come anticipate PIRANHA 3D: THEY FLY @ U FACE

this is the best idea anyone's had in a long time

btw has anyone seen Piranha 2 Directed by JAMES CAMERON

EPIC

fuck yes

this is the best idea anyone's had in a long time ever.

forget the wheel or the printing press.

The downside: Snakes On a Plane

nah. this is IN 3-D

if they play this one straight it will rule

needs an airhorn

I am excited for anything in 3D.

vitamin water out the nose xp

^^^2008's "dr. pepper all over the keyboard"

Will the ending be the same as the original Piranha? Because, if I'm remembering correctly, they were all, "let's POLLUTE THE KILLER FISH TO DEATH!!!" So awesome.

^^^2008's "dr. pepper all over the keyboard"

-- jessie monster, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:53 AM

it's a new era

i'm seriously stoked for this

What is the actual sequel to SOAP going to be? Snakes on a Cruise, I hope.

Snakes In A Multiplex

Snakes FLY @ U FACE

They should call this PIRANHARAMA 3-D

Face. You. Fish.

SNAKES IN SPACE

today really is snakes on a plane day

back to Piranhas people

THEY FLY @ U FACE!

The 3-D factor is key.

Need to find out if Lance is in this.

Eli Roth ... Wet t-shirt contest emcee

Jerry O'Connell ... Derrick Jones

Elisabeth Shue ... Sheriff Julie Forester

Ving Rhames

Christopher Lloyd ... Mr. Goodman

Cody Longo ... Todd Dupree

Jessica Szohr ... Kelly

Adam Scott ... Novak

Brooklynn Proulx ... Laura Forester

Richard Dreyfuss
Dina Meyer ... Paula
Kelly Brook ... Danni

Steven R. McQueen ... Jake Forester

Riley Steele ... Crystal

Ricardo Chavira

Brian Kubach ... Brett

Paul Scheer ... Andrew

Jason Spisak ... Deputy Taylor

Bria Roberts ... Wet T-Shirt Victim

Sage Ryan ... Zane Forester

Maarsen Roney ... Drunk Laughing Jock
Craig Dawson ... John James

^^^^ wow

Eli Roth ... Wet t-shirt contest emcee

role of a lifetime

wait is this the original piranha II but in 3D?

or remake or something else?

It's a remake of Piranha done in 3-D, and unlike the original & sequel which are campy low-budget comically bad affairs apparently this director is actually trying to make this frightening.

Rest assured man that if this was Piranha 2 in 3-D I would have traveled forward in time to see it by now

Bria Roberts ... Wet T-Shirt Victim

Do piranas be flying at her boosums?

Eli Roth ... Wet t-shirt contest emcee

perfect casting

Piranha one was pretty (intentionally) ridiculous iirc.

One of Joe Dante's early movies!

Lance Henrikson is staying at my hotel btw and he was endlessly pleased when I told him I loved him in Piranha 2.

omgomg any pics?

Nah, he's here another couple weeks though, I'll see if I can't grab him for a pic before he goes.

My first thought upon seeing him was "That kinda looks like Lance Henrikson except this dude looks way older"

awesome.

<3 Lance

"Not bad for a...HOOSman"

One of Joe Dante's early movies!

And John Sayles' first screenplays!

still wanna read Sayle's Jurassic Park 4 script

sounded so batshit and awesome

http://dreadcentral.com/news/34391/afm-piranha-3d-stills

LOL Dreyfuss

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/nov09/afmpiranha4.jpg

omg

the piranhas look like they come out of Jumanji

I am excited for anything in 3D.
― jessie monster, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:48 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

I wonder if this stands?

if they play this one straight it will rule
― latebloomer, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:22 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

They sure didn't take that advice :(

Everytime I see or hear something about P3D I think THEY FLY @ U FACE.

i might be convinced to see this movie if someone overdubs the audio track to add "omg they fly @ u face" everytime they appear

I saw the trailer for this at the theater the other day and it got to the moment of musical score crescendo right before it all dramatically cuts to silence and the title comes on screen all ominously the announcer goes PIRAHNA 3D and I had to fight so hard not to yell THEY FLY @ U FACE

Was this the movie they were playing in Muppets Take Manhattan?

That leaked nine-minutes of footage from Comic Con showed, between the wet t-shirt contest stuff and lame "lookout, piranhas!" suspense, a scene with a topless chick sliced in half (between her exposed breasts, natch), the top half sliding into the water off the bottom half, as well as a piranha spitting out a dismembered, er, member. This will be exploitation trash, with any stupid fun undermined by a big budget and slick effects. Once again.

In 30 years people will love this. I will start loving it now.

This movie (probably, because I haven't seen it) makes The Human Centipede look like Citizen Kane...

