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It was quite sad to see this interview with James Cameron that he probably wouldn't make Terminator as we've seen it 30 years ago. https://variety.com/2022/fil

It was quite sad to see this interview with James Cameron that he probably wouldn't make Terminator as we've seen it 30 years ago. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/james-cameron-avatar-2-deleted-scenes-gun-violence-1235473069/ https://variety.com/2022/film/news/james-cameron-avatar-2-de...

scandox 4y ago
I don't think it's sad. We all change and some of us also grow up. Older people and parents find violence in general harder to take as entertainment. It's part of your brain changing over time. I would say that isn't an argument for less violence in movies. I'm not making a moral argument about violence in film - it's just an aesthetic thing.
- tiborsaas 4y ago
  The sad part is that there's a sense of regret. It's fine to mature and focus on different things and change with the climate.
dbspin 4y ago
Wouldn't and indeed likely couldn't. Cameron's talent in the early years was writing very fast paced films with stock characters - but adding a richness and depth to those in theory cliche characters (especially the women) that transcended the pulpiness of the material. Viewers got the best of both worlds - action comics meets cyberpunk punchy SF scripts, and (frequently working class and female) witty, humanised characters. This juggling act has been missing (irrespective of their financial success) from his films since Titanic. Something that frequently gets lost in the consideration of the work of artists is that is doesn't always improve. Lots of artists / craftspeople make less vigorous, audacious work when the pressures of early career establishment are removed. Spielberg and Lucas are both great examples of the same thing - with the same mix of humanised, droll, often working class protagonists much more richly drawn and well portrayed than was common for the time. Without these characters and this balance of pacy storytelling, the blockbuster has become mushy fan service. See any recent marvel, 'fast franchise' film, or indeed Avatar.
- jonhohle 4y ago
  Hayao Miyazaki is the only director that I know who has consistently put out masterpieces his entire career. Before Avatar I would have put Cameron in that same spot.
  - SuoDuanDao 4y ago
    Not Tarantino? Admittedly I didn't see the Hateful Eight either...
    - jonhohle 4y ago
      I didn’t care for Hateful Eight or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s always hard for me to decide whether Tarantino is exceptional or has the right people around him at the right time (which is also an exceptional quality). He has 4½ excellent movies (counting Kill Bill as 1) and a bunch of OK movies.
      - ghaff 4y ago
        I'd put three of his as no brainers excellent (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, and Reservoir Dogs. I'd put everything else in the good to very good category.
dokem 4y ago
He just has 30 years of Hollywood brain rot and feels like he has to atone his sin of being authentic and having fun.

scandox 4y ago

I don't think it's sad. We all change and some of us also grow up. Older people and parents find violence in general harder to take as entertainment. It's part of your brain changing over time. I would say that isn't an argument for less violence in movies. I'm not making a moral argument about violence in film - it's just an aesthetic thing.

tiborsaas 4y ago
The sad part is that there's a sense of regret. It's fine to mature and focus on different things and change with the climate.

dbspin 4y ago

Wouldn't and indeed likely couldn't. Cameron's talent in the early years was writing very fast paced films with stock characters - but adding a richness and depth to those in theory cliche characters (especially the women) that transcended the pulpiness of the material. Viewers got the best of both worlds - action comics meets cyberpunk punchy SF scripts, and (frequently working class and female) witty, humanised characters. This juggling act has been missing (irrespective of their financial success) from his films since Titanic. Something that frequently gets lost in the consideration of the work of artists is that is doesn't always improve. Lots of artists / craftspeople make less vigorous, audacious work when the pressures of early career establishment are removed. Spielberg and Lucas are both great examples of the same thing - with the same mix of humanised, droll, often working class protagonists much more richly drawn and well portrayed than was common for the time. Without these characters and this balance of pacy storytelling, the blockbuster has become mushy fan service. See any recent marvel, 'fast franchise' film, or indeed Avatar.

jonhohle 4y ago
Hayao Miyazaki is the only director that I know who has consistently put out masterpieces his entire career. Before Avatar I would have put Cameron in that same spot.
- SuoDuanDao 4y ago
  Not Tarantino? Admittedly I didn't see the Hateful Eight either...
  - jonhohle 4y ago
    I didn’t care for Hateful Eight or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s always hard for me to decide whether Tarantino is exceptional or has the right people around him at the right time (which is also an exceptional quality). He has 4½ excellent movies (counting Kill Bill as 1) and a bunch of OK movies.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      I'd put three of his as no brainers excellent (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, and Reservoir Dogs. I'd put everything else in the good to very good category.

dokem 4y ago

He just has 30 years of Hollywood brain rot and feels like he has to atone his sin of being authentic and having fun.