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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 71 points 1 month ago

Avatar. Highest grossing movie in the world. Blue shit.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Best critique I ever heard about Avatar: "Eh, Fern Gully did it better."

[-] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I call it Space Pocahontas.

[-] 108@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I mean it’s just Dances with Wolves in spaces.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The movie was forgettable and not that special. Going to the IMAX with my uncle and three cousins and watching our first ever (and only ever) 3d movie together and squealing the whole 3 hour car ride home about how much fun we had as a family is one of my best memories.

[-] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think this is what people forget about Avatar. It was never supposed to be the best writing or the best story. It was purely just to show off incredible ground breaking CGI technology. Seeing it in IMAX was a damn near religious experience, but watching on a TV at home just doesn't do it justice.

Avatar was the best screensaver ever made.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Bluntly manipulative melodramatic tripe that ejects me completely from the movie, just as with Titanic. James Cameron decided to keep churning out the modern cgi version of a top hat-wearing villain cackling and twirling his mustache as he leaves the damsel tied to the train tracks, and it is kind of dismaying that he got so thoroughly rewarded for it.

[-] Prox@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

It was an okay (but derivative) movie, but an amazing tech showcase for 3D. That's why it was the highest grossing.

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