>$2,787,965,087

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2009 was 10 years ago

more than the GDP of several small nations

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hi

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hahahaha

ITT: people who post the same old low res screenshots

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>He killed himself for your sins, butthurt haters

Will any film ever beat Avatar at the box office record?
I know one film grossed more than Avatar adjusted (Gone with the wind) but will any film ever beat Avatar unadjusted?

I remember back in 2015, everyone on /tv/ said that Star Wars vii would beat Avatar, but swvii fell short by 750 million dollars, and failed to even beat Titanic
Will Star Wars viii bear Avatar?

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duurr

Who here unironically enjoyed Avatar
No other film in history has done alien worldbuilding on the scale that James Cameron did
Can't wait to see the alien sea creatures Cameron envisions in Avatar 2

To be fair Avatar gets ripped on for its cliche story, but superhero movies have far more cliche stories but /tv/ and rebbit never rips on their stories as much as Avatar's
Even star wars is just as cliche as Avatar, but why don't rebbitors rip on star wars' story?

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>>81788815
>ywn bang 10 foot tall blue Sigourney while she has this goofy smile on the whole time

>>81788659
Who woulda thunk that Baneposting would be shittier than Abatap ever was

>>81789032
who?

>>81789145
Avatar 2 could beat it.

>>81789032
He will rise again on the 3rd movie

>>81789145
only James Cameron can beat James Cameron.

>>81788659
Literally looks like anime. Into the trash this goes

the asthetics are still cool looking but it's crap in every other way you can think of

>>81789407
Capeshit usually has interesting heroes and villains to carry it. Avatar has a terrible protagonist, only memorable character is the General guy.

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>>81788659
Avatar was only-sort-of-unironically K I N O.

I say this because I can't call a movie K I N O if it's not actually K I N O, but the movie was still unironically great.

>Excellent concept-art
>Cool visuals (shut the fuck up, it was 2009)
>White guy saves the day (I'm not even white, I just like watching straight, white males being heroes because it pisses off liberals)
>Did I mention the concept art? That gun the RDA was using was /k/ as all hell. If the movie wasn't K I N O, that gun sure was (not as iconic as the M14A Pulse Rifle, but James Cameron keeps proving himself as the GOAT when it comes to sci-fi tech and weapon's design)
>Jerked it to Neytiri later on when I got home

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>>81789145
You've probably seen that huge opening of Furious 8 in China, and Avatar 2 honestly will do even better than that. If the domestic numbers don't fall too much, I wouldn't rule it out that the sequel will gross more overall

>>81789407
>Who here unironically enjoyed Avatar
/here/

>>81789786
>only 80's Cameron can rape old Cameron.

>>81788659

what videogame is this?

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This movie fucking sucked and was rip off of this

>>81788659
I still can't understand why. I get Titanic's numbers, since it's pretty much the ultimate female wish fulfillment movie. But Avatar is just sci-fi fantasy shit, and I don't see how it sold so many tickets.

>>81789808
don't compare anime with this shit, looks like capeshit.

>>81789966
>I see you
>tsutey, jake sully, neitiri (excuse spelling pls)

>>81789966
YOU WILL NEVER BE ONE OF THE PEOPLE!

>>81789966
>being quotable makes a good movie

>>81790040
actually, yes

>>81789966
>that scene where they just go fuck it and blow up their gay ass mother tree

hilarious desu

>>81789997
Its a bizarre mix of James Cameron, fairly famous actors, and WHOA 3D.

>>81788700
I remember going to see this with what at the time was my group of friends.
I haven't see them in years

>>81789966
>(((Schwartz)))

>>81790040
this
>muh epic meme lines

>Went to the Casino the other day
>There were multiple Avatar slot machines
Avatar still lives.
Also I didn't win anything fuck you Cameron

>>81789966

you are like baby, make noise don't know what to do

>>81790040
No, but seeing it many times (because it's good) makes you remember lines.

>>81789966
It's for some kind of shock and awe campaign.

>>81789407
Me. I just love the visuals and the aesthetic of the human tech/ships/weapons.

Quaritch was also great.

>>81789997

Highest-grossing films

1 Avatar
2 Titanic
3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4 Jurassic World
5 The Avengers
6 Furious 7
7 Avengers: Age of Ultron
8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
9 Frozen
10 Iron Man 3
People love shit.

>>81789966
>blows up tree
NNAAEEAAHAAAAAAAUUUUGGUUUUGGHGH

what do I win

>>81789966
>Everything here that flies, crawls, and squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubies.

>My job here is to keep all of you alive. I will not succeed.

>>81789966
naytiri and jake sooly

i c u

Avatar is shit.

