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Soundwave on 02 January 2016
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DakonBlackblade said:
Soundwave said:

You don't need a spectacular Star Wars movie to break records.

You just need a competent one with fun/witty characters/dialogue. That's basically all The Force Awakens had to do.

Phantom Menace would've broke a lot of Titanic's records if had been a competent movie, the fact that it still made so much money based on hype says a lot.

None of TFA, Avatar, Jurassic World, or Avengers are spectacular movies IMO. Ditto for Furious 7. So being a masterpiece isn't a pre-requisite for anything. 

I find this statement rather wierd, are masterpiece movies suposed to be the ones pl dont find entertaining but critics say are great and that end up getting showered with lots of Academy Awards ? Cause in my opinion everyone of those movies you listed have gota be good otherwise ppl wouldnt see it and tell theyre friends to go see it, and go see it again themselves, and take theyre kids/girlfriends/boyfriends to see it etc. Considering movies exist to entertain, all of those movies you listed did that better than most of the Academy Awards "masterpieces". 

 

They're competent films, but they're not spectacular. Avatar might be Cameron's weakest film, but it's still decent. TFA probably isn't as good as any of the OT, but it manages to be better than the prequels and retain several elements of the OT so it works there. Jurassic World was a pale imitation of the first movie, but that's what people wanted (an actual sequel to the first movie). Furious 7 honestly ... is a mediocre/silly film, but the characters are fun and it was a send off for Paul Walker. 

The Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix (the original not the sequels), Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, The Dark Knight are legit mainstream pop masterpieces. To be honest I think Titanic is probably better than all of TFA, Avatar, Jurassic World, etc. too as a film.