Do the makers of SoAP expect us to believe...

WyreWizard · 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.

ulthar · 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.

Bazarov · 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

trekgeezer · August 22, 2006, 01:51:06 PM

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WyreWizard · August 22, 2006, 02:23:26 PM

trek_geezer Wrote:
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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.

trekgeezer · August 22, 2006, 04:45:51 PM

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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?

RCMerchant · 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...

Yaddo 42 · 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.

dean · August 23, 2006, 08:41:11 AM

Put your hands up anyone who saw this thread coming?

Scott · August 23, 2006, 01:01:14 PM

To respond would be to also say the obvious. : )

Scott · August 23, 2006, 01:17:59 PM

Some have this weird idea that film is always suppose to be realistic. : )

ulthar · August 23, 2006, 01:30:53 PM

Or their version of realistic, which is not always real.

WyreWizard · August 23, 2006, 02:11:34 PM

RCMerchant Wrote:
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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.

RCMerchant · 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.

LilCerberus · August 23, 2006, 09:36:49 PM

RCMerchant Wrote:
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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.