How he has become so bad ??
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Alexandre Aja
Cinema_Love — 15 years ago(August 28, 2010 08:30 AM)
Piranha was really the worst horror movie ever made. The guy behind Haute tension, Hills Have Eyes and even Mirrors was not bad for a remake, has direct this turd ? Maybe for money and made an american Haute Tension ? Seriously, he has sold out and has become really a crap director with this movie. It's like if a guy like Chris Nolan will have direct Memento then Troll 2 what a sad joke ! And it's not april fool !
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DOPE-cinema — 15 years ago(October 03, 2010 12:11 PM)
Yeah, he's was a unique back in the day. His movies(referring to High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes) were gross yet terrifying, it had the best of both worlds but now, with Mirrors and Piranha 3D no he's now becoming your typical American Hollywood horror director/writer that only focuses on sex, blood and violence.
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nuttwave — 14 years ago(August 01, 2011 04:11 PM)
Disappointment in the PIRANHA remake goes beyond the movie's subject. There's a huge step down in filmmaking level between Aja's HILLS HAVE EYES (a truly striking, kinetic horror movie) and his PIRANHA. In fairness, Aja has to work with a script by the guys that wrote SORORITY ROW, so it's full of thuddingly dumb satire and misogynistic sexual frustration. It was one of the movies I was looking forward to most last summer, as I'm a big fan of HILLS and HIGH TENSION. But Aja never realized this film on the cinematic terms (visually, the movie rarely knows what to do other than capture Spring Break from high angle shots of kids dancing on boats) to make something as exciting and funny as it demands.
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dustin-daimar — 15 years ago(December 19, 2010 05:18 PM)
Wow maybe we should all take lessons on life from Mason (he changed his name to cinema love). I believe he had a better vision for what the Piranha movie could have been. There would be no focus on Sex, blood, or violence in his Piranha movie./end sarcasm
I mean seriously the movie was a remake of a ridiculously bad campy movie from a long time ago. What does one expect from a remake of a movie called Piranha? I mean really? If you look at my history I don't spaz out or troll, but come on its the pirahna movie we are talking about. Don't get on here and quote Nolan or compare Nolan and don't expect F####ing Shawshank Redemption when you are watching a remake of a super old super campy movie, and expect to have people respect the opinion you state. -
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oddball_oddity-1 — 14 years ago(July 14, 2011 03:31 PM)
Yes, how dare he do something different from his usual films. Clearly this one film indicates what the entire rest of his career will be.
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l — 14 years ago(November 30, 2011 05:59 PM)Pirahna was a indeed an intenionally campy and gory b-movie. it was just a very very bad one.
it is possible to make them good like Robert Robdreiguez did with Dusk till Dawn, Planet Terror ect. just Aja wasn't up to it, so yeah he has lost it a bit. -
horrorules — 13 years ago(April 11, 2012 10:41 AM)
agree with cinema love, piranha is a piece of crap, but haute tension is good and Hills have eyes is GREAT, mirrors was not that bad.
I hope that Alexandre returns the director that i loved
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OpaqueOne — 9 years ago(February 18, 2017 05:03 AM)
He hasn't really become bad, just started out on a high note. Had good source material/production for his two 'breakout' films: High Tension and the Hills remake. Craven co-produced the Hills and Aja essentially ripped off Dean Koontz's Intensity while changing the ending for High Tension. At first he 'played dumb' until people saw the obvious similarity and he admitted seeing Intensity later.
The bottom line is he is just on autopilot after 'making a splash' and his best output is derivative, while his worst is plain bad.
