According to Titanic star Bill Paxton, the word "no" gives James Cameron an erection.
Many things about this sentence raise questions.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
But where Cameron chooses to focus his attention, the detail is remarkable. Rocks on Pandora look like rocks; hair comes in individual strands (though it is often bound up in braids) and falls naturally; and, while the animals don't have fur, their muscles pump and pulse beneath their flesh. Even the colors are richer when seen inside the theater.
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i cant wait to see a movie where rocks look like rocks... FINALLY
and hair. HAIR!
― access flap (omar little), Monday, 19 October 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Rocks and Hair, coming this holiday season.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hair that comes in individual strands... what would the lumiere brothers think
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
• Something James Cameron actually shouted to Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of True Lies: "Do you want Paul Verhoeven to finish this motherfucker?"
― well pull down my pants and call me swamp thing (latebloomer), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
god, true lies would have been an awesome verhoeven.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 19 October 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah totally
― well pull down my pants and call me swamp thing (latebloomer), Monday, 19 October 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Paul Verhoeven's Titanic
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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lol.
― schwantz, Monday, 19 October 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The NY article makes you admire Cameron, and really, really wish he had decided to make something other than Avatar.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thats it exactly isnt it
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
its like you're dedicating decades and millions of dollars and your genius to...
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/409/555656-furry2_super.jpg
THIS??
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
That New Yorker article is amazing. I've only read the first paragraph!
“Watching him light is like watching two monkeys fuck a football.”
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
in their pursuit of a precious superconductor called Unobtanium, are beginning to do the same to Pandora.
wait is James Cameron aiming to make a serious movie involving a material called Unobtanium?
― dyao, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link
that is Lucas-level bullshit right there
― well pull down my pants and call me swamp thing (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"It’s a two-fingered inverted draw past the head, like a Samurai,” he said, tracing the shape in the air over his left shoulder. “The archery instructor came and said, ‘Do you want me to teach them archery or do you want me to teach them this? This would never work.’ I said, ‘See that bush?’ It was a hundred and fifty feet away. I nailed it.”
James Cameron = the IT guy from The Office
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZoES9KQ-Q
― dyao, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 07:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this bit:
After he finished making “True Lies,” Cameron called Kubrick, by then a recluse, and invited himself over. They spent a day, in the basement of Kubrick’s house in the English countryside, watching “True Lies” at Kubrick’s flatbed editing station. Cameron went over the shots—Schwarzenegger in a Harrier jet firing a missile, with the villain attached to it, through an office building and into a helicopter: boom!—so that Kubrick could learn how the effects were done.
Sounds like the best friend from hell.
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i like that he apparently went over to kubrick's house with a 16mm or even 35mm print of his own movie.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Kubrick was thinking "Man, I wish we were watching the new Verhoeven instead."
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
“We made it in the papers once, for a U.F.O. sighting over a hot-air balloon that we built and launched at night that was powered by candles.”
loooooooooool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Right, screw Avatar, I want to read his memoirs!
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
My friend has funny stories about James Cameron's - such as his band of ex Mossad commandos coming the rescue of his boss' house during some Malibu wildfires. Also has an anecdote about Cameron comparing the budget of Avatar to the budget of the Manhattan Project.
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Sam Worthington: not a cartoon (he says)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
the new yorker article is so amazing.
this paragraph is incredible:
The meeting ended on a boisterous note. “That fuckin’ rocks!” Cameron called out in response to an image of a snarling maw of thin blue-veined tissue, the mouth of the pterodactyl-like banshee that Jake’s avatar domesticates for his ride. “Look at the gill-like membrane on the side of the mouth, its transmission of light, all the secondary color saturation on the tongue, and that maxilla bone. I love what you did with the translucence on the teeth, and the way the quadrate bone racks the teeth forward. It’s a sharky thing. As wacky as this creature is, it looks completely real. Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! He’s a fierce-looking sonuvabitch.”
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
saw the preview for this before paranormal activity and some guy a few rows back said "that looks terrible"
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
If Paranormal Activity ends up being a bigger success than Avatar I am so going to laugh. (In terms of budget vs. return it's already the winner of the decade.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I basically don't know a single thing about this movie other than what's in that New Yorker profile (hadn't heard of it before), but the article did make me want to see it.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPyipuT-Jg
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
trailer i saw had a lot more (awful) dialogue
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
john why did that article make you interested? this seems like the exact opposite of the types of movies you usually like
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
welcome to pandora!
http://winnipeg.cityguide.ca/images/cats.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't know someone made a stage version of Thundercats!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I'll admit I was greatly put off by this: "The third act of “Avatar” contains what Jon Landau, the producer, calls “the mother of all movie battles.”" But I think the movie seems like it could be a visual wonderland, especially in 3D. And I like high-concept sci-fi like A.I.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I loved that article but did not come away feeling like i would want to be in proximity to james cameron under any circumstances.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! He’s a fierce-looking sonuvabitch.”
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:10 PM
ahaha fuck lol
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! I am the reason LARPERS sing 'The goddess wears a thong!'"
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/avatar-header2.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
“the mother of all movie battles.”"
CGI-driven gigantic battle scenes are usually pretty boring IMHO.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Exactly.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
New trailer
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
And various reactions to same.
Everything about that just makes me think Cameron woke up one morning and decided "You know I liked the technology in the forest bits in The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith, why didn't George make a full movie out of it?"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
it's pretty amazing how a guy who was once, like, the toughest mfer when it came to writing and directing action films has turned into such a weirdo furry.
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Creatures and "jungle wonders" still look cheezy as hell, and the sawed-off jarhead dialogue sounds worse, but the new trailer does make it look like an entertaining (and perhaps even moving) Aliens/Abyss-style military adventure flick. In, yeah, a weirdo furry kinda way.
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
CGI-driven gigantic battle scenes are usually pretty boring IMHO
― modescalator (blueski), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp Well it was always there. See the The Abyss.
― We call them "meat hemorrhoids" (Alex in SF), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
at least i think i got tired of it after 2003 xp
― modescalator (blueski), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link