Well, Mr. Cameron, you can take credit for not only having the two biggest movies ever made: you've apparently also managed to find a way to push the buttons of Mark Canton, producer of Piranha 3D. Canton shot back today with a 1,400-word nuclear-fueled knuckle sandwich aimed right at Cameron's jaw. Here are some highlights:
As enjoyable as it is to see Cameron get socked, methinks the lady doth protest too much: Canton seems to explicitly go out of his way to avoid acknowledging the fact that Piranha 3D was, in fact, a conversion job, and by many accounts not a particularly great one. I'm going to give Cameron the benefit of the doubt here and assume that that was what he was commenting on, not the fact that Piranha was a genre film, necessarily (even if it does happen to share a genre with the knock-off 3D films of the 80s, as he mentioned).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.
...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?
But still, it's fun to see people get into pissing contests, especially when they're multi-millionaires. Whoever wins, we win!
