In a recent EW interview, Cameron makes a few really harsh statements about crap and deserves to be called out.
Cameron tells Entertainment Weekly that Avatar fans who get super depressed because Pandora can't be a real place are lame and has some advice for them:
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If they really feel that they’re not getting enough of the wonders of the natural world in their life, then they should just go on a damn walk in the woods. Or go snorkeling.
And, despite the fact that ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow's action flick The Hurt Locker won her a Best Director Academy Award, he shows his slighted feelings by insisting,
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It would have been better in 3D... It wouldn’t have been hugely better in 3D, but I’m talking about a future when you don’t have to put “in 3D” on the movie poster anymore, the same way that you don’t put “in color” on posters anymore. Imagine that point in time, when 3D is just a natural, innate part of viewing.
It's important that Cameron finds a way to take the obvious, that his film was not as good as hers, and twist things so that, again, everything is all about him. His awesome super new amaza-3D technology he's going to invent will make not only his movies better, but Bigelow's better. Heck, ALL movies will be better once Cameron gets his hands on them. See, it's all about HIM. Not HER.
The journalist went ahead and pushed further, asking him, if he was 'surprised' when Bigelow won for The Hurt Locker instead of the mega pretentious children's film Avatar.
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Look, I’m the one who always wins the betting pool at our little Academy Awards party, so I knew in advance that it was a slam dunk for Kathryn to win director. It was David and Goliath. The Goliath had made more than a couple of billion dollars and Hurt Locker had made about what it cost to shoot, about $15 million. The Academy always likes to be the great equalizer.
Awww. The Academwy awwowed widdle miss Bigelow to win so tings would be mowe 'Equal'. I mean, no one can deny that his movie was a veritable 'Goliath' and made BILLIONS (is that true?) and hers made a measly NOTHING, and everyone felt bad for her.
You can read the rest of this embarassing interview here, and maybe Cameron and Sigourney Weaver can sit down and talk about how Bigelow's tits influenced everything.
Cameron, completely comfortable and not at all out of place, in Brazil with a native tribesperson that inspired his insipid tale of blue warriors.
Here's my take. Cameron wasn't slamming his fans he was defending them. The galactically stupid interviewer ripped on them by calling them Avatards which is so juvenile it's ridiculous. He says he's a geek so therefore his fans must be geeks to appreciate his films. I'm a geek. I admit it. He was saying that if people did become depressed because Pandora didn't really exist, which he calls pure hyperbole, that it would be sad and they should take a look around at our own world. It's so true. There is absolutely nothing as breathtaking as going scuba diving but most people won't look around long enough to enjoy a garden.
He also isn't ripping on The Hurt Locker. He thinks that it might have been marginally better in 3D sure but his idea of 3D and everyone else's are completely different. Avatar is the only pure 3D experience out there right now. MOst other films are made into 3D in post-production and feature things jumping out of the screen like they did in the 80's. I don't think that's Cameron's vision of future 3D.
I think people like to take things he says out of context and blow it out of proportion. Like when he said he was "king of the world" at the Oscars. He was quoting his film, so what.
I'd say more but my ground beef is starting to burn.
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