Avatar - James Cameron Returns! (Spoilers in thread, obviously!)

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Usually I laugh at these silly comparisons but it's hard not to see the obvious similarities.

EDIT: Avatar seems to follow a solid story structure which I'm sure Pocohontus wasn't the first to utilize.
 
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Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
Cameron and Gibson are neighbours.
In the end Cameron asked everyone present to give themselves a round of applause.
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I always cringe whenever Cameron gives acceptance speeches. They're always bizarre and ridunkulously self-important. But, I mean, come on, it's hard to stay grounded when you're responsible for several of the top grossing films of all time.

Remember when he said at the Academy Awards, "Let's all have a moment of silence for Titanic"? Anyone who was not completely self-important and removed from all sense of tact and reality would have said, "a moment of silence for those who perished on the Titanic". I mean, he didn't even say "the Titanic" as in referencing the ship, he said "Titanic", referencing the name of his movie.

Not taking anything away from his movies, and like I said -- it has to be a wierd universe to live in if you're James Cameron.

What is REALLY interesting (and what no one is saying), is if Osmosis Jones is considered an animated film by every award show the year it was released, shouldn't Avatar also have been considered an animated film (and thus only eligible to win best animated feature)?

Double standard for mister Cameron?
 
Chamber005 said:
I always cringe whenever Cameron gives acceptance speeches.
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He's gracious to his cast and especially his crew. I don't see anything there except something that more directors might think to emulate.

And referring to a ship solely by name - ie Nimitz for the USS Nimitz or Titanic for the RMS Titanic - is long-standing and widely-accepted practice.

Perhaps the solution is to avoid listening to his acceptance speeches. Less cringing, that way.
 
Sad Max said:
He's gracious to his cast and especially his crew. I don't see anything there except something that more directors might think to emulate.

And referring to a ship solely by name - ie Nimitz for the USS Nimitz or Titanic for the RMS Titanic - is long-standing and widely-accepted practice.

Perhaps the solution is to avoid listening to his acceptance speeches. Less cringing, that way.
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Regardless, it's impossible not to agree that the phrasing is just downright bizarre.

"Let's have a moment of silence for Pearl Harbor"

"Let's have a moment of silence for D Day"

There is no way you can articulate that unless you are specifically intending something other than the words you are saying, or you're an idiot and trying to be fancy. The fact that I had to INFERE that he was talking about the people who had died on the Titanic shows his complete and absolute estrangement from any notion of humbleness.

But I've said it before, I like his movies and I like him as a director. I just also like to point out the foibles of his movies' marketing and how completely (though probably well-deservingly) full of himself Cameron is.

But hey, you need a big ego to make it in Hollywood -- apparently bigger than the Titanic.

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Chamber005 said:
Regardless, it's impossible not to agree that the phrasing is just downright bizarre.
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Somehow I am finding it possible.

Somehow.

Chamber005 said:
The fact that I had to INFERE that he was talking about the people who had died on the Titanic shows his complete and absolute estrangement from any notion of humbleness.
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Or possibly just your own personal interpretation of the words, which means any difficulties in interpretation (or what you were inferring) are actually your business.

Chamber005 said:
I just also like to point out the foibles of his movies' marketing and how completely (though probably well-deservingly) full of himself Cameron is.
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I wonder why that is. Well, no, not really, I don't.
 
Chamber, your posts are getting a little trollish; especially if you still haven't seen the film you so adamantly like to put down.

- Mikko
 
There is a script floating around, that is an "abridged" version of the Avatar script. One of the scene evokes a conversation we had earlier in the thread:

BLUE SAM WORTHINGTON
What the ****? Floating mountains? How did “floating mountains” make it all the way from script to storyboard to rendering without anyone asking how mountains can float while people just walk around?

BLUE ZOE SALDANA
The best part is that the floating mountains have waterfalls. Where is the water coming from?
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Sound familiar anyone?

The rest is here. It's a fun read.
http://www.the-editing-room.com/avatar.html
 
Superconducting ore, massive electromagnetic fields thrown off by Pandora's primary, superconductors float in a powerful magnetic field, etc etc etc...
 
Dude I know. Just thought it was funny in the script is all. We had this conversation, remember? Click the link and read it. I loved Avatar and still found this abridged version funny as hell.
 
It's just that there really are some genuine floating loose ends, that no one seems interested in parodying...
 
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