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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."
I shit out an Obama. Plop!!
according to you? who the hell are you?
there is only one OBJECTIVE determinant of quality: box office business. everything else is subjective and therefore flawed
therefore, based on the only objective measure of quality we have available, james cameron is a quality film maker. this is an objective fact
money coming in=quality. you disagree with this definition? ok. show me another OBJECTIVE measure of quality and you will prove me wrong. can't do it. sorry
to imagine that you somehow speak for what quality film is, based on nothing but your own delusions of importance, is a commentary on your own psychological defects, and nothing more
pop wins. snobs lose. sorry
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Well, thanks for pointing out the #1 reason one of my buddies and I have a long-running dispute over T1 vs. T2. I think T2 is the better movie, because I watch it as an action movie -- and it's seriously a damn good action movie.
But my buddy can't help seeing them as scifi (apparently like you) and because he has a brain (apparently unlike you) he can't get past the liquid-metal hyperalloy T1000 as an SF construct -- he points out that even granting the mechanical properties (liquefy/rigidize at will with no evident actuators, controllable surface appearance, etc.), there's still no mechanism for a computer, power source, etc. made out of "hyperalloy" and capable of continuous deformation. Your point of "Cameron is a science geek, he's one of *us*!!!" doesn't make any sense, because any one of "us" (meaning real science and engineering nerds) would have taken the shape-memory inspired liquid metal concept and rolled it into something quasi-feasible, such as covering an endoskeletal structure (housing the computer/power/etc. components) with it, AKA the only thing T3 got right.
Cameron's not a science geek, he's a science fanboy. He wants to play with cool SF ideas, but he can't or won't apply the necessary rigor to apply them sanely, and at the end of the day it's the same sort of "SF" as most of ST:TOS; the "science" becomes meaningless technobabble thrown in to motivate the plot, or in Cameron's case, the action & effects.
i stopped reading here. could you please, OBJECTIVELY, substantiate how the story sucked
i am going to say the story is fantastic. i am going to OBJECTIVELY substantiate that claim by pointing at the box office returns
if you find some other OBJECTIVE way to gauge quality in a film, do get back to me. until then, you're just a mindlessly negative asshole, who criticizes without merit, like the other guy i'm responding to
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it