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** Similarly enough, the scene where Jake and Neytiri visit the tree of souls. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome So... Pretty...]]
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** Similarly enough, the scene where Jake and Neytiri visit the tree of souls. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome So... Pretty...]]
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** The preceding scene, in which an army of mecha take a charge by a massive herd of hammerheaded titanotheres, in which the former are tossed about like ragdolls. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The music for that scene is just epic.]]
* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of SceneryPorn and the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome western music]] make one epic scene.
* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of SceneryPorn and the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome western music]] make one epic scene.
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** The preceding scene, in which an army of mecha take a charge by a massive herd of hammerheaded titanotheres, in which the former are tossed about like ragdolls. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic The music for that scene is just epic.]]
* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of SceneryPorn and the[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic western music]] make one epic scene.
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* The final battle between the Na'vi and Quaritch's forces, which culminates in Jake and Neytiri taking on Quaritch in his [[MiniMecha AMP suit]].
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* The final battle between the Na'vi and Quaritch's forces, which culminates in Jakeand a Neytiri taking on Quaritch in his [[MiniMecha AMP suit]].
* The final battle between the Na'vi and Quaritch's forces, which culminates in Jake
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* Prior to the final battle, Jake needs a way to get the Na'vi to trust him again. Remembering [[ChekhovsGun a story]] Neytiri told him, he goes out, finds a Leonopteryx, and decides to claim it as his EpicMount. The awesome part? This thing nearly ''ate'' him the last time they met, and he's attempting to leap onto its back based on a behavioral hypothesis he just thought up. In other words, he's [[IndyPloy Indy Ploying]] his way onto a creature big enough to toss helicoptors around like ragdolls. [[spoiler:And it ''works''. The look on the Na'vis' faces when he flies in on it is priceless.]]
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* Prior to the final battle, Jake needs a way to get the Na'vi to trust him again. Remembering [[ChekhovsGun a story]] Neytiri told him, he goes out, finds a Leonopteryx, and decides to claim it as his EpicMount.CoolHorse. The awesome part? This thing nearly ''ate'' him the last time they met, and he's attempting to leap onto its back based on a behavioral hypothesis he just thought up. In other words, he's [[IndyPloy Indy Ploying]] his way onto a creature big enough to toss helicoptors around like ragdolls. [[spoiler:And it ''works''. The look on the Na'vis' faces when he flies in on it is priceless.]]
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* In the extended edition's opening, Jake sees a biker hit his girlfriend at a bar. Jake's response? To [[HandicappedBadass roll up on the guy from behind and yank his barstool out from under him, then leap from his wheelchair to beat the guy senseless]].
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* In the extended edition's opening, Jake sees a biker hit his girlfriend at a bar. Jake's response? To [[HandicappedBadass roll up on the guy from behind and yank his barstool out from under him, then leap from his wheelchair to beat the guy senseless]].
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* Not in the film itself, but just take a look at the box office numbers: $760,507,625 in the United States and Canada alone.
** It also made another $2,021,767,547 overseas, bringing the worldwide total to, get ready for this, ''$2,782,275,172''.
** This also means that Creator/JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''.
** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27th]].
** It also made another $2,021,767,547 overseas, bringing the worldwide total to, get ready for this, ''$2,782,275,172''.
** This also means that Creator/JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''.
** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27th]].
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** For much the same reasons, any of the Human Marines. They all volunteered to live for months or years at a time on a planet full of giant killer animals, where even the atmosphere is completely toxic.
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27th]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27th]].
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** The preceding scene, in which an army of mecha take a charge by a massive herd of hammerheaded titanotheres. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The music for that scene is just epic.]]
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** She also proves that, despite her days of riding/flying being long past, she's still got nerves of steel. When the bomber approaches the Tree of Souls during the final battle, she's right there in front of it, alone - they aren't taking it without going through her first.
