• ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
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    Avatar really is a case study in mismanagement. At it’s core an engaging story with deep characters and lore with many parts unexplored, with a special place in many hearts after the initial series. The perfect ingredients to turn into a lifelong franchise. Yet it cannot seem to shed the curse of rights holders and suits smothering it’s potential success.

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      It’s wild how they had a fire TV show that changed people’s lives, and they then proceeded to fumble every other piece of media since

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      I struggle with Avatar right now. It’s great story telling, world building, compassion, and just a cool world. Unfortunately, it’s owned by Paramount, which I’m unwilling to give a dime to. I have the same problem with Star Trek. There are, of course, ways around giving them money. I just wish these crappy companies would stop being so crappy. I don’t expect giant media companies to be good, but like not comically evil would be a good start.

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        Only because the C-suites’ don’t have a creative bone in their collective bodies. They only know how to follow ‘numbers go up!’

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            It was excellent. The only thing keeping it from perfection in my eyes was the pacing, which didn’t really let many moments breathe. At one point it bordered on Monkie Kid and Rise of the TMNT-style of pacing from their 11 min episodes, both series of which Flying Bark Studios worked on.

            The art style, design, and BG art was to die for.

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              Yeah imo they needed like an extra 30min (at least) of runtime to let moments breathe and tell the story they wanted to.

              Otherwise, animation, art style, choreography, etc, all 10/10 though.

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                I would KILL for an extra 30 min for the movie. If nothing else, just to add more quiet moments. The whole time I was watching the movie I could FEEL the story wanting to slow down a bit and just let the scenery speak for itself.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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            I quite liked it. Some choices I wouldn’t have done myself, and I was sorry not to hear Dante Basco doing Zuko again. Overall pretty great, compared to what you’d reasonably expect from a highly anticipated, highly belated sequel.

  • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.today
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    They’re doing a different game anyway, specifically, Avatar Legends (the fighting game I think). Of course they’d have to shutter the RPG project.

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      The fighting game is being done by an indie studio (albeit, one featuring reasonably prestigious alumns.) It probably had no impact on the RPG.