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>>81790247
Funny that all those movies except number 1 and 2 has existing fanbases and were sequels and/or adaptions

>>81790247
>>81790374
Hype trains will never die.

What did they use to market Avatar and Titanic?

>>81790374
Not frozen

>>81790430

>What did they use to market Titanic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Titanic

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>>81790430
I'm too young to remember Titanic, and Avatar's marketing push certainly wasn't as agressive as SW7, it just had incredibly good word of mouth. JC movies are not like other blockbusters

>>81789966
>You get me what I need, when you rotate back you get your legs back. Your real legs.
Jake Sully, Neytiri, Toruk Makto
Avatar was kino and I'm excited to see what based Cameron has planned for the sequels.

>>81789979
Ferngully was a ripoff of films before it
Your point?
Enviromentalist films have been many times
doesn't make them any less enjoyable

>>81789869
>unironically defending manchild films with absolute garbage villains and protagonists
You have to go back

>>81789966
I remember more quotes from Abatap than I do the actual movie

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>James cameron's love of technology is enough to sell avatar to fans awaiting his first techno-feat since 1997's titanic. but will they understand the awful thing he's done with it? avatar's highly-touted special effects depict an army from earth traveling to pandora, a moon in the alpha centuri-a star system, to mine rare ore from under its inhabitants, tall, blue-skinned creatures with tails called the na'vi. these f/x show cameron's ex-marine hero, jake sully (the great everyman sam worthington), taking part in a quasi-military program where he enters the alien society via a hybrid body (an avatar) made from human and na'vi dna. cameron's "fully immersive" 3-d technology is irritating to watch for nearly three hours. and then there's his underlying purpose: avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identityand assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

>Only children-including adult children-will see avatar as simply an adventure film; their own love of technology has co-opted their ability to comprehend narrative detail. cameron offers sci-fi dazzle, yet bungles the good part: the meaning. his undeniably pretty pandora-a phosphorescent maxfield parrish paradise with bird-like lizards, moving plant life and floating mountains-distracts from the inherent contradiction of a reported $300-$500 million hollywood enterprise that casually berates america's industrial complex.

a sentimental cartoon with a pacifist, naturalist message. avatar condemns mankind's plundering and ruin of a metaphorical planet's ecology and the aboriginals' way of life. cameron fashionably denounces the same economic and military system that make his technological extravaganza possible. it's like condemning nasa-yet joyriding on the mars exploration rover.

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>cameron's superficial b-movie tropes pretend philosophical significance. his story's rampant imperialism and manifest destiny (giovanni ribisi plays the heartless industrialist) recalls vietnam-era revisionist westerns like soldier blue, but it's essentially a sentimental cartoon with a pacifist, naturalist message. avatar condemns mankind's plundering and ruin of a metaphorical planet's ecology and the aboriginals' way of life. cameron fashionably denounces the same economic and military system that make his technological extravaganza possible. it's like condemning nasa-yet joyriding on the mars exploration rover.

>while technically impressive, avatar's basically a daft version of the transformer movies' sci-fi, techno fantasy. michael bay's extraordinary gift for flashy spectacle found perfect expression in the gargantuan slapstick comedy of technology run amok; his teenage characters' rapport with cars and machines showed an ambivalent relationship with the things that expedite human activities yet threaten our peace and our history. avatar, however, invents an alternate world to make the airy-fairy pronouncement: "there's a network of energy that flows through all living things." alien-girl neytiri (zoe saldana) teaches sully how to bond with a tie-dyed, eagle-like creature by docking his wriggly tail into it. "feel her!" neytiri urges, and cameron emulates the boy-plus-car symbiosis of transformers-but with pulsing loins, veins and orifices. better than titanic's kitschy romanticism, it is cameron's most sensual incident since the husband-wife airlift of true lies yet, strangely, this sexualized conquest suggests latent fascism in his style.

>>81789966

There was a wizrd of oz joke, "your not in kanas anymore" or something
Jake and Netritri

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>set in the near future, avatar is a throwback to the hippie naiveté of kevin costner's production rapa nui (directed by kevin reynolds). while prattling about man's threat to environmental harmony, cameron's really into the powie-zowie factor: destructive combat and the deployment of technological force. at first, sully, a "warrior and dreamwalker" like the matrix's neo, is shown as a fierce, sculpted meathead with a wounded look in his wide eyes. cameron lights worthington superbly in tremendous, empathetic close-ups, yet when sully's involvement with the avatar project increases-as hair and beard grow in-his humanity becomes nondescript and he identifies with the na'vi. going native allows cameron to move on to the violent technology he really loves-though never scrutinizing sully's new bond with an angry red dragon or how sully's temperament becomes dangerously enflamed.

