Cameron enter in the short list of 7th art genius

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2009)

I'm not a fan of James Cameron.
He did Aliens 2, but Aliens 1 - the original made by Ridley Scott - was by far the best of the series. The Alien 2 was a big battle against Aliens with as only spot the fight of 2 Mother for the little kid (the Alien Queen against Ripley). Otherwise some good special effects at this time but no real innovation. I was disappointed.
OK he did Abyss, and I remember that everyone was saying WOW about the creature made in water. Now it is just a boring movie to see, all the special Fx looks dated and the script has no originality... disappointing.
He did True Lies... Mrs and Mr Smith is just 1000 times better. Have you seen True Lies lately? Arnold sucks, and the movie is a classic Hollywood crappy action movie... B style. Really disappointing...
Well he did Titanic, a beautiful romance with a good scripts that surfs on the publics feelings like a Dolphin, helped by the Celine Dion song and James Horner's excellent score. I loved this movie and that's the only movie I consider to be a Masterpiece in James Cameron's career.
Why everyone thinks that Cameron created the Alien series (he did only the Number 2), or the Terminator series (he did only the number 2 as well).
James Cameron has been always the Number 2, the sequel specialist, or a blockbuster maker with no originality.
Where is the magic in Avatar? I didn't cried like in Titanic, I didn't worried about the kid like in Alien 2, I didn't liked the script like in Terminator 2...
But if you think about what this movie represents, after seeing it in 3D, and in regard of what the cinema is in 2009, this movie is as powerful as was the 9th Beethoven Symphony when it was first played in Vienna in 1824.
There are a lot of good movies, but how many movies are such a step in the future, such a visual firework, such an emotional roller-coaster and such a beautiful soul and message, connected so deeply with our time all together? James Cameron put in this movie all the best of what we can expect from the cinema industry in 2009, but 20 years ahead of his time.
That's in my opinion the mark of a genius, a visionary like Orson Wells or Jules Verne. He absorbed our time and made a beautiful tale that touch your heart, while using the most advanced technology. His mastering as a director is unbelievable. At the end, when the 3d and the 2d meets together, you take a slap in the face like never before.
Cameron is at the top of his art and being a witness of this is an extraordinary feeling.
Avatar is unique, an impossible to describe experience, and a milestone for the centuries to come...