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

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

...the 40K community is pointing out that the whole idea of primitive aliens winning in a war against competent, trained fighters is a fucking absurdity of monumental proportions.

Yes, clearly that's never happened before.

*COUGH*RETURNOFTHEJEDI*COUGH*

Teddy bears are ninjas.

 

[Plurralbles]

... Come on, someone could say that he ripped off of Starcraft if Halo people get to say anything.

Retarded fanboys.

 

[SG Xibalba]

I don't blame him for criticizing the fanboys; Halo is not the Alpha and Omega of entertainment.

Unfortunately the way some people act you'd think it was. *eyeroll*

 

[ToastyTheCommie]

Wait, they're complaining about the style of the air/gunships?

I thought the vehicles in Halo looked like things from Terminator...

the best part of that? james cameron directed the terminator movies. so HALO ripped off HIM

 

[silverleaf81]

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/701803/James-Cameron-Strikes-Back-At-Halo-Fans-Criticizing-Avatar.html

James Cameron recently said in an interview that halo fanboys need to stop trashing his latest movie Avatar. He says that they keep complaining about Avatar being too much like Halo and that he copied the series.

I couldn't have said it any better myself. Cameron has had the idea of Avatar since 1996.

Well, you've gotta remember thay (no offence) xbox live is full of (as Yahtzee would say) a bunch of hooting dick holes...or something like that. Avatar was a very good movie, not EPIC AS EPIC IN WORLD but VERY good. And it took him 10 YEARS TO MAKE IT! So all those Halo whiners need to shut up.

 

[Tri Force95]

Covenant didn't fight with spears and giant lizards. halo fanboy fail.

Agreed, plus Avatar is alot like Pocohantas and Dancs with Wolves, so those fans could probably tell him to stfu. Just sayin.

 

[duchaked]

What's worse than fanboys?

Dogmatic haters.

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

They are rarely, if ever, mutually exclusive.

I still cannot fathom where all the Halo hate comes from in gamer circles.

I almost feel sorry for Bungie, but then I look at thier earnings from the franchise and take a wild guess that they really, really don't give a shit what some random, pissed off internet nerds think.

psh yeah...still, all this kinda bites, is there really no respect and dignity anywhere? c'mon Escapist members, this isn't YouTube...please? lol

Usually when the word 'Halo' is mentioned on any forum, a strange phenomenon occurs where usually sane and polite people turn into inarticulate, raging idiots.

This applies both for the 'loves Halo' camp and the 'hates Halo' camp.

MW2 is stealing its thunder a bit now though.

yes, my friend, I have noticed MW2 taking over the mercury-injection gun for the time being hahaha

yeah well those in the 'hates [insert popular/great game]' camp tend to be older and should know better =/

 

[Saucycarpdog]

I'm surprised how everyone here quickly dismisses and insults the fanboys when there is one question: Who the hell said that Halo fans were criticizing Avatar? I sure have never seen or read anything like that.

Sounds completely made up.

I swear I have NEVER heard any comparisons to Halo...until now

(now the drop ships from Aliens maybe ish but Halo's not the only one to have been inspired by that movie...just every sci-fi game and movie since lol)

Well, I have been seeing people saying this in mostly blogs and forum threads. This leads me to believe Cameron is getting emails or hate on his website about the subject.

 

[Blue_vision]

The only inspiration from Halo might be the chopper-dropship things.

Those chopper dropship things have been around in science fiction for ages (and the US military for about 2 decades.) Just play Alpha Centauri to see a very early video game version of them (I think they're late in the game unit parts called anti-grav movement systems or something.)

 

[Spiner909]

Avatar > Halo

So Cameron can do w/ever he wants.

 

[Zyst]

Avatar is just a futuristic Pocahontas with lizards and 4 feet tall blue people, who cares if the helicopters were similar, WHO-GIVES-A-SHIT, the movie is made, it was fucking awesome and your opinion doesn't matter anyway.

 

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

"snip"

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

ripped off of what?

Do you want the list?
Off the top of my head,

Pocahontas.
Dances with Wolves.
Atlantis.
Battle for Terra.

