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Avatar Overtakes ‘Avengers: Endgame’ As All-Time Highest-Grossing Film
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Still shocked that people bring up this asinine opinion as if people would still be talking about RDJ's Iron Man if there had been no other sequel or spinoff movie since the original.
How many people still talk about Inception?
I agree about RDJ's Iron man. Not the rest.
Inception literally gave the word a new meaning. The MCU kind of cheats for being a same universe brought to conclusion over a decade, but it has iconic characters and moments. Titanic also had those.
Note that I'm not discussing whether the movie's good or not.
As it should be. I mean by the metrics that matter Avatar never fell below Endgame either way.
Also, its just a nice feeling to have an all-original movie as the highest grossing movie of all time, both in adjusted and unadjusted measurings. Avatar is a story that was specifically created for it to be told in film and it is one that couldnt be told in this way in any other medium. Feels more fitting than having an adaption or remake or whatever in that spot.
Also, its just a nice feeling to have an all-original movie as the highest grossing movie of all time, both in adjusted and unadjusted measurings. Avatar is a story that was specifically created for it to be told in film and it is one that couldnt be told in this way in any other medium. Feels more fitting than having an adaption or remake or whatever in that spot.
seems dumb to count rereleases. but I couldn't care less who is #1. It doesn't mean anything to me.
I mean, whatever. As others have pointed out, Disney eats gold chicken wings regardless.
I prefer Avatar over The Avengers: Endgame, but both are... fine movies. Just fine.
I prefer Avatar over The Avengers: Endgame, but both are... fine movies. Just fine.
Um. A lot of people.
This is one of the worst possible comparisons you could have gone with to support your argument.
Not even on this nerd forum do people still bring up Inception these days.
I'd actually wager that more threads have been created talking about how nobody talks about Avatar anymore than any bringing up a inception in the last half decade.
I still think Titanic is the modern box office king. The only way it got "beaten" was because of inflation.
en.wikipedia.org
Titanic - 301,300,000 known ticket sales
Avengers: Endgame - 278,301,590 known ticket sales
(worldwide)
Domestic:
www.ultimatemovierankings.com
Titanic - 135 million tickets sold
Avatar - 99.8 million tickets sold
Avengers: Endgame - 93.7 million tickets sold
It's also better critically received and a bigger pop culture phenomenon (since that gets thrown in Avatar's face so much) than both Avatar and Avengers.
List of films by box office admissions - Wikipedia
Titanic - 301,300,000 known ticket sales
Avengers: Endgame - 278,301,590 known ticket sales
(worldwide)
Domestic:
All Time Top Ticket Selling Movies | Ultimate Movie Rankings
All Time Top Ticket Selling Movies
www.ultimatemovierankings.com
Titanic - 135 million tickets sold
Avatar - 99.8 million tickets sold
Avengers: Endgame - 93.7 million tickets sold
It's also better critically received and a bigger pop culture phenomenon (since that gets thrown in Avatar's face so much) than both Avatar and Avengers.
A re-release of Endgame would be kind of amazing once everything isn't fucked, honestly it was one of the best cinema experiences ever for me, and hearing the recordings from American showings it seems that I wasn't alone in that way of thinking.
Relieve the hype.
Avatar was fine too, but in terms of something to see in the cinema again that's not what I would flock to, personally.
Relieve the hype.
Avatar was fine too, but in terms of something to see in the cinema again that's not what I would flock to, personally.
The Avatar "land" area is always packed too (well pre-COVID). Not bad for a film no one apparently remembers.
It actually has - on average, outsold the Star Wars land at its peak. The movie with no cultural impact.
Maybe I misread what Sculli was saying.
I read it as an implication that Inception is a one-off movie that has been mostly forgotten by the general public.
Which is just not true.
I read it as an implication that Inception is a one-off movie that has been mostly forgotten by the general public.
Which is just not true.
The general public actually likes the film a lot, go figure. There just isn't one signature catch phrase from the movie I guess.
If we're gonna go by "pop culture impact on the public" then quite frankly Titanic trounces both Avatar and Avengers if you want to play that game.
Confirmed that Star Wars is dead and only boomers care about them.
Avengers is so culturally impactful that it had to crawl across the finish line by a few million to beat the what's their characters names Avatar.
By that standard Avatar hasn't been forgotten by the average viewer either.
Like most other one-off films they obviously won't be at the forefront of the zeitgeist but they're still talked about fairly frequently.
They started working on it in 2011 with Cameron.
Also didn't feel like I was insulting someone with that statement. I just happen to have discussed this subject with coworkers and friends fairly recently and we all came to the same conclusion.
I mean, most excellent movies don't make a huge impact. In Avatar's case I just don't see many things worth remembering : the na'vi, the connexion thing, the huge tree and the flying rocks - and the visuals of course.
It's too early to discuss what we'll remember about the MCU, but I feel like Titanic stayed relevant much longer. Even I know the characters and the story, and I've never seen it !
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Does avatar even have a porn parody? You haven't made a cultural impact until you get one of those
Not at all. I'm making the point that a film not being in regular conversation doesn't mean it has no cultural impact. And the MCU being in regular conversation is down to the MCU getting multiple releases per year.
So comparing a franchise that has never really taken a breath, versus Avatar - a film that released and has had no sequels or spin-offs since, has always been dumb in terms of what would obviously dominate cultural conversation.
Don't act like you don't watch it every night with your anime body pillow.
I'm so curious to see how the sequels play out and how they are received. Will they come anywhere close to this? Exceed it? I've learned never to bet against James Cameron
I'm still pissed that Scorsese clearly colluded with China just because he can't accept Cape films as the saviours of the Cinema that they are.
This is the worst day in my life in a long time.
This is the worst day in my life in a long time.
Ok, that's a bit of a lame response. I expected something better!