Cameron clearly doesn't know what he's talking about if he's saying this. The whole reason people cared about the MCU was because it had interesting heroes with compelling journeys (before it went woke, anyway). You can't just feed people slop and expect your movies to succeed, they need more than that.
Then again, Cameron lost his credibility a long time ago. He called Terminator: Dark Fate the true sequel to Terminator 2 even though that movie gave John Connor the Luke Skywalker treatment.
I think there's little doubt that Avatar 2 (and the other sequels that for some godforsaken reason he's making) will not only be worse than the first movie, but they'll also be massive financial failures.
They could be just as big as the first movie and still be financial failures. Cameron has already admitted that this movie needs to make almost $2 BILLION...JUST TO BREAK EVEN!! And considering the metrics coming in are that it had a strong opening but is starting to fall off, just like every other movie with bad word of mouth...
Top Gun: Maverick already showed Hollywood that you can make billions of dollars, with almost nothing but the American box office (so you dont have to worry about China banning your movie), and have positive word of mouth, and all you have to do is give the people what they want in a movie and make something fun. It doesnt even need to break new ground, just not suck compared to the last.
That Hollywood continues to treat Top Gun like a pariah and hiss at its presence shows that their hatred is deliberate, and they would rather go bankrupt making movies that appeal to their personal bubble and let them sniff their own farts long before they make a movie that appeals to...ewwww "Normal people."
Ah yes, war against....nebulous enemy of unspecified nationality.
It is exactly what the first movie is, and what Americans like: US comes in, kills the bad guy, and saves the day. It doesnt matter who or what it is, it doesnt prepare people for war with some nation. Its just that normal people like big explosions, hot jets, fast women, and "America, Ra Ra."
It may not be based. But its not woke or subversive either. It is just the possible last gasp of a Hollywood that still understood entertainment instead of propaganda.
Cameron clearly doesn't know what he's talking about if he's saying this. The whole reason people cared about the MCU was because it had interesting heroes with compelling journeys (before it went woke, anyway). You can't just feed people slop and expect your movies to succeed, they need more than that.
Then again, Cameron lost his credibility a long time ago. He called Terminator: Dark Fate the true sequel to Terminator 2 even though that movie gave John Connor the Luke Skywalker treatment.
I think there's little doubt that Avatar 2 (and the other sequels that for some godforsaken reason he's making) will not only be worse than the first movie, but they'll also be massive financial failures.
They could be just as big as the first movie and still be financial failures. Cameron has already admitted that this movie needs to make almost $2 BILLION...JUST TO BREAK EVEN!! And considering the metrics coming in are that it had a strong opening but is starting to fall off, just like every other movie with bad word of mouth...
Top Gun: Maverick already showed Hollywood that you can make billions of dollars, with almost nothing but the American box office (so you dont have to worry about China banning your movie), and have positive word of mouth, and all you have to do is give the people what they want in a movie and make something fun. It doesnt even need to break new ground, just not suck compared to the last.
That Hollywood continues to treat Top Gun like a pariah and hiss at its presence shows that their hatred is deliberate, and they would rather go bankrupt making movies that appeal to their personal bubble and let them sniff their own farts long before they make a movie that appeals to...ewwww "Normal people."
Ah yes, war against....nebulous enemy of unspecified nationality.
It is exactly what the first movie is, and what Americans like: US comes in, kills the bad guy, and saves the day. It doesnt matter who or what it is, it doesnt prepare people for war with some nation. Its just that normal people like big explosions, hot jets, fast women, and "America, Ra Ra."
It may not be based. But its not woke or subversive either. It is just the possible last gasp of a Hollywood that still understood entertainment instead of propaganda.
Similar to GI Joe. COBRA was an easy adversary