Snakes on a Plane

When this movie starting being hyped in 2005 for it's 2006 release, it seemed to be the reinvention of the campfest films. I was stoked. The publicity it got, along with a pretty good song to coincide with its release by Cobra Starship, there was nothing that was gonna keep me from watching this movie the week it came out. The story revolves around a witness who is to testify against a bad guy. The bad guy can't have this happen, so he plants loads of venomous snakes on the airplane the witness is on. Unfortunately for the snakes Neville Flynn (Samuel Jackson) is the officer in charge on that specific plane. No one, not man nor beast can defeat Sam Jackson, and as soon as the world realizes this, then maybe they (everyone) will stop trying. As if the film didn't have enough going for it already, it was really well acted on a really good script. The comic relief was perfect, the action was awesome, the nudity was unexpected, but appreciated. When Neville has to describe what these snakes look like to an expert on the ground is funny, but when they wise up and start sending picture mails of the snakes and Neville is in the photos, Well, it's just classic. The A-Bomb and I were the only ones in the theater which sort of surprised me, but that gave us the freedom to shout uncontrollably at the screen for no reason at all. We had so much fun because the movie was presented exactly how it should have been. The producers did not try and make it something it wasn't. They actually spent lots of time on Fan message boards months before it was even released. They did this to find out exactly what the American public wanted. The Genius part of this was they took the fan's advice and actually did re-shoots of scenes with dialogue from these message boards. The one in particular was when Neville says, "I've had it with these mother effin snakes on this mother effin plane!!!!". That line was suggested on a message board. We knew it was coming and we stood up in our seats and shouted the line in unison with Sam Jackson himself. It was like the first interactive film ever made, and that's why it's brilliant, and that's why I love it. I wish producers put this much effort into making films more often, then they may not hear as much bitching about $10 movie tickets. This makes a movie more fun on a completely new level.

NBM rates Snakes on a Plane - Phenomenal

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