After seeing Inception...

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themanwithnoname said:

disolitude said:

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...

You only cared that Saito got shot cause he could get Cobb back to his family...

I would argue Inception is probably Nolan's worst film to analyze his character development as well. I'd ask you if you actually cared about any character other than Ripley in Aliens, because I sure didn't. Just about every film has maybe a handful of characters at most that I genuinely care about. That being said, I still find praising of Cameron's character development to be iffy at best.

lol...sorry I edited my reply while you were posting this.

 Avatar was really his worst movie when it comes to characters but that was filmed infront of the green wall most of the time so I can't blame him. He was too busy wearing 3D glasses :)

 His movies usually have interesting characters. The car salesman in True Lies...wtf?  The whole marines squad in Aliens was all badass at first, but then they get their asses kicked so hard...they start crying like little babies. Its interesting to watch...He makes you care for the right people while making everyone around have a personality.

Spoiler coming...

 

Inception builds this premise for the final act how the group of men accepted this dangerious mission to go deep inside another mans dream, but Cobb never told them about issues he has in his head which is putting them all in danger. Except it doesn't work nearly as well, as I don't care for any of them other than Cobb himself... The movie only becomes interesting and unpredictable to me when Cobb and his wife are in the room.