Less than stellar reviews for “Twilight: Eclipse” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” didn’t stop movie-goers from lining up to see the new films. The two movies topped the box-office over the weekend.
“Eclipse” took in $82.5 million over the four day holiday weekend and the movie has already made $175.3 million since it opened last Wednesday.
“Avatar: The Last Airbender” was in second with $53.2 million over the four days and $70.5 million since its release Thursday. That’s the most successful opening for a film directed by M. Night Shaymalan in several years and puts the film on track to be his first to earn $100 million at the box-office since “The Village.” Whether or not it’s enough to warrant the next two installments in the proposed trilogy remains to be seen.
“Toy Story 3″ continue to perform well, taking in $42.2 million. The film has now passed the $300 million mark at the box-office.
“Grown-Ups” took fourth place and “Day and Night” was fifth.
I saw Last Airbender this weekend. I haven't seen any of the series, so I had no preconceived ideas about how it should go. I HAD read reviews, and expected it to be one ginormous clusterf*, but it wasn't bad at all. It was just about two degrees shy of being a really good movie. I haven't enjoyed an MNS movie in years, but this one was pretty decent.
I saw both Airbender and Eclipse this weekend. Airbender dissapointed me. Mispronounciations (i know it could be pronounced the way they said it the movie, but the cartoon has me stuck on what I consider the correct pronounciations), and wooden dialogue were the most grievous of errors. Also the film didn't have the heart or hilarity the show did. There was maybe one funny moment between Sokka and Aapa. It just felt rushed to me. As for Eclipse.. I'm just mad it took 3 stories to get to if not good at least decent story. I had more fun at Eclipse than I did Airbender which is such a dissapointment because I went into each of the movies expecting to love one and hate the other..
As much as my kids had been looking forward to it, a date with Airbender this weekend could not be avoided, reviews or no. The effects were decent, the story and dialouge didn't come across very well. Really, it's hard to see how $280 million went into making this.
Saw Airbender and enjoyed it. It didn't have the same levity of the series, but that didn't bother too much. The effectswere pretty good and the it stayed relatively true to the series. I enjoyed myself, even though it seems the popular thing not to. I have no interest in Eclipse. I saw the first flick on HBO and fell asleep twice. I'm just not in the demo for pasty mopers.