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Title: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: WyreWizard on August 22, 2006, 11:11:55 AM That hundreds of poisonous Snakes will be able to co-oexist peacefully in a tightly enclosed space to reach a common goal? Its amazing the things that movie-makers will try to get us to believe.
For one thing, Snakes are solitary and very territorial animals. The only time they gather together is when mating and even that is often competetive. Let me ask you guys: when you're in the Arizona desert and you encounter a rattle snake, is it alone or in a group? Alone of course! In reality if you tried to gather hundreds of poisonous snakes and pack them into a plane, they will kill each other first. Oh and I guess the makers of SoAP were on a very tight budget. All the snakes in the movie were very obviously CGI and not good quality CGI. I guess real snakes and animal trainers weren't in the budget. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: ulthar on August 22, 2006, 11:23:21 AM You've obviously never seen RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, recently dubbed the perfect Bad Movie, as an example of snakes living together for millenia for a common purpose.
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Bazarov on August 22, 2006, 12:35:32 PM the biggest wool being pulled over people eyes in that film is the absurd notion that a human beaing can be killed by a baseball bat, i mean come on
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: trekgeezer on August 22, 2006, 01:51:06 PM blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: WyreWizard on August 22, 2006, 02:23:26 PM trek_geezer Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah LOL, Oh c'mon now. You guys can come up with better arguments than this. Yes, I have seen ROTLA. That pit was filled with nonvenomous snakes and it wouldn't have stayed that way for millennia. But the one plausibility problem in that movie that really makes me shake my head is the Fact Harrison Ford managed to outrun a massive round boulder rolling towards him at 80 mph. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: trekgeezer on August 22, 2006, 04:45:51 PM blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
I don't think they expect us to believe anything, that's not the point of the movie so why argue about it one way or the other? Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: RCMerchant on August 22, 2006, 06:34:43 PM Hey-if the sand worms in SQUIRM can gang up on folks,well than snakes should easily be able to.Or the cockroaches in CREEPSHOW. Or the frogs in FROGS. Or the blah blah blah in blahh blah blah...
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 23, 2006, 06:08:48 AM Still trying to take this movie down all by yourself? The hype hasn't translated into box office, too many of the bloogers and Internet fans in Middle America were too young to get into an R rated film seems to be the theory according to a column in the Hollywood Reporter (yeah right, we found a way in when I was under age and the kids are still at it now). But it'll clean up on home video. And a year from now people will have forgotten it, and will be loving or ripping apart some other overhyped cynical product of the Hollywood film machine.
Arguing over the plausibility of a movie that is willfully thumbing it nose at plausiblity is pointless. Let it go, there are much better windmills to tilt at. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: dean on August 23, 2006, 08:41:11 AM Put your hands up anyone who saw this thread coming?
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Scott on August 23, 2006, 01:01:14 PM To respond would be to also say the obvious. : )
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Scott on August 23, 2006, 01:17:59 PM Some have this weird idea that film is always suppose to be realistic. : )
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: ulthar on August 23, 2006, 01:30:53 PM Or their version of realistic, which is not always real.
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: WyreWizard on August 23, 2006, 02:11:34 PM RCMerchant Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Hey-if the sand worms in SQUIRM can gang up on > folks,well than snakes should easily be able to.Or > the cockroaches in CREEPSHOW. Or the frogs in > FROGS. Or the blah blah blah in blahh blah blah... cockroaches and frogs are social creatures. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: RCMerchant on August 23, 2006, 05:13:10 PM Well,it looks alot better than RATTLERS(1975)which was a really,REALLY,lousy,boring,waste of time.I will take an unreal,fun movie over a boring unreal movie anyday.And if movies were meant to reflect reality,why not sit on the porch and watch traffic go by?It's like comparing the drone of awashing machine to music...the latter is much more interesting.
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: LilCerberus on August 23, 2006, 09:36:49 PM RCMerchant Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- >It's like comparing the drone of awashing machine to music...the latter is much more interesting. Apparently, you haven't listened to any of these new "Noise Artists". At least a washing machine has rhythm. Then again, we propably don't want to go & give those guys any ideas. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: RCMerchant on August 23, 2006, 10:36:18 PM And BLACK FLAG's song DAMAGED is a good song to me. I 'm 44.... I dunno about nuttin no mo....