** Before that, during the destruction of Hometree, she slowly approaches Jake while he's still tied up - she has every reason to distrust him, to kill him right there for bringing this upon The People, even has the knife at his throat... before she makes a choice that would ultimately save them all (by allowing Jake to become Toruk Macto):
-->'''Mo'at:''' (through tears) If you ''are'' one of us... ''help us''... (cuts his restraints)
** Before that, during the destruction of Hometree, she slowly approaches Jake while he's still tied up - she has every reason to distrust him, to kill him right there for bringing this upon The People, even has the knife at his throat... before she makes a choice that would ultimately save them all (by allowing Jake to become Toruk Macto):
-->'''Mo'at:''' (through tears) If you ''are'' one of us... ''help us''... (cuts his restraints)
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** This also means that Creator/JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''{{Titanic}}''.
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** This also means that Creator/JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''{{Titanic}}''.''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''.
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** Let's expand on this. Neytiri implies that Toruks choose their riders, which means that not just any Na'vi can ride them. That [[spoiler:Jake does (and he's a human in an Avatar no less)]] only cements how awesome this is.
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* The final battle. Three words: Gunships versus ''dragons''.
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* The final battle. Three words: Gunships versus ''dragons''.battle between the Na'vi and Quaritch's forces, which culminates in Jake and Neytiri taking on Quaritch in his [[MiniMecha AMP suit]].
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*** Or the preceding scene, in which an ARMY OF MECHA take a charge by a massive herd of hammerheaded titanotheres. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The music for that scene is just fucking epic.]]
* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of SceneryPorn, Saldana's amazing acting, and the GenreSavvy [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome western music]] make one epic scene.
** Similarly enough the scene where Jake and Neytiri visit the tree of souls. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome So... Pretty...]]
* During said fight, [[ColonelBadass Colonel Quaritch]]'s gunship takes fatal damage, and an explosion causes his shoulder to catch on fire. He runs into the cargo compartment, jumps into an [[MiniMecha AMP suit]], closes the canopy, and ''then he puts his shoulder out''. Yes, he did all of this [[IncendiaryExponent WHILE HE WAS ON FIRE]].
** And him patting out said fire as if it were a minor inconvenience.
** And him making badass pose in AMP with burning inferno of Dragon's wreckage falls behind him. Colonel badass from hell.
** And killing the most ferocious land-based predator Pandora has to offer with his AMP suit's (and by extension his own) ''bare hands'' and a ''combat knife'', and very nearly doing the same to both Jake and Neytiri. While holding his breath for half the time.
** I can't stress this enough: live action ''mecha knife fight''. '''MECHA KNIFE FIGHT'''.
** And charging out of a compound without a protective mask into a poisonous environment, holding his breath all the while, to shoot at Jake and the rest of the gang in their escaping ship. In fact, most of the things Quaritch does can be classified as awesome.
* Prior to the final battle, Jake needs a way to get the Na'vi to trust him again. Remembering [[ChekhovsGun a story]] Neytiri told him, he goes out, finds a Leonopteryx (an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot alien dragon-pterosaur]]), and decides to claim it as his EpicMount. The awesome part? This thing nearly ''ate'' him ''and his smaller dragon the last time they met'', and he's attempting to leap onto its back based on a behavioral hypothesis he just pulled out of his ass. He is [[IndyPloy Indy Ploying]] his way onto a dragon big enough to ''pick up a helicopter and throw it''. [[spoiler:And it ''works''. The look on the Na'vis' faces when he flies in on it is priceless.]]
* The [[spoiler: bombing of Hometree]]. Yes, it's horrifying, but it's also one of the purest displays of raw military power you're likely to see. When Earth tells you to move, you ''move'' or suffer the consequences.
** [[spoiler: Though in the end Earth [[SubvertedTrope loses.]]]]
* Jake's speech to the Omatikaya:
* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of SceneryPorn, Saldana's amazing acting, and the GenreSavvy [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome western music]] make one epic scene.
** Similarly enough the scene where Jake and Neytiri visit the tree of souls. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome So... Pretty...]]
