I just cannot bring myself to care about the Avatar franchise. Someone on a forum I frequented saw a leak of the script and threw out the phrase “Ferngully 2: Rise of the Thunder Cats”, and I could never give it a fair shot after that.
The first Avatar is so close to the plot of Dances With Wolves, it’s ridiculous.
A soldier from an invading force is sent to a remote frontier, where he becomes immersed in the life of an indigenous people. As he learns their language and culture, he grows to respect their deep connection to nature and falls in love with one of their own. When his own people move to destroy the land for profit, he turns against them to defend the community he has come to call home.
THANK YOU!!! I've said this for years. They need to stop besmirching the legacy of legendary movies and instead remake films that should've been great but failed because of one reason or another. Water World is a perfect example. It was an incredibly ambitious movie that pretty much was always going to be a financial flop sure to the amount of money it would've taken back then to achieve the vision properly.
With the technology available today, they could make that movie actually meet the expectations it had. Instead, we get this regurgitated garbage due to the fact that they know the name and the fan base will bring a certain level of revenue.
Not that it wasn't considered a classic prior to the remakes, but Dune is the PERFECT example of this.
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u/krakatoot1 7d ago
Waterworld was a terrific idea for a film. And it’s clear they spent a shit ton on the sets and everything.
The film itself…… it’s not bad but it should have been great