I think my Redbox BD rental is going to be the not for Buck "Piranha DD". Why? Well, it's by John Gulager who you might remember as the contest winner for the third and final season of "Project Greenlight." John not only struggled but eventually got his "Greenlight" movie "Feast" out (difficult to make a movie that way) but went on to may two sequels (with lots of scenes Turq would love and Buck not). Gulager of course is no stranger to Hollywood being that both parents were TV and movies stars (his dad is in his movies as well as his brother and "Feast" got his girlfriend a lot more work too as she is a fine actress). Those movies were dark comedy/horror and obviously so is "Piranha DD".
Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for sequences of strong bloody horror violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use and to keep Buck away. Should be a hoot! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714203/ (Also titled "Piranha 3DD" but the BD and DVD are only DD). On 08/01/2012 10:00 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > I second the recommendation. "Outland" is an unapologetic > remake of "High Noon" set in space, starring Sean Connery > instead of Gary Cooper. For 1981, it even did "space tech" > right in many ways, such as having both the cops and the > bad guys use shotguns instead of projectile (bullet) > weapons. Bullets go through hull walls and kill you by > letting the air out; shotguns don't. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> We've discussed how films like "Alien" and "Blade Runner" take place > in >> a future where there instead of government you have a "corporate >> state." Ridley Scott even called it "corporate communism" in his >> commentary for "Blade Runner." But a film where it really stood out > was >> "Outland" which was written and directed by Peter Hyams and starred > Sean >> Connery and Peter Boyle. This was a 1981 sci-fi classic that got a >> rather poor treatment when released on DVD way back when DVDs were > first >> released. Also Netflix's streaming version is pan and scan as well as >> poorly encoded. >> >> Well, Warner Brothers decided to release a new version on Bluray and I >> was able to pick it up this week on sale at Fry's for only $8. It is > an >> excellent widescreen (2:40:1) transfer and remixed with 5.1 sound. >> Hiyams also provides a recently recorded very interesting commentary > for >> the movie. >> >> The film if you've never seen it is essentially a western that takes > in >> a mining community on Jupiter's moon Io. Connery plays the marshall > and >> Boyle the corporate mining boss. Hiyams says he wanted to make a >> western but no one wanted to finance one back then so he essentially >> wrote one that takes place in the future. As he says it's more like >> "Deadwood" than "The Searchers." The film stands up well though > Hiyams >> mentions he tried to get investors interested in doing a new version >> (rumors abounded a couple years about about this) but no one was > interested. >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/ > <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/> >
