Hollywood gave itself one heck of a Christmas present this year: the single best day in the history of the box office. The weekend’s slate of movies racked up a record-setting $278 million overall haul, with James Cameron’s Avatar ($75 million) leading the charge. The sci-fi epic dipped an incredibly slim two percent in its second weekend, bringing its 10-day domestic total to an impressive $212.3 million.
Not that newcomer Sherlock Holmes (no. 2, $65.4 million) had a bad weekend, either. The action-adventure pic from director Guy Ritchie scored the best-ever Christmas weekend debut, adding another notch to star Robert Downey Jr.’s box office belt. The weekend’s other new wide releases, the animated Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (no. 3, $50.2 million) and the Nancy Meyers rom-com It’s Complicated (no. 4, $22.1 million) connected soundly with two very different demographics. While the Chipmunks got kids and families dancing into theaters, Complicated stars Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin drew adults in the mood for a (tastefully) R-rated romp.
Results were mixed for the two Oscar contenders that expanded into wider release this weekend. Up in the Air (no. 5, $11.8 milion) flew straight to the top five by adding 1,720 new theaters, but the awards-bait musical Nine (no. 8, $5.5 million) only mustered a so-so $3,926 per-site average. Meanwhile, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus opened well at four sites, earning $130,000.
More box office news:
Box office report: ‘Sherlock Holmes’ sets Christmas Day record with $24.9 million
Box Office Report: ‘Avatar’ takes No. 1 with $73 million
‘Avatar’ lands $27 million at box office on Friday
The Chimpmunk Movie will make more money than The Princess and the Frog. I feel bad for America’s youth.
chipmunk* haha chiMpmunk? that would be one freakish animal.
I’ve been fearing for America’s youth for years.
That IS sad. I saw Princess & the Frog today and it was a fantastic movie.
Brittany is hot though
I saw the boxo for Princess and it just cross the 1/2 mark; cost $105Mil and made $63….that’s bad…and I wonder why the audience is not loving this movie.
How does an animated movie cost 105 million to make?
it’s cuz the characters are black. we don’t want to see a black princess. this movie will be forgotten.
Bottomline…. you suck. The movie I went to see had every race in it and they all loved it. Go to hell. When will the idiots die off??????
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So Avatar not only came out at #1, but is within $200,000 of TDK’s second-weekend record, and might actually get to it when the actual numbers come in tomorrow.
Anyone feel like eating crow?
“avatar” was incredibly stupid.
no wonder americans are loving it.
It’s not just Americans, dude, it’s making a killing all over the world. Whatever helps you sleep at night, though.
Sorry but Avatar has grossed over $400 million in foreign countries. The world is loving this amazing movie. Save your pointless America bashing for someone who cares.
Jane, IMO it’s not an amazing movie. It’s a snoooozzzzz….and anybody who got excited about watching blue people, well, they just like following the crowd.
And jumping on the Avatar-bashing bandwagon ISN’T “following the crowd.” All the cool kids are doing it!
If you don’t like it, fine, but that doesn’t mean it’s not hugely successful. For example, I think Twilight is absolute garbage but I can admit that it’s a very successful franchise.
I am willing to bet anything that you have not seen the movie.
@sally: and you are ignorant in my opinion and anyone who’s as narrow minded as you deserves to be ridicule
I actually quiteliked the story. I studied aborignal history and culture tho, so maybe not everyone’s cup of tea. What I don;t understand is how everyone can love IG and QT’s Jew revenge story and hate on Avatar and JC’s aboriginal’s revenge story.
Two completely different movies. I loved them both, but to compare them is ludicrous.
I HAVE seen Avatar, I AM an American, and I can say without question that the movie sucks–no matter how much money it made.
@yahdeeblah. Go on….I’d love to hear why you think so.
Jennifer, just saying that IG is a jewish revenge story is not giving justice to IG. The two movies are incredibly different in just about all aspects. both great, but very very different. u’ve seen IG right?
Yeah, I thought IG was incredibly mediocre at best. Maybe it’s my years of Aboriginal studies that made the story line pretty interesting.
Anywho I’ve been hearing alot of “Avatar is just Dances With Wolves warmed over”…and I have to totally disagree and liken it more to IG than to DWW
tell me the ways that they are similar.
btw I love both movies, but give the edge to IG. don’t get me wrong though, they’re my number 2 and 3 movies of the year.
