James Cameron Disses Board Games

8 Comments

1. ekted on 13.01.2011 at 16:46

   He claims boardgame movies degrade cinema, but is making Avatar 2 and 3. Hypocrit.

2. Rob Cannon on 13.01.2011 at 17:06

   I don’t think he is dissing boardgames. He is dissing movies based on lame licenses. I bet he would diss the Stretch Armstrong movie in the same way.

3. Geek: Aaron on 13.01.2011 at 17:35

   yeah, he’s not dissing boardgames. Monopoly, and battleship the movie is a freaking dumb idea made by execs not artists.

4. shadejon on 14.01.2011 at 00:48

   My understanding is that the very idea of using a board game as an inspiration for a movie somehow makes it degrading to cinema.

   A movie has to have a compelling story – or whatever it is that the movie is trying to do – regardless of its source or inspiration. The idea that something based on a board game automatically makes it degrading is uninformed snobbery, imho.

5. Philip duBarry on 14.01.2011 at 08:17

   What about the fact that a movie based on Monopoly/Battleship degrades the board game industry?

6. Fez on 14.01.2011 at 14:23

   He isn’t complaining about board games at all. He is complaining about the incredibly lame movie themes based on board game licenses. “Battleship” IS a terrible theme for a movie. Cameron is right.

7. OhioBrian on 14.01.2011 at 18:11

   I’m with Fez. The only good game-based movie I can think of was Clue, and that wasn’t because of the game connection — it was because of Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, and Michael McKean.

8. Tom on 14.01.2011 at 18:37

   He did not diss boardgames nor did he, nor did he diss “current movie projects based on board games”

   He talked about ONE movie based on ONE boardgame, and he was talking about a lack of story telling in movies today.

   Very irresponsible title and summary. One less feed for my news reader.

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