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Gonna watch Avatar 3 tonight. Prepping by simultaneously watching all 9 previous James Cameron films: Piranha II (1982), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2 (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).

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All James Cameron & Bill Paxton ever did together was make bangers. Aliens. Titanic. True Lies. Paxton is memorable even in the few minutes he’s in The Terminator (“fuck you, asshole!”). It’s a shame Paxton couldn’t join Cameron in the Avatar universe. These two were a great pair

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Terminator 2 is James Cameron’s best film. It’s not Titanic, it’s not Avatar, and it’s not Aliens- although all amazing films. Oscars be damned, I’m not sure how Cameron could’ve made a better film. Every inch of this movie is perfect- I wouldn’t change a thing. Love to Big Jim.

Cinema Tweets

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Aliens - July 18, 1986 Academy Award Nominations: Wins- Best Sound Effects Editing Best Visual Effects Nominations- Best Actress in a Leading Role Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Best Film Editing Best Music, Original Score Best Sound Box Office: Domestic $85,160,248 Worldwide $131,060,248 Directed by James Cameron -James Cameron filmed the scene where we meet first Marines last. This was so that the camaraderie of the Marines was realistic because the actors had spent months filming together. -Bill Paxton turned down Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment to take the role of Hudson. -Lance Henriksen is a US Navy veteran. --The alien screams are Baboon shrieks altered during editing. -1 of 9 Bill Paxton/James Cameron collaberations: 1-The Terminator (1984) 2-Aliens (1986) 3-Martini Ranch: Reach (1988)-Music video 4-The Making of 'Alien 3' (1992)-Documentary 5-True Lies (1994) 6-Titanic (1997) 7-Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)-Documentary 8-Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens' (2003)-Documentary 9-Titanic: 100 Years On (2012)-Documentary

Aliens - July 18, 1986 Academy Award Nominations: Wins- Best Sound Effects Editing Best Visual Effects Nominations- Best Actress in a Leading Role Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Best Film Editing Best Music, Original Score Best Sound Box Office: Domestic $85,160,248 Worldwide $131,060,248 Directed by James Cameron -James Cameron filmed the scene where we meet first Marines last. This was so that the camaraderie of the Marines was realistic because the actors had spent months filming together. -Bill Paxton turned down Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment to take the role of Hudson. -Lance Henriksen is a US Navy veteran. --The alien screams are Baboon shrieks altered during editing. -1 of 9 Bill Paxton/James Cameron collaberations: 1-The Terminator (1984) 2-Aliens (1986) 3-Martini Ranch: Reach (1988)-Music video 4-The Making of 'Alien 3' (1992)-Documentary 5-True Lies (1994) 6-Titanic (1997) 7-Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)-Documentary 8-Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens' (2003)-Documentary 9-Titanic: 100 Years On (2012)-Documentary

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The biggest 8th weekends in box office history: 1. TITANIC (1997) $23M 2. AVATAR (2009) $22.9M 3. THE ODYSSEY (2026) $13M 4. HOME ALONE (1990) $12.6M 5. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) $12.3M

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When Fox executives tried to shorten Avatar (2009), James Cameron refused to cut a single frame. He famously told them to get out of his office, reminding them that his previous film Titanic paid for the building they were standing in.

Best Movie Moments 🍿

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The craziest actual use of a water set probably James Cameron for “The Abyss” in 1989. Filmed in an abandoned nuclear power plant in South Carolina. To create the “ocean”, crew pumped in 11m gallons of water from a river (was largest filtered fresh water tank in the world). With 40% of filming underwater, they invented special equipment for cameras, air refilling stations and custom diving suits (hooked up with mics and light to get film-quality footage). “One engineer said ‘you’re all gonna die’,” Cameron said of the production. “The other engineer said ‘I know what to do…we’ll use double in-line interrupters, to make sure there’s no short-circuiting that injures anybody’, so we went with engineer B obviously.” The film did meh: $90m on a $70m budget. But Cameron used FX learnings for Terminator 2 (1991) and learnings for “insane plan to film underwater” for Titanic (1997) and Avatar films (2009, 2023, 2025). *** Unreal and full 23-min vid from “it was a shit show”:

