Unpopular fandom opinions #5734

[nny]

I just. I do not get what is so cool about snakes on a plane.

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[minkhollow]

I don't either, really. I think the Internet is just easily amused.
(The 'yon steed is beset by serpents!' variation I've seen on an icon, though? That's good. XD)

[sophistry]

It's because it's so bad that it's brilliant.

[turtlespeaks.livejournal.com]

Mostly it's just the ridiculousness of the title and the whole movie plot. The movie is just, actually called, "Snakes on a Plane" and it's about Snakes on a Plane.

It's just kinda the end all be all of ridiculous movie titles. It's amusing because it's stupid.

Well that, and Samuel L Jackson being in it.

Personally I saw it and wondered why it wasn't going straight to SciFi Channel Saturday programming.

[sophistry]

(Motherfucker.)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hunh.

I'd still rather see Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, if we're going down that route.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Yyyyeah, that one was good. And the Snape on a plane one did provoke a grin. I just reckon the fan response is far more amusing than the film will be, and I think I'm starting to get bored now.

[innerbrat]

Because it's a movie that actually asked people: "Hey, what should this movie have?" and people said: "Snakes! Plane! Violence! Swearing! Norks! And Samuel L Jackson!"

and they made it.

Motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Yes, dear.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Did you get my text of change of phonenumberness? Or did I text the wrong Debbie?

¬_¬

And... meh. I am supremely lacking in interested.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

It's totally the "so bad it's good" thing, added to by the fact that Samuel L Jackson refused to do it unless they kept its title as "snakes on a plane" and let him say the "muthafucking snakes on this muthafucking plane!" line. :)

Bonus? It actually features the bad guys swapping the oxygen masks for snakes. AHAHAHA.

[innerbrat]

No, no I did not. Must've been a different me. Sorry.

I think it must be because you're a girl.

[agonistes]

...there's just...something inherently funny about the phrase "snakes on a plane".

As in I am incapable of hearing it and not giggling like a schoolgirl on speed.

[ms-ntropy.livejournal.com]

But...but....they're snakes on a plane.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I'm just not caught up in it. Perhaps it is the timing. I am not in very SNAKES ON A PLANE mood, currently.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

My funnybone must be dented.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Usually I'd be gleeing over this.

I feel old.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Eh, you don't have to be. Possibly you are just a Tigers On A Train kind of girl. You might be more into the sequel - 2Snakier 2Planier. Who knows? :)

[batyatoon]

It's kind of like "but ... penguin!"

If it does not immediately strike you as funny, no amount of explaining will make it funny.

(I'm finding the phrase "Snakes on a plane!" amusing, but it engenders in me no desire to actually see the movie.)

[ms-ntropy.livejournal.com]

Don't feel old. We'll have none of that soul toast.
Here, help me think of more puns that can be made with cocktail weenies.

[flyakate]

Yeah, I don't really get it either. Although, when the trailer was in front of X:3? People applauded.

Some small child in audience: Why are they clapping?
Me, in my head: Because the grownups are crazy, dear. It's okay.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

..... see, that? Made me laugh.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the trailer. But I NEARLY DIED OF JACK SPARROW.

I think I got the better end of the deal.

[halfwest.livejournal.com]

YOUR ICON IS OF TYHE WIN.

*LOVE*

[halfwest.livejournal.com]

I think it's like the rubber chicken thing on The Muppets.

It's not even funny. It's just... WTF???

It DOES surprise me that people actually made this movie, and that the overall response of "are you STUPID??" has not sunk in yet.

[batyatoon]

Then my work here is done! *beams*

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

I think you have to hear it being said that right way. Just picture Samuel L. Jackson yelling (i.e. - talking like normal for him) but have him be saying 'GET THESE MOTHERFUCKIN' SNAKES OFF MY MOTHERFUCKIN' PLANE!' and you have it. I personally can't wait to see it because it's going to be SO BAD. It'll be brilliant.

[genarti]

It is one of those things which poke your funnybone for no good reason except the ridiculous surreality of it. Or don't.

Me, I'm in the 'meh' corner with you. *shrugs*

[ashen_key]

Snakes on planes?

...

Did I miss something?

[parke-matru.livejournal.com]

It's snakes! On a plane!

. . . okay, so the movie probably sucks and I don't plan to see it. But it's one of the few movies you'll go to knowing precisely what you're going to get. The big movies, you head there with high expectations and there's always something that annoys you, lack of continuity or whatever. This? There's going to be snakes. They're going to be on a plane. And it's going to have Samuel L Jackson saying lines written by geeks blogging about it.

And I'm planning a couple fics based on it. They will be Crack.

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

Snakes on a plane is like, the motherfucking product of motherfucking internet culture. Before the Age of Information, human kind laughed at B movies, but did not realise that everyone else was laughing too. Now we can all laugh together and embrace the badness, and even cater to it. (And what else has the internet taught us if that?)

I think it's like the innumerable flash sites on the internet. Some people think it's hilarious because it's stupid and random and terrible, and that's what makes it funny--they're mocking the badness while indulging in it. Other people can't get past the badness.

Just rest assured. For every person out there that thinks The Llama Song/Badger Song/Got Rice song/Gonads & Strife Song/that one William Shatner/Patrick Stewart/David Hasselhoff flash movie is the stupidest thing they've ever seen in their life, there will be 5 more people who laugh.

oh my god, did i just spend 10 minutes trying to explain this.

JUST LAUGH WITH THE REST OF US SHEEP, OKAY?