Rediculus movie

With all the dark side of things in real life I think this movie will be a nice chance to have a really good laugh.

It's meant to be a joke. And sometimes it is good for the soul to laugh and joke. :)

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Originally Posted by xdeus

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The name of the movie was also supposed to be changed to Flight 458 or something, but Jackson said he'd quit if they discarded the working title, Snakes on a Plane.

LOL.....this movie looks like a joke....the article in Reptiles did not spark my interest any......Boelen's were used because the 'looked scary'....lol...


Did anyone else realize that the release date of the movie is August 18th......the same day that the Reptile Breeders Expo starts in Daytona?

Oh, I remember a negative side. This happens almost anytime I talk about the BP I'm gonna get:
me: I'll be getting a snake in a couple of weeks, a ball python.
Them: Oh really! Will it be on a plane
Me: No actually I'm driving across town and picking it up at the breeder's place
Them: See a plane would be funny because there's this new movie coming out and...

ever since that movie got popular!

it seems stupid to me. all the previews ive seen look really corny like anaconda. it lookes like they're using computer animated snakes or something. i think ill stick to my robotic shark in JAWS.

also, it doesnt give snakes a good name to the already snake fearing public at all. i dont like how reptiles magazine made it sound like it was a good movie. i dont want to and probably never will see it.

Personally I'm really looking forward to seeing it. A number of people from my herp society are talking about getting together as a group to see it. It should be entertaining.

As far as being bad press for snakes, I don't think it'll make any difference. People who hate snakes aren't going to hate them any more and people who like snakes aren't going to like them any less. It's just a movie.

Speaking of reptiles in movies though, I just saw Pirates of the Caribbean today and saw a sinaloan milksnake, a green iguana and an albino burm. Anyone see anything I missed?

Mark

......but did you catch that Reptiles article this month about Sceloporus lizards....pretty decent stuff, right Marshall? ;)

aaw, man, that was awesome! whats your favorite subspecies? mine has to be Orcutti. they have some outrageous green and blue!

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Personally I'm really looking forward to seeing it. A number of people from my herp society are talking about getting together as a group to see it. It should be entertaining.

As far as being bad press for snakes, I don't think it'll make any difference. People who hate snakes aren't going to hate them any more and people who like snakes aren't going to like them any less. It's just a movie.

Speaking of reptiles in movies though, I just saw Pirates of the Caribbean today and saw a sinaloan milksnake, a green iguana and an albino burm. Anyone see anything I missed?

Mark

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Same here. I was hoping they would show more of the Burm. :(

I yelled them out and my brother was like "are you gonna call out every animal"? Haha!

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You'd think Hollywood, with all of its desire to be seen as liberal and open-minded, would realize how detrimental movies like this can be.

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That's because the type of liberalism that is prevalent in Hollywood is the irrational, close-minded, PETA liberalism. Anti-Hollywood backlash is probably one of the main reasons that word "liberal" is considered an insult or conversation closer in so many situations.

A Snake isn’t a fuzzy creature......it's too alien and not cuddly or domesticable enough for the PETA types in Hollywood that would want to feed a carnivore veggies

What Hollywood mostly wants to do is make money not educate, enlighten, or expose the truth...It's not that I am one of those people that hate everything that comes out of Hollywood. Nor am I deeply suspicious or cynical about everything that comes out of Hollywood. My brother is a "struggling actor" that lives in LA and I've meet a lot of people that are the "automatic PETA members" cause its the thing actors do.....

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In order to have a scientific reason for the snakes to attack, the snakes will supposedly be attracted to snake pheromones that are released on the plane along with the snakes. (Although I'm not sure why they couldn't have used a few mice running around the plane instead?)

They used 450 real snakes, but no more than 50 were seen at a time. They had a lot of extras due to preventing stress, feeding, etc.

Sam Jackson had in his contract that he wasn't to get closer than 20 feet to a real snake, although he did visit the snake room a couple of times.

They mostly used corn snakes, russian rat snakes, and milk snakes for the real snakes. However, they did have a real cobra, rattlesnake, and an 18-foot burm for a few real shots. They didn't mention if the hots were venomoids or not, though.

As far as my opinions on this movie... well, I do love a cheesy movie. :PHowever, I doubt if this will do anything positive for our hobby. It seems like I am forever running into ophidiophobes that want to kill every snake they come across, and I'm sure this movie will just add to those irrational fears.

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There would be no harm done by this movie if most people were somewhat scientifically literate about biology, nature, the environment, animials,etc.

Furthermore, a lot people haven’t learned that critical thinking and skepticism are fundamental to the nature of science. So when movie makers try to make something sound "scientific" some people might confuse the pseudoscience and fantasy of a (cheesy, somewhat comical) science fiction movie to be science......this is very, very bad.

Fanasty is fine as long as one realizes its fantasy, not reality.

PS>......It sounds like Samel Jackson was somewhat scared of the snakes, at least at first.....I'd give him a pass on a venomous snake.....but a boid or corn snake....I'll never watch Pulp Fiction the same way again....woops there I go mixing fantasy with reality.....:):)