Who's getting the Avatar DVD?

[777]

Avatar becomes fastest-selling Blu-ray of all time:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/more-huge-sales-for-avatar-2d-dvd/

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment today announced that James Cameron's AVATAR 2D flew off shelves to become the fastest-selling Blu-ray of all time after just four days in U.S, and Canadian stores. Excluding rental sales, it sold 2.7 million Blu-ray units in North America, shredding Warner Bros' The Dark Knight's Blu-ray sales record of 2.5 million units total. That means Avatar 2D in 4 days beat what Dark Knight did over 1 1/2 years. Retail sales of both AVATAR 2D's Blu-ray and DVD discs have exceeded 6.7 million units since its launch last Thursday, on pace to be the best-selling title in recent history.

If so many people thought Avatar was such a mediocre story, then why is it doing so well in sales? It seems the general population disagree with what many of our board members impressions of the movie are. I'm glad - I enjoyed the movie!!

 

[Tulin]

DOH - damned site is playing up and just ate my post.

Basically, what I said originally was your argument above is a logical fallacy.

By your logic, TF2 was akin to "Hamlet" since it also made bank. And while simply making lots of dough does not NOT mean you have a bad story, it is neither proof you DO.

 

[777]

Maybe so, but this is the type of movie audiences want (and yes, they obviously also want ROTF type movies, unfortunately), irrespective if the story is deemed "good" or "bad" by critics, etc.

Many may say that the audience are just mindless masses, but since they bring in the profits, Hollywood will make this type of movie in future.

Me personally, i want movies that provide escapist fun (but without the stupid juvenile "humor"), and not movies that will leave me bored out of my mind or have me leaving the cinema feeling so depressed that I want to commit suicide. I have enough "reality" in real life, thank you very much.

 

[Tulin]

In recent years I have to say I have mentally switched to a more "was I entertained or not?" type of mentality.

Of course, that could come from a subdued film like "Moon" or an intellectual experience where I really had to think. With "Avatar" I was actually bored toward the end, ironically when all the video game "let's kill the Boss" action started up. I could not wait for it to end. It was the overly simplistic "White man=bad/gentle native=good" crap that made me kinda zone out during the film and so by the third reel I was done because I KNEW we were just going to see an overly produced video game ending(and I do NOT do video games).

The fact that it felt like a gussied up version of Disney's "Pocahontas" didn't help either.

 

[The Wormhole]

Personally I was just bored to sweet fuck by the two and a half hour Pandora nature documentary, and the final battle only interested me because Colonel Badass was such a fucking badass.

I couldn't care less about any supposed themes or politics the movie was trying to shove in our faces.

If the unwashed masses consider this entertainment, than good for them. I realized their entertainment was not my entertainment after a movie about a forty year-old man trying to lose his virginity was one the top movies of that year, while a movie like Serenity, released in the same year was virtually ignored.

 

[T'Baio]

It was the overly simplistic "White man=bad/gentle native=good" crap

I've already shown the logical fallacy in this presumption.

The fact that it felt like a gussied up version of Disney's "Pocahontas" didn't help either.

I thought it was Dances With Wolves? What movie did it rip off again? And what about what movie that movie was ripping off?

 

[Tulin]

God, it's a good thing you're cute!

 

[zakkrusz]

Picked it up yesterday along with the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie. Those two along with a couple others round out the 9 films I felt were worth buying from last year.

To use an obscure TV reference: "It's new and it's blue and she likes it too."

 

[Scotty]

^ The IMAX film Super Speedway is better for that use.

Does that movie have 11 ft tall blue aliens, floating rocks, giant killer birds and huge mechanoid warmachines? Thought not....

 

[Garak]

Well, I finally saw this "movie".

It was terrible. If I want to see cartoons that are way too long and have terrible, asinine plots then I'll go see a Pixar flick. At least I get a couple of laughs out of those movies.

The only thing James Cameron can do to make up for this abortion of a movie is to not make a sequel.

 

[startrekrcks]

I have been to see Avatar who cares if it is Pochantas in space I enjoyed the movie.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ The IMAX film Super Speedway is better for that use.

Does that movie have 11 ft tall blue aliens, floating rocks, giant killer birds and huge mechanoid warmachines? Thought not....

It has race cars, killer sound, the Andrettis, Paul Newman, and - most important - absolutely no annoying blue goody-goody aliens. What's not to like?

As for Avatar, this is my favorite review of the film so far.

 

[stj]

^^^Checked out the review. Another dumb fuck wasting oxygen while posting bullshit. This isn't some poor amateur embarrassing himself, this is a professional reviewer. He doesn't notice that the main Pocahontas cliches are resolutely avoided. He doesn't notice the difference between a story where the natives win and one where the natives lose. He doesn't notice that the visuals show "our" troops doing a 9/11 on a skyscraper tall tree. He doesn't notice that "our" troops do the perp walk. He doesn't even notice the lead is a paraplegic! The most simplistic thing about Avatar is the reviews by douchebags like this. About the only half witted tripe we were spared was the Mighty Whitey trope, when everyone knows that Sully was kind of hapless and didn't even save the natives!

 

[Trekker4747]

I liked the first paragraph of that review. Summed up Cameron's awesome nicely.

 

[Tulin]

Well, I finally saw this "movie".

It was terrible. If I want to see cartoons that are way too long and have terrible, asinine plots then I'll go see a Pixar flick. At least I get a couple of laughs out of those movies.

The only thing James Cameron can do to make up for this abortion of a movie is to not make a sequel.

Welcome to the fold.

I must admit, upon leaving the cinema I said to my partner, "He won't fool me twice with the sequel!"

It actually started a big discussion between us about how we FINALLY feel we are now out of the movie-going target audience. I am just SOOOOOOOO God-Damned over the CGI wankfests. We are looking for smaller, more cerebral films and will avoid the kiddie flicks.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Avatar becomes fastest-selling Blu-ray of all time

How ironic.