I love the sound of piranha feeding.

Operation Razerteeth? Really?
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Concussion, can't walk, and now he can swim just fine?

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hahaha
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#monsterdon "You put them in the river where they could kill ppl!"
"No, you put them in the river, remember?"

He's that intersection of the dedicated but myopic 60s scientist and the 70s "we can still be critical of the government openly".

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Why did he have to swim to the kid they were already rafting towards??? Lol

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Jeez, this film's pacing is all over the place. As if the script were written with the help of brandy #monsterdon

"There was so much more I could do with the species"

We aaaaalmost taught them all the lyrics to We Are The Champions

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@diazona hordes of ruthless creatures taking you apart bite by bite ... what what are we talking about?
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TRIVIA BITES

Piranha is make-up artists Rob Bottin and Phil Tippett's first effort. They made 76 rubber piranhas and 4 with metal teeth for close-ups in four weeks. Other people made prosthetics for the fish to rip into.

The movie was so successful that Tippett put together a make-up team that itself became successful in future movies.

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@akamran Fair point

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So instead of taking the raft all the way to the kid in the overturned canoe the guy swims there? He does have a concussion.

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"No academic politics. You don't know what that means to a scientist!"

truth.

Yes, I think they’re holding you responsible, dude.

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@socketwench Ah, there, he said it. #Monsterdon #Piranha

Also, hah, Vietnam reference

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you say "they ate their own" so judgmentally when plenty of animals engage in cannibalism as a matter of course. just because *humans* never evolved to handle it better...

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The US government making killer fish to ruin another country's rivers that they made war on... completely plausible.

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This might be the dumbest premise to a movie I’ve ever seen. Just drain a random pool of who knows what without even wondering about consequences. Then again — maybe that’s a metaphor of today’s politics. #monsterdon

@socketwench Yea. I don't know why he didn't come back with that.
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"No academic politics" hahahahahahahaha

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"No scrounging for grant money, no academic politics." And no IRB, apparently

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Kids kicking in the water party!

Ok movie, the idea that you actually have a reasonable time crunch because the piranhas can't get the summer camp kids but they will be able to soon, that's a better plot than we usually see

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Poison didn't work, so they... did nothing? Remove the water a bit at a time, boiling it as you go just to make sure nothing escapes?

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Just throwing some red dye in the water while characters scream to depict a piranha attack is lazy filmmaking #monsterdon

Lady, you're the one that flushed the piranhas

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Scientists don't kill people, guns kill people. #monsterdon

BASF, we don't make the cannibal mutants, we make them better!

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oh right a NEW lake beyond a NEW dam

this is all salmon's revenge

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This scene with the kids and the inner tubes reminds me an awful lot of ... what was the last water monster movie we watched?

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man i am not listening to this guy talking, complete charlie brown wha wha wha shit to me #monsterdon

introducing an invasive species isn't as exciting as the uss indianapolis, alas #monsterdon

We're just going to immediately bury him, no coroner, no police, no notifying his relatives, nothing?? 😵

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oh yeah, the drawn on wound is so convincing. #Monsterdon

The government pays more than private industry for weapons research? Uh no. If you want to make bank you have to work for one of the contractors that overcharges the government by a lot for your services.

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Release the Operation Razorteeth files!!! #Monsterdon

So, this was all for the Vietnam War.

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Operation: Razor teethe!!! :D

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"They called it…Operation Razorteeth."

Subtlety is for pussies, this is #MONSTERDON!

What a weird summer camp. You learn all kinds of life lessons. #Monsterdon

I don't think I've seen so many people trailing their hands in a river in my entire life

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That scenery beside the river is legitimately gorgeous, though. 10 out of 10, would happily canoe sans piranhas #Monsterdon

piranhas demonstrating also very little downforce, not able to pull the old man in and get the rest of the meat, and they capsized the canoe themselves. piranha attack seems very survivable if you're able to just pull your shit out of the water instead of looking on in horror #monsterdon

If that camp leader guy doesn't get eaten I'm not getting out of bed tomorrow.

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that scene was how I imagine catfish noodling goes about half the time #monsterdon

why would going on top of the boat save that kid since we SAW THE NOT-PIRANHAS WALKING AROUND ON LAND

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Do people have enough blood in them to color a significant chunk of water like that?

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So if the fish are savagely killing every person who dips a toe in the river, how come we're not seeing constant blood fountains from all the other fish and water birds and snakes and muskrats they're also killing

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Those fish are hungry.
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It would be simply impossible to lift one's arm out of the water. #monsterdon

I think I'll just just my arm in the water and fall in after it's been bitten 10 times

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damn, why they have to insist so much on what the kids have to do!
let the kid go!
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So, is that considered to be a "body part found"? #Monsterdon

Consider: Removing your hand or foot from the water when you feel it getting bit.

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Significant body count trending.

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#monsterdon Water safety first, PEOPLE!

@arisummerland oh yeah that would have been great

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Wait, the crazy guy at the site is named Dr. Hoax?

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Walter, why does everything have to be about Vietnam?!

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#monsterdon I can't pronounce Prinaha.

32:00 in: At least this dead guy is dressed

This movie doesn't foreshadow, it forespotlights. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon very nice camp counselor!

This guy's slurring is a bit too good, I can't understand a fucking word he's saying.

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The music with the little girl and the brunette counselor sounds like a vaguely romantic scene from a Final Fantasy game.

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Operation Razorteeth!

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Many thanks to @Cherizilla for making the card.

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Someone's fixin' to lose a hand

@Violinknitter I mean yes but to be fair he was kind of talking nonsense earlier

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Yikes!! Ate his feet right off! #Monsterdon Not his lover!!!

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And Tyler too! #monsterdon

Took him long enough to tell them what's going on.

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oh the asshole camp guy will die so no teenagers have to

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The magic box definitely looks like a pizza box

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she is the camp councilor we all deserve. #monsterdon

Dude just bled about 20 gallons of blood. #Monsterdon

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Great looking dog too.

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Oh, NOW you listen to Traumatic Head Injury Scientist!! You could’ve done that BEFORE draining the pond #Monsterdon

Lady: “I’m sorry I put your daughter in danger.”
Mountain Dude: “Let’s spend a few hours burying this guy first.”

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Oh gosh, those people really know how to act!
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@plaidtron3000 By that point, he probably didn't feel his legs at all.

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Getting her... what? WHAT???! #monsterdon

piranhas with absolutely excellent precision of bites to preserve the cartilage and whatnot to keep the skeleton and feet together to make good footage for the press and get their brand out there
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Blood fountain! Another deader!

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That bloody dock tells the tale
of a drunken old river man
et by bitey fish
not wanting to be buried in town

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@Taweret Not on Divorcee Mountain!

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Paul does have A+ garden statuary

I wish my hair looked that good at camp. They must have 3 or 4 cabins completely dedicated to hair salons.

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Is Dr. Robert Hoak still tied up on a raft on the water? #monsterdon

Bully's face on the dart board. Good good. #monsterdon

At least some of the piranha are drunk now.

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#Monsterdon if you're down he gets you up - dr robert
take a drink from his special cup - dr robert

No you stay there, might tip the canoe.

Foreshadowing

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Wow, the doctor pronounced the ‘ñ’ in “piraña” #Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish

@ordinoides

Who's keeping odds on the characters that will be chomped first?

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The dart board! 😂

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you can't just bury someone. there's cops and coroners and like a whole society over here

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Does the dog die? No.
Does the old man die? . . . *cough*
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