Very NSWF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4idkUZhDQv4

what a still that is

"Hi, I'm national treasure Jerry O'Connell . . ."

http://io9.com/5615166/piranha-3d-cast-lobbies-for-some-very-special-academy-award-nominations

i am so pleased by this development

is this actual 3D or retrofitted?

"what are you gonna do, nominate inception 10 times?"

nah dude it was like fully invented in 3d it has been the plan from the jump

k thats what i figured

i might go cuz i <3 elizabeth shue

ok looks like i'm seeing this at midnight, my bro talked me into it.

xpost

It's actually a post-production 3D conversion, as discussed in this Eli Roth interview.

whaaat i must have totally misunderstood the blog posts i've been reading abt this for like 2 years

this is running tonight a fwe blocks away with roth & some others in attendance for q&a, considering going.

ok wait it was a post production conversion that was....conceptualized & shot to be optimized for 3-D? not sure i see the distinction?

Saw trailers for this on TV last week. I had forgotten "THEY FLY @ U FACE", sadly, otherwise it might have looked more fun, instead it looked just dumb. It took them 2 years to make this?

a little over two hours until movie time and my bro hasn't chosen a theatre. THIS is why I go to movies alone!

I am watching the credits roll right now. o_O. This was way different than I expected. Oh the camp and intentional LOLS are all over the place...but this has almost Grand Guignol-esque levels of gore. There's a half hour that is actually jarring in its gore and terror yet the movie interchanges between humor and horror without transition. Its a trashy film. And I liked it but I actually feel simultaneously entertained, grossed out, and discomforted. Just...wtf

i mean the fish look ridiculously corny but my lord is there an incongruity between that and some of the grisly deaths. some of the tone in the middle echoes the grimness of Sleepaway Camp. and then 2 minutes later you're laughing again!

and yes, they fly at u face.

thank god for that

ok i'm stoked for this now!

surprised at the early critical love that's now surfacing this morning, even if at this point it's still mostly internet websites...often times trashy films like this are more offputting to mainstream critics. I tend to agree with what most of the critics have had to say thus far. I expect when some of the big hitters come out for it to be more mixed.

someone left the theatre talking about how much dumber he was last night after seeing it but I don't think it's a "dumb" movie -- the filmmakers know how to manipulate the audience for certain. Shallow, maybe, but not dumb.

this thread title is fucking killing me

I think because most mainstream critics are smart enough to know they difference between a "dumb/trashy movie" that's a reverant take on being raised on Troma and Raimi and grindhouse and like "dumb/trashy movie" that's like "FISH MOVIE: WATCH A TITTY GET BIT YOW"

here's my epinions review (lol, I ain't a critic, but felt like writing it after I read the stupid one-star review of the guy who said the Nightmare on Elm Street remake was awesome).

http://www1.epinions.com/review/Piranha_3_D/content_521968979588

this thread title is fucking killing me

seriously. perfect thread title.

mainstream critics are smart enough to know they difference between a "dumb/trashy movie" that's a reverant take on being raised on Troma and Raimi and grindhouse and like "dumb/trashy movie" that's like "FISH MOVIE: WATCH A TITTY GET BIT YOW"

if your "reverent take on being raised on troma and raimi and grindhouse" isnt "FISH MOVIE: WATCH A TITTY GET BIT YOW" you're doing it wrong

Basically, i'm trying to point out the difference between dumb/trashy "Shaun Of The Dead" and dumb/trashy "Scary Movie 3" and didn't articulate it well

^^^ this is fair

+ WATCH A TITTY GET BIT YOW = awesome

so i'll be an apologist for that post as long as necessary

i'm finally caving on this one. tomorrow. my first 3d movie since disney world in 95.

good luck usa

this is easily my favorite thread title ever conceived by a hoos btw

Basically, i'm trying to point out the difference between dumb/trashy "Shaun Of The Dead" and dumb/trashy "Scary Movie 3"

haha the difference is that the former isn't as dumb/trashy!

There's a half hour that is actually jarring in its gore and terror yet the movie interchanges between humor and horror without transition.

Exactly this.

It was all fun and games and fish nibblin' dicks and then somewhere at like the 75 minute mark it turned into Pier Paolo Pasolini goes to Spring Break.

"It's an ode to the '80s," Aja said."I fell in love with the script for that reason. It's like 'Dead Alive' and 'Evil Dead.' It's 'Gremlins' for adults."

^^ see, but those movies stayed funny the whole way through!

"It's an ode to the '80s," every director of every fucking movie right now said.

"It's an ode to the '80s," Mike Leigh said about his new London drama Another Year.

