Summary review: decently awesome.

This movie has received more hype than a B movie ever really has before, which in itself is a pretty awesome development. I’m a big fan of the genre, I even saw The Man With a Screaming Brain in the theatre last year when it came out.  As this guy in Seattle said to me the other day: if you’re going to see this movie you may as well see it the opening weekend.  So I did, because I agreed.

The directors made a very major flaw though, one that is unforgivable. Somehow they managed to forge that what people came to see this movie for was to see Snakes, on a Plane, killing people. The first 15 minutes or so of this movie involved setting up the plot and I shouldn’t speak for everyone else but I think it’s safe to say that no one really cared. I know in the theatre I saw it in it actually caused a minor commotion as the hyped up fans were yelling at the screen for no reason in absence of the promised snakes on a plane. When then got the manager involved when some old dude called out “hey keep it down, some of us are trying to watch the film“.

I wonder what inspires a person to think they can go see a movie called “Snakes on a Plane” on opening night and not expect a rambunctious audience? But I digress.

Once the snakes came out to play and the stupid plot bits were over, the movie really shined. People got bit in places you really hope to not get bitten in, Samuel L Jackson said memorable quotes regarding being dumbfounded about the existence of these snakes on the plane. The passengers on the plane did a great job of playing up several obvious stereotypes, and the movie came together in a very satisfactory conclusion.

I hope this sparks a trend of things to come in Hollywood, this movie is obviously making a pile of money with relatively little cost while many of the other films are sucking it up big time. I for one would pay $10 to go see “Snakes on Another Plane” starring a very pissed off Samuel L Jackson next summer.