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by **MrBlack** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:41 pm

Let's say a tweaked out genie comes to you and offers to grant a very specific wish: You can wish that James Cameron never existed.

This means no Titanic and no Avatar. They never existed and never will exist.

It also means no Terminator, no Terminator 2, no Aliens, no Abyss, no True Lies, and Cameron didn't defeat Cthulu at the bottom of Challenger Deep, thus averting the Mayan Apocalypse.

What do you do? Do Cameron's good movies outweigh his bad ones?

EDIT: Now with poll!

by **rdrsfn82** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:45 pm

Who cares if he has lost his way and only wants to make more crappy Avatar related stuff?

That doesn't make any of his older movies less enjoyable. I can choose to not watch his terrible future movies and just enjoy the older stuff.

I don't know why anyone would want him to not exist or anything crazy like that.

by **Victorian Squid** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:45 pm

I guess it just doesn't matter that much to me. Besides, his interest in deep sea exploration has extended being one baleful movie:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ience-sub/

by **MrBlack** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:50 pm

rdrsfn82 wrote:Who cares if he has lost his way and only wants to make more crappy Avatar related stuff?

That doesn't make any of his older movies less enjoyable. I can choose to not watch his terrible future movies and just enjoy the older stuff.

I don't know why anyone would want him to not exist or anything crazy like that.

Perhaps he would be sent to another dimension where he could make Avatar movies to his heart's content with an unlimited budget and a captive audience.

I really don't care much about his later work myself. I just thought it would be an interesting question to ask given how much hate has been directed at him for Avatar. It's not meant to be at all serious (see the Cthulu bit).

by **Timbales** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:50 pm

No big loss. He took Alien and made it a formula action movie.

by **PDH** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:51 pm

There would still be an Alien movie and probably an Aliens with a different director. That leaves the Terminator films and Predator that I care about. I can live without them.

by **GHERU** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:53 pm

do the movies I can ignore and not be forced to watch outweigh the movies I like and can watch whenever I want?

no

by **Timbales** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:54 pm

no Cameron could mean no Bay, which could mean there was never the abortion that was Transformers

by **Jack Burton** » Tue May 08, 2012 3:57 pm

Terminator 2 is one of my all time favorite movies ever so....no.

by **Lord Simian** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:00 pm

No, I loved his early movies. If he doesn't wanna make any more, focusing instead on building his undersea paradise while making sequels to a movie that doesn't NEED sequels, that's no skin off my banana....

That's like saying since Sean Connery retired, and prefers not to make any more movies, do we wish he'd never existed? Fuck that, I don't want to give up Bond. We NEED James Bond, and Henry Jones Sr.

by **Lord Simian** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:01 pm

Timbales wrote:no Cameron could mean no Bay, which could mean there was never the abortion that was Transformers

Or it could mean there was a big-budget Transformers... Directed by Uwe Boll.

by **bkthomson** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:15 pm

True Lie. .

by **syxxpakk** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:19 pm

Well that's a bit extreme.

by **Starlord** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:19 pm

Don't care for him personally but other than Mark Chapman and Hitler I can't think of anyone I would want to wish out of existance.

Okay... maybe women...

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:20 pm

Your poll is confusing, because your thread title asks if you would want to erase cameron from existence, while your poll asks if he should exist.

/IT Professional'd