6 articles from 2009
Weekly Poll Results: Best James Cameron Movie
23 December 2009 9:44 AM, PST
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Last week we asked you what the best James Cameron movie is, and you guys responded with plenty of votes... the majority of them going to Terminator 2: Judgment Day! I think we all knew it was going to be a race between T2 and Aliens, but T2 won by a pretty large margin. Aliens was a distant second with 27% of the votes, followed by The Terminator and The Abyss. Surprisingly, Piranha 2 actually got more votes than True Lies, and unfortunately, not a single vote was cast for either of James Cameron's undersea documentaries. Come on, don't we have any lovers of sunken ships and strange fish out there? What do you think, should Avatar be higher on this list?
1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- 37.9%
2. Aliens -- 27.8%
3. The Terminator -- 8.1%
4. The Abyss -- 5.8%
5. Titanic -- 5.6%
5. Avatar -- 5.6%
7. Piranha 2 -- 3.7%
8. True Lies -- 3.5%
10. Ghosts of the Abyss -- 0%
10. Aliens of the Deep
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- Sean
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Alfred Dunhill BAFTA A Life in Pictures – Cameron Talks Avatar, Twelve Year Hiatus
22 December 2009 7:57 PM, PST
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HeyUGuys were recently invited to attend the Alfred Dunhill BAFTA A Life in Pictures event, at which James Cameron was interviewed about his life and career. One of the subjects that he spoke about was Avatar.
“Back in 95 I wrote Avatar partially because something I’d always wanted to do was a real geek project.”
Despite Cameron’s enthusiasm for his idea, two obstacles stood in his way. The first was the small matter of Titanic, a project which had been gestating since before True Lies. The second was the technical challenge of creating a believable world, in an era when ‘mo-cap’ was Andy’s sister in-law*.
“After Titanic my company was supposed to have all the answers about how to make this movie – I’d given them two years after all.” Cameron recalls, “I came back, and they still said ‘It won’t happen without a ridiculous amount of
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- Ben Mortimer
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Boiling Point: Too Early to Talk Avatar?
7 December 2009 4:50 AM, PST
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Is it too early to talk Avatar? Surely I must jest, the movie is everywhere! Almost. I'm kind of perplexed at the advertising behind this flick. With the release under two weeks away, one would think it would be all over the place, but mostly what we get are smiling blue furry face posters and "Sneak Previews" on cable channels. Very few other posters and very few regular TV spots, at least in my neck of the woods. On top of that, what are we being advertised? Top notch adventure? Amazing sci-fi? Nope. We're being sold James Cameron (Terminator! And Terminator 2! the commercial exclaims) and Computers. Who thinks the average movie going person gives a damn about the technology? Do you think telling someone this is the most amazing use of computers ever is going to put their ass in the seat? Well, it won't. Especially if, looking at it, it
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- Robert Fure
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The Most Notable 3-D Movies Of All Time
28 September 2009 1:58 AM, PDT
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With the success of 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' the forecast is good for the genre's comeback.
By Larry Carroll
Robin Wright Penn and Ray Winstone in "Beowulf"
Photo: Paramount Pictures
In 1952, television was increasingly keeping people on the couch and out of movie theaters, so Hollywood desperately turned to a process called "Naturalvision," and 3-D movies were born. Convinced that their best hope to win audiences back was by making things leap off the screen, dozens of 3-D movies were greenlit immediately. But just a few years later, bad scripts and gimmickry had effectively killed the fad.
These days, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is riding high at the box office for the second straight frame, the "Toy Story" films are being re-released this weekend in three dimensions, and such high-profile blockbusters as "Avatar," "A Christmas Carol" and "Alice in Wonderland" will all be coming at you soon,
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Cameron's Underwater 3-D Drama 'Sanctum' Coming 2010
10 September 2009 11:10 AM, PDT
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To be directed by Alister Grierson from a script by Andrew Wight and John Garvin, and overseen by the wide, deep gaze of James Cameron, Sanctum has been co-purchased by Relativity and Universal, according to Variety today. Andrew Wight, a long-time associate of Cameron's who helped develop the 3-D technology seen in the documentaries like Aliens of the Deep and Ghosts of the Abyss, used his own death-defying experience as a catalyst for Sanctum. While leading a diving expedition miles into a system of underwater caves, a freak storm collapsed the entrance forcing Wight and his team to race to find another way out.
From what I can gather, this sounds like The Descent - but underwater. And in 3-D. Which isn't to say that's a bad thing. Especially having been co-written by the guy who actually experienced what must have been the most terrifying experience of his life (and,
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- Brandon Lee Tenney
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Cameron to produce 3-D drama 'Sanctum'
24 August 2009 4:03 AM, PDT
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James Cameron will executive produce 3-D survival drama Sanctum, reports Variety. The $$30 million-budgeted project is inspired by Andrew Wight's near-death experience leading 15 divers into an underwater cave system below Australia's Nullarbor Plain. The cave entrance collapsed, leaving the divers facing a two-day survival battle. Alister Grierson is directing Sanctum from Wight and John Garvin's script. He previously worked with Cameron on documentaries Aliens Of The Deep and Ghosts Of The Abyss. "As one who was nearly killed in that cave collapse, I thought there (more)
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- By Simon Reynolds
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