Going on 6.5 years as the #1 worldwide grossing film... - Avatar (2009) Discussion

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

Way to go, Avatar! And Titanic, the director's other film masterpiece is right behind it. That's a testament to Cameron's craftsmanship.

I'm still annoyed that something as weak and generic as Star Wars: The Force Awakens beat them both domestically. I guess, Americans prefer to be pandered to than to actually see something breathtakingly new and amazing.

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[–] PaulyShoreRules 8 years ago

Luke, your a bigger moron than ever with Camoron.

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[–] normpoyser 8 years ago

Star Wars (1977 was the top grossing film for 5 years. Then ET (1982) Lasted 11 years as top grosser. Jurassic Park (1993) was the next one (4 years) and beaten by Titanic (1997), which lasted 12 years. Avatar was next (now over 6 years).

So, since 1977 (39 years ago) only five films can lay claim to be the (unadjusted) highest grossing film world wide of all time, an average of over seven years per film. It does not happen very often, and always a freak event - a Movie being in the right place at the right time.

And the other thing of interest is that none of these were sequels or part of a series when they were first released.

Norm

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[–] Cloudburst2000 8 years ago

Actually, it's not the highest grossing movie ever when adjusted for inflation. Ticket prices have sky-rocketed since the 80s. There are several movies that have grossed more money when you account for inflation.

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[–] ibrarules 8 years ago

There are several movies

Domestic, sure - more than several.

But this thread is about worldwide where at most two (GWTW - depending on what source we trust for all the rereleases and for the foreign grosses, Titanic - which is within a couple of mil when adjusting for inflation), possibly none grossed more than Avatar.

Ticket prices have sky-rocketed since the 80s

Not really. They skyrocketed in the decades before the 80s (used to be dirtcheap in the very early days) but since then have stayed kinda close to inflation.

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[–] Zero_Wolf 8 years ago

Me either. Then again, Avatar came out of nowhere.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

Exactly. It wasn't like Transformers or Star Wars or The Avengers where everyone knows the brand name. This movie was an anomaly of sorts. Yes, it was made by the trusted filmmaker behind Titanic. But it's still a movie set on an alien planet with 10 foot tall blue cat-like people. How can those Titanic fans trust anything about this movie? And BOOM. Audiences fell in love with Avatar, over and over again until it blew past Titanic. That's freaking awesome.

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[–] PaulyShoreRules 8 years ago

Gone with the Wind is.

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[–] ScrystaLz 8 years ago

if you exclude inflation, then no, Avatar is still the #1 highest grossing film of all-time...

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[–] polsixe 8 years ago

It is, and yet the board is full of threads about what a lousy poor movie this is with disbelief it made so much. Folks should accept it was good and rethink their perceptions.

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[–] criztu 7 years ago

Very impressive.

Yeah! Never underestimate the power of kids as a consumer class on a market. If you want insane profits, target the kids.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 7 years ago

Funny because grown kids looked back at The Wizard of Oz and made it a legend on TV.

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[–] The-Purge 7 years ago

Only a retard would put Avatar on the same level as Wizard of Oz.

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[–] TalesfromTheCryptfan 7 years ago

Agree Purge

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 7 years ago

Really? Do you even know why The Wizard of Oz is as respected as it is today? Do you know why it's one of those movies that never seems to get old??

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[–] ibrarules 7 years ago

Only kids wasnt the demographic that made avatar. In fact it had a smaller portion of kids than most other blockbusters. What it did have is the infrequent moviegoers to am unusual degree. Senior citizens, people who don't go to movies, parents who typically only watched movies with theur young children, etc.

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[–] criztu 7 years ago

Only kids wasnt the demographic that made avatar. In fact it had a smaller portion of kids than most other blockbusters.

Alrighty then. Immature people. People stuck in arrested development. Wee Todds. Golems. Like my brother in law. He's 40, married with no kids, and playing videogames is his life. He came to me with this movie -hey dood, this is the best thing ever! Wanna play Minecraft afterwards?

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