Posted by Tucker Hottes at 11:17:35 AM on March 24, 2006
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I've always loved so-cheesy-they're-funny flicks. Some bad movies are just genuinely terrible. They take themselves too seriously, they try to be real cinematic achievements. Others bad movies take a lighter view and poke fun at themselves and the genre. Eight-Legged Freaks is a good example of one such film.
Well, there are two upcoming movies that I'm really looking forward to for precisely those reasons. Slither, which comes out next week, and Snakes On A Plane, which will be out in August. Slither looks like a pretty typical campy/gross-out flick, so it's got points right there. But SoaP, that's a different story altogether. Let's do a quick rundown of why this movie is going to be awesome
1. Samuel L. Jackson - 'nuff said.
2. The title - What you read is what you get. In fact, Samuel L. liked it so much for the same reasons he threatened to walk off when producers were considering changing it.
3. Producers are listening to fans - Buzz generated across the Internet got the filmmakers to go back and shoot new footage so rather than trimming for a PG-13 they added for an R
4. Samuel L. Jackson - I mean, come on, some of the additional footage includes the fan-prompted line "I want these motherf'ing snakes off the motherf'ing plane!"
5. CNN already did a story on it - You know a movie is worth seeing when the buzz is so strong even CNN has to comment on it.
6. The director is a stuntman - David R. Ellis has more than 60 stunt credits on his filmography. He also directed Final Destination 2, which was awesome, and Cellular. Ok, maybe scratch that one off the list.
I already caught hell in the office once today for talking about wanting to see these movies, so I'll just go ahead and open it up for some more. I don't care - SoaP (and possibly Slither) is going to be a lot of fun.
-Tucker
