How did this doctor last as long as he did?

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10 seconds ago he was telling them to stay out of the water. Then he sees a kid who is completely safe. And he decides to jump into the water and swim to the kid? #monsterdon

#monsterdon there's actually more left of him than I would have thought

Well he died the way he lived: unnecessarily. #monsterdon

Just a flesh wound

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Lady YOU put them in the river. You opened the flood gates. This scientist working on a government grant was keeping them contained.
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quick! are any of his limbs skeletonized?!

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wow way to further traumatize that poor kid. oh but he HELPED so he does get his redemptive old man death. earlier than i expected though

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Y'know, the doc isn't too chewed up, or bloody, for having been eaten by piranha and bleeding to death.

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nom nom nom
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I don't think the agencies do pay a lot more than private research.

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"I'm a scientist"

idk dude you don't seem familiar with the concept of an invasive species, so

(granted, it *is* the 70s, but…)

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god even the screaming sucks in this so far,

both guys yelling like they're half asleep or something
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"Take my hand!"

We'll bring your torso downriver! #Monsterdon

Thought that kid cracked a beer at first. I guess considering how it turned out he may as well have.

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@Taweret who decided they should sound like that?! lol #Monsterdon

Quick kid, crawl over the fountain of blood!

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@Violinknitter He was, yeah, I'm just saying he didn't offer any sort of reasonable explanation of why he was doing that, with which they might have just let him close the drain

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Operation: Bitey McBitey Fish

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I feel like the title of this movie undersells the situation considerably. It should be named Black Ops Mutant Cannibal Piranhas and Also a Tiny Lizard Guy Is There for Some Reason

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yeah just traumatize that kid more #monsterdon #BiteyFish

@Taweret they're purring because they're so happy to get a meal #Monsterdon

Imagine living on a cabin on a river and not having a boat of any kind besides a handmade raft.

The old man must not have had a boat either, or they would have taken it. #Monsterdon

What was your plan, old man… #monsterdon

So nobody in this movie knows first aid. Great.

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Yeah, gonna be honest chief, not really sure what your plan was here. #Monsterdon

well, he has atoned for his sins

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He died how he lived. Feeding mutant killer fish. #Monsterdon #Piranha

Was the plan to traumatize the kid again?!?! #Monsterdon

wow that is the worst swimming i think i've ever seen #monsterdon

@Taweret people don't kill people, super fish kill people. #monsterdon

they sound like clockwork fish.

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Did the old scientist guy just set himself up for the old redemption by death trope?

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I love the synthfish

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#Monsterdon fish eugenics

Ah, the irony, a weaponsmith killed by his own creation. Nibbled to death, as he would have others nibbled. #Monsterdon

I guess this guy is sacrificing himself for the kid?

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Tempted by the dark side with money and no restrictions

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You're not holding me responsible for making killer fish are you? #Monsterdon

the noise the fish make is hilarious

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

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

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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"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

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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