"It's the odour of the 80's" said David Cameron about the horrific stench that is polluting the House of Commons.

i'm debating whether to see this again, if just for the sheer amusement of observing the audience's facial expressions during the gorey sequences....

debuting at #6 in the box office despite 3D money. Gotta stop being surprised when self-aware action-un-comedies I want to see keep tanking despite internet interest

Snakes On A Plane, MacGruber, A-Team, Scott Pilgrim...America apparently won't see a movie that doesn't take itself seriously unless it's actually named Vampires Suck.

wow, i'm stunned at Vampires Suck doing that well, I mean I thought those half-baked cookie cutter spoofs were starting to sour. I guess not.

and right now my best friend is trolling me in saying that it looks like it's a better movie than Piranha 3-D :/. I mean it's not like P 3-D is Gunga Din but I'd wager Ishtar is a better movie than Vampires Suck.

if Vampires Suck is anything like Epic Movie or Meet the Spartans, I don't understand how anyone can enjoy it.

I mean, i really enjoyed seeing shit like Loaded Weapon 1 and High School High and Naked Gun 33 1/3 when I was a teenager when my meta-skills weren't so finely honed--so I'm guessing teenagers?

ya but some of those were actually funny - I've seen some of these filmmakers movies, and they aren't even good at what they're supposed to do -- cheap spoofy laughs

yeah. those films were getting progressively worse, but there were still gags. epic movie's finale involves the chronicles of narnia-based group of heroes coming up against an orc army, and pulling out the remote from click (which comes from nowhere), hitting pause, and beating them up. or in meet the spartans, the 'leave britney alone' guy comes up on the screen of the persian transformer's guy screen. there aren't jokes, they're just references, like sub-sub-sub-family guy at its worst.

I dunno, I def agree with you, but I remember in like Naked Gun 3, the bomb blew their hair back and they just started laughing like Beavis & Butt-Head and that is exactly the same non-joke referencey BS. Though I bet that this crap has like exponentially MORE of that shit then they did in the 90s

I remember hearing two kids talk about this scene in Scary Movie 3

http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=4949

And one was explaining to the other that it really wasn't Michael Jackson.

smh

yeah, that stuff was always there, but now these guys (names escape me) deal almost solely in references. just having someone dress like Lady Gaga is a big, trailer-worthy joke to them.

and Scary Movie 3 and 4 are probably the best of the parody revival!

Scary Movie 3 was funny for Simon Rex rap battling Fat Joe.....not much else

and even that to me was more funny cuz of HAHAHA SIMON REX I FORGOT HE WAS A PERSON

f that, charlie sheen, anna faris, anthony anderson, darrell hammond, all a+ at zucker movies (which scary movies 3&4 actually were)

i mean its low, obvious humor, but these guys can actually do dumbfounded double takes like pros and every one of these types of movies from blazing saddles on looks pretty infantile if you see it for the first time as an adult

i'm not taking a stand against all of the Scary MOvies by any means, I own the 2nd one, I just didn't really enjoy the 3rd one that much -- though there were some good moments.

plus i <3 me some anna faris, only reason I watched The House Bunny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVr3-sHIW6M

truly regret that i did not see this in a crowded theater

i dunno if people go gonzo when someone dressed like lady gaga shows up in one of those reference-only movies, but I bet they flip when Charlie Sheen ODs on viagra

scary movie 3 and 4 did work, which is why i was setting them apart from the Friedberg and Seltzer shit.

btw Piranha was pretty good for just balls-out ridiculous trashy gore

pretty much.

this thread title is fucking killing me

― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 20, 2010 9:19 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

when I was sitting in the theatre all i could think of was the damn title.

this entire thread is making me roffle

next up V.I. Warshawski - 3D

misread thread title as "RIHANNA 3D," but i would probably see this movie too

Don't you dare compare the brilliant Naked Gun series to faux-parody Scary Movie series.

THEY FLY @ U FACE...AGAIN:

Dimension Films has put toothy fish back on the menu. The company has announced a sequel to Piranha 3D, after the film grossed $10 million in its opening weekend.

sweet

can they whip it up by next week

i know it only cost around 25 million, but does it really warrant a sequel?

in fairness the ending left me with the feeling that there were more stories to be told about these characters.

although judging by the ending I'm not sure that the additional stories would last more than 10 minutes!

It's a remake of Piranha done in 3-D, and unlike the original & sequel which are campy low-budget comically bad affairs apparently this director is actually trying to make this frightening.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, September 6, 2009 10:20 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark
Dude I LIVED IN FEAR FOR NEARLY A DECADE AFTER SEEING PIRANHA AND I LIVED IN AUSTRALIA IE WHERE THERE ARE NO PIRANHA

oh Hoos doesn't live here anymore. well shit forget it.

that's a rose royce song remake to happen

i watched this movie and as it turns out THEY FLY @ U FACE plus make you all hamburgery (and fall-aparty and eye-losey and gross), but it also basically sucks. a movie of basically 4 parts:

