Anya ,'Touched'
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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).
Cameron has an uncanny ability to make people want to see him fail.
This sentence pretty much sums up the whole article.
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.
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.
I worked for the special effects company that worked on The Abyss. And, yes, Cameron is a complete asshole.
I've always thought it was a bittersweet story but I don't have a copy so I can't revisit it to see why I feel that way.
Hie thee to a bookstore!
Playing yourself onscreen. TV and movies. God bless NPH. Patrick Stewart has traumatised me.
I was neither upset nor bored by the film, but I also know my kids' movie viewing habits well enough to not bring them to movies very often. They can watch them on DVD OK, but really have only successfully watched 2 movies in the theater, Wall-E and HSM 3.
Holy shit, has anyone seen The Strangers ? That is one scary fucking movie. It eschews most horror-movie cliches and opts for being creepy and terrifying in a very minimalist sort of way. One of the most brilliant things about it is that for the majority of the film, the Strangers never lay a fucking hand on the couple. I recommend seeing it if you never want to feel safe again.