It occured to me that I never got back around to the coolest fucking thing I’ve seen on tv lately..
The 1974, cheesy-as-they-come, horror flick “Pirahna” It is really, really funny and “so bad it’s good,” which is like two thumbs up in the “g-views” rating system.
The highlight - and the only reason I watched the rest of the movie - is when the star of the movie, this horrible actress playing a private detective of sorts hired to find two missing teens, goes to the now abandonned government research facility. They are in this room with all these jars filled with brains and fetuses and unidentifiable floating objects. And suddenly it looks like they editied in clipped scenes from “Land of the Lost.” There are these strange, really poorly animated or clay-mated or something, creatures that look like either tiny dinosaurs or really large drunken lizzards. It may actually only be one creature, but I’m pretty sure there were at least two different ones. But the strange thing about it is that the issue of the creatures are never addressed. The actors don’t notice them so there is no explanation about what they are and what they do. Are they some genetically mutated form of Land Pirahna that the government was planning to deploy into enemy territory? Weirder still, you never see them again after this scene. We watched the whole movie - closely, thinking surely they would reappear. But, nope! Notta! Why were they included? How were they relevant to the plot? Did they not have editors? Were they leaving a door open for a sequel / spin-off? It was very strange, and at first a little creepy. But it held my attention and maybe that’s all it was supposed to do. But I don’t think ADD was that big of problem in 1974. ..whatever.
The coolest fucking thing I have been watching on a regular basis recently is Miami Vice! It’s an old favorite, I almost never get tired of it, and it’s on every day on TNN, which should be TTN - Trailor Trash Network. Oh my god! That reminds me, I watched “8 Mile“! I got a free rental from Blockbuster off the $6 soda I bought at the movies so that I could get the “Reloaded” cup, so I decided I didn’t have to wait for it to come on HBO. And you know, it wasn’t bad at all, and little Marshal Mathers isn’t a terrible actor. But I guess he wasn’t really acting so.. ..whatever.