'Avatar' expected to retake all-time box office crown after China re-release

KentarogaijinToday  08:28 am JST

Sequel of the sequel of the sequel..

Milk and milk and milk basic people..

MOOOOOOOWW !!..

'Avatar' is one of the most cliche-ridden piece of garbage I have ever seen. My BS Detector went into overload and I had to chuck it into a dumpster before it blew up on me. And there's going to be FOUR sequels to this pile of cinematic dung? The first one came 12 years ago and you'd think its audience might want to 'move on', ya know?

As for those Marvel films, they're so strayed from Stan Lee's ideas it ain't funny. They're absolutely forgettable.

We’ve forgotten what that movie was about.

Sigourney Weaver’s ‘Ellen Ripley’ 1979 was ‘the FIRST, Legitimate, “non-OP’d” strong female character’ depicted ‘in Sci-Fi and fantasy’. (Linda Hamilton’s ‘Sarah Connor’ followed in 1984.)

We hope, at 71, Cameron has filmed all her scenes. He can still fall back on the current, decent ‘de-aging’ technology if needed.

Some may become upset by @kentarogaijin’s 8:28am possibly unintentional (?) ‘sexist’ and/or, ‘pro-‘animal cruelty’/‘anti-vegan’ remarks. However, according the medical specialist Greg Focker, “you can milk just about anything with nipples.” -

The sequel that no foxy asked for from the director nobody can stand.

“Nobody” Jeez, I hate you autocorrect.

@GdTokyo 11:03a. But 20th Century FoxY did ask for the sequels from Cameroon. And the distributor, Dynasty has the rights to ALL of it. Sci Fi fans, if there are ANY left, are doomed.

snowymountainhellToday  12:06 pm JST

@GdTokyo 11:03a. But 20th Century FoxY did ask for the sequels from Cameroon. And the distributor, Dynasty has the rights to ALL of it. Sci Fi fans, if there are ANY left, are doomed.

Four sequels to the most unoriginal sci-fy film ever made. Man, all Cameron has to do is steal every plot device, cliche, CGI trick and gimmick in the book. Why is it taking him so long to regurgitate all this prefab crap? Oh wait! The original had the Pandora moon orbiting a huge planet ripped off from the Voyager 2 mission to Jupiter. Is he trying to slip in some more recent Jupiter photos from the Juno mission to rip off now?

No matter how you show it, a rip-off is still a rip-off.

There are very few movies I couldn't sit through to the end, Avatar was one of them. This movie was absolute crap. The only thing good about it was the special effects. The story line seemed to be the same old calculated Hollywood written to a template script. I don't know for sure, because, as I said, I didn't watch it to the end.

BertieWoosterMar. 14  07:57 pm JST

There are very few movies I couldn't sit through to the end, Avatar was one of them. This movie was absolute crap. The only thing good about it was the special effects. The story line seemed to be the same old calculated Hollywood written to a template script. I don't know for sure, because, as I said, I didn't watch it to the end.

You didn't miss anything. I hated every minute of it. And special effects and good CGI do not a good, let alone a watchable film make.

And today on bing it's reported that the Chinese box office has boosted this dungball back 'on top' for 'Highest Grossing For All Time' like that means anything. Then again, China has over a billion people and compared to the local CCP-approved rot they make, this looks like a Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane or Lawrence of Arabia.

... And, we can trust them to provide truthful and accurate information. Remember, Disney owns this now and their biggest financier and market is...

As a standalone piece of nonsense, Avatar was silly enjoyable fun with great Roger Dean type visuals.

Not sure it deserves a sequel.

Then again, China has over a billion people and compared to the local CCP-approved rot they make

Have you seen Hero or House of Flying Daggers? I think it's a bit unfair to generalise about all Chinese film.

Toasted Heretic  great Roger Dean type visuals.

Roger Dean makes great visuals for all those Yes, Asia, etc. albums, et al. Of course not all of those albums are entirely good either. Great artwork doesn't always make a great album either.

For the record, Yes and Asia were big when I grew up in the 80s and I like them.

Yes, @Toasted & starpunk, but kickin’ back with the a decent, trippy album cover and the liner notes was part of the experience, at the time. Unfortunately, some of those covers may be the next to fall to ‘the cleansing’.

They're re-showing this in China because, due to lack of new movie productions, they have to show older movies to fill the movie slots (like many theaters had to do last year, especially drive-ins)

snowymountainhellMar. 15  05:51 pm JST

Yes, @Toasted & starpunk, but kickin’ back with the a decent, trippy album cover and the liner notes was part of the experience, at the time. Unfortunately, some of those covers may be the next to fall to ‘the cleansing’.

To some degree it still is. Now some CDs are enhansed with psychedelic artwork and funky visuals when you play them in a computer and on YouTube some artists like Kimbra make a whole 'video album' itself and the latest Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters CDs also have special videos for each track online.