August 23, 201014 yr Well you wouldn't want your under 18 seeing blood and boobs would you Norma? :naughty: He's already got Red Dead Redemption and is about to receive Mafia 2 for his birthday!!!!! I'm afraid I've given in to the constant battery of requests! Seriously ... there is no way this film should have the same certificate as stuff such as Saw and Hostel! I mean ... it's Jaws with a couple more boobs! Norma
August 25, 201014 yr It was directed by Joe Dante which just about tells you everything you need to know about whether it was intended to be serious or not. Let's not forget this is the man who made Gremlins, The Howling, Amazon Women On The Moon and The 'Burbs among others. The man just doesn't do serious horror. Mainly agree with you about Aja and totally agree about 3-D What was particularly, intentionally funny about "The Howling"...? "Piranha" was designed at the time to be a successor to "Jaws", simple as, it was only when people just refused to take it seriously that, in retrospect, they decided that it was a "spoof" of Jaws.... Piranha was one of Dante's first feature films too....
August 25, 201014 yr What was particularly, intentionally funny about "The Howling"...? "Piranha" was designed at the time to be a successor to "Jaws", simple as, it was only when people just refused to take it seriously that, in retrospect, they decided that it was a "spoof" of Jaws.... Piranha was one of Dante's first feature films too.... What was intentionally funny about The Howling??? Everything, the whole film is just laughing at it's own ludicrousness the whole way through, right from the constant references to other werewolf films and cartoons about the three little pigs to a gloriously self mocking script, the characters and the casting choices. Yes, it's subtler than something like Scream or even American Werewolf In London (it's closest comparison) but it's no less funny albeit no quite laugh out loud funny. I'll admit when I first saw it at around 8 or 9 years old I missed the humour and was actually quite scared by it, particularly the transformation of Eddie Quist but by the time I'd seen it again about 5 years later I was old enough to understand irony and satire and suddenly I understand what they were getting at. Also, you are just plain wrong about Piranha. It was always intentionally so, just as John Sayles other early genre screenplays were - Alligator, The Howling, The Brother From Another Planet. Exactly in the same way as Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi started out Just look at this pre US release poster and trailer http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/PiranhaPosterA.jpg XoCKGvVlNYM&feature=search 'Sir about the piranha..' 'What about the f***in piranha?' 'They're eating the guests sir' I mean do you eally believe these films are supposed to be serious?
August 31, 201014 yr DO NOT SEE THIS Oh dont worry, I had no intentions..... :lol: If I'm really, really bored one night, I'd perhaps download it from somewhere, but actually PAY MONEY to see this.....??? :P
August 31, 201014 yr I thought this was fairly good. Wasnt expecting a masterpiece and got to see some blood and guts so woo
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