...one of which was highly unexpected, one of which was not (no points for guessing which is which). I suppose now is as good a time as any to ask the question: Can Avatar pass the total gross of The Dark Knight?-What do you think Avatar's final Box Office take will be?
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Avatar does not deserve to pass The Dark Knight.
ReplyDeleteI can see why The Blind Side would pass $200M. It's Bullock.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see if it does, though I agree that The Dark Knight is the better overall movie...and Bullock actually wouldn't be the reason the movie made that much, she's never had a hit of this magnitude. She's part of the reason, but far from the only reason. It's more political than that, but I digress...
ReplyDeleteI think it may be a bit early to be comparing Avatar and Dark Knight. Both brilliant films that set a new level of the cinematic experience, but we need to give Avatar more time to see if it has the stay power the Dark Knight retained.
ReplyDeleteIt may not catch The Dark Knight's box office but it's definately going to get close. With people all round me being on the second and third visits, and everyone else claiming they will see it, I think there's some very serious competition here.
On a side note, I think it's very deserving to pass Dark Knight purely based on the new experience it creates for cinema viewers. TDK was amazing but if you think bout it, without Heath would it have really been that brilliant?
To be rather honest, I found Batman Begins to be a better movie than the Dark Knight. While TDK was an excellent movie on a lot of counts, I can't help but feel like there were a tremendous amount of missed opportunities and minor flaws (such as killing off Two-Face so early, some bad dialogue, a general lack of the consistant flow that Batman Begins had in its storytelling, a terrible score, some continuity discrepencies between TDK and Batman Begins, a lack of connection to the Gotham City in Batman Begins [which I thought felt like a unique city, whereas TDK it just felt like Chicago...], and cameos that don't do anything for the story, such as Scarecrow)...of the two films, I think Batman Begins deserved TDK's gross.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying Avatar doesn't have its flaws, I'm just happy because this is a triumph for originality. Avatar (even if the storyline isn't original, the concept is, for how huge of an investment it was), is undeniably original. The technology is original, the planet is original, the designs are original, the setting is totally original. It wasn't based off a novel, or a book or a comic book or a TV show or anything. It was totally original. Had it flopped, it'd give studios yet another reason to not invest in other original projects they might otherwise invest in (and now probably will due to the success of Avatar). Had it flopped, I guarantee the impact it'd make is that studios would be considerably more hesitant (and they already hugely are) to invest in original concepts, when compared to the phenomenal success of remakes and movies based on something.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear, I sometimes fumble up my words when typing on the computer. My apologies. :)
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