@@MrBibi86 The next delay might be with part 4. He's already suggested it will take at least 3 years to do it after part 3, which is a year later than the date Disney announced. He said in another interview he just laughed whenever Fox or Disney announced dates for the Avatar sequels.
James Cameron is THE MAN! He looks so cool here. I don't see how you can call him an "asshole" when you watch JC do interviews like this. He's confident. Not arrogant. Those are two very different things. Given the enormous success of Titanic and Avatar, Cameron has every reason to be confident.
Sounds unfair to me that people wanna put him down just because he has made so much money. Every director in hollywood is ripping their movies from someone else. Cameron has movies with concepts that are not unique but his movies are good because he executes them extremely well.
I now understand why cameron's films are my favorites more than any other. We literally think EXACTLY the same. Its insane how much we have in common!!! Nature lovers for the win ;)!!!!!
A spectacular visual experience unlike anything you've seen before. It's the experience, more than the story, that's worth celebrating here. For all its powerful technologies, Avatar can't get out from under its essential cardboardness. Alternates between a slurry of Franz Marc expressionism and the most elaborate Thundercats episode ever made When all the hype and hullabaloo about Avatar calms down, we will be left with a film that's no masterpiece, but still well worth seeing.
James Cameron said it himself the best. We should gain an emotional reaction from Avatar, and translate that emotional response into action. I know many people who have received an emotional response, yet they have moved on... It's disappointing.
Cameron's contribution to mainstream cinema is fairly substantial, but surely people watching this interview smile when he says that he doesn't want to "make the same thing twice."
@TheBoomViper most critics have said that it's really nothing special in terms of plot or story. just that it's an un-deniable technical achievement, and for many critics this has been enough to either overlook the story, or perhaps they didn't find the story as bad as I did. but nobody in their right mind could consider it a grandiose achievement in any area besides technology and visuals.
I loved the movies that you mentioned. I just wanted to see your taste in movies. I like Cameron`s movies, yes, but there are others i like more than him: Kubrick, Tarantino, Almodovar, Scorsese... to name a few. So i`m not such a big fan, but i like the fact that he`s a perfectionist and a very creative person. Oscars don`t mean shit...well, in 90% of the cases, the movies that won an oscar, are good, at least from what i`ve seen, maybe not overall good, but got oscars for certain aspects.
i love all the comments. Everyone talks they could even do a fraction of what is being said here. Personally I think movies are a very underrated entertainment. It should be more like going to the Opera, like a big event that only happens a few times a year.
I would die a happy man if James Cameron did a live action adaption that is really faithful to the source material of NEON GENESIS EVANGLION broken up into a trilogy...
a bold and imaginative vision brought low by a script that plays it very, very safe And for the epic battle at the end, well let me just say it's as believable as the Ewoks beating the Empire at the end of Return of the Jedi. It's a remote-control movie experience, a high-tech "wish you were here" scribbled on a very expensive postcard. The film gets the closest any has to fulfilling the 3-D format's fundamental mission of creating a new, immersive way of looking at movies.
Isn't the last frontier still to have a completely CG human as a full character throughout the movie, complete with close-ups? Avatar 2 is still depending on the fact that none of us have a "real" Na'vi to compare these characters to.
To be honest I didn't read the article. But I was trawling through you tube clips one day and I happened upon Harlan Ellison talking about the whole incident, and then subsequently read about it possibly in Wikipedia. But the biggest thing that convinced me it was true was the enormous credit that is pasted onto the end of Terminator. It was when Harlan Elison approached him only did he fess up.
Yeah, but there's the Berlin Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Sydney Film Festival, The Melbourne Film Festival, The Cannes Film Festival, et al. Which all give awards, and it's a minor technicality, but the Oscars are actually called the AAMPAS Awards, that's the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I don't think anyone has called it the GREATEST international film award, it's just the most heavily sponsored. Usually...
The last film I recommended to my friends was Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. And now they don't talk to me. Similarly a friend said I should see Pacific Rim, and I fell asleep. Which surprised me because it was made by one of my favourite directors, who in this case didn't seem to really care what story he was telling.
I friggin' loved Avatar.I don't care about what all of these haters have to say, it blew me away when I saw it in theaters for the first time. Hell, since then I've seen it at least 7 times.
