Category: Gaming, Movies Author : Chris Greenhough Posted: January 12, 2010
Tags : avatar, cry me a river, halo, james cameron, microsoft
Avatar director and thin-skinned man James Cameron had a few words to say about “fanboys” who dared to suggest that his blockbuster Avatar has borrowed the visual style used in Microsoft and Bungie’s series of Halo games. Speaking to G4 about the comparisons between the two, Cameron muttered:
“The funniest thing is when some of the so-called fanboys get up trashing Avatar for looking too much like Halo. Pay attention. If I’m referencing anything, I’m referencing the source work for Halo, which is my own stuff. So I get to do that. Nobody else gets to do that, but I get to do that. My rule, anyway.”
Calm down, JC! Mind you, as arsey as Cameron is getting about this, I do actually agree with the narcissistic old sod here – in fact, sci-fi games as a genre owe a hell of a lot to Alien and its ilk. As resplendent as the first Halo game was (before the series began going slightly downhill), it probably owes Cameron a pint or three.
In other James-Cameron-talks-gaming news, the Canadian director says he could see Avatar having a life of its own as a game series, even if a film sequel was never made. Of course, there already is James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, though apparently it’s, er, a bit rubbish.
[Via G4]
Jan 12, 2010
Just a quick – possibly subbing – comment… Cameron didn’t direct Alien, that was Ridley Scott. Cameron directed the sequel, Aliens.
Top work all round otherwise.
Jan 13, 2010
I don’t think James Cameron is getting ‘pissy’. He’s just making a point. And he’s not thin-skinned. There is no other instance of him getting roughed up about such stupid reactions from fan-boys. Americans hate him coz he’s Canadian. Americans hate everybody. They voted for Obama but they still hate him coz he’s black.
Jan 14, 2010
Ok they is a major difference in the gaphics between Halo and James Camerons Avatar. Halo is the old and Avatar is the new, get over it
Jan 15, 2010
http://rikijo.blogspot.com
The occultic meaning of the word “Avatar” is really Lucifer/Satan. -That alone should have raised eyebrows, but it didn’t lol
-Think about that for a minute..what would happen if James Cameron just named the film -SATAN- …would people then want to consider the real meaning behind the film?
The entire Movie/Entertainment industry is a well financed satanic psychological war operation being executed upon the public right before their eyes.
Just like all the other Illuminati controlled industry, the Movie/Entertainment industry is a tool designed to advance their agenda of a “New World Order” and the deceptions that come along with it.
In the satanic Illuminati occult dogma, the term “AVATAR” represents their coming Anti-christ, and is the Illuminati occult representation of Satan incarnate.
http://rikijo.blogspot.com
Feb 8, 2010
Avatar cannot be compared with the Halo Pc game,
it have lots of difference and first of all it is a movie.bali luxury