Samwise's Dad?

Sure, but that’s maybe the BIGGEST movie and most famous movie line of all time. Avatar doesn’t have a shocking twist moment. It’s appeal is in the visuals, much less so than the story.

But what about the fool proof reddit formula:

"No one I know went to see it" + "low cultural impact" = "it's a mystery why Avatar 2 is such a big hit"

Are we really gonna do this again?

Thriller is a subgenre of horror!

Somebody find Lenny!!

It's not. It's just that for such massive movies, you usually see it trascend cinema and ingrain itself in pop culture. Most people, even those who haven't watched it, know about the misquoted line "Luke, I am your father" or know who Darth Vader is or at least that he is from Star Wars.

If you love Nukie try Mac and Me. It was so “good” that MST3K riffed it!

You realise that to be in the top 5 highest grossing films of all time, neccesarily a wide range and a lot of people had to go see it right?

No, because he gave the best performance in the film

You are living in an echo chamber and you don’t even realize it

Im guessing you’d say Colin Ferrell just because you didn’t know it was him.

Nah.

He's got a number of performances that should have been recognized, but that one isn't in the same echelon.

I’ll give you the club scenes detracted from the movie as a whole. That gives you your 30 minutes. And least we didn’t get to see Thomas and Martha die for the thirtieth time on screen.

What fucker in the glasses? I haven't seen those memes. I talk about this because I do bump into very different kinds of people. I know I won't hear about Avatar from one of my best friends because he didn't like either, but I would bump into people asking me if I have watched Wednesday (I haven't) or whatever Netflix has released that week or whether I watched the recent release in theaters of a blockbuster movie, but I have yet to have someone ask me if I watched Avatar. I know the topic won't come up in my movie club because, you know, but at least I hear from other people I work with what new thing they're watching, even if our taste in media seems to be very different, but not this movie.

Preach.

Not everyone on earth sees a movie and feels the need to discuss esoteric fucking lore. Did you know there are millions and millions of people who don’t post in LOTR or Star Wars subs? It’s true. I go see marvel movies and I never bought a fucking single comic.

People go to the movie. It’s a movie. Then they go home. It doesn’t have to have a massive ‘cultural footprint’. Why is this so hard to understand?

German films or more lead female roles?

It was a good performance but it wasn’t good enough to be getting any awards for it. I’d argue he doesn’t even give the best performance in the movie

The movie was at minimum a half hour too long and definitively mid otherwise. I love Robert and Batman but meh.

Cate Blanchett killed it

It was awesome. I went with the big reclining gold class seats so I’d be comfortable that long and was not disappointed in fact I didn’t want it to end. Visually stunning and unexpectedly emotional in places with spectacular places I want to visit and the occasional jump scare. Phenomenal movie and the story was engrossing. This is not like some weird matrix sequel this was believable and magnificent.

Can people I love and grow up with stop dying!?!?!?! :-(

Magnolia is chock full of just people sobbing their guts out. Enjoy

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