Allow me to backdrop the previous statement.
A 1978 flick, Piranha, looks, acts, and feels like a cheap Jaws rip-off, and it's only right. Featuring people getting eaten while swimming, diving, participating in water activities in general, one can't help but look to it's obvious influence of Steven Spielberg's classic that actually drove a friend of mine from the bathtub for years.
In this movie, there is a children's summer camp. It is the first stop on the way to the ocean. During an afternoon of water activity, the children are told to line up and use the buddy system. The children find their respective partner, and hold their hands high. (I'll come back to this.) So, while the children are participating in relay races in the water, the piranhas attack.
Yes, they do.
So, panic ensues as the children try to reach shore. Using underwater "piranha cams" we're treated to shots of plastic piranhas butting their noses against adolescent flesh. One girl gets pulled under, and the fish swarm her. How do I know she was eaten alive?
Because when all the kids were back on shore, holding their hands high with their "buddies," one child was:
- standing by herself, and
- crying hysterically.
If that wasn't enough to make any top ten list, allow me to end this post with a couple of choice quotes from the movie. (It's a real shame I hadn't seen this gem while I was still quote warring with a co-worker about a year ago.)
"We'll pollute the bastards to death!"
"Live from Lost River Lake. Terror, horror, death. Film at 11."
Lackey: "Sir, it's about the piranhas.."
Resort mogul: "Didn't I tell you not to say that word?"
Lackey: "That's the thing, sir..."
Resort mogul: "What about the piranhas?"
Lackey: "They're eating the guests, sir."
-D out.
P.S. There's a sequel.
7 comments:
I hate to burst your bubble, not the personal one just the delusional one. I have actually seen this movie, like three times. So I may not know the entire script I do happen to know the quotes from it. My dad made me sit through this type of movie drivel when I was a kid. And since when did I become just a "co-worker" huh?
Do we need to have a talk? Brat.
You're the brat. A year ago, when we were quote warring, we were just co-workers.
Nyeah.
While that may be, we aren't co-workers anymore now are we? So I believe that the correct phrasing should have been "It's a real shame I hadn't seen this gem while I was quote warring with my co-woker turned girlfriend about a year ago" or "just my girlfriend about a year ago". Enough people, those who read your blog anyway, know we used to work together. So I stand by my previous and juvenile statement of "brat."
My statement is temporally correct. Might I also mention that I was also quote warring with someone else at the time, and I could have meant that person instead of you. Yeesh.
I just realized something rather disturbing. This is how we fight, or the occasional text message. BTW, we were the ones that originally started quote war. The other two came in and only lasted like what a week, that's what 5 rounds? How long did we do quote war before they wanted to join, hmmm?
Other two? I only knew of one. So what's this you're quote warring with anyone who's seen a movie? Yeesh! You're freakin' insatiable.
No, I don't quote war with just anyone. I saved all my very best quotes for you. And who says insatiable is a bad thing? All I have to say to that is yea for you!! ;)
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