Piranha 3D

Spill is the best. I may disagree with them sometimes, but i'd trust them over anyone else.
 
The Chris said:
That would be unfortunate because he's the MVP of the film.
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I agree. I think it will be a mistake to replace him as the director; just look at The Hills Have Eyes 2 to see what a difference a director makes.
 
MOVIELORD101 said:
Same here! How DARE you insult Spill like that, BlackLantern. Besides, they liked the movie. They said it's not PERFECT, but they still enjoyed it!
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so you have your validation....some jagoffs that you wanted to like the movie like it...so you're all in the same club

yay for you
 
BlackLantern said:
so you have your validation....some jagoffs that you wanted to like the movie like it...so you're all in the same club

yay for you
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No, I never said anything about WANTING anyone to like or dislike ANYTHING. They enjoyed it, yes, but they had their problems with it. Back off and stop acting like such a jerk. Geez.
 
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i think people take some reviews too seriously. it's just their opinions. who cares.
 
Just finished watching this movie about 20 minutes ago, and it f**kin' rocks! A solid 9/10 IMHO. Probably the best movie I've seen all summer long.
 
Got back from seeing it and it's a fun typical movie where naked college kids get killed, and naked chicks swimming in synchronization, AWESOME!!

The theater I went to wasn't playing it in 2D so I had to pay a little extra for seeing it in 3D but it was cool nonetheless, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Jerry O'Connel never took the film too serious which was fun about it.

Oh and from seeing Kelly Brook only at red carpet events I didn't know until this movie that she has a British accent.
 
Mace Dolex said:
Got back from seeing it and it's a fun typical movie where naked college kids get killed, and naked chicks swimming in synchronization, AWESOME!!

The theater I went to wasn't playing it in 2D so I had to pay a little extra for seeing it in 3D but it was cool nonetheless, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Jerry O'Connel never took the film too serious which was fun about it.

Oh and from seeing Kelly Brook only at red carpet events I didn't know until this movie that she has a British accent.
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Totally agree with you on all counts. Too bad Kelly Brooks character dies in the end, I was hoping she'd be one of the survivors.

I read in the newspaper the other day that a sequel is already in the works. I wonder if that's gonna be in 3D too. Are they gonna bring back surviving characters from the first one? Will they be played by the same actors? What's the plot gonna be? Are they gonna have experts try and eradicate the piranha population in the lake? And if so, how?
 
Did anyone hear that ridiculous Ving Rhames interview he did promoting the movie?
 
I saw the FunnyOrDie video with him accepting his Oscar in 2011 for Best Actor
 
I liked the nod to JAWS with Richard Dreyfuss in the opening scene seeing as how he survived the shark in JAWS he wasn't so lucky this time.
 
the first half of this movie is totally lame. the second half of the movie is amazing and makes it all worthwhile.
 
Motown Marvel said:
the first half of this movie is totally lame. the second half of the movie is amazing and makes it all worthwhile.
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i agree, it does not start getting good till the middle part when the fish attack the spring breakers and the porno shoot on the boat ;).
 
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=16355

James Cameron Not A Fan of Piranha 3D

Source: Vanity Fair
August 28, 2010



One of the more interesting aspects of Dimension Films' recent Piranha 3D was the fact it took advantage of the latest 3D craze which came about after James Cameron's Avatar was such a huge hit. Some seem to have forgotten there was an even bigger connection between the two movies other than the technology and that's that Cameron got his start directing movie with Piranha Part Two: The Spawning. Vanity Fair remembered and when they interviewed Cameron recently, they brought up that connection.

When asked whether the release of Piranha 3D created any sort of sense of nostalgia in the blockbuster director, Cameron not only replied with an abrupt response of "zero" but went on to tell them how he felt doing horror movies in 3D was a throwback to when it was used as a gimmick.

"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. So there’s no sort of fond connection for me whatsoever," he told them. "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.

