Just saw Avatar

[Gorgon]

I'm sorry if you feel like I wiped my arse with your flag. Anyway the world's best romantic comedy is a bit like the world's smartest horse.

 

Some people migth be ready to award the Nobel prize for *clomp* *clomp* *clomp* *clomp*

 

Just, not me.

[Pidesco]

I'm sorry if you feel like I wiped my arse with your flag. Anyway the world's best romantic comedy is a bit like the world's smartest horse.

 

 

Annie Hall headbutts you for a critical hit.

[Gorgon]

Well alright maybe Woody Allen is like, I dunno a smarter mammal.

[Pidesco]

I totally would love to see Diane Keaton smashing Paul Reiser's nose in with a headbutt. "Well, la dee da."

[Gorgon]

Paul Reiser would just use the secret jewish handshake resulting in an automatic critical miss.

[Blarghagh]

According to Box Office Mojo, Avatar is now the highest grossing film of all time.

 

Even though it's not the highest amount of tickets sold and the record falls apart when inflation is taken into account, it's still nice to see something knock Titanic off the top spot. It's been there disturbingly long.

[Pidesco]

It also makes Cameron pretty weird.

[Oner]

It also makes Cameron pretty weird.

In which sense?

[Pidesco]

Compare Avatar's and Titanic's numbers to any other commercially successful movie like, say, The Dark Knight or the Harry Potter movies. Cameron's movies absolutely crush everything else.

[RPGmasterBoo]

Nothing strange about that. He's Hollywood's commercial movies incarnate.

 

Basically he's mastered the "pure entertainment" film form.

 

That said, his movies are all the same and quite shallow.

Edited January 27, 2010 by RPGmasterBoo

[Blarghagh]

Please explain to me how Aliens is the same as Titanic?

 

I get the point you're making but you're horribly exaggerating it.

[Gorgon]

Don't you feel at least a little sting of disappoinment that Cameron didn't go for dark and gritty sci fi instead of the big sunday family outing film.

[Walsingham]

I think it's weird and wrong that the BBC is going on about how big a success the film is. Sometimes I'd swear they are corrupt.

[Calax]

Cameron seems very good at his job. Aliens, Titanic, Terminator, Avatar...

[Hurlshort]

Don't you feel at least a little sting of disappoinment that Cameron didn't go for dark and gritty sci fi instead of the big sunday family outing film.

 

While it wasn't as dark as Aliens, I wouldn't call it a family film. I mean besides the violence and alien sex, Ridley is a smoker! That's pretty dark.

[Calax]

well, the DvD version is gonna be even more adult with more smurf sex

[Blarghagh]

Yeah, with them hooking up USB cables as a part of intercourse despite the fact they've been stickin' that thing into animals for the entire flick. I understand why it was cut and it should probably remain cut.

[Gorgon]

Don't you feel at least a little sting of disappoinment that Cameron didn't go for dark and gritty sci fi instead of the big sunday family outing film.

 

While it wasn't as dark as Aliens, I wouldn't call it a family film. I mean besides the violence and alien sex, Ridley is a smoker! That's pretty dark.

Yes, what a badboy.

[Stephen Amber]

Titanic is a way better movie than Avatar is.

 

In terms of Cameron's sci-fi movies, the original Terminator is probably the best of the lot. A completely original premise.

[Hell Kitty]

A completely original premise.

 

Harlan Ellison disagrees.

[Humodour]

the original Terminator is probably the best of the lot. A completely original premise.

 

Time-travel is a new and novel concept!

[Hiro Protagonist]

yeah especially with a soldier from Earth's future is sent back in time and materializes on a city street in the present. Same with a robot which looks like a man but has a robotic hand going back into the past to find out he is not a man but a robot.

Edited January 28, 2010 by Hiro Protagonist

[Purkake]

 

Courtesy of NeoGAF.

[RPGmasterBoo]

Please explain to me how Aliens is the same as Titanic?

 

I get the point you're making but you're horribly exaggerating it.

 

They're both crowd pleasers that use cheap trickery to get you emotionally involved, the first a kid and a woman, the second a completely fairytale romance. Add to it sweeping, dramatic music, uncharacteristic length (for hollywood films) used to full effect, intense "action" and you've got the "epic" feel of Cameron's films.

 

I like his films but he's not showing much desire to do anything else, which is kinda disappointing.

 

Aliens is a perfect example. A great movie - but far from the artistry of the original.

 

Ridley Scott can also be accused of following the crowd pleasing formula with Gladiator (which I think is rubbish), but at least he has two artistic masterpieces to fall back on (Alien, Blade Runner).

[Blarghagh]

Those are pretty poor reasons to call something 'the same' I think. You might as well say Lord of the Rings are Cameron movies just because there are some surface similarities.

 

Also, I'd wouldn't call a theme of maternity explored through both the human characters and the antagonistic alien race 'cheap trickery'. How is anything that gets an emotional response trickery? You can't fake a feeling.

 

As for Terminator being his most original premise, didn't he lose a copyright case over it?

Edited January 28, 2010 by TrueNeutral