Possible surprise endings to Snakes on a Plane:
After single-handedly killing all snakes on board and landing the plane, Jackson steps onto the tarmac and removes his trench coat only to reveal that he is, in fact, made entirely out of snakes.
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
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Jessica - Apr 11, 2006 6:35:13 am PDT #1310 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kathy A - Apr 12, 2006 10:11:51 am PDT #1311 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Chicago Tribune has a fun article on the Snakes on a Plane online phenomenon. Loved this:
So, who stars in "Snakes on a Plane"? Who do you think? Good God, there are snakes on the plane! Venomous vipers, in a glorified flying bus, miles above the ground! You need someone tough -- a Jedi, Shaft, Jules from "Pulp Fiction"! You need someone who speaks entirely in exclamation points! With poignantly placed expletives peppered throughout his speech! You need Samuel L. Jackson!
Volans - Apr 13, 2006 2:27:29 am PDT #1312 of 10001
move out and draw fire
We watched Mirrormask last night. I think it was a very good use of CGI, to support the story in a way that couldn't be done without CGI.
The DH thought it was Labyrinth for the post-MTV generation. I thought it was more The Wizard of Oz, and I'm wondering if the two could profitably be compared. Oz kicks off with Dorothy leaving the real world, disrupting the balance in Oz by taking the Wicked Witch out of the picture, and then puts the wearable shiny magic charm on her feet, which ultimately allows her to get home. Along her road, she encounters personalities and images from her real world.
The inciting incident in Mirrormask (not revealed chronologically) is not-Helena putting the wearable shiny magic charm on her face, then hiding it, disrupting the balance of OtherPlace by taking the White Queen out of the picture, and leaving the unreal world. Helena, trying to fix things, encounters personalities and images from her real world.
There are even flying monkeys in both.
One wonders what not-Helena thought about the White City's Prime Minister turning up as her father in the real world, sans yonic mask.
sumi - Apr 13, 2006 5:01:37 am PDT #1313 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2006 8:50:26 am PDT #1314 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Screenwriter Erik Jendresen told SyFyPortal that his proposed Star Trek: The Beginning, the 11th film in the franchise, is not dead, though Paramount has made no decisions about moving forward with the franchise.
Jendresen's script would take place after the events of TV's Star Trek: Enterprise and before those of the original series, during the Earth-Romulan war. The film would center on an entirely new crew and ship, led by a captain called Tiberius Chase, the site reported. The film is envisioned as the first in a trilogy that would culminate in the formation of the United Federation of Planets.
"We wanted to reveal the actual cause of that war, which was surprising to all involved at the time," Jendresen told the site. "We simply wanted to reveal the truth behind that startling incident."
Jendresen (TV's Band of Brothers) was commissioned to write a script last year, but uncertainty about the moribund franchise was heightened when Paramount merged with DreamWorks and management changed.
For now, Paramount is still evaluating what to do with its most profitable franchise and whether it will resurrect Jendresen's script.
"There is a producer at Paramount who has been championing this and the notion that we have the opportunity to plug the gap with this trilogy." Jendresen said, without providing names. "We have a chance here to fill in the canon, and to create a continuum ostensibly from the beginning from Enterprise all the way out to the future."
Huh. That actually sounds interesting....
erikaj - Apr 13, 2006 8:57:58 am PDT #1315 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
"Generations" sucked so hard I'd probably never go again. But I'm a casual user of that particular mythos anyway. YTMV. (Your Trek May Vary)
Strega - Apr 13, 2006 11:05:27 am PDT #1316 of 10001
"We wanted to reveal the actual cause of that war, which was surprising to all involved at the time," Jendresen told the site. "We simply wanted to reveal the truth behind that startling incident."I kinda want to punch him. He knows it's fiction, right?
""We have a chance here to fill in the canon, and to create a continuum ostensibly from the beginning from Enterprise all the way out to the future."I take it back. I definitely want to punch him. Though I do wonder what he thinks "ostensibly" means.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 13, 2006 9:27:56 pm PDT #1317 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Okay, having just caught the closing credits of the Dawn of the Dead remake, I can definitively say that zombies creep me the fuck out. Which is somewhat odd, as vampires, werewolves, and more grotesque alien and demonic monsters in movies don't bother me at all, and at best can startle me if shot suspensefully. (Well, actually one vampire has inspired the flesh-crawling feeling: the exceedingly zombielike Mina in the Langella Dracula.) I'm wondering if this is an instinctive Uncanny Valley response that the other monsters somehow avoid tripping.
Polter-Cow - Apr 14, 2006 7:18:38 am PDT #1318 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What happens in a futuristic world where the consumption of cookies is controlled by the government?
Volans - Apr 14, 2006 9:20:33 am PDT #1319 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Matt, we were just talking about that, in regard to the game Doom 3. The only monster that gets to me as much or more than zombies are ghosts, and it's a different reaction.
No idea why, but the reaction is there.
Greece apparently just released its first-ever zombie movie. I'm interested to see it. This doesn't seem like a culture where the zombie thing would get much traction.