Fun fact, Avatar is set on the planet of pandora which is full of dangerous predators. More importantly it’s ripe with plant life, which is commonly green in colour but due to the lack of oxygen on the planet of Pandora creates a blue-like colour. James Cameron then coined the working title of “Blue harvest” as homage to these blue coloured plants.
Seeing Avatar in 3-D in theaters was sort of like attending a foreign sporting event you don’t understand at all while black out drunk. You remember the general experience, but who won? Who was playing? Was there a single memorable moment? I remember I had a good time.
"oh wow you forgot what happen in Avatar 1? , As if watching something back in 2009 and made no attempt to refresh your memory actually made you forgot , who wouldve thought " -RUclipsr named "local"
@@Ashephalt bro i did this when they re-released recently. took 2 edibles during previews and by the time Jake goes to claim his dragon thing, I feel like I’m on Pandora
Ah yes, to quote the legendary General Iroh: "You are going through a metamorphosis, my nephew. It will not be a pleasant experience but when you come out of it you will be the beautiful Na'vi you were always meant to be".
16:41 The movie is about big blue people, so the promotional items were called "Project Blue Harvest". It just so happens that that was also the working title for the first Star Wars movie.
Despite it being the highest grossing film of all time I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who’s ever talked about it when we have film discussions ngl
It's just a fun movie so there's not a lot to discuss. It made so much money for the sole reason of the quality of the CGI which miraculously still holds up to this day
When you have film discussions do you talk about themes involving race and "white saviors" or is it mostly superficial? Good film discussions require critique.
@@LuisSierra42 Also it was one of the first movies to show in 3D and at the time everyone had a hard-on for 3D. Also the version you see now is a 4k touch up with remastered CGI. the original version is not quite as good but you will never ever find it these days
@@dangerfly I've always remembered avatar for its brutal commentary on colonialism. Too much CGI and action for me. It's a real "thinking mans movie". Oh, sorry "thinking person"
I saw this in cinemas with a friends who was going to see it for the 4th time, he loved it so much. He asked me what I thought when we left, and I said something to the effect of "the subtitles looked really cool in 3D!" A very forgettable movie for me
I'm right there with you. I have seen Avatar a grand total of once. Never felt like revisiting it, nothing against it I guess, just ... once was enough.
When working on 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' in 1998-ish, James Cameron came to our studio SQUARE USA in Hawaii to see if our character tech could meet his expectations for 'Avatar'. Not quite yet, but he was very kind and enthusiastic. C'est la vie. #Truth
Nic and James doing this quiz mirrored my viewing experience of the film itself. It began with "wait, what are we doing?" and devolved into "can we just speed through this and wrap it up?"
It's memorable in the sense that it's clearly Pocahontas/ Dances with Wolves/ Ferngully but with less to say than any of them. At least there's a portion of fans being honest that they're there for the visuals rather than trying to dress it up as some profound message.
Who cares that's only 3 flims, most of the mcu movies are near the same. How original do you think you could be these days when everything's been thought of?
I finally got around to watching the extended edition earlier this year, it felt a little strange after so many years watching the theatrical version but the Earth scenes and the explanation behind the school definitely add a lot to it.
My wife has like 3 copies of this movie, she loved it so much. The story is a bit cliché and a rip of other stories, but it was fun to just immerse yourself in an alien world. They should do a VR game with the new one.
People go on and on about it being a Pocahontas or Fern Gully ripoff but really it's most similar to Ursula Le Guin's "The Word for World is Forest". Great book. There's your next Christmas/Birthday idea. You're welcome
I never saw it in theaters when it came out but saw it recently in 4D and was absolutely blown away how the effects work topped pretty much all the CGI we’re getting now…
I saw it when it came out in theatres and I remember thinking the effects work was top notch, but I didn't like the design of pretty much anything and the story was crap.
I think it would've been interesting if James Cameron was able to make Avatar 2 in time for the originally planned release of 2014, but instead of Avatar 3 to 5 coming out one year after the previous, they were about 5 years apart so that each new installment could be another showcase in the advancement of technology (and maybe even be a contributing factor to said advancement). Avatar 2 (2014) would of course be the water, Avatar 3 (2019) could've been de-aging technology, Avatar 4 (2024) could've been maybe entirely CGI with the live-action characters being photo-realistic, and by 2029, James Cameron would be a trillionaire, create VR movie theaters, and people would be able to watch Avatar 5 as a background character in each scene, and with the ability to move around, have an entirely unique viewing experience.
@@TruDis01 The crazy thing is that this could be satirical or completely serious, and neither one would be wrong. It’s obviously a joke because is one of the most watched movies of all time. But it’s obviously serious because most people barely thought about it for a decade, and in that time the reception was mostly lukewarm.
It's pretty funny to me that a role that supposedly required the "it" factor eventually went to Sam Worthington. I remember Zoe Saldana being good though, I think that was my main take away.