What a bunch of blow hards.Allow yourself to be entertained losers.AVATAR was great.
Sally in Chicago is a troll…don’t feed the fugly thing.
Avatar is no doubt one of the best movie till date. Action, Emotion, Animation – you name it.And it is being loved all across the globe. You are 1 of those few morons ignorant of this fact. Get urself some better taste. huh.
Avatar was about Faith and fighting for something,being free spirited and open minded. If you didn’t watch it on 3D I can understand why your bitter about it.
Ignore Sally in Chicago, people. Obviously she’s being paid by another studio (Warner, Universal?) to bash AVATAR all over the place. She is bought and paid for!
I didn’t realize that Inspector Gadget was a jewish revenge movie. I must have missed that subtext.
Awesome for Avatar!!! The best film of 2009! It was an extraordinary experience! No wonder it’s making a killing!!!
Avatar will easily end up winning the Best Picture Oscar in March.
Lol no, that’ll go to either “Up in The Air,” “The Hurt Locker,” or this one other indie film which I can’t remember the name of, but it’s on the top of everyones list. Avatar was great though, and will undoubtably win best graphics, and other similiar awards.
It is not impossible for Avatar to win Best picture, it will definately be nominated but I hope Inglourious Basterds takes home the big one.
Why do people care so much about box office tallies? It is pretty much universally accepted that either Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, or Fight Club was the best movie of the 90s and none of them hold any box office records. Who cares? The question is: Is Avatar any good? The answer is “Eh.”
I agree. I dont give a sh*t if avatar sets records. It is my favorite movie of the year though.
hype behind the movie and its 300-600 mil budget. i still think half blood prince was better and district 9, but then again i give props for a great sci-fi film thats completely original( not some novel or comic). also pulp fiction is overrated yet still one of the best. shawshank is the best though.
TITANIC was the best pic of the nineties. It has 1.8 billion dollars in box office and 11 OSCARS to prove it! LOVE THAT FILM!
no TDK had 200 mil in 5 days avatar 10
no TDK had 200 mil in 5 days avatar 10
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Um, they weren’t talking about overall gross, just the record for the WEEKEND itself.
TDK set a second-weekend record with about $75.3 million. If Avatar’s actual numbers increase even slightly from the estimates, then it WILL beat that record.
@James, how’s that crow taste?
@A: Avatar made $75.6 million over the weekend after the final numbers came in. That is a new second frame record.
It looks like Avatar has some legs after all…
lol… did u expect it to do badly? its been sold out in advance at all imax theaters all week. You have to buy tickets a day or two in advance to se it.
Avatar only dropped like 2.6%. That’s absolutely incredible for a movie that opened above $70 million its first weekend. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if it DID actually end up topping Batman’s record once the real numbers are out.
I’m sure a few naysayers are blushing right about now. Or scrambling to make up an excuse for why they thought Avatar wouldn’t be #1 two weeks in row and wouldn’t “come anywhere close to” The Dark Knight’s second-week record.
Avatar will wind up challenging “Transformers 2″ for the highest-grossing film to come out in 2009. The word of mouth for this film is remarkable, the advertising is everywhere, and oh yeah…. it’s actually a good movie.
Sorry to contradict but Avatar is actually a bloated bore, and worse, it’s a bald-faced example of the laziest kind of storytelling: plagiarism. For Cameron to have the chutzpah to say that he’s had this idea since his youth is the height of insult to the audience. Yep, he was younger when he got the idea, but let’s pinpoint it: 1990, immediately upon the closing credits of “Dances With Wolves.” Anyone who doesn’t think so needs to rent DWW and get back up to speed. Costner could probably sue for story credit and win it.
Dances with Wolves isn’t an original storyline either…
You are just showing how shortsighted and narrow minded you are. So every story that are based on historical facts of indigenous people plight is plagarism of Dances With wolves, even the stories that came before before it. Why doesn’t Costner sue the makers of the Last Samurai and The Last of the Mohicans or Disney for Pocahontas, or better yet go back in time to sue Pocahontas herself for plagarizing his story.
Incredible numbers. A 2-ish percent drop? That’s ungodly considering how big its opening weekend was.
I’m waiting until next weekend when it beats both Spider-Man’s third-weekend haul AND finally tops New Moon (only because I want to see Ambient Lite admit she was WRONG).
