Besides Piranha 2.
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TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 03:28 AM)
I'd rather he just left Terminator alone and the story ended with part 2 as this franchise has been nothing but a wounded half dead animal for the last 25 years and the only good thing about Terminator since T2 is the Universal attraction. Nothing else good came out, plus the last movie was a flop and sometimes it's better to kill something than let it suffer.
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tsode — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 03:49 AM)
"sloppy writing"
There is absolutely nothing sloppy about the writing in this movie.
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Garchomp — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 04:11 PM)
I agree. With Titanic being a close second.
His characters are always so bland and forgettable. The problem with Avatar is he hired Sam "Wooden the Woodpecker" Worthington as his leading man. With Titanic at least he had the huge charisma of DiCaprio to make the movie more interesting.
Boring heroes, cliched mustache-twirling villains, and a recycled plot. It just isn't in the same league as Terminator, T2, or Aliens. Those were actual SCIENCE fiction films that made you think and ask questions. Avatar is just a Michael Bay movie; explosions and screaming and extreme predictability. Literally the only thing noteworthy about this movie is the really good CGI. -
ibrarules — 9 years ago(January 10, 2017 01:54 AM)
His characters are always so bland and forgettable
I'd say the polar opposite. I'd even go so far as to claim that the main reason why his movies tend to have much better legs at the BO than all other action/sci-fi movies is due to the characters being interesting/memorable.
Bay/Emmerich etc can may action sequences that look awesome but they aren't able to make us care for the characters. Cameron is (or at least was).
For example:
Terminator, Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese, T-1000 in The Terminator 1&2
Ellen Ripley, Hudson, Hicks, Vasquez, and the alien queen in Aliens
Tom Arnold and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies
Leo and Kate in Titanic
Bud and Lindsay Brigman in The Abyss
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TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 12:02 AM)
How do you explain Kim Basinger in My Stepmother is an Alien, Svek from Star Trek II, Lee the playboy model bounty hunter from Critters 2, Sil from Species, Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy etc.?
She is a lovely cat-lady i will hand you to that who reminds me of my boyhood cat ladies like Lily on that live-action Dumbo's Circus show, Cleo on Heathcliff, mutated Selina Kyle from that Batman TAS Tyger Tyger episode (remember the one where she got turned into a literal cat-woman?), Felicia from Darkstalkers games, M'ress from Star Trek, That 3 breasted feline alien babe from Star Trek V, Cheetara, Pumarya etc.
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lukemm-90850 — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 09:27 PM)
Gamora, played by the same actress BTW came AFTER Avatar. And I'm talking about her body, her eyes, everything about Neytiri is alien, especially compared to Vulcans, Klingons, Kim Basinger in My Stepmother is an Alien. And she's still fcking hot.
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TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 02:56 AM)
What about that 3 titted feline M'ress-esque alien dancer from Star Trek V? remember her? one of the good things about that movie, she was a hottie no doubt and i wouldn't mind interspecies romancing with her, nothing wrong with that i mean hey you have Beast/Carly on X-Men TAS, Star Trek humans/aliens, Vastra and Jenny on Doctor Who, Catherine/Vincent in the Ron Perlman Beauty and the Beast show, Star Wars humans and aliens even aliens with different races/species of Alien beings in love, Lilandra and Xavier, Cheetah/Batman on Justice League, Howard The Duck/Beverly in Marvel comics's Howard The Duck comics, Hepzbiah and Corsair in Marvel comics/X-Men etc. as examples of interspecies love. Yet i wonder if Jake and Neytiri count as interspecies love? a human man and an alien.
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TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 03:09 AM)
But do you not mind interspecies romance of two different beings like the ones i mentioned especially Star Wars/Trek alien species/races of Beings with other species/races of alien beings even to humans, Beast/Carly, Hepzbiah and Corsair, Howard/Beverly from Marvel's Howard comics, Catherine and Vincent in the Ron Perlman Beauty and the Beast show, Lilandra and Xavier (mutant man and alien bird woman who's race evolved from alien birds), Alan and Madison from Splash, Cheetah/Batman on Justice League etc.?
"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love" -
Kuato_and_George — 9 years ago(January 13, 2017 12:31 PM)
I've never seen Piranha 2 and have probably not seen every single movie that he's made but I am inclined to agree. This is really bad. The Special effects are not good, the story is rather clich and boring, and it's just cheesy movie. The acting is cheesy, the story is cheesy,, and so is the dialogue.
