People aren’t that dumb.
Yeah they are.
Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise
moakley@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI don’t understand the appeal of Avatar. I really don’t. The writing is beyond lazy, and while the visuals may be impressive or whatever, the things they’re depicting just look weird and unappealing to me.
But even I can’t pretend that its success is only due to hype. There are plenty of successful movies that don’t deserve their success, but you don’t get as successful as Avatar without giving the audience something. People aren’t that dumb.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t say no one liked the first one.
They loved it, everything about it except the story. It was groundbreaking CGI and visually stunning.
No one wanted it a franchise except James Cameron though.
And when you strip away the story from any movie and rely on flashing visuals…
Dumb is the target demographic, they didn’t care about the story anyways.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The second one is the third highest grossing movie of all time. So clearly some people wanted more.