Samuel L. Jackson, ladies and gentlemen, is indeed a bad motherfucker. The snakes were flying frickin' EVERYWHERE! and he's the only motherfucker who keeps his cool.

But no, he is not the only reason all of you should run to go see this movie. It is truly bad in the best sense of the word. It belongs on USA Up All Night Feature of the Month, if only it weren't for the great special effects. You know there's gonna be a snake in there, of course there is, and you know it's going to bite the pilot, killing him instantaneously, but you jump out of your nickers when it happens. And it happens over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Not that there's 8 pilots, but there are a LOT of snakes, aggressive as allgetout, itching to bite whatever moves.

And what moves are panicky airplane passengers with babies and chihuahuas and plenty of tits and ass (which the camera finds around every corner). The cast is decent with the highlight for me being brilliant character actor David Koechner as the smooth talking (or so he thinks) co-pilot. Favorite line- after being bitten and with one arm swollen to Popeye proportions comes to and retakes control of the plane-

Claire- "Are you sure you can fly with one hand?"
Rick- "Baby, you'd be surprised what a guy can do with one hand."

Anyway, now I'm scared shitless of snakes, and planes. Kind of like I was scared to swim in the deep end at Riverside pool after I saw Jaws, now I'll forever be scared to fly from Honolulu to LAX with an FBI protected witness on board. Damn you Eddie Kim!

Oh, interesting side note- my friend works with the guy who wrote the novella "Snakes on a Plane." The other day at the office he was walking around offering everyone pop-corn...

"Hey, I'm poppin some corn. You want some corn? No? How bout you? I'm poppin some corn." He burned the corn and set the microwave on fire.

Of course, in true non-journalistic fashion, I don't even know his name (www.imdb.com lists two people). But whatever his name is, he may not pop the best corn, but he writes one hell of an awesome....ly bad story. No really, Snakes on a Plane officially rocks.

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