1) chaste teen romance
2) tuff mom-sherrif family rescue
3) boobs pussy ass boobs
4) THEY FLY @ U FACE

first two components seemed disconnected and underdeveloped, third wildly overstated, to the point where i felt like i was actually watching a racy/sleazy spring break special for like a third of the film's running time. there is of course wall to wall face flying, dick chomping, meat mangling fish gore action, and that's all to the good, but the movie underneath is worthless and cruddy on almost every other level. it delivers no good dialogue or compelling characters and very few actual laughs or scares. i get that it's meant to be cruddy & trashy in an 80s-throwback, cheezeball kinda way, and i was moderately entertained on that level, but "it's supposed to be terrible, don't you see?!?" is such a lazy excuse for uninspired filmmaking. made me pine for the likes of planet terror, which at least enlivened its retro trashmovie approach with some wit, ambition and cinematic inventiveness.

also weird the way the film seems to condemn hormone-addled yahoos and slutty bimbos, as well as the pornographers who cater to and exploit them, yet relentlessly panders to the former with a leering, boring pornographer's eye. sometimes i enjoy the tension that this kind of hypocrisy can generate (as in robocop, which absolutely wallows in the bloodthirsty, lowbrow culture it also seems to condemn), but there's no indication of self-awareness here, no animating intelligence to give the discontinuity ironic/satiric bite. piranha 3D ultimately reveals itself as a timid, conservative, family-centered adventure movie. one that just happens to be tarted up in acres of silicone and latex. on that level, it just doesn't make sense. the people to whom the tits, gore and black humor might appeal to are gonna be bummed out by the goody-goody, family-first themes and storyline. and the audience that might wanna see a rousing adventure movie wherein elizabeth shue heroically rescues her kids from harm would choke on the sleaze.

the people to whom the tits, gore and black humor might appeal to are gonna be bummed out by the goody-goody, family-first themes and storyline.

if you can't relate to a kid in a Pixies shirt who loves his mom and is weird around girls, I don't know how you even found ILX

liked the kid. cheezed out by the movie's final act and basic p.o.v. now, being cheezed out isn't a bad thing (watched night of the hunter last night and love it do death, despite [because of?] the WILDLY cheezy, homily-laden conclusion), but i just got bored. kids were cute as hell, especially the little brother and sister, but i was never worried they were gonna get hurt. and i wasn't invested in elizabeth shue's rescue mission, or even pixie boy's attempt to rescue curly-haired nice girl. "girls gone wild" style T&A got boring and even gross after a while. i enjoyed the gore, but that's about it.

doubtless because i lack one (1) soul.

well, yeah.

i was sayin, this movie is trying to cut a wide swath of ppl that want to see a bunch of jock whiteboys nibbled to death by tiny fishies. I think most of us in that demo love our moms and siblings and girlfriends.

Otherwise this would be st8 trenchcoat mafia shit.

lols

This kind of self-aware, 'supposed to be terrible' ethos can be argued either way, but I think this one pulls it off to a reasonable degree. It's definitely revelling in its own trashiness, and you can argue that it's trying to have its cake and eat it too, but the naked swimming tittay 3D action is SO over the top that I don't think they're going straight up for Harry Knowles in a tube sock titillation. A lot of the 80s slasher films were very conservative (the promiscuous and the drunken get brutally punished), and I think it intentionally plays up on those aspects. As an audience, we watch the debauchery and expect them to be slaughtered. What I think is interesting is the way in which that slaughter is delivered. Structurally these things should have a few deaths while the heroes figure out what's going on, then a scene of mayhem, then a tense finale and a resolution. The 'tense finale' is happening simultaneously with the mayhem, and the final heroic/resolution is so tossed off and perfunctory I don't think anyone cared about it. The extended lakeside attack scene is basically the climax, and there's no resolution other than 'most of them died, but while they were dying, a few got to the beach'. Aside from Rhames with the propellor, we basically just watched gruesome death after gruesome death, which was so relentless it ventured into depressing territory in a 'you wanted it so how do you like it?!?!' way. If it wasn't for the 3D, which made the underwater shots and the fast cutting blurry and disorientating, I think that bit would have become too much after a few minutes. But it just kept going.

I don't think it's a great film, but I think it's totally honest in what it is and wants to deliver on that. There is absolutely no concern for character development or arcs (save the standard awkward teen saves girl), and there's never really any intention to.

xpost

but i was never worried they were gonna get hurt.

I don't say this very often, but I wish more movies were like AVP: Requiem, in which absolutely nobody was off-limits.

xpost yea, the way the movie really generated its sympathy for the characters was just by making their deaths extra brutal, skipped right over the characterization. as much as I love watching fratboys get munched, by the end I was more reviled by it!

