Muthafuckin' Snakes on a Muthafuckin' Plane

[filkertom]

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?

Comments

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

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.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

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.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

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