Why has Oscar-winning director James Cameron been slumming it in the documentary world lately instead of making blockbusters like Titanic and The Terminator? Aliens of the Deep, a 3-D IMAX film about the crazy creatures dwelling 3500 meters beneath the ocean's surface, opening today, marks his third foray into the genre. You could sum up his drive in one axiom: Truth is stranger than science fiction.
"You can't make this stuff up," he says of the translucent squid with ears, the fish with feet, and the film's other alienlike stars. "Every time I do a dive, that's what I think: 'Wow, I never could have imagined that!'"
Coming from the writer-director of Aliens and The Abyss, that's saying a lot. Cameron's also proud of the fact that, by making the film, he (along with Disney and Walden Media) was able to help out underfunded researchers. "We put the expedition up on its feet and invited the science community to come with u
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