United 93 vs Snakes on a Plane
In the space of less than a week (and totally by coincidence, I might add), I've seen two movies at the cinema dealing with life-threatening situations on planes, and I just thought it would be interesting to look at the different ways in which the filmmakers dealt with the same basic premise. Now I'll do this in a point-by-point fashion, just comparing little aspects of both films until we have reached a verdict as to exactly which one extracted the most ambrosia of quality out of the thing-from-which-ambrosia-comes of story. And indeed, it is sentences like that last one that lead people to dependence on drugs like alcohol and toad poison.
So here we go.
POINT NUMBER ONE
United 93 dealt with a shocking, devastating true event that changed the way we see the world, in a captivating way.
Snakes on a Plane dealt with a farcical, ridiculous concept with no grounding in reality whatsoever and did so in a very silly way.
POINT NUMBER TWO
The makers of United 93 had clearly done a great deal of research into the people that were actually involved on that day and obviously had a great deal of sympathy for all of the characters, including the terrorists.
The makers of Snakes on a Plane quite clearly didn't give a shit about the characters except the ones who had large tits or could yell in a very loud, very black voice.
POINT NUMBER THREE
United 93 had a carefully constructed real-time plot with eerily everyday dialogue and human reactions.
Snakes on a Plane used endless, unbelievably inane dialogue as it limped from one Deus ex Machina situation to the next.
POINT NUMBER FOUR
The makers of United 93 had recruited a cast of unknown, amateur actors which lent the film an air of foreboding realism.
The makers of Snakes on a Plane had recruited a cast of unknown, amateur actors which lent the film an air of really bad acting.
POINT NUMBER FIVE
United 93 had a number of powerfully moving moments as the doomed passengers passed loving farewell messages on to their families.
Snakes on a Plane was full of shallow, schmaltzy faux-sentimentality in the spirit of the Hollywood credo that life-or-death situations always make everybody incredibly horny.
POINT NUMBER SIX
United 93, although viewed from the perspective of the plane who supposedly 'fought back against the foreign black murdering bastards', there is a minimum of obnoxious, Americo-centric heroics.
Snakes on a Plane stars Samuel L Jackson, and is therefore a non-stop montage of obnoxious, Americo-centric heroics with the occasional piece of plot development thrown in.
BUT THE FINAL POINT-
United 93 had no snakes on a plane.
Snakes on a Plane did.
THE WINNER? Snakes on a Plane, obviously. Hands-down.
So here we go.
POINT NUMBER ONE
United 93 dealt with a shocking, devastating true event that changed the way we see the world, in a captivating way.
Snakes on a Plane dealt with a farcical, ridiculous concept with no grounding in reality whatsoever and did so in a very silly way.
POINT NUMBER TWO
The makers of United 93 had clearly done a great deal of research into the people that were actually involved on that day and obviously had a great deal of sympathy for all of the characters, including the terrorists.
The makers of Snakes on a Plane quite clearly didn't give a shit about the characters except the ones who had large tits or could yell in a very loud, very black voice.
POINT NUMBER THREE
United 93 had a carefully constructed real-time plot with eerily everyday dialogue and human reactions.
Snakes on a Plane used endless, unbelievably inane dialogue as it limped from one Deus ex Machina situation to the next.
POINT NUMBER FOUR
The makers of United 93 had recruited a cast of unknown, amateur actors which lent the film an air of foreboding realism.
The makers of Snakes on a Plane had recruited a cast of unknown, amateur actors which lent the film an air of really bad acting.
POINT NUMBER FIVE
United 93 had a number of powerfully moving moments as the doomed passengers passed loving farewell messages on to their families.
Snakes on a Plane was full of shallow, schmaltzy faux-sentimentality in the spirit of the Hollywood credo that life-or-death situations always make everybody incredibly horny.
POINT NUMBER SIX
United 93, although viewed from the perspective of the plane who supposedly 'fought back against the foreign black murdering bastards', there is a minimum of obnoxious, Americo-centric heroics.
Snakes on a Plane stars Samuel L Jackson, and is therefore a non-stop montage of obnoxious, Americo-centric heroics with the occasional piece of plot development thrown in.
BUT THE FINAL POINT-
United 93 had no snakes on a plane.
Snakes on a Plane did.
THE WINNER? Snakes on a Plane, obviously. Hands-down.
posted by Sean's Beard at 5:44 AM
17 Comments:
Well clearly the last point is the clincher. And the makers of the film knew that, which is why they chose that title and the promotional angle and well probably the whole film.
Hi. Real final point should be that United 93 is spreading disinformation like "the military did not know the highjack until 4 minutes after the crash." Watch the following CNN report.
http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=43073
And many other inconsistant account.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401315&in_page_id=1770
Yeah, shit...
How dare a movie spread disinformation! Thank god for the integrity of the producers of Snakes On A Plane for bringing us The Truth.
Dear Anonymous,
"Inconsistent" has an "e" in it!
and "accounts" has an 's' in it.
Apparently the temperature would mean that the snakes would really have been all sluggish and sleepy-like.
Also Terrorists hibernate through those months, in real life.
Man, I took my little sister to see this, all unknowing. Why did not one reviewer or friend feel the urge to mention the horrible foaming deaths?
Snakes on a plane? That could only be the work of pirates! Pirates I tells ye...
Yargh and a barrel of rum
I realised yesterday my final point could almost be a paraphrasing of "Hmmm... Barney's movie had heart, but 'Football in the Groin' had a football in the groin...". Not that it was, of course
Thankyou for this post.
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