I think James Cameroon did it again with Avatar. Reviews already saying that the effect of Star Wars is seen again. It may be breaking all the box office records set in hollywood in coming weeks. Now Titanic's box office record is in danger.
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I think James Cameroon did it again with Avatar. Reviews already saying that the effect of Star Wars is seen again. It may be breaking all the box office records set in hollywood in coming weeks. Now Titanic's box office record is in danger.
Titanics BO has already been broken many times.
Yeah, if inflation adjusted Titanic is no big shake. Probably would watch it this weekend. Good critical response too. Ebert comparing the feeling to watching Star Wars first time :shock:
Inflation adjusted top ten Titanic is after Ten Commandment at 6th position: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
No, it has not been as far as USA BO is concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
worldwide box office
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltim...ion=world-wide
American box office
http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic.htm
Titanic leads on both. With adjusted to inflation still Gone with the wind leads in domestic box office.
already booked ticket for thursday show at 1Utama GSC 3D show :happydance: :happydance: :cheer: :bluejump: :redjump:
Okay, TA, got your point. I hope this one breaks Titanic's record. Antha padam onnum periya Tillalanggadi illa-nu ithu prove pannanum :D. If Titanic is the best thing that happened in the 90s, then it is sad man, very sad. :x
I also don't think Titanic is great movie. Just box office record is great. I liked several other movies such as Godfather, Silence of the Lambs and One who flew over the cuckoo's nest and atleast 50 other movies better than titanic. But the greatness is Titanic record even without adjusting to inflation is not broken since 1996. Any movie should collect atleast 900 millions dollars in america alone to beat titanic record and atleast 1.2 billion in america alone to beat gone with the wind record.Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
If you take Cameron's work, I would put Aliens and the first Terminator, and above all, The Abyss, above Titanic and I am not being emotional here*
*Maybe I am, having been traumatised by Celine Dion's song those days :cry:
I would throw up if I hear that song again.
:lol: I was at the point of going on murderous rampage but they told me it was illegal.
Hope Dion is nowhere in the Avatar soundtrack list :evil:
I immensely like "True Lies"..
I love T-2. Right up there with Die-Hard.
Of course, True Lies is still wonderful. T2 was pretty mindblowing at that time. Sure, I will list them above Titanic!! :twisted:
I too like T-2. But then who doesn't? It's one of the best action-sci/fi film of all time (with emphasis on action).
True Lies is a fantastic movie..(kuthiraila Bike-a thoratharathu antha padamthaane???)
T-2? judgement day-va?? I liked Judgement day.. other parts paarkala.
T-2-Judgement day than.Quote:
Originally Posted by hamid
Thanks Appu..
The difference between Titanic and other JC movies is the Romance :)
There is a premiere show on wednesday here in the UK.. Watched the trailor the other day, and its just jawdropping stuff !
Cant wait to watch the movie.. I hope IR had done the music for this remake of Avadharam .. Did JC get the copyright solved from Nasser ? :lol:
Avatar nominated for best picture(drama) and best director in the golden globes.
http://www.goldenglobes.org/news/id/159
James camroon's worst movie is TITANIC.... I was eagerly sitting in theatre to see how the ship wreck was shot....other than ship wrecking, the movie is pathetic.....
As groucho said, T2 is mindblowing till now.....It was running 175 days in ALANGAR.....
IMO ... the extrodinary thing in Titanic was the background work that was involved and not just title or romance or actors !!!
trying to recreate the disaster of the early 20th century - with an enormous ship which was almost recreated ...... and not just graphics .... and technicality and behind the screen effort kku dhaan mukkiyamaa andha padam stood apart !!!!
700 prints for avatar in India. tamil version alone take 100 prints :) and rest are Aangilam, Indhi and telungu. Sathyam cinemas has rights to release avatar in TN. Even tomorrow Satyam theatre screens avatar 3D version (kannadiyoda paarungo with Rs. 20 extra charge) :D
Eagerly waiting for this move but 2D ya illa 3D ya :wink:
Oh 3D screens, glasses vera irukka?
Bangalore la endha theater la 3D undu? :roll:
My reply got mixed up in other thread.
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Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
:ty: LM
By the way, it should be 'Cameron' and not 'Cameroon' in the title :)
it started playing on wednesday nite in malaysia. :roll:
bought tickets for saturday nite :happydance:
RGV romba overa pesaraare :roll:
Some people say less is more. I say, more is less and too much is not enough – James Cameron.
As I stepped out of Imax last night after watching AVATAR in 3D, I hated James Cameron for in comparison to the ultra futuristic vision of his, he made me feel like a pre-historic being of cinema in every which way. AVATAR in 3D is the most mind-blowing cinematic experience anybody can ever hope to have in their entire lifetime. Nearly 3 decades ago I remember being awestruck with Star Wars and now nearly 30 years later AVATAR to me looked 30 years ahead of its time both in its creative output and also in terms of James Cameron’s sheer imaginative power.
Some people said that it’s low on the emotional quotient compared to Titanic but if at all, that could be because the visuals and the atmosphere of the film are so breathtaking that it takes you that much more time and effort to connect to its emotional aspect and its story when compared to a normal film with normal people.
I have never believed in God but I think James Cameron is greater than God for the simple reason that he created a far more beautiful, far more fantastic and far more exotic world than what even God can ever hope to create.
And all this he managed to do it in a paltry budget of 1200 Crores. Yes, I say it’s a paltry budget considering we make films like Kambhakt Ishq and London Dreams for budgets nearly touching 80 to 90 crores which is nearly as much as 1/12th of the budget of AVATAR and then every shot of AVATAR looks 12000 times better than our entire so-called 100 crore films.
