Based on the review, this seems like the kind of movie I would be able to watch on Freeform in October, sandwiched between Hocus Pocus and the Addams Family. The trailer did not look good so I am surprised that this review was so generous, if a bit backhanded.

Nicely hiding how the Herman makeup was actually bright purple, since it oddly looked the best when the color was drained out.

The original series had that awesome black and white photography.

This is the only positive review I’ve seen thus far. The trailer looked like a spoof done by college kids for a couple grand

“(which also seems perfectly understandable, since they made the thing and Netflix had never objected before)“

It’s a Dances with Wolves + Pocahontas knockoff set in space to make you forget what it’s copying. That was the reason I skipped it in theaters during it’s original release and part of the reason why I’m not interested in the new movie.

This. Every argument I’ve heard about it “influencing pop culture” or “movies” is either “3D” or “it made a ton of money”. None of those a cultural; they’re technical and financial.

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 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!’,…

Seriously!  I know a CRAPTON about the drama around the movie.  I literally know nothing about the movie as far as plot, genre, rough story, characters... nothing.  At this point I’m looking forward to the day it all goes away forever.  

So Don’t Worry Darling is the new Synder Justice League for the AV Club, cool. I look forward to a few dozen more articles by the end of the week.

That was an absolutely magical delivery. I had this moment going into the episode where I was like, “Okay, she is beloved and it was wonderful to see her win, but was it because she’s beloved? Isn’t her character more of the staid stoic one that all the comic characters bounce off of?” But nope, she’s friggin’…

The show’s pretty good, though I wish it would stop being so tepid. And Titania as a character is just NOT working, which is odd because I loved the actress in The Good Place.

Mr. Immortal is exactly the kind of Marvel D-Lister I was hoping this show would dredge up. My absolute favorite thing about Slott’s She-Hulk run was how he would pull some of the greatest oddball characters out of Marvel obscurity and I want more of that here!

Uh, I’m fairly certain it WAS Franklin Pierce. Remember the episode where he signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Chang was hanged in effigy? 

How does this list not include Chef from South Park.

I don’t know what show you’re watching, but Franklin Pierce is definitely the character’s name, along with other fan favorites like Helen of Troy and Britta Filter.

Chevy Chase’s character is Pierce Hawthorne, not Franklin Pierce.