Pierce Brosnan’s second and third movies took such pains to paint him as a serious Bond that they rendered him rather dull—a deadpan actor responding to real-world threats in a vain attempt to compete with Jason Bourne movies.
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A perfect storm, really. A terrible, obnoxious marketing campaign—evidenced yet again by Eichner’s tweets—but also a terrible poster with no faces, not the greatest title, etc.
The trailer for this movie has a joke that says:
I’m not spending $20 to see a romcom at the theater. Sorry, Billy, I guess I’m a homophobe.
I’m not sure it’s ever a good idea for someone to speculate about why their movie has underperformed at the box office. It’s always going to come off as resentful and defensive.
“We didn’t make this movie for straight people, so why didn’t they show up in droves?”
Shocking that the ‘if you don’t see my movie you’re a homophobic bigot who voted for Trump’ ad campaign isn’t working
Really? This is what the Black community is chasing now? Jumping at every shadow and slight?
What kind of insane person doesn’t clean their lint tray literally after every use? Should I also wipe every time I take a shit? Turn the stove off when I’m not using it? Turn the mower off when I’m reaching down there to unclog it?
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.
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…
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.