Avatar hits $2,500,000,000 worldwide...

[CSM]

$2.5 Billion and still going...

It is pretty amazing it has lived up to the hype (at least financially).

I think it has to be a combination of things - Cameron's first movie in a long while, a "new" technology at a time when audiences are becoming very jaded with special effects, the simple story line which translate well into any market or culture and word of mouth

[scartacus]

This is a rather good analysis of the film from a screenwriting perspective, detailing how the script became the blueprint for a $2.5 billion grossing movie.

http://www.scriptfactory.co.uk/go/News/Reviews/Article_37.html

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

This is a rather good analysis of the film from a screenwriting perspective, detailing how the script became the blueprint for a $2.5 billion grossing movie.

http://www.scriptfactory.co.uk/go/News/Reviews/Article_37.html

Why didn't Cameron hire someone to "spice up" the banal dialogue?  George Lucas did that for Star Wars, which resulted in great lines like ""Mos Eisley Spaceport - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

[CSM]

Why didn't Cameron hire someone to "spice up" the banal dialogue?  George Lucas did that for Star Wars, which resulted in great lines like ""Mos Eisley Spaceport - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Probably, a more important question is: "Why DIDN'T Lucas hire someone to save the dialogue in all the prequels?!"

[supraman079]

Probably, a more important question is: "Why DIDN'T Lucas hire someone to save the dialogue in all the prequels?!"

No kidding!

[Dr Hackenbush]

No kidding!

If you haven't seen this guy's 7 part review of "Phantom Menace", you need to check it out.  It's damn funny.  Be advised parts of it may be NOT SAFE FOR WORK (language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

I guess the best 3D technology has been around a while....

[brude]

Damn fine film, period.



I too used to be "afraid" of CGI, now I embrace it.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Avatar is coming back to theaters with 8 additional minutes.

I'd be more impressed if they cut out the moronic 80 minute battle scene!

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

New Special Edition poster for Avatar - I like it:



But something like this would have been better:

[the-jace]

Damn fine film, period.

I too used to be "afraid" of CGI, now I embrace it.

You said it man! I dont care how cliche' the film was, "dances with smurfs" and similar comments be damned lol

Like Eatbrie, I went to see it 3 times in theaters and have since seen the Special Edition (midnight showing).

Maybe it doesnt have Tarentinoesque dialogue, maybe the story wasnt totally original, but that was one magical theater experience!

Has anyone else gone to see the SE? If so, what'd you think?

And on the subject of posters... the SE 1-sheet is just great. I've had no luck in tracking down a US version but I did pick up a british quad and it rocks. Just need a quad frame now.

Onward...