Alita was great, needs a sequel

Let's be honest...Rod Rodriguez is trying to shoe in directing Avatar 6 and 7..I'm calling it now.

J.C. wore an Alita shirt while filming Avatar. That was his baby and he trusted R.R. with it.

nah it was trash

Of course there is. It's like a cover rock band talking with the Rolling Stones, or a rookie talking to LeBron James. 🤣They are miles away from each other in terms of what they have achieved in their careers.

Alita was froopin amazing, esp in 3D. Wish they just went for it and paid for it themselves.

Then make sure Avatar 2 crosses $1 billion at the box office.

These two literally made a blood oath to make a sequel lol

@@user-xd7mk2xz2h Done :D

@@zairman Let's make it $2 billon.

... and then Ilya Khrzhanovsky walks in!

Robert Zemeckis aswell

Peter Jackson is no longer who we once was. Mortal Engines was nothing special at all considering the book franchise he abandoned to make it had so much more potential - especially in light of the dragons/fantasy interest sparked by Game of Thrones.

i’d like directors who openly shit on movies. like, scorcese and david lynch to talk about watching marvel on iphones.

Spielberg was making Jurassic Park and Schindler's List simultaneously at some point in 1993.

Agreed

Yes.

They have to. There's plenty of fans and more are finding out about it every day. The 1/1 Q.S. Bust is amazing.

it was garbage

@@marko6947 your opinion!!

It can wait, loved Alita, but Avatar 3-4 comes first

I can relate😅

@@LucasCreativeTech trash ass take. Plz elaborate

@L Seeing I heard alot are complaining about the dialogue and story

i just saw all the 2000-2015 movies from Robert again and i left my sofa with an action boner for a non stop aftermath craze

Your one of them I see

@@paulsmith9192 dialogue is subjective and the story is simple so anyone of any age can understand yet its made out to be a negative. These reviewers who criticize the writing & saying James Cameron is a poor storyteller honestly forgot he wrote Terminator, T2, Aliens, True Lies, Titanic etc.....oh wow James can't write stories....that's a load of BS.

@@paulsmith9192 I think the dialogue was fine but the story isn’t just simple it’s really going in the wrong direction and is overall cheap

I'm sorry to say besides Desperado, I haven't seen much good he's done without someone else carrying him through it. Sin City had freaking Tarantino on it and Miller guy, the writer, El Mariachi was Desperado light, and just a low budget Desperado, Machete was a, by Desperado standards absolute shit-show, but if you want pure brainless fun, it IS fun tho. Alita works more then well as anime, turning it live action with anime style detracts from richness of the anime and detracts from realism, cause there was none. 😑🤨 I'll check out everything he does JUST cause he made Desperado, but otherwise... It's rough. And the way he wasted Gibson's uber-talent was down right criminal.

@@4Everlast idk I actually liked the movie more than the anime OVA adaptation from the 90s. I just felt like the fx made the action come alive and acting did a nice job bringing these super off-beat characters to a place that was relatable to western audiences. The manga (while awesome) is a really tough thing to try and adapt into a Hollywood blockbuster though. Still hoping to see Ed Norton's Desty Nova in an R rated sequel.

@@spaceghostcqc2137 I mean, there's plenty to like. The character is easy to feel for, but they should off went full on practical(like Ghost in the shell) or full CGI animated, as it is animated 90% of the time. Norton had a Stallone in Spy kids 3-D vibe to him, visually. I'm always in for an R rated thing if done well. Personally really enjoyed Mortal engines as the closest thing to a live anime I've seen, tremendous ride, but it feels like it's the last movie in a massive trilogy.

I watched this (on 2x speed) with the hope that James would ask Robert some questions and let him talk. Too bad this was all about James. Rob's movies are so playful and fun to watch. He and his teams are really creative and his early work is what got me interested in filmmaking initially. Which is not to say that James is not extremely creative and capable, he obviously is. But Avatar really isn't for me. Hard to suspend my disbelief of these CGI heavy worlds. I look to Nolan for my big budget Hollywood escapes.

@@DavidBerglund Really? Even with the new Avatar it's hard for you to connect? This universe is the closest CGI world to an actual real life one. But yes, Nolan and Cameron are making must-see films for sure. Nolan said he's got something up his sleeve for a Bond film, but I can't even imagine wtf could that be after Tenet, it was as close as you can get of making a Bond film without being a Bond film, what could his Bond possibly stand against if we had freaking realistic time travel in Tenet? How do you out do that?

Truly spoken

It's just a tech demo. Great looking, and that's it. The story is sooo generic. Revenge plot done a million times before. 3 hours and 12 minutes? Really? The entire film is "take a look at this, see how great it looks?".

