Avatar Highest grossing movie of all time

[louis]

Avatar is now the highest grossing movie of all time domestically in the US (and global box office). Not exactly shocking really, considering how some people are watching the movie several times over.

Personally, I really enjoyed Avatar. It was fun (the plot wasn't shabby) and the special effects were simply awesome. May even catch it one more time just to see it on IMAX (which would be a first for me to watch a movie TWICE at the cinemas.)

So, anyone here NOT like the movie? I have yet to meet someone who watched the flick and walked away from the theater thinking they wasted 15 bucks.

[wahseh]

Wow it beat Titanic already?

I havent got the chance to catch it yet, bite me haha

[NineSwords]

Cameron really has a talent for movies that the bug mass of people watch over and over. Regardless of what you think about his movies, you have to give him that.

Personally I don't think I wasted my money on Avatar but I wouldn't watch it again. Maybe in a year or so when the Bluray is out and I see it on sale.

[mrholder]

It doesn't appeal to me for some reason. Haven't seen it.

[SamirS]

Avatar is probably my favorite movie of all time (at least in recent memory). While I won't consider myself as a super "hardcore" fan, i have seen it twice. If anyone here hasn't seen it yet, i totally recommend checking it out... that goes for you too mrholder

[louis]

You gotta check out the movie mrholder. If you like sci-fi and great effects, you'll most likely enjoy it.

[Nullroar]

I refused to pay to see this movie when I heard it was Ferngully / Pocahontas / dances with wolves / the last samurai etc. etc.
See figure #1 (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/...f/tab/article/).

This was compounded by the fact that I still felt the acidic taste of my own vomit after walking out of Michael Bay's "Transformers 2" realizing that I, by paying for a ticket, had contributed to this man's success. See figure #2 (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/...ers_2_faqs.php).

What do Transformers 2 and Avatar have in common, you may ask?

Well first off, they were both long and visuals and short on any sort of stimulating story...but in different ways. Avatar, with it's trite and hackneyed plot, cliche themes and stereotyped characters, took absolutely NO risks...which has made the movie distasteful to people who value thinking. Transformers 2, on the other hand, could never be called cliche by anyone. Ever. It is a COMPLETELY ORIGINAL plot...original because it was so horribly bad that, until this point, no one could conceivably be successful in Hollywood (or anywhere else, for that matter) with such a nonsensical array of ideas and half-finished plot-lines. Transformers 2 was as if Michael Bay shoved a variety of scripts -all terrible- into a shotgun and had an intern covered with honey roll around on the floor to get pieces stuck to him, so Bay could read out the confetti-sized clippings as he saw them, while rotating the intern when in need of verbs.

"Jetfire....teleports them to....Egypt.."
"-but sir, Jetfire is a JET, can't he FLY them all to Egypt? In fact, he's an SR71 Blackbird, he's among the fastest jets to ever exist, it's not a stretch at all to-
"HE TELEPORTS THEM!!!!!"

These were two horrible movies for two completely opposite reasons. They prove that you can be TOO original (read: horridly nonsensical), and you can be TOO cliche (read: Avatar was supposed to be a 3D masterpiece, so why are all the Characters so 1-Dimensional?).

Bottom line: Do like I do; get a friend who works at the IMAX so you don't get suckered twice. I feel like the poor boys of South Park after watching The Passion.
The people who say Avatar is great can only say so because of the visuals; Cameron may as well be asking admission fees for a tech-demo, as there is nothing of any sort of note.
See figure #3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHA) for a more in-depth review of Avatar.

When the material that they desperately need to obtain is called "unobtanium," you know which end of the VISUALS!/STORY! see-saw they plopped their money down on.

[Matthew]

Nullroar, that was a fantastic read on Transformers 2 - hilarious if I may say so myself. Wanna know what's worse than the movie? The game. Well, it wasn't all bad, but was pretty crappy nonetheless. But then again, so are most games based off movies. I laughed my ass off the first time I read that Pocahontas article a couple weeks ago.

[shigzeo]

^^
I don't often see movies - that could be the reason I enjoyed Avatar; it's not like anything at the box office is original: everything is derivative. If my aim was to be wowed by story, I pick up Stanza and read Jules Verne. Avatar wowed me because I could turn my brain off -indeed, if I didn't, it might implode- sit back, and enjoy fantasy. Pure and simple, there is no movie which doesn't harbour propaganda, which doesn't hinge on someone's money, someone's short-thinking, or by the cruellest of coincidences, fluked philosophy.

Plugging into animals and trees was a joke, so too was the angry sarge, the greedy businessman and the feeling scientist. If anything, Cameron could be as well masked a genius as Spears maybe is[n't]. Because the film obviously isn't deep, wasn't written by a talented writer, or anything really new - for that reason, it was good. There was nothing to listen to. 'Spectacle for spectacle's sake' isn't as strong a show as in Gladiator, but it comes close.

Like it, hate it - love something about it. It is the iPad of movies, really. People who hate it really hate it and those who love it say it. A movie which polarises so much of the population isn't a failure or a bad movie. If it was a total wreck, there would be no more story. Waterworld was the budgetary champ before Titanic - a movie even more full of derivative than Avatar - claimed that title. It had equally weak writing, but the plot had fewer 'seen it before' spots. But it disappeared afterward; the news forgot it - the critics didn't though - and people went on with their lives.

Avatar, won't sink on negative reviews. People who hate it or want to hate it to be en vogue will watch it - it is THAT sort of movie.