The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

And now for Part 2 of this week's Deep Hurting Project Double Feature: Mega Piranha.

• Fortunately, they've got some cheesy background music, and brief clips from the film on the DVD menu this time around. A marked improvement.
  
• As is the opening scene set near the Orinoco river where two "Teenagers" swim and get attacked by piranhas. Good on you. At least this makes sense. Why everything is washed out and looks brown, I don't know, but at least it makes some sort of sense.
  
• So, they show a brief establishing shot of a Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela and cut back, through a seizure-inducingly-quick series of establishing shots to the exact same riverbank from the previous scene? Twice? IN THE FIRST TEN MINUTES?
  
• What the fuck is with the editing in this movie? There are frequent montage scenes where most of the shots include: quick pans like the camera was attached to a softball, random upticks in camera speed near the end of every shot, a whooshing sound at the end, and a quick fade to white for every cut.
  
• Also, literally every time a character is introduced, we cut to a black-and-white still of said character at the moment with their name and job. Is this seriously their way of trying to put character in these characters?
  
• Fortunately, it looks like the Asylum's VFX budget has been upgraded all the way up to PS2 levels.
  
  
  
• Jesus, that was quick. The guy has one knife-fight with the fish, and he knows everything about them, where their home base is, what sort of experiments they were made from, and how quick they'll double their populations.
  
• And while we're on that, who the fuck thought making piranha populations double every TWELVE HOURS was a good idea? 
  
• Okay, so I got a bit sidetracked, how the fuck are these piranhas exploding? And why are they launching kamikaze attacks on the town?
  
  
  
• I got to hand it to the Asylum: they're at least improving on the absurdity of their action scenes. It's at least less boring than Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus. And the pacing is at least better.