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Still dodging your original conjecture... you're the one who started spouting nonsense and then making false assumptions. If the best you've got is a rehash of 'can't you just go away?' Then I guess you were just trying to be showy when you were talking about depth. Typical poser.
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That's the fun of it though, we could go the transhumanist route, the McKennian shamanist route, or some kind of Ellulian dive into primitive culture to name but three. Although knowing Jim he'll have something that I couldn't think of in a thousand lifetimes up his sleeves.
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Strange how you keep avoiding your original conjecture, while throwing out ad hominems. And just to be clear - not Randian Objectivism (which is a theory more full of holes than most any I have ever read), but Popperian Epistemology.
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Because people denying objective truths over feelings is the very definition of sanity right? /s
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Looks like we have the good ol' Appeal to ridicule folks. Do I win (again)?
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Box office values are not subjective. Depth can be subjective, but then any discussion on it is meritless nonsense as it cannot be settled by experiment. Now if we use an objective measure of depth, Cameron beats everyone else every time (just like he does at the box office).
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It's an objective fact. Is that hard for you to deal with?
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Please, what objective measure of depth do you suggest we use? Or are you going to fall back on your own personal feelings regarding the topic as 'evidence'?
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Objectively - the box office king. Objectively - the deepest director to have ever lived. Subjectively - Record holder for creating the most lauded movie ever at the Oscars. Subjectively - Tarkovsky said of Terminator "...its vision of the future and the relation between man and its destiny is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art.”. I'd say it was a product of the modern education system, but I think that assumes too much.
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Again, objectively wrong to say that anything created by James Cameron lacks depth.
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Where was Fellini ever mentioned? Furthermore, where do you think we are? This isn't an art house theory forum, it's the box office theory forum. You know, that thing that James Cameron is the (double) King of? And if Cameron's work is so 'cookie cutter' why has no one been able to emulate his success? To those that talk about Cameron's films not having any 'depth' either, the man is objectively the film maker who has the most claim to depth over anyone else on the planet.
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Oh god, I'd love to see what film actually generated the most revenue of all time when you include all revenue streams, has to be some kind of propaganda piece by a state surely?
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Well of course, there's no such thing as a sure thing. I'll hold my hubris until we're after the fact of A2.
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Don't doubt Jim feasby, 3B is the floor.
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And why should it be? If you have to compare one man with the work of an entire multi-billion multinational corporation you already sound insane.
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It's what I find so confusing, it's like people complaining about people playing 'The Jesus Card' on a Christian Theory Forum.
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As long as it's true, which given current conditions is until the heat death of the universe.
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Just wait until Avatar 5 has finished its run... if my predictions are true, first trillion dollar franchise.
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You're the one throwing out the false dichotomies if we're going to play the fallacy game. The brute fact is that James Cameron is the best at making the highest grossing films of all time. What the prize for winning the Summer/Winter game?
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No wonder you're the winter game champ, what was the category? Mental gymnastics?
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I got your point, and of course you're correct in the strictest definition of the word, but I read that you almost felt the humans would be correct in any reaction to the action of the Na'vi in the first movie when you used the term 'revenge'. Apologies for any confusion, I think I misread your tone.
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I guess my question related to the fact that I suppose I'd call myself a fanboy of 'success' or 'the best', and I guess that studying James Cameron is a direct result of that. Trying to categorize oneself is difficult! Esp when the category seems to so ill defined. To begin with I wasn't certain that stating fact was fanboy action though, am I an 'Earth Fanboy' if I remind people that it has the most people of any planet in the universe?
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I thought we were discussing individual sws films, or BP, no one in their right mind would ever question Disney's financial/critical success as an entity.
