Aerothorn on 10/7/2010 at 01:25
Quote Posted by Queue
You know, Avatar is
not really that big of a film, even though it's being billed as the "biggest film of all time".
Avatar is actually 26th with 76,421,000 tickets sold.
While it's important to adjust for inflation, the ticket sales model is also flawed.
1. It doesn't take into account that Avatar was in 3D and people paid more for those tickets. From a commercial success standpoint, that helped it a lot.
2. Why is Gone with the Wind so high? Because it was in theatres continually till the advent of VHS, pretty much, and even occasionally aftewards. Same with Star Wars. They were, of course, huge on release, but you're comparing a film that's been out for less than a year with some that have been out for 70. If you were looking at tickets sold in the first few months of these films, you'd find that Avatar scored a lot higher (if not #1 altogether).
Phatose on 10/7/2010 at 02:45
Aerothorn, theaters are not an infinite resource. If they're showing Gone with the Wind until the advent of VHS, it's because people are still going to see it. Avatar.....well, it ain't exactly going to continue to drive people to theaters for 40 years, is it?
nicked on 10/7/2010 at 14:30
No, because of DVD sales. Comparing disc sales might be a more accurate judge of popularity in this day and age.
EvaUnit02 on 10/7/2010 at 16:07
I live about 20 minutes away from "Pandora", aka the Wellington bush. There's bugger all there.
Middle Earth is a hole in the ground as well.
Starrfall on 10/7/2010 at 16:41
Well yeah, that's how they knew they'd find hobbits there.
edit: this made think that there must be a hobbit wiki or something out there and (
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) sure enough! maybe I'll have time to read it once I'm done reading EVERY PAGE on wookiepedia
fett on 11/7/2010 at 00:27
Quote Posted by Starrfall
once I'm done reading EVERY PAGE on wookiepedia
WHY HAVEN'T YOU ALREADY DONE THAT?
Yeah, just got back from Airbender and the only thing that got bent was me. What a horrible, unmitigated disaster. I haven't seen so much ridiculous retarded waving about of hands since Crouching Fart, Hidden Turd. It was like a ballet with less plot and worse acting. I hated the older boy (who can even remember his name?) so much that I wanted to castrate myself, just so I wouldn't be associated with his gender. I involuntarily yelled out WHUT? about 5 times - it was an honest, knee jerk reaction. It flips about all over the place between the Northeastern Tree Kingdom and the Southwestern Cloud Kingdom and such that I didn't know or care where they were after about 15 minutes. No pacing, no plot, no character development, stupid dream sequences, inept bad guys M. NIGHT QUIT STICKING YOUR FUCKING FACE INTO EVERY SINGLE MOVIE YOU DIRECT YOU SUCK WORSE AS AN ACTOR THAN A DIRECTOR I WILL STAB YOU IN THE EYE WITH MY PENIS IF I SEE YOUR FUCKING FACE ON THE SCREEN AGAIN, ridiculous set pieces and sfx with no purpose, vomit-inducing dialouge, AND DID I MENTION M. FUCKING NIGHT SHAMALALA'S UGLY FUCKING FACE IN EVERY SHOT? How the FUCK can someone mess up what was such an engaging television series? The story and characters were right there, handed to him on a silver GET YOUR FUCKING FACE OFF THE SCREEN YOU FUCKTARD.
I'm going to go watch Thomas the Train Saves the Island of Sodor to restore my faith in cinema. FUCK
june gloom on 11/7/2010 at 23:04
The real show is the MASSIVE REAMS AND REAMS of the original TV show's fans getting all ENRAGED in a debate about how the movie is racist for making the characters white.
fett on 12/7/2010 at 00:09
I would say in this case, they have a point. The series features distinctively Asian main characters, and in the movie, they are very white, and all the bad guys are swarthy men. It would be one thing if just the main characters have been changed, but every single "good guy" character in the movie (including the morally ambiguous Uncle of the Prince), has suddenly become a white guy. It does prompt one to ask, "what the fuck?"
