Lets Anticipate Snakes On A Plane!

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On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

also in the movie is kenan from "kenan and kel". amazing.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

WAIT - THIS MOVIE IS ACTUALLY CALLED "SNAKES ON A PLANE"!?!?!?!?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Jackson fought the studio to keep the name. WITH HIS BARE HANDS.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

It's the future - you don't actually have to see the movie, because the TITLE is the ENTIRE PLOT.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

i cant wait to see this movie.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

WHY DO YOU NEED TO SEE IT? THERE ARE SNAKES...ON A PLANE! YOU HAVE JUST EXPERIENCED THE WHOLE MOVIE FOR FREE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

just cause they give away the whole plot in the title doesnt mean i cant go waste my money on seeing it. in fact, i need to see it because of this very reason.

anyway:

http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/samuel-l-jackson/dudesnakes-on-a-plane-117687.php

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

N/a, please!

What about 12 Angry Men or Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Are those titles any less, I don't know, OBVIOUS than Snakes on a Plane?
I mean, it doesn't even tell what kind of snakes or what kind of plane!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

TITLE is the ENTIRE PLOT.

concept/plot as title:

40 Year Old Virgin
Wedding Crashers
etc

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

No, you don't understand. THIS IS "SNAKES ON A PLANE."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Godzilla vs. Mothra

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0057181/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9Y3JlYXR1cmV8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=9;ft=108;fm=1

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

When Harry Met Sally On A Plane

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Unless the snakes are the same size as the one that tried to swallow that alligator in that news reort in the other thread, this film is going to be very very boring.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Unless the snakes highjack the plane & force Samuel L Johnston to be their ssssex sssslave. That could be interesting.

― salexander (salexander), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Hot Snakes on a Plane

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

EROTIC PLANE SNAKES.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Wait wait wait...look at the title's ACRONYM!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

SOAP on a Rope?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

EPS?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

yes, let's

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

You're right. This has been done before. So unoriginal.

― salexander (salexander), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s/snakesonaplane/002_l.jpg
http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s/snakesonaplane/003_l.jpg
http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s/snakesonaplane/004_l.jpg
http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s/snakesonaplane/005_l.jpg
http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s/snakesonaplane/006_l.jpg

― Bob Loblaw (Adrian Langston), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

I heard History Of Violence was originally titled I Married A Serial Murderer (And I Feel Fine).

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

WERE DID U HERE THAT?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

just cause they give away the whole plot in the title doesnt mean i cant go waste my money on seeing it.

Yeah, knowing the plot is totally different from seeing it. Like, "Double-Stuffed Blondes Vol. 6" -- obviously you know going in that there will be blondes, and they will be double-stuffed, but the nuances are all in the details. (Will they be natural blondes? Who will do the double-stuffing? Will the soundtrack have a lite techno beat or more of an old-school blooz groove?)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

maybe this is kind of the frution of those old 'pitch' stories, eg aliens was pitched as 'jaws in space'.

― N_RQ (Enrique), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I am so, so scared of snakes. This kind of situation would be my worst nightmare. I will not be seeing the film.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

this movie can't come out soon enough!

― latebloomer: Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (latebloomer), Monday, 20 February 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I can't wait to see Agam Narshi's undoubtedly nuanced and virtuoso performance as Ipod Girl.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 February 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I wish other movie titles would be so straightforward about the concept, then they'd be easier to avoid (or catch). Take the movies of David Fincher, for example:

Chased by Pumpkins with Teeth in a Prison Makes You Existential (1992)

Life Is Hell, But You Can Make Some Sense to It If You're Morgan Freeman (1995)

Modern Life Is Sanitized And Boring (1997)

Modern Life Is Sanitized and Boring II: Rejecting It Can Lead to Fascism Though (1999)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 February 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha i disagree about the alien looking like a pumpkin! more like a banana crossed with a crustacean and a cougar.

― latebloomer: Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (latebloomer), Monday, 20 February 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

but otherwise, those are pretty astute!

― latebloomer: Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (latebloomer), Monday, 20 February 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I guess you're right, pumpkin was just the first thing to spring to mind. What I actually meant to say was zucchini, but I couldn't remember the English word for it (in Finnish it's called "summer pumpkin").

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 February 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.snakesonablog.com/

Trailer's out.

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 17 March 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... it looks like they're now playing it for laughs, which spoils it a bit.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

everyone's seen the trailer, right? lots of snakes. lots.

― amateurist0, Friday, 17 March 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

What about the plane. Are they on a plane?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

i hope they didn't give away all the good parts in the trailer. if half the movie turns out to be exposition of how the snakes get to BE on the plane, i will be so disappointed. unless how they get there is totally amazing, like a voodoo curse or something.

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Snakes on a Plane" vs. "Eight Heads in a Duffle Bag"

!!!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't EHiaDB like the American Snatch or sump'n?

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

UPDATE (3/17/06 at 5:08pm) ï¿½ Iï¿½ve gotten more than one phone call today from people at New Line asking me to clarify that this trailer is not the official teaser trailer for the film, it was put online merely for the songwriting contest at Tagworld. The CG is not representative of how the snakes will look in the final cut. The OFFICIAL official teaser trailer will apparently be coming out in about a month. Iï¿½ll be out of town for the remainder of the weekend, so updates will be sparse.

