Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their ...
I think people think this because it's more than a decade later and we're just getting the second movie. If a sequel came out 2-3 years after the first it may have more cultural purchase, even if the sequel didn't sell as much. But James Cameron must not have been in a hurry to capitalize on it, so peoples memory has faded on it.
The fact that a sequel is finally coming has me curious. It'll either be very interesting or profoundly uninteresting.
I guess just memory or continued discussion, some type of fan following. I'm sure there are some Avatar fans keeping the lights on, but probably not as much as the other highest grossing movies of all time. I guess I just think that at the time it was a pretty big thing, but unlike every other major action movie it never got a sequel until now so it just faded.
I remember when it came out and literally everyone I knew went to go see it in 3D. The theaters around me had waitlists and we're running it on like 6 screens because of the demand.
The whole things was a huge phenomenon and everyone was talking about it, but it just faded really fast. There wasn't a huge push by the studio to merchandise it or expand it with "world building" like what Marvel ended up doing a few years later.
I think Avatar was kinda the precursor to Marvel in a way, but it has some artistic integrity to it that was lost with Marvel as it adopted the spectacle that Avatar created without even a pretence of substance.
I think people think this because it's more than a decade later and we're just getting the second movie. If a sequel came out 2-3 years after the first it may have more cultural purchase, even if the sequel didn't sell as much. But James Cameron must not have been in a hurry to capitalize on it, so peoples memory has faded on it.
The fact that a sequel is finally coming has me curious. It'll either be very interesting or profoundly uninteresting.
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I guess just memory or continued discussion, some type of fan following. I'm sure there are some Avatar fans keeping the lights on, but probably not as much as the other highest grossing movies of all time. I guess I just think that at the time it was a pretty big thing, but unlike every other major action movie it never got a sequel until now so it just faded.
I remember when it came out and literally everyone I knew went to go see it in 3D. The theaters around me had waitlists and we're running it on like 6 screens because of the demand.
The whole things was a huge phenomenon and everyone was talking about it, but it just faded really fast. There wasn't a huge push by the studio to merchandise it or expand it with "world building" like what Marvel ended up doing a few years later.
I think Avatar was kinda the precursor to Marvel in a way, but it has some artistic integrity to it that was lost with Marvel as it adopted the spectacle that Avatar created without even a pretence of substance.
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