James Cameron, Director

with James Cameron
in Movies, TV & Theater
on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 * * * * *

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    1. DANIELOCEAN  07/24/2012 11:28 PM Report

      AND BEST MOVIE 2010

    2. DANIELOCEAN  07/24/2012 11:27 PM Report

      EXCELLENT DIRECTOR EXCELLENT MOVIE EXCELLENT WRITER EXCELLENT INTERVIEW. I THINK JAMES CAMERON SHOULD HAVE WON FOR BEST DIRECTOR.

    3. finalfantasytown  12/04/2011 03:40 AM Report

      I don't see honey bees in Avatar. Somebody care about honey bees? They make honey, tasty honey. I strike for honey bees and win the Nobel prize of human rights in nature for honey bees.

    4. melkor  06/29/2010 04:36 PM Report

      this was not a good movie. pretty in its visual novelty but vapid everywhere else. it is very similar to his titanic story suffers for the lowest common denominator wow!

    5. doodahdaze  03/11/2010 06:55 PM Report

      I saw this movie today with my 12 year old. And WOW! What a feast for the eyes! And the mind! Great cinematography and story. The bar has been lifted.

      My only criticisms would be, that the movie would have been truer to it's message(s), if it could have gotten by without the "bitch" and "shit" comments (the biggest impact is obviously targeted to the 11 - 15 year olds; thank you very much). Also, the 'racial' comments at the end were unnecessary. But I guess not, if you're a Hollywood millionaire that has an exaggerated political message to beam down to the ignorant populace. I know I got the message; If somebody had just told me that John Wayne was such a pig-ass-bastard, I would have rooted for the Ingins.

      On a positive note, my faith in technology stocks has been renewed. :) And the next time I eat at McDonalds, I will kiss the hamburger before I eat it.

    6. charlizecourriers  02/20/2010 03:24 PM Report

      A Triumph of Swill!

    7. doodahdaze  02/20/2010 07:46 AM Report

      I think that's what they said when they invented, bourbon. LOL

    8. vauben  02/19/2010 06:41 PM Report

      When art and scientific fears converge,

      perhaps to encourage, maybe to urge...

      When dreams and hopes are filed within

      the same folder as science...do we begin

      to see streams as blood, and mountains as home,

      the sky as breath and trees as bone.

    9. doodahdaze  02/18/2010 01:48 PM Report

      Family and friends tell me this is a great movie. Hope I get around to seeing it while it's still in the theater. I get the feeling it probably will be boring if watched on TV. It HAS to be in the theatre. But will I get there before it's not showing anymore? Do I care?

      I must say, the longer this interview goes on, the less interesting it sounds. :( ... But they say, 'it's great!' :)

    10. REMant  02/18/2010 11:03 AM Report

      Well, it ain't Hitchcock, or Chabrol. I would think the analogy is to the Star Wars series, and that the Chinese and other Asians like it mainly because they love cartoons, comic book characters, and stuff like that, much as teenagers here. I mean who produced all those Godzilla movies? Frankly, I think the message is not a big part of it. Whoever talked about its primitivist character is right, but so is the counter claim of being patronizing, because that appears to be the liberal condition - the so-called paradox of progressivism - surprisingly, perhaps, found in the same persons, as they try to recover what is believed to be lost innocence, but is more like lost pride. That is shame; the patronizing reveals envy. These themes were treated in Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and God knows how many sci-fi publications. There is only one way to accomplish what the liberal desires and that is to rise not only above the kind of child-rearing that creates the problem, but also in the process learn how to live according to nature. The Stoics were here first. Their concept is oikeiosis, and formed the basis for the idea of self-interest properly understood, or amour propre, the virtue expected of republicans, and expounded by Hobbes (properly understood), Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Tocqueville, et al. I am not sure, in any case, I would consider either Avatar or Titanic examples of great movie-making, nor credit the Academy's opinion of the matter.