Harpospokes brought up pop culture and Avatar.. then I escalated it
They've split it up now, it's Avatar 2&3 in 2020 and 2021 then it's Avatar 4&5 in 2024 and 2025. The production isn't being done all at once.
The scripts are all written though.
I don't know what I get into the pop culture argument every time it's brought up... how are you meant to quantify Avatar vs Mean Girls? Where would I even start.
when Tele posts the opposite to you and gets 20 likes.. does that mean you're wrong? or just Tele being Tele.
(not that like count indicates correctness)
It's pure speculation to say how memorable Shrek would be without it's sequels, Shrek 2 is pretty great.
To me it's fair to say they wouldn't be remembered as well as they are without their sequels (not to imply no one remembers Avatar (they do))
We got a Disneyland park,
We got a mountain in China named after it
We got a Cirque du Soleil show,
In this new 12,000-square-foot entertainment and educational experience in Shenzen China
We have Penang's Avatar Secret Garden
All this for a stand-alone film not based existing films/book/comics... wow.
It's my flavour of the month thing to say but Jim was nominated 6/6 times for the vfx oscar on his big budget films, and won 5 of them. No one is more reliable to make something visually breathtaking.
Which will all come with the sequels and time.
Star Wars had sequels and Gone With the Wind was re-released over 11 times in a time before home cinema.
Would it be fair to compare Avatar with films which have sequels?
The argument that is repeated over and over is that Avatar's impact on pop culture is poor, comparing Avatar to say Shrek isn't exactly a fair comparison (which ever may be bigger) when this is the argument at hand.
The Sun is basically the UK's Fox News, so take this with a grain of salt but...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5634805/star-wars-lord-of-the-rings-and-avatar-among-top-films-you-must-see-at-cinema/
reminder if you didn't watch this on the big screen you didn't experience it in it's ultimate glory.
name a stand alone film (original, non sequel, non book, non franchise) with bigger "pop culture" from this century.
This pop culture meme has been regurgitated endlessly ever since Scott Meddleson's article, of course franchises are going to have more memes and toys, who cares.. it doesn't relate to box office in any quantifiable way.
Frozen is disney princess... I can't think of any others.
Speaking of Tuesdays, did you know Avatar's second Tuesday made more than it's first? Wow. No wonder it went on to become the highest grossing film of all time that changed the course of cinema as we know it raising the bar on visuals as a whole.
There you go again! I could understand you thinking Avatar talk is annoying if it was an obscure film, but it's the highest grossing film of all time and we're on a box office forum.
no one said it was...
the untrained eye wouldn't have a clue if he's talking about Dom or OS or WW, imagine seeing tweet without knowing the exact numbers... you would be confused for sure.