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Piranha II 1982 taught James Cameron how not to make sequels
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Blender Dumbass
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We all know that
James Cameron is a master when it comes to making sequels. His films like
Terminator 2,
Avatar 2 and
Aliens are extremely good examples of how to make a sequel right. Unlike
Steven Spielberg that avoids sequels. Steven avoided doing the second
Jaws movie. James Cameron goes for it and wins. Speaking of Steven Spielberg's
Jaws, not only sequels from that film were produced. Rip-offs, like the 1978
Piranha by
Joe Dante also were produced. Those were parody material B-movie exploitation films. And so writer / director James Cameron decided to take the project of making a sequel to that
Jaws rip-off, with his 1982
Piranha II: The Spawning.
#Piranha2 #JamesCameron #horror #movies #review #film #cinemastodon
True Lies 1994 is James Cameron doing a Michael Bay movie
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Blender Dumbass
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1994 film
True Lies feels like watching a
James Cameron directed
Michael Bay movie. It has explosions, check, it has outlandish set pieces, check, it has beautiful shots of the military, check, it has sexy ladies, check, it has teenagers with an attitude, check. It is a Michael Bay movie through and through. Yet it is a James Cameron movie, so what happened?
#TrueLies #JamesCameron #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
Is Strange Days 1995 about James Cameron's personal life?
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Blender Dumbass
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So in 1989
James Cameron divorces his second wife, the film producer
Gale Anne Hurd, opening for her an ability to marry
Brian De Palma that just divorced
Nancy Allen. The same year Cameron marries
Kathryn Bigelow ( the director of 1995
Strange Days ). They make the 1991
Point Break kind of together. But then that same year in 1991 they divorce. Yet, his script
Strange Days about strange love dynamics and stuff ends up being actually made by Bigelow in 1995 ( four years after their divorce ). Hm...
#strangedays #KathrynBigelow #jamescameron #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
Does Avatar ( 2009 ) Stands The Test Of Time?
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Blender Dumbass
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I was frankly scared to re-experience the original James Cameron picture
Avatar after knowing for certain that it is much worse, technically speaking, in comparison to the second film in the franchise. Yet I was confident that the film at the very least should be good. So I took my worries aside and watched it again. Does it hold up? Well let's talk about it.
#Avatar #JamesCameron #Film #Review #Movies #Cinemastodon #VFX #CGI
The Green Inferno 2013 is Eli Roth's version of Avatar
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Blender Dumbass
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In
James Cameron's
Avatar humans are attacking the forests of Pandora, bulldozing and killing indigenous population of the planet, to get to the natural resources their tribes are sitting at. The military is literally playing a role of guards, for the bulldozers, because the indigenous have become sort of very upset with humans, that terrorize their land. This is sort the plot of
Eli Roth's horror film
The Green Inferno, just Roth makes it way way more viscerally.
#TheGreenInferno #EliRoth #activism #film #reivew #movies #cinemastodon
Star Trek 2009 is when you mix Spielberg with Michael Bay
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Blender Dumbass
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I have a soft spot for
J. J. Abrams. His masterpiece
Super 8 inspired me greatly to develop film-projects when I was a teenager. But his 2009 other masterpiece
Star Trek ( together with 2009'th other Sci-Fi masterpiece
Avatar by
James Cameron ) is what pretty much started my obsession with space movies.
#startrek #jjabrams #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
How The Fabelmans Traumatized Me
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Blender Dumbass
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I remember sitting at the entrance to a local cinema near me, shivering from a new kind of depression. I was waiting to enter the screening of
Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was released in cinema just after
The Fabelmans. The previous film I have seen in that very cinema, maybe already a week before that, was
The Fabelmans and that dreadful feeling I had was caused by that movie. I was committing an act of masochism going back to cinema right after the trauma I experienced, and I was pretty sure Avatar 2 would only make it worse. I didn't care. I went anyway. Thank god that
James Cameron decided to limit references to himself to a few nods to Titanic and stuff, and instead made a movie that is pretty much designed as a joyride. I don't know if I was alive today if Avatar 2 was anything like
The Fabelmans.
