Holy shit, this post is a treasure trove of the art of shilling. One can't even criticize a movie a bit like @
Puupi did, just one aspect of it even, despite them
absolutely loving that movie without you acting as if they insulted your great ancestors and going on a rant that's all over the place. Apparently one can only love films completely uncritically without it being sinful and undeserving of scorn.
Sorry to break it to you, but simply swapping out the setting doesn't make the story as a whole new new if everything else from theme through character arcs to core moments being a rehash of an existing story.
And what the hell does the money aspect have to do with anything here? Did The Force Awakens earn all that money because of its story? Hell no. The story being a nostalgia-driven cash grab has been one of the main points of the criticism that movie got. So what if it earned that money because it's, you know, Star Wars?
Also, what's with all that projectile straw-men in your post? When did @
Puupi say they find Aladdin and Jungle Book remakes being OK? Let alone them being OK because it's Disney remaking their own movies?
Speaking of which, if your argument for why Avatar's story isn't unoriginal is "look at these here
remakes", then sorry to break it to you again, but you don't actually have one. Just because there exist movies that redo the same exact story doesn't mean everything else automatically becomes original by default. So let's throw false dichotomy to the list of your fallacies. Because this isn't something that's as binary as you want to pretend. Avatar can still be unoriginal despite remakes being even more so.
And how did you learn about Lion King rehashing the story of Kimba the White Lion if nobody cared about it? Oh, right, because people did care about it and pointed that out as a result. Despite the movie being Asian and receiving very little coverage in the west. While a situation where two western movies share the same story is going to get much more awareness there for reasons that should have been obvious to everyone.
But you left the best for last. That last sentence is the cherry on top of your shill-cake. Gee, I wonder why it's Avatar that @
Puupi wanted to "stick it to" in regards of unoriginal stories? Could it have something to do with, I dunno, Avatar being the topic of this particular thread? Unlike all the other movies you used to deflect? Context, how does it work...
I just love your posts. Always going on how people are contrarian and whatnot because they dare to dislike something that's being popular only for you to act contrarian in the scope of the given thread and defend the shit out of the thing being criticized just for the sake of it.
Even when it results in a thread like this, where you're defending Avatar because it's being criticized, but then you realize Endgame is criticized in a comparison to Avatar too so it's time to defend Endgame instead by throwing Avatar under the bus. Hey, maybe people won't notice it!
And to get ahead of your predictably boring reply, I don't mind either movie (despite finding both to be flawed in certain ways, especially in regards to their stories).
You judged it by its own merits so much that it being a climax to MCU so far is the reason you had to use as a gotcha against Avatar.
Obviously that doesn't apply to you, vide your numerous posts and signatures mocking people for thinking that BfA is inferior even to WoD (among many other examples) and using them as examples of how people daring to criticize BfA (and WoW as a whole) are unreasonable, that nothing would ever satisfy and so on. Because WoD is totally objectively worse than BfA and you know it. Because unlike other people who only fool themselves into thinking to be factual beings you totally are.
Also, I checked why @
Highelf got banned out of curiosity and it led me to this pearl by accident:
It's just beautiful in context of both of your posts above. And the one below as well!
Queen of Hamsters in reply to @
Ihavewaffles: People similarly will believe themselves to be factual beings when it comes to what constitutes good/bad writing (rather than admitting to it being subjective based on what they enjoy and not), just to try and feel superior to people feeling differently about X medium.
Queen of Hamsters in reply to @
Doctor Funkenstein: Facts are facts whether you like them or not. When the "facts in question" is her earlier statement that "There's a before Avatar, and after Avatar, in terms of CGI." as if there was some authority body on the issue that decreed it to be so.
Then again I already pointed out how you don't apply the former statement to yourself.
Which is particularly weird given how Endgame went as far as making Thanos. As illogical his plan in Infinity War was, Endgame reduced him to a bland I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING villain.