Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[IronJimbo]

2 minutes ago, AniNate said:

I'm just calling it like I see it. Evidently some read too much into the most glowing of tweets and wanted to believe in unanimous critical praise based on it.

 

My total domestic gross prediction before reactions

$1.1b

 

My total domestic gross prediction after reactions

$1.1b

 

My total domestic gross prediction after reviews

$1.1b

 

Interesting you think anything so far isn't expected

[JustLurking]

3 minutes ago, AniNate said:

I'm just calling it like I see it. Evidently some read too much into the most glowing of tweets and wanted to believe in unanimous critical praise based on it.

Even during the very positive reviews you could still see the odd mixed or negative (some of these weren't posted, but you could find them if you looked a bit). It's why I never believed in 90+. High 80s still seems to be in range and that's what I'm hoping for, but if it misses that it is what it is I guess.

[interiorgatordecorator]

4 minutes ago, AniNate said:

I'm just calling it like I see it. Evidently some read too much into the most glowing of tweets and wanted to believe in unanimous critical praise based on it.

 

tweets made it pretty obvious this was going to fall in the 70s

even Iron Jimbo has 78 mc as his final prediction

[danziger]

[Nero]

34 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

If this score A+ cinemascore and become the highest grossing film of all time AGAIN, I would request the critics to attend some jealously management class.

 

My IMAX 3D show start in 15 hours.

Lol. I was going to tag you since you were absent from this thread. 

[IronJimbo]

2 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

tweets made it pretty obvious this was going to fall in the 70s

even Iron Jimbo has 78 mc as his final prediction

when I made that 78mc i had no idea that's what Top Gun Maverick got, if i had known I would have lowered it

[Hatebox]

I love the RT lag. It’s like it’s specifically designed to fuck with all the obsessives on this site. 
 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Hatebox

[DeeCee]

In the immortal words of Rod Stewart. 

 

Tonight's the Night  

[stuart360]

2 minutes ago, danziger said:

Honestly i know its human nature to ignore the positives and dwell on the negatives, but i'm going to concentrate on these kind of reviews, and thankfully there are a lot of them.

[IronJimbo]

Yeah 85% at 96 reviews.

[Torontofan]

Well reviewed blockbuster during xmas with limited competition

[AniNate]

17 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

tweets made it pretty obvious this was going to fall in the 70s

even Iron Jimbo has 78 mc as his final prediction

Okay, well then I wasn't referring to either you or IronJimbo

 

Whoever was dooming around page 1380 is who I was referring to

 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by AniNate

[NCsoft]

7 minutes ago, Hatebox said:

I love the RT lag. It’s like it’s specifically designed to fuck with all the obsessives on this site. 
 

 

Yeah, getting people incessantly clicking/refreshing their site seems to be the goal.

[wildphantom]

True Lies at 70 and TWOW at 85? This shit must be next level!! 

[interiorgatordecorator]

3 minutes ago, wildphantom said:

True Lies at 70 and TWOW at 85? This shit must be next level!! 

 

some of the reviews bringing True Lies's score down arent serious ones

[Porthos]

59 minutes ago, hw64 said:

 

As we've seen from some of the posts over the past hour or so, there are a lot of people absolutely waiting to pounce on any perceived sign of weakness from this movie to affirm their own deep-seated beliefs.

 

I mean this is always the case for just about every film here (this place could be called Mean Girls: The Forum for a very good reason), but for this particular movie this forum has... 

 

*stops for a moment to figure out how to word this*

 

seen A LOT of ultra high predictions for a very long time.  And super confident ultra high predictions at that.  

 

So some people coming in here and spiking the football extremely prematurely?  I'm actually impressed with the level of restraint I've seen from this forum, to be quite honest.

 

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FWIW, I think the fact that many people KNOW that James Cameron is the master of leggy runs is why the reaction to this RT rollout (as well as pre-sales so far) is fairly tame by BOT standards.  We all know that it is extremely likely that this will be a leggy hit so I do think BOT is being fairly well behaved.  By our standards at least.

Edited December 13, 2022 by Porthos

[ThomasNicole]

Average starts at 7.1, now it's 7.4 

 

It's really behaving way different than usual blockbusters lol

[MrPink]

True Lies is my 2nd favorite Cameron movie.

 

[Flamengo81]

6 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

Average starts at 7.1, now it's 7.4 

 

It's really behaving way different than usual blockbusters lol

Avatar is unusal in every sense, that is why it's so difficult to predict anything related to this movie...

[stuart360]

Did True Lies really only get a 70 on RT?, that was one of my fave cinema going experiences ever lol.

Just pure fun from start to finish