If New Moon had had more Edward Cullen like the fans told them to do (and I don’t mean crappy whispery Edward but the real Edward) then none of these movies would have had any talk because women would have returned to the cinema in droves. As the movie stands, it’s barely watchable just like the books are hardly readable whenever Edward isn’t there. We’ll see what happens with Eclipse. If there’s enough Edward and Slade makes it a good story to watch the fanboys will have to shut up for the rest of the year.
Why should they have added more Edward in the movie when he wasn’t in the book as much? That just tells me that Twilight fans DON’T give a crap about the story as much as they do Robert Pattinson. But if that’s your excuse for NM’s epic collapse, who am I to argue.
And yes, Ambient Lite IS on record as saying Avatar wouldn’t beat NM (lulz). I give it until maybe the end of next week before it does, easily.
“New Moons epic collapse” what planet have you been on the last 6 weeks? It is still in the top 10. If the fans didn’t like it, it would have crashed and burned weeks ago. Haters need to just chill, you’be got until June, then you can bash the next one. But let the fans enjoy the movie. We like it, you don’t have to, but why bash it and the fans along with it?
Lol.. and here come the lame excuses
It opened at $140 million and couldn’t even stumble to $300 million in the U.S. THAT, dear, is a pretty sad collapse. Avatar made HALF of what New Moon did its first weekend, and yet will surpass it probably within the next week. Yes, NM made a lot of money. But when some crazy people on here were picking it to beat Transformers 2, then yes, I consider stalling out at $285M-$290M to be a collapse.
Lame excuses about what? You are entitled to hate it all you want and make fun of it or whatever rightous attitude you have. Just like I’m entitled to like the movie, and be a Twilight fan. It’s a free country. You must like those really deep and thought provoking movies right? The ones that have depth and real meaning? The ones that nobody goes to see?
@lacey: oh darling, stop please, you are just making a fool of yourself. I mean, its already bad you are a twilight fan, but trying to defend yourself my mocking real movies.. well, that’s just pathetic
“New Moons epic collapse” what planet have you been on the last 6 weeks?
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It set a single-day revenue record and made more than $140 million its opening weekend. Despite all that and the mind-numbing hype, it can’t even get to $300 million, and with it losing about 1,000 theaters this weekend, it might not even beat Up, putting it at probably #5 for the year once Avatar’s done.
Te Dark Knight made about $10 million more than New Moon on its opening weekend, yet out-grossed it in the U.S. by about $250 million. Somewhere down the line, whether it was lack of Robert Pattinson (stay classy, ladies), poor word of mouth, overblown hype, etc. it fell far short of what most people were expecting. It dropped 75% on its second weekend and will have a multiplier barely above two. So yes, I consider that a collapse, especially given some of a over-confident talk I’ve seen on here (“It’s going to beat Transformers 2 and Half-Blood Prince!”).
Avatar shows that a lower opening weekend doesn’t automatically set you back, and New Moon shows that a monster opening weekend will only take you so far.
Go easy on the Twihards. Some are still in denial, but they finally have to face reality and see that their beloved New Moon is not as big as they thought it was. It is tough for them to see a movie they dissed will pass new moon in no time. This is hard on them. The truth hurts. Break it to them easy. I feel sorry for them now.
To be honest, I think its the non-Twilight fans who make “fools of themselves” on here, by continually bringing up Twilight when it’s not mentioned, and by refusing to admit that it’s a box office success.
Seriously, that first comment directed towards “Ambient Lite”…I’m just amazed at the level of immaturity demonstrated by that comment.
I’m also not a fan of Twilight, but I completely agree with Susanna.
“Seriously, that first comment directed towards “Ambient Lite”…I’m just amazed at the level of immaturity demonstrated by that comment.”
What’s wrong with calling out someone on a smug prediction they made that turned out to be wrong? Ambient said that Avatar wouldn’t top New Moon’s gross, and now it looks like it easily will. What’s wrong with pointing that out?
Emma, if you’re a fan of the series, then surely you understand why there wasn’t much of Edward in the New Moon movie. You’d have to appreciate the story enough to enjoy the movie without the R Pattz eye candy – which I think most fans did.
I DID say that I didn’t think Avatar would beat New Moon, even wagered a potentially uncomfortable bet that it wouldn’t – but I may have been wrong. Time will tell and I have no problem sucking up my pride if I was wrong. Haven’t seen Avatar yet, but it certainly seems to be getting great feedback. I should have bet on net grosses, after production costs!