* During said fight, [[ColonelBadass Colonel Quaritch]]'s gunship takes fatal damage, and an explosion causes his shoulder to catch on fire. He runs into the cargo compartment, jumps into an [[MiniMecha AMP suit]], closes the canopy, and ''then he puts his shoulder out''. Yes, he did all of this [[IncendiaryExponent WHILE HE WAS ON FIRE]].
** And him patting out said fire as if it were a minor inconvenience.
** And him making badass pose in AMP with burning inferno of Dragon's wreckage falls behind him. Colonel badass from hell.
** And killing the most ferocious land-based predator Pandora has to offer with his AMP suit's (and by extension his own) ''bare hands'' and a ''combat knife'', and very nearly doing the same to both Jake and Neytiri. While holding his breath for half the time.
** I can't stress this enough: live action ''mecha knife fight''. '''MECHA KNIFE FIGHT'''.
** And charging out of a compound without a protective mask into a poisonous environment, holding his breath all the while, to shoot at Jake and the rest of the gang in their escaping ship. In fact, most of the things Quaritch does can be classified as awesome.
* Prior to the final battle, Jake needs a way to get the Na'vi to trust him again. Remembering [[ChekhovsGun a story]] Neytiri told him, he goes out, finds a Leonopteryx (an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot alien dragon-pterosaur]]), and decides to claim it as his EpicMount. The awesome part? This thing nearly ''ate'' him ''and his smaller dragon the last time they met'', and he's attempting to leap onto its back based on a behavioral hypothesis he just pulled out of his ass. He is [[IndyPloy Indy Ploying]] his way onto a dragon big enough to ''pick up a helicopter and throw it''. [[spoiler:And it ''works''. The look on the Na'vis' faces when he flies in on it is priceless.]]
* The [[spoiler: bombing of Hometree]]. Yes, it's horrifying, but it's also one of the purest displays of raw military power you're likely to see. When Earth tells you to move, you ''move'' or suffer the consequences.
** [[spoiler: Though in the end Earth [[SubvertedTrope loses.]]]]
* Jake's speech to the Omatikaya:
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* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of
** Similarly
* During
** And him patting out said fire as if it were a minor inconvenience.
** And him making badass pose in AMP with burning inferno of Dragon's wreckage falls behind him. Colonel badass from hell.
** And killing the most ferocious land-based predator Pandora has to offer with his AMP suit's (and by extension his own) ''bare hands'' and a ''combat knife'', and very nearly doing the same to both Jake and Neytiri. While holding his breath for half the time.
** I can't stress this enough: live action ''mecha knife fight''. '''MECHA KNIFE FIGHT'''.
** And charging out of a compound without a protective mask into a poisonous environment, holding his breath all the while, to shoot at Jake and the rest of the gang in their escaping ship. In fact, most of the things Quaritch does can be classified as awesome.
* Prior to the final battle, Jake needs a way to get the Na'vi to trust him again. Remembering [[ChekhovsGun a story]] Neytiri told him, he goes out, finds a
** [[spoiler: Though in the end Earth [[SubvertedTrope loses.]]]]
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* A subtle one, but the sight of Norm hustling into battle... Remember, this guy is a ''wimpy scientist''. He can keep up in a war because he has an Avatar, but it just ''died'' and kicked him back into his real body. So what does he do? He grabs a rifle and a gas mask and ''jumps back in''. If that's not BadAssNormal, the term doesn't exist.
* The final battle. "Epic" is an understatement.
* The final battle. "Epic" is an understatement.
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* A subtle one, but the sight of Norm hustling into battle... battle. Remember, this guy is guy's just a ''wimpy scientist''.normal scientist. He can keep up in a war because he has an Avatar, but it just ''died'' and kicked him back into his real body. So what does he do? He grabs a rifle and a gas mask and ''jumps back in''. If that's not BadAssNormal, mask, then rejoins the term doesn't exist.
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* Remember Max? The Indian guy? Probably not. He had two which were taken out:
** When the Marine who Trudy knocked out during their rescue of Jake, Norm and Grace starts to wake up, Max punches his lights back out, quipping afterwards that "That was oddly satisfying."
