Seeing it for my 4th and final time today.
Went out of my way to see it in laser IMAX before it's out of the PLF screens.
Went out of my way to see it in laser IMAX before it's out of the PLF screens.
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Avatar: The Way of Water will NOT gross $2.5+ billion. Update: Faithful Lose Bet.
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How about readinng the OP?
Edit: or are you asking what the avatar will be?
With the Super Bowl tomorrow too it might be closer to the $10m range. Not that it matters anymore though lol
Edit: nvm that's next weekend ha
I love when ppl get snarky and aggressive about reading when they themselves didn't bother. Always good stuff. They never just say my bad lol
Finally saw it for second time. Regular theater 3D HFR. I don't believe our imax had hfr? So this was my first time with it. Theater was half full on Saturday 11am.
It was noticeable mostly in the earlier scenes, but never jarring I thought, so complaints were overblown. I think this forum being gamers gives us a skewed perspective I doubt this is something the average viewer is picking up on or annoyed by. I thought HFR added to the film and I would be down with the entire movie being that way.
It was better the second go around! I feel like I was more focused on the plot this time because I had already taken in the visuals. The emotion hit harder because of this. It's easily better than A1 I think, the emotional core here is just so much stronger. JC really made a story about family interesting, I doubted the premise when I heard about it.
Last act still one of the best action sequences in film
It was noticeable mostly in the earlier scenes, but never jarring I thought, so complaints were overblown. I think this forum being gamers gives us a skewed perspective I doubt this is something the average viewer is picking up on or annoyed by. I thought HFR added to the film and I would be down with the entire movie being that way.
It was better the second go around! I feel like I was more focused on the plot this time because I had already taken in the visuals. The emotion hit harder because of this. It's easily better than A1 I think, the emotional core here is just so much stronger. JC really made a story about family interesting, I doubted the premise when I heard about it.
Last act still one of the best action sequences in film
Day 52 comparison:
Avatar 2 is at $2.174B, ($636M dom / $1.538B int) with a daily average of $41.80M, which is a decline of -$5.24M from day 45.
Avatar was at $2.209B (629M dom / $1.579B OS) with a daily average of $42.48M, which is a decline of -$2.83M from day 45.
The difference between both movies is now -$35M in favour of Avatar, which is a decline of -$113M compared to day 45 when it was: $78M in favour of Avatar 2. This is the first time in Avatar's 2 run that Avatar gained the worldwide total lead.
Where lies the differences:
International: -$41M for Avatar
Domestic: - $7M for Avatar 2
Total: -$35M for Avatar
Avatar added around $170M the past week, whereas Avatar 2 added 57M. Note that there are some deviations possible because of estimates vs actual. Could be 5M difference. But Avatar was a monster at this moment in time, and it shows.
Avatar 2 is at $2.174B, ($636M dom / $1.538B int) with a daily average of $41.80M, which is a decline of -$5.24M from day 45.
Avatar was at $2.209B (629M dom / $1.579B OS) with a daily average of $42.48M, which is a decline of -$2.83M from day 45.
The difference between both movies is now -$35M in favour of Avatar, which is a decline of -$113M compared to day 45 when it was: $78M in favour of Avatar 2. This is the first time in Avatar's 2 run that Avatar gained the worldwide total lead.
Where lies the differences:
International: -$41M for Avatar
Domestic: - $7M for Avatar 2
Total: -$35M for Avatar
Avatar added around $170M the past week, whereas Avatar 2 added 57M. Note that there are some deviations possible because of estimates vs actual. Could be 5M difference. But Avatar was a monster at this moment in time, and it shows.
57m ww in the last 7 days
93m ww in the 7 days prior to that
134m ww in the 7 days prior to that
and 180m ww in the 7 days prior to that
93m ww in the 7 days prior to that
134m ww in the 7 days prior to that
and 180m ww in the 7 days prior to that
with twow on 2.174, and titanic on 2.194, they'll almost go into next weekend tied ready to do battle
For you, joining the faithful was a momentous occasion.
For me as a faithless, it was a Tuesday.
It's all good fun, I'll happily take the tag and avatar. Seriously though I'm shocked that this is even getting close to 2.5 mark it was a joke of a requirement.
Given the number of TVs with motion smoothing on in the world I agree most people probably won't notice or care, but I don't know what noticing it has to do with playing video games. Just walk into a Best Buy and look at the tvs, it doesn't take years of gaming to notice lol
Because people who play video games are probably going to be more sensitive to it since it's a big part of video games.
Just shitposting here, not a part of the cornball bet, but I'm thinking 2.3 bil max, which is unbelievable considering a nerfed China and no Russia ($150 mil).
Seems like my calcs were close to where this will end up at.
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Seems pretty damn likely that you will be right with that prediction.
It had a pretty wide release in China…but was completely screwed over by how a huge Covid outbreak occurred as the CCP ended zero Covid. That significantly hurt the film. Probably a minimum of $150-$200 million was lost due to the bad timing. Enough to have potentially gotten it over the finish line for the bet.