And as always, I have to go ahead and point out that this article made no mention of Twilight/New Moon, but the commenters did – haters, take note! EW is not solely to blame.
because you’re just as smug for pointing out how right you were.
@ Ambient Lite, I didn’t say I wanted RPattz eye candy (although you can never go wrong there) but that I wanted more Edward Cullen. There’s a difference. New Moon is the least liked of the Twilight books for a reason and that’s because Edward is missing for over 300 pages. The movie, instead of boosting the Edward parts and treating them with extreme care and diligence as would make sense since those are the fan favorites, the movie treated the entire Edward-Bella relationship with no regard when it’s the most important part of any Twilight book. If people loved the movie that much it wouldn’t struggling to make twice its opening weekend numbers. It shows a lack of repeat viewing because there’s nothing to see there. The movie had no soul despite its better directing and better special effects. Twilight made 3x its opening weekend numbers and that’s before the movie fandom really took off with DVD sales. The opening numbers for New Moon indicated an extreme anticipation after watching Twilight. I hope Eclipse can repeat/surpass this. I also hope it’s a better movie so that it can blow the box office away with repeat viewings or just new viewers. I expect New Moon’s DVD sales to still be great because even fans like me that hated the movie will be buying it to watch the sparse Edward-Bella moments they deigned to put in the film. It’s extra annoying because based on behind the scenes photos I know they filmed a lot more Edward-Bella parts but decided not to put them in the movie. I’m getting more bitter by the day as I think of what could have been. I need to see some Eclipse promotion soon because I’m beginning to get over this movie series. I’ll just read the books alone and use my imagination if this is the kind of lameness the movies are going to come with. Obviously I do not speak for the fandom. I don’t visit fansites so I don’t know what the general concensus is. This is merely my observation but I fail to see how the majority could disagree with me.
Emma, you may love Edward but the New Moon movie wasn’t SUPPOSED to have much of him in it, just as there wasn’t much of him in the book. It’s not about him. It’s about Jacob. You have to know that.
I totally disagree with you about your assumption that New Moon is the least liked of the books. Everyone I know who read the series loved it. It’s darker, it’s more emotional, but it’s a great storyline – and it was a good movie. Breaking Dawn is, by far, the least liked of the series.
I suppose you think the Twilight movie was better than the New Moon movie too. Sigh.
LOL, I’m not a Twilight fan, but even I can recognize its success.
New Moon has made 280 million domestically, and its gross will end up being in the range of the HP winter releases (Chamber of Secrets, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix) and even one summer release (POA).
This little series came out of nowhere and is now in the same range as the Harry Potter film series.
People who don’t recognize this are the ones who are in denial.
I’m curious to see how well Eclipse will do since it will have a summer IMAX release.
While I may despise the series, even I can see that it’s a phenomenon.
Yeah, I love how people adamantly claim to “not be Twilight fans” and then proceed to gush over the movie like fangirls. You’re not fooling anyone. There’s always at least two or three in every thread who “despise” the series but who “can still recognize it’s a success.” Yawn.
Pst…Order of the Phoenix came out over the summer.
So according to your logic, people who recognize that a film is a success must automatically love that film? Therefore, the only films that one should recognize as successful are films that they love?
LOL, how ridiculous.
I guess the concept of objectivity is meaningless to you.
I totally agree Susanna
Thanks for this comment.
Who has said Twilight is not a success? You are delusional. It is a phenomenom but compared to other movies franchises, $280 is not as impressive especially considering how strong it started. The world wide number is strong but let’s not pretend it is what it is not. Twihards have been bragging since New moon came out about that this movie is so huge and predicting it will pass other movies. When I see bull, I have to call it out. Why don’t you compare the worldwide box office and book sales to Harry Potter? Harry potter also come from no where to become a phenomenom. You are are using half facts to back up this silly comparison. No mention of inflation and the worldwide numbers. Anyway, my issue is with the twihards who have been bragging and insulting Avatar and claiming they will beat HBP and Transformers. Where are they now? If they could make their claims them, we should be able to call them them out and if you don’t like it you can go cry me a river.
I don’t care if new moon is a phenomenon. I can name several more successful series yet their fans are not as obnoxious. Empty barrels make the most noise and they fans need to be put in their place.