** Towards the climax of the film, he commandeers an enormous mining machine with a spinning blade on a crane at the front of it, drives it up to the command centre, '''flips Selfrdige the bird''' and then uses the aformentioned spinning blade to trash the command centre, sending Selfridge and everyone running for cover. While this has been happening, the rest of the Avatar Project staff have stormed the link room and linked to their Avatars, with which they then overrun the command centre and hold Selfridge and his staff.
** When the Marine who Trudy knocked out during their rescue of Jake, Norm and Grace starts to wake up, Max punches his lights back out, quipping afterwards that "That was oddly satisfying."
** Towards the climax of the film, he commandeers an enormous mining machine with a spinning blade on a crane at the front of it, drives it up to the command centre, '''flips Selfrdige the bird''' and then uses the aformentioned spinning blade to trash the command centre, sending Selfridge and everyone running for cover. While this has been happening, the rest of the Avatar Project staff have stormed the link room and linked to their Avatars, with which they then overrun the command centre and hold Selfridge and his staff.
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* Remember Max? The Indian guy? Probably not. He Max had two which were taken out:
** When the Marine who Trudy knocked out during their rescue of Jake, Norm and Grace starts to wake up, Max punches his lights back out, quipping afterwardsthat "That was oddly satisfying."
** Towards the climax of the film, he commandeers an enormous mining machine with a spinning blade on a crane at the front of it, drives it up to the command centre,'''flips Selfrdige the bird''' [[FlippingTheBird flips off Selfridge]], and then uses the aformentioned spinning blade to trash the command centre, sending Selfridge and everyone running for cover. While this has been was happening, the rest of the Avatar Project staff have quickly stormed the link room and linked to their Avatars, with which they then overrun took the command centre and hold captured Selfridge and his staff.
** When the Marine who Trudy knocked out during their rescue of Jake, Norm and Grace starts to wake up, Max punches his lights back out, quipping afterwards
** Towards the climax of the film, he commandeers an enormous mining machine with a spinning blade on a crane at the front of it, drives it up to the command centre,
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* The ikran getting the marine from behind and biting his head before throwing him out of the Samson
* Neytiri killing Quaritch with two arrows straight through the chest, plus Quaritch's expression there is just hilarious.
* Jake landing on toruk at the tree of souls
* The entire scene after the speech when they are going to the other clans
* Trudy attacking Quaritch's gunship, as well as the deleted scenes with her shooting down Samsons.
* The toruk throwing helicopters into the sides of mountains
* Mo'at's first appearance - her voice there has that quality where everyone can't help but stop and look round.
* Trudy. Just Trudy. In the final battle, she comes riding in on a wave of glory--raining bullets on the Dragon gunship just as it was about to shoot down Jake--and pulls dramatically around to face Quaritch. She then says in the driest, most ironic deadpan ever, "Oops."
* The ikran getting the marine from behind and biting his head before throwing him out of the Samson
* Neytiri killing Quaritch with two arrows straight through the chest, plus Quaritch's expression there is just hilarious.
* Jake landing on toruk at the tree of souls
* The entire scene after the speech when they are going to the other clans
* Trudy attacking Quaritch's gunship, as well as the deleted scenes with her shooting down Samsons.
* The toruk throwing helicopters into the sides of mountains
* Mo'at's first appearance - her voice there has that quality where everyone can't help but stop and look round.
* Trudy. Just Trudy. In the final battle, she comes riding in on a wave of glory--raining bullets on the Dragon gunship just as it was about to shoot down Jake--and pulls dramatically around to face Quaritch. She then says in the driest, most ironic deadpan ever, "Oops."
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* Mo'at's first appearance - her voicethere has that quality where everyone can't help but stop and look round.
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* Jake landing on
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* The
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* In the extended edition's opening, Jake sees a biker hit his girlfriend at a bar. Jake's response? To [[HandicappedBadass roll up on the guy from behind and yank his barstool out from under him, then leap from his wheelchair to beat the guy senseless]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27th]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''.weekend. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27th]].
