James Cameron is starting to annoy me!!!

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Palmtree Panic

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He basically came up with the terminator franchise and yet he is slating the last two films:sleep:
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Then talking about the recent Piranha film he is just angry because he got fired previously on making a sequal of the original Clicky

To me he is coming off as being quite arrogant and big headed.
 
The guy has The Terminator, Aliens and T2: Judgment Day, amongst his portfolio of movies, not to mention box office leviathons Titanic and Avatar. I think he has a right to be a bit big-headed. In terms of the Terminator sequels after T2, he was only being protective of his creation as a filmmaker, and showing a bit of competitiveness in terms of them not outdoing his.
 
Just ask him where he got the story for "Avatar". That should keep him quiet.
It's "Soldier Blue" by the way, and it was made in 1972.
Or "Pocahontas", if you must.
 
I actually quite like T3 and Salvation, but they're nothing compared to Cameron's two movies, so i can see where he's coming from there, especially if studios try to run what is essentially his franchise into the ground with the rumoured (and then quickly cancelled due to rights issues) animated movie for kiRAB...

As for his comments on Piranha: i think he's just a little annoyed that after going through all the trouble of developing a decent 3D technique for movies, 3D is essentially getting run into the ground with cheap lazy hack job post production conversions that is putting the audiences off 3D movies. Anybody that saw the 3D 'Clash of the Titans' conversion can testify to how awful it looked in comparison to 'Avatar's true 3D.

I admit that the guy is big headed from time to time, but i totally understand where he's coming from with these two points.
 
I'm not a huge fan of the man but unfortunately we need this type of person to get things moving. On the subject of "the great man" though this little story made me smile.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a273095/james-cameron-i-demand-excellence.html

Not sure if my interpretation of the word excellence is off but Avatar's story certainly wasn't excellent.

Oh, and if he was that concerned that his 3D technique was going to exploited (big surprise there) wouldn't it have been a smart thing to patent it? It might have been a little lucrative too.
 
I've never been a huge James Cameron fan. I think Aliens and T2 are the only film of his that are high quality. I also think it's slightly unfair he has got this tag as a cutting edge visionary director. That's definitely true to an extent, but Avatar, Titanic, True Lies, Terminator 2, the Abyss had obscenely high budgets for their times. It's a lot easier to be to cutting edge and visionary when you have twice as much money to spend on your movies than anyone else.
 
I don't think he is as much bothered about it being "exploited" as much as he is about it being slapped onto everything as an afterthought gimmick, which cheapens the 3D concept he enthusiastically champions, and worked hard to present (very successfully) on Avatar. Quality not quantity, I think would be the correct term to use.
 
I'm not a fan of his. He's always came across as big-headed and up his own arse to me when I've seen him interviewed or read interviews with him.

I have to disagreee with you on both of your points.

1) So the studio is running his creation into the ground. So what? That's their perogative they own the franchise even if he created it. After the success of T2 the studio would have been more than happy for him to direct number 3. The same way if he wanted to do another Aliens film he could almost certainly have done Alien 3.

I wouldn't be surprised that if both the sequels had been good and been big hits he would still have been critcal as they aren't what he would have done and taken the story down that direction.

2) So what if 3D is being done badly, or not up to his standarRAB. What has it got to do with him? If his films are this amazing mind-blowing wonder of the technological world than they will be immune from the inferior stuff. He is just pissed that as more 3D films comes out the novely factor will wear off and his films will start to become "just another 3D movie" in a whole bunch of others.

Apparently he is going to make an 3D movie highlighting the plight of the indigenous people who will be uprooted by the construction of a dam on the Amazon river.

The director has been fighting to ban the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant from being built on the Xingu River, an Amazon tributary, but his protests failed to keep President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from approving plans last week (enRAB05Sep10).

Now Cameron is planning to show his support for the local tribes by shooting a movie about their lives.

In an interview published in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Cameron says, "I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me. I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture."

Why in the hell would people be desperate to see that in 3D? Wow that tree looks closer then the one in the distance. Amazing!
Couldn't this film also be labelled as destroying the uniqueness of 3D? In the same way conversions are just using 3D as a gimmick to get a few bums on seats and do it ourely because they can. Isn't Cameron doing the same?
IMO he is only doing it in 3D because he knows nobody would bother going to see the film unless they are really into eco issues.
For years Sting has been going on aboyt the destruction of the rain forests and what it means to the tribes in there. If he goes and makes an standard film in 2D about it will people rush to watch it because people care? I don;t think so.
At least 90% of people will only be interested because it's in 3D and this is as maniulative a way to get bums on seats as what the people that do conversions are doing.
 
Funny that JC should talk about films getting to the 'the bottom of the barrel of their creativity' when he's just made a film that grafts bits of his own films to the plot of Dances with Wolves/Pocahantas.
Still, enjoy being bewitched by all those lovingly rendered pixels while Jim rolls in your cash.
 
This is exactly what I meant by exploited. The 3D conversion is quite possibly the worst use of 3D with CotT being the only example I can think of outside IMAX but there are some terrible, terrible films that have been made using his method. I'm not saying it would be a good thing he vet all material but that's the impression he gives me.

Aside from our impression of him he's certainly got us talking about him hasn't he? :)
 
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