@@chasehedges6775yeah that’s the American pov. I think the rest of the world sees avatar differently considering the rest of the world made the movie 3x more money than it did in the US
The breast thing is true. I remember the interview, when Cameron spun his fingers in circles like he was circling nipples and said, "this is a movie for people."
I saw it too. With my sister and dad. Came out of it and they loved it while all I was thinking was how much I enjoyed District 9, which came out earlier that year, so much more. Maybe my experienced was spoiled by that, so I came to be able to watch it later, it's extended edition in fact, and having so much time between the two, I still felt like it was a decent movie that had a few particularly strong performances and character writing like for Sigourney Weaver and her character. Otherwise, it was still more a pretty tech demo, and the obnoxious "perfection" and "unity" of Pandora really didn't do anything to endear me to them. I can only hope with Way of The Water, it will be opening up to more nuance that will make this all worth investing and staying intrigued with.
I was similarly disappointed and I just don't think I can bring myself to go back to Pandora for a 3 hour plus sequel to a film I couldn't give a solitary shit about. I'm sure it'll be huge though because Cameron's film almost always are.
Yeah District 9 was much more memorable that year, but I was a bit too young/innocent at 11 years old and I was really disturbed and uncomfortable with the body horror of the prawn transformation and I hated it lol. Rewatching it as an adult I really love it.
Funny thing actually, the whole plot of the first movie surrounding cutting down the huge tree inspired Cameron to come up with the working title for this film “blue harvest” due to the fact that they wanted to harvest the tree from the blue people, this was also coincidentally the working title for the first Star Wars movie
So I may have missed the origin to this joke but is it part of the joke that they say Blue Harvest was the working title for the first Star Wars film when in fact it was the working title for the third Star Wars film? Am I being trolled?
Since this, Alien and Predator are all now owned by Disney what are the odds they somehow try to franchise this all together at some point? Just imagine you could just repeat the movie Prey but cgi and blue.
I mean ... It's not the worst idea ... Better than what Fox was doing with those franchises for the past decade. Predators hunting on Pandora also sounds genuinely sick. And an alien infestation there sounds horrifying!
Whenever people talk about this movie, it's usually about how they don't really think about it, or how much they loved it when they saw it. It's honestly super interesting.
1:11 On my third listen, I heard for the first time Mason going “I’m a bad little boy!” and then immediately, “mm nope not that…” 😂 Just felt wrong coming out, and he disavowed it instantly lol
It's because it's a 4 star sci-fi movie, but happened to have scored 10 our 5 stars in visual effects. I don't even care about the franchise but i still already booked to see it in imax because I know it will melt my face off with how sick it looks!!
I saw the trailers and genuinely thought at first this would be an adaptation of the Avatar the Last Airbender cartoon. I just figured it was a very very loose adaptation.
One of my favourite movies! It's become a running joke in my friend group, so I have about 20 copies of the DVD stashed throughout my house as I keep getting it as a gift.
I don't really understand the hate for it tbh, I loved it upon initial watch in the theater with 3D, and later a second viewing on bluray (though the CGI doesn't hold up as much if you're not watching it in 3D) It's by no means a masterpiece, but I can remember it just fine, it has a relatively simple story and it's not like the names of the two main characters are hard to remember (Jake Sully and Neytiri). Grace is great as well (Sigourney Weaver). Ex-military dude's brother dies, who was part of a special program called the Avatar program, which allows the person to connect to the mind of an alien lifeform, who was created with the DNA of the human it's based on and the Na'vi (blue cat looking aliens). Ex-military dude (Jake) goes in his brother's stead, is asked by the corporate assholes to spy on the Na'vi as one of them but over time learns to respect them and even love them, and no longer wants to help the corporate assholes. Corporate assholes don't take kindly to this and decide to blow up everything, Jake helps blue cat aliens to fight against the humans and in the end chooses to stay with them as one of them. Sure, there's a lot of details I haven't mentioned (but could) but like, that story isn't hard to remember.
For personal experience, the problem is not that stuff was hard to remember. It's that it was bland as hell and not worth remembering. I remember coming out of it thinking "well it was a movie. There were a couple of good action bits. That dude got crushed by a pallet of generic metal items. The rest of the movie can be thrown away because it holds no emotional value. I've seen it all before and this was one of the less interesting versions of it. Oh and the animals had 6 legs. That was neat. The horses breathe through their necks."
@@chrisbarnett5303 In terms of stuff that came out after or around Avatar? And it doesn't have to be amazing, it just has to be more interesting and engaging than avatar? Spiderman Into the Spiderverse, Shin Godzilla, Inception, District 9, Monsters, Attack the Block, All three modern planet of the apes movies, XMen First Class, Dredd, Enders Game, Pacific Rim, Snowpiercer, Logan, Venom, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie, Mad Max Fury Road, Star Trek: Beyond and Dune And these are just the ones where i can say without a doubt are more engaging and interesting. The ones where i could sway a little on them, i didn't count, and also i have seen all these myself and am not just running off what other people have said about them. As such i will not be debating the quality of my choices. They're my choices, if you think some aren't at the same level as avatar, that just means you like avatar a hell of a lot more than i do.
