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Could this be "Snakes On a Plane" for 2007?

At least Snakes on a Plane was enjoyable. It may have been a cheesy movie, but director David R. Ellis piled on plenty of shocking moments and a sense of dread. And compared to today's flock of godawful horror films that prefer piling on the gore (The Hills Have Eyes) to providing genuine scares, at least SoaP wanted its cake and ate it, too. Dragon Wars is nothing more than a bottom-feeding Transformers wannabe (i.e. a disaster film about humans and otherworldly creatures) that is, well...stupid. And Jason Behr (Skinwalkers) is in it. Need I say more?

I was thinking that this could, also, be 2007's "Feast". "Feast" was the anti-"Snakes On A Plane": it was neither scary nor funny.

This is awesome!!! I have not seen a good Japanese Monster Movie since the days I was a kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley watching them on KT LA with Tom Hatten. With CGI  and today's special effects you get the realism that was meant before all the hokeyness of a 6ft guy in a rubber suit stepping on Hot wheel cars and Fisher Price cities. You just don't get the cheese now as you did bad back then, However as some else mentioned I will wait for it to come to DVD. I'll buy my Cheesiness cheap and not imported!

Originally posted by moviewizguy Feast was much better than Snakes on a Plane. Feast was a little bit scary but it was more funny. Snakes on a Plane was funny, too, but it wasn't scary...because it's not a horror movie. See, Feast was like Slither: Both seemed to be on the same level, but the thing that bothered me the most about Feast was the lighting! It was so dark! Five people died in ten minutes, and you couldn't see a thing!

                                                          The only thing funny about "Feast" was the two monsters ing on the car. Also, "Slither" was overrated. The only intentionally funny part was the politician saying  in front of the kids. I did laugh at some points that weren't supposed to be funny, like the monsters. They looked more Courtney Love than beings from outer space.

If you're gonna make a bad movie, please make it like this!  I haven't had so much fun watching a bad movie since back when I was a kid.  My family watched the Japanese monster movies every Sunday afternoon.  And like ITBeast already said, the main difference between Dragon Wars and those movies are the sets and the monsters.  It's cool watching a gigantic serpent slither down a Los Angeles street during a traffic jam, smashing and exploding all the cars as it goes.  It's great seeing the serpent slither up the US Bank Tower (called the Liberty Tower in the movie) and fight several Apache helicopters.  It's great watching our military and the police fight an overwhelming assault by legendary creatures. 

And it's great seeing our damsel in distress leave a bar called "Razz Berriez". . . .

Let's make no mistake; this is a bad movie.  You could tell when, in the opening scene, you are taken to a construction zone with a few mashed up cars set a little bit on fire set on a huge mound of dirt, and there's a whole bunch of people milling around acting like something horrible happened there.  Yeah, something horrible happened there.  They didn't have the production budget to create a good post-disaster scene. . . .

There are other things I wonder about.  For example, what's Jar Jar Binks' army doing fighting for the evil Emperor? . . . 

Why, if Jack knows the legendary army is hidden in writings awaiting for the right moment, why didn't he destroy the writings as he collected them throughout the ages? . . .

And speaking of "throughout the ages", why are we subjected, in the first twenty minutes of the movie, to a very long flashback, that then takes us back to when this whole thing started, and then back to the flashback, and then we're finally back in real time?

Why does Mr. Ugly Dude, after he captures the reporter who is the legendary protector of the legendary woman, not kill the protector, or at least take away the pretty farking amazing amulet (to be referred to hereafter as the PFAA)? . . .

And speaking of Mr. Ugly Dude, why is it assumed that if there is an evil monster looking for something it needs to bring the end of the world, that all these humans, like Mr. Ugly Dude, will do the Cthulhu and help it along?  Hey, let's all get ourselves killed!  Doesn't that sound like fun? . . .

Yet, despite all this and much more, I enjoyed myself immensely.  I truly wish that all bad movies were like this one.  It was a pleasure!

moviewizguy and Head RAZZberry:

I don't think there's much danger of many more people paying first-run prices to see it.  Our whole family saw it last weekend.  I'm used to matinee showings being a little empty, but we were the only four people in the audience for that showing.

I agree that this one is worth renting.  The action was fun.  The CGI was better than I expected, even on a big screen.  It's been a long time since I've seen a cast of unknown actors do a good enough job that I could honestly blame the script!

 

He wouldn't be the first to do so...