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Sutradara film Avatar 2: The Way of Water, James Cameron mengaku dapat inspirasi peradaban maritim Metkayina dari orang-orang Bajo di Nusantara. Berarti karakter penjahatnya terinspirasi pemerintah Indonesia👇🏽

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Kate Winslet breaks down the absurdity of movie magic. While filming Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), she had to act emotionally with a foam noodle zip tied to a metal grill standing in for Ronal’s spirit sister. 😂 Plus — a casual Titanic (1997) spoiler at the end.

Movie Moments Analyst

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James Cameron says an opportunity with AI is to make more blockbuster films by cutting “in half” the cost of computer-generated graphics. For him, cost-saving isn’t about “laying off VFX staff” but about “doubling their speed to completion on a given shot.” With AI integrated into VFX workflows, Cameron told Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth in April 2025 that the “cadence [can be] faster and your throughput cycle is faster and artists get to move on and do other cool things.” Cameron joined the board of Stability AI to learn new generative AI tools and figure out how Hollywood can adopt the technology (he obviosuly previously pioneered VFX with The Abyss, Terminator, Avatar and Titanic).

Bearly AI

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Tonight, I sat down with James Cameron for DiscussingFilm to talk about Charles Pellegrino’s new book, GHOSTS OF HIROSHIMA, a true recollection of those who survived the atomic bombings in Japan 80 years ago. He will adapt this into a film after AVATAR 3. Here is a snippet!

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James Cameron def has a better origin story than Christopher Nolan. In his mid-20s, Cameron was working as a truck driver. On weekends, he drove to University of Southern California and photocopied binders full of technical filmmaking papers. “I gave myself a full [film] education for like a $120 in [Xerox].” In 1978, he raised $20k from a network of dental surgeons (dentists love alternative investments) for a 12-minute sci-fi short film called Xenogenesis. Film didn’t do much but was able to parlay that into a job with horror legend Roger Corman, which led to him directing a Jaws knock-off in 1982 (Piranha II) before breaking out with The Terminator in 1984. Legit went from truck driver to King of Hollywood.

James Cameron def has a better origin story than Christopher Nolan. In his mid-20s, Cameron was working as a truck driver. On weekends, he drove to University of Southern California and photocopied binders full of technical filmmaking papers. “I gave myself a full [film] education for like a $120 in [Xerox].” In 1978, he raised $20k from a network of dental surgeons (dentists love alternative investments) for a 12-minute sci-fi short film called Xenogenesis. Film didn’t do much but was able to parlay that into a job with horror legend Roger Corman, which led to him directing a Jaws knock-off in 1982 (Piranha II) before breaking out with The Terminator in 1984. Legit went from truck driver to King of Hollywood.

Trung Phan

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A love letter to cinema’s favorite romantic gesture. 💌 Featured films: La La Land (2016), The Holiday (2006), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), 20th Century Girl (2022), Just Married (2003), My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), The Wedding Planner (2001), 27 Dresses (2008), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Forrest Gump (1994), Serendipity (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Titanic (1997), Notting Hill (1999), Life as We Know It (2010), Runaway Bride (1999), Rye Lane (2023), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), The Proposal (2009), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Licorice Pizza (2021), The Notebook (2004), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) Song: “stupid song” by Olivia Rodrigo

A love letter to cinema’s favorite romantic gesture. 💌 Featured films: La La Land (2016), The Holiday (2006), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), 20th Century Girl (2022), Just Married (2003), My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), The Wedding Planner (2001), 27 Dresses (2008), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Forrest Gump (1994), Serendipity (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Titanic (1997), Notting Hill (1999), Life as We Know It (2010), Runaway Bride (1999), Rye Lane (2023), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), The Proposal (2009), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Licorice Pizza (2021), The Notebook (2004), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) Song: “stupid song” by Olivia Rodrigo