As an audience, we watch the debauchery and expect them to be slaughtered. What I think is interesting is the way in which that slaughter is delivered. Structurally these things should have a few deaths while the heroes figure out what's going on, then a scene of mayhem, then a tense finale and a resolution. The 'tense finale' is happening simultaneously with the mayhem, and the final heroic/resolution is so tossed off and perfunctory I don't think anyone cared about it. The extended lakeside attack scene is basically the climax...

agree 100%. wish the movie had been structured in such a way as to indicate that the filmmakers understood (or at least had faith in) this. no need for the cops characters. at heart, it's about dickheads who act like morons and then get hideously mangled. attempt to simultaneously tell a completely different story kind of killed it for me.

i dunno, though. i often react badly to stuff like this on the first pass (hated planet terror at first, but i've now seen it four times and love it). when i see it again, and i will, i'll be better prepared for zero story, zero scares, a few cheap laughs and tons of sleazy, grisly trash for its own sake.

disagree though that the movie isn't at least half serious in its relentless pussy-ass-boob merchandising. it may play at being wink-winky on some level, but it nonetheless fills the screen at almost every moment with wall-to-wall nude maxim girls in 3D. fondling and flashing, wet t-shirt contests, shaved crotches, etc, etc, etc.

it was more camera-in-cheeks than tongue-in-cheek

where's zorn to defend this film, if it wasn't for him yall may have never watched it in the first place

i enjoyed it. boobs butts & blood, what's not to like?

i honestly only went cuz my brother invited me and at the time i was in a bad mood and wanted to get out. i was one of the people who upon seeing the trailers said OH COMEEEEEEEEEE ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN DATS WEETAWDDID

I think it's trashier than Maxim, but then when that magazine is invoked I think of the truly tawdry way in which Michael Bay shot every woman in Transfomers 2. The music during the swimming scene was pretty ott, and the wet t-shirt contest didn't seem as much for leering as it was for Eli Roth to be set up to have his head crushed.

As for tipping their hand with the structure, I think of the seismologist getting on the waverunner to save people only for them to drop that and not bother, instead concentrating on the kid in the boat driving over all the swimmers and scalping that girl with the propellor. Their interests clearly lie in the death.

xpost to contenderizer

There was like a 10 second sex scene in Final Destination 3D. It was funny but I saw the future of cinema in those 10 seconds. There was blood and gore too obviously. The 3D was implemented badly in that film; it made me have a headache. The plot was as obvious as the predecessors but it looked sorta big budget and things flew at your face so I guess I kind of enjoyed it. One cheesy 3D "horror" movie is enough for me

the deaths were real fun and creative in Final Destination 3D and apparently there are some creative deaths in Piranha 3D so I will give props to all of that

i wouldn't so much say "creative" deaths as much as "unrestrained and no holds barred". you pretty much get to see what bodies would look like if more people walked through propellers on a daily basis.

Well that is still sort of new ground. I don't think I've ever seen a boob bit off before

never been to a sorority party?

and scalping that girl with the propellor.

blue ribbon gore moment, though a bit ott in its cruelty

that was probably the height of my nausea, that bit....

for some reason the girl being carried off shore that gets pulled apart and sees her body separate really disturbed me the most....

the penis made me cry

that's where the horror/comedy seesaw really started....no more than 2 seconds from feeling shocked at the porn star getting diced, and we're laughing about Jerry McConnell's cock

I almost think the line before it was the best..."they took my penis! THEY TOOK MY PENIS!"

yeah, in spite of my old-man bitching, gore here was some of the best i've ever seen. reminiscent of like day of the dead, and of similar detail/quality, but with state-of-the-art digital integration of the prosthetic ruination with actual actors. that the victims were nearly nude and everything takes place in full sunlight did kinda push this into new territory.

for some reason the girl being carried off shore that gets pulled apart and sees her body separate really disturbed me the most....

another classic bit. for some reason, it didn't hit me all that hard, though. all i could think about was the craft behind the effect, and how they were actors trying to sell it.

xpost yea, cuz generally when I watch zombie movies I don't ever have moments of queasiness, I can generally enjoy that gore....something about this made my normally solid stomach turn...

i guess tho it's cuz in Day of the Dead every character was ostensibly a piece of shit so I didn't care about em, but despite being shallow fratboys, I felt bad for young adults getting their bodies Ginzued...

agree that the apex of the feeding frenzy (which lasted for like 10 minutes onscreen, or at least felt like it) hit a rather unusual plateau of almost psychedelic gruesomeness. not devoid of humor, but at the same time almost insanely grisly & cruel.

i'd have had more patience for this flick if there were better horror films being released here on a consistent basis but there aren't so this was pretty run of the mill, and i'm a little over this level of gore replacing anything really interesting.