I think this is also tie to message of the movie, and its use of the noble sauvage idea. It is a cliving idea that people debate over since centuries. Not everyone think civilization is the reason men are bad, or that some form of primitivism is the way to go. Especially during this era where Futurism is quite prevalent. It is also quite annoying that the implied solution to our current ecological problem, is you should have lived in harmony with nature lol.
There’s a bonus question of the quiz if you share to Facebook, which is ‘In an alternate ending, the Na’vi go around collecting their fallen dead after the battle. What is this scene titled?’ And the answer is of course, the ‘Blue Harvest’.
I always like to play a game when this #1 movie of all time comes up in conversation. Name three other characters by name in this movie besides Jake Sully. They sometimes get 1.
Oh shit, that's a good one... natiri was the blue lady I remember that.... the general is named something like rourke or valery, theres some red shirted mook named jonathan or matt I think? Michelle rodrigez was named like cortez? And sigorney weaver... was doctor... something...
Neytiri l know for sure. And then the Cheiftain and the Colonel. I think it's less that it's forgettable, and more that it's been almost 15 years since l last saw the movie.
17:07 Fun fact: did you know the original names for Jake Sully and Neytiri were “Blue” and “Harvest” respectively, which together bear an uncanny resemblance to “Blue Harvest”, the working title of Star Wars episode 4?
This film came out when i was a teenager during freshman year! I remember getting excited for the movie. It was an amazing looking movie. Cant wait for the new one
Considering the insane amount of money it has to make in order to be profitable coupled with the fact that it's coming 13 years after the first film, which people forgot about 10 years ago, I have a hard time seeing how it can be successful.
@@MLennholm It will be.Avatar 2 coming out 13 yrs later wiil work in the film's advantage.The MCU's phase 4 has been mediocre at best and fans are complaining ( which they should )people are DESPERATE for escapism/entertainment,Avatar 2 will provide this.The little kiddies are gonna loss it !!!! LOL.The folks who didn't see the first movie are gonna fall in love with Avatar 2,then clammer like hungry wolves for Avatar 3.
I remember that they had a very special, advanced screening where Cameron revealed 15 minutes of 3D footage from Avatar to wow audiences and they wowed audiences. It was called Avatar Day. And when the movie came out, the 3D immersion totally blew many of us completely away. Cameron almost fully transported us to this mystical alien planet called, Pandora. It was unlike ANYTHING we had ever seen before
When I saw the first Avatar in the theatre, it was at a small local theatre where the owner introduced the movie over a P.A system. He introduced it as “Dances With Wolves in SPACE”.
No. But I do remember Fern Gulley, Dances with wolves, and I know what Smurfs are. All properties that told the same story much better. This movie needs to make 2billion $ to break even.
Well now were in a predicament. Murphys law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So if we all want the movie to succeed, itll probably bomb (unless it's marvel infinity saga), but if were rooting for it to "get rekt", it'll do amazing overseas in China and make like 3 billion. So its really in hands of fate to see what will piss us off more
They say they will never do this again, but I reckon this is just the start of a new reoccurring gag, like the Blue Harvest and Rodney montage in Caravan of Garbage. I can't wait for every video now to inexplicably have a moment where the two of them have to answer a random Avatar trivia question.
I recently watched it again with some friends and honestly I was bored out of my mind. I remember loving it when I was a kid and even watching it multiple times as a teenager but idk it just didn't hit the same.
I honestly expected the quiz to be about the movie (as in what happens in the movie and details about it) not a bunch of questions about the making of the movie
Jake Sully island is famously where George Lucas shot principal photography for his '77 film. He would use a translation of the natives seasonal feast "Maclunkey" as the working title for that project, called "Blue Harvest"
Someone in my English class was talking about Avatar they said, "it's an amazing movie, don't bother watching it" That is just a perfect way to describe the movie.
@@JS-pn4tj well they explored alot showing earth being almost a wasteland the world of Pandora being a new frontier sort of like the natives were invaded the concept of fitting in for as in the characters since they were disconnected by their own race the other fact of knowing that Pandora is more alive as in actual entity for the navi. The music The visual The characters it was all good for 2009.
I wish they would have continued with a sequel with the same technology they had back then but I do admire and applaud them for taking it to a whole other level to give us some more epic scale movie so I know sadly people that love the first one or not alive to see the sequel sad truth I've seen comments already it is awesome that we are getting it reaction embargo this Tuesday get ready everybody
Fun fact, Avatar is set on the planet of pandora which is full of dangerous predators. More importantly it’s ripe with plant life, which is commonly green in colour but due to the lack of oxygen on the planet of Pandora creates a blue-like colour. James Cameron then coined the working title of “Blue harvest” as homage to these blue coloured plants.
