| spurgeonryan said: Children bought plenty of his albums. Just another pop star that has not followed through with anything. Children did not make Avatar what it is today. |
Ten years from now, nobody is going to be praising Avatar. Just two or three years after its release, people already dismiss the film. It will never attain a spot in history like Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, or Alien/Aliens. Hell, ten years from now, more people will still be watching Nolan's Batman trilogy and even the Avengers set of movies (Iron Man, Thor, Cap, Avengers) will probably have more audience traction than Avatar (unless the sequels are amazing, an unlikely scenario). Avatar, like a Zack Snyder film, is more show than go. It doesn't mean they're all bad (Watchmen was decent) and I'll defer to someone thinking Avatar is an okay movie (but I still think it's pretty bad) but it's never going to reach the kind of cult status I listed at the beginning of the paragraph.
People like all sorts of bad things. Children are not unique in that arena. I don't care what you say, the Transformers movies are bad. Terrible, actually. No character development, unfunny attempts at humor, plot holes the size of Alaska, and incomprehensible action scenes. They are completely disposable movies in almost every way a movie can be disposable. Yet those Transformers movies make money hand over fist. People have shitty taste in lots of things. After all, the novel The DaVinci Code was the best selling book for how long? It's a terrible fucking book that panders to the lowest common denominator, which also helps explain some of its popularity. Terrible musicians shoot to the top of the charts almost every month. What makes you think movies are any different?
As I said earlier, popular opinion does not equal meritocracy.
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