@@adriantrusca1245 I wholeheartedly agree! The praise and criticism I had for Avatar remains the same for Way of Water. Amazing visual spectacle, but the narrative is bare-bones and lacking in interesting direction. Furthermore, the extensive world-building shots were something that should've been reserved for an extended cut. I understand Cameron's desire to immerse audiences in this world, but he also has to consider the pacing and rhythm of the story, something more and more filmmakers are neglecting.

Had to watch it yesterday it was all he says, sooo wonderful

@@CylusDdembe yes!!!!

Watch it in 3D! It's such a wonderful experience. Can't wait to go see it again

This is the one movie where 3D is worth it.

Or Dead Space, either would be great for him

James is probably too old for a new trilogy now.. but maybe Nolan? JJ?

That would be great... but unfortunately they're going to ruin something like Mass Effect if they ever adapt it. They NEED someone like Rodriguez to do it, but who they'll ACTUALLY hire is underqualified female directors for "eQuAliTy" and it'll be awful.

YOU ARE A GENIUS. YES

Next year, Noted environmentalist James Francis Cameron will discover a biofuel from the deep abyss of the ocean that will revolutionize the way we power everything.

"where Nolan is fully in on practical fx" Yes and no. He will use practical fx anywhere it is feasible. But he has used CG before and will continue to do so. His use of CG VFX is how it should be - a support to increase immersion rather than create it from scratch.

@@mnomadvfx If it can't be done real, he uses CGI. This is exactly why it would be an amazing conversation.

James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, George Lucas, and Zack Snyder.

“Bay the king of mixing CGI & practical” Brah what are you smoking? Cameron proved with Aliens & T2 he is the king of that.

@@southlondon86add Steven Spielberg too with Jurassic Park

it's the planet from Avatar....

Hehe, nice to see you again :D And I agree :3

Loved his sense of humor

I think because he saw how well it worked for Lucas and he knew he could really use the budget savings for all the VFX he would rely on.

this kind of movie doesn’t need A-list lead or villain, the ones it has serve the purpose.

He famously offered Avatar to Matt Damon plus 10% of the profits

Virtually an unknown? Inventing history now are we? DiCaprio made his mark already in 1996's Romeo and Juliet that also launched the career of Claire Danes. Point of fact LDC probably got hired for Titanic precisely because of his role as Romeo. "He could’ve got anyone for Avatar’s lead or villain" He didn't pick an unknown - Stephen Lang was one of his choices for Apone when casting Aliens and had many movies under his belt by the time Avatar came around. To this day he's still one of the most memorable roles in Tombstone. "it’s crazy he never went after any A-list actors" Well you know - except for Sigourney Weaver herself. Alien made her an A lister from the get go and she would have garnered a much higher contract price by the time Aliens went into production. Also Arnold was in Conan the Barbarian in 1982, and then it's sequel Conan the Destroyer months before The Terminator was released in 1984, so it's not like Jim Cameron picked him off the streets - he was already the lead actor in a 2 film fantasy franchise.

The thing is though if the movie were to have A-list actors you wouldn’t really notice since odd are they’d be Avatars. Kate Winslet was in the new movie and a lot of movie had no idea until researching the cast after watching it and I’d consider her an A-lister

I get the feeling that he is genuinely a nice guy, but determined and exacting when it comes to his work. When you get such a clear vision in your head down to minute details, you have to be a little pushy to have it realized by other people.

@@eyespy3001 Yes. But he's a project worker at the end of the day. If you took his approach in an office context, you'd be bounced out very quickly. I'm sure a lot of Cameron's key team stay with him. But there's the cache of being in his orbit that doesn't translate into an ordinary office context. I've worked around good people who had his personality type when it came to moving an agenda in an office context, and they were all moved on ( even CEO's I worked with ). You have to calibrate your approach and timetable to the resources that you have, and change them out over time. A big bang, and all guns blazing will just get your fired. Can't wait to see his movie !

That’s all he ever wears.

He’s wearing that since 1918

Same here😅

I’ve been a fan of him since the early 90s.

@@DialloMoore503 funny we’re in thesame page…I’m a die hard fan also

Thanks to this video? I doubt it.

"which for whatever reason Kathleen Kennedy and JJ didn't think to do" Actually prevailing rumor was that Abrahms did exactly that, and then RJ was brought in for TLJ and Kennedy gave him cart blanche to do whatever he felt like - which included tearing up all the limited good will generated by the first sequel film. All of which shows Kennedy is a truly inept producer when left to her own devices and not simply a piece of administrative furniture as she was for real creative talents like Spielberg and Zemeckis.

@@mnomadvfx Abrams didn't fuck up star wars. Force Awakens had plenty of interesting nuggets to explore. Kennedy and Rain Johnson ruined it.