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Vanity Fair has posted an interview with James Cameron regarding the re-release (*coughMONEYGRABcough*) of Avatar. When asked about Piranha 3D, Cameron sniffs:

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.

“Cheapens the medium.” Right, because Avatar was high fucking art. You took 4+ years, spent a bazillion dollars, and stole a script from Kevin Costner to make a movie about how generic noble natives being slaughtered helps the white man find himself. You didn’t invent a brilliant new artform—you helped out with the latest scheme by the movie and theater industry to justify their increasingly exorbitant prices.

Get over yourself, Cameron. At least the Piranha guys know they’re making crap.