Is it because its more woke crap?
People are tired of spending their hard earned money on liberal woke subliminal messages.
People are afraid to go and see a movie that takes place mostly underwater because Greta and Klaus have told us that is our future if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels.
Second “installation”?
1. People are broke due to Biden-flation, so they’re cutting back on things like movies.
2. People are voting with their wallets against the woke agenda and its corporate enablers.
My wife went with a friend and loved it. I would say her taste in movies is far different than mine. But I haven’t seen it yet. And likely won’t until it’s on cable.
The first one was woke crap but it was so innovative that I did watch it. I’ll pass on this preachy, virtue-signaling nightmare.
Dances with Smurfs.
“a total of $435 million in its worldwide debut”.
I said it in another thread yesterday, but I’m not gonna bet against Cameron when it comes to pulling in the dollars. Avatar 2 had come in not too far of a half a billion in one weekend. I don’t intend to see the film, but Cameron knows how to make money.
Perhaps more transgender and homosexual love stories will help?
Is this a continuation of the Last Airbender?
How can such a piece of crap movie about ugly smurfs cost so many hundreds of millions. Ridiculous!!
Saw it over the weekend (part of birthday get-together for friend’s son).
Plot was extraordinarily stupid even by Hollywood standards. The earth forces are caricatures of evil. Whose military aircraft STILL cannot get windows installed which will stop an arrow.
Go woke; go broke.
“needs to bring in at least $2 billion globally over its lifetime to reach profitability”
HOLY CRAP! How much did it cost to MAKE?
Disney clearly was going to make more Avatar, whether folks wanted it or not.... After investing heavily in creating an entire land in there animal kingdom theme park to the IP... that no one, that I know of was clamoring for, it was clear from the start that Disney wanted to milk and expand this IP further...
However, no one else really cared.... Avatar was released 13 years ago, it was a weak, long winded, slow moving and unoriginal, boiler plate story.. it offered nothing of note, other than the stunning CGI, which at the time was cutting edge. Think I’m wrong? Without going to a search engine can you even name any of the characters from the first movie? anyone?
However, its 13 years later, CGI is commonplace, its not a wow factor any more... I am sure the new one has stunning visuals... but so did Aquaman.. and that thing was a stinker from head to toe. Point being, stunning CGI is commonplace, it’s not a breakthrough technology any longer.
I have no doubt that with Disney banking it it will find an audience, but enough to justify spending BILLIONS on making it?? Only if it is weighty enough to truly launch this franchise into offshoots that will actually make money, because its highly doubtful the movie itself will make enough money directly to justify its cost, if it ends up making money at all directly.
However it it puts the world of Avatar into the minds of folks and Disney can milk streaming shows and other things and toys and more rides and merchandise then it will have served its purpose.
It seems pretty clear as its own stand alone movie, its not likely to justify its existence, whether it will branch out the IP to other sources of loyalty and revenue remains to be seen.
I went to see it.
Objectively it a visual overload but not worth the $10 I paid.
Poor story and characters.
Huge plot holes.
Anti American.
“Dances with Wolves” meet “Free Willy” is a very accurate assessment.
I never saw the first one.
But from what I heard about it, I might have rooted for the Marines.
Disney has a way of ruing great franchises.
When they put out their first Star Wars release, it was so formulaic, if became an imitation of Star Wars.