![]() The word went forth, and the word remains: Never underestimate James Cameron. The rest is history - as it was with Titanic, as it was with Terminator 2: Judgment Day. After the film’s first brain-melting all-media screening at the Lincoln Square IMAX in New York, suddenly, all anybody wanted to talk about was Avatar. I love what you did with the translucence on the teeth, and the way the quadrate bone racks the teeth forward.”)Īnd then, we saw the damn thing. (“That fuckin’ rocks! … Look at the gill-like membrane on the side of the mouth, its transmission of light, all the secondary color saturation on the tongue, and that maxilla bone. I recall Dana Goodyear’s epic New Yorker profile that depicted Cameron geeking out over seemingly imperceptible VFX details. For months, so many of us expected a much-delayed, over-indulgent monstrosity from a filmmaker who was clearly living in his own head and had nobody to say no to him. The tide similarly turned on Avatar back in 2009. I still remember the week in 1997 when Titanic went from being thought of as an incoming disaster, one that was going to take two major studios down with it, to being thought of as a blockbuster that would remind everyone why we kept Hollywood around. Photo: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy Stock Photoįor all his technical expertise and storytelling prowess, James Cameron might well be cinema’s master of the vibe shift. ![]()
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