It is a DUMB movie.
Spectacular 3D but a very pedestrian movie.
And Avatar’s grosses are further raised by inflated iMAX prices.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up.
I don’t know about anyone else, but if I see any other Hollywood productions promoting that green crap, I’ll hurl.
It is actually a very enjoyable film. I may see it twice in fact.
OK, it does make the military and corporations into the bad guys. In the theater I was in, the evil military general says something like: The natives are massing. We have to do a preemptive strike with some shock and awe because we have to fight terror with terror. After these anti-American lines, some liberal puke sitting in the audience called out sarcastically: “GO USA!”
So, you do have to endure that. But, everything else is great. The effects are wonderful, not distracting, but fit well to the story. The story is epic, so of course it is simple.
It is the same story used in Old West films and novels: a white guy falls for an Indian princes and comes to adapt their ways and defend the tribe against exploitation. Once you have that plot, making the mining corporation the bad guys seems right.
Interesting numbers. One additional thing one might do is divide by the U.S. population at the time just to calibrate the totals for population growth. GWTW’s 202 million in ticket sales looks even more impressive given the U.S. population totaled only 131 million in 1939. In contrast, with our population now over 300 million, Avatar’s ticket sales of 76 million looks even less impressive.
Even if the ticket sales are worldwide figures, my guess is that the U.S. accounts for the lion’s share of these, so it’s reasonable to use the U.S. population as a way of standardizing the figures to account for population growth.
How did it make 1.8 billion dollars if it only sold 77 million tickets. That’s more than $20 a ticket.
I just saw the movie. It was a great visual movie. Story was so-so, or as my daughter says “Ferngully with tall smurfs”.
There were also plot points stolen from star trek, pohohantas, and Orson Scott Card’s Enders series (specifically the Children of the Mind portion) — complete with the slightly-different named Aiuas living in trees after they die.
And you had Eragon and the dragon-bonding.
Cameron wasn’t much for originality. But he loves senseless killing. And vengeance.
Pocahontas: Dances with Smurfs.
I won’t bother seeing it. Unless it’s a pirate copy.
How many of those top 20 films were rated R? Two?
There wasn’t nearly enough napalm employed for my taste...
Great Post. It really puts things into perspective. Thanks!
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