I'm going to regret this, but okay:
other then unobtainium was starship fuel, Earth was fucked and they didn't bother to mention that in the film itself because apparently people are too stupid to understand that concept or it would make the humans seem less evil or something.
-Unobtanium isn't starship fuel itself, it's a vital component of matter/anti-matter reactors that power ISVs (and I think power stations on Earth).
-Earth's state is conveyed in the film. Even if you don't watch the director's cut, Earth's poor environmental state is stated explicitly, and that life generally sucks is conveyed from Jake's opening monologue.
but Avatar wasn't exactly a flop. It did well. It made a ton of money...and for a movie that made so much money it's not talked about much for whatever reason.
Except Avatar is talked about, even if it's always to say "it's not talked about."
Everyone apparently remembers Avatar well enough to say that no-one remembers it. 0_0
Anyway, I just don't see that kind of nonsense to that degree from millennials (who were teenagers and young adults- primary opening weekend movie audiences)- as being that obnoxious about this stuff.
Even as a millennial, trust me, millennials are as precious about their toys as everyone else.
How many movies are "influenced by"/"ripping off" Avatar? Compared to movies ripping off, say, Star Wars or The Matrix.
How many movies have actually ripped off Star Wars and Matrix though? Bearing in mind that Star Wars was already a synthesis of pre-existing tropes, and The Matrix leans heavily on tropes of the cyberpunk genre.
All three IPs are guilty of recycling old tropes, the fact that Star Wars and Matrix had more cultural impact doesn't change this.
Are there any quotable lines or anything?
...is that a rhetorical question, or do you want me to start?
Dialogue is not Avatar's strong suit so the only quotable thing is that term unobtainium, in mockery.
You...do realize that unobtanium is a real-world term, right? And that the unobtanium of the film fits the definition?
Okay, technically it's not unobtainable, but considering that unobtanium is a super-conductor at room temperature, it fits the bill. The term was used in the film to reflect the real-world background.
Ok, sure.
I guess I've never heard this "cultural impact" thing about any other movie, most of which aren't Star Wars or the Matrix. I mean, those are exceptions. It's like there's this retroactive requirement about Avatar because, why, it made a lot of money? Because James Cameron can be a bit insufferable? So a bunch of critics or internet denizens decided that Avatar should have had quotable lines or been directly copied or merchandised harder and then get to laugh at this property they invented. It's weird.
Sorry, what argument is actually being made? The more common argument is that Avatar had no cultural impact, despite clearly having enough cultural impact for everyone to remember it instantly, and say it had no impact.
There's plenty of films I can say had no cultural impact, but usually the mention of said films would be "wait, what?"
He is more than a bit insufferable. Dude really liked smelling his farts after Titanic. The only good thing that came from him recently, was when he passed his script of Battle Angel to Robert Rodriguez.
Wait, what?
I can understand someone liking Alita, but the screenplay was terrible. It's not even really a movie, just a collection of short stories strung together.
(Come to think of it, every criticism I see about Avatar is one I'd apply to Alita, but meh.)
Probably not, but you never know - People have been trying to redeem the Star Wars prequels and The Matrix sequels in recent years, too.
I think the "redeeming" of the prequels goes back way further than just the last few years - at least as far back as the Clone Wars series.
