You can tell he was really choosing his words carefully. I wonder if it'll do more than the 2nd one. I remember when the 2nd one came out there were reports everywhere on the Internet about it underperforming then I guess the Hollywood machine kicked in and the narrative changed overnight and suddenly it was doing gangbusters /tinfoil hat off
Eh, I don't care much about the story.
I don't know, it's pretty wild already if you think of all the stuff like symbiosis and the living planet, the whole mind / meld / tunneling into Avatars. It's about to go bonkers I believe when the conflict somehow extends to future earth in Avatar 4 (if it happens, good chance though).
While it would be fun to see a tall mask wearing Na'vi having to navigate human structures, I'm not sure where that story would even go, other than as a Pocahantas type "put on display for the Queen" type thing. I'd much rather see some new threat forcing humans and Na'vi into an alliance and feature more space based stuff. Camerons keen eye for scientific based detail would have a spaceship obey newtonian physics and we might get a lot more Expanse style fights versus star wars (I know he had artificial gravity in Aliens but that wasn't his world).
You gonna get a lump of coal in your stocking for sure
3.5 hours, IMAX / 3D / HFR. Awwww yeahYou gonna get a lump of coal in your stocking for sure
Bring an empty Gatorade bottle to pee in
Seriously lolBring an empty Gatorade bottle to pee in
Wow, that was a late DP!
Dont forget the 30 min of previews!
I mean...the movie started slower than the 1st but ended up as the 3th top grossing movie in history with 2.3 billion bucks. How can you call a movie with a gross like that a flop?
I'm not saying it was a flop financially. I'm saying that it somehow miraculously recoverd after the slow start. Chalk it up to word of mouth aI guess despite me never hearing anyone talk about this franchise irl.
James Cameron is always like this. Even Titanic had a much slower start when you look at its final gross. The movie came out um October or November and its peak weekend was valentine's day in February. That just doesn't happen.
Your original message seemed to be saying that someone "pulled strings"? I think it's just like Tiago said, and Cameron films burn both bright and long. They aren't low earners at the beginning, as they have healthy debuts.... they just aren't front loaded like normal blockbusters. It has a lot to do with the lengths, Titanic, Avatar and Avatar the Way of Water were all very long films and had less showings per day.
Apparently in an area where more people go to cinema then at your place.Where do you live?
So...a podunk town? Because I live in the 4th largest city in America those were just the 1st 4 cinemas that showed up on my fandango app
Your logic seems flawed, if it is a less populated "podunk" as you say town, there would be less viewers. Also, do you usually go see three hour movies at 11:15 pm or 10:45 pm, because those late times were what came up first in your search?
I had to call my theater to ask. They said all their 3D showings were HFR. It wasn't listed.
I'll have to check my theater. I wonder if basically all cg looks better at hfr than a mix of it like the hobbit. Iirc way of water just had select.scenes in hfr, right?
It does and doesn't. For us gamers, yeah probably. But it can slightly ruin the illusion of being cinematic for slower dramatic scenes. It basically can make it look like a play, live. So if they're on a set that isn't that convincing, average costume design, and then it looks extra real with HFR it can ruin the illusion and make it look more like actors on a stage.
I'm man enough to say I cried watching The Way of Water in the theater, and then again at home months later. The whole interactive flashback that they had hit me, but that's likely because I have three boys that I love more than anything.
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