Was Avatar A Good Movie? 

People legit bashed jake for betraying the human race to clap some alien cheeks, as if that wasn't the whole point of raiding area 51 smh

I was almost 15 at the time. I watched it twice. It made me feel as if my world was almost worthless with how beautiful and amazing Avatar was. That faded thankfully. But it was absolutely a hugely important stepping stone in CGI development.

My favorite line in Avatar is when the Burke villian says, "Look at all that cheddar!" I said that whenever I found a civ in Civ V that had a resource I wanted. "They're pissing on us without the courtesy to call it rain," is the only other quote that I've said before.

I think a huge part of the success really is the 3D part, nowadays no one really cares about that but at the time it was HUUUUUUGE. I think our local german theater had more 3D screenings than normal ones.

Real talk I might consider Avatar one of my favourite movies- it's not the top dog, but it's up there. I'm a huge fan of sci-fi fantasy and world building, especially monster design, and we so rarely see Hollywood throw money at this kind of weird stuff, it made it an absolute treat to see. I even did my university dissertation on it, discussing the changing portrayal of transhumanism in film, in particular with our acceptance of using technology to change our bodies, breaking the link of seeing ourselves as our body, and instead seeing our bodies as just a material shell. The main comparison was Surrogates vs Avatar, how one has humans reject their robot bodies to return to the 'better natural' bodies, while Avatar sees leaving Jake's human body as the correct decision. This was a huge jump in culture imo, and we see the continued evolution with things like male Twitch streamers using VR anime girl avatars and people being fine with it. Sorry, got distracted. Yes, the plot is very plain- chosen one story with a lot of things that don't hold up to scrutiny- but it's easy to overlook these things because they were never the appeal in the first place. The movie still looks incredible, and although a bunch of human-looking blue aliens is kind of boring, I do find their fictional culture quite interesting, even though it's full of tropes. The part where they try to resurrect someone from the great tree is especially fascinating, I remember feeling like I was going to roll my eyeballs out of my skull when they said they'd just resurrect their friend and make death/consequences in the movie meaningless, but then it completely fails and the whole scene is almost just there to have you get immersed in their culture, their shared belief that this will work, and afterwards you kind of wish it did. We know resurrection is ridiculous, yet they genuinely believe it, with Jake starting to believe their traditions too, and I find portraying it like this really refreshing. Anyway, my point is I think the movie suffers with Star Wars Prequel syndrome, where Lucas poured so much into blowing us away with the world building and crazy aliens and planets and stuff, yet the average viewer just wants relatable characters and an easy to understand plot- except in Avatar's case it actually has this. To me it still feels so refreshing to see such a positive movie from this, it's not a grim sci-fi dystopia, it's a story about a beautiful planet with aliens that are the good guys while humans are evil, we see this so rarely with a Hollywood budget and I think that's pretty cool I guess. I'd go on to talk about Avatar in comparison to John Carter and Valerian, which are both big budget special-FX laden sci-fi extravaganzas that bombed at the box office, but you already explained it perfectly well in your video, Avatar made bank through a lot of luck and, although I like it, it doesn't have a formula for success, with similar movies failing all the time.

The hair tentacle sex scene thing is so weird to put in there. It recontextualizes everything that takes place with the tentacle insertion before and after that scene. They been effing animals as well as *TREES* WTF?!

I thought it was a fun movie with a ripoff Dance With Wolves story and really cool special effects. I have no idea why it made so much money though, lol.

I love this movie so much, to me it's just so intresting and im probably the only one in the world who is exicted for the other movies

I ain't even interested in this movie, but I'll be damned if this wasn't legit invested in this video. Great job, loved it!

My only wish for Way of Water is that I remember something

His synopsis of this movie is fucking hilarious 😂😂 "but it doesn't work because she's not the protagonist of the movie" it's all delivery lol....anyways I liked Avatar. Is it dumb, cliche, nonsense? Yes, but that's why I like it

I really like the movie, the visuals, the amount of creativity and time put into the creation of Pandora is just crazy. They made their own language just for the film which outside of Star Trek and LOTR just doesn't happen all that often on that level. Even the 3d cameras used where hand crafted, the 3d fusion camera system took them 7 years of trial and error to create...James Cameron and his team are just wizards.

