Avatar; The movie; The real Avathar going to grab all Oscars as it is fastest growing film Just Below Titanic

Avatar the big budget movie and one of the fastest growing movies ever is going to grab as many Academy awards to beat all time records. The growth of the movie in box office looks like it will beat titanic in viewership as well as earning. See link list, which shows the growth of Avatar, few weeks after its global relies, shows that the so lasting dream of James Cameron, the Avatar, is going to be the number one in all manners.


Avatar, the mega-budget, 3-D sci-fi adventure that pits humans against humanoid natives on a far-off planet, begins its own adventure at midnight tonight in theaters around the country. Though it is not likely to displace his last film -- the 1997 Oscar-winning Best Picture 'Titanic' -- as history's most popular movie, it is very likely to give Cameron a second Best Picture statuette to go with the first.

I come to this conclusion not just because the movie is receiving ecstatic reviews from both sides of the Atlantic, but because it's getting raves for the things that matter to Academy voters. It has romance, visual sweep, a humanist premise and it's going to make a fortune. More than that, it is being heralded as a technical milestone on the order of the first talking picture and the advents of color, wide-screen, 3-D and computer-generated imagery.

Take this paragraph from today's Los Angeles Times review by veteran critic Kenneth Turan, whose harsh attacks on 'Titanic' prompted Cameron to write a letter to the editor demanding the critic's scalp: "To see 'Avatar' is to feel like you understand filmmaking in three dimensions for the first time. In Cameron's hands, 3-D is not the forced gimmick it's often been, but a way to create an alternate reality and insert us so completely and seemlessly into it that we feel like we've actually been there, not watched it on a screen."

The fact that Turan made these comments in Hollywood's hometown paper is significant. It's widely believed, certainly by Cameron, that Turan's condemnation of the 'Titanic' script prevented the writer-director from adding a screenplay nomination to the film's 14 others. Turan acknowledges in his 'Avatar' review that the new movie contains some of the same 'flat dialogue' and 'obvious characterization' that put him off before, but says 'Avatar's visual powers and the freshness of its other-worldly characters overcomes those objections.

Add in an apparently moving love story and an environmental issue that tweaks the liberal conscience, plus the absence of any "typical" Oscar contender, and Cameron will be able to end Oscar night March 7 the way he ended it March 23, 1998, by bellowing, "I am King of the World."