Python
Year: 2000
Director: Richard Clabaugh
Written by: Chris Neal, Gary Hershberger, Paul J.M. Bogh
Threat: Snake
Weapon of Choice: Acid
Based upon: none
Color/B&W/3D: Color
Language: English
Country of Origin: United States
IMDb page: 
PythonYear: 2000 Director: Richard Clabaugh Written by: Chris Neal, Gary Hershberger, Paul J.M. Bogh Threat: Snake Weapon of Choice: Acid Based upon: none Color/B&W/3D: Color Language: English Country of Origin: United States IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
As giant snake movies go . . . Actually, I don't have a way to end that sentence, but it
had Robert Englund in it and I'll watch anything he makes once.
So a plane transporting a very large crate marked with big signs that say "DO NOT OPEN
ON PAIN OF A BAD DEATH" crashes thus unleashing a very large snake. It wanders
into the nearest town and starts to eat people. The local unlikely heroes have to band
together to defeat it.
Pretty formulaic as most big monster movies are. They attempt some wit and even get
away with it in a few places. The cast is adequate and everything about the production
but the CGI snake works out pretty well. The only real thing going against it is that
it is just another big monster movie and I've seen dozens of these. It's pretty hard to
come up with new material in this sub-genre. There are only so many things a giant
snake can do.
Genre problems aside, the movie isn't bad. Robert Englund is vaguely annoying in his
role as the scientist with misplaced priorities. Casper Van Dien plays the most effeminate
federal agent I've ever seen. It was nice to see Wil Wheaton even though I'm the
biggest Wesley hater on the planet.
It still isn't one you should rush out and rent. But if you don't have anything else to do
on a Sunday night, it'll kill the time and won't leave you throwing things at the TV. Mostly.
Posted: February 20, 2006
Total Skulls: 15
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| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS |  |
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| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | |
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| Death associated with sex | |
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| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | |
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| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | |
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| Cat jumps out | |
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| Fake scare | |
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| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | |
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| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | |
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| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |