20070106
Snakes on a DVD - Click!
I don't know why Hollywood takes a good idea for a campy cross-genre movie and try to destroy it even before it has the chance to be good.For anyone who did not read my blog entries back in August, Snakes on a Plane is an idea forged by a proud group of Internet nerds but smoothered by the mainstream.
The thing that continues to piss me off about these media folks is their "we came up with it" and "let's use the phrase 'snakes on a plane' as slang for 'C'est la vie'". It is this VH1-BS mentality that justifies such nimrods to have their lights knocked out. (NEVER EVER use "snakes on a plane" as slang for "C'est la vie" unless you're health insurance covers getting your ass kicked by geeks.)
Aside from that, I'm dissappointed that these movie makers decided to release Snakes well after the Christmas season. What revenue Snakes lacked in the box office it will surely make up on DVD like any good cult classic. Just look at Army of Darkness starring Bruce Campbell.
Probably the one problem with snakes for the dastardly group of people known as marketing folk is that Snakes was a cross-genre film. While Snakes qualifies as a campy horror flick, the demons in charge of marketing the film decided to label it as "Action-Adventure-Horror-Comedy-Thriller". In which on the DVD cover, it is called a "Action/Thriller". The truth is Snakes is a horror movie, plain and simple.
Like any horror movie, there are comedic scenes where the audience is fooled into thinking "Oh my God! It's something creapy at the door! Don't open it! etc." When in fact, the door opens and it's one of the protagonists. Added music and lighting also adds to this movie trick. The idea is to earn the audience's trust and to let their guard down. They know it's a horror movie. The came to see something spooky. And they assume that they know what will happen because they thinking they have seen it all before. Disengaging the audiences guard is important, because it reminds the audience with their know-it-all mentality that in fact they don't know jack.
This is what made people like Rod Sterling and Alfred Hitchcock successful writers. They take something ordinary that we think we know everything about and they show us that we know nothing about it, sort of like how the media thinks they know the audience but as we have learned they don't know their audience.
Because they don't know their audience, good TV shows get cancelled while crappy ones stay on the air. Because they don't know about their audience, news and information are dwarfed by celebrity gossip and crappy human interest stories. Because they don't know their audience, they think Midwestern folk (such as myself) are stupid and will buy anything that they tell us.
The media has no interest in keeping us informed or to help our country in times of conflict. Their only purpose is to distract us by entertaining us with stupid stories that they think will prevent people from creating their own ideas or thinking with cognitive reason while they exploit the downtrotten to make tons of money.
I don't know how many blog entries I have stated that in, but it bears repeating.
Anyway, pick up Snakes on a Plane on DVD and don't ever use "snakes on a plane" as a subsitute for "c'est la vie"!
Labels: horror, movies, rage, snakes, thevirus, writing
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/06/2007 09:39:00 AM (0) comments top
