By Will Battleship be terrible? Probably. Does it ‘degrade’ cinema? Avatar director James “3D horror films cheapen the medium” Cameron certainly thinks so.
In an interview with German website Spiegel Online, Cameron said “”We have a story crisis…They want to make the Battleship game into a film… This is pure desperation.”He went on to say, “Everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that a film is a brand before it hit theaters. If a brand has been around, Harry Potter for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem. Because unfortunately these franchises are become more ridiculous. Battleship. This degrades the cinema.”
If you described two movies for me, one about humans invading the planet of an alien species with USB dreadlocks (or whatever) and another about aliens attacking a battleship with Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd on it, I’d probably prefer to see the latter. I doubt Battleship is setting out with the intent to win Best Picture, but it could still be a fun time. Hell, The Wizard was basically an hour and a half long movie advertisement for Super Mario Bros. 3 and look how awesome that was!Â
In any…
Will Battleship be terrible? Probably. Does it 'degrade' cinema? Avatar director James "3D horror films cheapen the medium" Cameron certainly thinks so.
In an interview with German website Spiegel Online, Cameron said ""We have a story crisis…They want to make the Battleship game into a film… This is pure desperation."He went on to say, "Everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that a film is a brand before it hit theaters. If a brand has been around, Harry Potter for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem. Because unfortunately these franchises are become more ridiculous. Battleship. This degrades the cinema."
If you described two movies for me, one about humans invading the planet of an alien species with USB dreadlocks (or whatever) and another about aliens attacking a battleship with Alexander Skarsgård on it, I'd probably prefer to see the latter. I doubt Battleship is setting out with the intent to win Best Picture, but it could still be a fun time. Hell, The Wizard was basically an hour and a half long movie advertisement for Super Mario Bros. 3 and look how awesome that was!
In any event, James Cameron needs to sit down, shut up, and have a sense of humor. It's a movie based on a beloved board game. Was little Jimmy deprived as a child? Oh well, at least it won't rip off Ferngully. Also, special thanks to Alex for reminding me about the awful script Cameron wrote for Spider-Man, which can be read here.
[Via Moviefone]