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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 5031689" data-attributes="member: 5">It was my understanding that the projects were as much about creating a revenue stream to help fund the development of the technology used in the project and to finance the adventure they embrace.  I mean, sure, he could spend millions on new submarine and camera tech and shell out for realizing his dream of uncovering the secrets of the sunken ship but why not do so in conjunction with a revenue-generating movie/documentary if it can offset the costs?  There must be billions, maybe trillions, of unrealized treasure lying at the floor of the world's collective oceans and seas that will likely be discovered and recovered over the next decades, in part, because of some of the developments Cameron/s efforts has spurred.  Count me among those who are going to enjoy the real life footage all of that brings to us moreso than the dramatic/fictional movies he sometimes makes, as good as they all have been.He's like the antithesis of Uwe Boll who cheaply approaches each project, trying to get licensing for anything on which he can base a movie-knockoff of some other fantasy classic, then cut-rating all of the talent and shooting them as quickly and inexpensively as possible with a minimum of slightly-dated tech, then rushes the marketing and final film to the public, time and again.  And you watch as the Avatar tech winds up being instrumental in creating virtual gaming worlds for us to someday explore.  Good stuff.Just saying that it could be worse. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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