Cameron Steps in it

Go make another Fern Gully/Pocahontas/Romeo and Juliet with blue aliens and let all the gullible knuckleheads praise you for it Jimbo.

Star Wars > Everything else

 

He wants to see where it goes. I think they may be taking it out of context. However, he has taken a few major dumps himself and called them movies.

 

http://fakingstarwars.net/2016/06/29/james-cameron-declares-force-awakens-is-for-babies/

 

About James's comments: . .

 

It was a retrenchment of characters we've known before... and it did take baby steps forward, both of those things were by design. Wanted the new installment of movies to connect with the previous trilogies, and there's only so much back development you can do when merging a new story line with an old storyline and filling in the gap that happened in between. We'll learn more about Finn, Rey, Kylo, and Poe in coming movies. I don't see this as a criticism (if it was meant as one).

 

While I like TFA, I'm afraid he's right. The movie really lacks imagination and freshness. The movie is more or less boring visually. This movie really doesn't offer anything NEW to the saga. Hopefully Rian Johnson can shake things up a bit with Ep. 8. Hopefully.

 

I agree with Cameron. TFA did lack imagination. It is still a very entertaining movie though.

 

"Everyone's a critic"

 

I wouldn't disagree with Cameron's assessment of TFA, but SW has always been about the characters to me. SW movies have always followed a similar plot (even Lucas purposely filmed similar scenes in the PT/OT to mirror them). We had Death Star 2 in ROTJ, we had the Droid Ship in TPM and now Starkiller Base in TFA, so I don't how Mr. Cameron is suddenly mad about a plot point that has been used in 4 of the 7 movies? We have Luke, Anakin and Rey being found on a Desert Planet. We have Luke and Anakin lose limbs in the 2nd movie of each trilogy. We have an asteroid chase in ESB & AOTC. I fairness to Lucas and JJ, there are only so many things you can do in these movies to keep them original.

To get to my main point, what sells SW is the characters and their personal story. I can say for myself that what keeps me a fan of the OT almost 40 years later is Luke, Leia and Han. What keeps me from being a fan of the PT is Anakin & Padme. What made me a fan of the ST and pysched for Episode 8 is Rey, Finn and Poe. The story has always been backround music to me, and that is why I never got hung up on the little plot points that fans constantly bicker about. The characters are what drive the story for me, the characters drive the drama, the characters drive the humor, thats really what sells me on SW.

So I don't disagree with Mr. Cameron's assessment, but I think he and many other TFA detractors are watching TFA differently then I am.

 

As much as I love T2, it is very much a retread of The Original Terminator, so that is why I think Cameron is being abit hypocritical. T1 & T2 have 2 people sent back in time to protect and kill Sarah Connor in T1 and then John Connor in T2. It's starts out with a big chase scene in the first half of the movie, then slows down in the middle part where you get exposition as to what happened in the past that brought these Terminators here to the future, then you have a big finale set piece. I say this as a huge T2 fan, but it really wasn't the most original movie.

 

This is a great point. For all the people out there claiming TFA was unoriginal or not creative, why weren't we able to get so much more of it right with speculation then? Yes there were some story elements that were reminiscent of other SW movies but its the first SW movie in a long time and there is a new generation of young fans who needed to understand what was happening while still pleasing the old fans. This is something us already life long fans overlook. These movies aren't just for us. We cant be bullies and think " this is no good because it isn't enough like the OT is this way" or "this isn't original enough its like that moment in this OT movie". NEW fans are learning this franchise. The movies have to appeal to everyone. At least there are no goofy aliens doing extremely unnecessary things. Was that more creative? Was 35 minutes of senate scenes or trade federation talk more creative? If you don't like it invent a time machine and go back to 1977 and re-watch the first one and make sure you take Cameron with you. Maybe he can come up with something more creative for Avatar this time around..

 

Smartest thing he said was wait and see where it goes....

and he doesn't even know about the force trees, yet.

Or, does he?


If Snoke is as old as the force The Ancient Fear

& The Chosen One Rey has been reincarnated ad nauseum,

then Disney is rebooting the entire saga.