According to sources on the web, the film cost somewhere north of $230M. Some estimates went as high as $300M. Toss in another $150M for promotions and you're talking real money. One of the most expensive films ever. So far, at least.
The Old Amigo is puzzled. You might think with all those bucks spent on 3-D and special effects they might have found a top-tier science fiction writer and asked him/her to write an original story. Something a little less in the COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE department, for instance. You might also think with all those bucks, they'd hire a great screenwriter so there'd be excellent dialog.
You might think those things.
But you'd be wrong.
2 comments:
We saw it in 3D. I enjoyed it, but I can't see it as the paradigm shift some call it, and certainly the story was like something Andre Norton would have written around 1960.
Scout spent much of the movie with her hand pressed to her temple (I think 3D doesn't work so well for someone with one bad eye) and my eyes hurt for a couple of days afterward.
I liked the Fantasia-like sequences, but Disney did that decades ago. There were some clear references to 2001, which I think was a ground-breaking movie.
The news last night said that Avatar has now surpassed Titanic for first-release gross. I wonder what the relative percentage of available market each garnered ?
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I haven't see the movie, but I sure enjoyed your review...too funny!
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