agreed

I suspect Cameron will never again direct a "real" movie. It will always be motion capture and 3-D and so on and so forth. A once-great filmmaker lost in the digital bits.

lol, in your dreams fool, JC is the shit he can make assscar contenders with his eyes closed.

To say that JC is responsible for 3D decline is a false statement.

They need to bring down the damn price.

agreed.

Thank God no one said that.

I was criticizing "JC" (how dare he have the same initials as Jarvis Cocker!) for the ascendancy of 3-D and all the related headaches and swollen ticket prices. His utter -faith- in this gimmick, as if it delivered him to the next level of filmmaking, is so grotesque.

The fact there's this 20-page thread earnestly discussing the long-term viability (ha ha ha) of this bullshit is madness.

3D is here to stay no doubt about it

Because between The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, and Titanic, Cameron was never overly interested in special effects.

Watch The Terminator or True Lies.
Then watch Avatar.

See?

There's a line between a movie with a lot of special effects and a lot of special effects with a side of movie. And next up is Avatar 2. Then Avatar 3.

And, sure, Avatar was dazzling and shit in 2008, but it's morning now and we've all come down.

Watch The Terminator or True Lies.

Then watch Terminator 2, The Abyss, or Avatar.

See?

They're all special-effects heavy films that couldn't be done without the technology of their day. You're just griping about CGI.

Cameron set the highest budget in history record with his last four films. There's a reason for that.

So what if Cameron uses more money and latest technology for his movies? It is always good to explore new technology and try. If there are only drama movies in the industry without CGI it would be boring IMO. It is all part of evolution and if 3D (though not currently good or used well) leads to something even better in future then I guess the current overload of poor 3D is bearable

Jeffrey Katzenberg on the 'Heartbreaking' Decline of 3D


{Warning: Once you click the above link, keep your head up to avoid getting hit by all the fast flying rationalizations!}

Well they do still need to try and sell all those ridiculous 3D TV's...

Those movies still have significantly more..."human factor," if you will, than Avatar. Similar to Lucas, I doubt he will ever return to slightly-scaled-down, flesh-and-blood movies. It'll always be "MOTION CAPTURE INNOVATION! NEW FRONTIERS OF 3-D! MORE CGI!" first, everything else second with Jim Cameron from here on out.

Last film of James Cameron other than Avatar was Titanic which had much more "human factor" than any of the movies you mentioned. It's like you are penning the whole future based on Avatar which had more CGI's and I know that he will be making two sequels of Avatar but hey that was top grossing movie both domestically and overseas, and it was his dream project, you can't blame him to follow that.

it's not "like" that, Sparrow. It's exactly that. Perhaps he'll prove me wrong.

(He won't. Full mo cap by 2015, no looking back.)

While I like you Gun but this is just silly coming from you, (please don't talk like BKB).

Giving the technology true market penetration will require a price drop. Otherwise, 3D will be strictly reserved for IMAX and non-IMAX 3D will be completely obsolete within a year.

But there's still quite a lot of "human factor" in it. And it's not like Avatar is 150 minutes of waving pretty things in front of you; there is a story at play.

Though the whole Avatar world is compelling, the story itself is mighty thin compared to his earlier projects.

It's certainly a very oft-told story, and sort of basic. But it's still a story. It's not like Transformers where the whole thing exists just to have shiny silver things cause explosions.

Only to kids who are still impressed by shiny objects.

You'd take shiny objects over Casablanca.

Transformers isn't even shiny. It's an orgy of twisted, dirty metal.