Hero James Cameron blasts Aquaman for being unrealistic

Aquaman is a 2018 documentary about the plight of the world’s oceans, imperiled as they are by global warming and increased levels of waste. Wait…no, I’m sorry. Aquaman is a superhero movie about a guy who battles his half-brother for control of the underwater civilization of Atlantis and talks to fish. I may have gotten confused because when he was speaking to Yahoo, Avatar and Titanic director James Cameron sounds like he was holding Aquaman to a higher standard:

"I could have never made that film because it requires this total dreamlike disconnect from any sense of physics or reality. It exists somewhere between a Greek mythic landscape and a fairy tale landscape. And people just kind of zoom around underwater because … they propel themselves mentally? I guess?"

I guess. We remind you at this juncture that Cameron directed a movie where tall blue aliens transition into manhood by wrangling giant reptile birds:

To be fair, Cameron did call Aquaman, directed by James Wan, “great fun,” but made sure Yahoo knew that when he goes underwater, it’s serious business. “I’ve spent thousands of hours underwater,” he said. “I’m very literal about my underwater. It needs to look like it’s real. And while I can enjoy that film I don’t resonate with it because it doesn’t look real.”

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Fair enough. Hey, remember in Avatar when Sam Worthington transferred his mind into a big blue alien body with the help of magic trees?

“And by the way,” Cameron continued, not about to stop himself when he’s on a roll, “[Aquaman] doesn’t help us with our issues of actually understanding the ocean and exploring the ocean and preserving the ocean — though they did throw in a couple things like whales and things like that to remind us we are using the ocean as a garbage dump, so I applaud the film for that. Yeah, I couldn’t have made that movie.”

Cameron has the right of it here. All movies have a responsibility to be socially conscious. Who can forget the complex geopolitical message of True Lies?

So I’m having some fun with Cameron here, but he does sound a touch defensive. “We’re doing a lot of underwater in the Avatar sequels,” he said, proving my point, “and it’s going to have such a different feel.”

Thank goodness.

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