Just wanted to share my thoughts on Avatar: I'm one of the few people that saw it as a 10 year old in theaters (yeah if your parents are with you you can do that in Germany) and probably one of the few hardcore fans the movie has. Anyway Avatar was that one movie that shifted my perspective of scifi. Yeah the story is basic af. And the characters are basic. But all those concepts in it are not. It switches arround the tropes of the alien Invasion Genre. This time the humans are the invaders. There is a language barrier. If you look at the mcu for example everybody there speaks in English in the entire universe except for russians. The air of Pandora is not breathable and deadly for Humans. They need masks. Spacetravel takes years they have to put the passengers into cryosleep. I think it's all this world building that makes Avatar Look like a future that could really happen. And the other aspects in world of Pandora have so much depth and work put into it that the movie would become overly complex if the story would be that complex too... Trees that communicate with there roots makeing it a gigantic sentient being spanning an entire Planet. There is so much creativity and thought put into it. I think thats what makes Avatar so good and missunderstood. It's not about the Story. It's about the world it builds up and how the characters in it react to it. But I'm totally there with the point that the unobtanium needs a purpose. The second movie can build on that. And it could advance at the story too.

I legitimately like this movie but I wish it would have made Jakes turn against humanity more convincing other than “clapping alien cheeks”

I absolutely remember Avatar, the video game is great since you can just stay with the RDF and it turns out that Na'vi (or however you spell it, I don't care), are rather easily killed by grenade launchers and those dumb plants that eat you burn down to a Flamethrower real fast.

Avatar was popular at the time because it was seen as a giant tech demo.

13:25 A Titanfall reference in the most unexpected instance I've ever seen! You Sir have made a joke for a niche game that I am EXTREMELY passionate about. Thank you! *SUBSCRIBED*

For me, the most memorable part of that movie isn't the plot or characters, but the CGI. When I look at stuff made nowadays (phase 4 mcu for example), I really can't help but feel that Avatar did a job orders of magnitude better. Years after watching it I still remember the shots of rockets fired at the massive tree by hundreds of flying craft, the flying dinosaur bird things in the sky mountains, or the glowing tree. The scenery was and still is absolutely stunning.

I remember after I first watched Avatar years ago and thought "this is nothing more Pocahontas in space" which was probably part of the reason why it was so easily forgotton.

The motivation of the bad guys is actually that they think, they can take what they want and as they get a bit of turbulence, they get pissed off by it. I once was playing a police man in a tv show and was just a random guy without any backstory. So what could I do in that scene? I read the part and quickly realized that I could be pissed off that the heros really think they can fool me and disrespect me. So it fueled my motivations everytime someone managed to trick me. it blew up as one of they actually ran away and I couldnt catch him. Result : arrest the others. even if they had nothing to do with that one guy. In avatar its a similar situation. Imagine you do a job and you are very ambitious. You are also isolated from other people everyday struggle. Like a trader who loses and wins everyday the money normal people wouldve make in 10 years of hard work. Then some people come around and shake your bubble. Of course you dont just go home and say "well I was an idiot anyway so lets be reasonable here" instead you defend your position. Simply because its the thing that matters to you. The Money guy is just above everything. He doesnt even realize the pain he causes. Quadrich is aware but for him its everything he believes in HIMSELF thats disrespected in this moment. I think I actually thought of him as I was playing my small police role. But I guess not everybody sees this. You have to be a bit like him to see that. I have got the tech noir book of james cameron and he has a little story how he got in a bloody fight with a filmdirector who disrespected his artwork he made for the film of teh director. You have to have a bit of testesterone to react like quadrich and understand him. Its not just some weak motivation. Its something people call today "toxic masculinity" but I think its a basic human behavior of certain type of people who devoted themselves to something authoritarian.

I've known about the bare existence of the Avatar movie for years(simply as 'movie with blue aliens') but I only now, in this very moment watching this video, realized why the movie was called Avatar. 😵‍💫

I had to apologize to my then-girlfriend for taking her to see Avatar 2. It was so tedious and she hadn't even seen the first one. If you ever have a movie date, don't go to see Avatar.

I'd say it had some cultural footprint: the setting. Many cgi movies or scifi videogames have a bio luminiscent forest

It’s my mother’s favorite movie (and she can name all the characters). It may not appeal to younger viewers these days, but don’t be surprised if tons of people who don’t ordinarily go to the theater make the trip for these sequels. Keep in mind that $2bil of its original box office was from overseas, especially China, so it had a lot of cross cultural resonance. Don’t underestimate James Cameron.

Avatar had a very important cultural impact. It gave us the link we were missing to propel the furry fandom to the mainstream.

