"Avatar: Fire and Ash" passes "Oppenheimer" to enter top 5 highest-grossing IMAX films ever
https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/imax-box-office-james-cameron-topples-christopher-nolan-as-avatar-fire-and-ash-becomes-5th-highest-grosser-ever/
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Zahille7@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 212d
Everyone just wants to dogpile on the Avatar movies and I don't get why. It happened with Titanic too, which is coincidentally a James Cameron movie.
I like them. I think they're fun and entertaining and they're a fuckin joy to watch because of how gorgeous Pandora is. I'm excited for the 4th and 5th movies to see how this series will end up playing out. I also liked this third one the best.
warm@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 211d
You have to turn your brain off and just enjoy the eye candy. I think some people struggle to do that, which is fair, the films had terrible plots.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 211d
I mean... Generic maybe, but not terrible imo. I enjoy the story.
And tbh I fucking love Quaritch in the sequels. They honestly made him a pretty compelling character, and I'm really enjoying his evolution.
warm@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 211d
That's fine, but what is a terrible plot if not a generic, predictable one? In the second film, an entire army just disappears, I'd say that alone is pretty terrible writing.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 212d
I agree, the hate boner that people have for the Avatar movies is bizarre. Of the two movies this post is about the third Avatar was so much more entertaining.
I am stoked for the fourth and fifth ones.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 212d
I thought the first two movies were very boring but I understand why people find a movie series about 10 foot tall almost naked cat people appealing. We've all dreamed about it.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d
IMO, the Avatar movies are art projects. People go in expecting something with a better story, but James' movies are artistically astounding and pushing the limits of current technology.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d
Pretty much. I still like the story, as I enjoy world building and nerdy shit like that, but I recognize that they're more kind of tech demos. Absolutely gorgeous and immaculate tech demos.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 212d
mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 212d
3rd one is worse. It’s like a repeat of the 2nd. I thought they were gonna reveal some kind of new fiery, volcanic world to explore. But no. Same played out bad guy, same water world. They introduced a new bad gal (who was the most interesting part), but then that didn’t really go anywhere.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 212d
But that's already a repeat of the first one.
James Cameron has discovered the infinite money glitch!
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 212d
But bro, it's so good, bro. Bro, just grab a bro and – Bro, just watch it, bro.
(If you haven't seen the movie, that's the gist of the first 85 minutes)
mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 211d
Oh god. That was so cringe!🤣
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 212d
gjoel@programming.dev · 5 pts · 212d
90% sounds low...
oyo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 211d
I feel like there is some mass mind control delusion thing going on. You're telling me everyone is going to see these but nobody talks about them?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 211d
Well-deserved victory over quality-slop.
Boolean@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d
Ya but the real gas is that Zootopia2 has fully bested Avatar3 at the box office: (Boxofficemojo.com) Zootopia2 - $1.77 billion Avatar3 - $1.415
EverXIII@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d
Am I de only one who dislike Avatar? Even the very first one wore out in a few minutes...
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 210d
Yeah
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 211d
You mean, Avatar, Book Three: Fire? Wasn't the second one also a ripoff of Book One: Water? How is this entire series naming convention not a blatant ATLA ripoff?