Not to beat a dead horse here but the more I see and hear from James Cameron...as much as I like some his movies...the less I think of him personally. It's hard to have any respect for anyone that carries themselves like this:
http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/03/audio-ja ... -beck.html
Youtube video is at link
Below, THR's must-listen audio from Alex Ben Block's interview with James Cameron in which the director discusses the right-wing response to "Avatar's" environmental message and repeatedly slams Glenn Beck.
Cameron calls Beck a "f#$%ing @$$****" and says that global warming deniers have "got their head so deeply up their *** I'm not sure they could hear me." And that's just Cameron getting started.
The Fox News host plans to address THR's Cameron interview on his show tonight.
And I'm sure he did and I'm sure Beck's response was far more classy and gracious than what this was, regardless of political beliefs or views on any of this. I'd bet the farm on it.
Here's a part that goes back to something else that some of us have been saying about this movie since it came out.
From the same article:
What had been just another Fox Home Video junket on Tuesday in West Hollywood became more interesting when Cameron was asked what he thinks the conservative reaction will be to the video's environmentally themed promotion on Earth Day.
Cameron was sitting at a table with half a dozen journalists speaking on the record when he blasted those who deny that global warming is a problem, and in particular Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck, on whose show he had appeared. Cameron clearly felt strongly about the attacks on the environmental and political themes in his movie, which he said he put in purposely, and the need for everyone to face the serious worldwide environmental crisis facing us and generations to come, including his own children.
That's called propoganda. I rest my case and so should you, Andy.
Why so angry? Why so defensive? If you're really so confident that you're in the right and the facts are on your side why does it come to this? Hmmm...
The messages in Avatar are so heavy handed and obvious at times you can't miss it. It's a turn off quite frankly. It got in my way of enjoying the film sometimes. I just got tired of it after a point.
This is the same James Cameron that openly bragged in Entertainment Weekly a couple of months back along these lines:
http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2010/01/1 ... #more-5646
and many other links. It was page 35 of whatever that month's issue was.
EW: “Avatar” is the perfect eco-terrorism recruiting tool.”
JC: Good, good. I like that one. I consider that a positive review. I believe in ecoterrorism.”
Take James Cameron at his word about what his movie really is and what it's all about. I do. He's obviously very proud, deliberate, and defensive.
At best, this is nutjob material when people talk like this.
I'm just sick of politics and propoganda masquerading as entertainment. Any of it. All of it. I'm tired of lack of civility. People can't see things differently and discuss it with civility. This is what you get.
I'm tired of all of it.
I liked Avatar well enough for what it was...even though I think you're left with very little without the great special effects...but the messages in that thing are so heavy handed and rammed down the audiences' throat and the more I see and hear from Cameron himself the more of a bad taste I'm left with in my mouth. It taints everything after a point.
The only kind thing I can say about him is that he's a brilliant film maker. That's it.
