None of those points hold water.
Giving a billion dollars to who? Those movies made money. I picked cameron movies, well 2/3, but you could literaelly name dozens of other movies.
maverick, goose and viper aren't names of the characters. They're call signs that are written in big letters on their helmet for half the movie with the camera showing it close up. What are their actual character names? Basically only Marvel has achieved the feat and they had 60 years of fandom to support it and 25 movies to drill those names into our heads.
maybe we'd remember the avatar people's names if they wore big bold name tags which the camera focused on for 3 straight hours like they get in top gun.
Are you seriously pretending you cared so much about the characters and story in transformers? In Aquaman? In Black Adam? Don't be ridiculous. No one did. No one does. You can replace the movies I named with virtually any tentpole in the last 25 years.
Sure, there are a tiny, tiny number of movies where people were heavily invested, a few disney movies and several marvel movies. Few and far between other than those. They are the exception, not the rule.
Even the new star wars is filled with a bunch of forgettable characters that no one cared about and a crapy story. People want 'splosions. The idea anyone would pretend otherwise is asinine.
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