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: LilCerberus on August 24, 2006, 12:52:12 AM RCMerchant Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > And BLACK FLAG's song DAMAGED is a good song to > me. I 'm 44.... I dunno about nuttin no mo.... Uuuhhhmmm-no, Black Flag is music. Their album Damaged has rhythm, melody & harmony, albeit intentionally chaotic. The 804 Noise collective has none of that. The best description I can come up with would be that it sounds like someone with four busted radios trying unsuccessfully to coordinate the different tones of static. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 24, 2006, 05:19:58 AM So they make music for people who find the kind of stuff they play on "Hearts of Space" and "Echoes" too stimulating and interesting?
Besides, right now there's probably some rap producer building a mashup of a washing machine and the synchopated mumblings of 50 Cent. Dean, regarding your signature, so the password is in Welsh? Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: ulthar on August 24, 2006, 07:08:28 AM I once sat in a drive-thru line listening the UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Radio, and they played a "song" that went on for about 10 minutes that was some guy banging on a pipe. It was among the most irritating things I ever heard, and I turned it off.
I can only imagine how bad it is to listen to the 804 Noise Collective. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: dean on August 24, 2006, 08:24:40 AM Well if it's in Welsh, that's the first I've heard about it.
The quote itself is from the camp, retro classic 'Barbarella' as per what the subtitles on the dvd told me. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 24, 2006, 10:15:17 AM Sorry meant that as a joke, it looks like the stereotypical roundabout spellings and odd letter combinations ("chwyrn" for example) that seeems to charcterize Welsh in lots of English comedies and sticoms I've seen.
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Shadowphile on August 24, 2006, 12:46:49 PM I got the joke but I guess I'm just strange.
Has anybody heard about the SoaP sequel? Bees in the Car? Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 25, 2006, 07:22:08 AM How about a crossover, rats against snakes: Willard vs. Snakes on a Plane.
Fire Ants on a Bus Tarantulas on a Cruise Ship Jellyfish in a Hot Tub Insurance Salesmen, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientologists in a Locked Waiting Room Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: RCMerchant on August 25, 2006, 08:13:19 AM Meth heads in a library.
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Shadowphile on August 25, 2006, 09:57:16 AM Insurance Salesmen, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientologists in a Locked Waiting Room
"Now you will know real terror" Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: LilCerberus on August 25, 2006, 05:37:35 PM Timbo Hines & Susan Goforth and Tom Cruise somehow end up seated next to each other.
Flakes on A Plane. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 26, 2006, 06:48:11 AM Fat Ladies in a Great American Cookie Company
Frat Boys in a Home for Unwed Mothers Trekkies in Brandon Braga's Vacation Home And those muffled thumps you hear are me beating the joke in to the ground. Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Mugwump on August 28, 2006, 12:46:35 PM You do realize that SoaP is not a serious movie, right? These things don't need to be factually correct. It's a b-movie.
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: odinn7 on August 28, 2006, 07:37:02 PM How about all the numerous movies with tarantulas co-existing and over running towns? Tarantulas do not live together peacefully (with the exception of 1 or 2 species) but hey, the films were all fun anyway. Why worry about things like this?
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Fearless Freep on August 28, 2006, 09:31:42 PM You do realize that SoaP is not a serious movie, right? These things don't need to be factually correct. It's a b-movie. What?!?!?! I could've sworn it was a documentary... Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Flangepart on August 30, 2006, 03:32:34 PM Guys....Wildstorm Comics is doing the SoaP comic book. 2 issues. First issue today...Why?...just...why?...
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 31, 2006, 05:08:33 AM Becaue they smell a buck or two in it?
To feed the devotional frenzy of the Intenet faithful? To enrage and stimey the people with tas-.....I mean haters? To drive the final nail in the coffin of Western Civilization? Because Sam Jackson is a fanboy too? To take our minds off the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? To show Kim Jong Il what he's missing out on? Because their "The Devil Wears Prada" comics did so well? Because their "Talladega Nights" comic didn't, surprisingly enough? Because Christmas came early this year? Because, c'mon it's snakes.....on a plane! How could it miss? Because a Joh Mark Karr vs. JonBenet Ramsey comic would be in bad taste? To keep the film fresh in people's minds for Oscar nomination season? To tie up all the loose threads from the film? To tell the continuing adventures and the fascianting backstories of the snakes.....or the plane? Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: trekgeezer on August 31, 2006, 07:23:14 AM Hey Yaddo, do I sense some sarcasm in your reply?
Title: Re: Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe... Post by: Yaddo 42 on August 31, 2006, 08:48:09 AM Just a wee bit, I had a bad night at work and wanted vent some way or other.
Plus I wanted to see how many "answers" I could come up with. |