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Seananigans said:

Literally everything is fake and gay, so that gives many people pause. Everyone is full of shit.

That said I don’t give a shit about avatar, I’m just irritated at how often the “muh conspiracy” card gets played. Nothing is out of bounds and unworthy of skepticism and I resent people trying to hand wave things with communist tactics.

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Don't be so triggered over the word conspiracy; it's like you're using the left's definition of it that automatically presupposes its falsehood. Tons of conspiracies are real.

However, when the sum total of evidence boils down to "I don't trust stuff" and "10 to 20 people I know didn't see a movie, therefore I think there was fraud on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars," it doesn't need to be taken seriously until something better is provided, but I guess not doing so is communism now.

Something weird is happening. Good, American movies suck and aren't very popular with the us, but studios don't care because they'll make a ton of money internationally so keep forcing that shit onto us. Same as the gaming industry.

Also compounded by the factor that our money from what used to be a driving demo is being spent by spoiled kids and spouses on this shit. Same as the gaming industry.

All movie earnings and associated reports are just Jewish money laundering schemes

Kirun said:

Convenient method that allows you to ignore facts you don't like and make assumptions and assertions on feels instead.

Where have I heard this ideology before...hmmm..

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Tone it down with the racism and antisemitism.

Seananigans said:

Literally everything is fake and gay, so that gives many people pause. Everyone is full of shit.

That said I don’t give a shit about avatar, I’m just irritated at how often the “muh conspiracy” card gets played. Nothing is out of bounds and unworthy of skepticism and I resent people trying to hand wave things with communist tactics.

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So you're pissed someone is saying this is a stupid thing to chalk up to a conspiracy, because even though that's true it's somehow unfair to other conspiracy theories?

So in your mind anyone can call anything a conspiracy and then everyone automatically has to accept it as true? Jesus Christ that's retarded

Mist said:

....immersive in the way only blockbuster movies can be.

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I think Avatar would have been better if all the dialogue was removed.

Chinese Hollow Knight ripoff.

joz123 said:

Chinese Hollow Knight ripoff.

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That's probably the most 1:1 rip off I've ever seen

Mist said:

Avatar was basically one of those movie rides except the seats didn't actually move.

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Buuuuhhht, what does being a blockbuster movie have to do with it?

So…games huh?

mkopec said:

Honestly I think the movie thing has never recovered since COVID or like 2020. I have a huge ass AMC 20 by my house, 2 IMAX screens, 3 restaurants in the huge ass parking lot built in the2000s? 2010s?. And I can say I pass this thing all the time and Barely like 20-30 cars in the parking lot now, since 2020. Before this lot used to be filled, even during the day 1/2 filled. Its crazy how this got hit and never really recovered. Sure its only one theater by me but its a stark difference post COVID.

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Maybe a mix of just.. everything, since then? The movies themselves are just complete garbage for the most part, these days. Some stuff is worth watching, sure. But is it worth going to the theatre (by yourself for emphasis) to see anything thats came out? I understand people do date nights and family nights at the theater, regardless of its content. But going all the way back to 2020, looking at gross domestic box office for the top 5 movies every year since 2020... Do you, or did you, see anything that was worth your fucking time to go see? Im not standing in line for none of that shit. Not saying it was all terrible, but.. just not "stand in line and wait" kind of movies. Just nothing that has came out has sparked a craze among people. Super Mario was the only one I saw a line for, and that was a week after release, and it was still mostly kids and Super Mario was definitely not a Hollywood Agenda movie.

This is also completely neglecting the fact that most of the shit that if you told me it was coming out 20 years ago, I would have died to go see, .. was just a fucking diversity, woke fucking mess of garbage that is ruining those franchises, now.

If anything, it feels like Hollywood is trying to kill itself. A lot of people that I do know that went to see Avatar 2, theyre just fucking normies. They watched the first one years ago and it was all the rave, so obviously.. after waiting all this time, the second one is going to be AMAZING! Right? And of course retarded kids are going to like it, because they just dont notice the same shit we notice.

DickTrickle said:

Don't be so triggered over the word conspiracy; it's like you're using the left's definition of it that automatically presupposes its falsehood. Tons of conspiracies are real.

However, when the sum total of evidence boils down to "I don't trust stuff" and "10 to 20 people I know didn't see a movie, therefore I think there was fraud on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars," it doesn't need to be taken seriously until something better is provided, but I guess not doing so is communism now.

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it’s because you are using the word conspiracy too liberally. I have no doubt people went to see the movie. But a little bit of logic suggests that the popularity of the movie is a bit incredulous, especially in a post-Covid world where people go to movies less and less.

it goes along with everything else that defies logic. Biden winning the election. Our economy is doing great. Israel needs our money in their war against Hamas. That’s just off the top of my head.

So the fact a studio might buy up tickets to make a movie more successful than it actually is….not exactly new ground. Book publishers do it all the time. Again, amazing avatar 2 did so great when movies like Harry Potter and Lotr were widely more popular.