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Discussion of Avatar's financial success versus cultural impact, mentions of re-release
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“Avatar is arguably the most successful movie to have ever been made, yet it has no cultural impact.”
Continued discussion of Avatar's derivative nature and comparison to other films
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“It's derivative it's kind of beat you over the head with the whole environmentally woke shit”
Discussion of Avatar as a derivative but unique James Cameron film
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“Avatar's derivative of so many other properties. But it's his own fucking thing, at least.”
Woody · unverified▼ negative
“I like Smurfs a lot more than Avatar.”
James Cameron film with sequels in development; criticized for having zero cultural impact despite being highest-grossing
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“No one fucking cares about Avatar. If you said sneak preview for Avatar, you can watch all five movies for free on your own time. I'd watch. I probably wouldn't.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“avatar for having been one of the top grossing movies of all time that has zero impact on our culture no one quotes avatar”
Discussion of Avatar's massive financial success but lack of cultural impact. Comparison to other similar films like Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, Fern Gully, and The Smurfs. James Cameron is mentioned as planning three more sequels.
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“it was huge and it was gone like it wasn't like a new story like south park lampooned it pretty good when they were like it's the same thing as dances with wolves it's the same thing as the smurfs it's the same thing as ”
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“Avatar is one of the most seen movies in cinema history. A lot of people have seen that movie. Yet somehow it doesn't occupy any space in our culture.”
Discussion of Avatar as the highest-grossing film, its cultural impact, and the upcoming sequels.
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Avatar was is now the second highest grossing film ever was like something 2.7 billion dollars and everyone has seen it but it's not part of the culture right no one quotes avatar i can't think of an avatar quote”
Woody · unverified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“Just this 2 would be fine. I don't need to go with it.”
Discussion of Avatar's box office performance and movie theater attendance decline
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · news/off-topic, not scored
“I feel like people don't go to the movies nearly as much as they used to. I saw I think the um Avatar ended up making like one and a half billion. So fell short of that two billion two billion dollar mark.”
Extended discussion of Avatar films (1, 2, and 3) and James Cameron's work
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I didn't like the first one. I I didn't It didn't didn't suck me in the first time I saw and that was in theaters in 2009 or whatever it was. I I've done like 20 minute long rants on this, so I'll cut it short. But basic”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I just don't love the Avatar movies. I think they look fine, but I think the story is a little ridiculous”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“But I guess I watched a movie called Heads of State recently that has Idris Elba. I feel like that I know they're doing the same. The earth based ones, the sky based ones, the the the the ocean based ones. They're just i”
Extensive discussion about Avatar movies, morality of human colonization vs indigenous Na'vi people, unobtanium, whales, and whether the blue people should be genocided
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I would be the first to be getting them out of here. The whole idea argument is like these things aren't sentient beings, therefore like fish don't feel pain or whatever it is. I I I somehow sort of get that like these a”
Woody · unverified▼ negative
“they're coming in with bulldozers just mowing down trees and such, then you're like, Oh, these are the bad guys. They're trying to destroy anyone but themselves. Yeah. The humans care about humanity”
Extended discussion of Avatar and Avatar 2, box office success, cultural impact, sequel plot with sentient whales
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“I'm not joking. Like Like put I'm not either. This is a lot like what I was talking about earlier with like if you really stand back and take a look at it, this Lex Luthor situation, he's not exactly the villain.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Avatar had no cultural footprint but everybody saw it. None it's crazy how little cultural impact it has None. There are no Avatar memes.”
Discussion of Avatar's portrayal of indigenous people as noble savages and Na'vi as perfect beings
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“I always thought just like what are you doing whenever I see them treated as like the good guy in the movie or something or when tribal life is sort of shown as just this peaceful coexisting with nature sort of thing lik”
Extended discussion about Avatar movies, their plot, character analysis, and political messaging
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Avatar is one of the biggest best-selling movies ever both of them you loved endgame Avengers and it has no cultural impact”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“I watched a video and they were like the na'vi that's the blue people taylor it's like that's an anagram for naive”
Harley · unverified▼ negative
“I always side with the humans in my mind I'm like wait wait wait a minute y'all y' Savages are living up in the tree”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I [ __ ] love Avatar I [ __ ] love Avatar 2 but I don't recommend them to anyone”
Brief discussion of Avatar's weakness - the aliens with bows and arrows
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“I was like let's get this blue [ __ ] let's go I want that whale brain goo”
Discussion of Avatar sequels and box office performance, comparison to other high-budget films
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I don't care to watch that like that'll be another thing I skip that I'm not gonna watch I watch Avatar when it comes out but I'm like I'm not like super excited”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified● neutral
“I loved it I have not thought about Avatar since the last time you mentioned it how how's it is it still in theaters”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I don't even I so I didn't need to see a three-hour Avatar movie again but I was forced against my will and a group of people to go and I did like it more than I thought I would”
Discussion of Avatar sequels, plot, visuals, and reception in theaters
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“I'd be a harpooner I want I wanted to ask that like your your pipe dream big video game any more movement on that”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I really enjoyed it I liked it a lot”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the real reason I can't watch that Avatar [ __ ] is because I even in the first one I side a hundred percent with the [ __ ] humans”
Discussion of Avatar movie visuals, plot, character transfers to Navi bodies, and the military villain character
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“the visuals were literally the best visuals that ever has been anything made so far”
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“even though the plot was paper thin I uh the visuals were literally the best visuals that ever has been anything made so far”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Avatar basic ass [ __ ] James it is basically dude James Cameron came up with this plot in 24 seconds”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I saw Avatar I saw it it was I enjoyed it”
Discussion of Avatar film, final fight scene strategy, unobtainium MacGuffin, Matt Damon's rejected offer for role
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“the fight scene you were wrong yeah no they didn't just make a terrible strategic decision to fight within spear distance”
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I saw Avatar again it is a pretty dumb movie in the back the fight scene”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“my problem with this is they've traveled this other place but the tree's so quick and devious”
Taylor · unverified▼ negative
“I was talking about the Ridiculousness of the final fight scene”
James Cameron sci-fi film about blue aliens, discussed as culturally empty despite massive box office success
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“avatar for having been one of the top grossing movies of all time it has zero impact on our culture”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“it wasn't a bad movie it just it wasn't what it was trumped up to be”
Kyle and Woody discuss Avatar's appeal and cultural impact, comparing it to other properties like Star Wars
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I liked avatar but I just liked it like seven out of ten it's it's weird that it became like one of the higher”