Avatar has done it!!!!!!!! #1

[zinfamous]

Sad that we put such a high value on graphics. Electronic games are the same way, sadly.

it isn't a video game.

it's called effects.

 

[Patranus]

He spent 10+ years making the film. He could have put out 1 parody movie per year and made MORE money with less risk/work.

Now compare this to screens per person back in the day coupled with ticket prices.
People have ACCESS to movies these-days and ticket prices have far outpaced inflation.

I wonder how many people actually saw it vs how many people saw it multiple times.
It is kinda like comparing sales of XBOX 360 and PS3 with the RROD issues. It simply cannot be done.

 

[zinfamous]

I saw this film 2 weeks ago in imax 3D. I thought it was a great film and well worth the money spent on the price of admission. I only wish that Hollywood could pump out more quality films like this instead of the continuous stream of trash we are normally subjected to. Congrats Cameron!

wtf?

this was not quality.

production-wise, it was a behemoth, and was extremely impressive. but as far as quality film...a truly laughable, unoriginal, unshocking, truly forgettable boom boom kind of flick.

fun one way through, but not really worth a second visit. Even if watching movies is your thing, which it doesn't seem to be for you. (otherwise, you would have seen enough movies, and varied your experience, to understand how truly mundane this picture is as a film)

 

[Matthiasa]

wtf?

this was not quality.

production-wise, it was a behemoth, and was extremely impressive. but as far as quality film...a truly laughable, unoriginal, unshocking, truly forgettable boom boom kind of flick.

fun one way through, but not really worth a second visit. Even if watching movies is your thing, which it doesn't seem to be for you. (otherwise, you would have seen enough movies, and varied your experience, to understand how truly mundane this picture is as a film)

Somehow I don't see you as going to a movie for simple entertainment.
With that being the case there are these cool new things called books.

 

[lifeobry]

wtf?

this was not quality.

production-wise, it was a behemoth, and was extremely impressive. but as far as quality film...a truly laughable, unoriginal, unshocking, truly forgettable boom boom kind of flick.

fun one way through, but not really worth a second visit. Even if watching movies is your thing, which it doesn't seem to be for you. (otherwise, you would have seen enough movies, and varied your experience, to understand how truly mundane this picture is as a film)

Yes we get it, your taste is better than most people's taste :awe:

 

[Koudelka]

What the hell are you douchebags all crying over again?

You're mad at what now because Avatar made a lot of money?

It was visually stunning and imaginative. It was a beautiful movie to watch, and thats why it made money. Sometimes its nice to watch something different.

You homos crying because your favorite movie of all time Brokeback Mountain isnt #1?

If you dont like the movie, dont see it. And the shut the fuck up.

 

[Koudelka]

I really liked the movie, but I don't understand why people so passionately defend it. If you enjoyed it, what do you care if someone else didn't? You guys remind me of the people who passionately side with either nVidia or ATI and defend them to the death. Weirdos.

Word. I dont understand why everyone is so passionately bashing it.. everyone has some personal vendetta against this movie for a strange homoerotic reason.

 

[shortylickens]

What the hell are you douchebags all crying over again?

You're mad at what now because Avatar made a lot of money?

It was visually stunning and imaginative. It was a beautiful movie to watch, and thats why it made money. Sometimes its nice to watch something different.

You homos crying because your favorite movie of all time Brokeback Mountain isnt #1?

If you dont like the movie, dont see it. And the shut the fuck up.

Ah yes, you certainly contributed a lot here.

Little tip, had you paid attention to the thread your viewpoint has already been expressed by all the other angry children.

Good rant though. Better than.......
Well, it wasnt better than anyones but it was good.

 

[Riceninja]

hurt locker sucked. all that hype, and all i see is a bad episode of generation kill

gonna watch avatar again before it gets pulled from imax

 

[kitchiku]

Acting was average.
Plot was average.
Visuals was stunning.
Overall, it was a very entertaining movie. If we judge movie quality based on how much it entertains you, then this would easily be one of the best.

 

[Patranus]

avatar owned, i plan on seeing it a second time in the theatre before it is taken out of the theatres.

And how many other people saw it multiple times?
How many people saw it in 2D and then saw it in 3D (or IMax)?

Add in the fact that there are far more theaters and screens in the US plus the fact that movie tickets have far outpaced inflation, there is no way you can compare sales against older movies.

Sales are all relative. Microsoft has sold a shit load of XBOX 360s but how can you compare that to sales of PS3 when the XBOX has (had?) a 50% failure rate...

 

[Fingolfin269]

Why would someone go so batshit insane over this happening? Some rich people got richer and it's a movie...? Confused.

 

[Red Dawn]

This. Avatar had great visuals, but everything else was average to terrible.

There are TONS of far superior films out there for people who care about good directing, acting, casting, writing, and so on.