I honestly feel that it is a crime to give away such a glorious experience as that of watching AVATAR for a mere 100 or 200 Rupee ticket to us common people.
When someone asked me if the special efx of AVATAR will inspire other filmmakers, I said that on the contrary they might have a reverse effect. What I mean is that we can only aspire to become someone when we can atleast have a belief that we can reach someone’s potential but James Cameron in AVATAR created a bench mark so high that it will take years for us lesser folk even to comprehend it let alone attempt to execute it.
It’s like if you aspire to be a runner and somehow hope to run at a speed of 20km per hour which may be the world record and then when on the track you see a guy running at 200kmph you would rather give up and come back and make family dramas and TV serials and leave the running to James Cameron.
Titanic was fantastic but it did not shake me up inspite of everyone else around me back then saying that James Cameron is God of cinema.
But with his second coming “AVATAR” I have surely turned religious.
I want to pray to him for making “AVATAR”.
I hate him for making all us so-called filmmakers in the world feel like ants. (Read chooths)
I love him for the passion and the patience with which he created new benchmarks in each and every technical aspect of the medium of films.
And lastly, “I thank him for existing”.
P.S: I truly believe “AVATAR” will divide cinema as we knew it so far into a pre “AVATAR” and a post “AVATAR” era.
Don’t see it…. Experience it.
What's with this Star Wars fixation? Ivanga ellam 2001 paathadhe illiya? 2001 wallops the behind of every sci-fi movie released till now in every department. Star Wars is a Chutti TV cartoon, in comparison. Naansanssss :x
BTW, liked the bit about Kambakht Ishq and London Dreams :lol:
Booked at Inox 3D for Saturday
P.S: Padam puriyuma nu bayama irukku...
minimum rendu thadava paarkkanum
I will see 3D version next week :D
Yeh, star wars asingam. And 2001 was in the 60s for Gods sake :twisted:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/ - The consensus seems to be visually spectacular but indha character development, emotional kOsant ellAm kammiyA irukkaam..
Star Wars was so not "ennada solla vareenga", which IMO is important for the 'dazzlement' of a sci-fiQuote:
Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
Star wars was way ahead of its times when it was released. I am not really sure how many of us are qualified to talk about that. My american colleagues said that they were stunned when they watched the movie for first time on theatres. It is not fair to compare star wars with recent movies.
But the thing is 2001: A Space Odessey is one hundred times better in terms of being visually spectacular / shockingly good for the time it released, and a thousand times better in terms of other cinematic aspects.
Stuff in 2001 was put together by years of background work done by Kubrick with NASA experts. He employed real engineers to experiment and recreate the backdrop with some sense of plausibility. Speculations are American govt, & Nasa had funded Kubrick to do this film as a propaganda machine for people believing into their moon/space travel which would later be staged by Kubrick in film studios. :lol:
Some of the mechanical sets, or authentic makeup for the Apes, for example, were designed to perfection. He outdid everything prior to this and IMO, will stand the test of time as the pinnacle of the genre. Revamped the genre when it was going through a phase of shoddy production values, plastic aliens and parodies of themes. He made something that works on one unassuming simplification - visual images accompanied with music that works like a silent musical. :shock: :notworthy: The film could be seen and experienced solely like a symphony.
Then there is a question of authenticity in this experience, the logical step was to not show the Alien. This, IMO, is sheer genius. We talk about genre subversions, like Reservoir dogs being a heist film without heist, and so on. But this is something else. The idea of far-evolved superior species watching, guiding, and monitoring our cosmical-evolution is a potent one. Yet, you are not allowed to fixate aliens into fixed dimensions, an image that would ultimately be World-ly when it could be anything but that. Thus arrived the "Monolith", as mysteriously bland as a visualized simulacrum of an 'Alien'. The implanting of Monolith at various evolutionary junctions of Humans is to be seen (& is shown in the film) from bird's eye view and not from a human standpoint POV (Kubrick never shows the "Monolith" through eyes of primitive apes or the fully developed human but placed among the vicinage.). The lack of first-person perspective and the resulting emotional insulation/detachment is absolutely vital IMO, to speculate on a wider, interesting and 'grander' concept. So, "Enna solla vareenga" I think not. Although the suggestions and subliminal interpretations had feigned such an image.
Sticking to innovativeness(most of which remains discreet) and proportionate quality, it out scales almost all digial recreations since then. CGI with green screen was developed by Lucas, which to be honest is a big innovation and changed cinema forever. With limitless potential to provide 'grandness'. But then, as Bowman encounters the Jupiter monolith which triggers a Stargate sequence that eventually ports him into another side of universe. Entrapped by the human prison or zoo if you will, & guarded by Alien (who we still don't see) till his death. The talent in canvassing this, without much distortion, into images is cinematic genius.
Lucas had been inspired by 2001 as a kid. Spielberg as well. Such genre masters, Sci-Fi revolutionists concede 2001 to be mind-blowingly put together, improbable & inconceivable without a genius. A landmark moment that redefined and expanded the genre. As was "Paths of Glory" to War, "Barry Lyndon" to Period piece, "Lolita" to romance, "Dr,Strangelove" to cold-war, "Shining" to horror, "A clockwork Orange" to ultraviolence. :twisted:
they are not meant for reading, mr.RGV :P .....Quote:
Originally Posted by RGV
Avatars promos look visually stunning and a kickass indianised title......ive liked all Cameron's movies including Titanic - must watch ya......
Padam kandippa odirum adhu matter-ae illa. But how big is the deal. Great idea to release it at christmas time and at the end of fall school season. Some records are set to stumble i guess.
All very well kig-glove.
As always, my only complaints about certain artists are that they are not like some other artists whom I like better :-)