Possibly. But IMO, if you can see the damned things bouncing straight off the windows with no effect, why wouldn’t you go grab your flying mount and a bigger spear? Especially when you know that these people are coming to destroy your home. It just seemed ridiculous to me that they went straight from “completely impotent and ineffectual” to “we are totally fucking your shit up.”
I think, again, that’s due to being prepared and having numbers. They knew what didn’t work, they were pissed off, and gathered numbers far greater than what they had before.
And things looked pretty damn hectic during that first battle; I think they were more concerned with staying alive and protecting their kin than somehow formulating a battle plan among the chaos.
This is why I think Box Office is a poor way to measure popularity. It ought to be exclusively based on ticket sales. But the Media likes to throw around dollar amounts instead, because the numbers sound more impressive.
Ticket sales are measured by some agencies, though, which a few sites do include as part of their statistics.
The military plot hole that pulled me out of the movie was the idea that a Marine couldn’t think of just dropping big rocks into the rotary wings that were on all the attack vehicles. Even if you had to tie vines to the rocks so the animals could grab and carry them, it would be worth it. You could destroy a lot of the force before it even knew you were there.
Avatar has continued stronglyduring the week racking up 56 million in the US in the first three weekdays. The record for the third weekend is 45 million and Avatar is going to blow that away with something like 65 million. It might even get a third consecutive 70+ weekend which would be remarkable. The weekdays afterward will reveal a lot about where Avatar is going. Right now it seems headed for 450 in the US but if it continues strongly we could be talking a lot more.
Avatar will pass the 1b worldwide mark either this weekend or next weekend.
Also, I’d like to comment on those who cannot comprehend that this thread isn’t about spoiling the plot for people.
Meh. Anyone who’s read 7-pages deep and hasn’t yet seen a movie that’s been out for nearly 3 weeks has it coming.
Anyway this thread is about box-office. There is another massive thread to discuss the actual movie.
Right, but if someone brings up a story related point, it pretty much has to be responded to in here. There’s plenty of room in this thread for both; side-convos happen all the time on the dope, as well I’m sure you know.
ETA: Let’s not forget about that “avatar” etymology mess that you were involved in.
I think it will pull in some hefty dollars this weekend but then we’ll see the drop-off. On Monday everyone’s vacation is over. Back to work, back to school, etc.
Most college kids have another week off, so that could help next week but there’ll still be a sizeable drop.
It’s already made it’s money back, so it doesn’t really matter. It didn’t tank. This movie is a massive hit by ordinary standards.
Several of my inlaws saw it and concluded independently that it is a remake of “Ferngully.”
All movies have a sizeable drop, usually a lot sooner than this, so I don’t think that will worry anybody.
Though, having said that, his last film expected to take a hit at this point, and unprecedentedly did not. I don’t know if that could happen again without the girly contingent this time, and with the anticipated BluRay release affecting cinema-going habits, but stranger things have happened. I wouldn’t quite rule out an unusual continuation of high returns.
Avatar has passed the $300 million mark in the US, and is almost at $500 million overseas. The current worldwide total, before counting this weekend’s totals, is $785,203,825. In 15 days.
Titanic.
Avatar has passed the 1b mark.
Domestic: $352,111,000 34.6%
- Foreign: $666,700,000 65.4%
= Worldwide: $1,018,811,000
Over a billion in 17 days. Wow. It jumped from #29 on the All Time (domestic) chart, to #15. In one day.
Edit to add, Just Some Guy, think it’ll make back its budget now?
Another article on it passing the $1b mark. Whew!: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/03/boxoffice.avatar.ew/index.html
Not Just Some Guy here, but we are talking about Hollywood accounting here, so who knows. 