I hope you’re right, but unfortunately people born with a silver spoon up their asses never seem to die in poverty like they deserve.

He didn't even co-found PayPal. He started x.com which merged with Cofinity (Cofinity was later renamed PayPal). He was fired from PayPal due to incompetence and took a golden parachute. 

Not with all the sabotage Google did, of course not. (Yes, sabotage. Google did everything they could to prevent their services from working right on WP, something they never did to iPhone. Including working on a YT app together... and then arbitrarily deciding that it violated TOS and banning it.)

Born on third base as the heir to an emerald mine, so people had to treat the guy with money like he was smart. Got lucky as a co-founder of PayPal and now believes that all of that makes him what the weird sycophants say he is.

The bigger mystery is why people who will never get any of his money are so eager to…

He’s good at looking smart, and he used to be surrounded by people that pushed him to see what might actually be smart. https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd

Seriously, how did this guy turn himself into the richest guy on the planet without self destructing before now? 

Even Microsoft tried and failed at selling a smartphone, twice.

Microsoft and all their unleveraged money couldn’t make the Windows phone a thing.

So it will just be a jailbroken android phone that he buys cheap from a place in china then slaps an Elon logo on then?

They don’t have a “special prison” for wealthy people, they have prisons based on risk classification. People who committed crimes of extreme violence will end up at a highest-level prison, people who start out at lower-level facilities but break institutional rules, start fights, steal from other prisoners or get…

Fat chance. If it doesn't do at least $2B, it will be someone else's fault.

Yeah I think the answer lies between the doomers and the optimists. $1 billion seems feasible and like most December event movies, will have the advantage of a non -competitive January window to leg out.

Problem was that Avatar was one of the only movies to actually properly utilize it, and then nearly all of the movies that followed just tried to shortcut in post to made it kind of 3D in order to ape Avatar.  

Avatar made absolute bank in Asia. That’s who they are really counting on. I feel like American audiences have mostly outgrown going to the movies for special effects. We’ll see if the Asia market has gotten that sophisticated yet. If it has, I think this movie is going to be in big trouble (Unless, of course, it…

People saw Avatar so many times because it was the first 3D movie that felt like an event.  You had to see it in 3D for the “Experience”.  The problem is now, over a decade later people can take it or leave it.

I was so excited for 3d after avatar. I thought it woulf be the same leap as silent to speaking or black and white to color.

I think it’ll make at least $1 billion. For context, Jurassic World: Dominion pulled that off (barely), and I expect Avatar 2 to do better than that.

The movie played in 3D and IMAX 3D which fetched premium ticket prices. It was one of the few films, along with Coraline in this period, that actually made excellent use of 3D and, I would say, was worth the price of admission even if the movie was “meh.”

My guess is that it will stall out somewhere between $500M and $700M.