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The Machinist
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My beef with Titanic is that i didn't enjoy it. To this day i still do not find the film entertaining for many of the reasons i stated earlier. Other people like it and thats cool but it didn't work for me.
Blaine
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The Machinist said:
I can accept that. I enjoyed it and found it entertaining even though I can't stand Leonardo. I particularly liked the Bill Paxton side of the story.
I really try to separate the personal lives of the people involved in making the movies from the movies themselves. Granted, it can be hard sometimes.
Darkline
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I love Cameron's work, but I agree with the machinist that he is great in a certain field. Action flicks with great charatcers, in my opinion he is unrivaled.
But genius is normally handed out to cutting edge styles of film-making. A director who can re-invent himself and define whole genreations of wannabe's with his style. Someone at the front of whole movements in cinema. Not someone who can execute commercial cinema very well.
Simply because something is commercial does not tranlate to it being of value either. According to box office revenue, Stephen Sommers and Chris columbus are actually great directors....
Oscars. It's Hollywood who vote.. People jump on the band wagon. Have you noticed once a film is nominated for best picture it (more often than not) seems to get nominated for everything else too. Costume, sound mix, cinematography, actor, actresses
Out of all the films from all corners of the globe could you honestly say in 1 year a single film topped every other in every category? It's ridiculous.
A lot of it is political. Oscars have no signifcance on the quality of a film - just a 'popular with the masses and easy please' award in general. Its backpatting for people in the business.
But not to take away from Cameron, he really knows how to fuse action and characters better than other directors in his peergroup. I look forward to his next film; tho battle angel just isnt twanging my strings right now.
But genius is normally handed out to cutting edge styles of film-making. A director who can re-invent himself and define whole genreations of wannabe's with his style. Someone at the front of whole movements in cinema. Not someone who can execute commercial cinema very well.
Simply because something is commercial does not tranlate to it being of value either. According to box office revenue, Stephen Sommers and Chris columbus are actually great directors....
Oscars. It's Hollywood who vote.. People jump on the band wagon. Have you noticed once a film is nominated for best picture it (more often than not) seems to get nominated for everything else too. Costume, sound mix, cinematography, actor, actresses
Out of all the films from all corners of the globe could you honestly say in 1 year a single film topped every other in every category? It's ridiculous.
A lot of it is political. Oscars have no signifcance on the quality of a film - just a 'popular with the masses and easy please' award in general. Its backpatting for people in the business.
But not to take away from Cameron, he really knows how to fuse action and characters better than other directors in his peergroup. I look forward to his next film; tho battle angel just isnt twanging my strings right now.