as if ...

[winterbadger]

as if I didn't have a strong enough aversion to this film already...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5277238.stm

Comments

[wolfette]

If you're not phobic about snakes, don't object to foul language (there's not a whole lot of that) and usually enjoy "action thrillers", it's actually quite a fun movie - but I understand some people think it's a movie you should "participate" in, by throwing rubber snakes. Whoever this was just took it one step further.

[winterbadger]

Peope are tossing rubber snakes around? Hell, no, I'm not going then.

As you may have guessed from this, I am very hpobic when it comes to snakes. :-) I prefer to think of it as "not wanting to bother snakes, and hoping they will not want to bother me in return" but, in all hponesty they give me the willies.

I put it down to there having been lots of snakes around where I grew up and, given the way my father gardens, you never knew when you might meet one.

[wolfette]

I don't even like people throwing rice at "Rocky Horror" movies. (but then, I don't much like the Rocky Horror movie anyway).

Snakes - my mother was very phobic about them. She managed not to transmit this to her kids (she was also very phobic about swimming - but she managed to get herself into a bathing suit and sit in the shallow end of the pool when we were kids, so we learned to swim and didn't get phobic about it like her). Living in the UK we don't have many snakes - only two native varieties, only one of which is venomous ........... and that not even "deadly" to most healthy adults (Ireland doesn't even have those), and you'd be hard pressed to find an adder or grass-snake anywhere except in the real wilderness (rare), so any fear of snakes here in the UK *is* just "phobia" (unreasoning fear). I can understand people who live in places where snakes - especially poisonous ones - are more common having a healthy respect for them.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, the latest issue of "Walk" just *had* to have a picture of an adder in their piece on the New Forest. ;-)

That's very good of your mum! How sensible and brave of her. Yeah, we had rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouth moccasins in the area I grew up, but mostly what I ended up meeting were big grey water snakes and smaller banded black and white snakes.

Over the years I've gotten a lot mellower about them. I was swimming in a lake up in CT several years ago and noticed a snake in the water near me (probably a water moccasin). I stopped what I was doing and watched it carefully as it swam on past, but I didn't panic or shriek or anything. :-) I felt rather pleased with myself. :-)

[wolfette]

I'll be honest - I've hiked over the Scottish moorlands, the Cumbrian Fells, the Yorkshire Dales and even part of the New Forest - and the only snake I've ever seen has been in a photo or on a tv screen!

[winterbadger]

the only snake I've ever seen has been in a photo or on a tv screen

Yay! :-)

Sounds like you've seen some lovely country, too!

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

There's really no reason to actually see the movie. Once you've seen the trailer, with its boast about how it shows something you've never seen in a movie before, you've pretty much seen the whole reason and substance of the movie. They promise to show you snakes on a plane, then you see lots of scenes of snakes on a plane -- so if you see the movie itself, you won't see anything new: just the usual cops-and-gangstas story plus those snakes you already saw. All that's left is to yell "snakes on a plane!" at wildly inappropriate moments until the joke gets old. (Four-syllable adctive optional.)

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

It's a waste. Yawn.

[noting-nothing.livejournal.com]

Aye, that story on the news made me turn cold as well... *shudders*

[azbound.livejournal.com]

We don't call it the wild wild west for nothing!!

;-)

(That's not to say that I condone or sanction this in any imaginable way possible.)

[winterbadger]

I'm sure this is not typical behaviour for Phoeniz. ([Homer Simpson voice] Or *am* I? I didn't actually go to a movie there..."[/HSV])