Nitpick: 100 years ago was the 20th century.
Absolutely. I remember “Avatar – By the visionary director of Titanic”, and it went on to be a huge hit.
I was an 11 year-old girl when it came out, and I didn’t see it.
Being a poor black child, I couldn’t afford it.
They also both fall into that Cameron template of huge visuals, simple, recognizable character types, and big story cliches. They’re pretty similar if you look at them in that general way.
It’s always fun seeing twenty-somethings experience that generational disconnect for the first time. That moment when they mention something and a teenager gives them a blank look and they realize that there’s now a generation behind them that thinks they’re old.
21 years since Barney first started out on VHS.
13 years since Spongebob Squarepants started, and MST3K stopped.
10 years since Teletubbies stopped.
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And as always, you can play Toy Story the video game, on your Sega Genesis*.**
*I was a summer day camp counselor in 2003. Toy Story was one of the few video tapes we had. An ad for the video game came on before the feature. I was :eek: over the fact that Toy Story and SEGA could be used in the same sentence. Much like the rest of these. Except, you know, I get the feeling I’m in the same age range as you guys.
Can’t imagine why advertisers would want to connect the dots on the two biggest box office draws of all time were made by the same guy.
The only reason to do that would be to say “hey, these are essentially the same movie.”
(And in my “i’m old” moment of the week, it was catching part of Independence Day on HBO over the weekend and realizing that Judd Hirsch’s performance in that movie is now about equidistant in time from Taxi as from now.)
At work to a 17 year old co-worker “You’ve *** NEVER*** seen a Mad fold in?!”
Titanic, from the guy who went to the bottom of the ocean.
Holy Crap, is the one about The Little Mermaid true?
If it helps, I’m 37 and I don’t think I ever have either (but I know what they are, I just never read Mad).
2001: A Space Odyssey was set in the far, far future.
In 1968 the movie was closer the beginning of the sound era in talkies than it is to us today.
It makes perfect sense to connect the two. The reason that they’re re-releasing Titanic is that they’ve converted it to 3D. Even the haters will admit that the 3D effects in Avatar were absolutely amazing. So by saying “From the director of Avatar”, they’re saying “We did the 3D really really well”.
Which isn’t actually true, but it makes perfect sense why they’d want you to think it.
Yes, I was watching Tangled last night. They had a little feature about how Tangled was Disney’s 50th animated feature and they showed a clip from all 49 of the previous ones. The Little Mermaid was #28 - in other words, Disney has made almost as many movies since The Little Mermaid as they made before it.
I’d say it isn’t true at all. The big thing about Avatar was it was made with state-of-the-art 3D techniques. Obviously none of these were used in the making of Titanic. It’s just going to get the 3D equivalent of colorization.
No, he has a point. Avatar is 3D. As logically disingenuous as it is, advertising a 3D movie as “by the (possibly only) guy who did 3D really, really well” makes sense.
Presumably Cameron supervised and approved the 3D conversion process and won’t put his name on a schlock job.
While I’m sure that is true, I’m guessing that the number of Disney Animated features per year has increased over the last decade compared to back when Snow White came out.
Snow White came out in 1937, over 50 years ago.
The Little Mermaid came out in 1989 23 years ago.
So rate of movies is certainly faster now than pre-Mermaid.
‘presumably’
Yeah, I don’t think that Little Nemo is disagreeing with me. And it’s obvious to us that he can’t have actually used the same methods, but that comes down to fooling some of the people all of the time: I’d wager that the significant majority of moviegoers don’t know about the different methods of 3D, and so won’t realize that the 3D in Titanic will be inherently worse than that in Avatar.