WHY 'AVATAR' IS ACTUALLY THE 26TH BIGGEST MOVIE
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January 26, 2010
Box office is arguably more straightforward to report than TV ratings.
You have this weekly Top 10 list of returns, you compare each movie
to the other movies. TV ratings are a murky swamp where one network's
hit is another network's flop and context is not just a factor, but
often the entire story.
Han fucking soloYet one respect in which boxoffice reporting is
pretty odd -- emphasizing ticket grosses yet rarely mentioning ticket
sales. That would be like always reporting how many ad dollars sold
off "Lost" and not mentioning the number of viewers that actually
watched the show. With everybody reporting how "Avatar" is The
Biggest Movie of All Time based on grosses ($1.859 billion and
counting), it's important to remember how rising ticket prices skew
the returns.
Here's the Top 20 movies of all time ... by number of tickets sold [1]:
1 "Gone With the Wind" (1939) 202,044,600
2 "Star Wars" (1977) 178,119,600
3 "The Sound of Music" (1965) 142,415,400
4 "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) 141,854,300
5 "The Ten Commandments" (1956) 131,000,000
6 "Titanic" (1997) 128,345,900
7 "Jaws" (1975) 128,078,800
8 "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) 124,135,500
9 "The Exorcist" (1973) 110,568,700
10 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) 109,000,000
11 "101 Dalmatians" (1961) 99,917,300
12 "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) 98,180,600
13 "Ben-Hur" (1959) 98,000,000
14 "Return of the Jedi" (1983) 94,059,400
15 "The Sting" (1973) 89,142,900
16 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) 88,141,900
17 "Jurassic Park" (1993) 86,205,800
18 "The Graduate" (1967) 85,571,400
19 "Star Wars: Episode I" (1999) 84,825,800
20 "Fantasia" (1941) 83,043,500
"Avatar," despite topping the worldwide gross list [2], by and by, is
only No. 26 on the ticket sales list with 76,421,000 sold ... at
least, so far...
For more film blogging and breaking news, check out Borys Kit's Heat
Vision blog [3]...
[1] http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&p=.htm
[2] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i107616f101d6818868bd08edad593649?imw=Y
[3] http://www.heatvisionblog.com/
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Why 'Avatar' is actually the 26th biggest movie
The Live Feed
January 26, 2010
Box office is arguably more straightforward to report than TV ratings.
You have this weekly Top 10 list of returns, you compare each movie
to the other movies. TV ratings are a murky swamp where one network's
hit is another network's flop and context is not just a factor, but
often the entire story.
Yet one respect in which boxoffice reporting is pretty odd -- emphasizing
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How did it make 1.8 billion dollars if it only sold 77 million
tickets. That�s more than $20 a ticket.
I just saw the movie. It was a great visual movie. Story was so-so,
or as my daughter says "Ferngully with tall smurfs".
There were also plot points stolen from star trek, pohohantas, and
Orson Scott Card�s Enders series (specifically the Children of the
Mind portion) -- complete with the slightly-different named Aiuas
living in trees after they die.
And you had Eragon and the dragon-bonding.
Cameron wasn't much for originality. But he loves senseless killing.
And vengeance.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by CharlesWayneCT
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It is a DUMB movie.
Spectacular 3D but a very pedestrian movie.
2 posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by Touch Not the Cat
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'I Believe in Eco-Terrorism': Does James Cameron Live In a Malibu
Mansion? by Pam Meister
Avatar's far worse than simply a pedestrian film. It's a reflection
of Cameron's ideology/activist propaganda. Here's a revealing quote:
Just when you think certain celebrities couldn't get any more
obnoxious, we are treated to an interview with last night's Golden
Globe winner, James "I'm the King of the World" Cameron in
Entertainment Weekly. On page 35 of the latest edition of the print
version, Cameron responds to the following criticism of his latest
film "Avatar":
EW: "Avatar" is the perfect eco-terrorism recruiting tool."
JC: Good, good. I like that one. I consider that a positive review. I
believe in ecoterrorism."
Did you catch that...? "I believe in ecoterrorism."
Avatar is just another ultra-liberal propaganda peddling film dressed
up in a eye catching Versace, bling and all.
Cameron can take his hypocritical eco-terrorist Avatar and go pound
sand.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by This Just In