This article is frankly insane. It seems to make three arguments to support its premise, and none of them pass muster.

Others in this thread have already laid out this article’s flaws, so I will add that I am not sure why it even exists. Avatar, while financially successful and technologically innovative, just did not resonate with a lot of people and that is okay. It seems like some people feel the need to defend it, which I sort of…

Oh, cool, now we’re going to get all the hot take articles about how Avatar was so amazing and important and influential. Just great.

False.  Maybe film graphics people felt influenced, but when you’re talking about the actual culture--meaning people in society involved in the zeitgeist--no one felt impacted by this movie.  When I see the commercials for the re-release I just roll my eyes.  

Bioluminescent jungles began figuring in as plot points in the likes of Trolls (2016), Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017), and Moana (2016).

Thank you for putting all this more succinctly than I could have. That pretty much sums up the ways this article reaches. I think the biggest overall reach is that they try to conflate technical impact with pop culture impact. They’re making the argument that Avatar had a cultural impact, but to most people that means…

This article is attacking a straw man. I think almost everyone would acknowledge that the effects in Avatar were innovative. The argument is that the movie’s story, characters, and setting didn’t really resonate with people, so that the movie is little referenced and little loved despite it being hugely successful.…

You’re basically making the same argument as everyone else. Avatar had a huge technological impact but not a big cultural one. That it advanced technical techniques that other artists used is not what people mean when they discuss cultural impact. They are talking about how the movie as an artistic vision; how the…

Ughh okay. World of Avatar did not invent the “immersive world” theme park area - The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at Universal in 2010, World of Avatar opened seven years later. Planning for the Avatar park began in 2011, obviously in response to Disney FREAKING OUT because of how much attention and…

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

Your argument barely supports your premise.  Nobody’s denying the technical impact it had on filmmaking or the number of 3d TVs that it sold, but it definitely didn’t have the same kind of pop culture impact as Cameron’s previous movies.  Nobody’s quoting any of the blue people a decade later while ‘Game over man!’,…

Really? Cuz I heard it blue. 

All guest mode does is keeps “guests” off of your main home network while still being able to access the internet.

IF you are good about changing the password every time a guest uses it then it might be more secure as it allows you to give temporary access to the internet, but I have yet to see that built in to a…

The guy literally “writes” for a site that has posted extensively about the current shortage of cars in general, and rentals in particular.

So why didn’t you book your rental at the same time you booked your trip? Sounds like the whole problem was because you wanted something specific at the very last minute and knowing the pandemic screwed up rentals..

I don’t understand the issue with renting a car that’s not brand new. You’re not buying it. You’re not maintaining it. It’s transportation. 

So let me get this straight, it sounds like you waited until you got to Hawai’i to try renting a car in the most notoriously difficult place to find a rental car? That’s… not smart. I had no trouble in January getting a previously reserved rental car from Budget on three separate islands. A little planning goes a long…

It’s as if Ezra Miller looked at the long arc of Johnny Depp’s career and said “I can do that, but twice as crazy and in a third of the time!”

Also, just in general, stop buying things on Amazon if the brand name is just a random mishmash of all-caps.

I didn’t even play the video, mostly because of the problems you describe with the player itself, but also because I 100% expected it to not actually show said head.