>here's the hypocrisy: as sully helps the beleaguered, virtuous aliens fight back and conquer the human invaders, avatar puts forth a simple-minded anti-industrial critique. despite avatar's 12-year gestation, cameron's obviously commenting on the iraq war-though not like his hawkish aliens. appealing to iraq war disenchantment, he evokes 9/11 when the military topples the na'vi's sacred, towering tree of souls. the imagery implies that the world trade center was also an altar (of u.s. capitalism), yet this berserk analogy exposes cameron's contradictory thinking. it triggers the offensive battle scenes where american soldiers get vengefully decimated-scored to the rousing clichés of carmina burana.

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>avatar's going-native f/x fantasy infantilizes cameron's technology-infatuated audience; they've never read joseph conrad on colonialism or feel any compunction about balancing politics and fantasy. there's even a busby berkeley-style tribal dance to divert them. also, avatar's techno-exoticism involves blue cartoon creatures, not brown, black, red, yellow real-world people. it's the easiest, dumbest escapism imaginable.

>technology is bad mmmkay
>let me demonstrate this point by spending retarded amounts of money on CGI

>>81788659
What video game is this?

>>81791670
>>81791647
>>81791603
>>81791566
Avatar isn't about how technology is bad you retards
Avatar is about how destroying ecosystems for resources is bad
Mining asteroid belt = good
Mining Pandora = bad

>>81791719
Then why wasn't there a single line about mining alternatives in the movie?

Checkmate Cameroon

>>81789966
My favorite line of all time (because it's so redpilled):

"How does it feel to betray your own people?"

And the funny thing is, Jake had NO answer to that. In the movie, all he did was scream and go "RAURGH" and try to kill him, which is the equivalent of Jake going "REEEEEEEE" for 30 whole seconds before finally collapsing of exhaustion.

General Quaritch was so unequivocally based. There's no other way of putting it; General Quaritch is /ourguy/.

>>81791787
The movie never said mining was bad, the movie was about how destroying ecosystems for resources is bad
Has Cameron ever made a film that is anti asteroid mining?
No, of course not
what cuckservatives don't get is that no body is anti mining
Most people however are wholly against ecosystems being destroyed for resources

>>81791864
He is clearly anti-industry, anti-capitalist and anti-military by the way he depicts all the characters in the movie you mongoloid

Everyone who isn't on the side of the Na'vi is an asshole cartoon as artificial as the CGI cat smurfs

>>81791928
You're reading into the movie what you want to see
Cameron is no way anti military
Military is always glorified in his films
Avatar is the first film he's done where the military are bad guys
but guess what, it's a private military hired by a company, nota government military like his other films
Also the protagonist of Avatar is military, so the military even in Avatar isn't demonised

The enemies of the Na'vi aren't even all potrayed as cartoon villains
The head of the company doesn't even want to destroy the Na'vi tree, he only allowed it to happen as a last resort because he had to get the resources to pay the shareholders

>>81789786
But he's vegan now.

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>>81792091
>The enemies of the Na'vi aren't even all potrayed as cartoon villains

If only the military tactics & politics weren't so simplistic.

Is it really that difficult for a modern armed force to understand a tribal culture? I call bullshit.

Avatar was a good movie when you watched in the 3D theater

>>81792405
Quartich is kind of a cartoon villain, but the company head is definitely not a cartoon villain, he doesn't want to cut down the tree, but he had no choice because he had to keep the shareholders happy

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>Most of the animals are just blatant expy's of real life animals. Thanators? an oversize feline, those giant hammerhead beasts? a fucking elephant (they do not hide it well, listen to the noises they make), you get the fucking idea. Furthermore, most of these alien life forms are just biologically impossible, seriously if you want to add in a hexopodal organism correctly, at least have a brain to distance each individual limbs proportionally or else they look like they will trip over one of their four forelimbs. There is a good reason why hexopodal and multi-limbed creatures on Earth such as insects and arthropods have their limbs spread out equally and proportionally in order to retain a center of balance. Seriously Cameron get a biologist as you next designer.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Avatar

>>81790611
Let me tell you as someone who wasn't a child when Avatar came out -- you are incorrect. Just totally, unambiguously wrong. There was a huge amount of marketing behind Avatar. There was a word of mouth campaign based around the fact that it was the first true-3d movie and cameron had spent decades on it. But that was part of a comprehensive marketing campaign, and there was also a huge amount of traditional marketing that went along with it.

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>$694,782

>>81790040
Being memorable makes a movie good

I guarantee nobody would remember this flick at all if it didn't make the money it did

The sequel will probably flop just because nobody remembers it

>>81792904
Or it will be a success because people want to uphold its monetary meme status.

