Increasing budgets also reduce the likelihood of vanity projects like On Deadly Ground and Star Trek V being greenlighted. Meanwhile, the ubiquitous screenwriting classes, heck, the computer programs that provide screenplay templates that you fill with content, ensure a certain boring uniformity of product. At the same time, the kids writing screenplays now are just smart enough to provide boring bad scripts rather than funny bad scripts. These are grim days for Jabootuish fare. So let s celebrate a real throwback.
Bats is a miracle, first that it was made, more so that it was released to theaters.
It may be a while before we see it s like again. Just like a championship baseball team doing all the little things correctly, Bats pays attention to what a bad movie needs to do to succeed. Frankly, it brings a tear to my eye even to think about it. The strength of Piranha is that it never tries to transcend what it is. Instead, the script is well written, the direction is clean and the acting proficient.