Obligatory Snakes on a Plane post

Since I have a blog, the unspoken rules of the inter-webs dictate that I must do at least one post about Snakes on a Plane. I have this to say:

It was great!

I know this is old news, since it's been out for several weeks, but when have I ever been with the times? Anyway: SoaP is the kind of movie you either love or hate. But those who hate it are missing the point. Of course it's stupid! Of course it's the same as every other action movie! But there's one crucial difference: The whole movie is just straddling the edge of self-parody. You come away not totally sure whether it was so dumb and formulaic because the writer is a hack, or it was so very dumb and formulaic because the writer is an absolute genius. I prefer the latter explanation, and I present the following evidence:

• A chick gets bitten on the nipple.
• A guy gets bitten on the dick and yells something along the lines of "bitch, get the fuck off my dick!"
• They included the line "I have had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!", which, as any informed person knows, originated on the internet as parody.
• A tiny explosive device was used to release the snakes, demonstrating the ease at which the bad guy whose name I have forgotten could have simply blown up the plane.
• Read the title.

As you can see, SoaP makes absolutely no pretense about what it is, unlike pretty much every other dumb action movie, and that's what makes it great.

In other news: Sorry about missing the last two installments of The Hallucinogenic Cookbook. I'll hopefully have a new strip up by the end of this weekend. In the meantime, read someone else's.