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jrtomMegan and I saw SoaP this weekend. As I (and no doubt many others) have said elsewhere, it's pretty much exactly what we expected given the title. Pretty good, rather overdone in spots, funny in spots.
The phrase "roller-coaster of a film" and the like is rather overused, but I think that it's actually pretty apt here: you are hardly ever surprised by this movie, but it's hard to keep from viscerally reacting to bits of it anyway--even in some of the most flagrantly telegraphed actions and scenes.
I was surprised that we never saw Kim again after the beginning of the film. It made the film seem a bit unfinished.
I wonder how effective simply radically reducing the temperature on the plane would have been. They would have had to pile the remaining passengers up to keep them from succumbing to hypothermia, but presumably it would have made all the snakes torpid.
I would have found it more amusing and twisty if Flynn had _actually_ killed the witness at the end of the film, rather than just making us all think that he had for a moment. (What kind of criminal mastermind is Kim if he doesn't put someone on the plane that can take out the witness if the snakes fail?)
A couple of amusing links:
BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/21/snakes_on_a_plane_th.html
Includes an amusing exploration of the different ways in which "Snakes on a Plane" can be used as a part of speech.
A list of "[Blank] on a [Blank]" films that people have come up with recently: http://www.originalalamo.com/sites/2blanks/films.aspx
(I'm disappointed that "Ferrets on a Panel Truck" hasn't made it up there. Yet, anyway.)
The phrase "roller-coaster of a film" and the like is rather overused, but I think that it's actually pretty apt here: you are hardly ever surprised by this movie, but it's hard to keep from viscerally reacting to bits of it anyway--even in some of the most flagrantly telegraphed actions and scenes.
I was surprised that we never saw Kim again after the beginning of the film. It made the film seem a bit unfinished.
I wonder how effective simply radically reducing the temperature on the plane would have been. They would have had to pile the remaining passengers up to keep them from succumbing to hypothermia, but presumably it would have made all the snakes torpid.
I would have found it more amusing and twisty if Flynn had _actually_ killed the witness at the end of the film, rather than just making us all think that he had for a moment. (What kind of criminal mastermind is Kim if he doesn't put someone on the plane that can take out the witness if the snakes fail?)
A couple of amusing links:
BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/21/snakes_on_a_plane_th.html
Includes an amusing exploration of the different ways in which "Snakes on a Plane" can be used as a part of speech.
A list of "[Blank] on a [Blank]" films that people have come up with recently: http://www.originalalamo.com/sites/2blanks/films.aspx
(I'm disappointed that "Ferrets on a Panel Truck" hasn't made it up there. Yet, anyway.)
