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"Titanic" producer fearless over latest movie (Avatar)
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| Oct 16, 2009
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Posted on 10/16/2009 3:12:44 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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I've read a lot about this upcoming James Cameron flick. It seems the budget for this thing is $300 million. The plot is about a disabled veteran that has a copy of himself living on a moon inhabited by blue aliens.
All of the articles I've read about this movie claim that it will be a mega-budget blockbuster that will revolutionize Hollywood with its visuals and effects. I'm less optimistic. For all the special effects, the plot just sound DUMB.
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Dances with Wolves... IN SPACE!
The cost to produce movies has gotten out of hand. Time for Hollywood to dial down more than just a tad.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:17:21 PM PDT
by
edge10
(Obama lied, babies died!)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Just from the previews I have seen, it looks like it has the typical anti military/establishment bent to it.
I might be wrong.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:17:27 PM PDT
by
Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Avatar looks pretty sweet.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:20:35 PM PDT
by
cranked
To: Keith Brown
Bbbbut anti-military is the New Patriotism don’ch
know?
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:20:57 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:22:11 PM PDT
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: Keith Brown
of course, evil WHITE space marines invading wonderful blue aliens home world. Main character sees this and switches sides. YAWN NO THANKS HOLLYWIERD.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:22:44 PM PDT
by
omega4179
( I hope he fails.)
To: edge10
I LIKED Dances With Wolves. A lot.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:23:13 PM PDT
by
PackerBoy
(Just my opinion ....)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Well, frankly I never had any desire to see “Titanic,” so I doubt whether I’ll go see this. I’m an SF fan, but not a big budget Hollywood SF fan.
I’d rather get my copy of Blade Runner out again.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:24:54 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: PackerBoy
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:27:08 PM PDT
by
marron
To: edge10
The cost to produce movies has gotten out of hand. Time for Hollywood to dial down more than just a tad. Paranormal Activity, #4 right now, cost 11k to make.
To: Cicero
Id rather get my copy of Blade Runner out again. Another of my favorites...
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:28:49 PM PDT
by
marron
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
It sounds like a Kurt Vonnegut book... Interesting but not really.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:31:04 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Cicero
“Id rather get my copy of Blade Runner out again.”
....I know what you mean....over a quarter century later it still holds up as revolutionary....and BTW I could show you street scenes at night in Washington DC that look like they’re straight out of the director’s cut.
To: edge10
Dances With Wolves cost $20M to make and brought in $400M at the box office.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:34:25 PM PDT
by
PackerBoy
(Just my opinion ....)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
This has all the stench of a story that’s been kicking around in the back of the writer’s head for a long time in the bad way. Sometimes that makes a story very well developed (like Bab 5), but most of the time it turns the story into an exercise of self pleasuring. I like Cameron, I really like Cameron, for years I’ve been begging him to leave the Titanic behind and come back to his roots and do some some SF, unless this movie turns out vastly different from how he himself describes it there’s no way I’m watching it. Just sounds painfully stupid. Plus of course he’s gotten addicted to 3D and I hate 3D movies.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:36:37 PM PDT
by
discostu
(The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Looks like World of Warcraft met Starcraft. The trailer was pretty underwhelming.
To: edge10
Most movies are done for under $30 mil, heck most are under $10. But this is an intended blockbuster, they like to spend a lot on movies they think will make a lot.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:37:54 PM PDT
by
discostu
(The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
It looks like a bad cross between the movie Fern Gully and the Halo videogame. Can’t wait for more anti-military drivel. Not.
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:43:48 PM PDT
by
egarvue
(Piss a liberal off...wish them Merry Christmas!)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
I'm just guessing here...
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posted on
10/16/2009 3:47:16 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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