'Chipmunks' beats 'Avatar' at UK BO..

Taste obviously has nothing to do with it. :p

I have no interest in Avatar but I'd rather sit though that than another outing with the CG rodents.
 
not really much of a suprise that they've done so well the first one was incredibly successful, the film makers must count their lucky stars whenever they see the profits they make
 
Taste is an subjective thing. I'm sure if you told them things you like they would be thinking that's rubbish.

I've still not seen The Dark Knight. I have no interest in seeing it. I like superhero films but am bored of hearing all the hype about it from obsessional fans. I don't care how cosmos creatingly awesome Heath Ledger is as the Joker.
The more and more I heard about him and teh film the less I got interested in it.
One day I'll watch the film but it probably won't be for years and years.

I feel the same about this Avatar film. All the hype around it makes me not interested. I've seen the clips and the trailer and thought ... meh!

Next month is the awarRAB season. It hasn't started but I know that the Dark Knight thing is going to happen again. Avatar HAS to be nominated for everything. it HAS to win everything and if it doesn't then the judges and panels are morons or it's fixed or political because someone is pissed with James Cameron for something or other.
This film is ground breaking and time itself will stop if it doesn't get the award for best picture at the Oscars.

I didn't manage to last 10 minutes into the first chipmunks film but out of the sequel or Avatar, if I had t watch one I would rather see the chipmunks as they don't come with all the baggage.
 
The thing with The Dark Knight, and indeed Avatar, is that the hype is actually justified. TDK really is one of the best big films made in the last 10 years, and Avatar kicks every single CGI-fest of the decade (Star Wars prequels, King Kong etc.) into touch in terms of quality. They are both worth checking out.
 
I don't believe the hype on The Dark Knight can be justified because it still comes down to personal opinion. For every person that loves it there is another that hates it or thinks it's overrated. The hype on that film is so much that even if it is a work of brilliance I'm not going to be able to be objective about it and see it.

I can sit and watch the cheapest looking, mind numbingly useless films and TV shows and enjoy them for what they are. I know I can't do that with this film. I got given a copy of it on DVD and I gave it away unopened for a charity raffle. I really can't see me watching that in the next five years.

As for Avatar blowing every other CGI film out of the water there again lays a problem. I'm bored of overly CGI films. I watched one of the second batch of the Star Wars films and was enjoying it and then in the last 15 minutes or so I switched off as it turned into one mass CGI-fest.
In one of them you had Yoda fighting Christopher Lee with lightsabers and Yoda was bouncing off walls like a pinball.
People in the cinema literally swore and walked out at that rubbish.

I like sci-fi, horror and superhero films but am finding them harder and harder to get into because of the CGI stuff. It looks too weird and fake. If I see Spiderman swinging on his web flipping and umping across buildings my brain goes tilt. It may very well be a man filmed in a costume but I know it was added in CGI because nobody can move that fast or in that way without help.
I want to see a stunt man crashing through a window not a CGI.
Hollywood is spending millions on SFX and they look less realistic than the old action films from the 50's. They seem to have the mentality of.. "We can so we will." It should be, "We can, but do we need too?"
Like The Dark Knight, I'll see Avatar one day but it wont be for a long long time yet.
 
The CGI makes it a technical landmark, but that's all. From the point of view of story or characters, it's weak. The Star Wars prequels are not exactly a high bar to beat - try comparing it with any of the TLotR trilogy. TLotR wins on everything that matters, and it's no slouch on the CGI, either (eg check out Gollum).
 
Totally agree with the bit in bold. The more hype there is around a film, the less likely I am to watch it unless its something that interests me. Was not particularly bothered about seeing TDK, but because other people told me I should cos it was "amazing", I did and it was not to my taste whatsoever.

Same goes with Avatar, not really my sort of film and I'm not going to be pushed into seeing it just cos everyone else talks about how fabulous it is. The length of the film has also put me off since watching TDK (and a lot of other lengthy films like 2012)

Now I have no problems in admitting that I have watched The Chipmunks sequel and that I own the first one on DVD. I like the films and so I will watch them. Its an easy watching light hearted film that I would prefer to watch than a 2hr 45 minute film that has no interest to me. At the end of the day, its all down to personal taste.
 
Surely another more crucial factor is that Avatar is being shown on less screens, as it requires cinemas with 3D and digital screening capabilities.

And there are actually only a few hundred of those across the country. Whereas Chipmunks will probably be on about 1000 screens.
 
It's still possible to be objective about a film though, and objectively The Dark Knight was very well-written and acted. i haven't seen Avatar yet but none of the comments I've seen are about the quality of the writing or the acting.
 
Plus the fact that at only 88 minutes long (compared to 163 mins for Avatar), they can fit far more screenings of the Chipmunks in per day
 
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