And many others.

Also, don't use the "But Cameron had this idea a long time ago excuse." Those other movies were made first.

actually NO i didnt want the list.
actually, cameron's influence for the movie was the iraqi war and the native americans.

Well then he should have done more research. The story has been done so many times before that it's become dull, weather it was ripped or not. Also, if it was based of Iraq and the Native Americans, he should have added what both of those had. TWO SIDES! No real story is black and white, and any movie or game that is, is hardly ever good. I mean, Bioshock had it's ending get ridiculed because it was too black and white. Avatar was the worst victim of the Black and White syndrome.

so youre saying it was cool that the white man went into north america and pretty much wiped out the native americans and destroyed their culture although they had no right?
sounds like somebody is a little to defensive.. or closed minded of their human race.
the movie potrayed big companies pretty accurately. all they care about is money and wouldnt even think twice about destroying a rainforest or two in the process.
i mean, you can try and justify what the early americans did during the american indian wars and after that when land that they had no right to.

No, I agree that what the Europeans did to the Native Americans was terrible, the thing is, the Native Americans had their share of killing and looting and stealing among themselves. I agree that it did the companies correctly, but the Na'vi were just too good.
They had NO faults! And the colonel really was comedic evil.

I think my point is, no race is perfect and the Avatar basically shot that in the face and said "You what? These guys ARE perfect. Suck it."

not exactly, the na'vi werent perfect, they were chucking fucking spears at helicopters

I WAS FROZEN TODAAAAY!!!!!!!!!

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I WAS FROZEN TODAAAAY!!!!!!!!!

*sigh* Right after I make a post in the "Things you have not been able to say yet but wish you had" thread regarding this exact statement, I come directly here and see someone else do it. On top of that, it was done flawlessly....*grumble grumble*

 

[MiracleOfSound]

What's worse than fanboys?

Dogmatic haters.

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

They are rarely, if ever, mutually exclusive.

I still cannot fathom where all the Halo hate comes from in gamer circles.

I almost feel sorry for Bungie, but then I look at thier earnings from the franchise and take a wild guess that they really, really don't give a shit what some random, pissed off internet nerds think.

psh yeah...still, all this kinda bites, is there really no respect and dignity anywhere? c'mon Escapist members, this isn't YouTube...please? lol

Usually when the word 'Halo' is mentioned on any forum, a strange phenomenon occurs where usually sane and polite people turn into inarticulate, raging idiots.

This applies both for the 'loves Halo' camp and the 'hates Halo' camp.

MW2 is stealing its thunder a bit now though.

yes, my friend, I have noticed MW2 taking over the mercury-injection gun for the time being hahaha

yeah well those in the 'hates [insert popular/great game]' camp tend to be older and should know better =/

Hah... Halo hatred transcemds age, gender, even species. My dog hates Halo.

Personally I think it's a fun game with solid mechanics and some impressive enemy AI.

 

[rossatdi]

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/701803/James-Cameron-Strikes-Back-At-Halo-Fans-Criticizing-Avatar.html

James Cameron recently said in an interview that halo fanboys need to stop trashing his latest movie Avatar. He says that they keep complaining about Avatar being too much like Halo and that he copied the series.

I couldn't have said it any better myself. Cameron has had the idea of Avatar since 1996.

I don't particularly like Halo and if James Cameron has taken 14 years to come up with Generic Sci-Fi Plot 2 then he's lying or a bad ideas man. Seriously, Enlightened Savages vs Corporate Humans - they could have at least tried to write some complexity /character/originality into it.

 

[Sir Bob]

Even though Avatar didn't have the best story out there, to compare it to Halo on a large scale seems rather far fetched. But hey, we all know how the fanboys react when you even look at their precious Masterchief..

 

[Rolling Thunder]

...the 40K community is pointing out that the whole idea of primitive aliens winning in a war against competent, trained fighters is a fucking absurdity of monumental proportions.

Yes, clearly that's never happened before.

*COUGH*RETURNOFTHEJEDI*COUGH*

'scuse me.

I assure you sir, Star Wars is also held in much contempt.