[...] this project will bear him many fruits of profit down the line.Read up on our earlier analysis of the crazy tech Cameron created for Avatar and then tell me that this guy will have to worry about a future revenue stream. Remember how movie [...]

[...] über-popular Titantic.  Since then, he’s been filming deep-sea documentaries and creating 47-dimensional cameras for the perfect viewing experience.  For those who don’t know, this is the man who brought [...]

[...] Avatar, Cameron has pioneered new technologies in filming that have allowed him to create “photorealistic” CGI images so detailed and textured, [...]

[...] Note: Michael Bay, you may want to consult James Cameron about all the crazy 3D CGI tech he’s invented for Avatar before you try to do Transformers 3. I’m just [...]

[...] Cameron also mentioned that in his experience, most video games based on movies suck, and like the revolutionary CGI technology employed for the Avatar movie, he hopes to “revolutionize” the movie-to-video-game [...]

[...] enough, however I’m really itching to see these wonderful pieces of equipment rendered in the photorealistic 3-D imagery technology that Cameron has invented for Avatar. That’s really going to be the measure of how excited I [...]

[...] you haven’t heard, Avatar is being made with a revolutionary special effects technology (developed largely by Cameron himself) which blends “two unrelated technologies: e-motion [...]

A great man who’s very passionate about his craft and substance there is in his films.

[...] a gimmick, James Cameron thinks it worthwhile to drop several hundred million dollars into it for Avatar. Whatever the case, we’ll probably be learning more in early [...]

I sometimes let my world opinions slip into my opinions on movies and new tech.
I can say this, 3D is about to become more integrated into films and more and more theaters are going to get upgrades in that area…

I don’t mind answering any questions from anyone, sometimes I just come off like a total jerk,,, its nothing personal,,,
I’m just generally angry around elections.

P.S. I also think a lot of great things are coming meanwhile.:)

A lot can happen in the meantime, and will.

Read between my lines.

I was just stating my opinion that I doubt this will just be a display of technology and will have any similarity to FF and explaining why I think so. So wasn’t really expecting much of an argument from an opinion. But ok.

Your a Cameron lover and that’s cool,,, rock on.
WGAC///

About Aliens being your favorite movie, mine is Terminator 2, also Cameron, and Aliens is probably 2nd place. It’s hard for me to pick a top list of all time, but I know Aliens is right up there.

This much I can tell you. That first action scene in Aliens where the Marines first encounter the Aliens and are getting slaughtered and Ripley had to drive that APC to go rescue them, that has got to be one of THE best action scenes EVER made. I am on the edge of my seat EVERYTIME I see that scene, lol.

Anyway, 790, you are kind of overstating the significance of that fact of Cameron’s. Everyone has ALWAYS hated to work with James Cameron. That’s because he such an uncompromising hard-head. But that hasn’t stopped him from making some insanely good movies before.

I won’t even patronize you people by listing his movies as if you don’t already know what “insanely good” movies I’m referring to.

Sometimes being hard-headed and uncompromising can make actors resent you, but if you’re good enough, you’ll get them to do the scene right anyhow. And it seems Cameron is good enough. Sometimes being a “nice guy” is not conducive to getting great performances in a compelling film. Some of the greatest parts in the greatest films are simply not easy parts to play and some actors might not be able to handle the stress or proactively put in the effort themselves without a drill sergeant of a director like James Cameron giving them an incentive to.

And you can clearly see the difference the director can make on the performance of actors. Arnold is not exactly an academy award winning actor to say the least. And lamen might think that playing a robot is easy. Good example is how Kristanna Loken seemed to think that all you had to do is scrunch your lips and walk real stiff everywhere to play a convincing Terminator. But after seeing this compared to the Terminator performance by Arnold in the first two films, you realize, there might be more to it. Maybe you can’t pinpoint what it is exactly, but you notice the difference.

And to drive this point home, compare Arnold’s performance as the Terminator from T1 and T2 with his performance in T3. Same actor, same role, but big difference in how convincing the acting was. And you thought all he had to do was act like he wasn’t human…

In T2, Arnold delivered his lines in a manner that seemed overly proper, making it kind of not typical of human speech, but it was not overly stereotypical robotic speech. In T3, he delivered his lines like the stereotypically corny “Danger danger, danger Will Robinson” robotic manner. It is almost a shame that he cannot bring himself to act well without the guidance of a good director, but it appears that is the case. Or maybe he just didn’t have his heart in the performance, which is another likely possibility. But if this was the case, and Mastow was just too “nice” to drive it home to him that he needs to do it better, then ultimately it becomes an example of how a weak “nice guy” director can ruin the performances in a film. Cameron would have been tougher (although all the time hoping Arnold won’t beat his ass) on him to get the scene and the dialog right…

I can’t think of any other good example of where a certain actor plays the same character in different ways, the only other time this happens under different direction is Sigourney Weaver in the Aliens movies. Now I’ve seen Alien 3 and 4 maybe a few times, but don’t remember too much about them, so I can’t specifically point out if her performance was actually worse in the other movies compared to Aliens under Cameron’s watch, but I’ve seen her in other movies and while she’s always been a “good” actress, I think she displayed an intensity level in Aliens that you probably wouldn’t see anywhere else. She was great in Alien too, but Ridley Scott is no hack either…

I don’t know, I highly doubt that Cameron being hard to work with will have any negative effect on his ability to make great films and I doubt Cameron will allow this film to end up just being a technology display.

Comparing this film that James Cameron has spent years on to Final Fantasy is pretty ridiculous in my opinion, but I guess we won’t know the whole picture until we at least see some footage from it.

But man,I was hoping it would be the beginning of 2009, but it is toward the end. I almost wish it was possible to just freeze me until it comes out so I can see it immediately… This will be the hardest 13 months EVER…

At least hopefully by March I will have Operation Flashpoint 2 to keep me entertained…

Something tells me 2009 will be a big year and it won’t be because of Avitar or 3D,,,