Ollie Pooch
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i love that theme. and i agree, it's really moving. when it plays during the flight scene, its so joyous and uplifting. love it.GhaleonEB said:
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Rottenwatch: AVATAR (82%)
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LieMAX.aznpxdd said:
BudokaiMR2
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I saw it a second time with my girlfriend. She wasn't that interested in seeing it but ended up enjoying it in the end. Although she said she didn't like the ending.
She didn't really like the 3D because it made her head hurt after too long.
Also how do you know what kind of 3D you were watching? I saw it at two different theaters and the first one seemed to have done a better job. I am not sure if it really was different or if I just wasn't as awed by it the second time but it felt like things popped out more the first time.
She said none of the humans should have been allowed to stay. Should have kicked them all off including Jake. Harsh, haha.
She didn't really like the 3D because it made her head hurt after too long.
Also how do you know what kind of 3D you were watching? I saw it at two different theaters and the first one seemed to have done a better job. I am not sure if it really was different or if I just wasn't as awed by it the second time but it felt like things popped out more the first time.
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Yeah I am tempted to see it a 3rd time in whatever IMAX theater they have in Osaka. Not sure if it is real or Liemax. What is the difference again?
SCULLIBUNDO
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Look in the OP for differences between the 3D formats.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Holy fuck this thread has gotten big. Never really hit me just how big this got for a Rottenwatch thread.
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Congrats.Scullibundo said:
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U K Narayan said:
I didn't mean it like that, who cares how many posts a thread has. I'm just pointing out what a talking point this film has become. Even among GAF, Rottenwatch threads rarely crack 1000 posts, yet this film has people talking and talking.
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Haha. I know. I was just joking.Scullibundo said:
There's no IMAX in Osaka city (besides the one in the port, but they don't have Avatar there I think, and I'm not even sure it's a real IMAX). I went today to Minoh (take the subway, Midosuji line, up to the last station called Senri-chuo, then leave the station and take a shuttle bus that takes you to Minoh, it takes about 10 mins and costs 210 yen.BudokaiMR2 said:
The IMAX is in the 109 cinema complex, but I suggest you buy it beforehand via internet or you might miss some good seats. I bought the tickets two days ago (watched it yesterday) and got the BEST seats, right in the middle. Dunno if it's real IMAX (it says so in the website) or not, but goddamn it was GREAT and I completely loved the movie.
Here you can check the schedule and buy tickets if you're interested:
http://109cinemas.net/minoh/schedule/timeSchedule.shtml
EDIT - Wops, seems like you've seen the movie twice already and in 3D? Did you watch them in Osaka city? I've searched and only saw the 109 site where they say AVATAR is only available in 4 IMAX in Japan, and I assumed there wasn't any other 3d Theater around here...? I wanna see the movie again, but going up to Minoh is a pain in the ass (I live near Den Den Town, I guess you know where's that).
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There's a schizophrenic in Dark Knight?
BTW, I know I'm a few pages late, but for that guy saying the difference between 3D and 2D wasn't that big... ARE YOU KIDDING!? Seriously, You could see how everything had lots of depth except for a few scenes indoors where it was harder to notice, but even then, you could tell there was something different about it.
Dunno if it has anything to do with the kind of theater. I went to an IMAX and sit right in the middle of the theater (well, one row nearer to the screen than the one in the actual middle, but the seat was the one in the exact middle). It looked AMAZING from the very beginning to the very end.
Oh, and I loved Tsu'tey.
Dunno if it has anything to do with the kind of theater. I went to an IMAX and sit right in the middle of the theater (well, one row nearer to the screen than the one in the actual middle, but the seat was the one in the exact middle). It looked AMAZING from the very beginning to the very end.
Oh, and I loved Tsu'tey.
It was sad to see him getting killed by those goddamn humans :_(
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Yeah I have actually been to the one in senri-chuo when Transformers 2 came out. That was the only one I knew of so I figured they would have it.
Yeah I saw it in 3D twice, once in the Toho Umeda and once in a Toho in Hamamatsu over the new year. It was pretty nice as it was on the biggest screen at the Umeda showing(I think, it was theater 1).
Now I just want to see it in IMAX 3D.
I tried to talk everyone into going to IMAX for the first showing but they always do the stupid thing of timing the movies to end after the last trains(at least by the time you take a cab or shuttle back) so no one wanted to go. Can't blame them as a cab ride all the way back to my place in Morinomiya would cost a fortune from there.
Yeah I saw it in 3D twice, once in the Toho Umeda and once in a Toho in Hamamatsu over the new year. It was pretty nice as it was on the biggest screen at the Umeda showing(I think, it was theater 1).
Now I just want to see it in IMAX 3D.
I tried to talk everyone into going to IMAX for the first showing but they always do the stupid thing of timing the movies to end after the last trains(at least by the time you take a cab or shuttle back) so no one wanted to go. Can't blame them as a cab ride all the way back to my place in Morinomiya would cost a fortune from there.
