Snakes on a blog post
The fetching Mrs. Wilson and I just got done seeing the wonderful romantic comedy Snakes on a Plane.
My take? Too many grisly deaths, not quite enough funny. They could have done more hinting of the effects of snake bites, and less gruesomeness. I bet they started out as more of a horror flick, and then midway through tried to change it to a campy horror flick. Needs a little more camp.
Still tons of fun though. It was great seeing it with a big rowdy group of people (who else would want to see Snakes on a Plane right when it comes out but college students) and Peggy thought she might have been the oldest person there. And, of course, the dudes yelling out stuff during the previews: “This movie needs more snakes!” and “Snakes in a jockstrap!” for a football themed movie. (And by dudes yelling out stuff, I mean me.)
There were a couple of people who made Snakes on a Plane t-shirts. I was the only one who brought an actual snake though! I wanted to buy some plastic snakes before hand and when the time was right, thrown them up in the air but I didn’t do it. It would have been awesome but I was too busy this evening fixing Peggy’s car (more on which later, because it’s late and I have to work.)
August 18th, 2006 at 7:29 am
There was one teenager who had to bring his mom to get in, so I couldn’t have been more than the second oldest person there.
August 18th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
My sister lives in New York. She and some friends went to see SoaP last night at a ten o’clock showing. The theatre had rigged up a bunch of snakes in bags on the ceiling (plastic snakes of course). At some point during the movie, the bags flipped or dropped (that part wasn’t clear), and the entire audience was doused with plastic snakes. Apparently, a guy two seats down and one row ahead of her pissed his pants. I mean really pissed his pants. They had to get a janitor to clean during the end of the film.