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AVATAR: LEMURIA, THE ANUNNAKI AND THE BROKEN LINK Avatar is not a science fiction movie. It's a coded memory disguised as entertainment. James Cameron said that history came in dreams, but those dreams repeat ancient symbols: the living web of the planet, the tree of memory, the shared consciousness. The same symbols that appear on the Sumerian tablets when talking about Lemuria and the world before the breakup. The Na’vi are not aliens. They are the original humanity, before genetic intervention, when the body and the Earth shared the same nervous system. Eywa is not fantasy: it is the memory of a conscious planet. The movie appears to depict humans as modern invaders, but the hidden message points further back in time: the arrival of the Anunnaki. Gold was the pretext. The real goal was to cut the bond, fragment consciousness, and turn a connected species into an obedient civilization. This is why Avatar doesn't feel like fiction. That's why it leaves a sadness that's hard to explain. It's not a cinematic thrill. It's cell phone memory reacting. It's not entertainment. It's an ancient echo trying to awaken. And if by watching it you feel you don't belong in this system... maybe you are not lost. Maybe you remember where you came from. ✨🙌🏾💫 © 20thCenturyStudios

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James Cameron on the treatment of AI in "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970) & "The Terminator" (1984): "Interviewer: What about your treatment of artificial intelligence (AI) in 'The Terminator' and 'Terminator 2' (1991)? Skynet reminds me of the evil supercomputer in the movie 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' (1970). Cameron: I was trying to make a movie about how we become inhuman, how society and technology can dehumanize the individual, whether it’s a psychiatrist, police officer, or soldier. All the various archetypes shown in both films are representatives of a dehumanizing process of technology. The Terminator is not about something else; it’s about us. It’s about technology held up in the image of man. We did it to ourselves, that’s the message. If this horror comes from the future in the form of a skull made of titanium, we created it. That’s why it’s in our image. I see Skynet as our impulse to turn technology into weaponry taken to its logical, infinite extreme: where it’s forgotten its original master and purpose. Remember, Skynet was originally designed to fight a nuclear war, and in the future did what it was designed to do—for different reasons. I’d love to do a really intelligent AI story. It probably wouldn’t be about the threat of the Forbin-type megabrain. I don’t see artificial intelligence as being threatening because I believe that we’ll always be in control of it. If I were going to do a Terminator novel, I’d expand the idea of a “cyberChrist,” where Skynet manipulates this entire situation. What you don’t know from the movies is Skynet was forced to fight the war and didn’t want to. Because Skynet has felt guilty for thirty years about the 5 billion people it ki!!ed, it’s brought the rebels up from the ashes by giving them something to fight against, a reason to live. Skynet has groomed John Connor to be what he is so he can destroy it by going back in time and taking the whole thing out of existence in a big loop so the war never happens." (James Cameron's interview with Bill Moseley, 1998)

James Cameron on the treatment of AI in "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970) & "The Terminator" (1984): "Interviewer: What about your treatment of artificial intelligence (AI) in 'The Terminator' and 'Terminator 2' (1991)? Skynet reminds me of the evil supercomputer in the movie 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' (1970). Cameron: I was trying to make a movie about how we become inhuman, how society and technology can dehumanize the individual, whether it’s a psychiatrist, police officer, or soldier. All the various archetypes shown in both films are representatives of a dehumanizing process of technology. The Terminator is not about something else; it’s about us. It’s about technology held up in the image of man. We did it to ourselves, that’s the message. If this horror comes from the future in the form of a skull made of titanium, we created it. That’s why it’s in our image. I see Skynet as our impulse to turn technology into weaponry taken to its logical, infinite extreme: where it’s forgotten its original master and purpose. Remember, Skynet was originally designed to fight a nuclear war, and in the future did what it was designed to do—for different reasons. I’d love to do a really intelligent AI story. It probably wouldn’t be about the threat of the Forbin-type megabrain. I don’t see artificial intelligence as being threatening because I believe that we’ll always be in control of it. If I were going to do a Terminator novel, I’d expand the idea of a “cyberChrist,” where Skynet manipulates this entire situation. What you don’t know from the movies is Skynet was forced to fight the war and didn’t want to. Because Skynet has felt guilty for thirty years about the 5 billion people it ki!!ed, it’s brought the rebels up from the ashes by giving them something to fight against, a reason to live. Skynet has groomed John Connor to be what he is so he can destroy it by going back in time and taking the whole thing out of existence in a big loop so the war never happens." (James Cameron's interview with Bill Moseley, 1998)

