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Alexdube

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  1. maybe you though it was mediocre but it received mostly positive reviews, has an A cinemascore and made decent money
  2. Using your own algorithm which is tailored to your own preferences is one of the worst things you can do to get a general sense of what is going on online (and considering almost every time I see you show up in this thread it's to say something negative, I take it you're no big Avatar fan, so why should your very own algorithm favor this kind of content?) Avatar has a presence online, I see it come up randomly all the time and in places that are not tailored to my preferences For example, there is a subreddit called r/moviescirclejerk that makes jokes or memes about online movie culture 4 of the top 6 posts from last month are Avatar related https://www.reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/top/?t=month Linked some of them here (you'll like #2)
  3. The forecasts for each movie are kind of irrelevant, it's the DOM/OS distribution that is in question. And just looking at the content in each movie, I don't think it's that mysterious as to why one might perform stronger in the US relative to OS numbers.
  4. Americans have pride in their military, other countries do not (whether they are allies or not). If you want to talk about other countries such as Japan or the UK, other factors are at play there and that's not what I'm here to talk about. But it shouldn't take a genius to understand why an old fashioned pro-military/American movie featuring Tom Cruise might do better domestically relative to the rest of the world than a movie with an anti-imperialist message depicting the bad guys mainly as Americans
  5. one movie is stroking American pride the other is doing the opposite
  6. Admission numbers aren't reported for DOM, doesn't stop people from bringing them up and making their own estimates I think it's fair to mention Avatar was #1 for 41 straight days if you stick to the notion that a day is 24 hours
  7. Glad you came back, we've missed you. Just in time to celebrate Avatar 2 passing the 2 billion mark!
  8. Through Monday isn't 93M if you use: http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/boxOffice_Daily.jsp?mode=BOXOFFICE_DAILY&startYMD=20230111&endYMD=20230116&searchFrom=Jan-11-2023&searchTo=Jan-16-2023&category=ALL&country=ALL It didn't make 4.5M in 2 weekdays that's for sure, not this late in the run Through Monday is now at $95,954,386 (it was adjusted from last time I checked)
  9. it's hard to imagine what could do it If you look at the past decades, you need either a franchise movie or a big budget production by a proven hit maker. Avatar, Titanic and Jurassic Park weren't really surprises in that sense. I think you have to go back almost half a century to see that kind of big surprise hit, and that would be Star Wars. And it was at a time when you could still wow audiences with just a bit of technical ingenuity and didn't necessarily need a massive budget. Another problem is we have yet to find the next Spielberg or Cameron. We have directors that can do big spectacle like Nolan or Villeneuve, but they don't have the same kind of pull with the GA. I believe it could happen, but still it's very unlikely that something will come out of left field and make 3 billion dollars
  10. yeah I know, through Monday is $96,366,022, still higher than the 93 reported it's an ER thing it seems
  11. that 93 from SK seems low? It's currently at $97,635,722M on http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/boxOffice_Daily.jsp?mode=BOXOFFICE_DAILY
  12. This drop isn't surprising. MLK is not a holiday in Canada where it turns out Avatar is overperforming. Then Avatar is also weaker when the next day is a regular week day because the long running time is a tougher sell
  13. We get to around 650 if Avatar makes the same amount of money TFA did from that point on. Just this weekend it did a good 7M more than TFA. It's going to easily pass JW
  14. I like that TGM won cinematography and Avatar won best visual effects for the critics' choice awards They both did something unique in terms of visuals and that's how you reward both I want to see the same at the Oscars
  15. as long as it beats Jurassic World I am good that movie doesn't deserve to be up there, it's just a worst version of the original (apologies to the one JW stan)
  16. Maybe some posters were overly optimistic, but Cameron has given us plenty of reasons to dream big. And we're still going to dream big for the sequels, we're just getting started 😉 I can only speak for myself, but a top10 dom and top 5 WW would be more than satisfying. And the highest grossing movie of the post-pandemic era
  17. Well there you said it, "undeniably special" or "exceptional", same thing. Now that we all agree on that, sure we can bring up circumstances that make the run look less good but the opposite is also true. A2 is also facing hurdles that other movies it's being compared to did not have to face, like that aftermaths of a pandemic for instance. Rest assured that a lot of people are still not too hot about going in a packed theater in the middle of winter. You still need to give people a very good reason to get out of the house, which is what Avatar did, it's not just because "nothing else" is playing.
  18. I don't know why some people are so afraid of the word "exceptional". Exceptional doesn't mean "best ever". Avatar 2 is going to land somewhere in the top 10 DOM highest grossing movie of all time from a #37 OW, it is an all around high-end exceptional performance, that is just factual. Now you can debate with other high-end runs which is the most impressive and bring up all the factoids you want to compare them, but denying that from Avatar kind of just makes you look like you want to downplay the run from a not-so-objective perspective
  19. That's a long list but quantity doesn't equate quality Lots of older movies, lots of movies that don't even clear 4x, Lots of animated movies of course Any actual December releases? Batman Forever? dude... I am not impressed
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