02-15-2019, 04:16 AM
Avatar Director James Cameron Says Aquaman Is Unrealistic
<p>James Cameron, the legendary movie director who made aquatic-themed movies like Titanic and The Abyss, has seen Aquaman and he's not exactly the biggest fan of it. In an interview with <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/video/james-cameron-explains-why-could-150000597.html">Yahoo!</a> (<a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/02/13/james-cameron-aquaman/">via EW</a>), Cameron said the movie is "great fun" but not very realistic.</p><p>"I could have never made that film because it requires this total dreamlike disconnection from any sense of physics or reality. It exists somewhere between a Greek mythic landscape and a fairy tale landscape. And people just kind of zoom around underwater because … they propel themselves mentally, I guess. I don't know. " he said. You buy it on its own terms."</p><p>Cameron, who himself has <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/james-cameron-hits-the-worlds-floor-and-returns/">traveled to the bottom of the ocean</a>, pointed out that he's spent "thousands" of hours underwater. He takes underwater storytelling very seriously.</p><p>"I'm very literal about my underwater. It needs to look like it's real," he said. "And while I can enjoy that film I don't resonate with it because it doesn't look real."</p><p>Cameron wasn't entirely negative about Aquaman, however, as he said he applauds the movie for the scenes in which it showed the ocean as being used as a garbage dump to remind people to respect and protect the world's oceans.</p><p>The upcoming Avatar sequels that Cameron is making will have "a lot" of underwater sequences, and these will have "such a different feel" than Aquaman, Cameron said. For the Avatar sequels, Cameron is using a reportedly brand-new filming technique capable of doing motion-capture work underwater.</p><p>James Wan, who directed Aquaman, previously <a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/02/13/james-cameron-aquaman/">spoke with EW</a> about working in the shadow of Cameron. "Rule No. 1 is don't ever compete with James Cameron," he said. "He's in a whole different game of his own. And No. 2, our movie is such a different-looking film."</p><p>Aquaman was a smash hit, taking in more than $1 billion globally at the box office. Unsurprisingly, a sequel is on the way; it's <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/aquaman-2-is-happening-brings-back-original-writer/1100-6464947/">progressing further now by hiring a writer</a>. As for the Avatar series, Avatar 2 is expected to hit theaters in December 2020.</p><p> </p>
<p>James Cameron, the legendary movie director who made aquatic-themed movies like Titanic and The Abyss, has seen Aquaman and he's not exactly the biggest fan of it. In an interview with <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/video/james-cameron-explains-why-could-150000597.html">Yahoo!</a> (<a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/02/13/james-cameron-aquaman/">via EW</a>), Cameron said the movie is "great fun" but not very realistic.</p><p>"I could have never made that film because it requires this total dreamlike disconnection from any sense of physics or reality. It exists somewhere between a Greek mythic landscape and a fairy tale landscape. And people just kind of zoom around underwater because … they propel themselves mentally, I guess. I don't know. " he said. You buy it on its own terms."</p><p>Cameron, who himself has <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/james-cameron-hits-the-worlds-floor-and-returns/">traveled to the bottom of the ocean</a>, pointed out that he's spent "thousands" of hours underwater. He takes underwater storytelling very seriously.</p><p>"I'm very literal about my underwater. It needs to look like it's real," he said. "And while I can enjoy that film I don't resonate with it because it doesn't look real."</p><p>Cameron wasn't entirely negative about Aquaman, however, as he said he applauds the movie for the scenes in which it showed the ocean as being used as a garbage dump to remind people to respect and protect the world's oceans.</p><p>The upcoming Avatar sequels that Cameron is making will have "a lot" of underwater sequences, and these will have "such a different feel" than Aquaman, Cameron said. For the Avatar sequels, Cameron is using a reportedly brand-new filming technique capable of doing motion-capture work underwater.</p><p>James Wan, who directed Aquaman, previously <a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/02/13/james-cameron-aquaman/">spoke with EW</a> about working in the shadow of Cameron. "Rule No. 1 is don't ever compete with James Cameron," he said. "He's in a whole different game of his own. And No. 2, our movie is such a different-looking film."</p><p>Aquaman was a smash hit, taking in more than $1 billion globally at the box office. Unsurprisingly, a sequel is on the way; it's <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/aquaman-2-is-happening-brings-back-original-writer/1100-6464947/">progressing further now by hiring a writer</a>. As for the Avatar series, Avatar 2 is expected to hit theaters in December 2020.</p><p> </p>