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Ladies and Gents I'm out. I won't be harassed for defending a film in a place supposed to be dedicated to discussion of that film. If you'd like to stay in touch I'll be on the Avatar discord server. Irayo.
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Trust me on this one Jimbo. From what has been shared about DW, the concept of raising the bar is not one which he is, or ever has been familiar with. That's why he also underestimates Jim's capacity on this. TGM doing billies is something every single Avatar fan is excited and happy about. It just makes that big billie target even higher. It's about time Jim had some competition.
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@NCsoft join the discord if you haven't already: discord.gg/AVTR Also @interiorgatordecorator this is for you:
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Fair enough, I can't judge at all, since that character isn't repping me. However, as a gay man I felt if her character HAD been a gay man I wouldn't have really seen that as 'representation'. Sure it's better than a lot of the tokenism we do see, but it's still heavily in the tokenism zone in my view - esp. when you watch the film and you can almost see that it's constructed in such a way that they could cut it out if they wished to.
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They make them gay with token gestures or scenes. They don't make them gay AS characters. It's pandering. They see it as a demographic to be tapped and that's what needs to change. The answer isn't as black and white as do/don't, but the cynical methods they're currently using are not helping at all.
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Then why is it consistently brought up when discussing the sequels? And as I said - I actually believe it's potentially inversely proportional to Box Office performance now.
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2022 Box Office Predictions and Discussion
TomCruiseTop replied to Eric Atreides's topic in Box Office Discussion
What do you think happens to the forum if A2 does do over a billion domestic? Will IronJimbo finally be given a crown? -
2022 Box Office Predictions and Discussion
TomCruiseTop replied to Eric Atreides's topic in Box Office Discussion
This may be the first time in my life I have ever been accused of being 'too nice'. Thanks Jimbo, that gave me my yearly chuckle. -
2022 Box Office Predictions and Discussion
TomCruiseTop replied to Eric Atreides's topic in Box Office Discussion
Looking over the people who made the predictions gives you some insight into their predictive abilities. A lot of the folks who have been saying Avatar won't make over a billion are the same people who said TGM wouldn't do over 300M. -
I'd like to see what it actually means in their minds - if the concept is clear at all. So Harrison Ford and Tim Allen are the icons and not the characters? Or they're inherent aspects of what makes them icons? Do you think Indiana Jones 5 will do massive amounts of money given it has such an ostensibly large "cultural impact"?
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The more I think about it the more I think "cultural impact" is actually a poisoned chalice. Think about Han Solo, an iconic character, Buzz Lightyear, again an iconic character. Huge cultural impact. Yet they've both shown they're box office bombs. They can't move beyond the craters in culture they themselves have created, even when they're beloved. I think JC cutting the head off of the hydra and letting everything sleep for a decade has been a master stroke.