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AVATAR FLOPPED
NO CULTURAL IMPACT
HE'S RUNNING OUT OF MONEY
HE'S A HACK
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>>217372993
>reused interview from december
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I can take a stab at the "why" but will preface that I'm just speculating.

The Avatar movies have been really profitable but they're also very expensive. Avatar 3 reportedly cost $350-400m to produce and that number doesn't include marketing costs. Studios also split the box office gross with theaters. The exact % varies based on a number of factors but general rule of thumb has been studios take 50% or slightly more of the gross.

So with those things in mind, it likely is concerning to the studio that Avatar 3 is tracking to make considerably less than the first two. Current projections from folks over at r/boxoffice are around $1.5B. That's still a lot of money but also would be a drop of $800m from what the second movie made. And if the fourth movie continues the downward trajectory with the same budget as Avatar 3, the movie could quickly go from profitable and worth making to break-even or losing money.

Studios (companies in general, really) aren't making decisions based on what has already happened. They are trying to use data and intuition to forecast what will happen and make decisions according to that.

The other thing to keep in mind is that studios (and again, companies in general) are trying to maintain and grow their bottom line. Investing $400-500m in a project and having it miss on expectations is not a good situation, even if that movie still breaks even or turns a small profit. Especially for public companies that have to regularly report on how they are performing against expectations and their own projections.
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>>217373058
pajeet
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>>217372993
Make the Battle Angel Alita sequels god dammit
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>>217373032
Avatar 3 made barely half of what 2 made
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>>217372993
The diminishing returns are obvious. Way of Water did not recapture the magic of the first one and most people didn't care anymore to see the new one. The plot is convoluted, the runtimes are absurd, and the characters aren't memorable. On top of that, non-woke and non-furfag audience members are rooting for Quaritch and the humans because the Na'vi are extremely cringe and nigger coded, but these movies go out of their way to make the humans absurdly evil and cruel so you are punished for watching it and not wanting to see the lame alien tribals win. It's a franchise with no legitimate fanbase or longevity and costs an unsustainable amount of money to produce.
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>>217372993
Maybe he should try making a good movie for once.
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it's over
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>>217373977
not going to break 500 milly domestically
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>>217372993
It came out at Christmas during yet another ‘cost of living crisis’. Ofcourse it flopped.
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>>217373831
The thing about the first one was that it was basically FernGully and even stupider that Jake basically forgot his mission, to negotiate with the natives so they could mine the unobtanium (yes, they literally called it that) without harming the tree. Jake not only forgot his mission but he betrayed his comrades, and he's supposed to be the hero. But it was visually impressive and a lot of people fell for that alone.
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>>217372993
The Avatar movies are basically animated movies so they're easy to just AI generate.
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>>217374616
Gonna need to reserve another 20 year's worth of RAM to generate 8K video in our lifetime
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>>217372993
71 years old men should retire.
>>217373058
They are expensive mostly Becuase he is being carried by teams of sub directors (he doesn’t call them directors) but they basically carry the film production for the senior citizen.
So it Basiccly has 5 production teams instead of one
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>>217373831
Way of the water is basically a different kind of film.
A ton of people of didn’t even like the first one liked way of water more, for a different audience
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>>217374262
>the guy who helped the natives from invasion was... le bad guy all along!
Very subversive from you.
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Feminist filmmaker. Stronk woman myth obsession.
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>>217373831
>The plot is convoluted,
Funny how Avatar is "space Pocahontas" but at the same time "convoluted"
>the runtimes are absurd
Zoomer.
>and the characters aren't memorable.
Yet you remember Quadritch.
>On top of that, non-woke and non-furfag audience members are rooting for Quaritch and the humans
These people don't watch movies.
>It's a franchise with no legitimate fanbase or longevity and costs an unsustainable amount of money to produce
It also makes a fuckton of money. Disney is just building a new park.
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>>217373831
> Na'vi are …. nigger coded
Yeah, this isn’t talked about
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>>217373058
And Avatar 4 will happen.
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>>217374262
>to negotiate with the natives so they could mine the unobtanium without harming the tree
Next time watch the movie before talking about it.
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Is there a progression with these movies? It genuinely doesn't feel like it's leading up to anything. The humans and navi fight. The navi win. Tune in next movie. It's like an episodic television show from the 90s, but each costs a billion dollars.
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>>217373977
>$700
I thought these films made $2 billion each.
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>>217372993
What's his problem? Hasn't all the technology been developed by this point?
George pushed the limit of technology on every star wars movie and didn't spend retarded amounts of money like this.
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>>217375062
The Star Wars prequels have terrible VFX.
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>>217374951
>Is there a progression with these movies
Yes, Jake's family is getting bigger and bigger.
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>>217375119
They were brilliant and ground breaking for their time, just like the ot
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>>217373831
>runtimes are absurd
>>217374262
>unobtanium (yes, they literally called it that)
Bro what these fucking bots Trained from text found on reddit
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>>217374983
that's just the domestic box office
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What do avatar poops look like?
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the new avatar is so retarded i felt sick to my stomach. the entire thing was senselessly and cartoonishly idiotic. girlbosses were everywhere hissing at each other every second sentence like savages. broccoli haired zoomer navis whose entire plotline is rebelling against their parents and evil adults.
>"this is a family, not a democracy!!"
when spider slaps his ass and yells "pendejo" like this was a fucking documentary of the housing projects, i almost walked out of the cinema, again when his dialogue had a glaringly obvious grammar mistake that im not sure was intentional or not to make him more niggerish
>"when they FLEW, there WILL be blood"
also alien whales had to be talked to using a combination of english and sign language for some reason, even if they communicate back in whale hummings. But what more important is you absolutely HAVE to be constantly reminded that the whales are head by a MATRIARCH and SHE GOES FIRST and you follow...
...and so many other stupid things. I cant understand why im still willingly undergoing these humiliation rituals of buying tickets to watch modern films. I hope this will be the last time i fall for them.
Also fucking Carmela Sopranos. Go blow a cock you outdated fucking whore.



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