cameron always delivers
the terminator, alies, terminator 2, true lies, titantic, avatar
Cameron is my favorite director of all time, and he was THE director that got me interested in film as a kid, got me into acting, and for a while made me want to be a filmmaker myself. I've watched T1 through True Lies legit more times than I can begin to count. We had a cat growing up that I named Hicks because of Aliens, and I'd love for my next dog to be Hudson.
That being said I've never loved Avatar. I was blown away by the visual spectacle, but my favorite thing about Cameron's movies were that they all told very good stories and had memorable characters on top of the amazing visuals, set pieces, special effects, etc.
Avatar was just such a generic story to me that I'm never in the mood to go back and watch it. I probably should, just to give it a fair shot after all these years, but in that case I really thought he used a super basic ass story to justify all the new tech, special effects, and pageantry.
I'll always give him a pass for T1, Aliens, Abyss, T2, True Lies, and Titanic...but yeah...I don't really like Avatar and I'm not as excited for Avatar 2 as I wish I was.
