why do people like snakes on a plane?
 

this just seems lame that someone would do this. I mean have they really ran out of ideas. I mean come on,"snakes on a plane". what the hell is next birds on a boat. I saw the movie and there was no solid plot to it. It wasnt even scary because they spelled it out to you as you walked in. I ask you if you like this why?

I like cheesy action movies and I thought it was funny. I think that was the idea which was executed very well.

hold on you think a horror movie was funny?

i mean really you think its funny?

Can you read?


I mean really, can you read?

Horror can be funny. I laughed my ass of at Dead Alive, but you wouldn't classify that movie as anything but horror, really.

You know all of those people running around saying "Snakes on a Plane is stupid! I don't get why people want to see this! What's wrong with the industry!"? Welll, personally, I think they are the stupid ones for not realizing that this is not meant to be taken seriously.

Honestly, come on people. Let's walk into The Holy Grail and call it stupid.

And yes, he DOES think its FUNNY, because THAT WAS THE POINT. "You think a horror movie was funny?"

Evil Dead. Return of the Living Dead. Re-Animator. Nameless others.

They are all horor movies. They are all comedies. Snakes on a Plane wasn't even all that much a horror, more of an action/thriller - and even then, I'd put it's main category as 'Comedy'.

And to call it stupid, yes, it is. Like I said before, that's the point. But here you have tons of legions of fans that love countless action films. Films that defy gravity, realism, anything. For christ sake's someone could FUCKING blow up in a car and just roll out unscratched and they'd just be like "WOAH THAT WAS FUCKING KICKASS DOOD."

In SoaP, as stupid as the movie is - and wants to be- it isn't entirely brainless. The plot makes sense, the events make sense. They give an explanation where things need to be explain. In other movies you could sit there and say "Why don't they just ____?" In this movie, they say THYE DON'T FUCKING DO THAT BECAUSE OF THIS!!!

The AC is broke. The lays were laced with pharamones. One venom didn't solve everyone's issues. Not eveyone lived.

Of course there were far-fetched moments, but really.

I'm just sick and tired of why people don't simply understand that...

SNAKES ON A PLANE IS A STUPID MOVIE. AND IT WANTS TO BE. THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT.

Thank you.

I don't quite think you're understanding the situation fully here.

It's Snakes.

On.

A Plane.

Call the magazines.

Re: why do people like snakes on a plane?
 

I find it hard to believe you saw the movie, because there actually was a plot.

it's not meant to be scary, it's meant to be venomous snakes on a plane and Sam Jackson yelling a lot. It's like all the cheesiness of one of those Sci-Fi channel original movies but without the delusions of actually being a serious work of film. Snakes on a Plane is Mansquito but without taking itsself seriously. It gave in to the fans liking it because it was what it was, and that only made people like it MORE. Hell, they re-shot stuff to give the audience what it wanted to hear!

Its just crazy that you would go to a horror flick to laugh. i thought the movie was entirely too obvious.

Re: Re: why do people like snakes on a plane?
 

but it wasn't solid. i think that it could have totally been better.

First of all horror movies can be funny, do I go into a horror movie primarily to get a laugh? no, but if it's suppose to be funny(Army of Darkness) or funny parts come up(American Psycho) then yes I laugh, that's what people do when they see something funny doesn't matter if it's in a horror movie. There's nothing crazy about it.

Secondly, It's not a horror movie, it's an action movie. A cheesy action movie, no more no less.


Third, you've said ''there was no solid plot'' and ''but it wasn't solid''...wanna elaborate a little?

That movie sucked

Are you SERIOUS?!

LOTS of horror movies are funny!

Shaun Of The Dead (VERY funny)
The Evil Dead movies
The Nightmare On Elm Street movies
The Chucky movies
Gremlins
Dead Alive
Cemetery Man
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Return Of The Living Dead
Idle Hands
Boltneck
Dead And Breakfast
Undead
Toxic Avenger (and almost ALL Troma films)
The House movies
Lake Placid
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
An American Werewolf in London
The Jordy Verill segment of Creepshow


The list goes on FOREVER...


You haven't really seen very many horror movies...Right?


But...Anyway...Snakes On A Plane is NOT a horror movie

Re: Re: Re: why do people like snakes on a plane?
 

How do you figure? How was it any less of a plot than, say, Hostel?

Just because the title clearly depictcs the plot, doesn't mean there sin't one, or that it wasn't solid.

most of the movies you listed were horror-comedys. not pure horror. And even the ones that were strait horror they only had funny parts notthe entire movie.

and yes i've seen many horror movies.

That's our point. 'Snakes' was made to be a comedy/action/horror flick.

i disagree, that movie was ment to get the adrenalin pumping not scare you!

I'm finding it difficult to find the "point" of your argument, halloweenfreak. You didn't like the movie because it wasn't "solid", and you say horror movies shouldn't be funny... and yet, the movie is successful by opposing your points.

So what are you mad about? The fact that something you don't like is liked by others?

Or rather... Why are you stating why you didnt like it through the entire thread, only to defend it when someone said it sucked?


Forget your lithium, did you?

WTF is that supposed to mean ?


it was obvious that it was a movie ?
it was obvious that there were snakes ... on a plane ?

Eeeeeasy now, Urge.

Yes, halloweenfreak1 think asian movies suck.

Don´t hold a grudge.;) :D

god i just hate seeing the forum dumbed down so.

*Throws drowned rat at angra*

*Grins at the satsfying wet SMACK as it hits him*

I've had it with these motherfuckin' noobs in this motherfuckin' thread.

Incidentally, shouldn't it be Snakes in a Plane?

Nope. They were clearly ON the plane. what did YOU see?


There was the Luftansa symbol, with rattlers all over it... Wait...


maybe i dreamed that.

so why didnt they call that UK show "In The Buses" :D

Hmmm - on the plane, on the bus, on the ship, in the car...

It's a multiple passenger thing, clearly.

:p

All good reasons for sequals.

...
 

I like snakes on a plane because it's a great movie. :)

Re: ...
 

I think that sums it the fuck up.

The CGI dampens it a bit though - people say it is the only way to achieve certain things (in this case, make snakes attack people without making snakes attack people) but I'm not sure that should give a green light to everything.

Films will be made very soon where the reliance on CGI is more significant than the film itself - this is very bad. Computer games should be the only entertainment allowed to throw so many pixels around, since they are interactive in this way. Go to a light/laser show if you want to see such flash, and leave movies with their rubber and latex monsters and prosthetics.

Some cgi is very well done, the plane scene in Superman is damn near seamless.

i still like CGI when it is used to make the impossible possible (dino's ... impossible landscapes, etc)

but yeah, if you can do it convincingly otherwise ... then it hurts the film.

(the CGI blood in the new Zatoichi film being the worst example ever)



the most disturbing trend to me is all of these movies with the blue CGI hue ...

Hellboy
underworld
van helsing
league of extraordinary gentlemen,

etc etc etc ...

there has to be a way to make fantastical landscapes look like natural light ??

Blame the MAtrix. They more or less pioneered the digital wash in those movies. Blue for the real worold and green for the matrix. the green was meant to be offputting.

well, it worked in that movie ... it made sense.
(well, the 1st one did)

So did bullet time. Now that Uwe Boll got his stupid hands on it, it is just a cliche crap effect bad directors use to make scenes "cool"

you're right..

but that's the american movie business way ...
milk a good thing for every last penny..
jump on a trend,
beat that horse to death.