With a ridiculous haul of $2.8 billion at the box office, 2009’s Avatar is the top-grossing film of all time. And honestly, it’s not even close. Avatar beats the runner-up, Titanic, by over half a billion dollars, and third place finisher Star Wars: The Force Awakens by even more.
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So those are the facts, but ask yourself this: if Avatar is so much more successful than either of those other movies (and any of the Avengers movies, and the Harry Potter movies, and so on), why can’t you name a single character from it? And if you think you can name a character if you just think about it, observe what happens when the Question Boyz of jacksfilms survey random people at the Santa Monica Pier in California:
One guy! One guy out of everyone they asked could name someone from Avatar. More common were responses like this: “What I remember about that movie was there was a large yellow machine and there was an old man driving it. And some blue people.”
And also one lady said Jesus Christ was in Avatar. I must have missed that bit.
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Anyway, it is weird that this movie is so successful but doesn’t seem to loom large in the collective pop cultural unconsciousness. I mean, I’m a movie person — I saw Avatar back when it came out — but I couldn’t name any you any characters. More people were able to name characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender than characters from Avatar, which is good for Netflix and its Last Airbender remake but less good for Fox and its many Avatar sequels in the works.
Now, true, Avatar wasn’t quite as successful domestically as it was internationally, but it’s still the second highest-grossing movie of all time in the U.S., which you’d figure would count for more.
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