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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
I wouldn't go that far. In my opinion, how much a movie makes doesn't equate to people liking more than another movie. Titanic was terrible in the eyes of A LOT of people, but it made a ton of money. Spiderman 3 sucked, but it made a TON of money. Everyone apparently hated Transformers 2 (I didn't), but it still made a TON of money.
Avatar was a good movie, I won't deny I enjoyed it, but it was too long, and Act 2 was BORING BORING BORING.
District 9 is a hard movie to compare it too because you either think it is brilliant (me), or you think it sucks (probably because people don't understand the concept), not to mention it isn't an action movie, which Avatar is.
Just read a few posts above me about the Grammys. IMO, Inglorious Basterds should win over this.
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Heh... This could go on for months because we are just exchanging shots based on our opinions. My opinion is that Avatar is better than District 9. Your opinion is that District 9 is better than Avatar.
I also have seen Avatar 3 times and like the whole thing. I don't find any part of it boring but I understand that my view of Avatar and my perceptions of it are not going to be the same as everyone else.
To each their own.
In terms of people liking Avatar more, I would humbly submit that the box office numbers for Avatar could ONLY have been driven by stellar word-of-mouth.
I watch the box office very closely and I have never seen the kind of pattern that Avatar has forged. It has only dropped about 13% from its 1st weekend to its 3rd weekend. That is amazing.
I would also submit the results of user votes on IMDb, which now total about 100,000 with an average vote of 8.8/10. 8.6/10 (91% positive) on Rotten Tomatoes on ~ 7,000 votes. 8.4/10 on Metacritic on ~600 votes.
District 9 has 8.4/10 on ~ 100,000 votes on IMDb. 8.3/10 (90% positive) on ~7000 votes on Rotten Tomatoes. 7.8/10 on ~650 votes on Metacritic.
Based on that you have to say that people like Avatar at LEAST as much as they like District 9, if not more.
But... still, at the end of the day this is all just flipping opinions back and forth at each other.