Snakes on a Muthafuckin’ Plane
Posted on August 18, 2006
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but I’ve been busy/lazy.
Like many, many others, I’ve seen the recent movie Snakes on a Plane, so I thought I’d give my two cents worth of opinion. I’m cheap that way.
First of all, very early on it requires the audience to supend disbelief. Most fiction requires that to a certain extent, though in most cases the creative powers-that-be will at least try to make it all seem plausible, like it could happen. SoaP isn’t quite that pretentious.
The basic plot is Samuel L. Jackson’s character is an FBI agent escorting a federal witness from Hawaii to LA to testify against a mafia kingpin, whom he saw kill a prosecutor. The witness is essentially a MacGuffin. His only purpose is to drive the story. As the title of the movie says, the story is about snakes…on a plane. Lots of snakes. It’s all about having the snakes kill people in gruesome, and rather ridiculous, fashion. So since there are snakes on a plane, they’ve gotta kill the pilot and co-pilot. The couple joining the mile-high club…goners. So is the guy taking a leak. It’s so kitchy and stereotypical, it doesn’t take much to figure out who’s gonna die. Just when the passengers think they’re safe from the snakes, something happens and it’s chaos all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat. This movie requires some big-time suspension of disbelief. Then again, maybe it doesn’t.
The movie isn’t trying to be serious or realistic. It’s absurd and proud of it. It’s ridiculous, but not quite as silly as Airplane. Again, the whole point of the movie is to have snakes on a plane. The idea is so far out of left field, you can’t possibly take it seriously. People will believe terrorists on a plane. They might even believe food poisoning taking out the flight crew (most people know how bad airline food can be). But snakes on a plane? How the hell does somebody come up with that idea? I bet there’s terrorists looking at the idea.
It was a funny movie. There were a lot of laughs, and even some applause…dogs are not fashion accessories. I recommend it. I saw some reviewer gave it three and a half stars out of four. I don’t know if I would give it that, but then again it’s difficult to compare it to any other movie I’ve seen. It’s not a straight comedy, or a horror flick, or even a straight action film, so how can you compare it to other pictures. I would give it a thumbs up, but even that seems to lack the proper touch. Since it seems to need a new and odd rating system, I guess I would give it four fangs out of five.
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Hey, great to see you back in the bloggin’ saddle!
And, as I haven’t seen SoaP yet, I have to ask… the stories are true? Samuel Jackson does utter… THE line?
I’ve been gone awhile. It’s kinda funny because I thought for sure I had posted something back in June, but I probably hit the wrong button or something.
Anyway, it was a good movie. He does utter the line, though I think it’s a bit weak in the context he uses it. I thought he should have used it earlier.
I heard some people comparing it to Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I don’t think that’s quite right. Even if the audience participates, I don’t forsee people getting up in the theatre and dancing. Rocky Horror is just too unique in that regard.