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Great article in Forbes, thoughts? "5 years ago Avatar grossed $2.7B and left no footnote" -- (link)

Posted by MDH (aka MDH) Dec 22 '14, 19:25

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I have not yet seen it and I have no desire to see it. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 20:42
Yeah, I've noticed that. Much of what the movie is about doesn't translate easily to the world outside of Imax 3D movie theaters - con_carne Dec 22, 19:39
I kinda agree. I saw it the once in the theater but have desire to see it again -- nm - amoxy Dec 22, 19:32 4
- I do think it's had some lasting pop culture references - unobtainium, etc.; but less than others maybe because, once we saw it and were amazed, - b. Dec 22, 19:39 2
  - unobtanium's been a scifi trope for years. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 19:42 1
    - and was around long before then; but I think it started hitting pop culture references much more with avatar. -- nm - b. Dec 22, 19:46
- I went to see it a second time in IMAX, thinking I would never want to see it after that -- nm - Guigue Dec 22, 19:36
True, but also true for many movies. When's the last time we had a character like Vader who will show up in Super Bowl ads in 2040? -- nm - Max Dec 22, 19:30 11
- All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, -- nm - what have the Romans done for us? Dec 22, 19:43 1
  - (They built the aqueduct.) -- nm - con_carne Dec 22, 19:44
- Harry Potter, Pirates, Hunger Games, All of the Marvel movies... -- nm - MDH Dec 22, 19:41 1
  - But those all existed before the movies. Star Wars characters were introduced in the movie. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 22, 19:57
- Elsa. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 19:39
- Lena Dunham on Girls -- nm - ty97 Dec 22, 19:39
- Katniss -- nm - amoxy Dec 22, 19:37
- Potter. The LOTR characters -- nm - ty97 Dec 22, 19:34
- Capt Jack. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 22, 19:33 2
  - Harry Potter maybe, with Radcliffe reprising the role like Broderick did for Ferris in 2012. -- nm - Max Dec 22, 19:34 1
    - I expect the correlation for Ferris/Broderick might be the American Pie kids - ty97 Dec 22, 19:40
Footprint* -- nm - MDH Dec 22, 19:27

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