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* Trudy at the destruction of Hometree. Her epic line "Screw this. I didn't sign up for this shit!" can also double as a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
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--> '''Trudy:''' ...Screw this. *pulls out of formation*
--> '''Trudy's Gunman:''' What the hell are you doing?!
--> '''Trudy:''' ''[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight I didn't sign up for this shit!]]''
--> '''Trudy:''' ...Screw this. *pulls out of formation*
--> '''Trudy's Gunman:''' What the hell are you doing?!
--> '''Trudy:''' ''[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight I didn't sign up for this shit!]]''
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** Also points for the lone marine left who still finds enough nerf to fire his rifle at him after.
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* During said fight, [[ColonelBadass Colonel Quaritch]]'s gunship takes fatal damage, and an explosion causes his shoulder to catch on fire. He runs into the cargo compartment, jumps into an [[HumongousMecha AMP suit]], closes the canopy, and ''then he puts his shoulder out''. Yes, he did all of this [[IncendiaryExponent WHILE HE WAS ON FIRE]].
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* During said fight, [[ColonelBadass Colonel Quaritch]]'s gunship takes fatal damage, and an explosion causes his shoulder to catch on fire. He runs into the cargo compartment, jumps into an [[HumongousMecha [[MiniMecha AMP suit]], closes the canopy, and ''then he puts his shoulder out''. Yes, he did all of this [[IncendiaryExponent WHILE HE WAS ON FIRE]].
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** This also means that JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''{{Titanic}}''.
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** This also means that JamesCameron Creator/JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''{{Titanic}}''.
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**[[spoiler: Though in the end Earth [[SubvertedTrope loses.]]]]
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].27th]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note: for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar'']], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note: now held by ''The Avengers'' as well]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note: where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record[[note: record[[note]] for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar'']], ''Avatar''[[/note]], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record[[note: record[[note]] now held by ''The Avengers'' as well]] well[[/note]] by posting a near-identical gross[[note: gross[[note]] where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience]], audience[[/note]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s ''Titanic'''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record (for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''), it demolished the 2nd-weekend record (now held by ''The Avengers'' as well) by posting a near-identical gross (where most blockbuster films lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience), and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record (for record[[note: for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''), ''Avatar'']], it demolished the 2nd-weekend record (now record[[note: now held by ''The Avengers'' as well) well]] by posting a near-identical gross (where gross[[note: where most blockbuster films -- and a good portion films in general -- lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience), audience]], and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still what below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record (for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''), it demolished the 2nd-weekend record (now held by ''The Avengers'' as well) by posting a near-identical gross (where most blockbuster films lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience), and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still what well below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record (for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''), it demolished the 2nd-weekend record (now held by ''The Avengers'' as well) by posting a near-identical gross (where most blockbuster films lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience), and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** This also means that JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''{{Titanic}}''.
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** This also means that JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and ''{{Titanic}}''.''{{Titanic}}''.
** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still what below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record (for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''), it demolished the 2nd-weekend record (now held by ''The Avengers'' as well) by posting a near-identical gross (where most blockbuster films lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience), and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
** What's notable about the all-time domestic tally of the film is that ''it didn't even have a triple-digit opening weekend''. It opened with a $75 million take, which was the highest opening for an original (non-sequel or adaptation) film ever, but still what below heavy-hitting franchise films. The result is that while it didn't come close to an opening weekend record (for perspective, ''Film/TheAvengers'' opened with nearly triple that of ''Avatar''), it demolished the 2nd-weekend record (now held by ''The Avengers'' as well) by posting a near-identical gross (where most blockbuster films lose 50-65% of their first-weekend audience), and set X-weekend records through its 7th week before being stymied by ''Titanic''s back-end weekend records. James Cameron doesn't just make box office history, he makes films that define LongRunner and have people seeing it for weeks or weeks, whether it's their first time or [[SawStarWars27Times 27]].
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** This also means that JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and {{Titanic}}.
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-->'''Jake''': Maybe I got sick of doctors telling me what I couldn't do.
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-->'''Jake''': Maybe I got sick of doctors telling me what I couldn't do.do.
