Best of James Cameron?

[dh1989]

What film directed by the blockbuster filmmaker is your personal favorite?

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[movies35]

ALIEN!!!! Next is Titanic

[The Other]

TITANIC (9/10) followed by TRUE LIES (8/10).

[dannywalker17]

Aliens (9/10), followed by True Lies (9/10).

[Voodoodoll]

Aliens, gotta be Aliens 10/10 :)

[syxxpac]

T2. But it's almost neck and neck with Aliens.

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

ALIENS

My 2nd favourite movie ever...

[Moviefan1234]

"Titanic"

[MikeyB]

Terminator

[Mad Maggot]

Titanic closely followed by T2

[Tom Samborski]

James Cameron is my favorite director, and his best film is Terminator 2 (10/10).

[RogueSpear]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - 10/10
The Terminator - 9/10
True Lies - 9/10
Titanic - 8/10
Aliens - 7/10
The Abyss - 6/10

[AxeDamn]

STRANGE DAYS

[bob]

Aliens.

T2 is the only one that comes close to that.

[thirdeye]

Aliens
my Second favorite is The Abyss Director's Cut

Don't ask why i just loved it.

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by AxeDamn
STRANGE DAYS

I think it's only the ones he's directed.

[Cyclonus]

Terminator 2 -- 8/10
The Terminator -- 8/10
Aliens -- 8/10
Titanic -- 8/10
True Lies -- 7/10
The Abyss -- 7/10 (original version, 6/10)

[DevilMonkey]

I didn't vote for anothing because I like T2 and Titanic so I will vote for piranhas becausae i like Leprachan in the hood and it looks very similir.

[Scarface98.9]

True Lies. Aside from maybe T2 and in certain aspects Titanic, I'm not really a fan of his movies

[screamer581]

Originally posted by bob
Aliens.

T2 is the only one that comes close to that.


Ditto. Aliens no question.

[Brock-Landers]

Aliens (9/10) is by far my fav of his.

[electriclite]

The Abyss followed by Aliens.

[Raoul Duke]

T2, followed by Aliens.

[happy OUT here]

I like several quite well...but TRUE LIES is my top choice.

[Hannibal21]

T2: Judgment Day (9/10).

Titanic (9/10) comes in a close second.

[ilovemovies]

1. Titanic ****
2. Aliens ****
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Night ****
4. True Lies ***1/2
5. The Terminator ***

Such an awesome director. I wish he made more movies and I can't wait until his next. Whenever the hell that will be.

[VicVega]

T2: Judgement Day, and then close behind, True Lies.

[therealjohng]

T2 blows the competition away. The biggest, baddest ass movie ever made....

[DaveyJoeG]

I vote for Aliens with no hesitation.

[idealdiscountdude]

TITANIC

Followed by True Lies and T2.

[MickeyKnox]

Terminator 2: Judgement Day followed by Aliens

[AxeDamn]

Syxxpac, I stand corrected :)

I'd forgotten that Cameron only wrote Strange Days. Although it WAS directed by his ex-wife...

In that case, I'll change my vote to ALIENS, no explanation needed WHATSOEVER :D

Actually, that's odd... if Kathryn Bigelow hadn't imposed her own amazing visual style on Strange Days... I probably wouldn't have voted for it above Aliens anyway...

But you must all admit that as a piece of writing, it's visionary.

[zeppelin]

1. Aliens (8/10)
2. The Terminator (8/10)
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (8/10)
4. The Abyss (7/10)
5. True Lies (6/10)
6. Titanic (5/10)

Haven't seen any of the others...

[Invincible]

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY!!!!

[eraserhead_99]

yeah i most definitely did vote for ALIENS!!!!!! Most fucking badasss movie ever!!!!!

Follow by T2!!

[therealjohng]

Although Cameron didn't direct STRANGE DAYS, it still kicks a lot of ass!!!

[mcquade]

Where the hell has James Cameron been anyway? I miss him

[king_verhoeven]

Originally posted by therealjohng
T2 blows the competition away. The biggest, baddest ass movie ever made....

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by mcquade
Where the hell has James Cameron been anyway? I miss him

Here's where he's been:

Titanic director James Cameron, whose new IMAX film Aliens of the Deep opens January 28, talked to ComingSoon.net about his next project, the big screen adapation of Yukito Kishiro's anime comic Battle Angel Alita.