#TheFabelmans #Spielberg #StevenSpielberg #FilmReview #Film #Review #JuliaButters #FilmMaking #Cinemastodon #FreeSoftware #Depression #MentalHealth
Crimson Tide 1995 is a stupidly smart movie
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Blender Dumbass
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Before
Jerry Bruckheimer was obsessed with telling all his directors to be like
Michael Bay and before
Don Simpson had passed away. The duo of Simpson and Bruckheimer were obsessed with
Tony Scott, the director of such classics as
Top Gun,
Days of Thunder and
Enemy of the State ( which coincidentally were all produced by Jerry and Don, apart from the last film, which was produced after Don's passing ). But Tony Scott didn't only work with the duo. For example in 1993 he made a film not produced by Jerry and Don called
True Romance from a screenplay of
Quentin Tarantino. Which makes
Crimson Tide the second collaboration of the two
#CrimsonTide #TonyScott #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
Examples of films "Corrupting the audience"
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Blender Dumbass
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Quentin Tarantino stated that a quality of a film is measured in how well it corrupts the audience, showing as an example the 1971
Don Siegel film
Dirty Harry where the main character ( a cop ) is trying to catch a psychopathic serial killer, which leads him into breaking the rules, because of the nature of the threat. He basically throws the civil liberties out of the window to catch the motherfucker, because otherwise the motherfucker is uncatchable. Which makes the audience for a moment, share that idea, and have
a reason all of a sudden to not give basic human rights to bad people. Some people called this movie a "Nazi Propaganda Piece" but it is undeniable, the movie succeeded at corrupting its audience and therefore it is a picture of a great quality.
#quentintarantino #film #theory #movies #cinema
Hot Fuzz 2007 shows that Edgar Wright understands Michael Bay
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Blender Dumbass
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Edgar Wright with his 2017 film
Baby Driver shows that he can make some awesome clean action if he wants to. And yet watching his 2007 film
Hot Fuzz you feel like something isn't quite
wright. The camera is too shaky and the editing is too quick. Is he trying to "hide something"? No! He simply imitates
Michael Bay, that's all.
#hotfuzz #edgarwright #michaelbay #movies #film #review #comedy #cinemastodon
Domino 2005 is Tony-Scott-hem!
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Blender Dumbass
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Tony Scott appeared to be trying to outgrow
Michael Bay in the 2000s. In 2001 he does
Spy Game which is a kind of slightly bayhem-ish movie. Where Tony Scott is no longer trying to make pretty pictures, but is trying to go for ultimate intensity. His
Enemy of the State before that, is still more of a classic Tony Scott. While making
Spy Game his brother
Ridley Scott was making
Black Hawk Down while Michael Bay was making
Pearl Harbor. While
Pearl Harbor has the Bay's explosions and stuff, the colors of the film still look relatively normal. Only his next film ( 2003
Bay Boys II ) go crazy with colors.
Spy Game, while being more energetic in directing and editing department, than even
Enemy of the State still looks like a normal movie, albeit it is a little desaturated. But
Black Hawk Down ( probably in attempt of messing with
Spielberg's
Saving Private Ryan ) is super moody, with extreme contrast and intense colors. A thing that Michael Bay tries to replicate right away for
Bad Boys II and then Tony Scott also replicated for
Man on Fire in 2004. And then on
Domino in 2005, Tony Scott goes even harder with the style. While Bay is doing roughly the same thing in his own way in
The Island.
#Domino #TonyScott #MichaelBay #movies #film #review #cinemastodon
Is Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets better than The Fifth Element?
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It is funny that I was just watching
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets while drinking Valerian. I was pissed at
Luc Besson because I just watched and reviewed
The Fifth Element. That review was more of a ramble about my theory surrounding his personal life. Which ties in neatly into the message of the film "Love". But for some reason I completely forgot to talk about it's qualities. Which I suppose this review will fix. I will compare the two grand space-operas from Luc Besson. And hopefully we will learn something in the process.
#Valerian #LucBesson #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - made me cry
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Blender Dumbass
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It is infamous at this point that the production of the
Michael Bay quickly assembled into something from which a good script could be written. This movie started production without a script, only a rough idea of the story, which is not a bad rough idea. But all of the little details were not there at all by the time of production, leaving Bay pretty much at the helm of coming up with stuff on the spot.
#transformers #revengeofthefallen #michaelbay #film #review #cinemastodon #movies
Taken 2008 is Luc Besson's revenge for Man on Fire by Tony Scott
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Blender Dumbass
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On the surface, the 2008 movie
Taken directed by
Pierre Morel and written by
Luc Besson ( he was busy directing
Arthur cartoons ) is about how it is dangerous for little girls to be in the world. And about how awful the human trafficking is. And about how good, people who fuck up human traffickers are. But then, out of nowhere, it makes people cheer when a guy is buying an underage girl at a human trafficking auction. As if, it makes you think: Is Luc Besson just trying to show
Quentin Tarantino that he is a master of corrupting the audience?
#taken #liamNeeson #LucBesson #film #review #movies #cinemastodon