Watching the Canadian director’s filmography from Piranha 2 to Avatar: The Way of the Water is like revisiting Titanic, Terminator, or even True Lies. Find out which James Cameron film tops our rankings.
The output ofAvatar: The Waterway, awaited as the Messiah by all the cinemas of the world is an invitation to revisit all of James Cameron’s films. Nine feature films – we deliberately left out his underwater exploration documentaries, The ghosts of the Titanic (2003) and aliens of the deep (2005), of limited interest – that’s relatively little in a forty-one-year career, but the Canadian filmmaker, keen on technological innovation, becomes an increasingly meticulous perfectionist with age – twelve years apart titanic and avatar, and thirteen between the latter and its sequel. Nine titles that were mostly box office hits while revolutionizing entertainment cinema. What are James Cameron’s best films? Verdict, from most failed to masterpiece.
9. “Piranha 2: The Flying Assassins” (1981)
Piranha 2: The Flying Killers, by James Cameron and Ovidio G. Assonitis.
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The first piranhas, directed by Joe Dante, was quite a gory horror surprise. Its sequel, in which the ravenous little fish of Amazonia find themselves with wings (!) after a dangerous mutation, is a horror… In James Cameron’s defense, the film was cut behind his back (with erotic scenes for the least embarrassing) from the producer…
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