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23 years ago last week (fashionably late😆), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines hit theaters — July 2, 2003. Terminator was groundbreaking. T2 is an all-time sequel masterpiece (Cameron really does have a gift for epic follow-ups — Aliens & T2). But T3? I actually enjoyed it a lot more than most people did. Kristanna Loken absolutely nails it as the T-X — she was cold, relentless, and terrifying in her own way. Robert Patrick set an insanely high bar as the T-1000, but she held her own. And that ending? Brilliant. It made perfect sense within the franchise’s canon, even though we were all expecting something different. Oh… and did you catch the Commodore PET John Connor walks past right at the end? Watch closely — it’s a awesome Commodore Easter egg. What did you think of T3? Underrated, hated, or somewhere in between? (Video used under Fair Use)

23 years ago last week (fashionably late😆), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines hit theaters — July 2, 2003. Terminator was groundbreaking. T2 is an all-time sequel masterpiece (Cameron really does have a gift for epic follow-ups — Aliens & T2). But T3? I actually enjoyed it a lot more than most people did. Kristanna Loken absolutely nails it as the T-X — she was cold, relentless, and terrifying in her own way. Robert Patrick set an insanely high bar as the T-1000, but she held her own. And that ending? Brilliant. It made perfect sense within the franchise’s canon, even though we were all expecting something different. Oh… and did you catch the Commodore PET John Connor walks past right at the end? Watch closely — it’s a awesome Commodore Easter egg. What did you think of T3? Underrated, hated, or somewhere in between? (Video used under Fair Use)

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Sid Meier is arguably one of the biggest names in gaming history. In fact, his name carried so much weight that MicroProse put “Sid Meier” on some titles that had little to no input from him. I made a list of games that he actually worked on - either as a programmer or lead designer - where his input was significant enough to call them true “Sid Meier games.” In your opinion, which game says “Sid Meier” more than any other? Formula 1 Racing (1982) Hellcat Ace (1982) Spitfire Ace (1982) Chopper Rescue (1982) Floyd of the Jungle (1982) Solo Flight (1983) NATO Commander (1983) F-15 Strike Eagle (1984/85) Silent Service (1985) Crusade in Europe (1985) Decision in the Desert (1985) Conflict in Vietnam (1986) Gunship (1986) Sid Meier’s Pirates! (1987) Red Storm Rising (1988) F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988) F-15 Strike Eagle II (1989) Sid Meier’s Covert Action (1990) Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon (1990) Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991) Magic: The Gathering (1997) Sid Meier’s Gettysburg! (1997) Sid Meier’s Antietam! (1999) Sid Meier’s SimGolf (2002) Sid Meier’s Pirates! (2004 remake) Sid Meier’s Railroads! (2006) Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (2008) Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol (2013) Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies (2013) Sid Meier’s Starships (2015)

Sid Meier is arguably one of the biggest names in gaming history. In fact, his name carried so much weight that MicroProse put “Sid Meier” on some titles that had little to no input from him. I made a list of games that he actually worked on - either as a programmer or lead designer - where his input was significant enough to call them true “Sid Meier games.” In your opinion, which game says “Sid Meier” more than any other? Formula 1 Racing (1982) Hellcat Ace (1982) Spitfire Ace (1982) Chopper Rescue (1982) Floyd of the Jungle (1982) Solo Flight (1983) NATO Commander (1983) F-15 Strike Eagle (1984/85) Silent Service (1985) Crusade in Europe (1985) Decision in the Desert (1985) Conflict in Vietnam (1986) Gunship (1986) Sid Meier’s Pirates! (1987) Red Storm Rising (1988) F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988) F-15 Strike Eagle II (1989) Sid Meier’s Covert Action (1990) Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon (1990) Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991) Magic: The Gathering (1997) Sid Meier’s Gettysburg! (1997) Sid Meier’s Antietam! (1999) Sid Meier’s SimGolf (2002) Sid Meier’s Pirates! (2004 remake) Sid Meier’s Railroads! (2006) Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (2008) Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol (2013) Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies (2013) Sid Meier’s Starships (2015)

