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20 December 2009

Why the success of Avatar matters.

Avatar: $232 Million worldwide in its first weekend. Amazing.

Apparently the film lived up to the hype, which has slowly been building over the last decade. This is good news for us out there who enjoy Hollywood movies. Why? Two words:

Original Idea.

There was no previous franchise (Batman, Star Trek, Transformers, etc). This movie was an original creation and wasn't engrained into our group consciouness before hand, driving demand. You could argue that James Cameron is a franchise unto himself, but this isn't that sort of blog!

Thank you James Cameron for keeping hope alive for an industry which has been as of late just repackaging old ideas, instead of creating new ones. I hope Hollywood will grow on your movies success not my launching a sequal, but by looking out for new ideas that will captivate and entertain audiences here and abroad.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

i don't know :(