Oh, very fun.
It’s actually a moon ;)
@@nerad1994 I hope you get west worlded
@@picolascage3150 What does that mean?
Rodney!
Seeing Avatar in 3-D in theaters was sort of like attending a foreign sporting event you don’t understand at all while black out drunk. You remember the general experience, but who won? Who was playing? Was there a single memorable moment?
I remember I had a good time.
Haha I saw it stoned as hell, life changing experience let me tell you.
"oh wow you forgot what happen in Avatar 1? , As if watching something back in 2009 and made no attempt to refresh your memory actually made you forgot , who wouldve thought "
-RUclipsr named "local"
@@alahsiaboi8909 that video was actually really good aye. local needs way more subs
@@cooki3th1ef he could've on the same level as critical drinker in term of subs if he started making videos years prior
@@Ashephalt bro i did this when they re-released recently. took 2 edibles during previews and by the time Jake goes to claim his dragon thing, I feel like I’m on Pandora
"I hate being wrong"
"Some of us take it in stride-"
"Because you're used to it!"
Lmaoo
This was the weirdest Avatar the Last Airbender quiz I ever took but it was fun
the 2010 movie that was like 0% on rotten tomatoes? Not the 2009 one with 83%?
@@doubled57690 He's talking about the animated show with a 100% rating.
@@MCLegoboy never heard of a show. Don't like anime its too lgbtq.
Ah yes, to quote the legendary General Iroh: "You are going through a metamorphosis, my nephew. It will not be a pleasant experience but when you come out of it you will be the beautiful Na'vi you were always meant to be".
@@doubled57690 there's no movie in ba sing se
16:41 The movie is about big blue people, so the promotional items were called "Project Blue Harvest". It just so happens that that was also the working title for the first Star Wars movie.
Goddamnit you beat me to it 😂
Take my up vote you bastard
you were supposed to mention how they were harvesting "Unobtainium" !
I was very upset about this missed opportunity.
Nah this ones a flop
There is not enough appreciation for
"What do the Na'vi do while mating?"
"Jake Sully."
Despite it being the highest grossing film of all time I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who’s ever talked about it when we have film discussions ngl
It's just a fun movie so there's not a lot to discuss. It made so much money for the sole reason of the quality of the CGI which miraculously still holds up to this day
I've also never heard about avatar in my weekly film discussions
When you have film discussions do you talk about themes involving race and "white saviors" or is it mostly superficial? Good film discussions require critique.
@@LuisSierra42 Also it was one of the first movies to show in 3D and at the time everyone had a hard-on for 3D. Also the version you see now is a 4k touch up with remastered CGI. the original version is not quite as good but you will never ever find it these days
@@dangerfly I've always remembered avatar for its brutal commentary on colonialism. Too much CGI and action for me. It's a real "thinking mans movie". Oh, sorry "thinking person"
Every one of James Cameron's ideas radiates pure "someone's dad" energy and I honestly love it.
I absolutely can't believe James resisted throwing in a blue harvest reference, when Avatar is practically begging for one
I saw this in cinemas with a friends who was going to see it for the 4th time, he loved it so much. He asked me what I thought when we left, and I said something to the effect of "the subtitles looked really cool in 3D!"
A very forgettable movie for me
I have only seen Avatar once; when it came out. Surprised I still remembered so many answers
I'm right there with you. I have seen Avatar a grand total of once.
Never felt like revisiting it, nothing against it I guess, just ... once was enough.
I worked at the avatar part of Walt Disney world and, they tried to make us learn the whole language 😂
"Educational benefit opportunities for employees"
Madness! Lunacy!
How do you say aww f*ck *ff with that in Na'vi?
Wait, fr?
@@RicardoMoralesMassin that would've been way more useful to know there 😂
saw the re-release in 3D this year 3 times
I am now fluent in Na'vi and got 100% on this quiz.
I need that answering "Jake Sully" to every question becomes a running joke. I laughed out loud every time.
Something incredible about this video is that moments after Maso says the name of the main character of Avatar (2009) I immediately forgot it again
Howard Jakes
@@SineN0mine3 I think you're right? Literally no way of knowing
James Cameron: "I'm not hiring Michael Biehn for Avatar because he was in Aliens."
*Hires Sigourney Weaver for a bigger role*
Bro...
When working on 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' in 1998-ish, James Cameron came to our studio SQUARE USA in Hawaii to see if our character tech could meet his expectations for 'Avatar'.
Not quite yet, but he was very kind and enthusiastic. C'est la vie.
#Truth
That's awesome! Cool to know, great film nice work! :)
I love how this quiz has questions that don’t actually have anything to do with the movie Avatar
Nic and James doing this quiz mirrored my viewing experience of the film itself. It began with "wait, what are we doing?" and devolved into "can we just speed through this and wrap it up?"
