• Gamma ( GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 
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    9 months ago

    Moreover, analysts suggest that not enough time passed between installments. “Fire and Ash” debuted just three years after “The Way of Water,” a short gap compared with the previous decade-plus wait.

    Hahahaha analysts are really grasping for straws, the fact that 2 did that well after such a long wait was more a fluke than anything. The other points about 3’s story being unimportant and the tech being uninteresting explain more

    By the 5th movie I’d be surprised if it was more than a vanity project

    • calliope ( calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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      What’s fascinating about this franchise is that I always thought it was just a vanity project! It happened to be profitable when it came out because it was kid-friendly.

      James Cameron is the king of “why did so many people care about that at the time?”

      The public’s obsession with Titanic in 1997 seems eyeroll-inducing now. I remember going to used media stores and copies of Titanic on VHS were everywhere.

  • rafoix ( rafoix@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Disney wants a bigger ROI because they already damaged their Marvel and Star Wars franchises.

    The Avatar movies are more justified than anything Disney has done lately with the exception of Andor.

    Andor is great. Easily one of the best TV shows ever made. It’s in the same club as Sopranos and The Wire.

    • if they dint make thier shows like 8 episodes long, and multi-year hiatuses. they produced so much slop ever since disney+ became available. i fear they will ruin Xmen, and thier spinoffs, pre-xmen spinoffs were interesting before being cancelled due to disney merger.