To say that James Cameron’s characters are two-dimensional would be an overstatement.
Silliness. They are comic book characters. Of course they act like college kids. Who does he think pays to go see this stuff?
First, speaking from the perspective of a lifelong comic book reader of Gold, Silver and early Bronze Age, I disagree.
Some of the big heroes were/are married (Barry Allen/Flash, Jay Garrick/Flash, Elongated Man, Spiderman). Others are married to their vocations (Superman, Batman), and suggesting they are college students because they don’t get married and have kids would impugn other classes of men (I am thinking of the sailor in the song “Brandy”).
More importantly, Cameron is missing the point of Superheroes. They are heroic stories historically aimed at 10 YEAR OLD BOYS. It is an accident of history that they are general purpose entertainment now. It is a catastrophe that Warner bought DC decades ago and never figured out comic books.
Comic book superheroes are not meant to be Tolstoy or Dickens. At their best, they are a modernization of Virgil, Beowulf and Greek Mythology. No one really gets too concerned about Aeneas’ wife. Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, plays no more than the part of plucky damsel-in-distress.
Cameron should stay away from comic book heroes. I sure wish Puzo did.
‘They Act Like They’re In College’
“Golly thanks Mr Cameron”, said Peter Parker, a high school student.
And Avatar and Titanic were full of deep character development. Those were two of the worst “good movies” I can recall. Cameron peaked with Terminator.
More like high school - but that's splitting hairs...
Sounds like Kevin Feige won’t return his calls.
Because they are made for teenage boys. They wanna see boobs and explosions.
Says the fool who destroyed the Alien franchise.
Avatar, loved the first one the first time. Zero excitement for his new Green New Deal agitprop ... or, was that the Reduce Inflation Act? Whatever, it’s all folly.
I liked his Bismarck documentary.
Great quote. “They act like they’re in college.” LOL.
I would say it’s more that the Marvel superhero teams are so jokey, jokey, jokey all the time. It’s cut from the same pattern in picture after picture and it gets tiresome after a while.
Says the man whose dialog reads as coming from 14-year olds.
Who is clamoring for an Avatar sequel 15 years after the original (which was a POS in my opinion, a hybrid of Pocahontas and Dances with wolves)?
The characters on the network “first responder shows” (Fire, Med and P.D.) act like Head Start dropouts.
Why did they do another reboot of Batman? "Batman Begins" with Christian Bale, Michael Cain, Morgan Freeman brought the character to life with how he shunned society and did his training with Liam Neeson. It was far beyond the earlier silly Batman movies geared towards teenage boys.
Warning: Do not bother with the "Samaritan". It's a typical vengence movie with Stallone just walking through his lines. I couldn't believe how bad it is and I love Stallone movies. My Wife said maybe he had to accept the script because Stallone's wife took him to the cleaners in their divorce. She says they had no pre-nup. Who knows? It's an awful movie and I love vengence movies like the first John Wick, The Punisher, The Equalizer, and such. "Samaritan was a weak copy of those movies for young boys.
Hell, I'd rather watch a Rom-Com with good dialog or an independent that has a new story. "Ole Henry" is interesting if you like westerns with a lessor known character actor as the star. Big surprise at the ending.
I'm so sick of hollywood rebooting movies or copying the same concepts. Does no one in Hollywood read books? There are thousands of scripts out there waiting to be written. They need to feed the boys/young adults their fantasies?...there are plenty from Sci-Fi writers.
HARD PASS ON ALL THE AVATAR MOVIES, I NEVER EVEN WATCHED THE ORIGINAL, JUST WASN’T INTERESTED.
Hawkeye hung up his spurs because of his kids. Then they got blipped. But also keep in mind their “spurs” are saving the world. Can’t really not save the world for your kids.
Cameron is universally known to be one of the largest a-holes in the business. If it wasn’t for the success of his films, actors would run screaming from him — and many have even after signing on. Ed Harris nearly beat him to a pulp during the filming of the Abyss.
No fan of DC or Marvel, but Cameron doesn’t hold much sway for his opinion in my book...