james cameron on prometheus

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MemberOvomorphMarch 29, 20122465 Views31 Repliescame across this today and thought it would interest you guys.[url=http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/3/28/james-cameron-talks-ridley-scotts-prometheus.html]Your text to link here...[/url]
Seems jim is as much a prometheus fan as all of us.
March 29, 2012
Yeah he's in town promoting his titanic conversion seems he will be first in the que for a ticket lol
March 29, 2012
it's cool and all that he's excited to see PROMETHEUS,
but GOD OH GAAAAWD, PLEASE KEEP Cameron FAR - FAR - - - - - FAR
AWAY FROM ANY / ALL SEQUELS to PROMETHEUS. yes...i AM a hater
like that
March 29, 2012
lol @ shardy's comments ..... well maybe if he spent as much time and energy on his actors performance's then he could deliver a great sequel and dont let him near the dialogue lol get a pro writer on board .
March 29, 2012
@altered: oh snap* you make a valid point. in all honesty, i do NOT
hate Cameron, or his other films, i think Titanic is an exquisitely crafted film,
i was lucky enough to see that film in its first run in 1997, and i love Terminator 1/2,
and The Abyss. i just hate what he did with "Aliens" is all
March 29, 2012
In all fairness he's a terrific action film director but i'm not that keen on most of his films i wasn't that enamoured with titanic myself but its a well crafted classic .
I loved the terminator films, hated true lies, but Piranha was abysmal and the abyss, like aliens was technically good but some of the acting and dialogue was fully matured cheesy.
March 29, 2012
james cameron cant make a double prequel... i guess he will just enjoy the movie like us...
March 29, 2012
well lindelof has already said the sequel to prometheus would NOT be alien and ridleys already thinking what the sequel could be or so its reported he said.
March 29, 2012
@altered: Piranha..! i forgot about that one..! i would watch that every time
it was aired here either on lazy weekend afternoons, or late night TV here in
the states. i know it was cheesy, but i could not resist
i thought True Lies was an okay action film,
i think it faltered heavily in the 4th act. i tried watching Last Action Hero,
but i just couldn't get into that film. i will say, i did enjoy Avatar, even though
i've only ever seen it on cable
March 29, 2012
lol i forgot about last action hero cant remember it though but i have seen it .
Again technically he raised the bar with avatar but the story has been done to death in hollywood from Dances with wolves to ferngully the bones of those films is the basis of avatar but i thought it was a great entertaining film for younger audiences that haven't seen those films and in that context.
March 29, 2012
Don't understand all the hate towards Cameron.
I loved Alien. I thought Aliens was good, but not awesome. Everybody I knew loved Aliens. I think Cameron made a brilliant decision to make his own film and expand on traits of the xenomorph and not just copy Scotts style of filmmaking. Too many directors just copy what came before them or take elements of what was successful in the prior film and just add more of it (explosions, car chases, villains etc.)....cough, cough...Michael Bay.
In a perfect world Scott would have been back with a fantastic story for a great sequel, but that didn't happen. Even if he did do a sequel that doesn't guarantee a great film. No doubt he's a great director, but nobody has a 100% track record, not even Scott. I think we could have done MUCH worse than Cameron.
Sometimes I don't think people think things through all the way. I hear people already talking about wanting to pre order Prometheus on Blu ray when it's available, THE MOVIE ISN'T EVEN OUT YET!!! I am sooooo amped for Prometheus, but who knows? I may not even like it. I can't say I'm gonna buy the Blu ray yet.
March 29, 2012
Don't understand all the hate towards Cameron.
I loved Alien. I thought Aliens was good, but not awesome. Everybody I knew loved Aliens. I think Cameron made a brilliant decision to make his own film and expand on traits of the xenomorph and not just copy Scotts style of filmmaking. Too many directors just copy what came before them or take elements of what was successful in the prior film and just add more of it (explosions, car chases, villains etc.)....cough, cough...Michael Bay.
In a perfect world Scott would have been back with a fantastic story for a great sequel, but that didn't happen. Even if he did do a sequel that doesn't guarantee a great film. No doubt he's a great director, but nobody has a 100% track record, not even Scott. I think we could have done MUCH worse than Cameron.
Sometimes I don't think people think things through all the way. I hear people already talking about wanting to pre order Prometheus on Blu ray when it's available, THE MOVIE ISN'T EVEN OUT YET!!! I am sooooo amped for Prometheus, but who knows? I may not even like it. I can't say I'm gonna buy the Blu ray yet.
March 29, 2012
i dont hate cameron i think he's a genius but he should hire some pros for the appropriate departments like writing and casting.
March 29, 2012
sometimes you just know its like being a good judge of character or having good foresight and the trailer alone is worth a blu ray purchase i just cant see it being crap and i love sc fi its guaranteed i will buy it on blu ray .
even if its not a classic scfi it will be a hell of a lot better then the vast majority of sc fi that we have had in recent years so im definitely going to buy it.
March 30, 2012
what's with all the hate when it comes to Cameron and the Alien franchise?? I think he took a great movie and made an amazing sequel to it. The problem with the franchise started with Alien3. Scott or Cameron should have been brought back on board for any addition sequels after Aliens.
March 30, 2012
Interesting interview. I loved Aliens as well. Different movie than the original and that's ok. I did see [i]this[/i] trailer on that website and it looks pretty damn good for a tv pilot. [url=http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/3/21/battlestar-galactica-blood-and-chrome-incredibly-badass-trai.html]Your text to link here...[/url]
March 30, 2012
This thread wasn't intended to get into a cameron bashing debate we have enough of those and i'm not a cameron hater by any means, infact i really admire him as an artist and technician he is a genius and aliens was a great film i think we have established that, but like all films with the benefit of hindsight there are areas that could of been better.
Even ridley scott would change things in alien if he could like ash's head in the decapitation scene, and the dodgy arms there is also the Continuity shots of the space jockey size in the shots of dallas and the size of the sj head when he used children to give the sj even more scale.
All this stuff is fine with the benefit of hindsight and there are budget constraints to take into consideration but all in all james cameron is a top director and will always be thought of and respected in this regard.