So this was a very, very poorly attended field trip - despite my constant email pestering of the "film club" all mentions of Piranha 3D were politely ignored. In fact, Piranha 3D probably shouldn't count towards Bad Science Film Night. Basically I (Lizzie) went and dragged Mat with me. Sorry Mat, you can definitely add this to the list of films that prove I should never be allowed to choose what we see at the cinema!
The original Piranha was a Saturday Night Shock on Film 4 a few years ago, and from what I remember (and wikipedia and imdb have to say) that featured many piranha being released into a river from some kind of military experiment and eating a summer camp. The schools of piranha (piranhas?) mostly looked like they were cardboard cutouts on a stick, which I kind of liked. If you're interested there is a lot more about the Piranha films and the role they played in James "Terminator, Alien, Titanic, Avatar etc. etc." Cameron's career over here on EW.
This version of Piranha was in 3D, which I am still kind of torn on. It means I have to pay for my cinema trips, which is something I am not used to thanks to Cineworld's unlimited card. On the other hand, horror films can work well in 3D, what with all the stuff jumping out of the screen, like toothy piranhas!
Piranha 3D starts with a small earthquake opening a cavern in a lake, which causes a whirlpool, that sucks Richard Dreyfuss' fishing boat into the lake (after a few Jaws references), where there are now deadly piranha!!!! Scientists show up, some get eaten and the survivors figure out that the lake is now infested with DEADLY PREHISTORIC PIRANHA (Christopher Lloyd tells us about them - that was fun). This piranha infestation coincides with spring break, so the lake is totally packed with loads of party boats - omigosh, the piranhas will eat the scantily clad college kids and porn stars! People are then eaten in a variety of ways too numerous, gross and spoilertastic to list here. I'm bored with recapping, suffice to say there is just a lot of nudity and blood for 90 minutes, which is what it promises you (look at the poster, which is via Bloody-Disgusting)
On the bright side, the studio that brought us the Bad Science classic "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus" has released "MEGA PIRANHA", starring Tiffany "♫ I think we're alone now... ♪", which is a pretty good contender for a future Bad Science Film Night, I'm just waiting for the price of the DVD to go below £5.......
Bad Science Film Night 8 - Field trip to Piranha 3D
- Favourite Tagline: Don't Scream...Just Swim!
- Worst piece of science: The underground cavern with prehistoric piranha which had survived for a very long time by eating each other. For this to even slightly work wouldn't there have to have been a LOT of piranhas initially?
- Most exciting piece of science: There were "seismology divers" from the USGS! Future career plan? Probably not as there weren't seismology divers for very long.....
- Bad Science Rating? 3 severed limbs of a possible 5 (Piranha 3D has some suggestions for your fifth limb)
- Enjoyment Rating? 2/5, I don't think I can stomach the gore. However, I also am not really the target audience...
- Total number of Bad Science Film-ites: 2, only 1 willing
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