Comments | smacksaw: James Cameron sucks now, that's why I won't see Avatar and didn't see Titanic

smacksaw

James Cameron sucks now, that's why I won't see Avatar and didn't see Titanic

Jan 30, 2010 07:28

My wife, true love? She has never seen Titanic, nor did she ever wish to see it. Now that's alright in my book ( Read more... )

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konami January 30 2010, 12:58:03 UTC

I don't think James Camaron has changed at all, he's always done movies just about the same way (he's a fucking madman who obsesses like no other over his films, has a million ideas and he is a poofy liberal and so on). What has changed is the culture and the type of scripts that are handed his way.

Yes, his movies have got worse but I don't think it's due to anything he ever did, he just happened across some good ones in the 80's (Including T2 but it would be useless to argue). Cameron will probably happen across a good idea some time again, but I for one won't be calling it his resurrection or any such thing (Titanic and Avatar drew huge numbers, people loved them!); it would just him incidentally wandering into the realms of good taste.

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konami January 30 2010, 20:40:13 UTC

No; good taste is defined by what I like.

smacksaw January 31 2010, 00:10:53 UTC

Though the interesting thing is that the ones that were the most "tasteful" to me were the ones that made far less money than his blockbusters. Not that Aliens didn't make good money - it did, especially relative to it's budget, but all of his 80's and 90's films combined probably are what, half of Avatar?

allyaneedisrick January 30 2010, 14:27:57 UTC

I disagree. I'll admit some of his 90s films showed a decline, but Titanic was Cameron's salvation. It took a film where you think "why see that, i already know the ending" and made it into a compelling love story. Regardless, i don't think it was even the best romantic film Leo DiCaprio did in the second half of the ninties. That's be Romeo + Juliet. However, Avatar is stupendous. Its the most technologically advanced film of all time, the story is the Monomyth, the imagery is brilliant, and it already has become the flagship of the mainstream 3D movement. And as far as the new Star Wars Movies... I find Revenge of the Sith to be one of my alltime favorites, the only Star Wars film superior is Empire. But I don't know, I grew up a decade after you with a fascination for Sci Fi. Perhaps thats why my perspective is different. But in my mind, the only film you can compare Avatar to is Citizen Kane, in terms of its all-around innovation and its influence. Citizen Kane didn't invent anything new, it just took several elements that had ( ... )

smacksaw January 31 2010, 00:20:02 UTC

I have to agree with Mellzah, I am not sure I make the connection to Citizen Kane. Wouldn't it be the exact opposite? I would say that Citizen Kane is like peeling back an onion layer by layer whereas Avatar is formulaic. Also, there's a certain simplicity about Citizen Kane while Avatar is tremendously visually...busy ( ... )