10 Successful Movies That Prove You Will Watch ANYTHING
1. Avatar
Box Office: $2.79 billion
Avatar is a film that holds two prominent accolades that may be difficult to ever take away from it. It is one of the highest grossing films of all time and, also, the most inexplicably successful film ever released. The thought of at least two more films in this god awful franchise honestly keeps me awake at night.
The apparently ground-breaking CGI work of the time in the film does little to paper over the fact that it is a piss poor Pocahontas rip off which consistently insults the audience's intelligence with nuggets of writing like Unobtanium. It is an insultingly basic premise that does nothing interesting throughout, you can honestly skip through about 85 percent of the film and still know exactly what is happening- and trust me if you have any sense you will be skipping.
Sam Worthington's admittedly fantastic performance in Unabomber is completely at odds with everything he has done before it and in Avatar he proves he is, generally, not a worthy lead to carry a film. Giovanni Ribisi and Stephen Lang do their best with what they're given but their characters are woefully underused and sadly one dimensional.
A truly steaming pile of film-making, Avatar should have everyone who made it so successful, and helped justify the two upcoming follow ups, feeling a little blue.