Did anyone else feel their SE experince was... empty? (SE Spoilers)

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Out of this world and into the Blu | Herald Sun

JAMES Cameron's first viewing of Avatar ended with its director in tears. "I cried. I hated the movie after the first screening," he reveals.

“I hated the movie after the first four screenings. I just didn’t like it.

“It wasn’t what I wanted it to be.”

But Cameron’s anguish was brief.

After each of those four viewings, the 55-year-old director returned to the editor’s booth to fine tune his latest masterpiece, a redemptive tale that pits the Na’vi, natives of moon Pandora, against invading humans.

“It was back to the cutting room the next day,” he says. “Every time you screen the film for yourself you think you’ve accomplished something and then you go, ‘Argh, it’s not working. I’m not feeling it’.

“The danger was I didn’t know if I was already numb to the movie or I wasn’t feeling it because the movie would not induce that in anyone.

“I finally got to the point in the last screening and said, ‘Now I feel it’.”