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Can you name a single character from the movie Avatar?
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Just do me a favor. If you're wrong, please don't be like that assclown Bobby Roberts and ninja edit all your posts...
Seriously. I've seen both films and I honestly can't remember a single character's name.
Saw the movie twice and couldn't help you there OP.
What does this mean? It means the movie is good enough to rewatch (high praise from a guy who is obsessed with watching as many movies as possible) but character is most definitely not Avatar's strong suit.
What does this mean? It means the movie is good enough to rewatch (high praise from a guy who is obsessed with watching as many movies as possible) but character is most definitely not Avatar's strong suit.
Just watch, two years from now we will have some Indiewire article along the line of How Disney Willed Avatar Into the Public Conversation and Saved Cameron's Behemoth from Box Office Disaster before then starting the article with a history wherein Disney lay the groundswell for success by smartly opening up World of Pandora.
And the narrative of Disney being responsible for Avatar's success will be the new hot thing. I fucking guarantee it. Idiots will latch onto this as their new hot take.
And the narrative of Disney being responsible for Avatar's success will be the new hot thing. I fucking guarantee it. Idiots will latch onto this as their new hot take.
The name's of fictional characters appearing in a ~2 hour movie you watched 10 years ago is disposable information and our brains know it.
The culture around the dislike of Avatar has always baffled me. People love to criticize Hollywood for having too many reboots and sequels and not enough new franchises and standalone films, but immediately pounce on Avatar when at the moment it's one of only three movies in the top 20 in terms of domestic box office gross (not adjusted for inflation) that meets that criteria at this moment. Yes, I'm aware that there are several Avatar sequels in the works, but this criticism has been around since before those were officially announced.
Also, and this is coming from someone who likes the Marvel films, people always bring up how similar the plot is to Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas, yet happily eat up the latest superhero film that usually follows the same general plot structure as the ones that came before.
Why does everyone become hypercritical of Avatar when other films suffer from the same issues, also make billions at the box office, and are often less "original" and part of huge franchises?
Also, and this is coming from someone who likes the Marvel films, people always bring up how similar the plot is to Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas, yet happily eat up the latest superhero film that usually follows the same general plot structure as the ones that came before.
Why does everyone become hypercritical of Avatar when other films suffer from the same issues, also make billions at the box office, and are often less "original" and part of huge franchises?
I will own every bit of crow possible. Avatar 2 won't bomb. It will be a success.
"Did Kevin Feige secretly save the Avatar sequels?" as clickbait headlines on every nerd shill web blog
Jake's the only one I can reliably remember without googling. Everyone else I just call by their actor's name.
It definitely won't bomb. But I dunno if it'll make Aquaman money, either.
Goddamn that is weird to type. An Aquaman movie made a billion dollars. What a timeline.
It definitely won't bomb. But I dunno if it'll make Aquaman money, either.
Goddamn that is weird to type. An Aquaman movie made a billion dollars. What a timeline.
Other than "superheroes team up" is there any meaning to the story there really?
I know the main two characters which is more than I can say for most movies. I know John Wick but not a single name of anyone else. I remember Wikwiki or something from Transformers but no one else. This was a dumb video imo. Person on the street shit is stupid in general though.
Cereal commercial jingles/plots on the other hand
Ho ho ho! I'm hu hu hungry!
I didn't know that was a prerequiste to being better than Avatar
It is kind of a prerequisite to good storytelling, yeah.
I wouldn't bet the house on it.
The lengths people will go to downplay Marvel stuff are so absurd they end up making themselves look foolish instead of the movies.
Yes, there is more to Avengers' story than "superheroes team up." I'll leave you to puzzle that out for yourself, though.
Tbh I'll credit a lot (not all )of Avatar 2's success to Cameron being a brand name and audiences going to see it because of nostalgia. However, if Avatar 3,4 and 5 continue to break box office records I'll admit defeat and eat a crow buffet .
Only name that I vaguely remember is Sully. I know Zoe Saldana played the blue alien and Stephen Lang was the bad guy. Don't remember much plot details at all.
All I remember is that it looked pretty and had great 3D, which was enough for me to go see it. That's the same reason I'll see the sequel too, not because of plot or characters but to see some (hopefully) cutting edge CG/3D/filmmaking.
All I remember is that it looked pretty and had great 3D, which was enough for me to go see it. That's the same reason I'll see the sequel too, not because of plot or characters but to see some (hopefully) cutting edge CG/3D/filmmaking.
Owen Brady
Claire
Vincent Donofrio's character was Hoskins
I'm good at remembering useless shit, sorry
What happened to that guy anyway? Used to think he was a smartass asshole but haven't seen him around here.
And if he's here, well hi there, smartass asshole.
Deadpool and Logan are my favorite comic book movies of the last 10 years or so and I can't name any characters outside of the title characters and Professor X and Colossus but those are characters I've know for 25+ years beforehand. The bad guys name from Deadpool if you gave me an hour or so to think about it might pop up. Vincent? Something like that? Oh I do remember Negasonic Teenage something. Warhead?
I tried really hard but I really couldn't. What a forgettable movie. The only scenes I remember is the weird tail sex scene and the tree being on fire
Cameron isn't a brand name though. Or Battle Angel Alita wouldn't have tanked. The way it was marketed was attempting to bank entirely on his name and hiding the fact that Rodriguez directed it.
Cameron's name didn't sell the first Avatar either. Dude hadn't been around for twelve years. The film sold itself through word of mouth.
Very long story short:
Got permabanned for being an asshole.
Was accused of sexually harassing at least 2 or 3 different women
Nuked all his social media accounts/sites
Bobby was always kind of an asshole but I never took him for a sexual predator. Yikes.
Avatar 2 only "fails" if the script has fundamental structural problems with it, but aside from maybe The Abyss (which is still a strong story), Cameron has never written just a fundamentally lacking script.
If its a decent script it will top $1 billion easy and probably $1.5 bill++. Cameron won't skimp on the action spectacle so that's not really an issue.
Character names are one thing but there's almost no one in any country with a movie going base who can't recognize Avatar's alien characters as belonging to Avatar. They are iconic visually.
If its a decent script it will top $1 billion easy and probably $1.5 bill++. Cameron won't skimp on the action spectacle so that's not really an issue.
Character names are one thing but there's almost no one in any country with a movie going base who can't recognize Avatar's alien characters as belonging to Avatar. They are iconic visually.
What kind of dumb survey is this? I watched Alita a week ago and I already can't remember any of the names besides, well, Alita.
But yeah I remembered Neytiri at least.
But yeah I remembered Neytiri at least.
I've personally never griped at a movie or Hollywood in general for lack of originiality. I enjoy watching films for a variety of reasons, they do not have to be original.
Avatar is just a bad movie; the writing is so terribly ham fisted.
Highest 2D home release for 4 years running, until Frozen dethroned it. So you can drop that dumb narrative.
Probably as many as I could from any similarly shallow popcorn flick. (Which is to say...not many. Only Jake Sooli.)
In Avatar's defense; they didn't invent that... it's been used in sci-fi and other contexts for over a century, so it's a bit of an homage.
But in the context of the movie, which in it's entirety is equally as ham fisted as the term "unobtaniun", it was terrible lol
