So Superman has been Krypton Crop Dusting this whole time!
Well I'll be damned
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James Cameron gives his impressions of James Wan’s Vinnie Chase-less AQUAMAN
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So Superman has been Krypton Crop Dusting this whole time!
Well I'll be damned
I am kinda amazed at how your points are going over people's heads.
Aquaman does seem way better than I expected and I am actually interested in it despite never liking the character, but stuff like how his movement in water actually works and how Superman can actually fly are things that really only have the slightest veneer of internal logic to them and are mostly just taken at face value without much reasoning.
I don't think there is anything wrong with enjoying stuff like that (I love me some comic book movies), but I do really appreciate when creators go the extra mile to make sure their concepts and internal logic manage to line up.
I am the type where those sort of discrepancies really do get on my nerves.
A recent example would be in gaming. I am a big fan of loot games in general and played Destiny on and off like many others.
It had its issues of course and when The Division came out a lot of friends tried to convince me to play it with them but I couldn't get past the first beta.
And it was mostly because the gameplay design and the overall concept just didn't mesh well for me.
Both Destiny and Division turn into battles against bullet sponge enemies at a certain point in the overall gameplay loop, but I have a lot easier of a time imagining that a 9 ft tall armored Hive Knight can take a full clip and keep walking, over some random looter in street clothes.
If Cameron made a Superman movie (I know, will never happen) he would absolutely go for the OG golden age Superman that can't fly but just uses his strength to jump extreme distances.
I have never found any of his public interview comments to be disagreeable and he's mostly very polite about it.
people who have a problem with him will always find a way to criticize.
The Martian, and Gravity are definitely harder Sci-fi than Avatar, how much of a blockbuster they are is up for debate. Interstellar though, that's hard to define.
These comments are mostly positive with a bit of light ribbing. People sure are touchy in here!
Anyway, I can't wait to see how the water stuff looks in Avatar 2. I bet it's going to sear people's minds. My main complaint with most blockbuster CGI is a real lack of weight. This is a huge issue in basically all of the current super hero films, and it really does impact my enjoyment because I mainly go into these things looking for spectacle. I'm rarely wowed these days, but I expect Cameron to deliver on this front.
Anyway, I can't wait to see how the water stuff looks in Avatar 2. I bet it's going to sear people's minds. My main complaint with most blockbuster CGI is a real lack of weight. This is a huge issue in basically all of the current super hero films, and it really does impact my enjoyment because I mainly go into these things looking for spectacle. I'm rarely wowed these days, but I expect Cameron to deliver on this front.
Nah, Interstellar's sci-fi is hard af. We will find out exactly how good or bad its science is once the James Webb telescope transmits the first pictures of a supermassive black hole to us in the near future, but until then it's pretty solid. The most fantastical moments in the movie involve the wormholes located by Saturn and the other one he goes through when being pulled into the event horizon (he did NOT actually go into Gargantua, but instead went through another wormhole constructed and placed there by the advanced future beings). Considering it gets so much science right, and pretty much all of the fictional elements are based on speculation stemming from theories in which there is no data to confirm or refute anything conclusively, it does ok at being hard sci-fi.
Filming of Avatar 2 is done, and as far as I know he only drowned a few cats that had been painted blue.
Not sure if any animals drowned on the set of that film or not, but submerging human actors to the brink of nearly drowning is a Jim Cameron staple. Seems he's getting better at cracking the code of preventing the worst from happening though - During filming of the next Avatar movies he required his actors figure out to hold their breath for extended periods of time for the underwater scenes (up to five minutes) with no issues reported yet. Apparently Kate Winslet holds the current record at 7 minutes.
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Said by the guy who made a franchise about time travelling robots sent to kill a woman who would give birth to the savior of the world. Lol.
Kinda nuts just how awful people are at comprehension and the difference re: a work of fiction with no creative internal logic or mechanisms vs. a work of fiction that has it's own internal science and logic to ground what is happening on screen.
"derp, but cameron's movies have far out concepts too"
people deserve capeshit without a doubt.
"derp, but cameron's movies have far out concepts too"
people deserve capeshit without a doubt.
lol... I love it. Cameron definitely is an asshole often... but god damn if the dude isn't the most successful director of all time..
edit - and you can call one movie a fluke.. or even two movies.. but dude has grossed $6B at the box office worldwide and adjusted for inflation 4 out of 6 of his major motion picture releases have gone over $500M, 3 over $1B adjusted for inflation, and 2 over $2B NOT adjusted for inflation.
Who's James Cameron? Is he that director who hasn't made anything in ages because he's obsessed with his 20 film series pet project?
Cute of Cameron to prod at Wan who could make a more entertaining film than Avatar while he's half asleep and drunk. Oh, and hey, this is his second billion dollar film.
People getting upset prob post the same comments about some other movie.
Avatar>>Hurt Locker. People talking about how unoriginal avatar was and hurt locker sitting here with the I'm only alive on the battlefield theme that vegeta did better
Avatar>>Hurt Locker. People talking about how unoriginal avatar was and hurt locker sitting here with the I'm only alive on the battlefield theme that vegeta did better
He made a movie about CG blue people fucking with their ponytails and shoving those same ponytails in giant CG flying creatures that have to form emotional bonds with their rider.
He isn't exactly making grounded drama.
I don't know. If you're an intelligent species living underwater you could probably manage to domesticate sharks. They're a little too aggressive compared to most domesticated animals and I don't know if they have a proper social hierarchy (but neither do cats) but they otherwise hit all the other necessary traits for a domestic animal. All they would have had to do was breed a more docile species of shark for generations with the goal of transport and combat.
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Maybe you're half asleep and drunk. Cameron is talking about single film gross. Wan has yet to make a single movie to gross more than $2b - which is what he was saying.
Wow, people really dislike James Cameron here lol.
I have a hard time believing anyone can love movies and not think Avatar is an immaculate piece of work on nearly every level.
Not every story needs to be complex to make a good movie.
And as far as directing (among other things) goes Cameron is in a class of his own really.
I have a hard time believing anyone can love movies and not think Avatar is an immaculate piece of work on nearly every level.
Not every story needs to be complex to make a good movie.
And as far as directing (among other things) goes Cameron is in a class of his own really.
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Is James Cameron your dad and defending him on message boards is the only way you can get him to notice and spend time with you?
Nearly every level allows us to skip over acting, plot, and character, sure.
Terminator and T2 are 10x the movie that Avatar is, once you get beyond the technical aspects.
Besides The Martian, Interstellar is the hardest of the bunch by far. If you're interested in science, Kip Thorne's The Science of Interstellar is well worth it.
Yes, I agree up until the end. The climax and explanations that followed are highly speculative, even if they are at least based on some theories.
I like Interstellar quite a lot, but the way.
And it's TV, but I like The Expanse for its relative hard-science basis, although it drifts away from that slowly over time.
(Actually, Gravity is harder still, it just gets its science wrong, sadly.)
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Gravity is one of the greatest example of that, I mean, so is Avatar, but Gravity is another misunderstood masterpiece, but often faulted by the "intellectual" crowd for having a plot that is too simple.
Cameron's playful comment can be interpreted two ways
1. He is on his way to making the third 2B dollar movie (Avatar 2)
2. Avatar's gross (2.78B) was basically on its way to 3B.
