Great movie bu i doubt it gonna hit $2bil

Every year between Christmas and New Year's eve I make a 500 miles long drive just to watch a movie in IMAX. It's a yearly tradition that I do, to just clear my head and do a bit of a retrospective of the year, on my own. Whatever is at the cinema I will watch it. This year it was Avatar 2. I have to admit it, it was still a far better choice than last year's Mufasa.

Damn, 500 miles? I assume that's round trip at least, you would need a sleepover at the theater otherwise!

The last movie I bothered to drive to IMAX for was Interstellar, was only a 40 minute drive too. Oddly the appeal of driving a long time (to clear my head) is greater than sitting in a cinema watching a 3 hour spectacle. Turn the music up and enjoy the changing scenery.

Anyway the last time I really enjoyed a James Cameron movie was Terminator 2. I did go watch Titanic in IMAX (which was just 35mm on a bigger screen at the time) but it still dragged on.

Honestly, I prefer 2D, for some of us 3D just doesn't feel right, it's distracting and visually uncomfortable, you're certainly not alone there.

I wasn't able to see Fire and Ash at the cinema, but the original and Way of Water were still amazing spectacles in 2D.

yeah it seems so random. I didn't even know this movie was out, though to be fair thats the case with most movies these days. Until right around when the second movie came out I thought Cameron had abandoned the idea of making more of them.

The first movie sold insane amounts cuz it was crazy hyped up with like all new digital movie tech put into it and whatnot, and most people seemed to think the movies were at best enjoyable but nothing special. But obviously the sequels don't have that kind of hype so I'm like how they hell are these sequels flying past $2 billion (assuming this one will as well). I watched the second one online and didn't bother finishing it, though I liked the first one just fine, good but not great. These movies coming out so many years after the original that mostly sold on massive marketing hype...i woulda figured these movies would make a half a billion or so but not much more. These numbers are wild.

Haven't seen it yet. $1 billion in 18 days, does that mean it beat Avengers Endgame?

Each Avatar movie has a place in my top 3 cinema experience ever. The first Avtar being the only film I ever went to see a second time on the big screen.

None of the Avtar movies are top in Character, story, music or acting. But each of them have the best visuals. When going to see a movie at the cinema, visuals is the most important factor for the experience. Movies with better stories can but lesser visuals can be experienced fully at home. The experience the Avatar movies give can only be felt on the big screen (and in 3D, but I understand why that might be a no for many).

Since the largest part of a movies earnings can be collected from the run at the cinema, Movies that work best for that format tend to gain comparably more. Even when they are lacking in other parts of the full "watching a movie"-experience.

That's a really cool tradition - I love both driving and IMAX showings. Luckily, I have an IMAX about 20 minutes by commuter train from where I live, but I do sometimes take a longer trip to a 4DX theater the next city over. The Dune movies are the epitome of IMAX experiences for me, and I'm planning on watching Avatar 3 on IMAX as well. 

Funny enough yesterday a friend at work just told me and a friend group she watched it with her boyfriend and liked it, and another friend got interested to watch it because she also liked the first 2 movies a lot.

So not only now I know people that have watched and liked it, but apparently one person that was a big fan of the series did not even know it was out, but is now interested to go see it as well.

Such a strange mix lol.

Yup, it's a round trip :D And I can agree with T2. It's probably the last Cameron movie I consider to be a great all-around movie. It's the pinackle of that eras action sci-fi trend. Titanic, while it was huge for it's time, not quite my cup of tea.

For whatever reason 4DX became way more popular around here compared to IMAX. We have a bunch of them, including one at the mall a couple of blocks from me. I do like those as well, especially for soapy sci-fi and mainstream horror movies where I go mostly for the giggles.