>>81792572

It bothered me there was only one prominent military guy among the antagonists.

Seriously, just one chopper pilot balked at firing missiles at defenseless individuals?

>>81789966
> Dr. Pavel? i am CIA

>tfw the sequels will flop
feels bad

>>81788815
>>81788966
>>81789065
LOL look at this fag. Notice how he's only posted stills, not webms? Of course it looks like shit in still: it's CGI. Take a screenshot of any CGI sequence and I bet it'll also look like ps2 graphics. Avatar wasn't that bad.

>>81789966
GET SOME

>>81792091
>Avatar is the first film he's done where the military are bad guys

Wrong, the Abyss had them as bad guys too.

I watched this in 3D IMAX when it came out and no film has come close to it in terms of utilization of 3D technology. Avatar rebooted the whole 3D meme but nothing will ever come close to it. It was a hell of a cinema experience, I'll give Cameron that.

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>>81792585

>1d4chan

Holy fuck it's been over half a decade

>>81793176
t. reddit

>>81793658

Technically they were Private Military Contractors in "Avatar". Very well financed and equipped mercs.

>>81789979
I agree. Instead of making an interesting sci-fi movie, he made a shitty environmentalist hippie Pocahuntas.
At least Ferngully had nice tree fairies and a badass singing pollution spirit.

>>81793806
>and a badass singing pollution spirit.
i loved Tim Curry in this movie

bring back abatap

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>>81789966
I WANT THIS MISSION HIGH AND TIGHT.
I WANNA BE HOME FOR DINNER.

>>81789966
Everything that lives breathes and squats in the mid wants to keel you

>>81789966
>>I didn't sign up for this shit!

>>81788966
Is this the thing from Serious Sam 3???

>>81789407
I never liked it. Too long with no good characters or plot to retain your attention. The problem isn't that its a story consisting of cliches, its that the entire plot is predictable before the run time even reaches half. I would imagine people dont rip on star wars because it does have a more interesting plot with a cast of fun characters.

>>81789966
JAKE SULLY
>crying

>>81789997
I believe they had 3D hype at the time

>>81789966
>they are very hard to kill
that's literally the one line i can remember

>>81790498
frozen is an adaptation of a fairytale

>>81788966
I remember this being the one thing that looked like shit

Whatever it's an alien planet, you imagine their skin just looks like that for some reason

>>81791928
>and anti-military
That was the security that the Corporation hired not the military. Most of them are people that left the military. We Probably will see the Earth military in Avatar 2

>>81790611
3D

It was the first movie to really showcase 3D which everyone had a massive hard-on for because it was relatively new.

>>81798819
It was better 3D because He showed Depth instead of just throwing shit at you all the time.

>tfw to this day I think Avatar's CGI looks great (at least in motion) and don't understand these troll threads because there's a billion other critiques you could make about it

I saw it for the first time this year and it looked great, I don't know why you faggots cry about it

>>81793176
it was terrible

>>81789407
The story and characters are cliche and 1-dimensional as fuck, but the story still does appeal to me and the visuals are amazing. I liked it.

>>81790611
To be fair Disney has never spent less than 150 millions on marketing for any movie in the 2010s. TFA's marketing budget was something insane, never seen before (or after). It's not even fair to compare it with Avatar or any other movie

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>>81789966
>Out there beyond that fence everything that crawls, flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jew jew bees
wtf was that last word?

>>81789032
>you will never see the spammed sentence ever again.

It was truly a proto-baneposting

>>81789997

>I still can't understand why.

This movie was hyped for, like, 20 years by magazines and then Harry Knowles wouldn't STFU about it for years. It was supposed to be THE GIANT LEAP for cinema. Then the first trailer hit online and the backlash was Ghostbusters reboot-tier. One of my saddest days as a film fan. It looked atrocious.

Then it was released. And it delivered. For non-gamers it was their first immersive, transportative experience. The word of mouth transcended movie-goers into normieville --that's why filmfags can't grasp it today--it truly resembled a carnival coming to town. It actually met my expectations, which was jaw dropping given the trailer hate.

People talk about muh story, but Avatar was comparable to a rocket launch, and complaining about the interior being sparse. Avatar was the global blockbuster done right ---dont dumb it down like Marvel/F&F---up the spectacle to a divine standard, so the world collectively gasps at it. No movie since has done that.

>>81789407
>No other film in history has done alien worldbuilding on the scale that James Cameron did
well george lucas built a fucking galaxy so theres that

>>81793176
go away hollyjewshill.

>>81800423
>movie that takes place mostly in a giant earth-like jungle with earth-like creatures that just have some extra legs or a different color of skin

Yeah bro it really blew me away lmao