James Cameron

Both <i>Terminator </i>films are pretty much equal in terms of quality to me with their own distinct yet similar flaws. <i>Titanic </i>would be my least rewatchable film on here, while <i>The Way of Water </i>is functionally a 4K OLED television demo reel, or an unskippable video game cut scene but I can’t knock on it too much. Cameron used to be a much better writer than he gets credit for, despite the annoying narration and the cliché lines in the <i>Terminator </i>films he co-wrote - it’s backed up by just the right amount of camp and comedy that it genuinely works. Also, there’s a certain sterility that’s present in his post-<i>Avatar </i>filmography (as a producer and director) that his earlier films manage to avoid. Cameron, I now consider, even more of a ‘technician’, which isn’t as solely disparaging or derogatory as it seems at first glance.