That was the second film for me even if there is good stuff in it
It's memorable in the sense that it's clearly Pocahontas/ Dances with Wolves/ Ferngully but with less to say than any of them. At least there's a portion of fans being honest that they're there for the visuals rather than trying to dress it up as some profound message.
Who cares that's only 3 flims, most of the mcu movies are near the same. How original do you think you could be these days when everything's been thought of?
@@terrencewpg6902there should only be allowed to be one movie about nature, every other movie should be about guns or sex or ideally, both.
If anyone is gonna rewatch it before the sequel comes out, I suggest watching the extended edition.
I finally got around to watching the extended edition earlier this year, it felt a little strange after so many years watching the theatrical version but the Earth scenes and the explanation behind the school definitely add a lot to it.
0:58 Maso’s best “Silly Boy” impression
Avatar operating at 40% live action.
“The way of water? The bloody ..way of ..uhm I gotta call a bloody plumber” MasOn DOESNT MISS
My wife has like 3 copies of this movie, she loved it so much. The story is a bit cliché and a rip of other stories, but it was fun to just immerse yourself in an alien world. They should do a VR game with the new one.
Based wife
Here's a question: Why didn't James Cameron do "Terminator: Future War" instead of spending a decade making this hot garbage?
@@nathanknight6042 maybe YOU should do "Terminator: Future War"
People go on and on about it being a Pocahontas or Fern Gully ripoff but really it's most similar to Ursula Le Guin's "The Word for World is Forest". Great book.
There's your next Christmas/Birthday idea. You're welcome
A VR game, if you have any agency, would too quickly devolve into sex.
"What do the Na'vi while mating?"
Maso: Jake Sulley
I mean... he's kinda not wrong
I saw this film with some people around a decade ago in college. Haven’t seen it since and not felt compelled too either.
I never saw it in theaters when it came out but saw it recently in 4D and was absolutely blown away how the effects work topped pretty much all the CGI we’re getting now…
I saw it when it came out in theatres and I remember thinking the effects work was top notch, but I didn't like the design of pretty much anything and the story was crap.
4D? You in a higher dimension?
Just wait til it’s released in 5D
do you mean 4k - 4D is not a thing
@@Thabooka4D theaters are a thing, but he probably means 4k
I think it would've been interesting if James Cameron was able to make Avatar 2 in time for the originally planned release of 2014, but instead of Avatar 3 to 5 coming out one year after the previous, they were about 5 years apart so that each new installment could be another showcase in the advancement of technology (and maybe even be a contributing factor to said advancement).
Avatar 2 (2014) would of course be the water, Avatar 3 (2019) could've been de-aging technology, Avatar 4 (2024) could've been maybe entirely CGI with the live-action characters being photo-realistic, and by 2029, James Cameron would be a trillionaire, create VR movie theaters, and people would be able to watch Avatar 5 as a background character in each scene, and with the ability to move around, have an entirely unique viewing experience.
Super happy this underrated gem is finally getting some recognition
Underrated?
@@TruDis01 I think he meant over rated lol
@@TruDis01 The crazy thing is that this could be satirical or completely serious, and neither one would be wrong.
It’s obviously a joke because is one of the most watched movies of all time.
But it’s obviously serious because most people barely thought about it for a decade, and in that time the reception was mostly lukewarm.
@@alexanderwill2847 it was a joke lmao 😭
Same
It's pretty funny to me that a role that supposedly required the "it" factor eventually went to Sam Worthington. I remember Zoe Saldana being good though, I think that was my main take away.
9:21 Maso did the bit that many times that this one flew over me the first time 🤣
Avatar 2009 is the Taylor Lautner of movies. People kind of remember them fondly from the 2000s but not enough to really care
Well that's one hell of a description
You say that but guarantee the new movie is at least gonna make its money back
Best description of a movie ever.
@@chasehedges6775yeah that’s the American pov. I think the rest of the world sees avatar differently considering the rest of the world made the movie 3x more money than it did in the US
Rip my boi
I like how one question differentiated between being homeless and living in your car, probably the only time that distinction has been made
Just because they had to get up to four question.
James: *says anything*
Mason: "JAKE SULLY!"
It took me so long to realize Mason was doing and impression of James! Absolutely uncanny! Bravo Mason!
The breast thing is true. I remember the interview, when Cameron spun his fingers in circles like he was circling nipples and said, "this is a movie for people."
I saw it too. With my sister and dad. Came out of it and they loved it while all I was thinking was how much I enjoyed District 9, which came out earlier that year, so much more. Maybe my experienced was spoiled by that, so I came to be able to watch it later, it's extended edition in fact, and having so much time between the two, I still felt like it was a decent movie that had a few particularly strong performances and character writing like for Sigourney Weaver and her character. Otherwise, it was still more a pretty tech demo, and the obnoxious "perfection" and "unity" of Pandora really didn't do anything to endear me to them. I can only hope with Way of The Water, it will be opening up to more nuance that will make this all worth investing and staying intrigued with.
