Lonan said:
Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
So everyone there is this new movie comming out which I'm sure you've all seen the adds for on Youtube. Pirhana 3D, which from this trailer looks so utter crap, it almost looks good. (Yes that is Doc Brown from Back 2 the Future)
Obviosly the Back to the Future jokes are just going to poor right through, example:
"This paticular piranha vanished 2 million years ago" "Wait doc so your saying that those Piranha time traveled 2 million years into the future?" " Precisely." "Damn I'm late for school. -Marty McFly" -Some guy from Youtube.....
No matter how bad this movie is, it's always nice to see drunken over priveldged college kids get horribly killed XD
So what does the Escapist have to say about this? (I smell a meme forming XD)
Edit: Why doesn't everyone just get out the the lake and throw a Boombox in? See problem solved XD
I don't appreciate you're elitism and discontent towards college students, or indeed anyone else you would insult by calling a "kid," but I won't bother trying to steer you from you're breathtaking elitism and condescending attitude towards others. And according to you're profile which I just read, you are younger than me, and yet are intent on calling people who are largely older than you "kids."
The movie looks great though, and I don't disagree with you're feeling towards these people, as they were too stupid to listen to the commands of the person with the megaphone telling them to stay away from the lake.
Also, it's unrealistic because ocean fish could not survive in fresh water.
I didn't write the original post, but he did specifically mention "drunken, overprivileged college kids", I believe there is some empathisis on the first two bits. Understand that horror movies tend to be morality plays of a sort, where it's typically those who are in some way unworthy of survival that wind up dying. The whole "final girl" schtick exists because the survivor typically happens to be the most 'worthy' of the group of characters who are introduced, the one who doesn't drink, or engage in wanton sex, and is nice to everyone. Movies like "Evil Dead" are famous not so much because of all of Bruce Campbell's one liners after his "transformation" (though that helped), but because it was carefully intended to turn the existing horror conventions on their head rather dramatically. In that movie (the first one, the later two became increasingly comedic) "Ash" is the least worthy character of survival, representing pretty much every negative trait in a horror movie character. He's a cowardly waste of human flesh who pretty much watches all his friends die, many whom are acting intelligently and trying to save everyone. In the end this born "horror lottery loser" gets driven beyond fear (so to speak), goes violently insane as he stops caring about living or dying, and pretty much starts trashing the monsters that killed all of his friends. When this came out it was far more original and unexpected than people give it credit for nowadays, and that is part of why it's a cult classic. There are a million movies with
people being sarcastic to monsters, but not many that did what this movie did specifically, and while it arguably didn't do this first, it probably did it better than anyone else who had messed around with the same conventions at the time.
Our latest fishy 3d horrorfest seems to be going for a very "by the numbers" approach to horror looking at how it's put together. The appeal of horror movies to some extent being a sort of vicarious audience vengeance on annoying stereotypes. These kinds of characters are the stereotypical representations of people who most of the "everymen" have been picked on, or belittled by, or simply have been jealous of due to the way they flaunted themselves. Or otherwise have just been annoying.
There is doubtlessly a trope for it, but basically the "nerd", "average joe", and "girl next door" generally have the best chance of surviving a stereotypical horror movie... compared to say "The Jock", "The Stoner", "The Yuppie", etc...
I guess my long rant is simply that I think your being a little too harsh, I don't think he was paticularly rude, and what's more was pretty accurate in reading what this movie appears to be like.
Also I do *NOT* know a lot about Pirhana, but I thought they were from fresh water rivers in very temporate regions with lots of jungles and such. Any way it goes, we're talking about a schlock horror movie. Besides they can always contrive something about them to explain their survival... the lake is cursed, they escaped from a genetic engineering lab, some moron drops his tropical fish tank off the back of a truck at the same time someone drops a dozen crates of "super fish viagra" off his, and everything winds up in the lake at the same time, and the respective drivers decide not to say anything so as to not get in trouble and then wander off camera to never be heard from again. We're not talking about a movie that is intended to be either realistic, deep, or even paticularly rational. I mean in "Friday The 13th" the region was depopulated how many times by a curse (and the resultant machete wielding unkillable maniac) before the authorities bothered to finally respond in any kind of *serious* force? It took them until "Jason Goes To Hell", talk about slow response time... even the worst parts of town probably don't have it quite that bad.
