows. it means incarnation of god in human form.
more accurate term would perhaps be western people.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So small that I took a good 20 seconds to remember what the other Avatar even was lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I first thought this was a stab at Korra..

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I’ve never seen either…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Avatar of Khaine for me.

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