Avatar isn't overrated. It was just overhyped is all. I saw it opening day, so I wasn't bombared with hype before seeing it, because nobody saw it before me. And from that point of view, I loved it. Though I will admit, it's not my "favourite" James Cameron movie. My favourites are still Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Aliens. Those are some of the best movies out there. :)
If you ever watch Titanic beyond the cheezeness of the main love story and set eyes on the back story of the tragedy the Titanic sinking was, then you can really appreciate the genius of the Titanic movie
@Hoppus217 If you think Avatar sucked, what's an example of a movie which doesn't suck? In your opinion, which movie has a thick plot with well-built characters?
"Terminator 2 - Judgement day" was the peak of his creativity and by my opinion the peak in film industry by any criteria (True masterpiece). He created parallel reality with enormous details and background and 100s and 100s of hours of expensive movie material just to make it more realistic in a final cut. "The Terminator" and "Aliens" were fantastic but Avatar is only hi-tech first look make-up lame-hollywood movie.
if it runs out of imagination and even some credibility when it comes to the plot, well, there is still enough on the screen to qualify as entertaining eye candy Nothing destroys a decent movie more than calling it great, and while this one's a little better than decent, it's definitely a long way from great Action-heavy epic has dazzling effects, familiar story. For all its flaws as art, Mr. Cameron has served up functional entertainment with a gigantic price tag
@Dzubur93 looking back in retrospect..i wish Cameron, really did clean up the story and script a bit. I mean, it had Fantastic VFX, and possibly the best 3D (That being said, i still hate it as a format)...but such a lackluster, cut n' paste story.
I`m just talking about The Terminator 2, i don`t care about the rest. It`s got like 4 oscars or something, anyway. Not really a masterpiece, in the true sense, i got carried away there, but nonetheless, for most of us, an incredible movie, for it`s time and for it`s genre. And yeah, Titanic is an epic movie, whoever disagrees, doesn`t know the meaning of the word epic...Anyway, this was strictly about Cameron and his oscars. Tell me 3 of your favorite movies. I`m serious. Cheers.
What is the final scene of Goodfellas? Its him talking about how brilliant it was being a gangster and saying how much he preferred it to living a normal life. Showning that has character hasn't morally developed throughout the course of the film. There's no real evolution in his character. He's the same guy he was at the start of the film.
If it trys to cover philosophical elements without taken story into consideration it weakens the film. If it's a story were the characters don't develop (like Goodfellas) or have any real internal journey (again like Goodfellas) then it weakens the film. Sarah Connor in T1 clearly changes and evolves as a character from the way she is at the start, to how she is at the end of the film.
anyone who is saying that james cameron is full of him self or avatar is not a big deal is extremely art-blind and only an the artists know that because only people with this kind of vision can understand for real the brilliance of avatar and jims vision for it
Avatar is overlong, dramatically two-dimensional, smug and simplistic. In spite of the amazing effects, it's yet another lemon from Cameron... A wonder to behold, a story to forget. And with this, the film decade comes to a disappointing conclusion. Forget dancing with wolves, howzabout doing the Funky Chicken with aliens? Avatar is great to look at, often astonishing and sometimes beautiful. But, oh, is the story pedestrian. Enough toys to please all the kiddies in the audience.
your damn right! an oscar doesnt mean anything, "the Wrestler" and "the Dark Knight" weren't nominated for best picture, but so what? they're still great films, "Goodfellas" lost to "Dances with wolves" but still is a better film than the "Best picture", and even if "Schindlers list" didn't win the Best picture, nothing would change how great it was. the guy's in charge of the oscars are just film snobs who never nominated "the Wrestler" just because it wasn't too "Tour de force" enough.
Avatar was good but the Na'vi learning was really boring, you have to give him credit for creating the whole mythology behind the Na'vi people and Pandora. Best sci-fi in years. He is the only director in history(i think) who can make great acion, great plot, great comedy, great romance, great sci-fi and even great horror.
actually only like 5 videos or something Ive been on myself, but I figured that if youre on 100% of 5 videos you must be on a whole lot more, or maybe you just watched same 5 coincidentally ;p
