AVATAR - See it in 3D if you haven't! #1 Movie All-Time Domestic & Worldwide!

[dj_patm]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

Is "Pochantis" anything like Pocahontas?

No, One is an epic porno, the other, a Disney movie.

[burning_acid1]

Originally Posted by SebC

Define mainstream. 3D is making big leaps this year... PS3/Blu-Ray goes 3D this year and whole whack of 3D TVs are coming out right now (at CES), and the US gets its first 3D channel. And hey, you could always become an early adopter!

Sorry for being a little vague. I meant to define mainstream as a large majority of the population owning it. IMO, blu-ray is currently in the process of becoming mainstream. It usually happens when the price decreases. E.g. price of a blu-ray player.

3D TV's are going to very expensive when they first come out.

[stampsx2]

I've seen the trailer for this movie twice now and I can't understand what all the hype is about. It looks like a regular Fantasy movie with some major computer animation. As far as I understand computer animation is suppose to look almost real but from the trailer there were parts that I thought were poorly done. Titanic I can understand being at the top cause every teenage girl went to see it 5 times, but Avatar? I have to go see this movie. The trailer must not be doing it justice.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I have to go see this movie. The trailer must not be doing it justice.

Exactly. But make sure its in 3D!

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I've seen the trailer for this movie twice now and I can't understand what all the hype is about. It looks like a regular Fantasy movie with some major computer animation. As far as I understand computer animation is suppose to look almost real but from the trailer there were parts that I thought were poorly done. Titanic I can understand being at the top cause every teenage girl went to see it 5 times, but Avatar? I have to go see this movie. The trailer must not be doing it justice.

This movie does not translate to a small screen. much less a trailer where for once they managed to not show all the surprises of the film... Also do yourself in a favor and watch it in 3D.

I am not a fan of CG at all, but any CG that doesn't look seem to look real, when you actually see it in 3D, completely gives it a new dimension that is alive.

[RW99]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I've seen the trailer for this movie twice now and I can't understand what all the hype is about. It looks like a regular Fantasy movie with some major computer animation. As far as I understand computer animation is suppose to look almost real but from the trailer there were parts that I thought were poorly done. Titanic I can understand being at the top cause every teenage girl went to see it 5 times, but Avatar? I have to go see this movie. The trailer must not be doing it justice.

Yeah it's hard for the trailer to show it's main points, like the scope of the world he created, the story and the 3D effects.

It's also a shame with such a well created world, the video game apparently really sucked. Another movie game down the tubes.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by burning_acid1

3D TV's are going to very expensive when they first come out.

They're already out, I have one, and it was <$2000 almost a year ago. It's also 61" and uses LED technology.

Intrigued? It's a DLP. It's about a foot deeper than a flat screen, it can't be wall-mounted, it cuts off the edges of your screen at 1920x1080 (but not at 1768x992 if you're using it with a PC), and it's not very good if viewed from a bad angle. But it does do 3D, and it's extremely cheap for it's size.

If you're willing to sacrifice flat, there are bargains to be had.

[Nehkara]

Avatar smashes yet another record.

Previous highest 4th weekend: Titanic ($28.7 million)

New highest 4th weekend: Avatar ($48.5 million)

Avatar now sits at $429 million Domestic (7th) and $1.21 billion worldwide (2nd).

[Hack&Lube]

Avatar's numbers aren't that big in North America. The real difference is globally. Look at a place like China. There are ridiculous lines to watch this movie. People are camping out overnight and lining up for blocks for tickets to future showings, even now in January to watch this. The freedom to watch Western movies like this for the average Chinese person didn't exist 10 years ago.

Scroll down past the first comments:

http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/av...ines-shanghai/





I also like the comments by Chinese directors and filmmakers:
(A Gan)

<Avatar> affected me most deeply because of the visual impact. Although the story plot is somewhat corny, the movie is technically flawless. The CGI technique left us bemoaning our inadequacies. Yesterday, another reporter asked me what I should learn from <Avatar>. I didn't think that there was anything to learn, because we are too far behind Hollywood in technology. Some netizens estimate the gap to be 20 years. I think more like 100 years. I use the same camera to film the 3D <Don Quixote>. From the 3D perspective, we Chinese moviemakers can do what <Avatar> did. But the technique by which <Avatar> captured the motions is completely missing in China. I can only pay tribute humbly at this time. I am concerned that <Avatar> will not do as well as <2012> at the box office, because the latter fawned on the Chinese people and the end-of-the-world prediction/shallow plot may pull in more money.

(Lu Chuan, director of <City of Life and Death> (Nanking! Nanking!))

I felt as if I had gone back to my childhood and became a small boy full of dreams ... but the simple story was flawless and the plot was very engrossing. <Avatar> let us know that we lack not only just in technology. Technology can be acquired. <Avatar> let me realized how far our movies are from simple perfection; how far our movies are from crystal-clear purity; how far our movies from passionate dreams; how far from genuine sincerity are we who are embroiled in grim entanglements and dim vulgarity! We ought to ashamed in the face of the purity of <Avatar>. This is a complete defeat that we Chinese filmmakers must collectively witness and concede.

