Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, December 16, 2022) Movie • Page 28

Do you all have these stats memorized or what?

 

www.boxofficemojo.com

 

I have the tabs open to keep track and compare, I am a stat nerd and have been waiting for this to come out as it is a rarity in box office terms to have a sequel to what is currently the highest-grossing film ever.

 

I don't even think the film itself is to blame for the drop as it has had solid reviews and most people seem to like it, I think the box office has changed so much over the last few years to the point where a long-lasting box office juggernaut is pretty much a thing of the past.

 

Top Gun: Maverick has entered the chat. But, to be fair, I don't think TG:M does the same numbers if Covid didn't delay it's release and screw up two year's worth of calendaring of tentpoles.

 

Definitely like this more after a second viewing. I need to see a Making Of special for this.

 

One film, unfortunately, does not help buck a trend of high openings and then no longer being in the top ten after a couple of months.

 

For real where's the feature length bts documentary James

 

It would be fucking 80 hours long.







and I’d watch all 80.

 

Where's the prestige tv-length bts documentary miniseries James

 

the box office numbers will bounce back up next weekend when I go see it again

 

I want a Get Back style doc on The Way of Water.

 

Instead of watching Paul thinking up “Get Back” in real time, we see Cameron furiously scribbling and whispering to himself “human baby….left behind…like a white Mowgli…he has dreadlocks…”

 

You know he saw that shit in a dream

 

For anyone looking for an opinion on seeing this in 4DX: fucking do it. It got so wild at times that I almost fell out of my seat, but that added so much to the beauty my eyes were taking in. The 2 edibles surely helped, but my god - this is an EXPERIENCE.

 

this is just R Pats from Good Time if the money had exploded blue ink instead of pink.

 

Yeah, being baked for this is definitely the way to go, haha.

 

Marvel and Star Wars are lame now so Avatar and Dune will be the big franchises of the 2020s

 

I doubt this movie will beat Spider-Man: No Way Home now for highest grossing film post-covid. It had a 50% worldwide drop this weekend, which is where most of the box office is coming from.

 

Dune ain’t doin shit

 

I think the cultural impact argument holds. Not to keep overusing the analogy but this franchise really is like a theme park, you pay the price of admission for the experience and the thrills, you maybe jump on the ride again, then you don't think about it at all that often, and if you do, you're not really thinking about the characters or story but about the VFX and the 3D - which are pretty irrelevant until the time comes to ride the thing again.

 

this one left me thinking about the visuals, characters, and themes (first one mostly just visuals and themes and the amazing action sequence that takes up the last twenty minutes)

 

marvel movies leave me thinking about nothing yet i’m not arguing against their cultural impact

 

Marvel movies leave me thinking about when the next Marvel movie is coming out.