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.
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.
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
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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.
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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?
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...
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.
Put your hands up anyone who saw this thread coming?
To respond would be to also say the obvious. : )
Some have this weird idea that film is always suppose to be realistic. : )
Or their version of realistic, which is not always real.
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> 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.
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.
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>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.
And BLACK FLAG's song DAMAGED is a good song to me. I 'm 44.... I dunno about nuttin no mo....
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> 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
I got the joke but I guess I'm just strange.
Has anybody heard about the SoaP sequel? Bees in the Car?
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
Meth heads in a library.
Insurance Salesmen, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientologists in a Locked Waiting Room
"Now you will know real terror"
Timbo Hines & Susan Goforth and Tom Cruise somehow end up seated next to each other.
Flakes on A Plane.
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.
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.
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?
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...
Guys....Wildstorm Comics is doing the SoaP comic book. 2 issues. First issue today...Why?...just...why?...
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?
Hey Yaddo, do I sense some sarcasm in your reply?
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.