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drjayphd Torosu OW! BURNY!                    Since: 11-18-05 From: CT Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by Apophis Braveheart. William Wallace is the hero, but he gets tortured and killed at the end (ZOMG SPOILER!). But since he's played by Mel Gibson and His Martyr Complex, that shouldn't really count. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa  Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| It's genius. Why didn't Hollowood think of this earlier? Why bother with confusing nondescriptive titles? Just explain exactly what the movie's about right in the title. Scent of a Woman? Blind Obnoxious Depressed Guy. The Shawshank Redemption? Guys in Prison. The Silence of the Lambs? Cannibal Helps FBI Agent. Dude, Where's My Car? Dudes loses his car. Ok, I guess that ones already done, but you get the point. | |||
Skydude Armos Knight  Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6181 days Last view: 6181 days |
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| Now what really needs to happen with this is a huge box office surge. If people organize and actually go see the movie, no matter how bad it is, that will encourage them to make more movies with such wonderful titles and premises, because they'll think that's actually what people really want to see. And it'll be wonderful. | |||
Pikawil  130  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6002 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| Here comes THE TRAILER! | |||
Apophis Ropa  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| OMG! MOTHER FUCKER HIT THE SNAKE WITH A TASER! | |||
Abnormal Freak Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 5974 days Last view: 5974 days |
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| The movie looks downright hilarious. I'm guessing this is the intent, but, with some filmmakers, you never know. Props to Samuel L. Jackson (why is the L there? It's always pronounced "Samuel Jackson," not "Samuel EL Jackson") for threatening to quit if they changed the title. | |||
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Apophis Ropa Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Originally posted by Abnormal Freak Umm... everything I've seen is the exact opposite. |
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Sin Dogan 860  Uoodo Original Blend Armored Trooper Votoms Canned Coffee! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 5912 days Last view: 5911 days |
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| I think it would be hilarious if Samue L. Jackson(L left out intentionally) was playing himself in the movie. Then we would have lines something like this:
"Holy shit, it's Samuel Motherfuckin' Jackson! He'll save us!" Followed by a bitch slap from Samue. Samuel El Jackson? Hahah. I know you were spelling it out for phoenetic reasons, but I'm thinking "Samuel the Jackson". Genius. |
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Abnormal Freak Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 5974 days Last view: 5974 days |
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Originally posted by Everybody Wang Chung I thought of the same thing too while typing it. :P Samuel el Jackson. :o Makin' him higher than the common man. But yeah, Samue L. Jackson is fitting. |
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Valcion Knuckle Joe too much high power man  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| I'm guessing at the end of the movie Samuel L Jackson and Kenan thompsan will combine and form Mr. T and then he'll go up on top of the plane to fight some giant snake.
That would be badass. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Snakes on a Plane is going to be huge, I think. Whoever came up with this is a genius... this is a movie PERFECTLY aimed at the current pop culture zeitgeist. It's UBER ZEITGEISTY and many many many people will go see it. Honestly, something intentionally, gleefully, seriously, self-consciously terrible is pretty much bound to succeed given how much genuine shit there is out there. This might be the start of a new genre of "terrible/awesome" movies. The tone needs to be right, of course... utterly serious and earnest, not a winking comedy, no Mel Brooks farce. That stuff's obsolete and we demand something subtler. No, this NEEDS to take itself seriously, and I suspect that it will, I suspect anyone with the balls to pitch a movie called "Snakes on a Plane" and the follow-through to draft Samuel L Jackson knows what he's doing. If this does hit that tone, it really is film-making gold.
Yep, irony continues to eat itself, double-back in on itself, layer in on itself and everything else until no-one knows where the parody stops and the seriousness begins. If anywhere. It's not just "cheese" any more, it's not just a MST3K-inspired train-wreck fascination with terribly made movies, I think the trend represented by the excitement for SNAKES ON A PLANE goes beyond all that. One Bruncher said that it must be an elaborate ruse by the Hollywood elite (a break from Homosexualising America, perhaps?). I suspect they may be right... how big is this absurd little "fuck you to actual standards" culture getting? How far could the in-joke go? Could Movie Critics get in on it and start praising the brazen originality and the way it flies in the face of the convention that movies have to be good or make sense? Could Samuel L Jackson win an Oscar? In the post-Simpsons world, is there ANYTHING that can't be layered with irony and satire and double-irony and deadpan humour to utter saturation point? Is nothing sacred!? Will it still be funny if EVERYONE starts proclaiming how awesome it is? "Dude, are you being sarcastic!?" "I don't even know any more!" |
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Ziff B2BB BACKTOBASICSBITCHES Since: 11-18-05 From: A room Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| I've never not proclaimed it's unawesomeness.
It is all summed up by the simple theorum Snakes + Plane = Snakes [on a Plane]. |
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Abnormal Freak Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 5974 days Last view: 5974 days |
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Originally posted by Arwon This kind of movie is hardly new. Escape from New York? |
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