Monday, August 21, 2006

Guilty pleasures

Guilty pleasures, the best of the bunch? I'm sitting here writing considering the manic exitement pulsating thorugh our beloved blogging society regarding "Snakes on a plane". I can still remember my first respons to the project, something along the lines of "Huh, snakes... On a plane? Is this a joke? What the h... is wrong with Hollywood theese days??" And then i rememberd "Anaconda". This almost made me curl up on the floor weeping. I mean, does anybody out there even remember this atrocity, this horrible horrible crime against moviegoers everywhere? And if so, how did SoaP even get off the drawingboard? Then I heard about Samuel L. Jackson, and slowly I started feeling a forbidden hope. Not that the movie would be good, I mean, an assassin decides the practical way to off someone is to release a lot of snakes onboard å flight... I'm sorry but there's quite a lack of logic and reason to the whole thing. Which incidentally is exacly what gave me a small quivering and very forbidden hope... That it woud be So Bad It's Good. Very seldom does this happen, a movie comes along and it's so overblown and ridiculess that it's crosses over into instant cultphenomenon. Everyone has at least one such movie(or you are not watching enough movies), my guilty pleasures includes such horrors as Con Air(loved it, laughed my ass off and fucking loved it) and Tango and Cash(the eightees and early ninetees are a goldmine, just look for Steven Segal and your well on your way). You can't fake unitnended comedy, but you need actors with can treat the script with complete malice for it to work. Therefore, I havent even seen SoaP yet, but thanx a million Sam Jackson, I know if anybody can ride this one in it's you. I have been reading up and it appars it's all there, bad special effects, hilarious/horrific deathscenes combined with a total disregard for all things resembling reason and logic. I'm so getting in line for this one...

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