CaviarMeths
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And even $2.325b is still pants-on-head crazy. Nothing's touching that for 5 years either.
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And even $2.325b is still pants-on-head crazy. Nothing's touching that for 5 years either.
I would actually put money on Avatar 2 (if it ever comes out) not hitting $1b.
PhoncipleBone
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Lol. Avatar 2 will beat that easily. Beating $2b is the question mark, but Cameron is 2 for 2 with defying expectations.
ratcliffja
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This is as crazy as when people call Avatar a great movie. Of course it's going to top $1 billion.
It will hit $1b in 3 weeks.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Will 2017 be the year in which a box-office thread about Star Wars doesn't turn into a meditation on the longevity and/or consumer appeal of Avatar sequels?
No.
No it won't.
No.
No it won't.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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It won't stop until James Cameron takes out a full page ad in Variety congratulating JJ Abrams
Mix Master
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:lol
Bobby Roberts
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I vaguely remember people wondering why that hadn't happened on TFA.
If I remember right, he didn't say anything about it until Avatar 2 was pushed out of December 2017 following Episode VIII getting pushed to December 2017; he didn't have nice things to say.
Bobby Roberts
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Hah, really?
Channel that dissatisfaction into those scripts, I guess.
Channel that dissatisfaction into those scripts, I guess.
PhoncipleBone
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The only year that will stop is when Avatar 2 releases. And no matter how that plays out, there will be crow threads and lots of pettiness thrown around from both sides.
It wasn't long after Avatar 2 was pushed to get out of Episode VIII's way that he came out and trash-talked Abrams and TFA.
CaviarMeths
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Depends on overseas roll out. If it hits all major markets day and date with the US, it'll hit $1b inside of 2 weeks.
PhoncipleBone
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I'm still clinging to my fanboy fantasy of George Miller's Mad Max Fury Road lighting a serious fire under Cameron's ass and him feeling more than ever that he has something to prove. A hungry Cameron is not someone to fuck with when it comes to action.
I hope Cameron delivers something fucking insane in the sequel. After all, he is a strong 2 for 2 with sequels. He can pull off the hat trick.
I hope Cameron delivers something fucking insane in the sequel. After all, he is a strong 2 for 2 with sequels. He can pull off the hat trick.
Avatar made $1b in three weeks. With an opening weekend of $77m in the US.
Bobby Roberts
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I don't know that we're still in the timeline where things that should happen are allowed to still happen anymore.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Christ. That puts things in perspective.
Cameron will right the world from Trump's wrongs.
Having said that, the Cameron now is very different than the mid 80s-early 90s Cameron. He isn't as lean and mean. But, he is more experienced.
Mix Master
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I think folks overstate the popularity of Avatar in 2018.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Rogue One's performance is actually pretty much where I expect Avatar 2 to land domestically. Roughly double the OW of the first and falling $200-250M short of the total.
Don't really know how it'll perform overseas, but I would assume gangbusters. China should be a new record for a foreign release, no?
Don't really know how it'll perform overseas, but I would assume gangbusters. China should be a new record for a foreign release, no?
Spyder_Monkey
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What happened to leaving Gaf?
Also they missed the boat on an Avatar sequel like 5 years ago.
Bobby Roberts
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I've almost kinda missed the reverent, almost theological tones by which people talk about James Cameron here!
I left it.
And then I got bored and a Star Wars movie came out.
I mean, if you wanna use the ignore function, it's like I'm still gone. There's that.
I left it.
And then I got bored and a Star Wars movie came out.
I mean, if you wanna use the ignore function, it's like I'm still gone. There's that.
PhoncipleBone
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Cameron's probably looking at those previous records and thinking:
"Those are some cute box office records. It would be a shame if someone were to...break them."
Meanwhile, he knows he ain't touching that opening weekend of TFA.
Of course, that means his fall will be twice is hard.
"Those are some cute box office records. It would be a shame if someone were to...break them."
