I absolutely LOVE this; it's hiLARious. And you know you think it's funny, too: There are snakes. On a plane. And Sam Jackson has to kick their ass.
Fucking awesome. And either Kenan or Kel (the one on SNL now) is in it, which is a plus.
Also kind of reminds me of Brain Candy: "It's a pill that gives worms to exgirlfriends."
Really, if you don't think this is funny, why are you even here? I can't imagine anything else I say is entertaining you if you don't like that.
Maybe this is more to yunz liking. (Props to Tiff for the link.)
I really have only one complaint with Snakes on a Plane: the release date of August 18. This is quite possibly the quintessential $2 theater movie. Mid-August is when I start going to see any damn crap at the cheap theater, to be all air-conditioned and entertained. Hell, I dragged Andy to Enough (starring JLo!) AND Van Helsing.
Dammit, I want to see Snakes on a Plane in a theater and I want to pay $2.50 for it and I want it to be on, like, the hottest day of the year.
Life is so unfair.
--Oh god, storytime just started singing "If you're happy and you know it."--
In more respectable movie news, I saw V for Vendetta and Brokeback Mountain this weekend. And discussed the awesomeness of the upcoming Stick It with a patron (okay, so maybe that's less than respectable). And realized that, as Da Vinci Code trailers get a wider and wider release, our holds list for the books/audiobooks is just going to get longer and longer.
Which leads me to this: who agrees with me 'n' Tiff that the Da Vinci Code teaser trailer was, like, the worst teaser trailer ever? Cracks in the oil paint? So freakin' lame.
Other trailer news: I had a complete geek-lapse and expected to see an XMen 3 trailer in front of V for Vendetta; new Pirates of the Caribbean looks awesome; was I the only person who saw the Superman teaser last year (in front of Batman Begins, I think) and thought, "damn--I thought that was still in post-Nick-Cage-and-Tim-Burton purgatory;" I saw 2 movies this weekend with Poseidon trailers and they were different.
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So, Jessy, how were those movies you saw this weekend?
I was pleasantly surprised by Brokeback Mountain. People just don't make enough quiet, simple love stories. I never felt manipulated, and the score did what movie music is supposed to do (John Williams, you ass, you hear that?) Obviously would have liked more Jake kissyfacing, but understand that it wasn't that kind of movie.
And who knew Princess Mia was actually good at subtlety and restraint?
Yeah, subtlety and restraint? Not a specialty of Natalie Portman's. She's the weirdest actress: I think she's really good at wordless scenes, especially really emotional ones (girl cries like a dream). Dialogue she can manage, as long as George Lucas isn't directing and Anakin (child or adult version) isn't involved. But she really can't hold a monologue. At all.
To the point where I wonder if maybe she should become a mime, or if I should build a time machine and send her back to be Clara Bow's costar or something. She does have a bit of a Louise Brooks look about her.
I did like the movie, though. I got totally caught up in the story and everything.
And is there anything Hugo Weaving CAN'T do?
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