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Muthafuckin' Snakes on a Muthafuckin' Plane

Okay, I realize this is seven months after the movie's release. I realize that I got the DVD first day it was out, and I hadn't watched it till now. I've been busy. And today was The Day.

huskiebear and I agree: Snakes on a Plane is a superbly entertaining bad movie. Exactly the right helpings of gore (perhaps a minute too long on the "OMGWTFBBQ WE'RE BEING ATTACKED BY SNAKES AAAAAAAH", but really only a minute), action, scares, snark, comedy, drama, cheesecake, and ever-damn cliché in the Disaster Movie Book Of Clichés, with a few incredibly bad lines and a few incredibly good ones. Well made, well acted, Samuel L. Muthafuckin' Jackson pwnes all of our asses. And everything you can anticipate being bitten by a snake is bitten by a snake, but somehow it's still watchable.

We are gonna get everybody over for a MST3K LemurCon to have fun with it. 'Cause it's too fun not to share.

Les wants to make it a double-feature. Any suggestions?

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Lair of the White Worm is bad, but it's been so long since I watched it that I can't remember if it's entertaining-bad or not.

But, hey, Sammi Davis in her underwear....

Oh, yeah. And Amanda Donahoe is pretty easy on the eyes as well.

Hm. Maybe Gothic. Or Tommy. The Ken Russell thang might just be it....

King Cobra. It's like they had a checklist of horror movie cliches and just went with it. Man meddling with nature, hick cops, officials who refuse to shut down the festival/party/whatever, horny teens getting eaten, and Pat Moreta as a herpetologist on a bicycle.

Mars Attacks?

Love love love that flick. Very underrated. If you remember, it was released at about the same time as ID4, which followed all of the conventions of the lame-ass alien-attack movies of the 1950s, which got a buttload more money. A lot of critics simply didn't get Mars Attacks!, and they savaged it.

The telltale shot, the one that really shows everything Mars Attacks! is about, is when the alien ship lands at the reviewing stand in the desert, and the descending staircase lines up precisely with the red carpet that's been rolled out for it.

Ah. A suck-off! I look forward to your live report. ^_^

I also second the vote for Anaconda. It's on the queue here as well.

We were also strongly considering Boa and Python (most likely Python) as the opponent for vs. mode.

This may sound heretical, but I have never been moved to see this film. And this is from someone who used to tape MST3K off the satellite at work, before the cable system started carrying it.

It's one thing when movies were bad because of low budgets, the director being consigned to a genre work who didn't like or understand the genre, or a lame concept that had to be filmed. It's another for filmmakers to plan to make films to appeal to that exact audience. It's inauthentic. I'd even call it pandering.

But if you have to have something bad to go with this, maybe you can look up something from Damon Packard - I'd recommend The Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary or Reflections of Evil.

Understood. I will say this: It's not so much bad as over-the-top. It knows exactly what it's doing, and what it's parodying, and does a pretty darn good job of it, and also of being serious when there needs to be some seriousness. Sure, a few physical laws get broken, but that never stopped us from rooting for Wile E. Coyote.

The DVD has a featurette about snakes that makes me happy, too.

Speaking of movies, you might want to try to catch _Ghost Rider_ in the theaters... It is uber... and I'm still kicking myself for not realizing they would have the song... "Ghost Riders in the Sky", or an edgy cover of it, anyway.

I'll say that it helps if you know a bit about the comics... but only a little bit, and to suspend disbelief from there. Storywise it's a missmatch of Johny Blaze and the second Rider (the Penance stare) but it hangs together with surprising internal consistently.

Well worth the matinee price.

You certainly have enough of the "snake" idiom covered, but you've missed the plot keywords to go with "airplaine" such as "pirate television", "Vietnam Veteran", "transvestite", and "Star-Spangled Banner". Just sayin'. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091853/)

Perhaps it is a flaw in my character, but I just do not get the whole MST3K thing. Bad movies are bad, but people making supposedly funny comments about the badness does not make the experience better. And as for Snakes, I have not seen the movie because the descriptions I have heard lead me to believe that I'd rather pound railroad spikes through my temples than see it.

Stupidity is not funny to me, it is painful.

We did Snakes On A Plane for a midnight movie at the DeMarco, and some of the audience participation stuff was amazing. It's a natural for riffing.

My favorite line: when the fat woman first walks onto the scene. "LOOK OUT! IT'S ROSEANNE!"

Hawk the Slayer?

Since I saw it in the theater, I watched the DVD with the commentary on. Just as fun, and SLJ is one of the commenters.

I couldn't help but notice the similarity to the old "Airport" disaster thrillers (not "Airplane" but what those films made fun of). This could have been titled "Airport 2006: Snakes"

Mmm...Good cheese. =)

You could play, for the double feature, the movie Arachnophobia. Then you could do your rendition of "I don't like spiders and snakes."

Seems like a Mistie thing to do, I guess...

Maybe we could just play some Earthworm Jim instead.

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