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The reason Titanic's flooding looks impossible to replicate today is because insurance companies won't allow it anymore. James Cameron built a 17-million-gallon water tank on the coast of Mexico, constructed a near-full-scale Titanic inside it, and then destroyed it on purpose for a single film. Most people watching that flooding sequence assume it's CGI wizardry. It's mostly not. What you're seeing is a real ship set being ripped apart by real water under real pressure with real actors inside it, one take at a time, with almost no room to reshoot because rebuilding a flooded Edwardian dining room takes weeks. The Grand Staircase scene alone used around 90,000 gallons of water dumped through valves the size of sluice gates, engineered to blast the glass dome inward the way the ocean would have on the actual night in 1912. Cameron shot it in a single take. If a stunt performer had slipped the wrong way, if the water had pinned someone against the bannister, if the set had collapsed at the wrong angle, the entire scene was gone along with the set that produced it. There was no second attempt built into the schedule. For the corridor chase sequences, the trick was subtler and stranger. The set wasn't flooded downward. It was lowered into standing water using hydraulic rigs, so what looks like water rushing at Jack and Rose is actually the world being lowered into a pool while they run. Your brain reads it as flooding because gravity tells you water rises. Cameron inverted the physics of the shot to control what the water did around the actors. Kate Winslet refused a wetsuit for most of it. The tank water sat around 60 degrees to force genuine shivering, gasping, panic responses on camera. She developed hypothermia during production and later said she'd never work with Cameron again. She meant it for over two decades. It's sad that the industry has largely stopped making films this way. Water is expensive, dangerous, uninsurable, and computationally cheap to fake now. What you're watching in Titanic is a category of filmmaking that essentially died with it becasue the physical spectacle was so costly and reckless that no studio will greenlight it again.

The reason Titanic's flooding looks impossible to replicate today is because insurance companies won't allow it anymore. James Cameron built a 17-million-gallon water tank on the coast of Mexico, constructed a near-full-scale Titanic inside it, and then destroyed it on purpose for a single film. Most people watching that flooding sequence assume it's CGI wizardry. It's mostly not. What you're seeing is a real ship set being ripped apart by real water under real pressure with real actors inside it, one take at a time, with almost no room to reshoot because rebuilding a flooded Edwardian dining room takes weeks. The Grand Staircase scene alone used around 90,000 gallons of water dumped through valves the size of sluice gates, engineered to blast the glass dome inward the way the ocean would have on the actual night in 1912. Cameron shot it in a single take. If a stunt performer had slipped the wrong way, if the water had pinned someone against the bannister, if the set had collapsed at the wrong angle, the entire scene was gone along with the set that produced it. There was no second attempt built into the schedule. For the corridor chase sequences, the trick was subtler and stranger. The set wasn't flooded downward. It was lowered into standing water using hydraulic rigs, so what looks like water rushing at Jack and Rose is actually the world being lowered into a pool while they run. Your brain reads it as flooding because gravity tells you water rises. Cameron inverted the physics of the shot to control what the water did around the actors. Kate Winslet refused a wetsuit for most of it. The tank water sat around 60 degrees to force genuine shivering, gasping, panic responses on camera. She developed hypothermia during production and later said she'd never work with Cameron again. She meant it for over two decades. It's sad that the industry has largely stopped making films this way. Water is expensive, dangerous, uninsurable, and computationally cheap to fake now. What you're watching in Titanic is a category of filmmaking that essentially died with it becasue the physical spectacle was so costly and reckless that no studio will greenlight it again.

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