because Snakes on a Plane is going to win them ALL! Best Actor. Best special effects. Best snakes.
I wound up seeing SOAP twice. I really wanted to go Friday night, and the audience of nerds wound up by months of Internet hype did not disappoint. They cheered and wooted and howled the moment Samuel L. Jackson first appeared on screen. Ditto for the first shot of the snakes. And at the movie's climax, when Jackson finally opens his mouth and exclaims, "I've had it with these mother-f'n snakes on this mother f'n plane," I swear, half the theater wet itself with glee. (I stayed dry. Thank you, Ditropan XL.)
The dialogue was hokey and the plot unbelievable and it didn't really make a lot of sense. But I really don't care.
And I was going to buy a bagel and put fake snakes on it and post "Snakes on a Plain Bagel," but all I could find was gummy worms, and I knew that BB would post, "Those are worms." So pretend I did that, and it was all very funny.
Funny dialogue between Sam and me during movie, that either makes me look kind of smart or just totally geeky and lame.
ME: Why do they keep saying "snake expert"? Why can't they say "herpetologist"?
SAM: You went home on Friday and looked that up, didn't you?
ME: (cowering) Worse. I already knew the word.
But really. I love when they dumb things down in movies. "I need the world's best snake expert." It's like when Barbie became a vet, and they called her a pet doctor. Or when Breyer's decided that Americans were too stupid to look at a box of neopolitan ice cream and realize that it was a combination of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry--so they renamed it vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
Neopolitan ice cream is so good.
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Root of herpetologist: herpeto-, -herpes: reptile; crawling.
Who knew? Carli did, apparently.
You get herpes from snakes?
Ok, I am slow, it took me a minute before I realized that SOAP and Snakes on a Plane were the same...because I thought you saw the snake movie and then I was wondering where the SOAP came in. Incidentally, the paper used CAMPY to describe Snakes on a Plane, and my husband never understands when I use campy to describe things, so I was glad to see it in print somewhere...
I had to pop over to say hi after you visited my blog via Michele's (from the Seindfeld/movie commet) and I loved it when I saw this post. I saw SoaP this past weekend and just posted about it today and my reaction to it was pretty much identical to yours. I think they should give it it's very own super-Oscar category! :-D
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