Avatar 24 hr channel on Resort TV?

[Cmdr_Crimson]

While reading a review about the Pop Century Rooms one post showed picture of the new TV's and it stated that they are litterally playing the Movie Avatar on a continuous loop? Is this true?

Are they trying to drive in the fact the movie was just....okay? I mean sure they want you to know what it's about but, even if you don't want to know about it you can just think it was something the park concocted..

 

[Notes from Neverland]

Why is it a bad thing it's an option on TV that you can easily avoid or watch? I think it's fun, especially if you haven't seen it in a while and are planning on going to AK the following day, for instance.

 

[1000th_Guest]

The continuous Avatar loop on channel 80 ended, I think, on June 29 or 30.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Why is it a bad thing it's an option on TV that you can easily avoid or watch? I think it's fun, especially if you haven't seen it in a while and are planning on going to AK the following day, for instance.

Oh it's not that...It's just you'd think even tho they had a 24 channel with the movie they could have at least done one with all the Disney films....It'd be nice IMO..

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

We saw it was on during our stay I can't remember if we ran across it during our stay from June 19-25 or June 30-July 1 (we had a cruise in between). I don't know if it was a loop because I don't remember seeing it again. I think it is kind of smart of Disney to play it for those unfamiliar with the movie. I myself only saw the movie for the first time 5 days before visiting the land.

 

[mergatroid]

I'm still amazed that the claim "It's a movie nobody liked" is banded about as fact when it's usually discussed even though box office receipts show differently

 

[Tavernacle12]

I'm still amazed that the claim "It's a movie nobody liked" is banded about as fact when it's usually discussed even though box office receipts show differently

It's infamous for being a massive box office success with little to no fanbase whatsoever.

 

[mergatroid]

It's infamous for being a massive box office success with little to no fanbase whatsoever.

To me that's just something people say and others repeat as though it's a fact, has research ever been done on this? And even if it were true and there is no 'fanbase', there's plenty of great films that people don't talk about having a huge 'fanbase' for. People say stuff like "Nobody can remember the names of the characters in Avatar, so it's not a great movie". However ask these same people to name the characters in 'Saving Private Ryan' and I'd imagine they'd struggle to do so (I've actually tested this theory and people can't do it).

It may not have made a mark on society like 'Star Wars' etc but there's tons of great movies that haven't either. Terrible movies on the whole don't make the money Avatar did. Yes it had fancy 3D etc to attract people along with a successful director, however this alone can't be used as the only reason for it's success. I've no issue with others not liking Avatar, it's all subjective at the end of the day. However I struggle accepting that 'nobody liked the movie' or the 'characters' whereas other great movies aren't judged using this same criteria.

 

[Tavernacle12]

To me that's just something people say and others repeat as though it's a fact, has research ever been done on this? And even if it were true and there is no 'fanbase', there's plenty of great films that people don't talk about having a huge 'fanbase' for. People say stuff like "Nobody can remember the names of the characters in Avatar, so it's not a great movie". However ask these same people to name the characters in 'Saving Private Ryan' and I'd imagine they'd struggle to do so (I've actually tested this theory and people can't do it).

It may not have made a mark on society like 'Star Wars' etc but there's tons of great movies that haven't either. Terrible movies on the whole don't make the money Avatar did. Yes it had fancy 3D etc to attract people along with a successful director, however this alone can't be used as the only reason for it's success. I've no issue with others not liking Avatar, it's all subjective at the end of the day. However I struggle accepting that 'nobody liked the movie' or the 'characters' whereas other great movies aren't judged using this same criteria.

The idea boils down to the sheer lack of Avatar cosplayers, fan art, merchandise, pop culture references, etc. It's not really about people disliking it, so much as the fact that a movie can make that much money and have seemingly no effect on popular culture as a whole.

Saving Private Ryan, to use your own example, isn't in a genre that usually has an active fanbase (no one goes to pop culture conventions dressed as their favorite fictional WW2 soldier), but the movie is still well regarded, and the D-Day landing sequence gets shout outs in fiction even recently (I think Sausage Party did one last year). Avatar, in a genre that even terrible movies get a fanbase and is rife with fan creation, seems to have already been forgotten (obviously outside AK).

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Avatar, in a genre that even terrible movies get a fanbase and is rife with fan creation, seems to have already been forgotten (obviously outside AK).

And really confuses the fanbase considering there is Two Avatars......And the both have rides...

 

[twebber55]

To me that's just something people say and others repeat as though it's a fact, has research ever been done on this? And even if it were true and there is no 'fanbase', there's plenty of great films that people don't talk about having a huge 'fanbase' for. People say stuff like "Nobody can remember the names of the characters in Avatar, so it's not a great movie". However ask these same people to name the characters in 'Saving Private Ryan' and I'd imagine they'd struggle to do so (I've actually tested this theory and people can't do it).