New Moon has ruined the franchise in my eyes and now it’s Eclipse’s duty to get it back on track. Edward and Bella and their obsessive love are the only things that matter and if the movies don’t get this by Eclipse but instead continue to ruin the series by trying to reel in the ridiculous fanboys, they won’t see any more of my money.
I’ve been a champion for ‘Avatar’ since this summer. Needless to say, I am loving the results.
Interesting, since you didn’t see it until December.
She could still have been rooting for it based on it being a Cameron movie, something visually interesting, highly anticipated, etc. Stop being so coy.
wow, James….just wow.
be less stupid. she wasn’t turned off by the trailers like many of the doubters were, and she continued to believe it would be good, and she was right. think before you speak
So by next week, AVATAR will surpass “new crap” I mean “moon” to become the second highest grossing movie of the year.. and most likely will also surpass “bayformers 2″ at some point to become the highest grossing movie of the year.. that makes me happy. Thank you James (king of the world) Cameron for showing us what a real action movie should look like
“New Moon” is only the fourth-highest grossing movie of the year. Harry Potter and “Up” still have it beat.
New Moon is NOT the #2 movie this year. As of now, it’s Transformers 2, then Harry Potter (which is, at the moment, #1 worldwide), then Up and THEN New Moon.
Let’s not give New Moon a ranking it hasn’t achieved, yes?
Ooops, thank you for correcting me.. I honestly thought craplight2 was nearing 300 million.. now I see that won’t happen at all
According to your logic, Harry Potter hasn’t been a domestic success, because 4 of the 6 Harry Potter films have not reached 300 million.
I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, and I don’t care for Twilight, but I think the amount of animosity that some people on this site have for Twilight is ridiculous.
I think that its sad that some people use the internet as a vehicle to be incredibly rude to other human beings.
When you adjust for inflation you see HP movies have done better than Twilight. And no one is saying New moon is not a success. It is, but it is not as big as Twihards pretend it is. A lot of other movies have been more successful and yet the twihards were claiming it will beat Avatar and other movies this year. We see now that is not the case. The animosity is as a result of the fans expecting us to be fascinated by it and the hype the surrounding the movie yet there are many better series that are more successful.
George Clooney’s star power is vastly overrated and UITA’s box office numbers only prove it without a shadow of a doubt.
I was already convinced with Men who stare at goats and Fantastic Mr Fox. I’m sure the fact that UITA even managed to get over $10 million is because of the Oscar buzz and not Clooney.
Actually Goats opened pretty well for a such an offbeat flick.
It’s too bad about Up In The Air since it was miles better than The Blind Side or It’s Complicated.
But it’s especially sad for Mr. Fox though, as it’s a vastly better movie than Chipmunks.
I don’t question the quality of his movies, but his appeal is overestimated. I don’t care how offbeat Goats is, if Clooney was a true box office draw it would have done better than it did in the end.
George Clooney is an audience-drawer: Up in the Air, and Fantastic Mr. Fox aren’t exactly the types of movies that appeal to most of America, they’re indie movies that are made more for artistic merit than selling-out audiences. And as far as I can see, Up in the Air is quite a success to not only be an indie flick with probably less than half of the theater coverage as most movies with such a divided audience this weekend: Avatar’s continuing reign, a smash hit from Sherlock Holmes, another big Chipmunks hit, and another Meryl Streep hit (It’s Complicated)…Those movies take over all the demographics: teens flocking to Avatar and Sherlock Holmes, families tuning into the Chipmunks movie, the seasoned crowd heading out to It’s Complicated, and after ALL that, Up in the Air still has 11 million. Not bad I say.
This is great for Avatar! I enjoyed that movie a ton, and if you do not see it is the theater then you really should not bother watching it on DVD unless you got a huge 3D ready HD set.
Avatar was a great movie…went to see it with low expectations but was blown away
I am happy for Avatar, really.
I’m just disappointed that Alvin defeated an actual good family friendly movie at the box office. The Princess and the Frog deserves better.
Agreed 100% with your comment, Alice. Avatar is a greatly enjoyable movie for everyone; I am not surprised it is doing well. But those damned chipmunks.
I agree. Although personally I do like the Chipmunks (well, I liked the animated series) I think Princess and the Frog is a lovely film. I predict there will be no more hand-drawn animated films.
It’s not that I don’t like the original Chipmunks, it’s just that the movie (the first one at any rate) was very poorly made. It had the same jokes that any number of kiddie movies use. I hope that The Princess and the Frog is able to make back its budget here and does well in the foreign markets. Merchandise sales are good. I know people who haven’t seen the film but bought their kids Tiana dolls. DVD sales may be good.