Ouch! So Cameron not only has no fondness for his roots as a film director, but he thinks that the recent revival of the horror classic as a 3D movie "cheapens the medium." (Granted, he probably hasn't seen the movie.)

Do you agree with Cameron?
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**** James. I love ya and all, but c'mon....3D is a fun gimmick. I was in the boat that it was a story telling medium and all that stupid ****....but I came to realize, i'm spending 5 extra dollars to watch things pop out....it's a gimmick.

And BTW, Piranha 3D is better then Avatar anyway....so bah!
 
don't agree with Cameron here either, 3D is a gimmick and I hope films like Piranha and Step Up continue to use it so it keeps proper filmmakers away from it
 
Piranha 3D Producer Responds to James Cameron

As a producer in the entertainment industry, Jim Cameron's comments on VanityFair.com are very disappointing to me and the team that made Piranha 3D. Mr. Cameron, who singles himself out to be a visionary of movie-making, seems to have a small vision regarding any motion pictures that are not his own. It is amazing that in the movie-making process - which is certainly a team sport - that Cameron consistently celebrates himself out as though he is a team of one. His comments are ridiculous, self-serving and insulting to those of us who are not caught up in serving his ego and his rhetoric.

Jim, are you kidding or what? First of all, let’s start by you accepting the fact that you were the original director of PIRANHA 2 and you were fired. Shame on you for thinking that genre movies and the real maestros like Roger Corman and his collaborators are any less auteur or impactful in the history of cinema than you. Martin Scorcese made Boxcar Bertha at the beginning of his career. And Francis Ford Coppola made Dimentia 13 back in 1963. And those are just a few examples of the talented and successful filmmakers whose roots are in genre films. Who are you to impugn any genre film or its creators?

Having been deeply involved, as either an executive or as a producer, on Tim Burton’s original BATMAN and the first MEN IN BLACK, as well as 300, and now IMMORTALS, one of the things that has been consistent about all of the filmmakers involved in these landscape-changing global films is that, in each and every case, all of the directors were humbled by their predecessors, their colleagues and by their awareness of the great history of film that came before them. The enjoyment and the immersion of an audience in a movie theatre, as they had and will have with the above-mentioned films, and as audiences are experiencing with PIRNAHA 3D now, comes from the originality and the vision of the filmmaker, and not just from the creation of the technology. You as much as anyone certainly knows that there are many pieces to the puzzle. Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.

My sense is that Mr. Cameron has never seen PIRANHA 3D...certainly not in a movie theatre with a real audience. Jim, we invite you to take that opportunity and experience the movie in a theatre full of fans - fans for whom this movie was always intended to entertain.
Does Mr. Cameron have no idea of the painstaking efforts made by the talented young filmmaker Alex Aja and his team of collaborators? Clearly, and this one is a good bet, he has no clue as to how great and how much of a fun-filled experience the audiences who have seen the film in 3D have enjoyed. Those of us who have tried to stay in touch with the common movie audiences - the ones who really matter, the ones who actually still go to the theatre, put on the glasses, and eat the popcorn - take joy and pride in the fact that movies of all kinds, including PIRANHA 3D, have a place in filmmaking history - past, present and future. 3D unto itself is not a genre Jim, it is a tool that gives audiences an enhanced experience as they experience all kinds of movies. I believe Mr. Cameron did not see PIRANHA 3D either with any real audience or not at all. On opening weekend, I was in a Los Angeles theatre with a number of today’s great film makers including JJ Abrams, who actually had nothing short of the fabulous, fun 3D experience that the movie provides. I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like PIRANHA 3D.

What it comes down to, Jim, is - that like most things in life - size doesn’t really matter. Not everyone has the advantage of having endless amounts of money to play in their sandbox and to take ten years using other people’s money to make and market a film... like you do. Why can’t you just count your blessings? Why do you have to drop Marty Scorsese’s or Tim Burton’s names, both gentlemen who I have personally worked with, and who have enjoyed great joy and success with movies of all genres and sizes well before the advent of modern 3D? Then as now, they were like kids in a candy store recognizing, far beyond your imagination, the possibilities of storytelling and originality.

