Poll: Avatar has grossed 1.34 billion dollars. Are you surprised?
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Its not surprising in the least bit. A lot of people want to see it and a lot of people went to see it. People are still seeing it. Not surprising at all to be honest.
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Not to say that it wasn't an incredible film, definitely the best one in my opinion to utilize that storyline. But original, definitely not.
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Nope, not surprised at all.
I agree with the well done portion, but original? Its a pretty basic, well-worn storyline: army person sent in, captured by the enemy. Learns much about the culture, essentially becomes one of them. Eventually falls in love with someone and defends the former enemy against their former comrades, who use intel that they provided them to try to destroy them. Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, etc. The biggest difference here is that its just on another planet.Anon_Amarth said:
Not to say that it wasn't an incredible film, definitely the best one in my opinion to utilize that storyline. But original, definitely not.
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Nope, not surprised at all.
It's a good movie with a bad script... But that's all that's really bad. Everything else is good, even the actual acting. Seems to me the actors realized they couldn't say those sorts of horrible lines without looking like idiots, so rolled with it and took their acting to whole new levels of self-parody. The grizzled army vet, slimy corporate pencil-pusher and tough female marine characters were particularly hilarious.
It's like Starship Troopers. Except I had fun with this one. And it actually has good special effects. And it isn't crap.
It's like Starship Troopers. Except I had fun with this one. And it actually has good special effects. And it isn't crap.
It makes perfect sense if you look at trends in movies over the past few years. Except for the occasional masterpiece (Dark Knight), action movies have largely reverted to pre-Die Hard explosion fests with poor CGI, derivative music, and WWE stars who, as it turns out, aren't the best actors in the world (who knew?). Add to this all the aping of actually good filmmaking techniques (the Wachowskis' bullet-time, Paul Greengrass' and Christopher Nolan's use of the shaky cam) by hacks like Michael Bay, Roland Emmerich and a long list of others whose names you'll probably never hear again, and the result is an audience that hasn't been visiting theaters as much lately FOR A REASON. More than anything else, Avatar was a phenomenon of one of the big boys returning to show us how it's done.
Also, word of mouth spread like wildfire, and the overwhelming majority of the films detractors (ESPECIALLY on the Escapist) haven't even seen the film (use the search bar, you trolls!).
Also, word of mouth spread like wildfire, and the overwhelming majority of the films detractors (ESPECIALLY on the Escapist) haven't even seen the film (use the search bar, you trolls!).
I refuse to be part of James Cameron's money machine.
Which is ironic, as most consider this a movie about not being a greedy human...
I laugh out loud.
Which is ironic, as most consider this a movie about not being a greedy human...
I laugh out loud.
That reminds me. They still haven't made Spaceballs 2: The search for more money.BaerXIII said: