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You don't need AI to create soulless depictions of humanity, James Cameron already does that. I think he is just protecting his bread and butter from automation.
Snark aside, I grew up loving his movies. As a film student, I loved taking them apart in critique for his mastery of technical filmmaking. As a professor, I used the DVD extras from his films to show just how forward-thinking his knowledge was of VFX. But this Avatar garbage is just the result of a kid who finally leveled up enough to produce the comic book he wrote when he was 8. It's awful.
Honestly, T2 and Aliens are masterworks of genre fiction. Titanic was also good, but it really was just "what if a love story had incredible VFX?"
After winning a few Oscars, I think he finally started believing his own hype. That's when he realized he could just make whatever he wanted, because studios would bankroll anything with his name attached.
IIRC he's said its from when he was a teenager on mushrooms.
I did not know this but I believe you completely, dear stranger.
Considering Terminator was conceived from a food poisoning nightmare, that tracks.
It’s bizarre that of all the things he could do he’s seemingly decided to devote the rest of his life to avatar
I mean the movies made like $5 Billion combined, doesn’t seem bizarre to me
Sure but at that point in his career he certainly didn’t need to make cgi action slop just for money
But he wanted to.
Indeed. Hence I said it’s bizarre lmao
I think he wanted his own Star Wars and Avatar was what he came up with. Obviously it has mass appeal, it's just not a creative enough of a concept to have a nerd culture built around it.
It really is the shallowest teenage scribble of a franchise. You can picture him sitting in his dorm room, listening to Tarkus and Olias of Sunhillow until the grooves wore out, doodling weird furry giantess smut, imagining all the claymation he was gonna do to make the bestest sci-fi film since Dark Star.
It is very funny to read the vitriol surrounding avatar.
He really got your guys' panties in a twist, didnt he?