DISQUS

There Is No God But God And Mohammed Is His Prophet!

This is me replying to Brian's test.

I would say that while 24 hour super-stores do make life more convinant nowadays, they're only neccesary for a workforce that has to work 24 hours a day. I don't think people actually *want* to be working those kinds of manic hours in the first place.

Is this an issue that can be solved by organizing labor? I don't know. The more I read and think about it, the more that it seems to me that the aberation is really the 1946-1969 period, when the U.S.A. was sucking on the sugar-tit of the spoils of World War II. I don't know if our economy can really support that kind of a lifestyle right now.

You said that it might be the first movie to use Internet buzz to make itself a hit. That might not be true. You could argue that the Star Wars prequils relied on geeks jerking each other off on IRC channels about what Anakin Skywalker would look like for 15 years before the movie came out supreme Internet movie buzz that will never be duplicated.

Also, I really loved the movie, but I don't think it will have much long-term appeal. Things like Rocky Horror rely on schicky dialogue, bad jokes, and song and dance to keep it fun for decades on end. Snakes doesn't have any of that. Snakes on a Plane has nothing but Snakes on a Plane. I think after the giant money shot of an opening weekend, this movie will become as forgotten as movies like The Towering Inferno - movies that have a big punch the first time you see it in a theatre, but little re-watch value.