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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9048075" data-attributes="member: 4534">3D is a fad that Hollywood likes to revisit every few decades.  Avatar might have brought the fad back more recently, but it's faded once more.  So not a particularly long shadow.  Fair.  They've got a section at Disney's Animal Kingdom.  It wasn't just Star Wars, movies like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Sin City were already proof of concept films that came out a few years before Avatar.  But I do recognize what a technical achievement it was, but that doesn't mean it has much of a cultural footprint.  If I tell someone to "Live long and prosper," "may the Force be with you," or "Phone home," a lot of people will still know what that means and where it came from.  Offhand, I can't think of any way that Avatar has had a similar impact on our culture.   That's possible.  The first really colorful FPS I can remember playing is Farcry 3 which came out in 2012.  And I want to be careful here.  I'm certainly not arguing Avatar is a bad movie.  Not having a big cultural impact doesn't mean it's bad.  It's just that I'm surprised given how successful both it and its sequel are.  Maybe it'll continue making a cultural impact as more and more movies are produced.  But I don't see kids wearing clothes, playing with toys, or eating food with Avatar slapped all over it.</blockquote>