A2 WEEKEND THREAD | 134.1M DOM OW | Thurs 17m / Fri 36m / Sat 45m / Sun 36m

[wildphantom]

7 minutes ago, Cap said:

Oh. Variety right on cue gave us some spicy takes with this hit piece. They are also predicting 134M for the weekend; so a 36m Sunday:

 

 

Gross. They would have written that up before it even opened too. Just pasted in the figures. 

[ZeeSoh]

45 minutes ago, Nero said:

Btw guys do you know this fun fact: @ZeeSoh @SchumacherFTW @wildphantom @Alligator Zatt PSG is very lucky club if you want to win world cup.

 

Ronaldinho joined PSG in 2001 won world cup in 2003.

 

Kylian Mbpappe joined PSG in 2017 won the cup in 2018

 

Messi signed up with PSG in 2021 and went on to win it in 2022!!!!

 

Absolutely ridiculous 🤣😂

 

Quick, send Sunil Chhetri to PSG on a free transfer to warm their benches.

[ZattMurdock]

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So even though “Avatar” became the top-grossing film of all time, when Cameron unveiled his plan to do nothing but make more “Avatar” movies, forwarding the saga of those tall blue-skinned nobly one-dimensional amazon ciphers who no one cared all that much about, he wasn’t just building on his success. He was doubling down. He was saying, “Yes, the 3D revolution is here. I’m the one who planted the flag on its paradigm-shifting possibilities, and I’m the one who’s going to make it happen. If I build ‘Avatar’ movies, you will come.”

 

And that’s where following the money has always been integral to this saga. It’s Cameron himself who pointed out that for “The Way of Water” to break even, it needs to become one of the three or four top-grossing movies of all time. Good of him to admit it, yet there’s still an undaunted hubris driving that observation. He was saying, implicitly, “I know it will be.” Profit, loss, investment, payoff: All of that matters. But Cameron’s swing-for-the-fences strategy also relates to whether the “Avatar” movies actually mean anything, or whether they’re just glorified technological showreels.

 

We already have a movie culture that’s drowning in imagistic sensation and action overload. Cameron, in movies like “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” “The Abyss” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” was one of the virtuoso architects of that blockbuster aesthetic. He’s now competing against the very cinema-as-sensation mystique that overpowered the rest of movie culture, even as he raises the ante on it. I felt a note of magic during the middle hour of “The Way of Water,” which plunges us into the ocean with a kind of virtual-reality immersion. But the film’s extended action climax? That felt like something out of “Die Hard VIII: Die Harder on a Boat,” only rendered in 3D. At a certain point I thought, “So what?”

 

And now we’re going to get more! More “Avatar” sequels and more of what The Future of Movies Will Look Like. But if “The Way of Water” winds up a commercial disappointment, where does that leave the dream of “Avatar”? Cameron may still have the power to make his sequels, but if the “Avatar” films cease to be regarded by the audience as special, it may feel as if he has already entered his version of the George Lucas-directing-the-prequels zone. The “Avatar” films could become just one more bombastic, dramatically thin thrill-ride franchise in an endless sea of them. 
 

The dream, of course, was that the “Avatar” films would redefine movies. That’s why Cameron was going to devote his life to them. He would be the king of the future. But the dream may have been a delusion. Cameron is a great filmmaker, but if he really wants to keep making these movies over and over and over again, the future may already be leaving him behind.

SAVAGE.

[Nero]

2 minutes ago, ZeeSoh said:

Quick, send Sunil Chhetri to PSG on a free transfer to warm their benches.

Unfortunately he retired 😔

[XXR & Friends]

I've officially decided to become a football fan. Give me suggestions of which club I should adopt. I'm thinking maybe Bayern Munich....

[ZattMurdock]

Translation:

 

That could be us 

But there were seven idiots on the attack 

With 4 minutes of the extra time left

 

Oh well, we are still the world champions at memes, at very least. 

[ZattMurdock]

3 minutes ago, XXR Tulkun Rider said:

I've officially decided to become a football fan. Give me suggestions of which club I should adopt. I'm thinking maybe Bayern Munich....

Sport Club Internacional. The one Brazilian team that actually defeated Messi’s Barcelona:

 

one 

[Cap]

7 minutes ago, XXR Tulkun Rider said:

I've officially decided to become a football fan. Give me suggestions of which club I should adopt. I'm thinking maybe Bayern Munich....

AFC Richmond 

[XXR & Friends]

Just now, Cap said:

AFC Richmond 

 

I saw on Twitter that one of their players killed a dog. Can't support that. 

[Brainbug]

8 minutes ago, XXR Tulkun Rider said:

I've officially decided to become a football fan. Give me suggestions of which club I should adopt. I'm thinking maybe Bayern Munich....

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

NOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Eintracht Frankfurt it is. Bayern is evil. Eintracht is the light, Bayern is the darkness.

[ZattMurdock]

 

[XXR & Friends]

1 minute ago, Brainbug said:

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

NOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Eintracht Frankfurt it is. Bayern is evil. Eintracht is the light, Bayern is the darkness.

 

Hmm I do love your namesake hotdogs....

[SchumacherFTW]

3 minutes ago, Cap said:

AFC Richmond 

[SchumacherFTW]

3 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

NOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Eintracht Frankfurt it is. Bayern is evil. Eintracht is the light, Bayern is the darkness.

Nah, it's all about the BVB! 

[Brainbug]

Just now, SchumacherFTW said:

Nah, it's all about the BVB! 

 

Lies. LIES.

 

Dortmund are bottlers in their truest form and they have the nasty habit of snitching away players from potential challengers. Eintracht Frankfurt is the epitomy of everything that is right in football.

[SchumacherFTW]

Just now, Brainbug said:

 

Lies. LIES.

 

Dortmund are bottlers in their truest form and they have the nasty habit of snitching away players from potential challengers. Eintracht Frankfurt is the epitomy of everything that is right in football.

At least we have a couple of Champions League trophies 😜 and don't forget the glory of the Gelbe Wand

[ThomasNicole]

Lol at Owen Gleiberman needing a review AND an article to express how much he hates Avatar 

 

 

[ZattMurdock]

 

[Nero]

32 minutes ago, XXR Tulkun Rider said:

I've officially decided to become a football fan. Give me suggestions of which club I should adopt. I'm thinking maybe Bayern Munich....

Select a team which has the player you like

[XXR & Friends]

4 minutes ago, Nero said:

Select a team which has the player you like

 

I only know like, 5 current players and most of those will be retired in the next 5 years.