I think the douchebags have found their patron saint, Scola.
We'll be in our bunk.
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erikaj - Oct 19, 2009 8:30:01 am PDT #4428 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Laga - Oct 19, 2009 8:47:50 am PDT #4429 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm interested to see how douchey Mr. Cameron is, but not interested enough to read that many words about him.
Anyway- I'm not done talking about Banlieue 13. Did you know that the lead actor is largely credited with having created the sport of parkour?
Tom Scola - Oct 19, 2009 8:54:47 am PDT #4430 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm interested to see how douchey Mr. Cameron is, but not interested enough to read that many words about him.
Just start at a random point in the article, and read for a few paragraphs!
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2009 9:00:32 am PDT #4431 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bless him for creating Sarah Connor and Ripley, but I wouldn't spend five minutes talking to him. Nor him to me, from as much of that as I could stand to read.
Laga - Oct 19, 2009 9:00:41 am PDT #4432 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
so: none more douchey?
erikaj - Oct 19, 2009 9:02:15 am PDT #4433 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes, this, I think God has a *cameron* complex. On a tangentially related note, in some AU where Aguaman is real, a Transformers commercial came on the other day, in all its messy, loud glory and I said to Mom "Michael Bay made that. Now, do you see why Vince was all "Ice-cream headache" about A2?" Mom said she did. I wish all object lessons were that easy. Universal healthcare would be no problem, then. ETA: Maybe not *none*, Laga. Joe Francis still lives, but Cameron is a pretty strong contestant in the Summer's Eve Invitational.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 19, 2009 10:07:05 am PDT #4434 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bless him for creating Sarah Connor and Ripley
He did a good job using Ripley, but he didn't create her, so don't give him too much credit.
He did create badass Ripley, I have to admit (though I suspect Sigourney had a little bit of say in that too).
beekaytee - Oct 19, 2009 10:50:47 am PDT #4435 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Cameron has an uncanny ability to make people want to see him fail.
This sentence pretty much sums up the whole article.
P.M. Marc - Oct 19, 2009 10:57:00 am PDT #4436 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Cameron is a Tooly McToolperson, and yet, irritatingly, he's responsible for some of my favorite female characters despite himself.
Doesn't make me NOT want to spork him, though.
Scrappy - Oct 19, 2009 11:36:43 am PDT #4437 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I know someone who worked on Avatar for a year and a half. In spite of every story he told making Cameron sound unbearably horrendous, he said the crew sticks with him because at least his tantrums are always because he wants the film to be amazing, rather than to throw his weight around or thet he's someone that's great to work with but is a hack who kowtows to the Studios all the time. DH's response to him was that he drank the Koolaid.