It may not have made a mark on society like 'Star Wars' etc but there's tons of great movies that haven't either. Terrible movies on the whole don't make the money Avatar did. Yes it had fancy 3D etc to attract people along with a successful director, however this alone can't be used as the only reason for it's success. I've no issue with others not liking Avatar, it's all subjective at the end of the day. However I struggle accepting that 'nobody liked the movie' or the 'characters' whereas other great movies aren't judged using this same criteria.

Ill ask this again
If it were only the 3 D that made it popular why is it the top grossing blue ray/dvd of all time?

 

[mergatroid]

The idea boils down to the sheer lack of Avatar cosplayers, fan art, merchandise, pop culture references, etc. It's not really about people disliking it, so much as the fact that a movie can make that much money and have seemingly no effect on popular culture as a whole.

Saving Private Ryan, to use your own example, isn't in a genre that usually has an active fanbase (no one goes to pop culture conventions dressed as their favorite fictional WW2 soldier), but the movie is still well regarded, and the D-Day landing sequence gets shout outs in fiction even recently (I think Sausage Party did one last year). Avatar, in a genre that even terrible movies get a fanbase and is rife with fan creation, seems to have already been forgotten (obviously outside AK).

I'm not into cosplay or sci-fi conventions etc so will take your word for that side of things. In general though it's slated as 'a movie nobody liked', even comedians have made jokes about it on tv and it's kind of taken off from there. I suppose it's like an English singer called Cliff Richard, it's viewed as sort of lame to like him and whenever people talk about him nobody usually admits to being a fan. Yet he sells tons of records so there's loads out there buying them, it's just much 'cooler' to deny it as it's accepted he's not liked by everyone when it's clearly not the case. This thread isn't saying Avatar was terrible by the way, just thought I'd jump in before the inevitable happened.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Ill ask this again
If it were only the 3 D that made it popular why is it the top grossing blue ray/dvd of all time?

Because there are sad sad people out there.....

Also does it seem a bit odd that La Nouba Leaves and they are awaiting a new show.....Good thing the didn't bring Toruk First Flight...

 

[twebber55]

Because there are sad sad people out there.....

Also does it seem a bit odd that La Nouba Leaves and they are awaiting a new show.....Good thing the didn't bring Toruk First Flight...

Toruk is the top grossing cirque show btw
In fact its one of the top grossing shows world wide

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Toruk is the top grossing cirque show btw
In fact its one of the top grossing shows world wide

But is it for the Acrobatics....OR The fact that it's Avatar?

 

[mergatroid]

Ill ask this again
If it were only the 3 D that made it popular why is it the top grossing blue ray/dvd of all time?

I read people on the Pandora forum on here claiming "Without the Chinese liking it, it would have bombed". That's probably the best explanation I've heard though I've never seen other film's 'fan base' scrutinised like that in order to win an argument

 

[twebber55]

But is it for the Acrobatics....OR The fact that it's Avatar?

Well there are several cirque shows out there and this one is the top grossing show

 

[correcaminos]

I'm still amazed that the claim "It's a movie nobody liked" is banded about as fact when it's usually discussed even though box office receipts show differently

Box office receipts doesn't always correlate to how well a movie was liked in the end. It was advanced CGI for the time so everyone was like "OMG go see it!" So they did. Some liked it for the story and others realized it was Fern Gully 2

Some like me saw it and said "pretty good CGI but still looks fake" and nearly fell asleep because it was too long and not interesting enough. I hated the movie really. I remembered pretty much nothing about the characters and such after watching. Unlike their bonding with the animals, I felt no connection to the movie after at all.

Funny about the Cirque show is I had friends who saw that one and didn't realize it was Avatar when they went to see it. Cirque has a huge following though.

It was on loop (channel 80) when we were there in June so I watched it again - nope still hate it. Love the land though.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Box office receipts doesn't always correlate to how well a movie was liked in the end. It was advanced CGI for the time so everyone was like "OMG go see it!" So they did. Some liked it for the story and others realized it was Fern Gully 2

Some like me saw it and said "pretty good CGI but still looks fake" and nearly fell asleep because it was too long and not interesting enough. I hated the movie really. I remembered pretty much nothing about the characters and such after watching. Unlike their bonding with the animals, I felt no connection to the movie after at all.

Funny about the Cirque show is I had friends who saw that one and didn't realize it was Avatar when they went to see it. Cirque has a huge following though.

It was on loop (channel 80) when we were there in June so I watched it again - nope still hate it. Love the land though.

They also said Disney's Pocahontas has more similarity in this video kind of shows it..

 

[mergatroid]

They also said Disney's Pocahontas has more similarity in this video kind of shows it..

Story wise also similar to 'Dances with Wolves'