Avatar instantly became my favorite movie the moment I first saw it in theaters (and we watched it 3 times in theaters when it was first released). It's not perfect, there's a few mistakes (the deer😅) and some extra details on some small things would have been nice (which would mean a longer movie but I really wouldn't mind that). But honestly, does a movie have to be complex to still be entertaining? I don't think so, because many of my favorite shows and movies are very much these simple or cliché stories with very few to no grey characters. But they're so entertaining and they manage to pull me into the story on an emotional level. Each time I watch Avatar, it's like I'm watching it for the first time again. Each time it manages to make me laugh, cry, angry and get hyped up when stuff is about to go down (and I'd say that indicates good story writing). There's also not a single other fantasy world that's quite like Pandora and it's easily the most beautiful and alluring one ever depicted in movies to me. On top of that, I'm a big nature person, especially when it comes to animals, and I'm big on art and design too. There's of course loads of uniquely designed animals with masterfully executed CGI in this movie. But the message to stop destroying our planet/nature is also of course something I really stand for. So it really portrays everything I love and care for while making me so emotionally invested in it no matter how many times I've seen it. That's what makes it so entertaining. No other movie has managed to do that to this extent, which is why it's still my favorite movie of all time.

I believe that the plot of avatar was a complete after thought, they worked so hard on genuinely impressive and meticulous world building and tech , and then remembered “fuck this is movie, it needs a plot “ and this is the result.

Found you only recently and going back to watch everything you've made. Massively impressed by what you produce, your manner of speaking, presentation and research means I'd probably watch a video of yours on *any* subject. Thats not me issuing a challenge tho! Seriously though, hope you keep this up

I searched for a name and the only one that came to my mind was toruk makto which is the name of the big red/orange bird riders in the past

For me Avatar wasn't as much about the story about simply being immersed. Hell, after it released it even created its small fandom of people being depressed because they cannot go to Pandora. Yes, the story is shallow and uninteresting, but the movie managed to pull you into it's world like only a few movies could. As for the lead actor, I'm glad it was a "nobody", because I think that's what made it so cool, it wasn't Chris Pratt, or whoever, going to Pandora, it was a "a character" going to pandora, blank slate that's easy to project yourself onto.

The main thing I remember from this movie was the news article that came out saying that the movie made people depressed because they wanted to be a naavi and live on Pandora as well. Or something along that line.

I first watched this move in a VR movie theater in NEOS VR, on a giant screen. And because i fell in love with 3D movies the test prior, i watched the 3D version and I loved it. i think a big things that changes this movie compared to how most people talk about it is the fact that the Na'vi's good is real. And Jake commits to the Na'vi and their belief.

Avatar fire asfff fr man ahhhh 💯💯 , not talkn BOut that blue arrow head

Avatar was/is one of my favorite movies. I loved the whole idea of diving into another body and living a different life. I'm so excited stuff is happening again with it!

I went to watch it when it came out and i think i fell asleep or have amnesia cuz the only thing i remember was the scene of them connecting with the flying things

Avatar is kinda like the big budget AAA games that are bland but try their hardest to be the ultra SSD 360K raytracer graphics. Only to end up forgotten 3 years later when technology improved.

7:33 "Tits", as in the secondary sexual characteristic human women have, do not actually primarily serve the Purpose of dispensing milk. That could be accomplished the same way as it is in the supermajority of mammals by just having nipples. The protrusion of breasts is actually meant to look like the posterior, or Behind, or Ass, since the size of that is one of the main indicator of health male mammals use to decide who to pair up with. For humans, which are the only mammals to walk upright, the posterior of their potential partners is no longer in their direct field of vision, so female humans evolved breasts instead. Assuming a similar evolutionary history for the Navii, it makes a lot of sense that Female Navii would also indeed have breasts, though they would not contain a mammary gland and instead just kinda hang in there.

YES it was and i love it so much and excited for the sequel

The onubtanium could’ve had a bit more depth if they explained why it’s valuable [excluding money]. For example, what if that minerals components makes it more durable, light and stronger than any mineral on earth. Making it great for colonizing planets.

as someone who was two when this came out, and just watched yesterday n for the first time in years I can infact say that, while the movie is quite cliche it is almost 10x better than most of the movies coming out now. I mean just think about how cool this shit was it came out in 2009 for crying out loud. The cgi is better than most of the movies I see coming out this year.

one of the towns I pass by when traveling from my hometown to the city I study in has a shopping centre kinda directed at children, and on its facade there are some logos for what's inside and one of them is just "Avatar" in the movie font I have no idea what is it even about and how long has it been there

The easiest way I can describe what Avatar was is that it's just a cool tech demo of VFX. And based on how the second film was similar in the way of amazing VFX; generic storyline, makes me believe the rest of the films are going to be the same. It will be very interesting to see how much the technology evolves with each film. But in terms of the storyline, I believe all of them may continue to feel rushed, as they're trying to get filming done before the actors look too old to fit the characters.