I hope it's about family 😎
I was similarly disappointed and I just don't think I can bring myself to go back to Pandora for a 3 hour plus sequel to a film I couldn't give a solitary shit about. I'm sure it'll be huge though because Cameron's film almost always are.
Yeah District 9 was much more memorable that year, but I was a bit too young/innocent at 11 years old and I was really disturbed and uncomfortable with the body horror of the prawn transformation and I hated it lol. Rewatching it as an adult I really love it.
There's still a deep resentment in me about District 9. It could have been great and it was such a pile of sh!t. More specifically, the protagonist.
@@RavenTheVelociraptor It definitely is
James: Who did James Cameron do-
Nick: Jake Sully!!
James: -research on for the nude scenes?
Nick: Jake Sully!!
Funny thing actually, the whole plot of the first movie surrounding cutting down the huge tree inspired Cameron to come up with the working title for this film “blue harvest” due to the fact that they wanted to harvest the tree from the blue people, this was also coincidentally the working title for the first Star Wars movie
So I may have missed the origin to this joke but is it part of the joke that they say Blue Harvest was the working title for the first Star Wars film when in fact it was the working title for the third Star Wars film? Am I being trolled?
Since this, Alien and Predator are all now owned by Disney what are the odds they somehow try to franchise this all together at some point? Just imagine you could just repeat the movie Prey but cgi and blue.
I mean ... It's not the worst idea ...
Better than what Fox was doing with those franchises for the past decade.
Predators hunting on Pandora also sounds genuinely sick. And an alien infestation there sounds horrifying!
@@whiffyclarke honestly this crossover idea I actually think would be really cool compared to most “throw some random franchises together” ideas
That could be watchable
If the Predators somehow became involved, I might actually care to watch this.
Sam Worthington killed it! Irreplaceable! Love his work in Black Ops as well.
Thanks for getting me caught up boys! I was going to re-watch Avatar but I think this video will do.
They should've made a sequel, like 2012 or 2014.
Don't rush perfection
I agree so hard.
True, but the first movie took like 10+ years of research to develop, and then they needed another 10+ years for the sequels. Technology am I right?
@@chasehedges6775 that’s the weirdest way to say that….
@@ThomasSeeds Sorry.
Whenever people talk about this movie, it's usually about how they don't really think about it, or how much they loved it when they saw it. It's honestly super interesting.
Best James Impersonation ever by Maso
Saw this movie in the theatre for a friends birthday party, and I was 12 years old. Literally couldn’t have been more of the perfect demographic
You guy’s’ videos always make me happy, thank you
I thought this was about a bald kid who could control air with his mind?
Yesss I do. One of the better naps I’ve had in my life.
I really liked the part where Jake Sully says "It's Avatarin' time!" and Avatars all over the bad guys.
Low Effort
And then the movie made an Avatarillion dollars.
@@KeithFraser82 Boo! Thumbs down!
I‘m sure his name is Jake Suuuly
@@alexfirefly1956 Jayks'uli
1:11 On my third listen, I heard for the first time Mason going “I’m a bad little boy!” and then immediately, “mm nope not that…” 😂
Just felt wrong coming out, and he disavowed it instantly lol
fuck, I laughed while drinking when he said "If you like this... no."
17:06 Missed opportunity for one of them to say Pocahontas and John.
Over a decade later and it remains as the highest grossing film of all time and practically no one talks about it
Everyone always talks about how no one talks about jt.
Everyone wants to forget the 00s.
@@Griffballs who?
@@dpcater Wrong. Look up rotten tomatoes or metacritic
It's because it's a 4 star sci-fi movie, but happened to have scored 10 our 5 stars in visual effects.
I don't even care about the franchise but i still already booked to see it in imax because I know it will melt my face off with how sick it looks!!
I saw the trailers and genuinely thought at first this would be an adaptation of the Avatar the Last Airbender cartoon. I just figured it was a very very loose adaptation.
well in avatar 3 james cameron has rumoured ash na'vi which is a obvious fire nation rip off
One of my favourite movies! It's become a running joke in my friend group, so I have about 20 copies of the DVD stashed throughout my house as I keep getting it as a gift.
Nice!
"Jane Fonder" made me laugh way, way harder than it should have.
I was 8 when the film released and it was always one of my favorites and I’ve looked forward to a sequel ever since
i cant wait for all the morbius memes about how no one watched avatar 2
I don't really understand the hate for it tbh, I loved it upon initial watch in the theater with 3D, and later a second viewing on bluray (though the CGI doesn't hold up as much if you're not watching it in 3D)
It's by no means a masterpiece, but I can remember it just fine, it has a relatively simple story and it's not like the names of the two main characters are hard to remember (Jake Sully and Neytiri). Grace is great as well (Sigourney Weaver).
