On second thought...

I'm back, rewriting about "Snakes on a Plane"...

So, I have the horrible habit of seeing movies more than once. "Clerks 2", all three "Lord of the Rings" movies, and countless others have been thrown in my path numerous times, and each time I gladly watched them. The great thing is, these multiple viewings allow me to sit back, watch the movie, and see some of the things I missed the first time around. I am so easily swayed by the emotion or hype of a movie that sometimes, I come out of the movie a raving maniac; either entranced, overjoyed, or furious. The second time, I come out a raving maniac--but a raving maniac who knows what's going on...

This time, I noticed several scenes that could have been laughed at, and could have been cried over. There was one moment during which the women in the audience laughed (dare I say cackled?) and the men groaned. Ever see "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"? Yeah, guys, it's like that.


There are the adorable children who actual look like siblings, the glorious-but-gruesome (and brief) reappearance of a disliked character. There was the background story: the very reason for the snakes on the plane. It was so weird and neatly contained that it almost didn't work. Almost.

I don't know that explaining much more would help. But I do know that this was a good movie, fun, random, surprising, and predictable--all in the right places.

Like I said before, see this movie, if only for Samuel L. Jackson. He is the man...