People say the first Avatar had no lasting cultural impact, but do you think it's because it ultimately had the correct message about something most crackkkers wouldn't be comfortable talking about? Sometimes this sort of slop sticks around because people on Twitter are like 'look at this wild scene from this movie you forgot about' of they'll be like 'What did the director mean by this?'
Aside from a dumb story and some bad dialogue, Avatar has an anti-imperialist message and positions the humans who represent the US military as a whole as the bad guys. It also has allusions to how the native Americans were treated and how the US does 9/11 every day to other countries and its no big deal when it happens to them. People probably don't want to dwell on that for too long.
