Two days ago Deadline posted on the war of words between Jim Cameron and Piranha 3D producer Mark Canton. After accusing Piranha 3D of cheapening the medium, Cameron went further to say:

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 now what’s happening now with 3D. It is a renaissance. Right now the biggest and best films are being made in 3D. Martin Scorsese is making a film in 3D [Hugo Cabret]. Disney’s biggest film of the year – Tron: Legacy — is coming out in 3D.

Doesn’t this sound like kind of a classic feud of high culture kicking and fighting being appropriated by the lowly masses?! (more…)