James Cameron has made some of the best action movies ever. Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens. Even True Lies was pretty good. I thought Titanic sucked, and Avatar was a snooze, but Cameron has a few g.
James Cameron has made some of the best action movies ever. Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens. Even True Lies was pretty good. I thought Titanic sucked, and Avatar was a snooze, but Cameron has a few greats to be proud of.
But he isn’t proud of them. In fact, without naming these movies he implies he wished he never made them. They “fetishize” gun violence, and he is done with that. Guns make him sick to his stomach now.
He is so done with gun violence, in fact, that he has made a war movie (Avatar 2 is indeed a kind of war movie, in which the human beings are bad and the purple aliens are good natives in touch with Purple Gaia) in which he has cut 10 minutes of gun violence from the film.
As somebody who has decided to skip the movie because it promises to be a yet more boring version of the execrable Avatar, I can’t judge whether the film needed that extra bit of action to keep the viewer’s interest. To me it seems like Cameron has been nailing the special effects while destroying the characters and stories in his movies for years. The decision to cut action out of his action movie can’t make it much worse in any case.
Given that the Terminator movies are iconic both in their use of special effects and in their relatively sophisticated stories that pit good versus evil, we can all be glad that they were made in the years before Cameron went woke.
