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What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

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oni ᓚᘏᗢ Jul 11, 2025

Avatar.

neidu3 Jul 11, 2025

Alien pocahontas

Boomer Humor Doomergod Jul 12, 2025

Smurfgully

khannie Jul 12, 2025

Incredible summary. 10/10.

jordanlund Jul 12, 2025

Avatar at least had the excuse of existing to push 3D and mo-cap technology.

Not sure about Avatars 2-5…

Balaquina Jul 12, 2025

There’s five of them???

TachyonTele Jul 12, 2025

There's like three or four already out. Or something. Whatever the actual number is, I'm always amazed.

Flamekebab Jul 12, 2025

Only two out so far. The third is arriving in December.

TachyonTele Jul 12, 2025

Lmao see? I had no idea even one sequel was out

Movie magic at it's finest

partial_accumen Jul 12, 2025

The third is arriving in December.

oni ᓚᘏᗢ Jul 12, 2025

There are 2 out already, Cameron is making till 5 right now.

jordanlund Jul 12, 2025

2 completed and released with 3 more in the pipeline.

bl4kers Jul 12, 2025

Same thing for the sequels. Here’s an article about it. Maybe it’s the passage of time, but I’d say 2 is much more visually stunning than 1

abbadon420 Jul 12, 2025

Yeah, I watched it in a 3d cinema at the time and it was a great experience. Not the pocahontas story, but the cinematics. Avatar 2 was just shit. It’s like they’re pretending to be a real scifi franchise by building an entire world.

M137 Jul 13, 2025

Avatar was always about being a visual feast, which Avatar 2 definitely succeeded in IMO. I like them for what they are, great popcorn flicks.

Flax Jul 12, 2025

There are sequels???

jordanlund Jul 12, 2025

Avatar 2 came out in '22. Same basic plot, but the water effects are stunning.

youtu.be/d9MyW72ELq0

3 is completed and will be out for Christmas. 4 and 5 are in the pipeline.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_Fire_and_Ash

(All the trailers on YouTube so far are AI Bullshit, be warned).

Avatar 4 and 5:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_4

“it is scheduled for release on December 21, 2029.[8][9] A sequel, Avatar 5, is in development and is expected to be released on December 19, 2031.”

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Trailer

YouTube

Cascio Jul 12, 2025

You mean, “Dances with Smurfs”?

VindictiveJudge Jul 12, 2025

It’s clearly ripping off Pocahontas, not Dances With Wolves.

spicy pancake Jul 12, 2025

i love that the answer to “which one?” is “doesn’t matter, they suuuuuuck”

Rhynoplaz Jul 12, 2025

At first I thought you meant the first Airbender movie. Which also fits the criteria here.

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

This but nickelodeons avatar live action remakes.

crystalmerchant Jul 12, 2025

I know it’s just rehash Pocahontas but I enjoyed it. Suspend all that crap for a second and just enjoyed it

steeznson Jul 12, 2025

I mean yeah it was a shit film but it obviously had “business” being made because it was the highest grossing film ever for a while. I think it was the start of Holywood going out their way to crack the Chinese market (or at least the first time they did it successfully).

nomad Jul 13, 2025

I love the first movie, everything after is just more of the same. It feels uninspired.

Hobbes_Dent Jul 11, 2025

Captain America. Especially the one with a person of colour in the title role.

jordanlund Jul 12, 2025

I’d pay good money to see an animated adaptation of Truth in the Kyle Baker art style…

MotoAsh Jul 12, 2025

Americans are not a monolith, and the fact you act as such says a lot more about you than you’d ever care to admit.

Flax Jul 12, 2025

They are like two monoliths. Both are stupid.

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

I dont think black people existed in the 50s. At least according to maga

Brekky Jul 13, 2025

Try bothering to name a movie. And then I’ll still downvote you ʘ‿ʘ

Geodad Jul 11, 2025

All of them.

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

Yeah, but which

Geodad Jul 12, 2025

Hollywood hasn’t produced anything original in 10 years or so. Everything has been reboots or adaptations from books.

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

While true, I just want to point out original doesnt automatically mean good. I encourage everyone to sit out some marvel movies and maybe go see like we Andersons latest jaunt.

Twinklebreeze Jul 12, 2025

The Substance not original enough for you?

Phil_in_here Jul 12, 2025

Hot take! We’ve got a hot take over here!

Scrubbles Jul 11, 2025

Borderlands. How did they spend that much money and none of the decision makers stop and think “nope this is crap”

Rhynoplaz Jul 12, 2025

Still have to see it. I’m in no rush, but since I am a Borderlands fan, I have to know.

hperrin Jul 12, 2025

It’s really bad. Like, nearly unwatchable.

Rhynoplaz Jul 12, 2025

Oh God. Im looking forward to hating it!

thisbenzingring Jul 12, 2025

so like get the boys together, take a few shots of tequila and smoke something dank AF

then watch it?

UniversalBasicJustice Jul 12, 2025

Are you familiar with Edward 40-Hands?

Participants have a 40oz of Steel Reserve (or similar) duct taped to each hand. You may not remove the bottles until both are empty. The tradition is to watch old kung fu movies but this movie is absolutely acceptable. I advise wearing gym shorts; you WILL need to piss before you are done.

thisbenzingring Jul 12, 2025

LOL I can’t say if I have ever had more then a sip of a Steel Reserve. One of my best friends growing up developed a bad case of alcoholism and he drank those things religiously. I would rather just smoke some weed and get a little buzz then fucked up drunk like those are guaranteed to do !

Oka Jul 12, 2025

I stopped watching at “Fyrestone”

Clent Jul 12, 2025

I’ve seen far worse movies, movies that are truly unwatchable.

I know nothing about the source material and I get the impression that’s the difference here between those who think this is a terrible movie instead of just another mediocre comic book movie. As someone who had never read comics, they’re all equally meh to me but I wouldn’t call any of them unwatchable.

hperrin Jul 12, 2025

Fair enough. It’s one of my favorite games, because I played it through with my best friend right before he passed away in an accident, so it’s really emotionally valuable to me. Seeing what they did with the movie was pretty offensive in that regard, to me.

psx_crab Jul 11, 2025

Dragonball

spicy pancake Jul 12, 2025

still salty about that movie ruining my 15th birthday

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

I bought it on DVD just because I didnt want to scare investors away from every trying the IP again…

Usernameblankface Jul 11, 2025

The Minecraft Movie

Boomer Humor Doomergod Jul 12, 2025

It _could _ have been great. But it ended up - like the Mario movie - being a formulaic piece of drek.

TachyonTele Jul 12, 2025

I'm curious why you watched it

Boomer Humor Doomergod Jul 12, 2025

I thought both of them wouldn’t end up as clip art movies.

And I have kids.

glimse Jul 12, 2025

Both movies were loved by their target demographic: children

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

What, they dont make every movie for aging millennials to monetize their nostalgia? I call bullshit, see marvel.

Boomer Humor Doomergod Jul 12, 2025

My kids didn’t like it because there wasn’t enough Minecraft in it.

Honytawk Jul 12, 2025

The question blocks weren’t good enough, eh?

🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Jul 12, 2025

I feel better knowing I’m not the only one who didn’t like the new Mario movie for the same reason.

Daftydux Jul 12, 2025

Ok but which mario do you prefer? The new one or the 90s Mario Brothers?