I want my motherbleeping 'Snakes' screening

I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been featuring more local movie reviews in GO!

I still like the Rogers -- Roger Moore, the critic from the Orlando Sentinel, and Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun Times critic who's recovering from surgery -- and you'll still find their reviews in GO!

But I believe that local critics create important links with readers. Local movie fans know they can pick up the phone (or log onto a blog) and chew us out and actually get a real person and a real response.

That's why I was hoping to do a local review of "Snakes on a Plane." After all that internet buzz, I figured this would be the movie everybody would check out last weekend and everybody would be talking about for weeks.

I thought for sure New Line would give us a press screening.

Nope. The studio folks figured critics would hate it and that it would make $25 million or more just from Samuel L. Jackson's talk-show tours and the internet hype.

They were wrong on both counts. Most critics who saw it after it opened last weekend actually liked it, but their reviews came too late to save the movie from a lackluster opening of $15.2 million.
This trend of studios releasing movies without pre-screenings really ticks me off, and it should upset you, too. Without reviews, all you get is the studio spin.

I still hope to see the movie at some point, but until then, you people can be my critic. Is it any good?