don't believe the hype about not believing the hype about the hype
look. it's exactly like the man said:
it's snakes on a plane. either you want to see that or you don't.
we went tonight at the gobsmackingly lovely embassy theater where we walked up marble staircases to push past the wood doors to sit in our leather seats. to watch snakes on a plane.
it was precisely as inane as you'd expect. just as cheesy. and fun and silly and some guy got bit by a viper on his pecker. or something.
whatever. it's snakes on a plane. either you want to see that or you dont.
so who got all into the hype and then went and was all, "oh. it's snakes on a plane."
uh. how could you not be satisfied? it's like ordering circus peanuts and then being all shocked when they give you nasty orangey-pink peanut shaped marshmallows. there were snakes. they were on a plane. people got attacked and samuel l. jackson said "motherfucker" quite a few times, with feeling.
also, there was nudity and people who were about to retire got killed.
I agree entirely. I'm amazed when people say, "that movie's gonna suck." They are so missing the point. We had the yahoos that made that film, including Samuel L., over at my work, recording the commentary track for the inevitable dvd release, and those people know exactly the kind of movie they made. I can't believe there was some guy here later who said, "they violated the primary rule of horror movies, they reveal the monster in the first ten minutes." I was like, monster? It's snakes. They're on a plane. It says so in the TITLE, you moron.
Oh, and so I watched it already, but this weekend we're going to see it at the drive-in. That's how you do that.