Tag: Money Grab
Avatar Prequel Sure Sign James Cameron Interested in Storytelling, Not Money
by Brian Alterman on Sep.10, 2012, under Movies, News
Avatar was visually stunning, so I have heard. I missed seeing it in theaters and instead watched it on a 12 inch TV on a cruise boat where I was forced to look at plot and character development, so you can see why it fills my with horror that James Cameron will not only make two sequels to Avatar – he is also making a PREQUEL:
…basically it goes back to the early expeditions of Pandora, and kind of what (continue reading…)
Just Take My Money Peter Jackson
by Brian Alterman on Aug.03, 2012, under Movies
For those of you who planned on spending the next two holiday seasons basking in the sure to be pure awesomeness of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies – better clear your 2014 calendars because like a Mogwai in a tub it is splitting again. The Hobbit is now a trilogy. Despite what Jackson and the studio are saying this seems like a blatant money grab, and I for one am outraged. I will only see each one twice instead of three times (see – I will still go the to movies 6 times). But on a serious note, I hope that there is some value to the added screen time and it is just not a watered down experience. Now lets get it done and get on with making “The Tale of Beren and Lúthien”!
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