Snakes On A Movie Review
What can I say about Snakes on a Plane? Perhaps that it achieves levels of awesomeness that only a movie featuring Samuel L. Jackson fighting snakes on a plane could achieve. Few things could be more awesome. Maybe Christopher Walken fighting snakes on a plane. Or, even better, Samuel L. Jackson fighting Christopher Walken and the snakes that Walken put on the plane. Either you will appreciate this, or you will not. If you won't, you will hate this film. Don't see it. But if you will, buy yourself a ticket.
If I were to level one critique at this film, it would be that the writer and director forgot that there is only one reason to see this movie. To see Samuel L. Jackson fight snakes. On a plane. They spent far too much time setting up the action. And for what? This isn't a great plot. It's not even a good plot. So why waste time trying to get it to make sense? It just doesn't. No criminal mastermind is going to try to bring down a plane by putting snakes on it. Cut right to the part where Samuel L. Jackson fights the snakes on the plane. No one cares why the snakes are on the plane; it makes just as much sense, and it gives the audience what it's waiting for sooner. But once you wade through the too long set up, the movie pays off on its selling point in spades.
BTW, best line in the movie is not, in fact, "Enough is enough! I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' plane!" No, it is not that. It is the line Samuel L. Jackson utters after the poisonous snake expert tells him that someone put a pheromone on the plane to drug the snakes and make them act aggressively. "Great. Snakes on crack."
UPDATE: Forget what I have to say about Snakes on a Plane. If you don't care about spoilers, go see what Geoffrey Chaucer has to say about it.
Comments
I agree. More Samuel L. and less other people we don't care about. About the only thing I didn't like was that I expected a better fight down in the baggage compartment. That should have been a lot bigger deal.
Posted by: Solonor
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August 22, 2006 07:32 AM
I couldn't disagree with you more about this movie. The plot was terrible. Alot more could have been done with the snakes than just throwing them on the plane. Identifying them individually and showing how deadly each of them was would have added alot. Showing them being purchased and how they got them on the plane would have helped develop the plot. There were some good action scenes but as a whole the movie was disjointed , there really was no order to the action. PLease tell me why the snakes didn't invade first class through the vents or the openings when the masks fell down? Didn't the oxygen masks come out in first class also? Samuel L. Jackson was good as he always is , but I couldn't believe he agreed to do this hack of a movie. Eventually someone will remake this movie with a much better story line and hit a home run, this effort was a foul pop-up for an out.
The producers did a great job casting that girl making out in the bathroom what fine boobs she has and as far as I'm concerned that was the best part of the movie where they were making out in the bathroom. The boobs on that girl were spectacular , those I could've watched without any critique
Posted by: mike66
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August 22, 2006 12:13 PM
I couldn't disagree with you more about this movie. The plot was terrible. Alot more could have been done with the snakes than just throwing them on the plane. Identifying them individually and showing how deadly each of them was would have added alot. Showing them being purchased and how they got them on the plane would have helped develop the plot. There were some good action scenes but as a whole the movie was disjointed , there really was no order to the action. PLease tell me why the snakes didn't invade first class through the vents or the openings when the masks fell down? Didn't the oxygen masks come out in first class also? Samuel L. Jackson was good as he always is , but I couldn't believe he agreed to do this hack of a movie. Eventually someone will remake this movie with a much better story line and hit a home run, this effort was a foul pop-up for an out.
The producers did a great job casting that girl making out in the bathroom what fine boobs she has and as far as I'm concerned that was the best part of the movie where they were making out in the bathroom. The boobs on that girl were spectacular , those I could've watched without any critique
Posted by: mike66
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August 22, 2006 12:15 PM
Yes, of course the plot was terrible. You're not disagreeing with me in any way, shape, or form on that. I even said "This isn't a great plot. It's not even a good plot."
Where we do disagree is that I don't think there was any way to make a good or even decent plot out of this premise. Who the hell puts snakes on a plane? Give as much background as you want, but no criminal is going to put snakes on a plane in order to make it crash. The movie starts with a completely ludicrous premise; why bother to try to explain the ridiculous? Who cares how the snakes were purchased, since they would never really be placed on the plane anyway? As for identifying them individually and showing how deadly they each were, I personally am not going to shell out money for an action movie to get a lesson on herpetology. Don't care, and I suspect the majority of the moviie-going audience doesn't care about it either. That's why they have nature documentaries on PBS. This is why I say just cut to Samuel L. Jackson fighting the snakes on the plane. The movie has no other use.
FYI, they did show how the snakes got on the plane. It was subtle, but it was there. Eddie Kim bought off one of the ground crew, who allowed the snakes to be smuggled on the plane. This was the guy with the radio outside the baggage compartment who said something like "it's all set and the pheromones are going to drive them wild."
Posted by: Lesley
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August 22, 2006 01:39 PM