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Friday, August 25, 2006

'Snakes on a Plane' was great. GREAT!!!!

posted by j @ 2:55 AM  

8 Comments:

  • At 11:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Are you serious? Was it great the way crap things that are so crap they're great are great, or was it actually, really great on its own merits?

     

  • At 10:39 PM, Blogger The Poor Barn Mom said…

    I will never know. Military Man's phobia of snakes will prohibit even ME from attending a showing of that movie.

    Wah.

    (It was way corny, wasn't it?)

     

  • At 2:13 PM, Blogger j said…

    It was really great, on its own merits. If 'Snakes on a Plane' was a person, it would have this to say (in Samuel L. Jackson's voice, of course):

    "I'm not even going to pretend like I have a deep philosophical point! Or that the mechanism used to set up this situation is reasonable! What I am providing here is a lot of muthafuckin' snakes on a muthafuckin' plane!"

    It was great because it was just total rampaging madness, and then the closing "Hey, everything's all happy again" took about two minutes. Three, max. Which is cool, because I prefer serpentine craziness to happy sunny reunions - at least in the movies.

    WAY corny. :)

     

  • At 4:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    That kind of sounds like fun. Hmm . . . On what movie should I spend my hard-earned dollars this holiday weekend: SOAP or The Wicker Man?

     

  • At 7:41 PM, Blogger j said…

    What's The WIcker Man? Is it a craft project that got bewitched and CAME TO LIFE, all Frosty-the-Snowman-like?

    If it's not.. well, someone should make that movie too.

     

  • At 12:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    And now, more than you ever wanted to know about The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man is a remake of a 1976 British horror movie. In the new version (starring Nicholas Cage) a cop (erm, Nicholas Cage) meets up with a little girl with blonde braids. The little girl and the nervous woman she's with and their wood-paneled station wagon are promptly hit by a large truck (no kidding). The bodies can't be found.

    A few days later Cage gets a letter from a woman named Willow, to whom he was once engaged. She begs Cage to help her find her missing daughter, Rowan, and hints that the people on the island on which she was raised may know more about Rowan's disappearance than they're saying.

    Since he's just seen a little girl and a woman and a wood-paneled station wagon hit by a very large truck, Cage spends several minutes of the film having psychotic waking dreams and taking pills. The rest of the time, he dorks around an island off the coast of Washington. The locals are either jittery and vague (like Willow) or creepily sure of themselves.

    Cage and the other characters stumble through the plot like drunks through a forest. There are the usual horror movie cliches: a pair of elderly blind twins who speak in unison, allusions to ancient rituals, several creepy kids, one creepy burned doll, a gutted church and flooded crypt, a raven, a creepy old woman, and bees.

    It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, not by a long shot (that title is firmly held by Hostel, with Open Water a close second). The concept is intriguing, but it just didn't work for me over all. It was, I think, intended to feel dreamlike and ritualistic. It really felt more vague and mechanical.

    So yeah. That's The Wicker Man, in a nutshell.

    Meh.

     

  • At 11:00 AM, Blogger j said…

    Bummer. You know, I just don't like Nicholas Cage.... couldn't tell you why, though.

    We saw 'Crank' last weekend, and I thought it was all sorts of good fun. If you have great suspension of disbelief, anyway, and don't mind violence. I did have to close my eyes when the guy's hand got put in the sewing machine, though. Ew.

     

  • At 10:37 AM, Blogger zandperl said…

    SOAP was wonderful the same way that The Core was wonderful.

    :-D

    Can't believe I forgot you had a blog... :-P

     

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