History YMMV / Anaconda

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The entire soundtrack, whether it be a somber song or a bombastic one. [[https://youtu.be/HvLn3NTd0GI Serone's Last Sand]] is the standout example.

** Many, many critics pointed out that giving Jennifer Lopez the line "This film [in reference to the in-universe documentary about indigenous people that her character is trying to shoot] was supposed to be my big break, and instead it's become a big disaster" was seriously TemptingFate.

** Many, many critics pointed out that giving Jennifer Lopez the line "This film [in reference to the in-universe documentary about indigenous people that was the reason her character was in the Amazonas] was supposed to be my big break, and instead it's become a big disaster" was seriously TemptingFate.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For all of the moments of SpecialEffectsFailure the first film had, the moment the snake leaps from a tree to snatch a victim midair falling from a cliff is just ''awesome''.

** The infamous backwards waterfall.
** ''Anaconda'': Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics (though one ''could'' say that the CGI snakes are at least better than the animatronics), the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office.
** That said, the moment the snake leaps from a tree to snatch a victim midair falling from a cliff is just ''awesome''.

* NarmCharm: Creator/JonVoight's performance as Paul Serone is absurdly over the top. It is clear that whoever thought that casting Voight as a character with a thick ambiguously South American accent was a good idea was probably high. That said, in a film where the rest of the cast is so clearly apathetic about their performances, it is not hard to find yourself mesmerized by [[LargeHam the pure and total hamminess]] of Voight's performance simply because, unlike the rest of the cast, he is actually trying. Winking at the heroes as if to say, "I told you so" (and maybe "''You're next!''"), when regurgitated by the snake is probably the high point of the film.
** Voight's portrayal [[FridgeBrilliance actually kind of makes sense]] if you look at it as him trying to channel Creator/MarlonBrando as Colonel Kurtz in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Towards the end, he even loses the accent and talks for a few minutes in a Brando-like voice.

** Many, many critics pointed out that giving Jennifer Lopez the line "This film was supposed to be my big break, and instead it's become a big disaster" was seriously TemptingFate.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' had a giant, man-eating snake as an antagonist a whole year before the first movie came out.

* AwesomeMusic: The entire soundtrack, whether it be a somber song or a bombastic one. [[https://youtu.be/HvLn3NTd0GI Serone's Last Sand]] is the standout example.

* CompleteMonster: * ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Paul Serone]] is a former priest from Paraguay who decided to become a [[EvilPoacher snake poacher]] in the Amazon, catching them for rich clients. Serone arranges with his partner Matteo to lure a film crew into the territory of a giant, man-eating anaconda to serve as bait for his hunt. Incapacitating the team leader with a poisonous wasp, Serone allows Matteo to be EatenAlive, then recruits a new hapless partner from among the crew and sacrifices him as well when the option of saving him threatens Serone's profits. Serone later strangles the man's girlfriend to death when she attempts to avenge him. After being overthrown and escaping, Serone captures two of the remaining people inside the anaconda's feeding grounds, attempting to feed them to the snake while mocking their impending deaths. Driven by nothing save {{Greed}}, Serone proves to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters worse than even the monstrous snake]].

* CompleteMonster: [[FauxAffablyEvil Paul Serone]] is a former priest from Paraguay who decided to become a [[EvilPoacher snake poacher]] in the Amazon, catching them for rich clients. Serone arranged with his old hunting partner Matteo to lure a documentary film crew to a giant, man-eating anaconda's home territory to use them as bait for the hunt. Serone incapacitates the team leader with a poisonous wasp before saving his life to win the crew's trust and offers them a "shortcut" that leads right into the snake's territory. The passengers are picked off one by one by the anaconda, which crushes its prey in its coils before [[EatenAlive slowly digesting them alive]]. Serone [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates one of them]] into becoming his "[[WeCanRuleTogether partner]]", but he sacrifices the guy without a second thought when he prevents the others from shooting the snake when it grabs his ally, because he can't make a profit off a dead animal. Serone strangles a woman to death with his thighs when she's come to get revenge for her dead boyfriend. Serone is ultimately overthrown but escapes, and captures two of the remaining people inside the anaconda's feeding grounds, dousing them with monkey blood and trying to feed them to the snake so he can trap it, while mocking their impending deaths.

** Sarone mentions that he started out studying for the priesthood. Eight years later, Creator/JonVoight would play a ''very'' famous priest indeed: Film/PopeJohnPaulII