You make a good point. But I’m not talking about the jobs that were provided (for what? A year? Maybe two?). Rather, it is the excessive nature of spending half a billion dollars on a single film.

Don’t tell me that all that money went back into the pockets of the workers. Sure, it put a bit of cash back into the economy, but the bottom line is that there are far better ways to invest that sort of money into the country so that it will reap benefits for years to come. Old Mr. Cameron and his producer friends are sitting on some pretty thick wallets right about now.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the whole 3D experience. But I just think that a lot of people got caught up on the hype train and simply COULDN’T say the movie was just average for fear of being looked upon as an idiot by peers. And don’t get me started on how much money was spent in such a difficult financial time for the world.

Those are all quality films (even though I personally greatly dislike Titanic, I appreciate what it is). It’s much better than say..Pearl Harbor? That movie was horrible. The story of Aliens was original when it was released. So was the Terminator series (and still is thanks to Christian Bale kicking some serious ass in the newest addition). Titanic is just a movie based on a tragic historical event, so I would argue that most of the story had already been told before the release of the movie.

If I remember correctly, Aliens produced a few decent games back in the day, and the T2 games pretty much sucked hard. Thank god they didn’t make a Titanic movie. That would have been very wrong in many ways.

At least you could chock up the old-school games lack of substance to limited technology. In 2009, there were no excuses.