After replacing Titanic as the second highest grossing movie of all time, Avengers: Endgame is getting closer to dethroning Avatar as the highest grossing movie ever made. A group of Marvel fans have turned the box office race into a full blown competition. They have taken to bad talking James Cameron, the director of both Titanic and Avatar, referring to a 2018 interview, in which he took a dig at superhero movies.
Cameron enjoyed being the director of the first and second highest grossing movies worldwide for just over a decade, thanks to Avatar ($2.7 billion) and Titanic ($2.18 billion), but Endgame broke into the second spot in just 9 days with $2.19 billion.
"I'm hoping we'll start getting Avenger fatigue here pretty soon. Not that I don't love the movies. It's just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking cities in the process," Cameron had said at the time.
Endgame surpassing Titanic at the worldwide box office made Cameron a trending topic over the weekend as Marvel fans used social media to criticize the director and take joy in Cameron's box office dominance being threatened, reported IndiWire.
Cameron's comments upset a lot of Marvel fans at the time and now many of them are celebrating Endgame climbing up the box office charts.
#JamesCameron seeing all the news right now ???? #AvengersEndgame pic.twitter.com/0yiImVYbtr— kendell???? (@DaKendellFire) May 5, 2019
A tale in two headlines. #JamesCameron #AvengersEndgame pic.twitter.com/z7Kr8jIcT5— Steven Seagull (@_joh_n) May 8, 2019
There were others who came to the celebrated filmmaker's defense.
I'm a huge @MarvelStudios and @Avengers fan and didn't see what the big deal was about Avatar in the first place but can we all stop ragging on #JamesCameron? I'm sure if he ends up "only" having the 3rd and 4th most successful movies of all time he'll still sleep okay at night.— Jay Griffiths (@jaysworkshop) May 6, 2019
#Avatar is still the number one grossing film in history. What makes me LOVE that is that it was an original idea - not a sequel not a remake not based on a comic book - purely out of the brain of one man - #JamesCameron. Hope it hangs on to that. https://t.co/AR1TjvuDWU— Rod Lurie (@RodLurie) May 6, 2019
pic.twitter.com/PvhAvxSHQ4— playoff matty d???? (@DuongMatt) May 7, 2019
Cameron is currently working on his long-in-the-works Avatar sequels, the first of which is scheduled to open December 17, 2021, he announced on Tuesday.
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