Horror fans who know their shit will remember that legendary director James Cameron once helmed that hilariously bad cheeseball sequel Piranha 2: The Spawning. In a recent interview the man himself spoke a bit about Piranha 3D, and his words were, shall we say, far from kind.
From a chat with Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair: Was there any sense of nostalgia when the Piranha movie came out last weekend?
“Zero. You’ve got to remember: I worked on Piranha 2 for a few days and got fired off of it; I don’t put it on my official filmography,” he explained. “So there’s no sort of fond connection for me whatsoever. In fact, I would go even farther and say that… 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 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like Friday the 13th 3-D. When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial lifespan, they did a 3-D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip. And that’s not what’s happening now with 3-D. It is a renaissance—right now the biggest and the best films are being made in 3-D. Martin Scorsese is making a film in 3-D. Disney’s biggest film of the year—Tron: Legacy—is coming out in 3-D. So it’s a whole new ballgame.”
Dimension Films is already hard at work on a sequel to Piranha 3D. Despite Cameron’s kvetching.