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It has an entire section of Animal Kingdom dedicated to it in Disney World and both movies made a stupid amount of money breaking multiple records. It had plenty of impact of pop culture, just look at how often people say this exact thing on a regular basis without a shred of self awareness. I love ATLA but this claim has always been silly.
When the land at Disney was announced the most enthusiastic responses were "well alrighty then."
Avatar is indeed a spectacle. But you're not going to hear people gush over a fireworks show, even though everyone on town shows up.
I mean when I went to Disney world last year there were people willing to wait in line for more than 2 hours for even just one of the Avatar rides (one that only lasts maybe 5-10 minutes at that), so clearly there are people who are enthusiastic enough that Disney felt it was worth spending ridiculous amounts of money on a giant fancy mini-mountain imitating the floating islands biome from the movie among many other areas and environmental set design dedicated to the movie. There were plenty of people, both kids and adults, buying stuff from the gift shop as well. So clearly the movie has a market even if people on Lemmy aren't personally into it.
Does anyone older than about 8 choose which theme park rides to go on based on what IP it’s about? I’m not a huge Superman fan, but at one point my favourite roller coaster was Superman Escape at Movie World. I liked it because of the intensity, g-forces, etc., not because it was about superman.
It’s a useless metric to use in assessing something’s cultural relevance.
What would you say is the pop cultural impact. I would agree that most people think to the blue aliens when you say avatar, but apart from that I can think of nothing. Ah maybe 3d... Hmm not sure if that counts
People still bring it up on a regular basis while claiming that nobody remembers it despite the fact that everyone pretty obviously remembers it even if they don't remember the details of the plot itself. The fact that it has an entire section of a world famous theme park dedicated to it means more than nothing even if people who aren't fans of the movie don't want to acknowledge it.
I feel like it doesn't really count if the only thing you're widely known for is how little impact you've had on the world. Everyone knows Avatar's name, everyone has seen it, and maybe 5% of the people who saw it can quote a single line from it
Everyone knows the theme song though.
I'm blue, da ba dee...
Why wouldn't it count? If you're widely known then you're widely known, nobody said you had to be widely known for being good.