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Cameron is commercialism personified. He knows what emotional boxes to tick with the audience and churns out soulless, hollow blockbusters. His films are the cinema equivalents to McDonalds, Coca Cola, Starbucks etc. Wildly succesfull brands around the world. However, if you are really into good food, drink and coffee, you actively avoid them as much as possible!
I thought it was surprisingly thrilling and well made.
Oh? Then who are the best action directors?
Michael Bay and Rob Cohen
Commercially he does know how to tick the boxes, but he has with his last two movies been able to tick that elusive box that draws men and women to the cinema, that is something not many successful directors have been able to do, at least twice in a row.
But for me Cameron is indeed a cinema spectacle that is best enjoyed in cinema. His track record speaks for itself and his movies do make sense, which can hardly be said about SF or SP. Cameron never makes a movie to get oscars but to fill the seats in a cinema.
And he made some of the best action movies that today are being enjoyed and recognized for their quality and originality. So to call Cameron overrated is rather stupid and shortsighted.
Michael Bay and Rob Cohen[/quote]
LOL!!!!! Better than James Cameron???? Surely you jest!
The chase along the flood channels in T2 is better than all those two's action sequences put together!
Name me a better action director. And if it's Michael Bay then please do jog on.
And if you can argue against Terminator, T2 and Aliens being brilliant offerings then i'm all ears.
Quentin Tarantino, J. J. Abrams, John Woo, George Miller, Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott are the first names that pop up in my head. I could go on, but I don't really see the point. Lets throw Spielberg in there too, even if this all started with me claiming he was overrated. I'd take him every day over Cameron...
Ridley Scott is not that known for his action scenes or action movies.
Jobo you idea of action must be rather tranquil.
If you at least mentioned a John Frankenheimer who made Ronin I would say you mentioned somebody who can do an action scene. ;)
The only reason that film exists is so we can make parodies of it an silly references in comedies and cartoons ;)
It's films that screams silly references. Not that there's anything wrong with that though. :)
I agree with that. But the films are in all honesty mostly remembered for Arnold's German accent... ;)
Austrian! :D
So did John Woo....
It's the same language... I have never met an Austrian who says he speaks Austrian. German is what they speak.
I'm not a German expert, but aren't there some differences between the Austrian and German accents? Not that it's necessarily noticeable when talking English, only with an accent, of course!
Of course there is a difference in the language it is Austrian German like Schweitzerdeutch is something else too.
The Terminator is and remains an icon character, especially played by Arnold.
Just like bavarian German is different... it is basically a dialect.
But we are moving off topic...
George Miller may come close, but the rest of those aren't specifically known as action director's. Apart from John Woo of course who's action is too OTT to be taken seriously.
In the action stakes Cameron is king.
At least you didn't list Michael Bay....
Sorry, I thought we were rating the ability to direct an action scene, not how many action scenes you can cramp into a film... my bad.
Sorry, mods!
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I agree about Tarantino's work with action sequences. They are always very enjoyable. I also enjoy Guy Ritchie's action sequences. That should be controversial enough for some!
Unfortunately his action scenes don't last 40 minutes to an hour, so they are not heavy enough for some of the junkies on here...
Reminds me of when I watched Inglourious Basterds at the theatre, and a group of people left midway through the film because of "all the talking".
The ADHD generation: too much sugar, too many soundbites, click-bait, tweets; self-absorption and entitled gratification. No focus.
I'm having a vision of an A Clockwork Orange variation by sitting them in theater seats with their eyes pushed open by clips to watch something like 2001: A Space Odyssey or about any other plot-driven film that requires viewing and not waiting for the next thrill.
Their heads will explode.