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I am not a great QT fan but I like watching B/W movies, my dislike has nothing to do with the action scenes.
That said I prefer the b/w movies mostly due to their lack of crazy editing.
Where did I mention that? Doesn't matter how much action is in a film, Cameron is the best full stop IMO.
As I mentioned before, his flood channel chase in T2 is better than most director's entire action oeuvre.
And if you're not convinced watch the helicopter sequence along the bridge in Florida in True Lies for how good this guy is.
But then if I'd mentioned one of those other director's were the best I would have got the same response from you. You just like being contrary because that's your 'thing'
I have no interesti in watching T2. T1 was enough...
True Lies I will have check out. My expectations are low... But who knows.
As usual you have no idea what you are talking about...
So you have to watch every single film a director has made in order to have an opinion on him? That's ridiculous and you know it.
Firstly I never mocked James Cameron, I mocked the notion that him being "one of the best action director's ever cannot be argued with". Of course you can!
Secondly, as far as I know The Terminator (nr1), Titanic and Avatar are by far his most well known movies. Those I have seen... and I didn't like any of them, I'm sorry.
With such a talent for constructing strawmen, I suggest you buy a farm!
Yeah, you didn’t mock Cameron at all.
They were adults, actually!
I think the best action directors were from the 60/70s era. Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Walter Hill, John Frankenheimar.
Sydney Pollack, not really known for being an action director, did some great action (The Yakuza, Three Days of the Condor, Jeremiah Johnson!)
Regarding Cameron, I do think he's over-rated, but he has done some fine action sequences ( and most of them are in T2!)
It's a joke to put the likes of Michael Bay anywhere near those guys!
I can't wait for the superhero craze to be over.
Me too.
It took a while for the musical genre to die down but it did in the end and apparently very suddenly.
Superhero movie sagas is for me a case of be careful what you wish for. As a kid I wanted badly to see superhero movies succeed, I mean not only Batman and Superman but the more obscure ones. By the time it happened and Marvel became the juggernaut we now have, I had stopped caring.
Yeah there's one I enjoy every now and again, then there are a bunch I don't care for. Marvel has gotten really stale in it's action scenes. Like five of them in a row have some kind of battle on a highway.
Was there a musical craze? Didn't even notice!
Agree, the amount of superhero films we have now would have been fantastic as a kid, but these days it's easy to feel that there's just too many of them.
I find the complaining about movies one does not like hypocritical, if you do not want to watch them then do not complain about them. It is like complaining about the romantic nature of the Hallmark tv movies and series, which is basically their field of operation.
It’s the fad that’s annoying to me above all other things. Hearing about them all the time anywhere I go. I wish attention to other movies would be more evenly distributed along with the superhero films. They seem to just overshadow almost everything else over the last several years.
fads change and that is good, I rather prefer the current Superhero cycle to be concluded in a decent matter so you can look back on them a series with a beginning and a end.
This.
Back in the 50s-60s yes.
Good point. There will surely be some other brand-name properties they can make into blockbusters targeting the same age group. Same ol' Hollywood.
I wish there was more original big-budget stuff (which seems limited to Nolan-directed fare at the moment) or even just original stuff that's not soulless Oscar bait. I'll go out of my way to attend something like BABY DRIVER (even if it was just okay in my book) to help encourage the originality.
Marvel seems to do a good job of it but I often read criticism of DC's efforts. I think the former (under Kevin Feige's leadership) have a knack for creating interesting & credible characterizations for their properties which they then build upon with successive films. They also cast quite well and take some risks. Is it cookie cutter factory style to an extent? Yes, but it also seems to consistently resonate, and I'd argue some of that has to be due to execution. I enjoy them for the most part, & like most have my favourites. I honestly wouldn't have predicted this level of success for them a decade ago (at that time Nolan & DC were riding high with TDK and Iron Man had just been released).
There also appears to be a lot of interest (particularly in foreign markets) for creature type films (JW, The Meg, Venom etc.).
I suppose, given the increasing production & distribution costs for films, that studios will continue to rely on these somewhat guaranteed franchise IP tentpoles to pull in the theatre punters while shunting other types of films to Netflix and other distribution channels. In the end it doesn't really bother me which distribution channel is used as long as interesting fare makes its way to the market in some way shape or form. With home theatre technology improving by leaps and bounds we are quite spoiled for choice between tv, streaming and theatre.
If you're referring to me then you're barking up the wrong tree pal.
Tarantino has always been for me one of the most exciting screenwriter director's around.
I saw Reservoir Dogs way back in 1992 before it was even released and realised then this guy was an exciting new talent. I even met the man at the screening and still have his autograph.
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are both in my top ten favourite films.
Oh that's rich! You haven't seen T2, The Abyss, True Lies or Aliens?!!!!!
Your opinion on Cameron is therefore null and void.
That's like me saying Hitchcock is overrated without seeing Psycho, North By Northwest or Vertigo!
And how dare you mention 'strawman' arguments to the other member on here when you're the expert at it.