True, I haven’t seen the movie. But a prediction can be based on lots of things. And the ‘success’ or ‘failure’ of a movie, or play, is based on lots of things, box office receipts among them. In my world, hundreds of movies made for a fraction of what Avatar cost to make, will always stand higher............basically, include in that category, uh, say, any movie made for under 50 million dollars, which might still be the great majority of films made anywhere in the world. In the world of AVATAR, however, megaproductions like AVATAR aim to be nothing if not a ‘shock and awe’ worldwide phenomena, and they expect that gross receipts will exceed what they read in the tea leaves, as they , eyes closed, broke the ribbons at the hundred million and twohundred million dollar mark.
No, I don’t have to see Avatar, whose ‘message’ I am told,
embodies just about every puerile Leftist conceit still getting face- or screen-time in the culture. I don’t have to see AVATAR to know what it is and what its carefully sold ‘appeal’ is, and to what audiences it appeals.
Stuff like AVATAR is interesting as a cultural phenomenon , ultimately, rather than an abiding example of cinematic art.
AVATAR seems like a dare, an envelope pushing expansion of cinematic “form”. You can have it. Everything I know about life and art tells me not to waste my money, OR my time.