Ex-military dude's brother dies, who was part of a special program called the Avatar program, which allows the person to connect to the mind of an alien lifeform, who was created with the DNA of the human it's based on and the Na'vi (blue cat looking aliens). Ex-military dude (Jake) goes in his brother's stead, is asked by the corporate assholes to spy on the Na'vi as one of them but over time learns to respect them and even love them, and no longer wants to help the corporate assholes. Corporate assholes don't take kindly to this and decide to blow up everything, Jake helps blue cat aliens to fight against the humans and in the end chooses to stay with them as one of them.
Sure, there's a lot of details I haven't mentioned (but could) but like, that story isn't hard to remember.
For personal experience, the problem is not that stuff was hard to remember. It's that it was bland as hell and not worth remembering. I remember coming out of it thinking "well it was a movie. There were a couple of good action bits. That dude got crushed by a pallet of generic metal items. The rest of the movie can be thrown away because it holds no emotional value. I've seen it all before and this was one of the less interesting versions of it.
Oh and the animals had 6 legs. That was neat. The horses breathe through their necks."
It's popular so all these contrarian types that just have to let you know that they have superior tastes than the unwashed masses.
@@YZaiCreates Bland as hell? Name me some more interesting and engaging action sci-fi blockbuster movies of the last decade then...
@@chrisbarnett5303 In terms of stuff that came out after or around Avatar? And it doesn't have to be amazing, it just has to be more interesting and engaging than avatar?
Spiderman Into the Spiderverse, Shin Godzilla, Inception, District 9, Monsters, Attack the Block, All three modern planet of the apes movies, XMen First Class, Dredd, Enders Game, Pacific Rim, Snowpiercer, Logan, Venom, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie, Mad Max Fury Road, Star Trek: Beyond and Dune
And these are just the ones where i can say without a doubt are more engaging and interesting. The ones where i could sway a little on them, i didn't count, and also i have seen all these myself and am not just running off what other people have said about them. As such i will not be debating the quality of my choices. They're my choices, if you think some aren't at the same level as avatar, that just means you like avatar a hell of a lot more than i do.
I think this is also tie to message of the movie, and its use of the noble sauvage idea. It is a cliving idea that people debate over since centuries. Not everyone think civilization is the reason men are bad, or that some form of primitivism is the way to go. Especially during this era where Futurism is quite prevalent. It is also quite annoying that the implied solution to our current ecological problem, is you should have lived in harmony with nature lol.
7:45 it's getting pretty deep in the Ender series if they're digging all the way down to the tree thing
Speaker For The Dead is the 2nd Ender book and the Piggys turn into trees when they die and the trees speak to them.
James Cameron couldn't be original if if said originality punched him in the dick.
rewatched last week. Still maybe the most impressive CGI world ever created. Cameron doesn't miss with cinema spectacle.
There’s a bonus question of the quiz if you share to Facebook, which is ‘In an alternate ending, the Na’vi go around collecting their fallen dead after the battle. What is this scene titled?’
And the answer is of course, the ‘Blue Harvest’.
'They need to have breasts to be sexy'
'Cameron based them on his mother'
*Sigmund Freud wants to know your location.*
i would also like to mention that the na'vi god is a part of the movie and quite literally guides people to do things
"What other story features the concept of a network of trees?"
I still trying to figure out how that's an avatar question. lol
I always like to play a game when this #1 movie of all time comes up in conversation. Name three other characters by name in this movie besides Jake Sully. They sometimes get 1.
Naiobi, Neo, max headroom and baby yodo
Oh shit, that's a good one... natiri was the blue lady I remember that.... the general is named something like rourke or valery, theres some red shirted mook named jonathan or matt I think? Michelle rodrigez was named like cortez? And sigorney weaver... was doctor... something...
Neytiri l know for sure. And then the Cheiftain and the Colonel. I think it's less that it's forgettable, and more that it's been almost 15 years since l last saw the movie.
@@TheDanishGuyReviews I think "forgettable" can mean that the culture forgot it.
17:07
Fun fact: did you know the original names for Jake Sully and Neytiri were “Blue” and “Harvest” respectively, which together bear an uncanny resemblance to “Blue Harvest”, the working title of Star Wars episode 4?
Avatar 2009 was MY blue harvest
This film came out when i was a teenager during freshman year! I remember getting excited for the movie. It was an amazing looking movie. Cant wait for the new one
I hope the second Avatar movie doesn't flop.
It's not gonna flop as long as China is interested.
It probably won’t but not enough for a avatar 3
It won't flop,Cameron know how to make entretaining films.
Considering the insane amount of money it has to make in order to be profitable coupled with the fact that it's coming 13 years after the first film, which people forgot about 10 years ago, I have a hard time seeing how it can be successful.
@@MLennholm It will be.Avatar 2 coming out 13 yrs later wiil work in the film's advantage.The MCU's phase 4 has been mediocre at best and fans are complaining ( which they should )people are DESPERATE for escapism/entertainment,Avatar 2 will provide this.The little kiddies are gonna loss it !!!! LOL.The folks who didn't see the first movie are gonna fall in love with Avatar 2,then clammer like hungry wolves for Avatar 3.
