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In my circles it’s “avatar” and “avatar (the blue one)”, which is also quite telling
In my circles it’s “avatar” and we haven’t needed a way to distinguish space smurfs. Literally never comes up, even when one is in theaters.
Yeah, the only reason the James Cameron one is ever brought up is to talk about how it’s absurd how much profit it makes or to talk about how stupid it is that they’re making a series. Often context is enough to know you’re talking about that one, and not the real one.
It’s weird how the sequel (Way of the Water) came out and it made so much money and it seemed to just not permeate any conversations or memes or anything. At least in my corner of the Internet.
Yeah, I don’t keep up with movies or series, but I know that the non-blue sequel is called “Korra” or something. Never heard “Way of the Water” before.
I thought this new one was the sequel… did another one come out sometime? I’m on the internet a lot and had no idea.
Avatar “Pocahontas in space”
Aka Dances with Smurfs
I like both Avatars: The Last Airbender and the Cameron’s one. I don’t understand why in so many people love for one thing transforms into hate for some other thing. It reminds me how much lotrmemes subreddit hates G. R. R. Martin, despite the fact that he told people numerous times that he himself loves LotR and considers it an inspiration for his work.
Having said that the name trademark is unfortunate.
(no love for James Cameron, but) are fans of a Nickelodeon series first released in 2005 really complaining about the existence of other media using the name Avatar? 🤔
If they are preventing better series from using it… yeah why not I can be grumpy about a lot of things at the same time.
this guy gets it
Love for James Cameron! You should watch the documentary about him designing and building a submarine, done the right way vs the titan submersible.
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Cameron’s first Avatar film wasn’t completed until 2009 but it was in development (under that name) in the 90s. Here is an article about it from 1996.
As OP’s screenshot notes, Nickelodeon’s show was never released with a single-word name because they were aware of Cameron’s trademark prior to it being released.
I’m surprised people give enough of a shit for that much (EDIT : FAN CONTENT) to be made
I don’t think anyone can stop James Cameron at this point. It could bomb and he’d probably still make the next one
But they don’t bomb, which I don’t understand.
I’ve never once heard anyone talk about them, except to make a joke about James Cameron. Literally never even hear mention that they went to see a movie and it was Avatar. The fact that those movies make money confounds me.
My (four) friends went and saw the 2nd one while tripping on acid lol. They don’t remember the movie. I saw it like last year on netflix or some other streaming service. I know of nobody else who has ever seen it.
I’ve seen both. Happy to talk about them if you want. Way of Water had a lot of really cool moments but a lot of weird visual choices. They swapped between 24 and 48 fps (idk if it was 48 but it was definitely higher) seemingly at random. You’d think it would be something like 24 for dialogue and 48 for action, but it wasn’t that straight forward. Some scenes looked like they needed more time to look good. A boat crash in particular stands out. Other scenes were incredibly gorgeous. The young one (name escapes me) swimming to rescue her family stands out there.
I think my biggest gripe about Way of Water was that they said they get this valuable thing from the whales. But the number was orders of magnitude less valuable than the material they were mining from the first one. It made it seem silly. They could’ve just given a bigger number and it would all make sense. Maybe it’s something about the initial investment to get to Pandora being the biggest cost so now they can pursue things that make less money.
I mean, they’re good. Saw both, enjoyed both, will see the next one. There’s just not much to talk about though. The stories are pretty self contained, there’s no source material, so there’s not a lot to go off of. They’re also not trying to build/pander to fanbase, look at the amount of star wars merchandise and events out there. They’re just what I want out of a blockbuster movie, interesting, fun to watch, cool setting, have an anticapitalist moral, and you don’t need to have watched a ton of other movies or tv shows to make sense of it.
I do watch and enjoy them, it’s just, the reason they’re enjoyable isn’t really the plot. In my view, they’re basically tech-demos for how much you can push cgi tech, with a relatively simple and chiche story to tie it together. They’re very pretty, and enjoyable for that reason, but once the movie is over there’s little to bring them up because they don’t inspire the same interest in the characters or plot or worldbuilding that a lot of other popular media franchises do.
What I don’t get is why they can’t add a good story to that spectacle. Or even an ok one.
The first one was a big event and I remember everyone going to see it. Shit movie butlers not pretend it wasnt treated as a phenomenon at the time.
The first Avatar grossed $2.9 billion, and the second grossed $2.4 billion
yeah, he’s got enough money to make whatever he wants
Think he got a deal on doing four of them. They’ve also made BANK the first grossed nearly 3B and the second still grossed around 2.3B. Those film executives do not care about comments on the stupidity of the plot or their rotten tomatoes score they can’t see or hear it over the waterfall of money printing.
I’m talking about fan content. no one gives a shit about avatar the world/story so how is it about as quarter as popular as the animated Avatar series?
It’s the internet, porn and drawing practices.
It still was a big production, right? Also has a lot of room for the good old fixit fanfics to flourish! So Blue Avatar gets something! The animated ones just get a lot more because easy more world building. And ship fanfics.
Somehow the sequel made billions. I have no idea how.
I’m talking about fan content. no one gives a shit about avatar the world/story so how is it about as quarter as popular as the animated Avatar series?
James Cameron writes all of it under pseudonyms
Now James Cameron needs to make an avatar adaptation. Not the blue one
