Keeping in mind the rule, I think from Issac Asimov, that there are only seven plots going on — period — I will now point out that two movies with much hype to them coming out have pretty much the same premise. Oliver Stone’s 9/11 and the retro-b high concept for the sake of high concept thriller Snakes on A Plane.

I will also point out, on this day when a terrorist attack was said to have been thwarted and you can not bring liquid onto a plane, that whether conciously or subconciously, this is not an accident. Any where along the lines did the makers of 9/11 in their board meetings pitch that “This will capture the post – 9/11 Zeitgist and blah de blah?” I have no way of knowing.

What you learn really quickly from hearing mash-ups is that songs are pretty much the same in the realm of pop music. You can post a Beach Boys song over a Nirvana song with very little tweaking and come out humming. I imagine that the same is the case with these two movies: move dialouge from one movie to the other and it’ll come out, maybe a bit jarring, but not too far off.

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