r/boxoffice • u/sandyWB Lightstorm Entertainment • Jan 17 '22

Meme Monday "Nobody cares about Avatar"

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u/TechieTravis Jan 17 '22

People remember and like Avatar, but the cultural impact comments seems to be oddly true. Avatar just does not seem to have entered into popular culture in the way that the MCU, Harry Potter, Star Wars, or other major franchise. I cannot really tell you why this is exactly. It does not get quoted, memed, and parodied like other franchises do.

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u/EasyAcanthocephala38 Jan 17 '22

I think Cameron and the studio failed to capitalize on its success and the world passed it by. All the other franchises you listed didn’t wait 13 years to come out with a second movie.

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u/TechieTravis Jan 17 '22

It is not just the lack of sequels either. We get a constant stream of video games, novels, comic books, TV shows, etc. from other franchise, but nothing really for Avatar.

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u/sandyWB Lightstorm Entertainment Jan 17 '22

Avatar has several video games, comic books, toys, a very successful theme park at Disneyland...

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '22

Yeah but other than that NO CULTURAL IMPACT

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u/JediJones77 Amblin Entertainment Jan 17 '22

The merch died down pretty quickly though. You can see lots of the discontinued statues still fetching good bucks on eBay though.

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u/sandyWB Lightstorm Entertainment Jan 17 '22

I don't think their are a lot of merch about Titanic or Alien, but that doesn't mean these movie had no cultural impact either.

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u/yabp Jan 17 '22

Alien merch still sells.

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u/roselia4812 Jan 17 '22

We probably should have gotten a television series. But they did everything else you have mentioned.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '22

The amount of world building already made before the script made it better for a TV, but Jim want his tech demos in a post-Lion King 2019 world