10 Years Ago, ‘Avatar’ Was One Last Original Blockbuster Before Nostalgia Conquered Hollywood

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James Cameron's 'Avatar' was the last live-action mega-blockbuster that was wholly original and allowed to just be a movie sans any demands for cinematic universes or multimedia empires.

movies. I don’t know if the sequels, or at least the first sequel, can replicate the success of the first Sam Worthington/Zoe Saldana action fantasy, but underestimating James Cameron has rarely been a winning bet. Sadly, the primal appeal of’s “triumph of the indigenous people against the murderous colonizers” narrative hasn’t gone out of date.Black Panther

also offered a fantastical and idealistic cinematic tourist trap and a political anger at the would-be conquers who would hurt the world for power and money. Both tell relatively simple and primal stories either in the service of groundbreaking technology or the appeal of seeing underrepresented demographics getting their time in the spotlight. Neither seemed terribly concerned about appealing to every potential political demographic.

 

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It also the most unoriginal speck of garbage to ever grace our screens

No.

No one is asking for “white saviours from space” movies anymore?

Inception? Interstellar? Gravity?

Ok boomer

? You mean dances with wolves... in space

Remember when people killed themselves because they could never go to Pandora

Noooooooo ... it’s been 10 years? 🥺😱

It was just a high budget remake of Fern Gully.

Avatar was a remake of Dances with Wolves.

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