Cocaine Bear (2023)
To hear people talk about it now, ‘Snakes on a Plane’ was the first time anyone thought to use a movie’s title itself to get people’s attention. This is William Castle erasure. It also ignores such great 1950’s pulp titles as ‘I was a Teenage Werewolf’ or ‘I Married a Monster from Outer Space.’ Not to mention that in the 60’s and into the 70’s we started getting full-on exploitation gems like ‘Teenage Mother’ and ‘I Spit on Your Grave.’ Sometimes these titles are overly long, like ‘The Englishman who Went up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain,’ sometimes they’re punchy and intriguing, like ‘Two Thousand Maniacs.’ Anyone who sneers at a silly name is ignoring this long and proud tradition of slapping an attention-grabbing title on a movie that’s more interested in being entertaining than saying anything profound. Fun movies can be art too, and hooking people into seeing your works is what artists are supposed to do. In another example of ...