12.26.2009

ATHENA ANDREADIS ON JAMES CAMERON:"BLOATED LIKE HINDENBURG"...

"...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
~ Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act V, Scene V

James Cameron made two films that are high on my list of favorites: Terminator 2 and Aliens -- not least because powerful women are central to the stories (even though he gave them the most conservative and clichéd motivation for heroism: maternal protectiveness). He was a taut, visually inventive storyteller once. But all his films after The Abyss increasingly resemble the Hindenburg: bloated, self-indulgent, lacking originality and subtlety in all but F/X.


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