Yeah I'm kinda with San Te in that there was a disconnect when the gore got kind of SERIOUS BUSINESS all of a sudden. When in movies like evil dead/dead alive/cemetary man, it is always played for the lols.

it was even in the beachgoers who weren't mortally wounded, seeing them with blood running down their backs, with various amounts of skin missing, trying to get on something floating.

for me the dude trying to drive the boat away and killing a bunch of people by running them over was shocking too cuz usually you don't let a douchebag inflict that much damage on people without retribution, but he just sort of silently disappeared....

i enjoyed it. boobs butts & blood, what's not to like?

― lord goo goo (latebloomer), Monday, August 23, 2010 10:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

u must have loved that rolling stone cover

Although lol @ "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY"

Eli Roth getting eaten was LOLworthy because one of us shouted THAT WAS FOR HOSTEL 2!

I thought his head just got lobbed off when he got stuck inbetween the two boats.

girl falling apart on the beach was the point where it got grim for me as well. the prop scalp was an absurd gag, as was the cable slicing up the woman's torso (after snapping off her top, of course), but the body falling apart made no sense. it just...happened.

and yeah, 'get the fuck out of the way' was hellalolz. was that the annoying sometime-boyfriend of the Gossip Girl/object of main dude's affection girl?

Eli Roth getting eaten was LOLworthy because one of us shouted THAT WAS FOR HOSTEL 2!

― the day the Marc Lois took over (San Te), Monday, August 23, 2010 11:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

hostel 2 is good!...

sigh

hostel 2 owned, yes

the only bit about Hostel 2 that actually registered as a moment that my senses enjoyed was the head-soccer ball.

other than that, I might as well have been at a paper airplane festival

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IT WUZ BORING

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just saw this.. was i the only one who thought of the mr. show titanica sketch when jerry o'connell was brought on board at the end?

http://i38.tinypic.com/30vyruu.png

yeah, shruggy guy. hated hostel, but hostel 2 was pretty awesome.

have been wondering since the advent of decent digital integration of prosthetic effects and human actors when we'll see a really real zombie flick. one that actually communicates (for better or worse) what it's like to be eaten alive, bite after agonizing bite, by a ravening horde. technology's been available for quite a few years, but no one's gone there yet. not, at least, that i know of... one obvious obstacle is that high quality digital gore of the sort on display in piranha 3D still costs a TON of money. another, i'm sure, is a reluctance on the part of investors to gamble on the mainstream interest in seeing something so viscerally horrible presented in the name of "entertainment".

over the last decade or so, however, the likes of roth, tarantino, zombie and aja have shown, repeatedly, that there IS a substantial audience for truly ghastly cinematic experiences, sights undreamed of by rubber-bound 80s gorehounds. the final chow-down here easily eclipses kill bill's house of blue leaves sequence in unrelenting, extended gruesomeness, and nobody forced aja and co to present it in black & white. piranha 3D's various fish kills at least come close to my ideal (and seriously dreaded) "really real" zombie kills. i.e., not only can it be done, there's an r-rated, mainstream, moderately successful commercial precedent. wonder how long it'll be before someone takes the gamble...

a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path.

just saw this.. was i the only one who thought of the mr. show titanica sketch when jerry o'connell was brought on board at the end?

i thought the same thing

high quality digital gore of the sort on display in piranha 3D still costs a TON of money.

supposedly the budget was only around 24 mil - relatively high for a horror flick I guess, but very tame by summer standards.

23 million of that was spent on raising, de-fanging and training the piranhas.

how many million did Christopher Lloyd get for each line?

of dialogue or coke?

i dont really have much intention of seeing this (just dont need that stuff in my head) but i admit you guys make that particularly intense sequence sound kinda fascinating in the context of the movie.

ya, I can understand where you're coming from....that same night I dreamed about family members missing limbs and stuff (though sadly that isn't the first time)....

More from that link about the sequel plans:

Canton said that even those actors turned into chum are asking to take a mulligan and get in the sequel. "We had such a good time that even those cast members who ended up dead want to be in the sequel," he told Deadline. "We'll have to figure out how that could work. For us, the way the film held up and then opened strong in England showed that there is room for a real 3D popcorn picture. There's a fan base that's growing and it is establishing itself as a fun movie where people are laughing and having fun." Canton said they are working out who among the creative team will return and it sounded like it's Aja's sequel to direct if he wants it.

