LynxJesus t1_j2ele79 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 6:10 PM

Cameron's movies are a tiny bit more artistic than Bay's.

Having seen both of them in interviews though, I like Bay a lot better: he's a lot more honest about what they both ultimately do: pump high-grossing movies for the masses.

If Bay had (for example) directed Titanic, it probably would have been a lot more CGI, and probably some slightly worse acting. But the script and the wide-appeal story (that one-night stand remembered 84 years later because "true love") would remain the same.

chadisdangerous t1_j2emvq8 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 6:20 PM

>If Bay had (for example) directed Titanic, it probably would have been a lot more CGI, and probably some slightly worse acting. But the script and the wide-appeal story (that one-night stand remembered 84 years later because "true love") would remain the same.

I don't get the point you're making here. Cameron wrote Titanic, so that story and heart in the script is coming from him, and Titanic is absolutely packed with CGI as it is.

A Bay-directed Titanic would probably look like Pearl Harbor, because that's what Pearl Harbor was trying to be. And that movie made a fraction of the money and got much, much worse reviews.