Max & Dave dive deep into AVATAR: FIRE & ASH, and discuss James Cameron, the most successful Director of all time. And also why the same guy who brought you iconic films like ALIENS, TRUE LIES, TERMINATOR(S) is probably No Ones Favorite Director. For the last 20 years, he's been living in this silly blue world of AVATAR. Why, Jim? Why? And why do audiences flock to his film regardless of what Dave thinks.

00:00 Picture This: Dave Fights for His Family

00:59 Intro

01:51 Current Box Office

09:48 Awards Season Significance

16:56 10 Word Logline

18:18 New Villain and Gender Parity in Avatar 3

24:00 Cameron Visibility in Marketing

29:07 Avatar 3 Box Office (so far)

30:18 Audience Reach: Box Office vs Ticket Sales & Repeat Viewers

31:51 Popularity Contest: Sinners vs Avatar 3

37:50 Avatar 1 vs 2 vs 3

41:09 The Cost of a Premium Ticket

45:14 Recent Comparisons

46:18 Quantity Over PLF

48:30 James Cameron Vs James Cameron

54:27 Big Jim's Influence on American (and Global) Media

57:19 The Importance of The Intangibles

01:02:05 Was Avatar 3 Successful?

01:05:33 Wrap Up

As 2025 comes to a close, Max & David talk about their favorite Wins of the movie year, and they look ahead to 2026 and the big movie milestones to come. Tom Cruise, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Greta Gerwig, Lord & Miller, and more await us!

Max & Dave review their Fall Movie Rankings, and decide if 2025 was a Good Movie Year. Plus Warner Bros selling out, and what it means for the movie business.

Max & Dave talk about Movie Stardom: what is it, why it's important, and why it might be irrelevant in 2025. Plus Wicked does Good, Marty Supreme flies, The Running Man falls, Max invites the Pope, Dave quotes Tom Cruise and other film-related shenanigans.

PREDATOR: BADLANDS, what it means to be a Big Dumb Movie, and Max & Dave love them. Plus updates on the latest Fall films, the weekly Box Office.

Max & Dave go on a big bald bizarre journey into the world of BUGONIA, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, directed by the always surprising Yorgos Lanthimos. And since its Halloween, Max dives into the data on Horror at the box office this year, how it compares to the last few years, and where he thinks the genre is headed.

Something is Rotten in the state of Tomatoes. Max & Dave have an emergency mini-pod about AFTER THE HUNT, RottenTomatoes.com, and why quantifying a movie into a score can suck.

Max & Dave Talk about BLACK PHONE 2, GOOD FORTUNE, SMASHING MACHINE, BONE LAKE, the fall box office, plus TRON: ARES tanks! What is Tracking? And why going to the Movie Theater is just plain better!