James Cameron's Avatar

  On 7/14/2009 at 11:06 PM, Squee said:

  On 7/14/2009 at 9:59 PM, Joyrex said:

What was the last James Cameron film to come out?

 

Titanic.

that would only be if not counting his documentary features.

the last 2 films Cameron made were Aliens of the Deep and Ghosts of the Abyss

avatar will work just fine and afterall cameron's a really good illustrator so he knows his shit

I can't wait until this film owns my soul... eats my soul... james cameron eat my soul... the man...

J.C.

  On 7/14/2009 at 9:46 PM, zaphod said:

  On 7/14/2009 at 8:37 PM, playbynumbers said:

aliens?

 

dont you fucking dare

dude, have you SEEN aliens recently? i loved it when i was 14, and then saw it again last year ... every single line is uber-cheese, and is delivered really badly. those aren't actual characters

edit: which is not to say that the movie isn't stupidly entertaining, obviously

i literally just watched it. i watch it like once a year. the acting is fantastic. it's an action movie. all the characters are perfectly drawn archetypes, the banter is probably the best in any action film. and then the plot/story (since when was this important to you?) is great. it's a perfect action film and so it's a near perfect movie. i could easily say a character in a malick film isn't a character but just a poorly drawn sketch, but that doesn't take away from the film having an impact. aliens is well written because you don't notice the writing.

and really, ripley isn't a character? bad acting from sigourney weaver? that's completely ridiculous, she's one of the great female heroines.

  On 7/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, zaphod said:

i literally just watched it. i watch it like once a year. the acting is fantastic. it's an action movie. all the characters are perfectly drawn archetypes, the banter is probably the best in any action film. and then the plot/story (since when was this important to you?) is great. it's a perfect action film and so it's a near perfect movie. i could easily say a character in a malick film isn't a character but just a poorly drawn sketch, but that doesn't take away from the film having an impact. aliens is well written because you don't notice the writing.

 

and really, ripley isn't a character? bad acting from sigourney weaver? that's completely ridiculous, she's one of the great female heroines.

qft

In addition: it's aesthetic has been copied ad nauseam, pretty much since it came out, by countless movies and video games.

  On 6/2/2009 at 8:34 PM, Fred McGriff said:

If eyeball fucks are what you're into I highly recommend LSD

Doesn't that make you see the Shining twins though?

  On 7/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, zaphod said:

i literally just watched it. i watch it like once a year. the acting is fantastic. it's an action movie. all the characters are perfectly drawn archetypes, the banter is probably the best in any action film. and then the plot/story (since when was this important to you?) is great. it's a perfect action film and so it's a near perfect movie. i could easily say a character in a malick film isn't a character but just a poorly drawn sketch, but that doesn't take away from the film having an impact. aliens is well written because you don't notice the writing.

 

and really, ripley isn't a character? bad acting from sigourney weaver? that's completely ridiculous, she's one of the great female heroines.

i think the first half of Aliens is a near perfect film, it drops off slightly in intensity after the most of the team dies imo. I always watch the movie till the end though whenever i catch it, i just wish there was slightly more action happening when Ripley decides to go back and rescue newt, it seems in theory that tons of explosions and alien deaths would amount to intense edge of your seat action but i find it very ambient almost that entire scene where she goes back for the rescue, much more ambient than it should be.

what a weird opinion. i'd say the movie grows and grows in intensity. i don't know what "ambient" even means applied to that movie. you guys are all too idm for your own good.

think of the cyclops

  On 7/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, zaphod said:

i literally just watched it. i watch it like once a year. the acting is fantastic. it's an action movie. all the characters are perfectly drawn archetypes, the banter is probably the best in any action film. and then the plot/story (since when was this important to you?) is great. it's a perfect action film and so it's a near perfect movie. i could easily say a character in a malick film isn't a character but just a poorly drawn sketch, but that doesn't take away from the film having an impact. aliens is well written because you don't notice the writing.

 

and really, ripley isn't a character? bad acting from sigourney weaver? that's completely ridiculous, she's one of the great female heroines.

i noticed every single cheesy line, dude. ripley is the one actual character, yes; and to an extent the young girl (newt). mostly i was referring to, you know, every single other character; all of the marines were like what a 9-year-old boy would imagine "space marines" to be like. i'm not against fun archetypal action characters, but i'm not really seeing that in this case. and like i said, the movie is still entertaining at a more basic level (just like titanic, and the abyss, and true lies ...), but there's no "there" there. versus malick.

anyway the point is that i doubt avatar will be a new star wars.

i guess i don't like your "if i were 14 this would be good" line that you always throw out there when you feel something is beneath you. it's more than a little condescending.

I saw Aliens in the theatre in 1986, with two hot older sisters, whom were my father's friend's daughters, while we were visiting them in Arkansas. Happy memories.

two hot older sisters who were your father's friends daughters.

Makes no fucking sense.

Oh I see. They were sisters, but not your sisters. They were each other's sisters.

:drinks more coffee:

did they do ATM

pbn reminds me of every pretentious film snob ive ever met

  On 7/16/2009 at 7:07 PM, Mr Salads said:

two hot older sisters who were your father's friends daughters.

 

Makes no fucking sense.

 

Oh I see. They were sisters, but not your sisters. They were each other's sisters.

 

:drinks more coffee:

They were my father's friend's daughters - they were daughters, whose father was my father's friend. Geddit?

  On 7/16/2009 at 7:12 PM, theSun said:

did they do ATM

No; they had enough cash to pay for all of us

  On 7/16/2009 at 6:43 PM, zaphod said:

i guess i don't like your "if i were 14 this would be good" line that you always throw out there when you feel something is beneath you. it's more than a little condescending.

it's not beneath me; it's an entertaining movie, and a very good action movie. i just liked it a lot more when i was younger; maybe i find it difficult to define action movies as "good" movies, now

i'm saying that's what you say whenever you don't really like something that's popular. i'm obviously not going to but i could probably find about twenty quotes where you say "maybe if i was fifteen i would like this".

and i think it's a little silly to have to delineate different levels of good. i shouldn't have to qualify everything with "for an action film" or "for a pop album" or whatever. it's just pretentious and stupid.

zaphod you have no business in talking. you apparently love aliens, and yet are lukewarm to terminator 2 which is obviously the superior film.

i'm lukewarm to terminator. terminator 2 is a very good film. although not superior to aliens, no.

actually yes it is faggot

terminator 2 is the best action movie ever made

If we had Mirezzi up in this conversation I'd be cumming stupid hard right about now!

just say both movies sucked and that the abyss is the best james cameron movie. make sure your reasons are completely arbitrary and obscure.