Avatar - The Most Successful Failure Ever
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Published 2020-05-18
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Missed one reason why Avatar was so successful— it was the first time CG humanoid character renderings looked fully photo-real and convincingly human-ish. It was mind-blowing for 2009.
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Yeah this episode really confused me. It didn’t really fit in the whole Avatar: the last air bender plot
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Personally liked it. It may be a guilty pleasure because yes, the story is generic. But the worldbuilding, visuals, sound design, etc was awesome. It did a better job teleporting the watcher into the world than making them care about what happens in the story
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"I'm a cheerful optimistic soul that tries to see the very best in everything" - you got me rolling with laughter there, mate
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You see, the humans made the mistake of relying on an element called "unobtainium". I am powering my robot army with commonite and already control half the continent.
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I still can’t believe they literally named it “Unobtainium”.
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I remember going to the premier of this with my sister and some of her friends. 3D glasses, sketchy seats, because the room was full, but I was still mind-blown with the visuals. I can't remember a single detail of the story, nor even the characters for that matter. Just that it looked amazing. I think that's what made it so big. For a 2009 eye, it was the most spectacular thing ever. Kids these days will never understand.
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This movie needed about 3 minutes more of Giovanni Ribisi explaining that “Unobtainium” was critical for human expansion and the restoration of Earth. Honestly, raising the stakes from “loot the blue people’s planet for the lulz” to “it’s literally a question of their survival or ours” would have made the movie something other than “Dances with Wolves…IN SPAAAAACE!”
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“Way back in 2009” ...I’m getting old...
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"The ultimate irony with Avatar is that for all the time and money spent to make this movie in 3D, the story and the characters were still stuck in one dimension." -Mr Pinkett
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That joke about Rodriguez having only roles of a gun shooting Sarah Connor is actually spot on.
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At the Avatar premiere in Tokyo, they gave packs of tissues to the guests because they expected us to cry. James Cameron used the word "journey" about 20 times during his intro speech before the film started.
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One thing that I love about Avatar is that Jake's actor actually did everything like an actual independent paraplegic would do. I'm only saying this since I've been over half of my life paralyzed by my own idiocy and the point where he gets into his Avatar body and runs into the sand and wiggles his toes in it is spot on. That's something I'd do immediately. Otherwise the movie is just Pocahontas in space.
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“And that’s the plot for dances with Fern Gully Pocahontas aliens while Saving Private Ryan from 9/11” OMG 😂😂
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The reason why Avatar is so loved is because of how incredibly unique and amazing the world of Pandora was. Now yes the story was simple, but the visuals of the movie help tell the story in the most cinematic way possible. The unique landscapes of Pandora in such awe. A movie can have a great and unique story, but you need the visuals of the movie needs to tell that story and that is what James Cameron is able to do.
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When I was 8 years old I watched this movie on the big screen, and the visuals, sound design, and epic action scenes left me utterly amazed. It was one of my earliest movie experiences, so those aspects of the film are the only things I vividly remember.
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Navi: Cheering as the space ships leave. Humans: Radio the USCM, tell them to prepare all the CN-20 for regional saturation. Jake and the Navi: Why does it suddenly smell like bitter almonds?
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Avatar's sequel, the only thing to take longer than Brexit
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The jellyfish saying 'nah, it'll be fine' fucking broke me 🤣
