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Originally Posted by BobbyCooper
I thought I would take a quick look at the top 10 Suki 
The only movies in this top ten list which isn't poor in my own eyes is Titanic and MAYBE the first Lord of The Rings. But other then those two.. also if you go on in those top Box Offices you won't find many good movies.. most them are rubbish to me, so the chance that Avatar strikes is very low right?
1. Avatar - Aufbruch nach Pandora (2009) $2,781,505,847
2. Titanic (1997) $1,835,300,000
3. Der Herr der Ringe - Die Rückkehr des Königs (2003) $1,129,219,252
4. Pirates of the Caribbean - Fluch der Karibik 2 (2006) $1,065,896,541
5. Toy Story 3 (2010) $1,062,984,497
6. Alice im Wunderland (2010) $1,023,285,206
7. The Dark Knight (2008) $1,001,921,825
8. Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (2001) $968,657,891
9. Fluch der Karibik - Am Ende der Welt (2007) $958,404,152
10. Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes - Teil 1 (2010)
Your probably right. But I thought without the 3-D effect it's even worse.. |
It's not the first Lord of the Rings movie but the third.
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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Avatar was basically Dances with Wolves..In Space...The CGI was astounding, visually the movie was awsome. Storywise it was predictable. Not bad mind you Suki, but like I said, it was just a space version of Dances with Wolves.
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Yeah the plot is not original and it was easy to imagine how the story would turn out in the end. So what? A predictable storyline isn't necessarily a bad thing. Much on the contrary. In my script writing class I'm always told to NEVER suggest that something is about to happen unless I mean for it to happen at some point, so that the audience won't get frustrated. You have to give them the ending they want and it was clear that Avatar would have a happy ending and it was super clear right from the very first scene that Jake would fall in love with Neytiri and he'd live a happy life as a member of the avatar community for ever after. I don't see how the fact that the plot was predictable can be used as an argument to say it wasn't that much of a great movie.
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Originally Posted by ModusOperandi
I think this movie grossed highly due to the big names behind it and, mostly, outstanding marketing.
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Yeah of course there's that. Any piece of footage that has James Cameron's signature on it is bound to be a success, that's for sure.