Avatar In 3d Hit or Miss You Decide

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Permalink Reply by Appleton on October 25, 2009 at 9:38pm

so its beautiful and great to look at but looks like a cartoon?

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Permalink Reply by ohstate411 on October 25, 2009 at 10:18pm

I ment some of the action scenes look to kuch like a cartoon because it half live action and half cg and some parts likes to much animated

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Permalink Reply by Rawshark on October 25, 2009 at 11:52pm

I think it's going to be a big flop. Both critically and financially. The bizarre creature designs and the disappointing CGI won't pull in the regular movie watchers. And I think District 9 has already stolen some of it's thunder as well.

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on October 26, 2009 at 12:26am

I'm not sure I agree with District 9 stealing its thunder. There's going to be four months between District 9's release and the Avatar premier to let the dust settle. Outside of a few genre tropes, they're probably not going to be all that similar.

Even if they were very much alike, I think we sometimes underestimate how forgiving audiences can be. Cast your mind back to '98. Toward the end of the year we got Antz. Then about a month later A Bug's Life hit theatres. Despite the similarities, which were more than superficial, they were both successful.

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Permalink Reply by Q on October 26, 2009 at 12:29am

I would more like chalk that up to "lack of options."

That's all kids had to watch back then... So of course they'd both fare decently.

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on October 26, 2009 at 1:19am

What's Avatar's direct (genre) competition? Anyone know because our release dates are different.

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Permalink Reply by Rawshark on October 26, 2009 at 8:09pm

I don't know. It's pretty similar. A human experiences another alien culture and in turn decides to aid them. I wouldn't say these are the exact same films, but I'm sure they have enough in common for people to draw comparisons.

Avatar and District 9 feel like an art assignment given to two very different painters. District 9 is dark and gritty while Avatar looks glossy and expensive.

I'm not a betting man but I can't see Avatar being as big as Cameron expects.

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Permalink Reply by UltraKid-SoulChild#1 on October 29, 2009 at 6:21am

Avatar to me is probably going to be a big hit finicially because of all the advertising it's getting but then again huge advertising didn't work for Speed Racer but Speed Racer wasn't in 3D. Avatar could flop due to it being too CGI heavy and it not featuring those typical Hollywood cliches but then I again Watchmen, District 9 & Where the Wild Things Are both did well at the box office.

Also what is Avatar up against in December?

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Permalink Reply by Jon, Chicago's Mindfreak on October 29, 2009 at 3:25pm

Only Speed Racer didn't have HALF the hype that Avatar had. Speed Racer was advertised like any other movie that might be good, Avatar is being advertised like it's going to descend from Heaven on a golden chariot and lead us to the promised land.

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Permalink Reply by Mr Tumnus on October 29, 2009 at 7:46am

The thing thats going to make or break this movie finanically is going to be the word of mouth. At this point, I just don't feel that it's going to carry through; expecially with the 3 big films opening for boxing day weekend (Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Alvin 2 and Sherlock Holmes).

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Permalink Reply by UltraKid-SoulChild#1 on October 29, 2009 at 3:21pm

@Mr. Tumnus, do you really that Heath Ledger movie and Sherlock Holmes are going to beat Avatar in theaters? Sherlock Holmes is a classic character so most likely people will reject it like Astro Boy and Speed Racer and nobody is going to see some extremely weird film just because of Heath is in it. The only thing Avatar has to worry about is Alvin and the Chicmunks 2 because it's a family movie and the first film was a success.

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Permalink Reply by Jon, Chicago's Mindfreak on October 29, 2009 at 3:38pm

That doesn't make any sense.

If anything, Sherlock Holmes being a classic character will make MORE people see it. Not to mention neither of those characters are what I would consider classic. Astro Boy is probably only a classic character in Japan, I doubt many people would know who he is in the US, but Speed is far from a classic. If you walk up to a random person on the street, chances are they well not know who Astro Boy or Speed Racer is. However, EVERYONE will know who Sherlock Holmes is.

And don't forget that the Imagniarium of Doctor Parnassus not only has Heath Ledger, but Johnny Depp, Collin Farrel and Jude Law. It's got more Star Power than Mario on a lucky block streak. Why wouldn't it make money?

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