Poor reviews did not stop them from building a land for Potter and it has done very well. I saw one of the movies and was literally falling asleep. So I am not sure it matters how many fresh vs rotten tomatoes a film gets as to how it will do as a theme park addition. Avatar is the highest grossing film of all time by a long shot. Poor films do not preform this way. Interesting spin by you because of the absurdity of it.
:lol: I do agree the film was more a message of the environmental extremist :hurl: than the sound science of conservationism but that can be 'fixed' going forward. And hopefully will be. This is a brilliant add for DAK. Take off the blinders.
Highest grossing film because :
1) 3-D gimmick - first real studio film built from the ground up to be 3-D, so the 3-D was presented in a way like never before,
2) Ticket prices up to double the cost due to the "3-D tax".
3) Little competition (and no competition in the 3-D gimmick realm)
4) Public curiosity/fascination with the 3-D concept/tech from people who wouldn't have gone near the film otherwise (see #1)
Hey, I give the guy props. He knows how to give teenagers what they want to see and makes a boat load of money. But that doesn't mean it was a great film. Basically, he took what Spielberg started with Jurrasic Park, Lucas continued with the SW prequels, Jackson matured with LOTR, and combined it all together to make a true CGI film. (Though, the motion capture he seems so impressed by himself with that he tried to get Oscar nominations for the "actors" is really nothing new, at all - Disney was doing rotoscoping back in the 30's for Snow White, it's just the evolution of the idea.)
Now, the broader question is - now what. Avatar sure was pretty, but also devoid of any warmth or emotion whatsoever. I think the point I am making, and that I believe Eddie is also going for, is that besides the technical merits, there isn't much there. Star Wars and Potter have grand heroes/heroines/villains who transcended being film characters and became iconic on their own. The most iconic thing about Avatar was 3-D...and Cameron. In those other films, little kids (and some adults) dreamed of being plucked out of obscurity and told they had some great destiny. Of being part of those worlds.
The same cannot be said for Avatar. The most that can be said is that he created a very, very pretty world. But there was nothing really under it, emotionally or even really conceptually. But you know what - LOL - that makes it a great fit for AK. Never really made that connection, but here you have a park that people go ga-ga over the environment, but it's lack of depth and attractions is only lightly covered by that. An inch of cake and a mile of frosting. Just like Avatar.
Actually, now that I realize that, it's a perfect fit.
