Seriously. I'm not a fan of Cameron's movies, but I'm now a fan of Cameron. He's doing some serious good here.
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James Cameron successfully dives to deepest point on Earth
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Seriously. I'm not a fan of Cameron's movies, but I'm now a fan of Cameron. He's doing some serious good here.
SouthernDragon
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Yeah, this is pretty awesome. I hope he finds something unprecedented.
It always surprises me how little we know about the world we live on.
It always surprises me how little we know about the world we live on.
robertsan21
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Cameron= awesomeness!
This dude is awesome.
This dude is awesome.
mclaren777
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Still no mention of a projected launch date?
But he's totally not an idiot. He's actually, like... really damn smart.
Foreign Jackass
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I guess every opinion about Cameron is valid. That said, Avatar and Titanic were the exact opposite of "smart" filmmaking.
they were smart storytelling son
he told stories he wanted to tell, in the way he wanted to tell them, and in a way that resonated with many people
they were literally fundamentally solid movies that people loved
cameron hate train needs to fuck off already goddamn
Ether_Snake
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He's going to renew his contract with Cthulhu.
It literally does.
Seriously...it's just tiresome now.
makingmusic476
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I can't wait to see what he finds down there.
This is amazing. I was reading about the four teams racing to the bottom on BBC a couple of weeks ago and it mentioned how Cameron's project was wrapped in total secrecy. Watching that video and reading some of that Nat Geo website got me really excited for this. He's basically doing things I would be if I had his money.
Mr. Luchador
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They were absolutely brilliant filmmaking; they were just average films. Those movies were ingeniously constructed to bring in the largest audience humanly possible and they succeeded.
It would be gaming age funny. Not ha-ha funny.
Naked Snake
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I'll co-sign that.
I don't think Titanic was purposefully constructed to achieve that effect, it just did as a result of what the film was always supposed to be.
And Avatar might be more deliberate in terms of aiming for that goal by the end, but again I don't think it was the original motive either when you look at the big picture of what was filmed and what the budget and length must have been by the end obviously made an impact on the final edit. And again, the story is sourced back to 1995, so its not like the simplicity of the story was decided upon due to the success of Titanic.
In the end, both movies still contained elements that would have made them complete clusterfucks in the hands of lesser filmmakers, even with the same story beats. Titanic with its 3+ hour runtime and story that everyone and their mother knew the end to, and Avatar with its...well fucking everything.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Cthulhu's gonna be pissed. He was trying to sleep at least one more era.
Yup. Turn the same material over to another director, and the films would not have worked anywhere near the same degree. I mean, Titanic is a $200m three hour period piece where everyone knows the ending. People forget how hugely risky it was, how it was mocked almost right until it opened. But Cameron made it work, and brilliantly.
indigo-cyclops
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Emphasized.
I really can't wait to see what happens, what he finds. I heard about this on Mysterious Universe a few months back I believe...
SCULLIBUNDO
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And AVATAR was just as big a risk, yet everybody seems to forget that after it became the highest grossing film ever. The amount of BIGGEST BOMBA EVER talk from everywhere during its production was huge. It had a massive budget, a cast of unknown leads and was releasing primarily in 3D which had been a HUGE turnoff for people before that and no commercial film had ever been distributed primarily in the format.
I like how because you don't like some of his films, he's an idiot. Cameron is genuinely smart, possibly genius level.
I'm not even talking about his films. I just mean his brain works really damn well. All the shit to do with this dive, all the technology, etc, you can be damn sure he understands every bit of it.
BotoxAgent
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Phoenix Dark, lol
You don't make the two highest grossing movies ever without being smart.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Not to mention revolutionizing the industry.
Ghost_Protocol
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Seriously. The Titanic and Avatar projects are examples of extraordinarily smart filmaking.
Pristine_Condition
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I'm not a fan of Titanic or Avatar, or Cameron for that matter, but this statement is utter nonsense. Titanic is brilliant filmmaking. You shouldn't be able to achieve a box office result like that from the Titanic story, yet Cameron did. It wasn't luck.
SouthernDragon
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He made popular movies I dislike. Therefore, he is stupid.
StudioTan
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The dude has balls. I could never do this in a million years. I get claustrophobic watching OTHER people in small spaces. I cringed through half of The Descent.
I hope he finds some really amazing stuff. Good luck to him.
I hope he finds some really amazing stuff. Good luck to him.
SCULLIBUNDO
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You just gotta check whether the movie your seeing has been designed and shot for 3d. Hugo is the best 3d has ever been.
Not sure how in depth you'd want me to go. I dont want to derail anymore and I said I'm cool with what he's doing here. I wonder why people find it so hard to believe that one could have a negative opinion of him?
You can have a negative opinion of him, but calling him an idiot is factually untrue. "I don't like him" is an opinion. "He's an idiot" is has no basis in reality. Cameron is demonstrably incredibly intelligent and highly skilled in a wide number of fields.
People went there in the 60's
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