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Lucas lost interest in directing humans, well, maybe during the original SW.
I'll let Gabe and Tycho from penny Arcade go
one step further.
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Cameron is better at ideas than actual directing to be sure.
Ideas? A quick look at his
IMBD entry shows his ideas fall into the catagories of "Water", "Aliens". "Aliens in Water", "Postapocalyptica(tm)", "Cop Thriller"... and then his first two productions, T2 (which is the best Terminator movie in the trilogy) and Point Break (which is a jewel in Patrick "hey, remember my butt from Dirty Dancing?" Swayze and Keanu "whoa, dude!" Reeves' crowns) T2 and PB were really good movies, in spite of themselves.
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But if trailers alone dictated what I'm going to see I wouldn't see anything.
Hard for a movie crowned a blockbuster before the script is even written to get me to sit in a chair full of stale popcorn farts and go without a cigarette for 2 hours, but good films do come out.
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And as far as TB, well, yeah he knows how to tell a story. The same story every time
Um, there are only really three basic storyline conflicts any movie can have - man vs man, man vs nature and man vs himself. He does take a lot of similar scripts, but he does what he does well, and produces "approachably" disturbing movies. Nothing that will melt your brain like
Eraserhead,
Blue Velvet or
The Tin Drum, but none are the latest DiCaprio/Lohan convulsive squirts of Hollywood schlock.
Bren R.