He's turned into George Lucas

I had a very similar feeling as when I saw the prequels for the first time. I walked out telling myself, "That was........good?" I realized much soon I didn't like it than with the prequels.

I would normally say Lucas - he not only dicked around with the originals multiple times - he really went over-the-top with the (bad) CGI in Episodes II and III. He even added to highly-mocked "NoooOoOoOOOooo...." to ROTJ. He's clearly picking a fight with the fans at this point, especially when he refuses to release the original unaltered versions. Lucas has been at this for decades.

Though I do agree Cameron is so obsessive and arrogant (to announce 4 sequels nobody wants) that he could surpass Georgie Boy.

I wanna say he re-released - or there were a few DVD versions - of Titanic at least once: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-re-release-to-hit-theaters-for-20th-anniversary/.

I base me opinion on him that way because that's who he is now. He's a weird, obsessive, insanely fussy filmmaker who makes movies with bad CGI now. He's made TWO movies since 1997 because he has been so consumed by his silly little blue world and the Titanic for the last 25 years. And he's talked about his Avatar sequels for a decade. This is who he is now.

You mean on netflix. Theaters are a thing of the past.

Titanic was when Jim still had his magic - a brilliant blend of practical and digital effects along with an engrossing story/characters. Some cheesiness here and there, but overall it's close to a masterpiece in my opinion. It'll probably be his last great film.

Success blunts the talents of most people, and it took creating the highest grossing film of all time for it to get to Cameron. Then it happened again with Avatar, for totally different reasons. He's basically a victim of his own success at this point, and feels the need to only direct the highest grossing, biggest movies ever now. What better way than to do FOUR sequels to make it BIG?

Can he hit the jackpot again? I don't think so. Just look at the movies he's been peripherally involved with lately - Dark Fate was a disaster, and Alita was... good, at best. He got lucky with Avatar and the 3-D angle, but that's totally played out. I'd like to believe he's spent all this time creating classic scripts filled with emotion and compelling characters, but I'm not sure he still has it in him.

Maybe if he stripped some of his hubris away and did something much lower budget, he could create something special again. But that'll probably never happen. It's like what Viggo Mortensen said about Peter Jackson:

"Peter, I was sure he would do another intimately scaled film like Heavenly Creatures..." Mortensen continued. "But then he did King Kong. And then he did The Lovely Bones -- and I thought that would be his smaller movie. But the problem is, he did it on a $90 million budget. That should have been a $15 million movie. The special effects thing, the genie, was out of the bottle, and it has him."

The funny thing is, I don't think it's a lack of creative spirit or interest. I know exactly what your saying. If he had no interest left, he wouldn't be trying to undertake this massive (and absurd) goal of trying to make FOUR Avater sequels. Like Lucas, he just seems to think making a good movie now is all about (bad) CGI and green screen.

I wonder if it's just some effect us humans are having that have watched movies for over a decade or so. We're so used to today's CGI and tech that we've become desensitized to anything less. We've pretty much done most of everything for the most part so everything put out these days seem boring or cliche or repetitive or predictable that it doesn't excite the human senses no more. Once in awhile you do get something that gives that 'WOW' factor.

once testosterone production runs dry - men turn into pussies
Looks like Cameron has finally achieved his goal of working out the toxic testosterone out of his system lol