* Not in the film itself, but just take a look at the box office numbers: $760,507,625 in the United States and Canada alone.
** It also made another $2,021,767,547 overseas, bringing the worldwide total to, get ready for this, ''$2,782,275,172''.
** This also means that JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and {{Titanic}}.
* Not in the film itself, but just take a look at the box office numbers: $760,507,625 in the United States and Canada alone.
** It also made another $2,021,767,547 overseas, bringing the worldwide total to, get ready for this, ''$2,782,275,172''.
** This also means that JamesCameron has the two biggest films of all time, this and {{Titanic}}.
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That\'s just a term used for the kind of battle, as in, large scale and sweeping, it\'s not some memetic comment of the quality.
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* And check out the MPAA rating for the movie. "Intense EPIC Battle Sequences and Warfare..."
* And check out the MPAA rating for the movie. "Intense EPIC Battle Sequences and Warfare..."
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* And check out the MPAA rating for the movie. "Intense EPIC Battle Sequences and Warfare..."do.
* And check out the MPAA rating for the movie. "Intense EPIC Battle Sequences and Warfare..."
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-->'''Jake''': Maybe I got sick of doctors telling me what I couldn't do.do.
* And check out the MPAA rating for the movie. "Intense EPIC Battle Sequences and Warfare..."
* And check out the MPAA rating for the movie. "Intense EPIC Battle Sequences and Warfare..."
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*** Or the preceding scene, in which an ARMY OF MECHA are charged by a massive herd of hammerheaded titanotheres. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The music for that scene is just fucking epic.]]
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*** Or the preceding scene, in which an ARMY OF MECHA are charged take a charge by a massive herd of hammerheaded titanotheres. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The music for that scene is just fucking epic.]]
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* The entire scene where Jake first meets Neytiri. Justifiable amounts of SceneryPorn, Saldana's amazing acting, and the GenreSavvy [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome western music]] make one epic scene.
** Similarly enough the scene where Jake and Neytiri visit the tree of souls. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome So... Pretty...]]
** Similarly enough the scene where Jake and Neytiri visit the tree of souls. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome So... Pretty...]]
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* Trudy. Just Trudy. In the final battle, she comes riding in on a wave of glory--raining bullets on the Dragon gunship just as it was about to shoot down Jake--and pulls dramatically around to face Quaritch. She then says in the driest, most ironic deadpan ever, "Oops."
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* Trudy. Just Trudy. In the final battle, she comes riding in on a wave of glory--raining bullets on the Dragon gunship just as it was about to shoot down Jake--and pulls dramatically around to face Quaritch. She then says in the driest, most ironic deadpan ever, "Oops.""
* Jake verbally serving Grace near the beginning of the movie. They wanted his brother, but got him because his brother got murdered, and since he has virtually no experience, Grace doesn't want him. She finally asks him what made him think he could come out to Pandora and work in the Avatar Program. Jake's response:
-->'''Jake''': Maybe I got sick of doctors telling me what I could and couldn't do.
* Jake verbally serving Grace near the beginning of the movie. They wanted his brother, but got him because his brother got murdered, and since he has virtually no experience, Grace doesn't want him. She finally asks him what made him think he could come out to Pandora and work in the Avatar Program. Jake's response:
-->'''Jake''': Maybe I got sick of doctors telling me what I could and couldn't do.
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* Mo'at's first appearance - her voice there has that quality where everyone can't help but stop and look round.
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* Mo'at's first appearance - her voice there has that quality where everyone can't help but stop and look round.round.
* Trudy. Just Trudy. In the final battle, she comes riding in on a wave of glory--raining bullets on the Dragon gunship just as it was about to shoot down Jake--and pulls dramatically around to face Quaritch. She then says in the driest, most ironic deadpan ever, "Oops."
* Trudy. Just Trudy. In the final battle, she comes riding in on a wave of glory--raining bullets on the Dragon gunship just as it was about to shoot down Jake--and pulls dramatically around to face Quaritch. She then says in the driest, most ironic deadpan ever, "Oops."
