Quentin Tarantino on Piranha

Quentin Tarantino reacts to Joe Dante's 1978 cult classic Piranha.
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[@mrkeogh]

Tarantino's knowledge of movies is absolutely encyclopaedic.

[@Njbear7453]

Just watch a lot of movies and you’ll learn a lot

[@robbo03]

​@@Njbear7453 there's watching a lot of movies and then there's watching the amount of movies that Tarantino has watched haha

[@Njbear7453]

@@robbo03 he’s a walking movie dictionary lmao

[@joemadden4160]

Her name is Heather MENZIES. Yeah. Encyclopedic.

[@robbo03]

@@joemadden4160 calm down Joe.

[@robwalsh9843]

John Sayles wrote not one but two of the best Jaws knockoffs ever.

[@09nob]

What was the other one??

[@robwalsh9843]

@@09nob Alligator

[@09nob]

@@robwalsh9843Ah cool, cheers i'll check it out.

[@Njbear7453]

@@robwalsh9843classic

[@gregoryespinoza3572]

It's Heather Menzies, not Mendez. Sbe was married to Robert Urich. I wrote a retrospective article about Piranha for Famous Monsters Of Filmland.

[@joemadden4160]

Thanks Greg👍🏼

[@writeralbertlanier3434]

Yeah I was surprised Tarantino mispronounced that name

[@joemadden4160]

Loved her on Logan's Run...and her pictorials... I'm old.

[@writeralbertlanier3434]

@joemadden4160 Yeah I saw her on Logans Run myself years ago. Decent actress. So did you write for film magazines? You mentioned Famous Monsters of Filmland.

[@joemadden4160]

@@writeralbertlanier3434 Gregory (the original poster) wrote for FMOFL. I did have a letter published by them though. I'm old.

[@mrwillpowers]

I wish Tarantino would make a few low budget movies like this. Forget about legacy, having epic scope. Just have some fun with it.

[@simransidhu7122]

Awesome channel please continue the great work

[@karl_alan]

Definitely in the top dozen or so animal attack movies i've seen. Really well done, especially for the budget

[@obsidiancrow450]

2:33 AYO QUENTIN

[@TheRealTurkFebruary]

🏆🏆🏆

[@Njbear7453]

Love Piranha and the guy from invasion of the body snatchers; the best scene is when the guy gets his feet eaten and they take him out of the water and it’s skeleton bones 😭😭😂😂

[@writeralbertlanier3434]

I saw Piranha years ago as a youngster. It was then a n d is now a fairly well made B movie thanks largely to the talents of writer John Sayles and Director Joe Dante. Whats nice about this commentary here is how Tarantino gets specfically into editing and even speculates as to the budget of the movie. Personally, I viewed Piranha as a superior knockoff of Jaws that worked because 1) it chose a multiple threat instead of a singular one. 2) It had a trio of protagonists that were different personality wise 3) The woodsy pastoral environment creates a vastly different locale. Almost isolated

[@ishotmyboss]

If Joe Dante is directing a movie, do you really need to say that Dick Miller is in it?

[@user-ly9wr8wj5s]

Is Dick Miller in a lot of Joe Dante movies?

[@michaelnascimben4754]

He’s in all of them.

[@richardthompson6366]

Great 70s fun, nice review.

[@bobshark123]

Killerfish is the best of the genre

[@dashingdreww1185]

I had no idea piranha 3d was a remake of this movie lolll

[@simpleguy4121]

Joe Dante made great send ups to the b monster movies of his youth only with a kind of seventies edginess.

[@nyiniamako]

I totally disagree with Quentin. The way the piranhas get released into the river is THE BEST PART!

[@barrybarnes96]

How much espresso did Tarantino drink before this interview...lol.

[@artofsam]

What I loved was how the Pirahna were set up, when I watched the Pirahna 3d remake that came out it was beyond disappointing that they are just these ancient creatures hidden in some deep underwater chasm that get unleashed when an earthquake happens it’s so utterly lacking in creativity, in the original the fact that they are science experiments that were bred for biological warfare is such a unique take that feels like it really separates itself from Jaws.

[@stephenvelez9710]

Jaws is better, I watch Piranha more❤

[@leespiderpod]

I concur

[@connycontainer9459]

The guy looks slightly like Jürgen Prochnow.

[@mauriziogiacomocolombo-sr3oe]

Every movie is the best for Q

[@PixelBubbleHead]

2:48 Ηow many agains is that?

[@pepelemoko01]

Veteran Kevin McCarthy seen on the boat.

[@Billy-bd2oe]

It's Burt Kreischer in that film =)

[@Levipaulsen]

Hmm, haven't even heard of this one. I have to admit it's weird to hear Tarantino invoke Eiseinstein.

[@poindextertunes]

Piranha is fun but Joe Dante’s masterpiece is The ‘Burbs 💯

[@Ilovetoots]

quentins voice is so sexy!

[@DrVonNostrand]

Ayo??

[@CliffhangerClub]

no one ever said

[@38calibercoffee]

Jaws?

[@jaimonjohn2516]

Terminator 2 is the greatest movie ever made not jaws

[@samiam7342]

jaws is not even remotely one of the best movies ever made.........................a pool of water and a mechanical shark???????? a movie like the perfect storm or cast away is a billion times better than jaws.......

[@Mokkari77]

Jaws was shot in the ocean.

[@hellbenderdesign]

It sounds like you just went on the _Universal Studios Tour._ Jaws is a perfect movie.

[@vitorafmonteiro]

"What on God's holy name are you blabbering about?!"

[@jodi2847]

Okay, Zoomer.

[@danieljohn7788]

I beg to disagree w those examples sighted. Jaws is far superior to your examples, in my opinion.