Deadlines? What Deadlines?

Ah, so you're a The Crown watcher eh? Hmmm... how much do you want to be that those guys are furiously rewriting next season to be more harry centric? - So, of some to-do takes place within 100 miles of them, and they aren't invited... Um, were they supposed to get an invite? Isn't their community currently being beset by flooding or fires or something? This is reaching.

Waitaminnit. No it isn't.

She kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, Caused the '29 stock market crash, then used her time machine to travel to Calvary 2,000-odd years ago to drive in the nails. Sweet suffering JESUS, SHE DROVE IN THE NAILS!!! Sadly, the wall of paying is an obstacle to me too I'm afraid.

Yikes. Ya think he's still invited to the coronation?

Also,

Just wait 'till Cocaine Bear blows Quantumania out of the water...

Too generous, too generous, way too generous, a bit harsh, too generous. I agree that they're all worse then Avatar 2. And according to the coveted vegetable consensus, Captain Marvel scores higher than Avatar 2. Um, OK. On the list of overrated DC films: The Suicide Squad, Shazam!, Wonder Woman, Definitely WW84, Birds of Prey. Are they good or bad? Each to their own, but definitely overrated. "Best DC film since TDK" has been published so many times its practically become a running joke in the CBM community. Regardless, what I'm addressing is the apparent lack of story, characters, "too derivative" etc, criticisms that gets leveled at the Avatar films. Criticisms that could be leveled far more credibly at every one of the films you describe.

I first saw him in Jesus' Son. Yeah, definitely.

If they genuinely don't like the movie that's fine. But this media ecosystem has, for a decade, heaped unalloyed praise on every new MCU, Star Wars, and "fill in the blank" franchise reboot. Some of those films are genuinely good. Many are overrated. Many are downright boring and incredibly derivative. So I'm not having it. Those are some pretty amazing kids. We need to get a team under them and put them to work immediately.

It's possible I guess; but it has a long way to go. It might get there by the end but I'm doubtful. This is the right answer. A lot of the "no cultural impact" discussion seems to be centered around some pretty superficial, primarily American phenomena. The lack of memes; the lack of merchandise; the lack of people dressing up like Avatar characters at comic-con. There's more to it than that I guess. Fundamentally, I think these people were mostly just trying to fill column inches with words about Avatar before the sequel came out. And yeah, it's lazy. But you know what? That's fine. The predictions that the film would fail have aged like milk. The film crossed a threshold of box office success where I get to see where this story goes. I'm good.

Yes. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Marketing and hype and expectation will drive opening weekend ticket sales. Legs are driven by word of mouth. So there's a difference. Speaking for myself, I'd say it made a hell of an impression. And I'm sorry, but a sci-fi saga where the villain of the story is "humanity" writ large; not the "Denny's of movies". There are however several other releases this year that could contend for that title. Oh, I'm sure there's a cohort of MCU fanboys who are primed and ready with, "well, it didn't beat Endgame" hoo-ha.

I was wondering about that. She was credited on IMDB for Avatar 2 but didn't appear. Vin diesel also pops up there for some reason. Avatar 2 just overtook Top Gun Maverick world wide, excluding China. It's also overtaken Avengers Infinity War's overseas cume. Avengers. Infinity. War.

Franchise momentum and hype vs word of mouth I guess. It's interesting comparing domestic box office with opening weekends. The biggest opening weekend was Dr. Strange 2; followed by Wakanda Forever, Jurassic World, & Thor 4. The three MCU films released this year all made 40+% of their total domestic box office on opening weekend, with DrS2 highest at 45.6%. And by the end of the first month it was basically finished. Domestically, Top Gun 2 and Avatar 2's opening weekends are 7th and 5th respectively. We know how that turned out.

Exactly what a dad would say. Dad jokes are fine. There's a spectrum.

This whole thing starts with an insane (illegal) dirt mining exercise by the Daily Mail, but the fundamental narrative was established early on by Samantha Grant IMO. But she got paid though. She got paid. And make no mistake, "The Firm" helped fuel this by obviously leaking confidences to hostile tabloid media. When the people who are supposed have your back are actively working against you: that's why they got out. Good for them.

Ah, the topology of racism. I can remember during the right wing freak out over Obama, and no it wasn't all racist, that he fact that he was "mixed race" was actually a bigger problem than if both his parents were black. "Miscegenation", they like to call it.

I don't know what's going on in China regarding covid restrictions and whatnot, but I've been scanning r/boxoffice the past few days and it looks like Avatar 2 is up about 30% over the previous week. It's China box office is actually higher than its domestic box office for the last few days.

How it started.

Yeah, but it's evil when she does it, you see? Science!

Show us on the doll where the podcast touched you.

Nah, that's literal bullshit.

Wow. You really like minimizing her experience there. Then again, I've never received death threats so maybe she did overreact. Carry on then.

Cares considerably less since they left the country and are no longer at the mercy of those fucking vampires. and why does this come back to Meghan? I said, "the Sussexes". I think she might have settled for being treated like a human being; but that was too much for the UK press.

You have literally seen nine seconds of it.