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"According to the studio, Avatar has sold more copies in a single day in grocery and drug stores than The Dark Knight did in those outlets over its entire lifetime. The title is driving the sale of Blu-ray players at Best Buy."

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4502


WTF!!??!?! Do people not care about plots? Avatar was fucking horrible and I hate the American consumer. No wonder we fail at life.

4/27/2010 1:09:03 AM

i agree, avatar was boring and predictable, whats the point of it if its not in 3D?

4/27/2010 1:12:39 AM

the only good thing I can say is if this pushes the Blu-Ray media further due to Avatar adoption

4/27/2010 1:14:15 AM

Don't be blaming American consumers

This move did better outside of America than any movie ever.

4/27/2010 1:16:01 AM

don't matter, this is about US sales

4/27/2010 1:16:22 AM

you also must take into account the number of blu-ray players available at dark knight's launch

4/27/2010 1:17:06 AM

pretty sure this takes into account Dark Knight DVD sales, as Avatar offers both.

4/27/2010 1:17:43 AM

I liked The Dark Knight. My brother used to seed it!

4/27/2010 1:17:47 AM

oh shit, e-lingo

4/27/2010 1:18:23 AM

Also:

"in grocery and drug stores"

Who buys blu-ray movies at grocery or drug stores?

4/27/2010 1:19:51 AM

dark knight cannot be a family movie therefore the audience is limited
whereas avatar can be enjoyed by all brands of humans and human social groups

4/27/2010 1:20:01 AM

^^ I found that odd also

^ yes, except the audience with a brain







[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 1:20 AM. Reason : .]

4/27/2010 1:20:07 AM

The Dark Knight was a BAD movie

it was too fucking long, and Batman sucked, and Heath Ledger as the Joker was NOT all that bad ass

4/27/2010 1:43:13 AM

THIS FUCKER MADE ALIENS

ALIENS

4/27/2010 1:46:14 AM

you can argue Dark Knight as a bad movie, but you can't argue Avatar as a good one.

4/27/2010 1:48:09 AM

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"The Dark Knight was a BAD-ASS movie"

4/27/2010 1:50:51 AM

IMAX cameras made the movie

4/27/2010 2:01:39 AM

don't know why anyone would even watch Avatar if it wasn't in 3D

4/27/2010 2:09:19 AM

ITT JeffreyBSG only watches Marvel movies.

4/27/2010 2:44:41 AM

avatar =

4/27/2010 2:47:21 AM

your avatar looks like it's annoyed

4/27/2010 2:58:58 AM

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"i agree, avatar was boring and predictable"

What did Avatar beat to become the highest grossing movie?

Fucking Titanic

it doesn't get more predictable than that.

Maybe james cameron has some crazy sublminal advert going on for his blockbusters....

4/27/2010 3:38:38 AM

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"Who buys blu-ray movies at grocery or drug stores?"

The Kroger on Raleigh Boulevard has exactly two movies on Blu-Ray: The Princess and the Frog and Precious.

4/27/2010 8:35:55 AM

4/27/2010 8:38:58 AM

^^^ You might be on to something

I was at the bar today and some guys practically jizzed in their pants when the ad came on saying Avatar was available for sale next week

4/27/2010 8:44:50 AM

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"The Dark Knight was a BAD movie it was too fucking long, and Batman sucked, and Heath Ledger as the Joker was NOT all that bad ass"

holy shit, i thought i was the only person who thought this. this is going to be a good day.

4/27/2010 8:48:04 AM

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"(CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora. On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie. "I wasn't depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ," Baghdassarian said. "But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed." A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film. "That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted. A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie. "Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' ""

4/27/2010 8:50:19 AM

AVATAR RULES

THE DARK KNIGHT FUCKING RULES


FUCK YOU^^^^, FUCK YOU^^^, FUCK YOU^^, YOU'RE COOL^, FUCK YOU^^^^^^^^^^^

I'M OUT!




(arbitrary karats)

4/27/2010 8:54:25 AM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ yeah, that's a valid argument.

