| themanwithnoname said: Yes, James Cameron is clearly the pinnacle of character development. I really hope that's a joke. I think you can pretty accurately describe any character in Avatar after seeing them for about 30 seconds, because they're just about all cardboard cutouts. |
Youre pretending like Avatar is all hes ever done.
He got Sigourney Weaver her only Oscar nomintaion for a role in a freeking sci fi thriller...and rightfully so.
Avatar wasn't his greatest movie on any level (other than visually) but he still knows how to make you care for the characters a hell of a lot better than Nolan in Inceptption. Other than Cobb, and possibly Ficher, did you honestly care what happens to any of thoseother people in the dream? You hardly knew anything about them to care...
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I for one only cared that Saito got shot cause he could get Cobb back to his family, and rest could have dropped dead and there would be no impact on the film what so ever. Cobb and his wife were well developped and I had genuene care for them. Fischer and his uncle had some cool supporting role moments but everyone else was as disposable as they come.
Mind you that the whole character debate started when Zen started praising characters the movie. There is a lot of things which christopher nolan does well in Inception, but character development isn't it.
