Snakes on a plane and your usual dumb critics...

lenf · Post by **lenf** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:18 pm

The following from a newspaper report on teens who stood in line for over a day to be first in line for a SoaP showing...

Teen waiting in line wrote:While he looked forward to finally seeing it, part of him felt a twinge of sadness. "In four hours when I see it, there's nothing left. For a full year, I've been looking for anything about it online," he said. "Once I see it, it's over."

Touching.

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:28 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:
emmline wrote:No, not the chestbusters, but the creepy, seaweedy kid in The Ring would be freaky. That's something I'd avoid.
That was the only thing that woke me up during that awfully boring movie. Emm, I'd be willing to bet you'd be creeped out by Eraserhead in black spandex and dayglow slippers... call it a hunch.

I'm with Emmline...The Ring scared me so bad I had nightmares for...oh...7 days!!! That girl is the creepiest.

J.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:54 pm

feadogin wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:
emmline wrote:No, not the chestbusters, but the creepy, seaweedy kid in The Ring would be freaky. That's something I'd avoid.
That was the only thing that woke me up during that awfully boring movie. Emm, I'd be willing to bet you'd be creeped out by Eraserhead in black spandex and dayglow slippers... call it a hunch.
I'm with Emmline...The Ring scared me so bad I had nightmares for...oh...7 days!!! That girl is the creepiest.

J.

Well, I'll agree she was eerie, in a Hollywood Manifested kinda way. But if you are fond for disturbing cinematic images (regardless of the suck-factor the movie rates over-all), then I'd have to say The Cell (yes... with J-Lo), rated pretty high with me for "disturbing".

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:07 pm

he he, J-Lo On A Plane, he he, he he.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:22 pm

"Snakes on a Plane" sounds like the kind of movie we would have loved to go see at a drive in theater when we were kids...maybe in a double feature with "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or "The Killer Bees." Stretched out in the back of the station wagon in our PJs, eating popcorn and drinking monster-sized cokes, shaking the speakers that never worked right...ah, those were the days!

Redwolf

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:41 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote: Well, I'll agree she was eerie, in a Hollywood Manifested kinda way. But if you are fond for disturbing cinematic images (regardless of the suck-factor the movie rates over-all), then I'd have to say The Cell (yes... with J-Lo), rated pretty high with me for "disturbing".

I agree. I found that one incredibly disturbing also.

J.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:08 am

I found WTC really disturbing, but I am severely claustrophobic, so the idea of spending hours and hours pinned and broken under twenty feet of concrete rubble with a couple inches of breathing space around my head touched a nerve ... somewhere ...

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:31 am

djm wrote:... but I am severely claustrophobic... -djm

I am as well. Getting on a plane is pretty tough for me in that regard, but if that plane was full of snakes, I'd have something fun to do. It would also help toward keeping my mind off of being lodged between two equally larged sized folk (like myself

) for any number of hours.

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:01 am

So much for damning the critics...today's NYC papers gave SoaP 3 stars - said it was rollicking good fun...so there! And I hope Ebert makes a speedy recovery and return.

Philo

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:47 am

I've moved this to its own thread.

Best wishes,
Jerry

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:51 am

Moving on to music critics--about 20 years ago,
Steve Allen recorded an LP, pretending to be an underground
recording of a blues pianist, the great but undiscovered
Blind Tomato Stevens, or something like that.
Allen recorded this with a track overdubbed,
a second right hand.

The critics raved--long meditations on the technique,
simple but sophisticated, the culmination of a long
tradition in blues piano.

Only one critic caught on: 'Blind Tomato Stevens
appears to have three arms.'

When asked what this showed about music
critics Allen responded: 'It's a difficult mode of expression.'

lenf · Post by **lenf** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:44 am

Watch out! All this talk about blind tomatoes and Steve Allen is going to get everyone off topic and distracted, and you know what happens then...

HHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:17 pm

Well, it was only a matter of time, I suppose:

http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/36 ... 0847640701

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:11 pm

jim stone wrote: undiscovered
Blind Tomato Stevens, or something like that.
'

I seem to recall it was Blind Watermelon Washington-I've cribed that appelation on a couple of times

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:51 pm

Snakes on a higher plane?