Hell, even some remakes are far better. The 2006 film 'The Departed' was an example of what a great movie can be. Or even something small like the recent 'Crazy Heart', with perhaps the performance of Jeff Bridges entire career, and that's saying a lot.

Yep Avatar definitely was no Blind Side..wait..wut:awe:

The thing about Avatar as opposed to the movies you mentioned is that to get the full experience of Avatar you have to see it at the Theaters where as for the others you can wait until it comes out on Bluray to watch it at home.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Stupid arguement.

Avatar is in no way the best movie of the year. That belongs to Inglorious Bastards.

But..it isn't hard to see why it is the top grossing film of all time. I'd never watch Inglorious Bastards, Godfather, Raging Bull, or most other things more than once in a theater. All of those moview are over 9000 times better than Avatar yet I've seen Avatar twice in 3d.

 

[K1052]

And how many other people saw it multiple times?
How many people saw it in 2D and then saw it in 3D (or IMax)?

Add in the fact that there are far more theaters and screens in the US plus the fact that movie tickets have far outpaced inflation, there is no way you can compare sales against older movies.

Sales are all relative. Microsoft has sold a shit load of XBOX 360s but how can you compare that to sales of PS3 when the XBOX has (had?) a 50% failure rate...

On a list adjusted for inflation Avatar currently ranks #26. The only other movie to breach the top 30 on that list in the last 10 years is The Dark Knight. Even accounting for the increased ticket prices from the 3D and IMAX runs the drops week to week are astonishingly small. Just like with Titanic, multiple viewings are propelling this to the top of the charts.

 

[Red Dawn]

Stupid arguement.

Avatar is in no way the best movie of the year. That belongs to Inglorious Bastards.

But..it isn't hard to see why it is the top grossing film of all time. I'd never watch Inglorious Bastards, Godfather, Raging Bull, or most other things more than once in a theater. All of those moview are over 9000 times better than Avatar yet I've seen Avatar twice in 3d.

Hell these days most won't even bother to see them in the theater, they'll just wait for them to come out on DVD or Bluray

 

[Nitemare]

<-- still haven't seen it.

Same, tried to see it twice with a group, but both times Imax was sold out

 

[Beev]

The story was absolutely atrocious and boring, but the effects were freaking spectacular and well worth the price of admission for me.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I saw it a couple days ago. It was epic, and the only 3-hour movie I've seen that was actually fun the whole way through. But it was hardly a "good" movie. I knew exactly what would happen in those 3 hours after the first 30 minutes. The movie was beautiful, but it felt like a fourteen-year-old had written the plot.

I did like the way they made a language for the Na'avi, though. Maybe it's just me, but that seemed really cool, since it had a consistent structure and vocabulary rather than just a library of sounds and subtitles.

Edit: Then again, the story of Titanic wasn't anything special either - just Romeo and Juliet on a sinking boat. Cameron has always been known more for his camera work and special effects than a mind-bending story though, so no surprise.

 

[meltdown75]

solid meh/10 for this movie. i saw it in 3D. it looked ok.

hype makes money, i believe that is the true story here.

 

[skyking]

Top grossing film is a totally meaningless statistic, when you compare average ticket prices. If you want to make a meaningful measure figure out the number if tickets and later the number of DVD's purchased.
I watched it, it was entertaining. I don't need to see it again.

 

[Kirby]

I don't understand the emotional attachment people have for this movie; either they wanna blow James or burn every film reel of the movie.

It was an above-average movie, not a Lawrence of Arabia or Transformers 2.

 

[DougK62]

Where does it rank on the list of all-time ticket sales, and not just money brought in?

 

[BrokenVisage]

Just got back an hour or so ago from seeing this on the closest "true" IMAX theater I could find - King of Prussia, PA. Yeah I had to pay $3 to/from in tolls and sacrifice a large part of my day off but whatever, completely worth it as the movie rocked even on a 2nd watch. This was my first IMAX movie actually so I can't really compare it to anything, however I can say it blows the 2D version out of the water. Since this was my first time at one of these I wanted to get there early for a good seat, got there 1 hour and a few minutes early and there was already 100+ people almost filling center row lol, fucking 3:00 on a Monday. Still got a pretty good seat though so it was all good, just beware if you go in groups.

For those of you wanting to see this in IMAX make sure you check the link below to see if it's authentic. I don't know how much better the real thing is to these "fakes", but for $15 a ticket either way I want my money's worth.

http://www.lfexaminer.com/theaUSA.htm

 

[Aikouka]

Don't the box office gross prices include gross ticket sales? So wouldn't Avatar be getting a huge boost by the fact that it has an IMAX version, where IMAX prices can be 50-75&#37; higher. Especially since it sounds like a lot of people are going to the IMAX showing (if said IMAX is available in their area).