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Yeah, that really seems the case with this one.
I'd rank it among that handful of winners I'll remember winning.
If anything, Disney/Fox is probably finally breathing normally thanks to how well it has done at the box office. The 1st movie happened over a decade ago and A2 wasn't a guaranteed success. It becoming a 3rd highest grossing movie gives more than enough confidence for them for the rest of the Cameron Avatar movies.
Here's a question though. In this day and age, how much has Baywatch even aired around the world anymore? I don't really see it as in demand show anymore.
Tarzan isn't really a stranger to doing superhuman acts in the original books. He often does come out as a bit of a superman in the stories. Burroughs often underlines how normal humans would have just died if they were placed under the same ordeals as Tarzan.
But yeah, The Legend of Tarzan is a pretty fun movie. It has that nice pulp feel a Tarzan movie should have.
Cameron is good at making movies that deliver the viewer away from reality for the duration of the movie. He is very good at making excellent special effects serve a mediocre script in a way, that not many directors can, which for many is worth at least one admission. In a word, he is very good at making escapism.
And better yet, you were lowballing it.
This was perhaps the biggest failure of the movie. Fincher was clearly imitating a style he might like but didn't quite know how to re-create.
Yeah, with this case, Baldwin being the producer does shift the blame towards him as well, especially if they can prove, that he was skimping on expenses by hiring people not qualified or something in that vein.
Had I seen this post before A2 came out, I would have said something along the lines of "no way."
I wholly underestimated how well this would perform.