Let me first get my complaints out of the way because there are so few. THIS POST IS ALL SPOILERS: -The hammerhead creature: when Jake encounters this rhino, there is an angled profile shot of it stomping and growling. It looks out of place because it looks like something you’d see in a museum-produced documentary. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘James Cameron’
December 27, 2009
The Attraction of Avatar Part I: The Director and Technology
Twelve years I’ve been waiting for the next James Cameron movie. Two years I’ve been waiting for his vision of a scifi epic adventure in a time where, hell, I can’t name you the a recent example of its kind. Did Avatar live up to the hype? Is the technology behind the movie a game [...]
December 1, 2009
Eyes on Avatar: Part 2
Ever since the theatrical trailer I’ve said I’m on an Avatar blackout. I’ve snuck in a few videos here and there; I’m incredibly picky, limiting myself to the occasional TV spot and not touching any character/creature/vehicle profiles or even listening to the James Horner score cuz I read somewhere that the music titles are spoiler-tastic. [...]
October 25, 2009
A Potent Mix
The Avatar trailer premiered in theaters last Friday, with the online version coming up Oct. 29 – why on Thursday instead of tomorrow doesn’t make sense to me. Cam versions have been up since Friday morning, but since I have standards in resolution, I refused to watch the bootlegs. Which means I had to buy [...]
August 28, 2009
Eyes on Avatar
The more I hear, the more I read about people dismissing Avatar’s CG and expressing disappointment in the Navi – how they look like cartoons – makes me wonder if people know what makes a special effect stellar. The designs of the Navi are subjective, so whatever on that point; although I do have strong, [...]
May 25, 2009
Terminator Salvation Review or: Why T2 is the Greatest Movie Ever
Terminator Salvation is 2 hours of post-apocalyptic human versus Machine warfare, and yet the size and scope never achieves what James Cameron did in that two minute and thirty-four second Judgment Day battle scene before the title sequence. Spoilers ahead…
February 1, 2009
Insane Choices in a Sane World
I’ll just slip it out: I have the biggest erection for James Cameron.
