rocketpig said:
Riachu said:
Retrasado said:
I've seen it three times. the first two in 2D and the third in 3D. The third time I went at the 3:15 pm matinee on a tuesday and the theater had more than 50 people there. And I live in a town with only ~45000 people.
Titanic is finished
*WARNING spoilers*
Also, the movie's story isn't groundbreaking, but it is very well executed and it keeps the world it paints believable once you accept the basic premises (this is a hallmark of all good fictional worlds, especially sci-fi ones). Also, while some of the scenes were weird (the tribal/ceremonial ones) others such as the one where he is capturing his banshee or when he shows up on that huge bird near the end were extremely well done. Also, the scene where the alien's hometree is destroyed was one of the best scenes I've watched in a long time and the 3D aspect was masterfully choreographed to pull you into the world.
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So, its not the best movie of all time by a long shot, but its combination of groundbreaking special effects and (gasp) a decent story is the reason why its been so successful. This is the movie that answers all of our questions about how a movie with really good modern special effects would do if it actually had a decent story to go along with it. After we got a taste of what the potential was with last year's The Dark Knight and agonized over the lack of anything even approaching a coherent story line in 2009's visually stunning but otherwise totally abysmal Transformers 2 and 2012, we have our answer.
I think we should give Cameron
a large amount of praise even just for managing to rise above the flashy CGI-fests that have become the definition for 'blockbuster' movies nowadays. But he went farther than that alone and actually harnessed the potential of today's effects technology to create something that no one has ever really seen before: a fictional world that seems almost real. Where there are no fantasy elements or overt scientific impossibilities in sight and only a few easily-dismissed tribal weirdness to distract from the beauty of a computer-rendered bioluminescent forest shining in the glow of a gigantic planet that takes up half the sky.
The above sounds kind of wishywashy I know, but I really think that despite its flaws, that of all the movies released since Titanic that had a prayer of beating it at the box office, I would choose this one to be the one to do it. |
I think people would rather have Avatar's "predicable" story than Transformers 2's racial insensitivity, lame humor, and poor characterization. Cameron may have taken inspirations from other movies but atleast the story he came up with the bad stuff in Transformers 2 and 2012.
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I think it's safe to say, despite my problems with Avatar's story, that James Cameron is roughly 14,847 times a better director than Michael Bay.
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hell yeah. And I'm saying that I'm gald we finally get to see a good director make good use of some the spectacular advances we've made since the last cutting-edge film that had a good story (LotR:Return of the King). I mean, while that movie was and is amazing, we've come a long way since 2003 as far as special-effects tech. I actually went just for the effects the first time and I was stunned (and very pleasantly surprised I might add) to find that it had a good story too. James Cameron is a damn good director no matter how you look at it. Yes he does have flaws, but he sure knows how to wow people without sacrificing the story and acting in the process
