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All sound great, keeps getting better. -
Yes, this too! Can't stress enough how important it is to leave the audience with an emotional high leaving the theaters.
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Agreed, not seeing any reason to lower my very high box office expectations from these reactions; the elements that made a Cameron blockbuster hit with the general audiences are clearly all there, perhaps done better than before.
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Good, these seems to be raves!
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True, earlier there was one positive reaction that was like: maybe a little too much on setting up sequel, I thought that was a little contrary to the whole "each is an independent story" narrative; but perhaps we underestimated how much A2 and A3 are interconnected, and if that is the case, A3 might be looking like a even more epic payoff.
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Now, perhaps it's time to lean more into Zoe Saldana's comment on : " IF you do connect with Avatar 2, three will be so much more rewarding!" 😁
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Well that would be perfectly fine as well. Infinity War had like a 68 MTC, never stopped that box office behemoth...
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Ehrlich seems to really dig it, that's a pretty good sign "Streaming found dead in a ditch!". Ha
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He apparently hates Avatar, the guy behind this particular review.
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I know this is not exactly "top level praise", but I really like the sound of this "Uncompromising doubling down".
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True but probably not matching that 83 Metacritic score though, which always seemed surprising to me considering the RT %, those all-time level WOM from audiences ultimately carried its box office though.
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Seemingly slightly below what I expected, but definitely good; but I'm also seeing multiple reactions (at least 3 now) claiming it's better than the first both visually but also emotionally, I think we need to see a few more waves of reactions to determine if these very first ones are somewhat skewed. Review wise, I think these may be good enough to not negatively affect box office, we just need audiences to respond emotionally and be in awe of the spectacle, and so far it seems to definitely deliver on those fronts.
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Yes, this market condition, while not ideal, is good enough for Avatar 2 to be a massive success. If market conditions do improve, that's good news for the sequels, set them up to drop very little or not drop. Five years from now, who knows maybe China completely closes off its market from Hollywood.
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They should all leave this "Nth highest grossing film of all time to be profitable" narrative alone, it's weird and makes no sense.
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Surprised you didn't go for one in the recom form!
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Things are volatile right now and can change very fast. I don't actually expect the 48 hour negative test things to be very prevalent and necessarily long lasting, and the rules seem to be all over the place among different provinces, and even cities; but I think the overall trend of bucking the draconian zero-covid policy and heading toward true reopening is clear enough. So really, the longer Avatar stays in theater, the more chances it has. Ironically, this might prove to be another Cameron's style "lengthy run", but not actually due to the lack of hype. I also think theatres will reopen at a higher rate in the next 10 days in anticipation for A2's release, we'll see if that happens; but things have a habit of going in direction beneficial for Cameron, as we've seen.
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China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30
NCsoft replied to A Marvel Fanboy's topic in China At The Box Office
My impression is that most theatres were not open today because of memorial for a certain person who recently died. -
Oh, of course I'm aware of all this, both the protest and the re-opening of certain public venues; I've posted in the China thread about this general topic many times. What I was curious about is, will the extent of "cinema recovery" be fast enough to allow A2 to have a run nearing it's full potential (only 43.7% theatres are open, but increasing by the day). and even if public venues are open, would the "hesitancy" to visit theatres still remain in people's minds. I guess we will find out soon enough.
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He does post about Avatar on his Instagram, sort of giving me "Dealing with some mental health issues" vibe.
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Wow, that sounds super optimistic. In your opinion (obviously China situation has shown improvement), will the China cinema market recover enough to make this even a remote possibility?
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China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30
NCsoft replied to A Marvel Fanboy's topic in China At The Box Office
That is a good jump, let's hope theatres in operation continue to increase closer to A2 opening day.; -
China is such a finicky situation that even though now there is reason to be optimistic, there are still so many factors at play that could just derail things... This makes tracking A2 China run both exciting and anxiety inducing! I've never experienced 4DX, but I think you should be sure to save that for a second viewing or something, first viewing you might get distracted by all the effects etc.
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China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30
NCsoft replied to A Marvel Fanboy's topic in China At The Box Office
I think it's probable that Avatar 2 gets at least another month, and has a reasonable amount of showing throughout Chinese NY: * This CNY's slate is probably not packed, we are not even 100% sure if Wandering Earth 2 is staying there * China Film Group's interest in promoting CINITY theatres is heavily tied into A2, they probably would want to it to play for a long time. * It almost feels like Cameron films have a tendency to avoids the worst scenarios, even in a tough situation, somehow things always turn out beneficial for it.
