[quote=Iroquois][quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]Ok. I'm sold. Solely because the guy used my favorite T2 line in his vid.

I was being cheeky a bit about Cameron. It seems like he has always had all the money to make his movie. Maybe McT did as well.

Todd.[/font][/quote]

Even when he didn't, he usually made it work for him.T1 looks pretty janky and dated by today's standards but the behind-the-scenes shows just how much effort he and his collaborators put into making them so tangible. (Then again, he did do effects work on a little film called [i]Escape From New York[/i] so he had some practical experience in that area).[/quote]

[quote=Cynema De Bergerac][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_yQHN2K6g[/url][/quote]

[quote=The Rodent][quote=Iroquois][quote=The Rodent]So like, Thor Ragnarok...

Thor, God Of Thunder, has Lightning powers... and is incapacitated by a taser.

:confusedwhite:[/quote]

Was this while he was banished in the first movie and still had to prove himself worthy of regaining his powers?[/quote]

Nah, he ends up captured by Grandmaster and has a device stuck on his neck that electrocutes him.[/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]That was a good video. Stuff like the action movement "left to right, left to right" never occurs to me. "Bad guys facing right", "Good guy facing left".

I also forgot about True Lies. That movie is great. Regardless of any internet speculation about JLC.[/font][/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]The guy makes a good point about Cameron using "real camera angles" in his cgi fest.

This is what I was thinking in critiquing Del Toro and Jackson in the Hellboy thread. The excess is where things start to break.[/font][/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]But! I can never forgive him for the T2 rear window car scene. Like, is that where you ran out of money? :nope:[/font][/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]Ok. I'm sold. Solely because the guy used my favorite T2 line in his vid.

I was being cheeky a bit about Cameron. It seems like he has always had all the money to make his movie. Maybe McT did as well.

Todd.[/font][/quote]

[quote=Iroquois][quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]Let us not forget McTiernan. The guy may be the greatest action director of all-time.

Don't give me that James Cameron bourgeois.[/font][/quote]

I'll have to reserve total judgment until I see more of McTiernan's filmography (only seen five of his films so far), but it seems like Cameron has a better batting average. McTiernan's kind of got that Ridley Scott thing going on where he did a couple of classics but hasn't really matched them in the decades since.

This is a solid (if not entirely agreeable) case for Cameron being the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPYz9fSQZ4[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois][quote=doubledenim][quote=John McClane]Holy ****, [i]Die Hard[/i] is gunna be shown at my local theater this Sunday. :D[/quote]

[font=century gothic]Is it too early to spark up the Christmas movie debate? Or should I say, "The best way to tell if someone is completely ridiculous with no concept of what defines a movie genre."[/font][/quote]

It will always be too early.[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois][quote=Violetlvr]Sean Penn or Chris Penn?[/quote]

Kal.[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois][quote=The Rodent]So like, Thor Ragnarok...

Thor, God Of Thunder, has Lightning powers... and is incapacitated by a taser.

:confusedwhite:[/quote]

Was this while he was banished in the first movie and still had to prove himself worthy of regaining his powers?[/quote]