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Scullibundo said:
Yeah I read that part, I just want to know how to figure out which one I saw. You can tell by the glasses?
FirewalkR said:Try to imagine the opening weekend box-office results of Avatar 2. What do you see?
Avatar 2's box office watch wont be anywheres near as fun nor as unusual as Avatar 1's. For starters, the movie is going to open huge, probably setting a new opening weekend record. After that, expect a fairly regular blockbuster run in terms of drops. And Im thinking it probably wont top Avatar 1 WW.
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I've said it before, but wake me up when they start doing them in people numbers, not money.
You could charge $25 for the next Twilight and have $2 billion in a week.
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The thing you forgot is that the population also rises with the ticket prices as well as numbers of available theaters around the world.
So yeah, I would say that the number of people that goes to see movies coming out in the future will be a ton more than people having been in the past.
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Mik2121 said:
I think you are confused. I saw it in 3d, not 3D IMAX.
But yes the Toho in Umeda does 3D.
It's not the greatest cue but it does its job.
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Sure, but you understand what I'm saying right ?Bit-Bit said:
Even if in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 the same number of people see a movie, the box office / gross revenue records, whatever, will be broken.
Especially with the even more expensive 3D tickets now.
"Avatar has become the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn in ticket sales around the world. "
It's all bullshit.
Bullshit or no bullshit, it's still a billion dollars and it still did it in 17 days. No matter what you think about inflation, that is still fucking impressive. Avatar is pretty much guaranteed to end up in the top 100 tickets sold of all time domestically, which is damn impressive in its own right, but the foreign box office has expanded a lot in recent years and that is where it can make a real killing. I wish BOM provided much, much better foreign statistics than it does, though I understand the difficulties inherent in tracking foreign box office gross.Goldrusher said:
Goldrusher said:
It's not bullshit. Titanic came out when tickets were only $5 max and still managed the same thing. Just not in 17 days. I think it took 10 weeks to get this high. But really, it just goes to show that there is a massive amount of people going to see this film than any other film this year.
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Congrats Avatar!
Now, where are you people getting your info from about Avatar2, or is it just ass talking?
Now, where are you people getting your info from about Avatar2, or is it just ass talking?
Sharp said:
Every ticket purchased in euro today is also a lot of additional $$$ compared to a few years ago.
I´d love for someone to try and figure out which movie is the highest grossing of all time after inflation AND foreign currency exchange rates (and foreign inflations, of course) considered.
Lol, it´s another GAF discussion about sales, why am I not surprised
^ But only if it´s quick to shoot
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No matter how high the price, masses of people are obviously willing to pay it and that's an achievement in itself. I don't think you can measure the success just with numbers.
Edit: I actually saw people with RealD glasses in the club recently. o_o
Edit: I actually saw people with RealD glasses in the club recently. o_o
By a pretty big margin, I believe it's Gone With The Wind, though if not it's probably something like E.T. or possibly Titanic. In any case, comparing any modern movie to one released at a time when tickets were a nickel each, there was no cheap source of entertainment (or air conditioning) outside the cinema, and movies stayed in theaters for years is kind of pointless.Binabik15 said:Every ticket purchased in euro today is also a lot of additional $$$ compared to a few years ago.
I´d love for someone to try and figure out which movie is the highest grossing of all time after inflation AND foreign currency exchange rates (and foreign inflations, of course) considered.
Lol, it´s another GAF discussion about sales, why am I not surprised
^ But only if it´s quick to shoot
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:lol That is stupendous nice photoshop job on that.
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I haven't been in the thread the last couple of days have I missed any great interviews or behind the scenes stuff?
LTTP: Finally saw it with my wife. IMAX 3D. The whole shebang.
Story was serviceable, but the direction and tech on display are so monumentally awesome and well-handled it's hard to really give a shit that the story is pretty much just there. Definitely a Star Wars moment in film history, I agree with Ebert on that.
We enjoyed it despite both feeling as if the story wasn't anything special. Which usually kills films for us, but... it's hard to ignore this much sheer money on-screen.
I'd give it an 8 or so. Everyone needs to see it in a good theater though; I can't fathom watching it any other way.
Story was serviceable, but the direction and tech on display are so monumentally awesome and well-handled it's hard to really give a shit that the story is pretty much just there. Definitely a Star Wars moment in film history, I agree with Ebert on that.
We enjoyed it despite both feeling as if the story wasn't anything special. Which usually kills films for us, but... it's hard to ignore this much sheer money on-screen.
I'd give it an 8 or so. Everyone needs to see it in a good theater though; I can't fathom watching it any other way.
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Glad to see it hit $1B this last weekend. I thought it was gonna do $60M this weekend and I low balled the numbers again. :lol
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