The Avatar Effect

[EBHughsThe1st]

The Avatar Effect goes a little something like this:
(Movie+Lots of Praise)+Person who just kind of liked it=Avatar effect.
If something is overrated, it causes those who think it's "meh" to hate it.

Have you fallen victim to The Avatar Effect?

 

[child of lileth]

Not really. If I think something popular wasn't as good as the hype, other people's opinions on it doesn't change my own.

 

[Radeonx]

Well, I didn't like Avatar at all, because I thought it was a bad movie (I can see how it is liked, just not my tastes), not because it got tons of praise.
So no.

 

[Jadak]

There's got to already be another term for hating things just because they're far more successful then you think they deserve.

And yes, God of War is the first that comes to mind.

 

[Anarchemitis]

In my opinion, Avatar was a pretty good film. The story wasn't the most original or zany, but it was pulled off in a professional manner.
What made it a critical success was how well it was made, and what made all the hype bigger was it's innovations and technological advancements in computer graphics.
Most people who don't like it, I think do so out of spite of the claims of it's success in that it's a "Meh" surrounded by a crunchy tasty layer of "Not Bad".

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I tend to go see movies the day they come out to not let hype get to me. I decided to wait to see Inception and now everyone is telling me how great it is...

Oh yeah, and I really didn't care much for Raiders of the Lost Ark because of the hype.

 

[Boba Frag]

A friend of mine is already experiencing this with Inception, oddly enough!

I hope I don't succumb from too much heightened expectation!!! :O

 

[Blemontea]

Well after all the grief my parents and sibling put me through for not seeing it becuase i thought it looked stupid from the previews, for awhile i hated it, but then i lightened up and agreed that yes it could have been a good movie but i still stand by the fact that if it didn't do that 3-d gimmick it would have just walked through like other movies.

 

[Rasputin1]

I loved Avatar. I didn't care much for all the hype and such, and I didn't watch it in 3D, but either way I thought it was a pretty awesome movie.

 

[newfiegirl 110]

My opinion of Avatar was this....great effects...not so wonderful story. I can't say I hate it, but I wouldn't go to the theater to see it again. That said, I know many people who loved it. All a matter of personal taste.

 

[mad825]

The Avatar Effect goes a little something like this:
(Movie+Lots of Praise)+Person who just kind of liked it=Avatar effect.
If something is overrated, it causes those who think it's "meh" to hate it.

Have you fallen victim to The Avatar Effect?

I like the whimsical term you have made up but the definition seems to be a little off.

we could argue that the "Avatar Effect" caused a boom in stereography/autography development by making it accepted (again) in western society, what caused the boom was the profits made by Avatar, so this forced nearly all of the media sectors to have its own "3D" feature in the hope that they will gain similar profit booms

EDIT: oh..yea right, the definition:

Avatar Effect- a film that made record profits which made stereography/autography graphics popular again in the west, this sparked the 2nd? cultural/commercial craze in the beginning of 2009 which subsequently made other areas of the media to follow suite.

 

[Drakmeire]

well if any movie achieves "lots of praise" it means it's going to be over-rated by some extent, I saw pulp fiction and little miss sunshine and thought they both sucked even though they got tons of praise, it's all personal opinion.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I never heard of this effect myself but I have experienced it.

I thought Hulk (2003) was meh, borderline crap but I didn't start hating it until everyone in my town seemed to think it was awesome.

 

[commasplice]

(Movie+Lots of Praise)+Person who just kind of liked it=Avatar effect.
If something is overrated, it causes those who think it's "meh" to hate it.

Isn't this predated by DBZ, FF7 and even Naruto? It's pretty much the same thing. People don't so much hate the original material as they hate the rabid fanbase.

 

[The Austin]

I thought Avatar was alright, so no.

 

[emeraldrafael]

No. I didnt like Avatar from the start. It stole Avatar: The Last Airbender's namesake. I know, thats a small thing, but that show was more epic, then whatever James Cameron decided to sink his money into because his mountain of money after Titanic wasnt big enough to reach the moon.

Then, after they said they were going to RE-release Avatar with eight minutes of fighting and them being on the moon of pandora, becuase Cameron needed to try and gross more than some of the smaller European Nations, made me just feel sick.

Besides, it wasnt great. It was... it was oka. The whole 3D thing about it being all in 3D was unimpressive to me because it was all digital and CG. It would have been cooler if it was a real movie.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I think it's more that it magnifies whether people tell others they hate it. I hated a movie called the Spirit, but so did most people, so I don't bring it up often. If it was super popular I'd probably say it more, both for the radical points, and to have an alternate viewpoint.