We are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down as gentlemen. But, we would like a brandy.
No 336 - Titanic Director - James Cameron This is the only time I ever went to the cinema, where the film had an interval... I hadn't seen it since I saw it at the cinema, and much to my surprise, it was far better than I had ever given it credit for. I think the problem was the HYPE around the film.... and the general girlyness . To an 11 or 12 year old boy, it didn't hold much appeal. But....second time round, it deserves a bit more praise. However..... When I talk about James Cameron, I feel like in recent years (or, his last 2 motion pictures, over a decade apart) he has become more about scale and spectacle than the actual story. I mean, Avatar really doesn't deserve the heaps of praise which has been piled onto it . Yes, it is beautiful.... yes, the CGI is incredible and yes Pandora is a brilliantly well designed world which felt real, living and breathing and marvellous.... but the story is basically just Ferngully . Cameron's interests (and indeed his triumph) ...