theprequelsrule said:

DavidBrennan said:

I defy anybody to watch 'Capturing Avatar' (or the dozens of terrific "Making of" featurettes that the production released for free online leading up to 'Avatar's release) and compare that to the PT. James Cameron's philosophy for creating quality performances for actors in synthetic environments (all green screen for the PT, mostly performance cap for AVTR) was 100% the opposite.

Yeah, but it didn't matter in the end; I thought Avatar was crap. Every fictional Cameron film since True Lies has been an unintentional comedy. Compare the "acting" in Avatar with that in Aliens or Terminator.

But modern audiences have held blockbuster films to lower and lower standards for many years now. I think the only major summer blockbuster of the last 15 years that I have enjoyed was Iron Man.

And for the record: Jake Lloyd's acting sucked in TPM. He actually lowered the quality of the dialogue by his terrible delivery - quite a feat.

Thanks for all your opinions and declarative statements. I'm sure you have a great grasp of the engineering logistics and technological processes that I was referencing, too.

And, "every fictional Cameron film since True Lies" is a real long list there, chief: Avatar and Titanic. The fact that you used "every" rather than "both" is evidence that you have no clue what the hell you're babbling about, which was kind of obvious, anyway.

You're going to respond with a bunch more declarative statements and proclamations of film technology expertise. So, to save myself the time later on, I'll just write in this post: "Thanks for your declarative statements and opinions."