I’m going off of deteriorated memory but… space pocahontas where the natives of the planet humans are invading are tall blue vaguely mammalian-fish looking humanoids with a weird multipurpose tail for controlling animals and apparently also for sex according to supposed axed scene. paraplegic human uses weird technology to control the body of one or something to complete the white man saves the day even thogh white man cause the problem in the first place trope. I dunno about the sequel maybe he permanently stays in the alien body or something and has alien kids, who knows.
Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise
Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Am I the only one here that has never seen it or understands what the hype is about?
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Widdershins@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I watched about 5 minutes of it in an electronics store before getting bored. If I’m not mistaken it is Dances with Wolves in space. There’s also a big blue guy who hangs dong.
OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dances with wolves, Ferngully, pocahontas, take your pick lol
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It was a very pretty movie
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not about the story, it’s about the sfx.
Watch James Cameron’s movies like the abyss, Terminator2 and Titanic. (There’s others as well if you want to put in more effort)
He’s a visionary director and I just mean his own vision, Avatar was an idea he wanted to see on screen but was unhappy with the technology until he felt it was ready to tell the idea he had.
Like some other things, by today’s standards everyone else who saw what he did have been able to refine and expand on what he did so it may seem in unremarkable, but he finally decided to do the biggie when he felt the tech had come far enough for him to do his vision and it made Bank. So. Much. Bank
Again not because it’s an amazing original story, comparisons to fern gully were immediate even when it was new, but it was something that sits in a divide of how sfx can be used to tell a story in a way that people hadn’t otherwise shown. Even with a really unremarkable plot
Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe its because Cameron is not one of my favorite directors. I love T2, of course but I can’t say the same about Titanic because (you guessed it) I still have not watched it and also didn’t buy into the hype when it was released. I remember that movie theaters were booked solid for weeks and you couldn’t get a ticket. No movie is that good or justifies that kind of hype, so I have skipped it so far.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
There are dozens of us
emmy67@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It was another white saviour movie. It was very strange and not something I ever understood