Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron

[popehippo]

Via Gawker, we find James Cameron offering his infinite wisdom to Playboy about being "forced to deal with real women" when discussing the intricacies of creating the perfect computer-generated tits for his upcoming movie, Avatar. It starts out making sense but quickly go downhill:

PLAYBOY: We seem to need fantasy icons like Lara Croft and

Comments

[schmiss]

ಠ_ಠ

I don't think the first quote is that faily, but the second one is... ugh.

[michechan]

Mayan Indians

Ugh, this guy is a fucking idiot

[celtic_thistle]

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. What a dick.

[chipuni]

*bangs head against wall*

I thought most men outgrew the idea that "women are another species" by the time they're... oh, twenty.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[box_in_the_box]

YOU'VE OBVIOUSLY NEVER READ A SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK OR WATCHED A ROMANTIC COMEDY THEN

[popehippo]

I would like to know these twenty-year-olds of yours that are clearly very enlightened.

As I have met none.

[ceilidh_ann]

And my desire to see Avatar just fell from my head.

[brewsternorth]

And mine. I mean, I was interested in it because it might've had more attention to detail in the worldbuilding than its namesake (A:TLA), but it sounds like we've just switched earthly racefail for alien racefail with bonus sexism.

WTF, Hollywood. (OK, so maybe Cameron may be being taken out of context in a few places, this being Playboy, but still....)

[beuk]

Are you thinking of the M Night movie? James Cameron's Avatar is different from the A:TLA project.

[soma910]

Same here. -_-