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lukemm-90850 — 9 years ago(January 13, 2017 12:34 PM)
Um, no. Cameron's writing is just becoming second to his unstoppable, phenomenal skills with optics and visual storytelling. It's still good. We just have to learn to adapt to Cameron's visual equity just as people eventually learned to adapt to Hitchcock's skills with a camera.
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TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 11:50 PM)
Comparing Cameron to Hitchcock is blasphemy! this movie is all style and no substance. The writing was poor and Cameron is a poor writer now, i mean his T2/T1 and Aliens and True Lies were well written.
James Cameron (1984 to 1994) was James Cameron, now he is Jimmy Cammy like Ocpcommunications and Ramboraph4life says and i agree with that.
"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love" -
lukemm-90850 — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 09:30 PM)
I bet anything you haven't even seen ONE Hitchcock film to completion. People like you are pretension pseudo-intellectuals with nothing to do but bitch about things you don't understand and a lot of people really don't understand Avatar these days.
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TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 02:41 AM)
Hey Max, he is such a real face palmer eh? it means when he tries to compare Jimmy Cammy (whom can be a mindless shallow director sometimes) to Hitchock you just wanna put your palm on your face.
If Cameron did the original complex screenplay on film as originally intended before studio meddling to dumb down the complex script for something simple and different, it would had been better for Project 880. Yet the movie wants to be epic, more like EPIC FAIL.
"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love" -
lukemm-90850 — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 01:02 AM)
If Cameron did the original complex screenplay on film as originally intended before studio meddling to dumb down the complex script for something simple and different, it would had been better for Project 880. Yet the movie wants to be epic, more like EPIC FAIL.
LMFAO
Talk about a facepalm comment.
Cameron would NEVER allow the studio to interfere with Avatar. What you're seeing is Cameron's definitive vision, through and through. If you don't like it, you're an artistic idiot and I pity you. If you really believe James Cameron would allow 20th Century Fox to tinker with his 250 million dollar epic (after making the studio billions with Titanic), I'm afraid you're just an idiot and I still feel sorry for you. -
TalesfromTheCryptfan — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 03:54 AM)
Geez Luke who crapped in your dinner? calling me an artistic idiot! who do you think you are? treating others here on IMDB like s hit because when they talk crap of James Cameron whom i think is a total jerk of a director nowadays. Cameron is no more as now a days he is stuck to doing Avatard films than other stuff but i think he can pull off Battle Angel Alita since he is producer since he is a fan of the anime and so is Robert Rodriguez if Ghost in The Shell live-action is successful.
If you want a better version of Avatar, seek Princess Mononoke which is a true 90's adult animated classic with a great cast in the dub even Billy Bob Thorton, a better music score that is more cinematic yet memorable and more enjoyable no doubt for TRUE movie buffs that everyone should see in their life.
That attitude of yours isn't gonna get you friends here on IMDB of calling others "artistic idiots", you should learn not to act like a pretentious jerk with such insults to other folks and that ain't good to call others "artistic idiot".
Give me the classic Star Wars trilogy any day over Avatar and give me Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Star Trek films, 2001, Akira, Ghost in The Shell, Moon, Terminators 1 & 2, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Excalibur, Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka, Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal (much better than Labyrinth to me), Harry Potter, Princess Bride, Metropolis, Pan's Labyrinth, Serenity, Guardians of the Galaxy etc. over Avatar any day of the week when it comes to Sci-fi and fantasy films.
With that attitude of saying to Max and me "artistic idiots" and talking crap to him, it reminds me of some of those '90s comics trying to be so dark/edgy to look "grown up" make me think of what it was like to be a teen-ager. Every teen tries to do their imitation of how they think an adult should bewearing dark clothing, brooding, treating others like they're crap, posturing. Usually by the time you hit twenty you figure out that's not what being grown up is really about. If you don't, you're going to have miserable life when reality finally does hit you. And they are right, some did took the wrong lessons from Kevin Eastman's Ninja Turtles with Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo, Alan Moore and Frank Miller graphic novels even Watchmen without understanding what made them successful comics in the 80s.
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.- C.S. Lewis
"Unicorn, mermaid, gargoyle, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love"-The Last Unicorn.
- C.S. Lewis
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Max_cinefilo89 — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 05:25 AM)
Luke, you do know Fox originally passed on Avatar, right? They only agreed to do it after Cameron shopped it to Disney and Ingenious Media agreed to pay half the production budget. And even then, Cameron had to waive his own salary to make up for budget overruns (which is also what happened on Titanic).