Piranha 3DD

This post is more of a rant than anything else, but it was something that I felt like writing about that goes along with what we've been reading this semester. While looking for a movie to watch today I stumbled upon a movie called Piranha 3DD. The two pictures  above are the poster covers for the movie. The first thing I would like to say about this is that my first impression when I saw this was to laugh, because I thought it was a joke. Since they came out with the movie Piranha 3D last year, I figured that they just made a fake movie poster with the 3DD that was making a sexual innuendo of the 3D version. Or that it was an actual movie but was rather, a parody of the rest of the piranha series. But I then discovered that this is an actual movie that came out a few weeks ago (it's not a parody) and that Piranha 3DD is the actual name and the pictures above are the actual covers. Wow. The second thing I would like to say is that when I discovered it was a real movie I was shocked that they would find it acceptable to name the movie this, as well as choose these as the covers. When you look at it it looks like it's going to be an adult movie (sexual rather than horror).  It reminded me of the beauty myth when I saw it, as the movie is about people getting eaten alive by piranhas yet they have found a way to sexualize that idea. This is around the 5th piranha movie that's been made (and there all exactly the same) and I couldn't believe that they actually decided to name it this. I do understand where they got the idea for the title, as the movie is a continuation of Piranha 3D, but I think the typical Piranha 3D 2 would have been just as sufficient. I don't know, it's just interesting to me that the movie business have started to use woman to sell their movies. It reminds me of the whole controversy that went on with Keira Knightly and the movie cover for King Arthur. Below is the picture of Keira on the movie poster. The first picture is the original photo and the second one is the photo shopped version. Keira is already very beautiful and many people love her, I'm pretty sure the movie would have sold just as well if they hadn't photo shopped her boobs to be bigger on the cover. Though, society and the media don't seem to think that I guess.