Pure visual bliss on the Spongebob/Mason rant edit. Quality job
Whatever year Ferngully came out. That's the year James Cameron "came up" with Avatar.
Cameron did say that the OG terminator design came to him in a nightmare, I guess that's why it was included as an option.
I remember that they had a very special, advanced screening where Cameron revealed 15 minutes of 3D footage from Avatar to wow audiences and they wowed audiences. It was called Avatar Day. And when the movie came out, the 3D immersion totally blew many of us completely away. Cameron almost fully transported us to this mystical alien planet called, Pandora. It was unlike ANYTHING we had ever seen before
I went to one of those 15 minute previews. Still the most mind blowing thing I have ever seen on the big screen. The sequel is going to be amazing.
but but but...marvel fanbois says recent movies like MCU have achieved that level of immersion and realism, therefore would not wow audiences anymore
@@chrishmiller4534 What? Theres nothing really wrong with the rest of the movie
@@randomly_random_0 boy what in the fuck is that emoji at the end 😂 you typing from a blackberry ?
@@chrishmiller4534
-All stories are basically just the same crap done before so who cares
-Subjective
-Subjective
-Literally nothing wrong with this
When I saw the first Avatar in the theatre, it was at a small local theatre where the owner introduced the movie over a P.A system. He introduced it as “Dances With Wolves in SPACE”.
Yes I do remember seeing the movie.
Me too
James having 4 stokes taking the quiz made me want him to take one on snake eyes
I can't believe all I learned about Avatar from Funhaus and Jenny Nicholson didn't better prepare me for this quiz.
''Jake Suuuly"
@@TheMijman “He speaks the True-True.”
rip Funhaus
@@WatrDragn The good old days
Before everything went wrong
even after hearing the answer to the question about which Aliens character was not allowed in Avatar, I still can't figure out what it was asking
I love the Aviator, Scorsese really outdid himself by casting dicaprio
I just rewatched this. Movie hold up very very well.
No. But I do remember Fern Gulley, Dances with wolves, and I know what Smurfs are. All properties that told the same story much better. This movie needs to make 2billion $ to break even.
Well now were in a predicament. Murphys law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So if we all want the movie to succeed, itll probably bomb (unless it's marvel infinity saga), but if were rooting for it to "get rekt", it'll do amazing overseas in China and make like 3 billion. So its really in hands of fate to see what will piss us off more
I look forward to telling people I haven't and will never pay money for Avatar 2
I'm curious will Avatar 2 make the 2067848 million it needs to break even
Lol fuck no
They say they will never do this again, but I reckon this is just the start of a new reoccurring gag, like the Blue Harvest and Rodney montage in Caravan of Garbage. I can't wait for every video now to inexplicably have a moment where the two of them have to answer a random Avatar trivia question.
I recently watched it again with some friends and honestly I was bored out of my mind. I remember loving it when I was a kid and even watching it multiple times as a teenager but idk it just didn't hit the same.
I was nailing until "eyelashes". It sounded so right.
That movie was talked alot so much, I consider it to be the spotlight of the late 2000s to early 2010s
I honestly expected the quiz to be about the movie (as in what happens in the movie and details about it) not a bunch of questions about the making of the movie
@Text328 Nice try scammer, we aren’t idiots here
Oh yeah, I heard they’re making a sequel….
which initially was gonna be called Blue Harvest
@Lee holy shit fr?? Lol
Haris Zimmer is my favourite composer. Loved his score for alllllladin.
No I don't, thank you very much
Jake Sully island is famously where George Lucas shot principal photography for his '77 film. He would use a translation of the natives seasonal feast "Maclunkey" as the working title for that project, called "Blue Harvest"
Someone in my English class was talking about Avatar they said, "it's an amazing movie, don't bother watching it"
That is just a perfect way to describe the movie.
Ah, my favorite Avatar character: Howard Jakes.
I remember going to the theaters to see this and leaving confused what all the hype was about.
Same here. Such a mediocre movie and one of the most forgettable movies of 2009.
Na it wasn’t that bad
What movies do you call hype at the time in 2009?
Well the hype wasn't about the story or worldbuilding, it was about 3D glasses
@@JS-pn4tj well they explored alot showing earth being almost a wasteland the world of Pandora being a new frontier sort of like the natives were invaded the concept of fitting in for as in the characters since they were disconnected by their own race the other fact of knowing that Pandora is more alive as in actual entity for the navi. The music The visual The characters it was all good for 2009.
I wish they would have continued with a sequel with the same technology they had back then but I do admire and applaud them for taking it to a whole other level to give us some more epic scale movie so I know sadly people that love the first one or not alive to see the sequel sad truth I've seen comments already it is awesome that we are getting it reaction embargo this Tuesday get ready everybody