Question of the Day

Do you want to see sequels to Avatar?

Interesting Quote: James Cameron

We have a story crisis. Now they want to make the Battleship game into a film. This is pure desperation. Everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that a film is a brand before it hit theaters. If a brand has been around, Harry Potter for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem. Because unfortunately these franchises are become more ridiculous. Battleship. This degrades the cinema.

James is complaining about 'Battleship' the movie. I agree it's a Hot Ass Mess, but this complaint is coming from the man who gave us 'Pocahontas in Alien Blue' 


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Piranha 3D Producer strikes back at James Cameron

This weekend, James Cameron put the film, Piranha 3D on blast. He said that it was an example of films shouldn't be doing.

Basically, he was being a hater. However, one of the producers of Piranha 3D, Mark Canton wasn't happy about James' words and had plenty to say.

I will share some parts of Mark's long letter:

“Jim, are you kidding or what? First of all, let’s start by you accepting the fact that you were the original director of PIRANHA 2 and you were fired. Shame on you for thinking that genre movies and the real maestros like Roger Corman and his collaborators are any less auteur or impactful in the history of cinema than you. Martin Scorcese made Boxcar Bertha at the beginning of his career. And Francis Ford Coppola made Dimentia [sic] 13 back in 1963. And those are just a few examples of the talented and successful filmmakers whose roots are in genre films. Who are you to impugn any genre film or its creators?

And...

“Let’s just keep this in mind Jim….you did not invent 3D. You were fortunate that others inspired you to take it further. The simple truth is that I had nothing but good things to say about AVATAR and my own experience since I actually saw it and didn’t damn someone else’s talent publicly in order to disassociate myself from my origins in the business from which we are all very fortunate. To be honest, I found the 3D in AVATAR to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish AVATAR had been more original in its storytelling.

I'm glad he responded. Avatar is not all that serious, and I thought the Oscars reminded James of that. Oh well.

Interesting Quote: James Cameron

You've got to remember: I worked on Piranha 2 for a few days and got fired off of it; I don't put it on my official filmography. So there's no sort of fond connection for me whatsoever. In fact, I would go even farther and say that... I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like Friday the 13th 3-D. When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial lifespan, they did a 3-D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip. And that's not what's happening now with 3-D. It is a renaissance-right now the biggest and the best films are being made in 3-D. Martin Scorsese is making a film in 3-D. Disney's biggest film of the year-Tron: Legacy-is coming out in 3-D. So it's a whole new ballgame.

It's interesting to hear him hate on Piranha 3D. Avatar is the biggest gimmick there is.

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Avatar makes a billion buckaroos, but I still don't want to see it.

Well, James Cameron is the King of the world and has pimp slapped Michael Bay off his soapbox. Avatar has made a billion bucks world wide.

Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron's "Avatar" rang in the New Year with an estimated worldwide cume of $1 billion through Sunday, becoming the fourth highest grosser of all time.

Domestic cume was $352.1 million, including a weekend take of $68.3 million, the best gross ever for a film in its third weekend.

Overseas, the pic's cume through Sunday was $670.2 million.

I am happy about this because it's not a remake, an 80's toy fetish or a book series. So maybe companies will be open to NEW ideas.

However, I'm not so sure I want to watch the Attack of the Cat People for 3 hours.

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Question of the Day

Are you going to see Avatar?

And if you have seen it, what did you think?

New Trailer: James Cameron's Avatar

I'm not feeling it, what do you think?