Avatar director James Cameron is unconvinced by Aquaman because it “doesn’t look real.”
Although Cameron was careful to choose words that were not blatant criticism, the director has confessed that he finds the way the Atlanteans move underwater in Aquaman to be unrealistic. This is perhaps unsurprising considering that for the Avatar sequel, Cameron has taken his entire cast underwater to film to ensure the end product is entirely authentic.
Given that Aquaman and the Avatar sequels both took their story underwater, Yahoo asked the director what he thought of the DC hit.
“I think it’s great fun,” Cameron responded. “I think it’s a movie I could have never made. Truthfully. 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 don’t know.”
“But it’s cool. You buy it on its own terms. But I’ve spent thousands of hours underwater. 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.”
Avatar 2 will be released December 18, 2020.
