James Cameron Won't Back Down: Avatar 2 Will Shut Up Haters
James Cameron doesn't mince words when addressing Avatar "haters" making the audience question his rage.
Avatar: The Way of Water is so close viewers can already hear the waves breaking on the shore, but the director James Cameron is still reacting to the comments viewers made about the 2009's movie.
Over the 13-year hiatus between the first and second installments in the Avatar franchise, many viewers expressed the opinion that Avatar 1 didn't have any cultural impact.
One of the most popular comments about the movie is that no one even remembers the names of the characters after so many years and other more memorable movies. Such an opinion is apparently not something James Cameron is ready to turn a deaf ear to. The director addressed the skepticism surrounding the Avatar franchise on several occasions during the press tour for The Way of Water.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron said that a cultural impact of any franchise is built through time and with the help of new installments. He added that compared to Marvel which has dozens of movies to build a universe and create an impact, the Avatar franchise is still in its embryonic stage.
"We'll see what happens after this film," the director concluded.
The director was much more vocal and somewhat agitated when he remembered Avatar haters in an interview with Empire. Cameron said that there would always be those who say that they don't remember the characters' names or the plot of the first movie, but he was not bothered by such "trolls."
"They see the movie again and go, 'Oh, okay, excuse me, let me just shut the f*** up right now.' So I'm not worried about that," the director stressed.
Such a response made some viewers wonder why the director sounds so frustrated. Yes, it can be annoying to hear that such an expensive movie as Avatar didn't have a cultural impact but why shame average moviegoers who can't remember the names of the characters featured 13 years ago, viewers ask.
"The director and the film's supporters are getting mad at something that isn't really in anyone's control. If the first film didn't stick in the public consciousness at large past watching it in theaters, that's something Cameron and the studio need to figure out. Shaming and browbeating moviegoers isn't going to make them get into the particulars of the franchise more," one of the Redditors explained.