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So does every filmmakerHe steals from other movies
So does every filmmakerHe steals from other movies
Ive only watched the first one once and never again.My personal opinion is Cameron didn't land with Avatar at all. While it was as gorgeous and as grandiose as he had hoped, at the end it felt bloated and full of saccharin. Rewatch factor is about as low as it gets imho
I mean theres alot of serious movies that have parts that are hilarious to me. Some moments of violence are so over the top it can be absurd.I am not sure if they're intended this way but I find myself laughing throughout True Lies and T2.
Kubrick and Hitchcock. The problem is that 5 film record is his entire career.Find a director with a better 5-film record, ever.
Cameron wins this easily, and by a wide margin.
In his case as well he rarely tries to hide it as much of the time his films exist to play off of their influences, not a co incidence he called his production company a A Band Apart as really that Godard film is the blueprint for his style, perhaps not as overly arty but taking pulp influences as making something a bit more arty out of them.So does every filmmaker
JC for me. Virtually nobody can go four for four against Cameron with T1, T2, Aliens and The Abyss. And that's not ocunting the highest grossing movies of all time in his favor. I don't hold Piranha 2 against him. He had to try to break into the studio to keep editing the movie.
Tarantino stomps, not close at all.
He widely influenced a whole generation with his writing style, numerous examples are the Guy Ritchie or Bullet Train movies. And on top of that, he's better w/ actors and cinematographers. His films have more of an auteur and recognizable style.
And he beats at his best too with Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious.
I'm not sure I would say Tarantino is better with actors at all. James Cameron gets career best performances out of actors that other directors often struggle with. The best work of Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton is hands down under the direction of James Cameron. Both have the capacity to be outright bad in less skilled hands. You could argue that the best work from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Paxton and others was delivered under James Cameron.
On the other hand, Tarantino has been spoon fed a cast of Oscar winners and nominees over and over and over again and while they deliver good work under Tarantino, I don't know if I can think of any career best performances that were delivered under him. There probably are but with the names that come to mind, I can think of better performances that they gave in non-Tarantino movies.
Bruh.. with QT, i'd say Waltz, Travolta, Jackson, Thurman, Pitt all had their best performances. On top of that, he nails side characters like Shoshanna, Bill's brother, Mr Wolf.
JC got some good performances and movies under his belt, he's a great director but overall he's not close to QT. Their resume in last 30 years speak for themselves.
I still rate T1, T2, Titanic and Aliens highly and enjoy the rest. But Cameron vs Mann or Fincher would be a far more appropiate compairson, in terms of filmaking and directing skills.
I'd even say that once you took T1, T2 and maybe... even Aliens out of the equation. JC's resume isn't that impressive, i'd put films like Only God Forgives, Thief, Gone Girl and Begins at more/same lvl of his 4th film.
And those are like the 3rd, 5th best film of those directors.
I probably like Cameron's top four including The Abyss better than any Tarantino movies. But Tarantino like Cameron has a very high floor. His worst movie is still pretty good.
I think Tarantino writes terrific dialogue which serves to make both his actors and his own direction look better. Of course it is Tarantino that deserves credit for that writing...but I'm not sure the benefit his actors enjoy from the good screenplays belongs under Tarantino's "direction of actors" when doling out the credit.
This one's hard. Tarantino might be my favorite director now that Nolan sucks, but Cameron had the best run ever with Terminator, Aliens, Abyss, T2, and true lies.
Then he also made Titanic which is basically the T2 for women.
So you're talking about a streak of 6 absolute home runs in a row.
QT has never had a streak like that. Every 2 or 3 films, he has a miss. I consider Jackie Brown a miss. Death Proof was a miss, I even think Django was a miss overall, even though it has some good parts.
somewhat. there is an acceptable level of borrowing and some like to "borrow" more than othersSo does every filmmaker
Another way I think you could argue they are opposites, Tarantino is obviously a very dialog heavy director, his films tend to work strongly by giving his performers great dialog to work with. Cameron, especially early Cameron is much more focused on physical acting IMHO. Arnie as the Terminator most obviously but a role like Biehn's Reese is based very strongly on expression/movement as much as it is dialog.I'm not sure I would say Tarantino is better with actors at all. James Cameron gets career best performances out of actors that other directors often struggle with. The best work of Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton is hands down under the direction of James Cameron. Both have the capacity to be outright bad in less skilled hands. You could argue that the best work from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and others was delivered under James Cameron.
On the other hand, Tarantino has been spoon fed a cast of Oscar winners and nominees over and over and over again and while they deliver good work under Tarantino, I don't know if I can think of any career best performances that were delivered under him. There probably are but with the names that come to mind, I can think of better performances that they gave in non-Tarantino movies.
Another way I think you could argue they are opposites, Tarantino is obviously a very dialog heavy director, his films tend to work strongly by giving his performers great dialog to work with. Cameron, especially early Cameron is much more focused on physical acting IMHO. Arnie as the Terminator most obviously but a role like Biehn's Reese is based very strongly on expression/movement as much as it is dialog.
I think Camerons latter films became less interesting in part because they lost some of that aspect, they became more conventionally scripted and in the case of Avatar I don't think CGI could match the kind of nuance human performers can give, at least not as consistantly.