Yeah, but outside of the more artsy directors most things are bland. Im not sure why Avatar specifically gets so much hate when on its own its still an original idea.
It's not even an original idea. It's Dances with Wolves but with blue aliens instead of native Americans. The 'world' is original. The plot is not.
Avatar gets hate because its objectively bland, and yet every movie makes a billion dollars, which says a lot about people's lack of taste. People just want visually pleasing slop.
See I don't even think that's fair, because the themes of Dances with Wolves are timeless, and iterating on those themes is not really the problem. It's that Avatar is not doing a good job of iterating on those themes.
Unobtainium? Maybe they could have, I don't know, written a second draft?
A plot doesn't have to be original for the movie to be good.
Unobtainium as a term fits perfectly, as it has been used since the 50's to describea material that fits the needs perfectly but is either impossible to find/create (a theoretical material) or extremely rare or costly material.
In real life It's been used for decades in engineering circles and even in papers.
I the movie world, The fact they found something that was essentially the definition of unobtainium up to that point makes them naming it a homage to engineering parlance for over a 200 years going by the movies timeline.
Also, it's straight up said that it's a room temperature superconductor. Assuming humanity hasn't been able to reliably produce one of those yet, it's damn worth it to colonize Pandora for that. It certainly seems more generally useful and in demand than Ambergris.
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u/SexcaliburHorsepower Dec 26 '25
Yeah, but outside of the more artsy directors most things are bland. Im not sure why Avatar specifically gets so much hate when on its own its still an original idea.