• esc27@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I think this is the first time I’ve seen avatar mentioned in nearly a year. Weird how a movie series that popular generates so little discussion.

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      11 months ago

      I mean, a lot of people spent a lot of time discussing the first one, it just boiled down to

      “It’s sci-fi Dances With Wolves, and it made a load of money.”

      The sequel is the same thing, but with whales and even more explicit environmentalism/anti-colonialism

      All of the social criticism is correct, but, like, do something about it, billionaire filmmaker? The discussion time is over.

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        11 months ago

        “It’s sci-fi Dances With Wolves, and it made a load of money.”

        Sci-fi Pocahontas is more accurate, but yeah, there’s just not much to talk about beyond the effects.

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      11 months ago

      It’s because the movie is entirely about people of color (blue)

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      11 months ago

      It was the same with the first one. No one talked about it at all after it left theaters. I’ll never understand how these movies were such big hits.

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        11 months ago

        Yellowstone is an incredibly popular series but it’s not really talked about either online

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        11 months ago

        “no one talked about it at all”

        I’ve been parts of discussions about the movie, and we’re also in one now.

        No need for hyperboles

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      11 months ago

      Probably because it wasn’t any good? I couldn’t even get 20 minutes into my rental to get to the plot.

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        11 months ago

        I saw it in IMAX 3D when it came out because I knew I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it at all at home. I was fighting sleep the entire last half, I kept waking up seeing something I thought was cool and trying to stay awake, but I still slept through most of the last ACT