original vs remake

Well, I have to ask what you are talking about?

The "true" remake was in 1995 and it aired on some Corwin tribute on cable (HBO, Showtime I can't remember). It was basically kind of a scene by scene redo of the film and it was not as good. They even used the same underwater footage of the piranha attacks from the first film. If you liked the original it is worth seeing at least one time but it is not as good. That is the only remake.

Many call Piranha 3D from 2010 a remake but it isn't a remake. It is just a film about killer piranhas (every shark film isn't a remake of Jaws) but it has nothing to do with the first film and the stories aren't the same at all. I still like the first one better as an overall movie I rooted for the main characters a little more and it was done in a way that was a little more creepy and threatening. The second was entertaining but it was done in such an over the top way, with so much fast moving CGI that it almost got a little silly at times.

I didn't care for some of the death scenes as much. SPOILERS AHEAD IF you don't want to know.

Too many people died in ways that had nothing to do with being eaten by piranha and I didn't like that. They were kind of silly too. A cable wire that was under tension snaps cutting a girl in half. A girl has her hair stuck in an outboard motorboats engine and the guy starts it up and rips her face off. A woman is being carried out of the water obviously injured and her body suddenly rips in half which was just silly. A guy has his head smashed between two boats. I wish they would have used all of that creative energy into just showing more detailed shots of people being eaten underwater, that is more chilling, being eaten bite by bite. They went to that much trouble to come up with interesting deaths and then when a semi main character dies SPOILER AHEAD*******, one you should care about, who lives righ up until the last few minutes of the film, instead of expounding on that death they just show her fall in the water and then the water bubbles. That is all. Really? You can't show her trying to swim while screaming and draw it out more while having others trying to get to her but can't? No, she falls in disappears and that is it.

1978 is still the best. 1995 is much cheesier and tries to do it scene for scene just not as well. 2010 isn't related to the 1978 film but it is action packed. It may have a little too much happening all at the same time to even absorb, it is so fast with blood flying around 100's of people running everywhere and CGI fish that are shown for only a millisecond thrashing so fast that you can't follow it that it becomes a little silly and not as chilling as you'd hope.