(Ning Caishen)

I went to watch the midnight showing of <Avatar> with several directors and producers. Afterwards, the atmosphere was eerie, silent and depressing. Almost nobody talked about this movie. We were all shell-shocked.

[Nehkara]

While it is true that only roughly 1/3 of Avatar's total box office is domestic, the same is true of Titanic which had $600 million domestic and $1.8 billion worldwide.

Avatar needs only another $32 million to slide into 3rd place at the domestic box office. It should definitely have this by the end of its 5th weekend. Then it is a long drawn out battle to see if it can catch The Dark Knight at $533 million or (unlikely) Titanic at $600 million.

[Nehkara]

Worldwide figures just updated. Avatar now sits at $1.33 Billion.

[burning_acid1]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Worldwide figures just updated. Avatar now sits at $1.33 Billion.

I definitely did not anticipate Avatar to be this successful.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by burning_acid1

I definitely did not anticipate Avatar to be this successful.

Neither did most people. That was the tone of the first media reports about Avatar... "Yeah, it's pretty but it cost $400 million so it was a stupid move by Fox."

Now the media are saying: "It's awesome and who cares if it cost $400 million, its going to make over $1.5 billion!!!"

Definitely looks like it will hit $1.5 billion without any issue at all... probably will threaten Titanic at $1.8 billion.

[burning_acid1]

Yeah, I think it will give Titanic some competition.

[Hack&Lube]

Whatever happens. I just hope to god that James Cameron doesn't take another FREAKING FOURTEEN YEARS to make a new movie.

Reports are that his next film might be a smaller scale film, going back to his love of underwater (like the Abyss) but a biographical one about a deep sea diver who died in 2002 from doing a 171m dive in the ocean.

I'm sure he'll make the underwater scenes beautiful but deep sea diving really doesn't show the beautiful things we usually associate with being pretty in the ocean like coral reefs and tropical fish, etc. It's pretty much cold, open, dark water.

My personal preference is that he makes Battle Angel Alita but it's looking more and more that he doesn't want to do that anymore because again - the technology isn't up to his satisfaction yet and he's already done his big CG sci-fi film and he wants to do something different after each thing he makes.

I personally do not want to see an Avatar sequel unless it is with a new cast and a new world (Polyphemus, the planet above Pandora [Pandora was only a moon]). I think the story of Jake and the Na'vi are told and should not be revisited.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Whatever happens. I just hope to god that James Cameron doesn't take another FREAKING FOURTEEN YEARS to make a new movie.

Reports are that his next film might be a smaller scale film, going back to his love of underwater (like the Abyss) but a biographical one about a deep sea diver who died in 2002 from doing a 171m dive in the ocean.

I'm sure he'll make the underwater scenes beautiful but deep sea diving really doesn't show the beautiful things we usually associate with being pretty in the ocean like coral reefs and tropical fish, etc. It's pretty much cold, open, dark water.

My personal preference is that he makes Battle Angel Alita but it's looking more and more that he doesn't want to do that anymore because again - the technology isn't up to his satisfaction yet and he's already done his big CG sci-fi film and he wants to do something different after each thing he makes.

I personally do not want to see an Avatar sequel unless it is with a new cast and a new world (Polyphemus, the planet above Pandora [Pandora was only a moon]). I think the story of Jake and the Na'vi are told and should not be revisited.

After the kind of run Avatar has had, Fox will be all over him to do a sequel and he has already mentioned that he has a couple more movies roughed out in terms of storyline. That said, he has also said the the next two films will follow Jake and Neytiri.

Source: MTV

[Hemi-Cuda]

how long did it take Titanic to reach 1.8 billion? Avatar has only been out for 3 weeks or so now, which seems like an incredibly short amount of time to hit 1.3 billion

[lambeburger]

I'm still waiting for James Cameron to make the Aqua-Man movie.

[dj_patm]

Originally Posted by lambeburger

I'm still waiting for James Cameron to make the Aqua-Man movie.

I was scrolling down, anxiously, to see if anyone beat me to this suggestion.

I hate my life.


(Aquaman would rule though. and he can give us SMELL-O-VISON)

[ynwa03]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Whatever happens. I just hope to god that James Cameron doesn't take another FREAKING FOURTEEN YEARS to make a new movie.

Reports are that his next film might be a smaller scale film, going back to his love of underwater (like the Abyss) but a biographical one about a deep sea diver who died in 2002 from doing a 171m dive in the ocean.

I'm sure he'll make the underwater scenes beautiful but deep sea diving really doesn't show the beautiful things we usually associate with being pretty in the ocean like coral reefs and tropical fish, etc. It's pretty much cold, open, dark water.

My personal preference is that he makes Battle Angel Alita but it's looking more and more that he doesn't want to do that anymore because again - the technology isn't up to his satisfaction yet and he's already done his big CG sci-fi film and he wants to do something different after each thing he makes.

I personally do not want to see an Avatar sequel unless it is with a new cast and a new world (Polyphemus, the planet above Pandora [Pandora was only a moon]). I think the story of Jake and the Na'vi are told and should not be revisited.

This is so simple and straight forward and exactly what they should do, but we all know the men in suits always win and Cameron will have to make a lame sequel that will totally ruin the greatness of Avatar. Get ready for an Avatar: Espisode II, Episode III.....and so on. Sigh.