This is absolutely my favorite movie ever and I’m very excited for the sequel

i remember the names of the characters as "that guy from Friends" and "that guy from Grandma's Boy" and "Ellen Ripley"

I just discovered this channel and watched like one and a half videos before my wife came to check on me still sitting on the toilet…lol great content should be a million subs here.

You need more subscribers my dude! I just came from the anime fanservice deep dive and now I am addicted.

One of the things i hear people complain about a lot with this movie is the whole blue Pocahontas argument. But like, isn't it better that we use that storyline in a completely fictional setting rather than twisting a real life tragedy

I quite liked it, and I am excited about the sequels.

here's the thing: There's no topic interesting enough to discuss about Avatar with another person beside the "cool CGI". The movie is a plain vanilla ice cream. as much as I hate MCU phase 4, at least we could talk about it, like a "what if" scenario or the flaws of the plot.

I think most interested (and disappointing) thing is that it _could_ have been quite a cultural touchstone but Cameron kinda dumpsterd that chance: They went very in depth about Pandora worldbuilding, they hired NUMEROUS professors to help build the world, a linguistics professor to make the language, a plant physiology professor to advise for the flora of Pandora. And especially, they had a composer and an ethnomusicology professor slowly *_invent_* a whole new genre of song that was unique to the Na'vi's cultural that was so unique that James Cameron decided to dump it because it sounded too strange, and Cameron also dumped a few alien designs for the Pandoran animals because they were... too alien lmao

Cameron doesn't care. He makes these movies to fund his deep sea exploration, the thing he actually enjoys in life, and you know what? Respect.

Looked like a showcase of effects and CGI more then a story that needed to be told. But those were some incredible effects and CGI for 2009~ And having an insanely good CGI + being in 3D made it a guaranteed success as long as the story was adequate and it was.

Nearly all of my Friend know and like Avatar😂, me and a few friends watch it every year, its Not the best movie ever but still made an impact on us as we watched it 3 Times in cinema back in 09.

this is the movie that is known for being famous

I always loved the visual aspects of the movie. let's hope the plot gets good in the second one

I feel like most people don't understand this movie at all. I was 17 at the time and this along with the previous years The Dark Knight were what inspired my love for film. For a while it was my favorite movie but even now it's still one of my favorites and I hate that it's only remembered now for being a pretty but bland movie. If that were true then most movies should all be making $2,000,000,000 as well. You don't make that kind of money with CG alone.

Fun fact: Sigourney Weaver's name in the first draft of the script was "Shipley."

Coming in after seeing Avatar Way of the Water, I think it had more interesting of a story with more complex character relationships. It’s still not a movie where plot is the main focus, but I do like how they expanded the world building. It also goes hard on themes surrounding the human impact on nature. It was incredibly fucking sad and depressing, and I don’t think I will have the energy to put myself through it again. I still think it’s worth watching, but it can be very hard to watch, especially if you are already painfully aware of how industrialization is destroying our planet.

Do you regularly think of the best rollercoasters you have been on? Sure if someone brings it up you might, but you don't just think about it for no real reason. Avatar is a great ride and experience in the moment. Even more so with IMAX and 3D on the cinema screen. Besides that though it just really doesn't offer that much.

I feel betrayed. I have seen this film so many times (its one of my youngest brothers hyper-fixations) and I have just now found out that there is an extended version of the film featuring a scene where Norm picks up a copy of the Lorax, among other things. Enraging. Edit: Okay maybe I'm fine not having seen them connect their hair and moan when they mate. Also Tsu tey doesn't have screen time after the battle in the version I'm familiar with.

They could've done something interesting with the unobtanium, give it some nearly magical properties that make it so valuable. It's so weird that a movie with so much care into world building does nothing with it. It could also explain why the Na'vi are so good at fending off the human military, because as it is I don't believe they can fight back at all. I'll suspend my desbelief during the movie, but think about it for two seconds and it doesn't make sense.

Now that I think about it... Didn't the same thing happen with King Kong and Star Wars? A movie so simple and with characters so flat that a small child could understand at first, but with special effects so devastatingly good that they were crowned kings at the box office, but when their sequels came out, no one went to see?

