Avatar Wet Cats Massacre

I’m quite happy to wait and watch it in 40 minute lumps at no extra charge on Disney Plus.

Not long back from seeing it on a Laser IMAX screen with my nine year old daughter.

Best fucking movie experience I’ve ever had in a cinema. Easy call. Neither of us lost interest for a moment during the whole runtime. The spectacle, the immersion, the feeling of looking through a portal into another world, was without compare. The story, the centering in family, the way the script got so, so many of the little moments, glances, sighs and general interactions of parents and kids, siblings among each other and kids with friends and enemies, these are the human elements that connect with the bulk of the audience who aren’t looking for something to be sour about, or pissed because you know what Hudson just ain’t coming back to the screen ergo Cameron is passed it

The action sequences in this film are, in my opinion, the most well structured and shot, muscle clenchingly intense and just fucking awesome yet put to film. An alien planet, blue people, flying in and out of the water, giant boats zooming all over, whales, things blowing up, arrows, bullets, more whales, things turning upside down, all of that shit and more and not once was in the least bit confused as to what was going on. In a world where two cunts punching each other in a single room is typically hard to follow…

Cameron is at the top of his game. Talking with my kid, both of us giddy, on ride home, I was telling her how he’s been my favorite director and made many of my most favorite films since I first saw Aliens on VHS while visiting my brother in the states. I was maybe three years older than her. She said he’s her favorite director, (helps her first Cameron movie was also Aliens, couple years ago)

He gets the family, the generational thing.

I know we were spoiled seeing it at the very best possible screen experience you can get for this film. The. HFR stuff was truly mind boggling. The stuff on the screen during the climactic battle was truly like I was right there inside the scene.

Anyway, obviously I could keep going on. Can’t honestly find damn thing wrong with it that isn’t negated by going along with what this movie was trying to achieve. Many of the points of criticism I’ve seen are akin to saying motor racing is shit because no one scores any goals.

10/10 easy

I’m honestly surprised, but 75 million people voted for Donald Trump.

It doesn't really surprise me, his movies are pretty consistently popular.

That doesn't change whether I'm going to see it (I probably won't). But hey, it's cool when people enjoy things.

I'm going to see it or not

Did I tell you about the time I visited the Avatar Sky Toilet? That was one hell of a toilet, let me tell you.

I’m pretty sure the high number was to break even on all expenses incurred so far. As in, all the R&D for the technology and the cost of shooting 2,3 and some of 4

We will almost certainly never know, but I reckon the marketing budget for this one hasn’t been too extreme. Almost all of the mention of the movie I’ve seen gage either been quoting Cameron directly or pieces generated by journalists opining if the avatar phenomenon was still alive, whether it was going to flop and then just reheating articles from 13 years ago

Kind of like a reverse Streisand effect. Seems to have been a very efficient strategy, as it’s making money hand over fist. I think this film is going to keep playing for months as word of mouth and it once more being part of the zeitgeist really take effect

No, its a completely new story with no connecting threads at all.

Yeah you don't need to. In fact judging from your post I probably wouldn't watch the first, as this is practically more of the same, but with kids. 

As it’s only $20 million or so away from passing Infinity War’s global take, James Cameron will soon be the director behind three of the top five highest grossing movies of all time.

Six days after my last post and he’s now the director of three of the top four highest grossers.

Funnily enough China's had a massive drop off this week, maybe to do with new year perhaps. The big European and Asian countries like France, Germany and South Korea were bigger grosses than China this week.

The film is still number 1 at the box office in almost every country at the moment, it's just doing really well everywhere not just specific places.

This got me curious about the relative cost of a movie ticket in China, which appears to be about a third of what you’d pay in Australia.

Currency converter said five pounds. That depends on whether the initial source was correct though.

Didn’t Depp get something outrageous like 70 million upfront for that pile of shit?

$2.2433 billion globally now, passing Titanic and becoming the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time.
Avengers: Endgame sits at $2.7 billion, and Avatar at $2.92 billion.