Meanwhile, he knows he ain't touching that opening weekend of TFA.
The man has crushed all expectations with his last two films.
Of course, that means his fall will be twice is hard.
Mix Master
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I know folks love cameron... But Apart from the records nobody talks about avatar, at all.
Spyder_Monkey
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Does anybody know who Sam Worthington is anymore?
Bobby Roberts
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Maybe it's because I'm on my second bomber for the night, but by the time we get around to that film releasing, this might be completely plausible.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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If the lines for Avatar Land are over 5 hours long, it'll break $3B
PhoncipleBone
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Depends on what the bomber is. Downed a bomber of St. Bernardus Abt 12, then half a bottle of champagne. Now onto the bourbon...
ryutaro's mama
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Now Avatar 2 isn't even gonna hit a billion.
I love GAF.
I love GAF.
Bobby Roberts
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You are 100% an aspirational figure round here, man.
no one remembered avatar a year after it came out, let alone 9 years
I really, really think the novelty of 3D was the main reason why avatar did so well. people aren't craving an avatar 2.
even that piece of shit alice in wonderland that was quickly converted to 3d to capitalize on the fad made a billion in 2010. the sequel came out in 2016 and was a fucking bomba. cause no one actually gave a fuck about the first movie, they just wanted to see shit in 3d.
no one cares about avatar 2 9 years later. without a gimmick that raises the ticket prices, I don't see it doing over a billion.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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PhoncipleBone
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Bobby Roberts
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2017 will see a heartfelt "Hell or High Water" esque outback western starring Worthington and Jai Courtney, directed by Andrew Dominik, and people will swear up and down that they always loved both those guys.
People already tried that with Courtney based on the Suicide Squad trailer. May have been premature in that case.
hah, for real.
I'm sure hollywood execs are dying to find a way to increase ticket prices again.
CaviarMeths
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Every Cameron film should be accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary. Would be so interesting to see. Would love to see the thought process behind making a $200m big boat movie in the wake of Waterworld.
Anyway, it seems that people who are betting against Avatar 2 hitting $1b didn't have the internet in 2009. Even after opening weekend, there was plenty of doubt. The word "flop" appeared in several headlines.
Here's a more sensible one that was still way off:
Could Avatar hit $1 billion? (Dec 20, 2009)
Gosh, it may even make $500 overseas.
Articles before the opening weekend were even better though.
Will Avatar Be a Megaflop? (Nov 11, 2009)
And people "talking" about Avatar won't matter any more in 2018 than it did in 2009.
Edit: Wtf Bobby banned? Self-requested ban I'm assuming? That sucks.
Anyway, it seems that people who are betting against Avatar 2 hitting $1b didn't have the internet in 2009. Even after opening weekend, there was plenty of doubt. The word "flop" appeared in several headlines.
Here's a more sensible one that was still way off:
Could Avatar hit $1 billion? (Dec 20, 2009)
Gosh, it may even make $500 overseas.
Articles before the opening weekend were even better though.
Will Avatar Be a Megaflop? (Nov 11, 2009)
LOL.
And people "talking" about Avatar won't matter any more in 2018 than it did in 2009.
Edit: Wtf Bobby banned? Self-requested ban I'm assuming? That sucks.
ryutaro's mama
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We lost Sculli and BobbyRoberts?
What happen?
What happen?
Tom Nook Sawyer
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I feel like there's something I'm missing...
ryutaro's mama
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Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I should clarify I have absolutely no idea why they were banned but that post made me laugh and was the only snipey interaction I saw between them.
PhoncipleBone
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*pours one for them both*No quit in 2016, I guess.
CaviarMeths
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Looks like Bobby and SCULLI had it out in the Carrie Fisher insurance thread too.
RIP, guys.
RIP, guys.
ryutaro's mama
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I think they got banned cause that fuckery they were doing in the Sculli thread dragged into the Carrie Fisher insurance thread...and names were called.
It got really chippy in there.
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