How many StarHalo posts are there in this thread? Why watch Avatar again when I can just sit back and watch StarHalo talk to himself/no one in particular about random unrelated stuff? And here I thought this thread was as dead as Sigourney Weaver's character in Avatar...
There's some difficulty in having an ongoing thread on a movie series where the first two movies are 13 years apart; as this film introduced many viewers to IMAX, 3D, and related viewing technologies, the discussion naturally diverged into how to have that viewing experience at home, which brings up the issues of television technology and how prices have plummeted over time so that what was exclusive and inaccessible before is now common and easy to come by - a good 50" plasma set was $1,500 when
Avatar was released, which is not a realistic budget for many TV buyers, but today a 65" LCD set that can match or better long-discontinued plasma tech, with additional 4K resolution and Smart TV internet connectivity which didn't exist in 2009, is ~$500 at your local Wal-Mart.
As the thread is about the revolutionary nature of the film, it's inevitable over such a long span of time that there will be other examples that rival or better it, so this would be the place to point out such examples. There are probably more than a few posters here who now prefer
Mad Max Fury Road over
Avatar, and I still think that if they could give Oscars to CGI characters, it would have gone to Thanos for
Avengers Infinity War. As we're entering the golden age of the pure CGI movie, the numbers of such examples will increase dramatically over the coming months.