I haven’t seen Avatar, so I won’t talk about it. However, Terminator (the entire franchise) is such an overrated mess. The time-travel logic is absurd . From the “We can only send organic material” handwave as to why they don’t just send a bomb back to blow up John or Sarah Connor, to the “I just sent my father back in time to impregnate my mother” paradox.

True Lies is a steaming pile of crap. It’s absolutely absurd in every sense. I can accept fantastic heroic action, but I can’t accept people acting in ways that are just illogical or unreasonable. Between Arnold’s scenery chewing, Tom Arnold’s…well…just Tom Arnold, and the complete mess of a plot, it’s a toss up as to what really killed it. It’s like a trifecta of misery.

Now that the worst offenders are out of the way, Dark Angel wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. It was forgettable. First Blood Part II is a bad movie, not a train wreck, but certainly not a clever or smart movie.

So what’s left is The Abyss and Strange Days. I haven’t seen The Abyss, but Strange Days is fairly good. It’s well structured, the characters act in logical ways, the movies internal logic is coherent, and there aren’t too many gaping plot holes. So basically, there’s one fairly good movie, and two that I haven’t seen. Sorry, that’s not really a great inducement to spend the 20 bucks to go see Avatar.

Cameron even directed the second season finale in a last ditch effort to save the show, which had gotten so far from its original premise that I think it alienated the audience.

The filming of the finale, for wrestling trivia buffs, is where guest star Lita recieved the injury that would eventually destroy her wrestling career.

You can argue the science of that moment. You can argue the comparative qualities of the rest of his movies, but it won’t matter because the internet’s memory is only as far as last stupid thing you’ve done, ergo Superman’s a dick, Obama’s not an ‘merican citizen and James Cameron drools on a camera.

Was it not Nietzsche that said “If you look long enough at the People Of Walmart, that the People Of Walmart begin to look back through you”?

;p

It is not a Deus Ex Machina in the connotative sense, meaning a happy ending that depends entirely on authorial fiat and fortuitous coincidence, instead of elements of the plot established over the course of the narrative. If you say in Act One, “All these animals are linked by a worldwide communications network,” and you say in Act Two, “The hero sends out a distress signal through the worldwide communications network,” then it is not a Deus Ex Machina when he’s rescued by all those animals in Act Three. It’s just the end of the story.

But when people ask me how it was, when I say how the story wasn’t that good, people generally disagree with me, saying they liked the story. I think maybe saying the story wasn’t good isn’t the right way to express it. It was at least pretty solid story, I guess it’s a story that has been told a few different ways before, without bringing anything particularly new to the type of story. Other than some pretty groundbreaking SFX.

Maybe Transformers 2 just set the bar so low for what people expect from a big action movie that they are ecstatic just to get something that resembles a cohesive plotline.

Unless you meant the Terminator TV show that he was writing? I know it only lasted two seasons but was that really considered a flop?

Titanic was TWELVE years ago. I’m sorry but its always a case of what have you done recently and James Cameron’s previous film, Terminator 3, was a disaster domestically.

The project he did this one for is Battle Angel.