Comments on: Five Innovations in James Cameron’s Avatar

By: DF

DF — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:35:51 +0000

I usually like Cameron’s work… but if this ends up looking like Beowulf I’m OUT!
I prefer live action with live people. If I want something else I’d see a PIXAR movie. I don’t need to see an adult story of WALL-E.

By: amir M. Dehestani

amir M. Dehestani — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:02:38 +0000

hi dear folks
I am a film maker myself…and i must say that cameron is one of the greatest artist/filmmakers of our time…he has a passion for art ,cinema, literature ,science and technology …as i know he is one of the few directors who can draw as well as a good comic book artist , and he can write very good scripts as good as best hollywood writers….he knows a lot about film technology and he is creating A V A T A R as a very important piece in cinema history (and not as just “another movie”) he is creating film as a combination of art and technology and as an achievement of mankind…as i know he is Davinci of our time… a combination of a scientist and an artist….he is not making a movie in just 9 months(as spielberg did on War of the worlds!)….and we, as movie lovers should appreciate his value…

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:59:57 +0000

How can you people say The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2 or Titanic aren’t art?? BTW, what is art to you people?

What movies are art as opposed to Cameron’s films?

Avatar is going to blow our minds the way a Jim Cameron film should.

By: vadmspartan

vadmspartan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:48:53 +0000

Cameron gets a free pass because of the awesomeness that is Aliens. Still iffy on this ’til at least the trailer.

By: YoungZe

YoungZe — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:04:15 +0000

I can’t wait to see the first screenshot … -_-”

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:02:43 +0000

Like him. Love him? No. I don’t think his stories are anything special, but he more than makes up for that with his directing ability and technical innovation. I see him as a visionary Michael Bay. And where do they get off calling Zack Snyder a “visionary” in the Watchmen trailer? He hasn’t earned it-yet. Cameron is. Terminator bored me to death, but I loved Judgment Day. I was dragged to Titanic 3 times (UGH! WHY!!!!). Where’ve you been, James? Avatar had better blow me away! I’m sure he doesn’t *need* to work, God knows he’s loaded, but come on, we miss you! December 09 will not come fast enough

By: Identitytheft

Identitytheft — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:54:58 +0000

STOP ALL THE POINTLESS HATE

James Cameron has, in terms or technical innovations, done more for the film industry than anyone else. I too am wary about taking another trip down the uncanny valley (why this fascination with creating fake people?), but if anyone can pull it off, it’s definitely Cameron.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:28:21 +0000

Andrew,

I see. You hate him because of how much others like or anjoy what he’s done? or even getting as much respect as the guys “you” like.

That’s retarded. Keep the sheep costume on.

By: Goobity

Goobity — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:22:58 +0000

@ Andrew:
Don’t sweat it. I wouldn’t count Cameron among the 20 best film-makers, if asked. Nor would I count George Lucas, or even Tarantino and Peter Jackson (Gasp!), and countless others. I do however recognize these folks and others as having contributed immeasurably to the advancement of cinema on the whole. There’s a different breed of Directors who seem more concerned about innovation than actual product…Lucas, Cameron, Zemekis, Del Toro, Rodriguez (mostly), and others. Without them, the Popcorn producers wouldn’t exist. It’s win win, if you ask me.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:02:51 +0000

Andrew: *puts on sheep costume*

Cameron: resumes resting on laurels

By: gocitizen

gocitizen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:00:06 +0000

James Cameron creates his own stories, writes the screenplays, and has shown that he can design technology to fit his vision for those stories. That isn’t impressive? Please, refer us all to the other current directors that are doing this.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:58:02 +0000

@ Goobity- I see your point, but I think Soderbergh is an interesting fellow. I don’t knock him, I think he’s done a good job with the mainstream stuff such as Oceans and then alternating with branching out. My point is not that Soderbergh is groundbreaking or the second coming of Christ. My point is that Cameron is good, but I can’t stand the way he has this messianic following while there are equally good directors.

By: Goobity

Goobity — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:54:11 +0000

@ Andrew:
Soderberg? Really? He made a good debut with Sex, Lies and Videotape. Then regurgitated three remakes of Oceans Eleven. Yeah, a ground-breaker. Michael Bay…Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers… Well, there’s a craptasitc resume.

At least Cameron is devoting his time to develop new methods and technologies to advance visual effects, and the way stories can be told on film. The Terminator, Aliens, and even Titanic (like it or not) broke new ground in film production. His films may not be perfect, or even art, but he’s years ahead of most.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:53:37 +0000

I take back saying that I prefer Oliver Stone to Cameron. Couldn’t sleep until I rescinded that comment.

Scorsese, Coppola, Polanski, Hitchcock, Wells, Kubrick, Godard, Fellini-I could go on and on. James Cameron can’t touch them. Hell, who can?

What is Cameron? To me he is a more refined and creative Bay, and a less prolific Spielberg. Good director? I’ll grant that any day. But as long as we know what context we’re calling him *good*

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:44:00 +0000

Captain Awesome- I just came from Pineapple Express but I can assure you that I am not smoking anything. Perhaps I was abrasive, but I fail to see the appeal of James Cameron. Right, right I come across as an “internet tough guy.” I have been entertained watching his movies (and tortured, see Titanic). He made big budget, high grossing popcorn flicks, I think the Michael Bay comparison is accurate. Terminator is one of the most insanely overrated movies I have ever seen. He is a big budget director a la Bay incapable of making a good film. And I don’t mean they’re not *good*. I have never failed to be entertained by a James Cameron film. They are good in that sense. But *good* on the same level as The Godfather? Taxi Driver? Chinatown? Not even close.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:33:25 +0000

JFK,

He’s watching AVP.

By: moulie

moulie — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:29:36 +0000

Cameron ALWAYS does something that, at bare minimum, is at least interesting, regardless of genre. This is guaranteed to a visionary work. What kind of a director holds up a project for over a decade just so he has all the technology he wants? This has game-changing written all over it.

By: JFK

JFK — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:26:01 +0000

It kind of looks like Cameron is sitting on his thumb…

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:22:02 +0000

Andrew,

I wish I was smoking what you were smoking. If any of the works by Cameron don’t impress you. You’re an amazing bore of an individual. You can’t be right? To push what he’s done in film as some passer-by knock-off is childish and seriously empty.

Then you throw in Coppola (I haven’t done shit since Dracula. My daughter ruined Godfather 3) and I Scorsese? While these guys have created some iconic and amazing films. You seem to forget the bombs they have also created. Bay, Rodriguez, and Stone over Cameron? Are you shitting me?

Please try to look at what Cameron’s done in perspective and drop the cool “internet hate” for a second.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:13:33 +0000

Can’t wait to see this movie. Very excited about this project.

haha @ Jerry…