For the record, before you just totally dismiss PIRANHA 3D and all, in your opinion, worthless genre movies that actually undoubtedly gave you the ability to start your career, you should know that PIRANHA 3D had an 82% "fresh" (positive) ratting on Rotten Tomatoes on opening day - a web site that all the studios, filmmakers and the public use as a barometer of what makes a quality film.

We know that PIRANHA 3D has not achieved a boxoffice that is on the level of many of Mr. Cameron's successes. To date, PIRANHA 3D has earned over $30 million around the globe with #1 openings in several countries. And, as the "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes indicates, critics and many, many others have embraced and celebrated PIRANHA 3D for the fun and entertaining - and even smart - movie-going experience that it is.

Let’s just keep this in mind Jim… you did not invent 3D. You were fortunate that others inspired you to take it further. The simple truth is that I had nothing but good things to say about AVATAR and my own experience since I actually saw it and didn’t damn someone else’s talent publicly in order to disassociate myself from my origins in the business from which we are all very fortunate. To be honest, I found the 3D in AVATAR to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish AVATAR had been more original in its storytelling.

We have to inspire, teach and mentor this next generation of filmmakers. It is garbage to suggest that any film or any filmmaker who cannot afford to work to your standards should be dissuaded from following his or her craft by not making 3D movies or not making movies like DISTRICT 9, for example, which probably cost the amount of AVATAR’s craft services budget, but totally rocked it in the movie theatre and in the marketplace. In that case, it was not a 3D movie. But had it been, it certainly would not have been any less original or impactful. The enormous worldwide success of AVATAR has been good in all respects for you, your financiers, your distributors and the industry, as well as for the movie going public. Jim, there is a difference between Maestro which is a word that garners respect, and Dictator or Critic which are words better left for others who are not in our mutual boat or on our team. You are one of the best, it is reasonable to think that you should dig deeper and behave like it. Young directors should be inspired by you, not publicly castigated by your mean-spirited and flawed analysis.

While we are all awed by your talents and your box office successes - and I compliment you on all of them - why don’t you rethink how you address films with which you are not involved? You should be taking the high road that is being travelled by so many of your peers, and pulling with them to ensure that we, as an industry, will have a continuum of talented filmmakers that will deliver a myriad of motion pictures both big and small, with 3D or any other technologies yet to come that will entertain audiences throughout the world. That is the challenge that we face. That is the future that we should deliver.
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I agreed with every word in the producer's response.
 
part of me thinks that is a well thought out and rational response, worthy to be read by all

and part of me wants James Cameron to buy this ****ers house, burn it down, then pee on the ashes
 
why is the producer acting like Cameron was bashing the movie?he only complained that it was converted and that they used to much gimmick.

i am a huge Cameron fan and i can admit every day that he is a lot of times a jackass. but does he not have the right to complain about the bad 3d conversation and use of gimmicky 3d shots ?


he did not complain about the story and direction. he didnt not bash the movie.
 
thats probably because Cameron knows the story in 'Avatar' sucked and was essentially Dances With Wolves.....in spaaaaaace
 
Um...the 3D conversion here was not bad. They worked on it from day one. It was pretty good. Clear pictures all around. I had no idea it was converted until someone said so.

He did bash the movie...for embracing what 3D is....a ****ING GIMMICK. A cool gimmick, and one that could for sure work on the big screen....but you shouldnt use it as a story enhancer.

So with that I say Go Piranha 3D. You deserve it.
 
i believe the term here is .. james cameron just got owned

shame he'll never read what the producer said.

james cameron needs to ****... he hasnt directed a movie worth any of its praise since 16 years ago.
im not saying Piranha was oscar worthy but at least it was extremely entertaining and more than delivered. unlike camerons "game-changer".
 
And Avatar doesnt have the line "They took my P*enis!" Which is brilliant writing. :lol
 
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