Snakes on a...you know

[jethrien]

Was everything we could possibly have wanted it to be.

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[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe you'd go to that movie! I didn't know that was your genre. You've got to be one of the (fewer than they expected) people who was influenced by the internet buzz - I can't imagine you choosing that movie if it was advertised conventionally.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, duh. And the title. I mean, c'mon. Snakes. On a Plane.

It was fabulous. By which I mean terrible, but in that amazing kind of way. It was one of the single stupidest movie premises I've ever heard of. Someone capable of sneaking in 300 drug crazed snakes and rigging the door in the cargo hold open so they can get out doesn't simply blow up the plane? Or have assassins waiting at the airport?

But it was a movie in which an annoying purse dog gets literally thrown to a snake, and an annoying businessman gets swallowed whole by a python, and 300 snakes crawl around a plane! It was high camp. With snakes.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooohhh. You mean there were snakes? That makes all the difference! I need to take Carrie V to see that movie. or not.

[(Anonymous)]

We LOVED it. It was so (intentionally) cheesy and ridiculous, with plot holes you could drive a Buick through. Samuel L. Jackson looked like he was on the verge of laughing at the stereoyping, stilted "Well, citizen..." dialogue, and rampant cliches. I would recommend the flick without hesitation beacuse it is perfect mindless summer entertainment. Dopey and totally without pretentions.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'm usually pretty good at playing "Guess the Mom", but I'll admit being baffled on this one. Whose mom is this?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the Carrie V reference should clue you in to the first anonymous, but as for the second one, really, do you think your mom would choose to add another image of fear and loathing to the already terrifying, but necessary prospect of air travel?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The Carrie V was indeed enough for the first reference. But I couldn't figure out whether the second was a different speaker or not.

I hadn't factored in the airplane fear thing, though. I'm pretty sure that you don't need to worry about snakes on crack slithering up through the toilets on your next flight, honest.

[(Anonymous)]

Happy Surprise loves all things high-brow: theatre (esp. Shakespeare, Shaw, Fringe Festivals, the Public in the Park); foreign flicks with subtitles; Merchant-Ivory epics drawn from EM Forster; obscure novels, especially translated from Pashto and Urdu; and really high quality bittersweet chocolate.

And astonishingly, she LOVES cheesy movies. Let's hear it for "Plan Nine from Outer Space." (and who can forget "Klatuu Biranu Nicto"? A must-know to prepare for Gor's reappearance on Earth again.)