As Samuel L.
Jackson said in the TV edit of David R.
Ellis’ 2006 hit film “Snakes on a Plane“: “I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!” “Snakes on a Plane” was part of a curious cinematic trend in the mid-2000s that might be described as neo-grindhouse.
The trend was an attempted revival of a certain kind of exploitation movie that was put back into vogue in the 1990s with nostalgia-driven, ’70s-retro fare like “Boogie Nights,” “The Ice Storm,” “The Brady Bunch Movie,” “Jackie Brown,” and “Shaft.” The last two starred Jackson.
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