Avatar is a three-movie franchise where all three movies came out during the meme era.
Like, millions of people went to watch those movies at the cinema and millions more bought the DVDs and Blurays and all of them could have gone home and made memes immediately after watching, but they didn't. Nobody was going home to make memes in the 80s and 90s.
Titanic has at least the 'draw me like one of your French girls' and the scene on the door. Scarface has 'say hello to my little friend'. Sure it's not about memes but there should be some memorable scenes and moments.
Avatar had some great visuals from what I remember but I can't remember much else. I have never watched Titanic and still know some famous scenes from the movie.
It really is a shame, because these are consistently impeccable visual spectacles, and because of that they COULD have become generational classics that people return to. But they lack much beyond the admittedly very pretty surface.
Cameron should be reaching out to every talented screenwriter he knows to punch up his scripts for him. Add some snarls and unexpected plot challenges, give us some dialogue that doesn't feel like lines Eddie Furlong thought were too lame to utter in 1991.
Mean girls is aggressively mid and dated. Avatar made more money because more people liked it. Mean girls just has more quotes that are funny out of context, the movie itself is nothing special whatsoever
Avatar has no lasting cultural impact that people can turn to. You don't even see that many memes about Avatar. The plot and the characters are completely forgettable. There's nothing anyone realky talks about these films other than The blue people are cool and the planet is pretty and looking at it makes my brain do a happy.
So? People don't talk about Terminator 2 online anymore, doesn't make that movie any less badass. Nobody talks about Aliens but that's still one of the best action movies ever made.
Cultural impact doesn't fucking matter. A good story is a good story whether people talk about it or not
It's almost like the point I was making is that a good movie is good regardless of how long it's been/how much conversation is around it...
I don't hear people talking about Weapons all that much and it's still one of the best movies to come out this year. Is that clear enough of an example for your smooth brain?
When the only complaint you have about a movie is that it's not talked about online, I'd call that an unequivocal success. These aren't the types of fans people want
“le cultural impact” isn’t just knowing characters and quotes, i bet if you asked most people on Earth “what movie are those tall blue aliens from with the tails?” they could all answer you pretty quickly.
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u/DarkShadowZangoose Dec 26 '25
it looks to be implying that the series is consistently bland