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[lederhosen]

Went to see Snakes on a Plane with da_norvegicus and a bunch of his schoolmates.

The lads enjoyed it, and I probably would've too if I had less familiarity with snakes. I was willing to suspend disbelief on the 'snakes go homicidal' bit - it's not normal snake behaviour, but at least they had a rationale for that. But they just weren't convincing as snakes - far too much obvious CGI, some of it in the look but most in how they moved.

Also, and I know Hollywood's never been even remotely realistic about this stuff, but... just for the record, even if you are bitten by one of the world's most venomous snakes, unless you are amazingly unlucky and suffer a direct hit to a vein or some such, you have a good fifteen minutes of activity left. In all likelihood, much longer. You are not going to seize up and die on the spot.

Also also... if they're going to terrify people with snakes, is it too much to ask that they at least give some vaguely responsible presentation of the first-aid? I realise that snakebite treatment doctrine varies from place to place, and that the whole 'multiple poorly-identified exotic species' is a first-aid nightmare, but I don't know *anywhere* where the treatment depicted would have been considered appropriate.

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[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

And next in our double feature, a movie about a South American rainforest, in which a kookaburra is clearly audible!

[remus-shepherd.livejournal.com]

There were multiple plot holes, not the least of which was if you could smuggle an 8 foot crate of poisonous snakes on the plane, why not just plant a bomb.

You're never going to enjoy films like this if you don't learn to turn your brain off, you know. :)

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

if you could smuggle an 8 foot crate of poisonous snakes on the plane, why not just plant a bomb.

Yeah, I noticed that too, but it's not the same thing. When it comes to WSoD, you get away with a lot more in the setup than you do in the heart of the movie. In this one, everything that happens before the crate opens is just handwaving to get us to 'snakes on a plane'. It's after that point that it has to work for a living, and the snakes just didn't work for me. It wouldn't have been much more jarring if they'd been sock-puppets; I just couldn't convince my brain to accept them as 'real snake'.

[psychowoof.livejournal.com]

Ah, someone who shares my reasoning for not seeing the movie. (That and the ease with which snakes manage to wiggle their way into my nightmares.)

Just from the preview I have issue with the depiction of the anaconda. A big-ass snake that large cannot move that easily out of water.