Piranha 3-D 2: Piranha Droppings

Piranharama

Piranhamyhouse

http://io9.com/5619861/watch-the-bloody-piranha-3d-footage-that-was-banned-from-tv

CW COMMENTS: Make sure the beer bottle in guy's hand is generic or paint over.
Please cover up more of the breast area of the woman on left who comes up out of the water with the other girl.
Need to lose the shot of woman in thong doing dry humping/grinding motion on top of the other girl with thong. Obviously, both of these women's naked-thonged butts are facing the camera and as I would say to add coverage to their butts, we just need to lose this shot all together. Now, this shot is in super low res so I don't have great detail on the white t-shirted girls, but just in case... for the woman facing the camera, we need to make sure we cannot see any nipple protrusion, that this t-shirt is NOT "wet" or that there is any breast jiggling.
Please make sure girls on stage have enough coverage on their butts (like the one to the far right as we do see the side of her).
FOX COMMENTS:
Please lose "titties," and "Pissed."
Comments to specific frames:
At 00:08 - please crop this shot or cover the woman's breasts more in this shot. (scene with the 2 woman coming up to the surface from underwater)
At 00:09 - Please lose this shot (woman in thong on all fours with other woman behind her in grinding motion)
At 00:11 - If, in this shot in higher definition, we can see any of the women's nipples through their shirts, this shot will be problematic. (close-up of woman's breast area in wet t-shirt)
At 00:15 - please lose this shot, crop it or provide more coverage on the woman's rear end on the far right. (the scene with women in white t-shirts on stage)
At 00:24 - Please lose this shot (woman in black 'peace' bikini with blood splattered on her body & face)

that sounds like the antithesis of an awesome job

ok i should prob try to see this soon.

Nice piece here by Glenn Kenny. Still haven't seen this, although I watched the 9-minute "sizzle reel" from Comic-Con.

Okay, so this was impressive on a pyrotechnic level, and for its general sense of anarchy, but otherwise what a horrible bummer.

screw you jimbo, this movie is like a zillion times better than fuckin' AVATAR:

James Cameron has launched a rant against the 3D remake of 'Piranha' - saying it "cheapens the medium".

The director is no stranger to the franchise of course. His directorial debut was the sequel to the 1978 original, but was subsequently fired half way through shooting. He then went on to make 'The Terminator' instead.

However, he is frustrated that the 3D technology seen in his groundbreaking 'Avatar' is being used in horror films like 'Piranha 3D'.

He told Vanity Fair, "I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like 'Friday the 13th 3-D'.

"When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial life span, they did a 3-D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip.”

He added, "And that’s not what’s happening now with 3-D. It is a renaissance—right now the biggest and the best films are being made in 3-D. Martin Scorsese is making a film in 3-D. Disney’s biggest film of the year, 'TRON: Legacy', is coming out in 3-D. So it’s a whole new ballgame."

Martin Scorsese is making a film in 3-D.

is he really

ehh I liked Piranha but Avatar >>> Piranha

save your bile for yogi bear 3d jim

Piranha is the best use of 3D in the current revival. fact.

nah, the 3-D in My Bloody Valentine was better

didn't see it. actually the 3D in piranha was pretty poor, but the application of it in that level of material was perfect.

well ditto w MBV 3-D

A Retort!

Jim, are you kidding or what? First of all, let’s start by you accepting the fact that you were the original director of PIRANHA 2 and you were fired. Shame on you for thinking that genre movies and the real maestros like Roger Corman and his collaborators are any less auteur or impactful in the history of cinema than you. Martin Scorcese made Boxcar Bertha at the beginning of his career. And Francis Ford Coppola made Dimentia 13 back in 1963. And those are just a few examples of the talented and successful filmmakers whose roots are in genre films. Who are you to impugn any genre film or its creators?

The simple truth is that I had nothing but good things to say about AVATAR and my own experience since I actually saw it and didn’t damn someone else’s talent publicly in order to disassociate myself from my origins in the business from which we are all very fortunate. To be honest, I found the 3D in AVATAR to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish AVATAR had been more original in its storytelling.

BURN

i mean,

Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like 'Friday the 13th 3-D'.

is pretty much the selling point of pirahna to the 25-and-up crowd, honestly

like seriously, Cameron is an idiot.

Because i'm not a fucking dipshit, I didn't see this trailer and go "WOW PIRAHNAS THEY WILL FLY @ ME FACE THIS LOOKS RADICOOL LIKE AVATARD"

It was more like, "Oh this director clearly has a soft spot for culty, schlocky 70s and 80s 3D trash and wants to make a modern version. I will support that."

i'd like to think that anyone seeing this movie KNOWS it's intentionally gimmicky because it's throwing back to a gimmicky time, not because it wants to the future of movie watching

*wants to be

gf saw it, really liked it, said there was a distinct lack OF FLY @ U FACE-age

"cheapens the medium"... Why does this remind me of the argument against gay marriage?

ha, like the director of a movie about giant blue cat-people has room to talk.

movie of the year

and single greatest use of CGI I have ever seen on screen

gf saw it, really liked it, said there was a distinct lack OF FLY @ U FACE-age

― Lil Wayans Bros (S-), Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:26 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

RONG

thank christ

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/frutopiayogurt/df/fishfun2.gif

that syncs scarily well with "LFO"

cant wait for the gifs

is this getting a DVD release?

well it is a movie...

yeah but the whole point of PIRANHA 3D is 3D THEY FLY @ U FACE

i agree w u

U FACE

THEY FLY

@

did this thread really not discuss OMG THE PENIS FLY @ U FACERANDY

Ok lol at "RANDY" still being on clipboard from NFL thread

gf saw it, really liked it, said there was a distinct lack OF FLY @ U FACE-age

― Lil Wayans Bros (S-), Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:26 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

RONG

― "ill samosa, hoos" "gibreel, big wrink" (gr8080), Saturday, 18 September 2010 05:23 (2 days ago) Bookmark

Well, I guess I'll never know then.

