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James Cameron Rags On 'Piranha 3D'


August 31st 2010. Andrew Hedley, Flicks.co.nz James Cameron Rags On 'Piranha 3D'

UPDATE 01/09: Piranha 3D producer Mark Canton has repsonded to James Cameron with a long (some might say 'overlong') rebuttal containing the phrase "Jim, are you kidding or what?"

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Avatar director James Cameron was interviewed by Vanity Fair about the re-release special edition.

He was asked about Piranha 3D, which was not filmed using 3D cameras, but was converted into three dimensions in the post-production process.

"I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3D horror films from the '70s and '80s, like Friday the 13th 3D. When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial lifespan, they did a 3D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip.

"And that’s not what’s happening now with 3D. It is a renaissance—right now the biggest and the best films are being made in 3D. Martin Scorsese is making a film in 3D. Disney’s biggest film of the year – TRON: Legacy – is coming out in 3D. So it’s a whole new ballgame."

Cameron doesn't completely hate the idea of post-production conversion, however, and is working on a 3D re-release of his Titanic: "We really want it to be the gold standard of how you do a conversion."

For more information about 3D and how it all works, see our gobsmackingly amazing 3D feature.

THE PEOPLE`S COMMENTS

Thoughts, comments, debate:







youre exactly right RB, perhaps JC should of seen Piranha 3D before he started putting it down, the whole idea was to make a remake purposefully "bad", all ideas have been exhausted in the horror department pretty much and the 3D was a fresh new take, and just fun. Avatar is pretty much Fern Gully and Aliens (his own movie) re-remade, and he wants to do it to Titantic, so he cant go slaggin off other movies for using 3d to revive the cinematic experience.

By Justin

This guy. So full of contradictions. He says... "Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3D horror films from the '70s and '80s" - that's exactly what Piranha 3D is trying to be. "When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial lifespan, they did a 3D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip." - ahem, sound like the Avatar re-release?? And he hates the 3D conversion but is doing it with Titanic?

By RB

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