The big elephant in the room called Hollywood these days is obviously 3D movies. The only person that doesn't quite get it seems to be James Cameron. Yes his movie Avatar made a lot of money, but come on, has no one ever watched the Disney film Pocahontas? Note the storyline similarities.

Piranha 3D is the most recent film trying to cash in on the technological craze(some say gimmick...we tend to agree). It seems that even James Cameron has some not so positive words for the film, which in a way he has a deeper association to than most even know. The fact is he got his start directing movies with the film 'Piranha 2: The Spawning'. Vanity Fair recently brought this up in an interview with Cameron.

When questioned about the release of Piranha 3D and if it brought him any sense of nostalgia, Cameron replied with a stern response of "zero" and also went on to explain how believes that filming horror movies in 3D was a reminder of how it was used as a gimmick to "get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip". Below is an excerpt from the Vanity Fair interview:

"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.

That sounds like a big fat horror genre dis to us folks. He sure doesn't seem to have much respect for his directing roots, or for filmmakers utilizing what he feels to be 'his 3D technology'. Interesting.

Vanity Fair and ShockTillYouDrop.com contributed details to this story.