{"id":639,"date":"2006-08-08T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2006-08-08T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:00:46","slug":"mr_jackson_on_line_one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/08\/mr_jackson_on_line_one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Jackson on Line One…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is great… I just received a phone call from Samuel L. Jackson<\/a>, telling me I have to pick up The Girlfriend on August 18th and get down to the theater to see his new film, Snakes on a Plane<\/i><\/a>, which he promises just might be the greatest film ever made. He even threatens to come after me if I don’t see it. And who am I to argue with Samuel L. Muthaf****ng Jackson?
\nThe movie is totally going to blow, of course, even if it does turn out to be entertaining. I’m thinking it may be right up there with Robot Jox<\/i><\/a> for pure, joyful suckitude, or at least in the neighborhood of that other immortal airplane-based action flick, Passenger 57<\/i><\/a>. But I’ve got to admit, the marketing behind this end-of-summer, bottom-of-the-barrel, B-movie schlocker has been absolutely brilliant, beginning months ago with the Internet word-of-mouth and all the various home-brewed video parodies <\/a> (here’s a Salon article<\/a> detailing the Snakes<\/i> phenomenon; sorry in advance for making you sit through a commercial to read it) and leading right up to this personalized phone call<\/a> thing. The rising buzz around this film has been been organic, it’s been fun, and it’s all felt decidedly non-corporate. These days, when even the most minor of releases gets a co-branded Happy Meal and wall-to-wall TV ads, the grass-roots enthusiasm for Snakes<\/i> is truly refreshing, and genuinely enticing. Oh, yeah, I’ll see Snakes on a Plane<\/i>. It’ll suck, but it’s earned the privilege of my curiosity, at least.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, if you’d like to hear my phone call from Mr. Jackson, I’ve recreated it here<\/a>. Give a listen. It’s pretty amusing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is great… I just received a phone call from Samuel L. Jackson, telling me I have to pick up The Girlfriend on August 18th and get down to the theater to see his new film, Snakes on a Plane, which he promises just might be the greatest film ever made. He even threatens to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}