Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.


August 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 61

Total Comments: 60


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Snakes on a Plane / USA / 2006

Snakes on a Plane is precisely what you’re expecting it to be, a film so calculatedly derivative of fans’ expectations that it contains no surprises, but thrills in the delivery of completely predicted moments: snakes slithering around the bare feet of an oblivious potential victim; the two pilots expended, the moment at which the jetliner is just about to crash into the Pacific; and virtually every single demand expelled by Sam Jackson that renders each survivor an acolyte in his mission to save them all. Each of these actions was met with deafening applause. Sure, it’s wholly derivative, but it is a testament that film is nothing without an audience to respond to it.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: New Line Cinema 35mm print
18 Aug 2006 9:20 AM | Submit Comment


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