Taiwanese Man Dies after Watching "Avatar"

(CBS)  Here's one tagline the blockbuster film "Avatar" probably doesn't want: It's so good it might kill you.

A 42-year-old Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure apparently died from a stroke while watching the film, Agence France Presse reported.

The reportedly felt ill while watching the film earlier this month, then headed to the hospital. When he arrived at the emergency room, he was unconscious, a doctors told AFP.

The man died 11 days later.

"It's likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms," Dr. Peng Chin-chih told AFP.

This past weekend, James Cameron's hit film earned $41.3 million to overtake "Star Wars" as the No. 3 movie on the all-time domestic box office charts.

It marked the fifth-straight weekend the sci-fi saga was the top earner and it raised its domestic total to $491.8 million and should surpass $500 million after revenues are counted on Martin Luther King Day, according to studio estimates.

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Maybe it was the pure suck of the film that killed him.

[commenter777]

I just showed my mother-in-law this article here about Avatar and she got excited while reading the article and fell over dead. Thanks CBS!!!

[commenter777]

If anybody believes this, I've got a big orange bridge in California that I will sell you. This person already had high blood pressure and coincidentally died while watching a movie. There is nothing out of the ordinary here.

[jwesel1]

Maybe he saw something sticking out of the screen that got him too excited.

[lileoj]

Bad health will do it. Hopefully they dont try to sue because of this. That would just be dumb.