Snakes on a Plane = Great Movie

Melissa and I saw Snakes on a Plane over the weekend, and despite being two of only about ten people in the entire movie; I must say the film itself was totally awesome. Below are my reasons for why this movie was great, despite what haters such as Chuck Klosterman, www.avclub.com, and others may think.

1) The surfer guy main character of the movie was so one dimensional it was laughable. Whether he was drinking a Red Bull while watching the news, flirting with the flight attendant, or helping to fight rabid snakes, he was able to maintain a completely doe eyed look, facial expression, and tone of voice the entire film. You know a movie is great when you could have removed the main character entirely from the picture and not really lose anything in terms of story

2) Snake vision -- every now and then the film would frame the camera with the 'snakes point of view,' which Melissa and I called snake vision. It was basically a greenish hued thermal night vision looking camera, and it gave the snakes a Jaws like approach before they chewed on people

3) The woman from E.R., Julie Marguellis or something; was in the movie. Just knowing that an actor's career has gotten so low that they would resort to being in this movie, presumably for non-ironic reasons, is entertainment alone. I can only hope that she signed on to the project BEFORE it became a cultish pop-culture phenomenon. Knowing she may have been in the movie strictly because she needed the paycheck was amusing in and of itself

4) Action movies where people get killed are just fun to watch. This movie may not have been as 'bad' as some were hoping for, but did anyone really expect the directors to turn this into a circa 1960's sci-fi film worthy of Mystery Science Theatre 3000? Of course this movie would have lame dialogue, lame referenes to Playstation 2, and that irritating Keenan guy from SNL... sort of like throw away attempts at pop-culture self referentialism. But not every movie that is supposed to be bad can truly be ironically bad. Chuck Klosterman was right about that one aspect in his Esquire article dealing with Snakes on a Plane. You can't just write kitsch into a film, it has to organically develop. In this instance, the kitsch in my opinion existed independent of the movie itself. The culture of Snakes on a Plane is much better than the actual movie; but who cares? The movie was still a necessary step in the process. We all knew the movie would be 'bad' in some sense, we can't expect to dictate the pure aesthetic level on which it is bad, can we? Hence, I claim this movie to be awesomely bad, in a way people can enjoy.