Aliens of the Deep (2005)
Directed by James Cameron
James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet's most unique life forms.
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What critics compared Aliens of the Deep to
James Cameron certainly has a fascination with underwater photography, from The Abyss < to his documentaries Aliens of the Deep and Ghosts of the Abyss.
The abundance of watery mayhem recalls "The Abyss"; the deep dives and 3D visuals bring to mind his documentaries "Ghosts of the Abyss" and "Aliens of the Deep" (both also produced by Wight); and like "Titanic," "Sanctum" kicks off with a nifty computer graphic that provides a visual and scientific context for the thrills and spills to come.
Along with his fans, Cameron (one of six producers attached to the film) apparently recognized the similarities between Sanctum's script (penned by Andrew Wight, Cameron's producer on Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep) and his own deep-diving melodrama, The Abyss.
No accident that Wight, prior to making his unpremeditated jump into feature screenwriting, served as producer of the Cameron-directed 3-D underwater documentaries Ghosts of the Abyss (about the Titanic ) and Aliens of the Deep (about the Abyss ).
Written by producer Andrew Wight, Cameron’s longtime collaborator on such nonfiction films as “Aliens of the Deep,” and John Garvin, “Sanctum” is a series of uninspired adventure-movie set pieces in which another member of the expedition gets snuffed, while the survivors struggle on, repeating cliches to one another such as, “Never, ever give up,” or believe it or not, “Have you no decency?”
Indeed, among the many previous Cameron titles this new picture recalls (including, notably, Titanic ), foremost are his documentaries about undersea exploration, Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Aliens of the Deep (2005).
Excluding his documentaries (2003’s Ghosts of the Abyss and 2005’s Aliens of the Deep), Avatar was the last time Cameron made a feature film.
Cameron has taken audiences deep with documentaries like Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep.
Un rapporto continuato nel 1989 con il sottovalutato The Abyss e soprattutto con il kolossal Titanic , capaci di infondere in James Cameron una passione per le missioni subacquee tale da spingerlo alla realizzazione dei documentari Ghosts of the Abyss e Aliens of the Deep e a occuparlo per buona parte del tempo intercorso fra Avatar e il suo sequel.
Era más que evidente que después de explorar las junglas y el aire de Pandora, luna que orbita alrededor del planeta Polifemo, gigante gaseoso en el sistema estelar Alfa Centauri, el canadiense iba a regresar a su obsesión de siempre, los océanos y mares de El Abismo ( The Abyss , 1989), Titanic (1997), sus dos documentales del rubro, Fantasmas del Abismo ( Ghosts of the Abyss , 2003) y Criaturas de las Profundidades ( Aliens of the Deep , 2005), e incluso su hilarante y olvidada ópera prima, Piraña II: Asesinos Voladores ( Piranha II: The Spawning , 1981), secuela bizarra para Ovidio G. Assonitis de Piraña ( Piranha , 1978), de Joe Dante trabajando para Roger Corman, éste también padrino artístico y profesional del propio Cameron ya que el futuro magnate empezó como un simple encargado de efectos especiales para las adorables trasheadas del amigo Roger de comienzos de los años 80. La historia principal vuelve a ser muy sencilla y arranca donde había terminado el eslabón previo, con la expulsi…
Clearly inspired (or perhaps water-logged) from his time spent exploring the ocean depths in "Aliens of the Deep", the many flying, walking and crawling animals on Pandora are beautifully-imagined and not to be trifled with.
Among his activities in the dozen years since Titanic, the director made two underwater documentaries (Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep) that marked him as both an explorer and a conservationist.
Yet after releasing what was (then) the highest grossing film in the world, Cameron seemed content to retire to the sea and potter about with nautical filming techniques on documentaries such as Expedition: Bismarck , Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep .