| Author |
 Topic  |
|
|
Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
1530 Posts |
 Posted - 08/19/2006 : 03:08:30 AM
|
Quick take: OK, it's nearing 3:00 in the morning, and I just got back from seeing a 12:30 am showing of Soap. I can say without irony that this film is, and is likely to remain, the four-star gold standard of Snakes on a Plane movies. I honestly can't remember when a film so completely and utterly fulfilled every expectation and wish I had of it.
The best part is that the film was made by people who were actually unashamed of the project, and didn't try to camp it up as a defense mechanism to show how sophisticated they are, even if they are making trash for rubes.
Instead, and very much in the mold of '70s genre stuff, this film just takes its premise and lets rip with it. There's humor, to be sure, but never once during the proceedings did I feel that anyone making the movie thought they were superior to the audience they were making it for. It truly has that "let's make the movie we'd like to see" vibe.
Anybody who says this is a "good bad film" doesn't understand what a bad film is. On some level at least, a bad film is one that fails to accomplish what it sets out to do. Snakes on a Plane, in contrast, is a cheesy film, and a glorious example of the breed. It is based on a goofy idea, but treats it seriously, and was made by folks honestly trying to make the best snakes on a plane movie they could. They have succeeded.
I can say with complete candor that this was easily the best ten bucks I've spent in a theater in a long, long time.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
--King of the Hill |
|
|
Joliet Jake Blues
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
Australia
41 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 03:41:11 AM
|
*cue Burns voice*
exxxxxxxxxxcellent
cant wait to see it
"Age and guile beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut" - P.J. O'Rourke |
 |
|
|
TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 5:50:28 PM
|
What really stands out is that the film is an almost perfect melding of the standard 1970s disaster movie formula with the sensibilities of a modern nature gone amok movie. By combining the two and adding the trash-talking attitude of Samuel L. Jackson and a giddy enthusiasm on the part of the rest of the cast they've really created something truly unique with SNAKES ON A PLANE.
Now Playing in Foyeurism at Foywonder.com:
THE RADNESS OF CRU JONES - Cru Jones! Helltrack! RAD!
Plus: B-WARE THE BLOG is alive at http://www.livejournal.com/users/foywonder |
|
|
|
Jay
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
57 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 7:10:09 PM
|
Probably the most original idea to hit the screen all summer long. I have to agree with Mr. Begg that the movie was all that one could have hoped for or expected. Even for a movie having such a goofy premise, it never felt, well...goofy.
Finally - a movie that sets out to, & succeeds with flying colors at, simply being entertaining.
Inane ramblings - http://www.blahdityblahblah.blogspot.com |
|
|
|
Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 08:16:31 AM
|
It looks like SoaP is having less than spectacular financial success. On the bright side that may prevent the inevitable dissappointment that a SoaP 2 would bring.
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp |
|
|
|
RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 10:41:42 AM
|
Well, it cost $35 million and made $15 on opening weekend. The buzz on it has been pretty good--I haven't read anyone who's said, "I waited for this and it was a disappointment." Mostly, it's been "I waited for this and it was excellent."
So 'Word of Mouth' (nearly hunted to extinction) may help it become a bigger success. |
|
|
|
Nlneff
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
84 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 9:45:05 PM
|
Any chance for a longer review on you blog Ken?
And it was nice to see a B movie that was unapolgeticaly a B movie for once, and within the confines of its absurd premise, took it seriously (By that I mean at no time did the absurd premise prevent the movie from being the best snakes on a plane movie it could be.)
|
Edited by - Nlneff on 08/23/2006 9:52:42 PM |
|
|
|
twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
1026 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2006 : 08:41:55 AM
|
| Besides, we all know that B-movies really make their money on DVD. |
|
|
| |
Topic |
|
Forum Locked
Topic Locked