It's me, I like these movies. The movies themselves are fine, but I love the universe. Where else can I find a whole planet of slender blue cat people wearing next to nothing? (Outside of anime, I'm genuinely asking because I'd love that universe as well)

There's a decent chunk of people that watch them solely for the bleeding edge CGI technology.

Others that like those kinds of stories. Nothing in the story is unique. Avatar, Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves, and numerous others are all fundamentally the same story told in different ways. There's a reason these stories keep being told and people still like watching them.

I'm one. I saw the first one three times in the cinema. I didn't like the second one as much, but I did like most of the new characers and I'm looking forward to being in that world again.

There are 6 billion people in the world.

Ok.. you do get how relatively tiny your circle of friends is. Everyone you times 1000 is fractional amount compared just to the population of your country.

The movie made 340 million because the franchise is beloved. I know that shocks the Reddit/Lemmy hive mind that is convinced the movies have no cultural significance.

I went to go see it. Wicked and this are the only movies I saw in the theater. It was great fun.

I saw Way of Water in IMAX and going this weekend to see the latest one in IMAX. It's a great time

I went to see the second one purely because I wanted to see the pretty CGI world, I didn't expect too much from the plot. No disappointment there.

I may yet do the same with the third one. I'm also not expecting too much from the plot there. I just want to see cool CGI and fancy world-building. It's entertaining in its own way and best seen on the big screen.

I'm seeing this one next weekend when I go visit my gf. I enjoy the series for them just being fun movies. Not amazing by any means, but enjoyable times out at the theater. My gf even saw the second one twice in theaters.

Right?

I can understand the first sequel hype, but it was kinda lame and I just dont see how people are bothering to see the next.

After the first dune, the sequel premier in my town had a whopping total of 13 people show up to watch.

I feel like Avengers normalized multi film continiuity, and people only feel compelled to show up like brand loyalty to a story/franchise.

Which is dumb because most if not all of these franchise films usually have no significant input from the original talent. James Cameron literally showed up to collect a pay check and go home.

I mean then again, people pay for FIFA and NBA2K every year so its not like it's far fetched. But cmon, this is why these media products dont get as heavily criticized compared to genuinely superior alternatives.