4/27/2010 8:57:18 AM

i'm not reading the thread to find out if anyone's mentioned this, but...

WHO THE FUCK CARES? if people like it, they like...whoop-de-fuckin-do if they don't agree with your personal opinion

4/27/2010 8:58:05 AM

^ funny you say that. i was reading through an old thread this morning looking for a post i had made and remembered how you went through a lot of effort to explain to everyone not only why you did not like explodingdog, but why no one should like explodingdog. check it out man, maybe you don't remember.

/message_topic.aspx?topic=463806&page=2

4/27/2010 9:12:01 AM

^^that

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 9:20 AM. Reason : ]

4/27/2010 9:16:14 AM

Regardless of this argument, Tombstone comes out today on Blu-Ray!!!

4/27/2010 9:17:21 AM

dark night sucked. A computer program that can monitor ever cellphone in a city? Come on.

4/27/2010 11:10:10 AM

Avatar was an epic so-so movie.

4/27/2010 11:10:43 AM

i was thinking about downloading avatar but then i remembered how much it sucked so i decided against it.

4/27/2010 11:11:46 AM

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""The Dark Knight was a BAD movie it was too fucking long, and Batman sucked, and Heath Ledger as the Joker was NOT all that bad ass" holy shit, i thought i was the only person who thought this. this is going to be a good day."

I wouldn't say it was BAD, but it was pretty forgettable. It was kind of fun and exciting, but I have no desire to see it again. I have no idea what the fuss over Ledger's Joker was. He was fine, but nothing exceptional.

4/27/2010 11:13:52 AM

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" I have no idea what the fuss over Ledger's Joker was"

\\

the fuss was he chocked on his own vomit and died.

4/27/2010 11:17:17 AM

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""

110% accurate

4/27/2010 11:18:13 AM

Dark Knight was relatively good because the previous few Batman movies had sucked

Avatar was just glorified special effects with a shitty plot

Perfect for BlueRay

4/27/2010 11:18:42 AM

dbl post!

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 11:19 AM. Reason : whoops]

4/27/2010 11:18:48 AM

fuck avatar

if i want an amazing visual experience, i'll go to a goddamned aquarium.

4/27/2010 11:19:09 AM

or get the aquarium blu-ray

4/27/2010 12:42:04 PM

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"dark night sucked. A computer program that can monitor ever cellphone in a city? Come on."

And he made that thing in like a day while running around doing a bunch of other stuff too. Must have outsourced that code to a programming shop in India.

4/27/2010 1:20:58 PM

GGMon is just pissed that Netflix wouldn't stream Dark Knight to him in the The Great White North

4/27/2010 1:22:59 PM

^^It was an RnD project. Its existence is hinted at earlier in the movie. He didn't just pull it out of his ass.

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"dark night sucked. A computer program that can monitor ever cellphone in a city? Come on."

So the whole masked superhero with unlimited wealth and resources, kicking ass and taking names, skyhooking into skyscrapers in distant lands, and supervillian clowns were okay for you to suspend your disbelief, but god forbid there be an exaggerated technological resource at someone's disposal. DISBELIEF UNSUSPENDED.

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 1:27 PM. Reason : d]

4/27/2010 1:27:25 PM

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"Who buys blu-ray movies at grocery or drug stores?"

idiots. in fact, anyone who buys any media in a brick and mortar store is just pissing money away. I guess it's convenient...

4/27/2010 1:29:04 PM

the dark knight cell phone spying was dumb, but to say the movie therefore sucked is dumb, even for chit chat

4/27/2010 1:30:24 PM

If y'all must know, drug stores and grocery stores were and still are running promotions like, "Spend twenty dollars on these select items and get Avatar on blu-ray for five dollars..."

So if you need any of those items, and you had coupons for those items, and you wanted a Blu-Ray of Avatar, it would make sense for you to purchase it in a drug store or grocery store...

4/27/2010 1:55:15 PM

They're called "impulse buys" at least if you make the purchases

You might have had zero intention of buying a DVD or BlueRay when you went to the store

But you're waiting in line and you're like "hey look its Avatar"

4/27/2010 1:56:42 PM