James Cameron says that Halo fans need to shut up about Avatar

[Steelfists]

Halo fans need to shut up in general.

OH NOES. HOW CONTRAVERSIAL.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Can you guys differentiate between Halo Fans and fanboys? Some of us are not as stupid to be part of the latter and would appreciate that =)

Thanks

Dude, we really need more fanboys to be like you Halo Fans and we can differentiate between the two it's just....too many fanboys are always ruining it for the lulz or whatever issues they have.

 

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

Ummmmm......... The Hornet was what Cameron copied from Halo and that was never in Aliens.

Also Avatar sucked, so shut up James.

avatar didnt suck. besides, ever seen aliens? that ship the marines flew in looks exactly like a pelican from halo. maybe you suck

The story was totally ripped off, the ending was the biggest bullshit win in the history of bullshit wins, the Na'vi were so dam good that there was no development, the humans were so laughably evil that I was giggling through the whole movie, the Na'vi girl acted like a twelve year old having a hissy fit and in some ways the colonel was right. Jake turned hid back on his planet and his entire race because he got some alien tail.
I will admit that the CGI and 3D was amazing and that while I may have overstated that it sucked, it wasn't THAT good.

P.S. I love aliens and while I agree that the Pelican is completely ripped off, the Hornet belongs to Halo. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Avatar Hornet, but it was copied.

 

[sirkai007]

Did anyone play Empire Earth? The Sea King II chopper has a similar lift rotor system. HALO COPIED EMPIRE EARTH!!!!

The Hornets and the Samsons don't even look that much alike other than the tandem lift rotors.

Halo fans, you need a new hobby. I think self castration would be a wise use of your time.

 

[Fwee]

Maybe Cameron just wanted Halo fans to shut up in general?

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

It's the space marines right because anything with space marines is a halo rip off right? Even if space marines came before halo.

Maybe Cameron just wanted Halo fans to shut up in general?

Who doesn't want that?

 

[Awexsome]

I'm a huge Halo fan and the only thing I similarity I drew while watching the movie was that the Human's main dual-blade gunships looked like Hornets. Other than that I didn't notice anything else because I was watching an awesome movie.

 

[Chewster]

Not to defend fanboys of any kind (much less the Halo ones) but who gives a fuck what James Cameron thinks? His films are ham-handed and often bland and he stopped being relevant the second he released the second Terminator.

also terminator 2 is easily the best in the terminator series

he also made true lies and then he went off after titanic and done his documentry stuff which is his personal choice not a your movies suck type thing

but im gonna guess your a huge michael Bay fan and he hasnt been relevant this decade in any form sure he had transformers which are basically giant pieces of action CRAP

My my. Such thin skins some people have. I'll do my best to avoid starting some sort of idiotically misguided flame war, but no promises.

No, I am most certainly not a Michal Bay fan, huge or otherwise. The man makes universally bad films, and to be perfectly frank, they aren't even useful as mindless action fun since most of them are nigh incoherent, unless you suffer from some sort of hyperactive behaviour disorder. Even then I have my doubts. And really, the money he uses to make these bad films could easily be re-routed to do something noble like say, fund cancer research but I somehow doubt that will ever happen. I do appreciate the assumptions though.

And Terminator 2, while it is interesting to see how it has managed to hold up well as an action film today, lacks most (if not all) of the intelligence and innovation of the first, so no, it is not the best in the series, by any stretch.

What's worse than fanboys?

Dogmatic haters.

I agree for the most part, but the two are not always mutually exclusive.

 

[Wigglyman]

OT: Realistically though, neither Avatar or Halo are really original to begin with.

These two sum it up really well for me.

Halo fans are not known for their high intelligence.

 

[willard3]

It just shows how mediocre the visual design for both Halo and Avatar is.

Show us how to do something better, then. Why are they "mediocre?"

(sorry, your post came across strongly as "halo and avatar suck kthxbye")

I don't think they suck, but I don't think they're fantastic either.

The visual design in Avatar didn't feel too dissimilar than that of the commen JRPG.
Technically it was superb, but visually.......meh.

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to get at here. So it's top-of-the-line but not pleasing to the eye? Or something?

 

[smithy1234]

Not to mention that the basic idea of Avatar is basically the same as Pocahantas or Dances With Wolves. It's an old story in a shiny new 3D wrapper. But I don't blame him for criticizing the fanboys; Halo is not the Alpha and Omega of entertainment.

You should watch MovieBob's review on Avatar, he mentions "Dances with Wolves" and I think you'd quite enjoy it due to the fact that noticing that Dances with Wolves has the same basic story as Avatar does not make you observant [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1333-Avatar].

*AHEM anyways, James Cameron shouldn't have to justify himself to a bunch of idiotic Halo fanboys.

Already seen the video, thanks for the pretentiousness.

You're quite welcome good sir.

On another note I just checked out your blog "Music, Pure and Easy", the article you wrote about Brendan Bensons album "My Old, Familiar Friend" was simply excellent. Very well written article.

Cheers.

 

[Nouw]

Wait wait wait wait wait... Halo has a story?!?!

SINCE WHEN?!

http://www.halo-3.org/storyline.html

Owned.

OT: Halo fanboys... If he ripped off anything he used Starship Troopers THE BOOK.

 

[madcap2112]

On another note I just checked out your blog "Music, Pure and Easy", the article you wrote about Brendan Bensons album "My Old, Familiar Friend" was simply excellent. Very well written article.

Cheers.

Why thank you, good sir. It's nice to find someone who'll give me some feedback on my writing, not to mention someone with similar music tastes.

 

[blindthrall]

Halo fans should just shut up, regardless of the topic.

 

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

Ummmmm......... The Hornet was what Cameron copied from Halo and that was never in Aliens.

Also Avatar sucked, so shut up James.

avatar didnt suck. besides, ever seen aliens? that ship the marines flew in looks exactly like a pelican from halo. maybe you suck

The story was totally ripped off, the ending was the biggest bullshit win in the history of bullshit wins, the Na'vi were so dam good that there was no development, the humans were so laughably evil that I was giggling through the whole movie, the Na'vi girl acted like a twelve year old having a hissy fit and in some ways the colonel was right. Jake turned hid back on his planet and his entire race because he got some alien tail.
I will admit that the CGI and 3D was amazing and that while I may have overstated that it sucked, it wasn't THAT good.

P.S. I love aliens and while I agree that the Pelican is completely ripped off, the Hornet belongs to Halo. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Avatar Hornet, but it was copied.

sounds like a personal problem

What do you mean? The story is still horribly ripped off.

 

[NOT WILL]

too be fair the first time I saw the trailor i thought it was halo until i saw the blue elves

 

[madcap2112]

Not to mention that the basic idea of Avatar is basically the same as Pocahantas or Dances With Wolves. It's an old story in a shiny new 3D wrapper. But I don't blame him for criticizing the fanboys; Halo is not the Alpha and Omega of entertainment.

I wouldn't say he ripped of Pocahantas or Dances With Wolves, though. The same story plot has been used many many times. I'd say he had a pretty original story, even if the basic plot wasn't.

Yeah, I'm not saying he ripped it off. I think I heard he said it himself that it's sort of an interpretation of it. Really, I guess I'm saying that it further proves how ignorant the Halo fanboys are about it all.