IronJimbo

You've misinterpreted what I wrote, it's my fault for not making it clear but you made the assumption I was talking about TFA/TLJ, I was talking about TPM/AoTC. The fans didn't like TPM & AoTC and there was massive backlash which leads to my point. The sequel trilogy and the prequel trilogy can't be compared to one of other in terms of expectations coming into the second film, with TFA being viewed as extremely well received by everyone. All I'm saying is that people should stop using one of the worst sequel drops of a popular franchise of all time in Attack of the Clones to justify The Last Jedi's performance, it's going to finish with less than 0.5A for Pete's sake! Shrek (2001) and Shrek 2 (2004) $484m to $920m. The Avengers (2012) and Age of Ultron (2015) $1.51b to $1.41b. Spiderman (2002) and Spiderman 2 (2004) $822m to $784m. Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Chamber of Secrets (2002) $975m to $879m. Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) $374m to $497m. Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and Two Towers (2002) $869m to $923m. Ice Age (2002) and Ice Age Meltdown (2006) $383m to $661m Hobbit Journey (2012) and Hobbit Smaug (2013) $1021m to $958m Thor (2011) and Thor TDW (2013) $449m to $645m. Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010) $585m to $624m. Batman Begins (2005) and TDK (2008) $373m to $1.00b. Transformers (2007) and Revenge of the Fallen (2009) $710m to 836m. Pirates Black Pearl (2003) and Dead Man’s Chest (2006) $654m to $1.06b. These are not cherry picked, they're the most popular franchises and they don't perform like AoTC and TLJ.

The fans hated them too! You don't become the highest grossing film of all time in the known universe changing course of cinema as we know it.. without being a decent movie. For mediocre films go look towards JJ's/Rian's collection.

The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were very poorly received, you would hope the TFA and TLJ what perform better considering they're critically acclaimed (lol).

Hey I think he is speaking about you BOT.

and I don't want it to pass .5A, fortunately it's got no chance.

Looks like under TA is back on the menu boyz!

That's extremely hopeful for the American's broadband infrastructure.

So I went to the cinema today and on the electronic board listing the show times it said "Star Wars: The Last". What did they mean by this?

Watched Darkest Hour tonight, it's decent and the cinema was packed. I can see this doing well.

That's weird everyone on the internet seems to remember Avatar was just blue Pocohontas in space. This ones for you guys.

Get excited, this ones for all the pandorans out there!

pretty bland to me

Avatar 2 will get a 8 week release and will make some serious $$$.

I was under the impression that the venture stars design what was allowed it to get to Pandora so fast, 90% of the ship is made solely for getting the ship to close to lightspeed. On the right hand side of the ship in this image, the yellow red and pink areas are where the cargo and crew is. They have seven in these in constant loop from Earth to Pandora and back. If they were to bring a military ship, it may take 2x,3x,4x,5x as long to get to Pandora which is 4.37 light years away. Also who is to say they even have giant military ships, the year is 2154, I don't think large scale space combat is even a thing yet. Although I could see having a bombardment space craft orbiting the earth and destroying all of another countries satellites would be extremely beneficial in a World War, that space craft would only be designed for orbiting earth though. So I think if they were to bring a military ship with the intention of conquering Pandora, they would first have to design and build it. Which could take 3 to 10 years or more, then there's no guarantee that ship will be able to travel at the speed of the Venture Star. My line of thinking was they could use the existing Venture Stars to amass a relatively immediate force, it would be cool if they were building the Sulaco though. Also Jim does love spectacle.

Prediction, one of Polyphemus's other moons will operate as a forward headquarters for the Humans so they can amass a big enough army get that unobtainium.

The runs pretty much over now, it was interesting. Kind of expected it to make more than .5A though.

that trend graph is actually all me

This meme again...

$5b inbound. Decade? Let's go with century.. no millennium!

Still lagging behind R1 it seems.

Pretty old but I knew I read somewhere that extra planets will be explored. It's pretty obvious he doesn't mean earth.

Any less than a $3b world wide prediction will be an insult to Jim's handwork on Avatar 2, his past achievements and the man's vision!

Watched the trailer and it looks targeted to the kids. I don't mean a family movie like Shrek, I mean kids only.

Looking like 0.5A is off the cards.

Avatar remained in the top spot for 6 years despite the rate the market was booming.!