Saw this. Am nonplussed. People liked this? Not funny. Effects mostly not good. Not worst thing ever, but what's there to actually enjoy?

Ah well, am old.

they fly @ u face iirc

Rushing to get the sequel out by next August

preview of sequel:

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/frutopiayogurt/df/fishfun2.gif

man it says something if the weinsteins are screaming "omg more now fast!" for a film that turned a decent but not staggering profit

btw the sequel is going to be called Piranha 3DD

i lol'd

Sadly, already exists (without the fish)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/1934734802.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

anybody get the DVD? curious how this works in a home setting...to me I don't think I'd have as much fun watching this at home by myself with no 3-D

i got the blu-ray. looks great. it's still fun.

^^just when i thought i couldn't like this guy any more, i find out he owns this movie on BLU RAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InENM6fwIwE

is this getting a DVD release?

― "ill samosa, hoos" "gibreel, big wrink" (gr8080), Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:09 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well it is a movie...

― J0rdan S., Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:12 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

loll

SHARK NIGHT: THEY ALSO FLY AT U FACE

you know its a good sign when the imdb best known for stats for the director are all stuntwork

haha actually his directing credits are uh insane?

The FInal Destination (2009)
Asylum (2008)
Snakes On a Plane (2006)
Cellular(2004)
Final Destination 2(2003) - this is awesome btw
Homeward Bound 2: Lost In San Francisco (1996)

HAHAHA and one of the cowriters has written

Best Week Ever w/ Paul F. Tompkins
and
ASSY MCGEE

ok never mind this is obv going to be amazing

obv

man if i was promoting that movie i would so use "from the people who brought you Homeward Bound II and Assy McGee..."

shark night is PG-13 bullshit guys.

i mean, what's the point? it ain't gonna be scary, it ain't gonna be funny, and no boobz.

because it is going to be AWFUL

maybe there will be an Assy McGee cameo

btw have I mentioned that Assy McGee is my wife's absolute favorite show to ever be on Adult Swim

hahaha really!?

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110912203641/piranha/images/3/39/PIRANHA_3DD_-_Teaser_poster.jpg

Does that poster actually say "From the writer's of..."? WITH the apostrophe?! That's someone's mockup, right?

i think DESIGN BY JEREMY SMOKE at the bottom is a better giveaway, but ymmv

PIRANHA 3DD: THEY FLY @ U VAGINA

http://io9.com/5889407/in-the-piranha-3dd-trailer-the-fish-are-invading-vaginas-now

Is that a Funny or Die parody?

Sadly, no.

[makes note on calendar]

Like, it's a pool. Get out of the pool. Plus, it's so self-conscious about its ... self-consciousness. Boobs! The Hoff! This'll be the biggest let down since "Snakes on a Plane."*

*Though by "biggest let down" I don't mean to imply that anyone gives a shit.

I hope everyone involved in making this film dies painfully, preferably from actual piranhas

This may need to be extended to anyone who pays to see it

guys you know this needs a new thread

PIRANHA 3DD: THEY FLY @ U LADY BITS

Plus, it's so self-conscious about its ... self-consciousness. Boobs! The Hoff! This'll be the biggest let down since "Snakes on a Plane."

eh, the first one wasn't much less self-conscious

or boob-conscious

yeah that's exactly what made the first one awesome!

It was all fun and games and fish nibblin' dicks and then somewhere at like the 75 minute mark it turned into Pier Paolo Pasolini goes to Spring Break.

― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 22, 2010 1:25 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^underrated post

The first one didn't take itself seriously, and probably should have taken itself a little more seriously (or perhaps less). But hiring the Hoff? That's a straight to DVD level stunt.

agreed, plus it looks like it's got gary busey, too (noshing on a fish, natch).

anticipating nonetheless

oh man anticipating the fuck outta this

now if only Elizabeth Shue joins in the nakedness this time

ahh wait she isn't in it is she. fuck.

lol @ stealing the gun-leg bit from Planet Terror

Wow, I wonder if this movie was designed as some sort of tax write-off. First movie made $80 million worldwide. This one? $8 million. Domestic total gross of the first film? $25 million. Domestic total gross of the sequel? $376,512!

I heard it was pretty much straight to DVD fare. shame cos the first remake was fuckin dope

they fly @ u face