The Fans Have Spoken, Last Jedi Drops A Massive 68%

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Insidb said:

Soundwave said:

Cameron is better than Lucas, Abrams, or Johnson. (1) Fact is Cameron is probably the top tier action-adventure film director, his vision, his control of huge action scenes, and his ability to ground and create relatable characters in fantastical scenarios is simply unmatched. It's popular to hate on him because he's had such massive success, but his film's work, I can watch Titanic or even Avatar on a crappy SD feed on TV and those movies still work. (2) 

I don't know what Avatar 2 will do, but I'd say there's a good chance it's a better movie than any of the Star Wars prequels or sequels/spin-offs because Cameron is simply a better director and better storyteller, (3) and that's not to crap on JJ Abrams, but he simply isn't on that level (very few are). 

Jar-Jar was a big deal to angry Star Wars fans, normal people didn't care much, (4) in 1999 I was kinda stunned at how quickly the "popular conversation" of movies turned to other films like The Sixth Sense, Blair Witch Project, and even American Pie (the kid humps an apple pie in it!), lol. "I see dead people" and "I shall call him ... Mini-Me" were the most quotable lines of that summer. 

For the general public Star Wars is still riding largely the coat tails of the original trilogy with Vader, Yoda, Han/Luke/Leia being by far the most popular characters. No one in these new movies is close. (5)

Spider-Man destroyed AOTC in 2002, (6) ROTS was no.1 for 2005, but is only the 6th biggest film of the decade getting beaten even by Transformers 2 (lol). The Star Wars sequels have huge drops when they don't have like 10+ years of pent up hype. 

1) Probably.

2) I can't watch Avatar, because it is a crappy feed.

3) Maybe Avatar 2 will be Anastasia or Iron Giant in space? Once you've made $2B ripping off a non-Disney cartoon, you might as well go back to the well. 

4) The guy behind you is talking shit about Jar-Jar right now.

5) That's because those characters were larger-than-life, heroic icons, unlike the any of the characters in Avatar that no human alive can name.

6) So you found 1 film...out of 8; even the spinoff was #1 in the US and #2 WW...bring on the "humbling!" 

7) You should be ashamed of yourself...all farce and no force: I'm telling your dad.

Ever notice how Avatar is the only major film that is called unoriginal, despite being more original than the vast majority of blockbusters? I wonder why that is?