Pfft, Titanic. Chick flick.
Terminator.
Aliens.
T2.
The guy lost it after that.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/16/2009 3:12:44 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
BUSAN, South Korea (AFP) – Hollywood producer Jon Landau said Friday he had no doubt that his latest feature with "Titanic" director James Cameron would live up to its billing as the year's most-anticipated film.
The 300-million-dollar "Avatar", packed with computer-generated imagery and 3-D effects, is the pair's first project together since scooping 11 Oscars with "Titanic" in 1998.
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Cool sci-fi concept wrapped around a “Military and Humans are bad” subtext.
It very well could be, but being objective history shows us that humans are quite capable of evil.
The plot seems to be a typical “going native” story.
Told correctly it needn’t be a condemnation of the invading culture, but given the ‘mood’ of Hollywood these days, I don’t expect the humans come off well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9GCoIkHq8c
“Humans from Earth”
ignore the silly star trek.
I think I read this as a short story...
Freegards
I think he is expecting another Titanic and it won’t happen. That movie was incredible and is a once in a lifetime. He will not repeat and truthfully should not even try.
No offense against Dances with Wolves intended. Just don’t think it needs a $300,000,000 Sci-Fi remake.
OK , they lost me at the ‘disabled vet’ in a wheel chair while everyone else was fighting with mecha....
OTOH, the visuals may make it worth the price of a cheap seat - we have a movie house in town that shows movies just before release on DVD for $3 all shows.
Not a bad deal if you skip the $11 a bucket popcorn....
***of course, evil WHITE space marines invading wonderful blue aliens home world. Main character sees this and switches sides.***
but didn’t he already do this with ALIENS? Only no one switched sides!
The Colonial marines where good guys, but the corporations where evil in Aliens universe. Notice how long lasting Aliens 1-2 popularity was.
It’ll probably be the biggest blockbuster since “Heaven’s Gate” and “Ishtar”.
Pfft, Titanic. Chick flick.
Terminator.
Aliens.
T2.
The guy lost it after that.
I’m no Hollywood expert, but I think you are incorrect about the average cost of feature films. Based on my readings its 40 to 50 million and up. Plus, a film has to gross over twice its negative cost to pay for prints and advertising. So a movie that cost 300 mil must gross about 600 mil at the box office just to break even. Thats the formula they shoot for on every film. Poor word of mouth and a bad friday night opening can kill a 100 million dollar film by the following monday. Risky business, and the hits have to pay for a lot of misses just like the record business.
Only if we let it!
Semper Fi!
Firefly!
Just back from IMDB. The synopsis shows that this is definitely a Dances With Wolves in space, with an enormous special effects department and the story was copyrighted by Cameron long before he did Titanic. This is clearly his baby from beginning to end. The success or failure will be on him alone.
The important part of my post was that $300 million movies are the fairly rare exception not the rule. And there are plenty of cheaper movies out there, right now in the top 10 there 5 movies with budgets on $30 million (Informant, Zombieland, Whip It, Invention of Lying, Paranormal Activities), 3 of those had a budget under $20 million and Paranormal Activities is reported to be under $10.
Avatar is, as your slightly over simplified but good enough for this discussion math shows, doomed. Way too expensive a movie, it would have to make Titanic money to break even, and that’s just not going to happen. But, again, it’s an outlier. Even this summer’s big blockbusters didn’t cost that much, it’s going to wind up the most expensive movie of the year by a good $50 million (or enough to make Whip It, Invention of Lying, and Paranormal Activities and leave plenty of change) and I doubt it’ll make top 20 in revenue.
All the “gee whiz” special effects in the world won’t save a movie if it doesn’t have an interesting plot and a decent script.
You ain’t.
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