Can you describe the genesis of the project?
Cameron: A few years ago I started down this path of creating this 3D camera system and once I started working in that, I couldn't imagine myself going back and shooting with the camera that I used before. It just seemed like going back from a car to a bicycle, and I don't want to ride a bicycle again, so the question is, at what point can I use the kind of imaging that we're able to do now for a feature film? That's taken a few years to put together and the pacing item on that is digital cinema, the changeover to d-cinema, which is going to be happening throughout North America and eventually Europe and so-on, where they are literally going to replace every projector in North America in the next five or six years, however long it takes, because in order to display the stereo, the 3D, you need to have those digital projectors. I need those theaters, so I've sort of been waiting until the right moment to make a big movie and we believe that moment is now. So we're in pre-production now on a movie called Battle Angel, which is based on a Japanese Manga series of graphic novels by an artist named Yukito Kishiro. It's not in the sort of top ten of graphic novels in Japan; it's a lesser known one, and we're going to make Battle Angel over the next couple of years and release it in '07. By early summer of '07, we expect to have somewhere around a thousand digital 3D theaters that will be able to show an image that looks more or less like what you saw in the IMAX theater but the IMAX theater was film, and this is going to be digital projection.

This will be shown in multiplexes?:
Cameron: Multiplexes everywhere. All cities, all territories. And yeah, you'll wear glasses, obviously.

Which timeline do you intend to focus on?
Cameron: It's a bit of a mélange of the first three books, which means that it pulls forward the motorball story into the Ido, Alita, Hugo story, if you will.


Will it be live action?
Cameron: Live action and CG mixed, meaning we will build sets, we'll shoot with actors and we'll have CG characters. Alita will be CG; she'll be performed by an actress but what you see in the film will be CG.

Like Gollum?
Cameron: That's a very good example.

Do you have any casting choices?
Cameron: No. We have some stuff we're working on, but it's kind of premature to talk about it.

Marquee names or just unknowns?
Cameron: They won't be unknown. They'll be very recognizable names, but I don't see this as a star vehicle per se.

Is this the future of cinema?
Cameron: Uh, TBD. I don't know yet. It's the future of cinema for me, if I can make this work with these digital theaters. The next time we shoot, we're going to use the new generation of the camera system, which is the new Sony SR compression, so it's inherently got a little more dynamic range and a little better resolution, and we'll do the Lowry processing, or Lowry-type processing on top of it, so we think we're getting to a level where we're basically the equivalent of capturing two side-by-side 4K images, and that's like so much more information than you need. It really allows us for a theatrical feature, I could blow the image up double and still have more resolution than a 35mm film.

With all of your opportunities is filmmaking for yourself more than an audience?
Cameron: If I'm making a feature film like when I'm doing Battle Angel or some of the other projects I have planned for after Battle Angel, I know I'm making a film for an audience. I can't just please myself.

What is the basic plot of Battle Angel?
Cameron: 26th century, the story takes place 300 years after a societal collapse caused by a major war, but in that society, it's a technological dark age following a pinnacle of achievement far, far beyond where we are right now. So in a sense it's post-apocalyptic, but it's post-apocalyptic from a very high level. So now, you've got cyborg technology as just a way of life. People are augmented a lot as workers and so on, so being a cyborg is not unusual. The main character is a cyborg. She has an organic human brain, and she looks like she's about fourteen years old. She has a completely artificial body and she's lost her memory- she's found in this wreckage and she's reconstituted by this guy who is a cyber-surgeon who becomes her kind of surrogate father. It's a father-daughter relationship story that just has the most insane action that you can imagine. It will be PG-13 -- lots of blood, but it's all blue."

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[poopontheshoes7]

T2 and Aliens are so fucking close!! I chose T2 by half a hair!

[Squid Vicious]

Aliens - 10/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - 9/10
The Terminator - 9/10
True Lies - 8/10
The Abyss - 8/10
Titanic - 3/10

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by poopontheshoes7
T2 and Aliens are so fucking close!! I chose T2 by half a hair!

Took the words out of my mouth.

[The Young Son]

Originally posted by syxxpac
T2. But it's almost neck and neck with Aliens.
I agree.

[Badbird]

There may not be a lot to pick from, but when you have to debate between such movies as Aliens, The Terminator, T2, True Lies.... I mean, wow. Most directors WISH they could have half that track record.

Me personally, I go with The Abyss. It's not the obvious fan favorite, but I think the characters are so deep and the acting is so good, that watching this movie is an experience. But I love all his movies.

And, yes, Strange Days kicks much ass.

"A thousand digital screens by 2007?" HA, ha, ha, ha... right... crappy, low end digital maybe.

Anyone else think 3-D is the worst/dumbest gimmick to hit Hollywood in a long time? Jimbo, my man... most people repeat watch a movie at home. Why make a movie that can't be viewed "the way it was meant to be" on DVD? Why make me look like dork and have to wear glasses to watch your fucking movie?

[Slim_JGE]

T2, followed closely by Aliens and Terminator. :D

[bigred760]

T2: Judgement Day - it's the only one I own on DVD - and I also my favorite by Cameron. True Lies and Aliens also kicked ass?


Who chose Pirahnas II?? :D

[Brando @$$ Fat]

T2 definitely. Not a huge James Cameron fan, but you have to give that movie the respect it deserves.

[jaymckee74]

T2 followed closely by True Lies

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