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James Cameron Commissions Submarine To Visit Challenger Deep
frank249 writes "In January, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Trieste descent, the X Prize Foundation announced a $10 million prize for the first privately funded craft to make two manned descents to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest surveyed point in the oceans. Now, James Cameron has announced he has commissioned a submarine capable of surviving the tremendous pressures at a depth of seven miles, from which he will not only try for the X prize but also shoot 3D footage that may be incorporated in Avatar's sequel."
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To clarify: I find it a bit sad that humanity just isn't capable of building on pre-existing accomplishments, solutions and ideas. The Trieste has already achieved this goal 50 years ago, as the summary states, so why would this be such a difficult challenge? We had the technology half a century ago, and it worked perfectly well.
Sort of like the Apollo program - almost half a century after, we are not capable to go to the moon - we simply and stupidly "forgot" how to do it. The great designers and engineers left and/or died off, and we, as humankind, went on with out collective dicks in our collective hands.
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Sorry, buddy, but I have not seen James Cameraschlock's Space Smurf Pocahantas and I never will. There are plenty of us who actually, really and truly do not like crap Science Fiction, will not see it, will not buy the Blue-Ray and won't mention it until some idiot tries to defend it or imply that, actually, I really really like it but I'm too much of a snob to admit it.
Um, not to disagree or anything, but how do you know it's crap if you haven't bothered to watch it?
As I wrote in another post, most of today's films have a plot that can be traced back to other films/stories/myths/legends. Does that make them all necessarily bad? I think not. Most of them are, but some are pretty good, although you can figure out the basic gist of the plot after 10 minutes. Sometimes it is the way things are told, rather than only what is told, that makes the difference.
As an a example, think about cover versions of songs. Most are a waste of pressure waves, but some (e.g. Nothing compares 2 U - Sinead O'connor; Take me to the river - Talking Heads) can become classics in their own right.
I don't know what you will think about Avatar. Maybe you will hate it, but writing a "review" such as yours, without seeing the movie, is akin to commenting w/o reading TFA (yes, yes, I'm new here).
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I'm imagining a 5 year old at the dinner table, making faces and sticking out his tongue
I hate broccoli!
How do you know if you haven't tried it?
Broccoli is yucky!
How do you know its yucky if you haven't tried it.
I'm not going to try it because its broccoli and broccoli is yucky!
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Tomatometer: 83
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 268
Fresh: 222 | Rotten: 46
You have to be pretty damn selective to find a group of critics who didn't like Avatar... which I have no doubt you are. I'm sure you're attracted to like-minded critics. That's understandable, but realize that it is a flaw when you come to believe that's representative of actual critical acclaim. It's like reading nothing but Daily Kos, and thinking that's normal and representative political discussion.
Please, are you really claiming anything Cameron has done is art?
Of course it is. Opinions may differ on whether it's GOOD art, but of course it's art. There isn't a threshold of quality that determines whether something is art. "Twilight" is art, just crappy art. So are my son's crayon drawings.
Fair enough, although having seen both, I don't think equating Dances with Wolves vs. Avatar makes a lot of sense. The plots are fairly similar, but so what? Rocky and Raging Bull could both be called boxing movies, does that make them similar? Compared to Dancing with Wolves, Avatar had a lot more fantasy and action, including plenty of Tom-Clancy-style technology fetishism (even though you were lead to root against the machines - but whoever designed and animated that machinery was clearly into it (and had clearly played Halo...)) I liked how Gaia was implemented on that planet. And, yes, the visuals were awesome, and yes, largely because it was in 3D (which isn't a draw in your case). Who's to say that grand spectacle is artistically invalid?
I wouldn't say that he's a crap director, just that he's not very ambitious. You aren't going to get any surprises from his movies, you see the trailer and you know what to expect.
But he does deliver on what you're expecting. From Avatar I expected pretty CGI, the noble primitive blue people to triumph over the greedy technologically advanced humans, and thats exactly what happened. Its not challenging, but it was well executed for what it was trying to do. Yeah it wasn't trying to do very much. But it didn't fail.
Hating on James Cameron movies is snobbery. No one's telling you its going to be Citizen Kane. Its entertainment, don't read too much into it. Complaining about a James Cameron movie being shallow and predictable is like complaining about poor acting in a porno. Is it really that important that you believe that the wife has an inattentive husband and the man is really a pizza delivery guy? Is it that important that the plot be original when the audience is there to see pretty 3-D animation?
People seem to forget that most historical art was commissioned, not born from some great artistic vision.
People who can only enjoy beauty in "high culture", don't enjoy beauty at all; they enjoy being part of the "high culture" crowd.
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