That is such a funny critique because... how is it supposed to be negative? "Take a massively successful, critically acclaimed film and add sci-fi space shenanigans to it" sounds fucking awesome!
The thing with "dumbass Avatar criticisms" is that there's a hint of truth to them it just doesn't say what people think it does.
People don't remember the names in Avatar because the names are either boring or hard to spell/say (as they are Na'avi). Not the characters! "Miles Quaritch" really just does not roll off the tongue, but the character is cool!
it’s perfectly fine to not look forward to a movie, just like it’s fine to not like/dislike a movie regardless of greater general opinion. But Avatar seems to get under people’s skin around here for some odd reason
Not saying that’s the case for you, even I’m ambivalent towards the movie. But I can’t imagine getting upset over the existence of a movie that I still have the choice of seeing or not seeing. Some people in this thread act like James Cameron broke into their house and painted everything blue
I was interested in the first one and watched it, liked some aspects of it but overall found it to be not very good. Only cared enough about the second one to try to watch it at home when it hit streaming platforms, but I only made it about half way through it before I got so bored I stopped watching. I don’t care at all about what the third one gets up to, so I doubt I’ll ever even try to watch it. In my experience, I’ve run into far more people that get upset that I don’t care about the Avatar movies than I have people who get upset about the movies themselves.
people who get upset at others for not sharing the same opinions are annoying as hell. Just makes me think of the Sack Lunch/English Patient scenario in Seinfeld
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u/riegspsych325 The ⊃∪⊃⪽ 2d ago
oh man, we’re heading towards “DAE think Avatar not special” season again, aren’t we?