_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Cameron is playing with other people's money. He is not in sole charge of the project. However he may think of himself, he is a businessman among businessmen. He will always sell his project on the basis of anticipated profits, and his backers will view his inventiveness or lack of it, and not coincidentally set the size of his budget, in terms of anticipated profits.

That is why Cameron's personal goals are only tangentially related to the goal of the movie. An inventive artist who makes money is a Hollywood success story. One who loses money is a loser, pure and simple.

yes and?

dont u see the system maaaan

and so... "Invention isn't the goal. Making the most money you can is the goal. Telling a story is merely the means to that end"... still stands as correct.

and so the statement stands, another ilx story told in the service of cynical reductionism. THE END

so you're saying hollywood designs its products to make money? hmm, never thought of it that way before

As a theory for explaining what appears on 99% of movie screens worldwide, it has powerful elucidary qualities which the auteur theory lacks. However, when a simplifying theory comes along which undermines the importance of what critics, fanboys and other groupies all love to chatter about, it meets brutal resistance.

it true, i just brutally suggest bannd u

**bows cynically to the right and left, exits stage**

"technologically successful"?

sweet fx bra

oh right if the efx are really cool then we are the dupes. the efx will have duped us into liking a shitty film

"bows cynically" ?

yes if the effects are well executed and convincing you are an asshole

my entire profession was just undermined brutally and i do not know what to do

all critical discourse around movies has been debunked for all time :(

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Starring The Guy Who Didn't Get To Be James Bond!

x-post Um, Cameron has stated specifically that the effects will be groundbreaking, "a game changer." He has not called the script a game changer, or the amount of money the movie will make a game changer. Pretty obvious that if he delivers on the FX front, then the former's deficiencies will be negated and the $$$ will be massive enough to justify the bravado. Whether people will be dressed as these blue things next Halloween is another matter.

uhh just saw trailer (thx world series!) and this looks like a trailer for halo and the font for the movie's name looks like papyrus.

seeing the trailer for this on tv while not paying much attention makes it look just like some dippy video game. digital effects very much included. tho obviously my tv is not 3-d.

xpost! haha

Pretty obvious that if he delivers on the FX front, then the former's deficiencies will be negated and the $$$ will be massive enough to justify the bravado

If anything, it'll scrub the memory of Transformers 2 out of our brains.

Ugh, I still hate that fucking Papyrus font.

real talk

True fax.

nothing will scrub t2

Saw the trailer at the cinema, blimey, it looks a bit ropey.

PLAYBOY: We seem to need fantasy icons like Lara Croft and Wonder Woman, despite knowing they mess with our heads.
CAMERON: Most of men's problems with women probably have to do with realizing women are real and most of them don't look or act like Vampirella. A big recalibration happens when we're forced to deal with real women, and there's a certain geek population that would much rather deal with fantasy women than real women. Let's face it: Real women are complicated. You can try your whole life and not understand them.

PLAYBOY: How much did you get into calibrating your movie heroine's hotness?
CAMERON: Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals. I designed her costumes based on a taparrabo, a loincloth thing worn by Mayan Indians. We go to another planet in this movie, so it would be stupid if she ran around in a Brazilian thong or a fur bikini like Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.

PLAYBOY: Are her breasts on view?
CAMERON: I came up with this free-floating, lion's-mane-like array of feathers, and we strategically lit and angled shots to not draw attention to her breasts, but they're right there. The animation uses a physics-based sim that takes into consideration gravity, air movement and the momentum of her hair, her top. We had a shot in which Neytiri falls into a specific position, and because she is lit by orange firelight, it lights up the nipples. That was good, except we're going for a PG-13 rating, so we wound up having to fix it. We'll have to put it on the special edition DVD; it will be a collector's item. A Neytiri Playboy Centerfold would have been a good idea.

PLAYBOY: So you're okay with arousing PG-13 chubbies?
CAMERON: If such a thing should ­happen—and I'm not saying it will—that would be fine.

okay so that is just wrong

When did this thread have sex with the Idolator one?

god gross

We had a shot in which Neytiri falls into a specific position, and because she is lit by orange firelight, it lights up the nipples.

well okay then

Guys, this was how Von Sternberg shot Marlene Dietrich.

shot her with light-up nipples

Most of men's problems with women probably have to do with realizing women are real and most of them don't look or act like Vampirella. A big recalibration happens when we're forced to deal with real women, and there's a certain geek population that would much rather deal with fantasy women than real women. Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.

<3

Now imagine the AvaTwilight crossover slashfic. Being made by somebody, somewhere, right now.

Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits,"

great quote

he is amazing.

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/rbp20/vampi_pics/models/terry_leslie1.jpg

that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.

^^ man, no pill worries or anything

it makes sense on another planet to be dressed like 12th century mayan but not like a 21st century brazilian

kinda lol mostly sad

megalolz at this useless fuckwad's quest for "realism"

a non-placental mammal having tits = hey that's okay, but wearing a brazilian thong?!?! THAT'S CRAZY

it makes sense to be a tall blue person

megalolz at everything to do with this film.

I think I want this to be a huge embarrassment now. Except it will still rake in the cash.

i saw on the quidities thread that he watches cgi blue alien mayan-style pr0n on his iphone in public

i am actually doing that right now

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"chubbies"