Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on August 24, 2006 at 10:15:29

In Reply to: Excellent article on SOAP and what the phenomenon may mean -- or, not. posted by clarkjohnsen on August 24, 2006 at 08:40:44:

Snakes on a Plane, all pitch and no movie, would more fully be labelled Computer-Generated Snakes on a Tangible Set of a Plane, such that the snakes seldom look to be actually aboard the plane but rather cut-and-pasted on top of it. In any case there are too many of them (whether digital or bona fide reptile) and too many passengers, Honolulu to L.A., for director David R. Ellis to keep track of, Samuel L. Jackson excepted as an FBI escort of a top-priority witness. The action, once it gets rolling, careens into chaos. As a warm-up, one snake slithers down from the disabled smoke detector in one of the lavatories while a pair of young lovers are enrolling in the Mile-High Club and bites the woman on the nipple. Another in an adjacent lavatory pops up from the toilet bowl while a man is relieving himself and bites him on the weenie. It's that kind of thing. Schlock unashamed. (That hiss you hear could be human in origin.) The Internet chatterers who feel a special proprietorship toward the movie are entirely welcome to it.

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