It was a Pocahontas, Ferngully, EagleEye reverse Independence Day remix

Being deadass, the only reason I can name Jake and Naatiri is because Ive watched way of water 3 times now but I still cant name anyone else from the first or second movie. Idk what it is about me or this movie but I'm shocked because unlike most, I didnt see them in theaters for some 3d eye candy and I actually like the plot somewhat but everyone inckuding the main character is forgettable

i dont remember much about the movie or cared for it, but i had the wii game that i played with my sister and i LOVED it. it was terrible but the memories and fun i had with it was all that mattered.

avatar is my favorite movie because i've watched it more than once

I just stopped dating a person who's favorite movie was Avatar lmao

The motivation of money to impress bosses hits too close from home if you have worked on a company, all savings projects are about reducing quality to boost gains

One of the first conversations with someone I’m in love with. Was him being like “quote the movie “ because it’s my favorite with train to busan And I could only roughly use the urine line. 🥴 now I purposely will lightly quote it at him.

2:24 my boi erik when he was young

The Lorax scene isn't in the regular release, only in extended version.

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Cartman's vision with Dance with the Smurfs was obviously the best. He was ripped from his success

Only comment I have i that unobtanium isn't the name of the material is just what you call a material that does something impossible with modern materials like adamantiam from xmen, it's supposed to be a superconducting mineral which would make it incredibly valuable. And the floating mountains technically possible. But it's scifi.

Wait wait wait wait wait. . . Now that you said it. I didn't remember any of the characters name. Like, at all. Not even the main character.

I was 9 when I watched this. How did I not notice the explicit content in this movie?

It kind of made me think of a scifi version of Pocahontas or something,not exactly but there are some familiar elements

its back!!!! the gaming community is owned by avatar now lets gooo

I think what avatar proves is you don't really need a story or complex chatacters if the film is fun enough to watch.

Avatar is just a crowdfunding for Alita, i won’t elaborate

I love Avatar and have seen it many times.

maybe the hair tentacles are multi-functional? Like there's a "sex mode" and a "tame animals mode" rather than him space sex-ing all the mounts.

I disagree that avatar has a simple and old plot. I think Avatar has a very intersting and noval story. Jake's redemption arc is so much more than the dude from Pocahontas. Jake did want to work for the boss since he was a cold blooded solider who just care about the mission and getting his legs back. He did first give secret to the military while not telling NaVi people's his truth intention. However, he gradually become a more compassionate person and got accepted by the NaVi people. Eventually he decided to tell NaVi people's the truth of his mission.... but Navi regard that as betray and Jake had to earn their trust again. I think this story is interesting and noval... Feel free to give an other story that are similar and similarly complex (by the way, pochahontas is not it... the dude in pochahontas had love in first sight with little moral conflict in considering the morality of each side. the dude never got accepted by the tribe not to be rejected later on due to his confession.)

this movie is okay but ur writing is exceptional so funny i was bustin out laughing the whole time 🤣🤣

Unobtanium really isn't as dumb a name as people make it out to be. It is an actual name used in stem to refer to fictional materials with amazing properties or materials so god damn expensive they might as well be unobtanable. Example: A: "We should just get a harder material to built this" B: "We already are using synthetic diamonds, what do you think is harder that this? Fucking unobtanium?"

Oh my God dude the joke about the space tentacles and the effing of his horse or space dragon hilarious

I haven't even watched the movie yet, But I had very fond memories of watching avatar so yeah, I'd say it was pretty good

Ya avatar is my favorite movie, and I talk about to it everyone u know

this is really entertaining

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Not my favorite, but I do watch the extended version of Avatar like once a year. It has flaws, but is a very enjoyable/entertaining movie to watch, especially with the added scenes in the extended version.

You are wrong about Avatar having no competition, Sherlock Holmes was in theaters at that same time.

Fellas, I come with a message from the future, I watched the second Avatar movie just a month or so ago, I literally cannot remember a single thing about plot, names, cooperation, nothing. I just remember a slight tint of green. In short, it was forgettable.

What do you mean its worth money, and people want to please their boss is weak motivation. That’s LITERALLY the entire planets motivation. Its weak as fuck, but accurate

Personally, I like the movie. In the end it is just a cgi fest, but it has enough writing and storytelling for me to say it's one of my favorites and not see it any better then a Love Death and Robots episode.

Pocahontas in space, with good FX.

I liked your Pocahontas review

it was a great movie it was the only movie to this day I went to see it 3 times and i remember everything about it

The new question would be if the sheer beauty of the movie can hold the franchise. Nowadays technology is far more advanced and videogames like horizon forbidden west offer you a much better experience

would you ever do anything on the bayformers movies on the audiences reaction to changes in characters personalities and appearances optimus prime for example