It’s very likely that Sherlock Holmes actually sold more tickets than Avatar, but Avatar grossed more due to higher 3D/IMAX prices.
And?
Doing an all-3D film is a gamble at this point, and Cameron made that gamble and it’s paying off. If Avatar had flopped, people would be incredibly harsh on him. So on the flip side, since it’s a success, it should be acknowledged.
No one’s forcing people to see it in IMAX or 3D. 2D is available and theaters would expand that selection if the demand was there. People WANT to see it in 3D and are willing to pay for it. What’s the problem with that? If any other film-makers think it’s unfair, let THEM innovate.
For clarity: stereo 3D films are all the rage right now and they are being greenlit all around Hollywood – there’s no gamble to it. Second, given Avatar’s cost to produce and market, chances are good that it will barely break even — it’s for other’s to decide whether that equates to “paying off.” Furthermore, Sherlock Holmes almost certainly sold more tickets than Avatar and it’s showing on fewer screens, which gives it a higher per-screen average and makes it the true winner of the weekend. Finally, the big “winner” of the summer was Transformers, universally panned as one of the dumbest films ever made. Considering that Avatar is nearly a scene for scene and character for character ripoff of Dances With Wolves, it’s clear that a dull American moviegoer asks very little for their ticket dollar. Certainly not plot, and not originality. This is not something to “celebrate.”
It’s going to make about a billion worldwide (from more people than just “dull American moviegoers”). I think that’s probably a liiittle bit more than breaking even.
And if you don’t think Cameron WASN’T taking a risk by sinking a few hundred million dollars into a movie that was shot entirely in 3D and basically revolved around catlike Smurfs and wasn’t based on a book, toy or video game, I’d like to know what YOUR definition of a risk is. This could have easily turned into a first-class dud, but it didn’t.
If we used per-theater averages to determine the “real winner,” then that’d be a different story. But we don’t. We use accumulated dollars, and Avatar won. Deal with it.
Just because Transformers was a godawful movie that made money doesn’t automatically mean that Avatar is an equally godawful movie because it’s making money.
It’s a “scene for scene” ripoff of Dances With Wolves? I must’ve missed the part in that movie when Costner rode a flying dragon creature and formed a psychic link to it using his hair.
@Greg: You just show your ignorance in so many ways here. If Sherlock Holmes makes that much money in its SECOND weekend, we’ll talk. The whole “dumb American” shtick is getting real old on these forums. It is clear that you haven’t actually seen Avatar or you wouldn’t be spreading stupid in your wake. It was only like DWW at the absolute broadest of levels. Most stories are built from elements of older stories. Telling an utterly new story is almost impossible. It amazes me that you waste so many words to say nothing of any value. If your lack of intelligence is in any way indicative of your “non-American” mindset you can have it.
@Greg: I hate to break this to you, Sherlock, but “Holmes” played on 170 more screens than “Avatar”. Also, it is a worldwide blockbuster. If you’re going to attack American sensibilities, you might want to include a few other nations.
funny that you think more people saw sherlock holmes, at the theater where i was all the times for 3-D and 2-D were sold out.
Avatar was a phenomenal film……I love how all of the emotionally shallow people are bashing it. They are pathetic.
You, TJ, are quite a moron.
Anthony, thank you for further strengthening my argument.
I can respect that you liked the film, but what’s pathetic is calling someone “emotionally shallow” just because they didn’t like it.
When will commenters on here learn to grow up and state their opinions without insulting others?
I saw “Avatar” on Monday and thought it was visually amazing. However, I didn’t really find the any of the characters engaging. Maybe my expectations going into the movie were too high based on how people hyped it up. I just don’t think that it’s the most phenomenal movie ever but I’m happy for its success.
How much more do 3D/IMAX tickets cost than regular or matinee admissions? Is it possible that Sherlock Holmes actaully sold more tickets than Avatar (by a significant margin)?
when i saw a christmas carol in 3d, it was like 3 more dollars..but that was just regular 3d, not imax. so atleast 3, probably more.
In NYC it cost me $16 bucks to see Avatar in 3D on the IMAX screen… and it was worth every penny. It was the first time I had sen a movie in 3D on the IMAX screen.
Actual IMAX, or IMAX Lite?