― latebloomer is a belly with a guy pierce in it (latebloomer), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

EHiaDB is like WAY PRE-SNATCH

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 18 March 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I was reading this TNR essay about Michael Crichton today and it occurred to me how I would respect him so much more if he was responsible for Snakes On A Plane.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 18 March 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1790/ami1vc.jpg

― ty, Saturday, 18 March 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

There really should be a thread dedicated to renaming films in "__________ on a __________" format.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 18 March 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Wages of Fear ---> Nitro on a Truck

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 18 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Shining = Fucked in a Hotel
Full Metal Jackets = Numbnuts in a World of Shit
The Crying Game = Dick on a Chick

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 18 March 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

the director also did Cellular, so it actually might not be that bad

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 18 March 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dawn of the Dead = Zombies in a Mall
Brokeback Mountain = Gays on a Mountain

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 18 March 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Mand, I meant in terms of both being FUCKING AWFUL.

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Saturday, 18 March 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

unofficial t-shirt:

http://damnation-inc.com/Snakes-on-a-Plane/preview.gif

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

this is going to be the best thing that's ever happened to me.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

CNN.com

When Ellis assembled Jackson and others for the recent shoot, the filmmakers added more gore, more death, more nudity, more snakes and more death scenes. And they shot a scene where Jackson does utter the line that fans have demanded.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

kingfish that is the best article you've ever reposted on this entire blasted message board.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm glad the snakes are dead, and I hope they burn in hell!" ?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hell no, PP:

"I want these mother------- snakes off the mother------- plane!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Should we wager on the number of "GOT-DAMN"s in the final version? Who wants to set the over/under?

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Over 200 and under however many words are in the script.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

STOKED

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

STOKED ON A MESSAGE BOARD

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

SSSSTOKED

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the music contest: http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Does this mark the first time that idiots on the internet have spurred reshooting of a movie?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/ksmithsign/kevinsign3.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I heard that they're doing some additional reshoots that will change the rating from PG-13 to R ONLY BECAUSE they're filming Samuel L. Jackson saying "I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane."

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I love that MORE SNAKES means an R rating too.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait for this movie. The title always makes me think of that moment in Tango & Cash where T&C are being dipped in electrified water and Jack Palance yells "RATS IN A MAZE!!! TRAPPED...IN A CAGE!!!"

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Samuel L. Jackson: "I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane"

White co-star: "Jimmy's right guys! It's now or never. LET'S ROLL!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

NPR piece about Snakes on a Plane

There's a link to the audio clip of the broadcast at the top of the page.

― I'm sneaking 40's into the theater when I watch this., Friday, 24 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's also R because they added more nudity.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

kenan joins the mile high club.

― ant@work.com, Friday, 24 March 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm joining late and am FAR too lazy to search this thread for a link, but I did search MeFi and found a dead link to a Youtube video that had been removed (violation of TOS). So can anyone provide me with a link to the best-known fake trailer involving "I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane" (or whatever)? I'd appreciate it.

KBye.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine made this:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8906/snakesonalost0oz.jpg

"We're all here for a reason, Jack. What's your purpose?"

"Fuck you Locke, I'm here because of SNAKES on a goddamn PLANE"

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 26 March 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jackson's next project: PENGUINS on a POLE

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

SNAKES IN A CAR

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Among the reported additions to the film is a foul-mouthed rant from Jackson in which his agent character bellows, "I want these motherf**king snakes off the motherf**king plane!" The line is expected to take on cult status.

hm.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 7 April 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

ha, please call now and reserve your ticket for cult status!

― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Friday, 7 April 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

COuntdown to ringtone in 10...9...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 7 April 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

This shit got annoying real fast.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

― I beg to differ, Friday, 7 April 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

haha Dave Marsh is in it!

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Friday, 7 April 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's nice that the writer acknowledges that the mainstream press is a cult

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 7 April 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

That David R. Ellis directed IS encouraging; I watched Cellular last night, and the only serious error he made was having Chris Evans put his shirt on in his second scene.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if this hype peaked just a little early

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, its like the actual release of the movie will be its own anniversary edition re-release

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

Snakes On a Plane: The Version You've Never Seen! (Seriously, You Haven't, It Didn't Even Come Out Til Just Now!)

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

im tired as fuck of this shit but its still all worth it for inspiring SLAVES ON A BOAT

― -++--++-, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

From: JF Mezei - view profile
Date: Thurs, Jun 22 2000 12:00 am
Email: JF Mezei
Groups: rec.travel.air

LandonEx wrote:

> Scorpion Sting Forces Flight to Land

During my first trip to Australia, met a pom cyclist who had been stung by
scorpion while sleeping on the ground (no tent). He showed his finger and it
was just swollen. He continued cycling the next day as if nothing had happened.

But when I first did encounter a scorpion (walked between my feet), I froze
and was quite concerned...

I did crush a big one with my front wheel once though.

But never encountered them or snakes on a plane.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.travel.air/browse_thread/thread/8c3a474bfb4f6f6f/45e3ae66ef624710?

― +-++-++, Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

SNAKES ON A HELICOPTER!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/magnumsnakes.gif

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j87/BuggingNot/magnumsnakes2.gif

― Bnad, Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if this hype peaked just a little early

It did and I predicted a hipster backlash of this months ago. It's possible that this will actually be less of a hit than it is expected to be (but of course more successful than originally thought of) because a lot of its earliest supporters will have cooled off a bit.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

it's a concept and phrase that may outlive the film, like CHUD.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

get a room you two

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Promo clip is in cinemas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgHL18g18v4

(and other trailers have appeared as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCMJQbNtQ6M )

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

SNAKE ON A PLANE!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

That snake is a copycat! Movies like this are a bad influence on America's little snakes!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think the pilot was hallucinating that his cock was a snake again

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I that happens to me all the time, I can relate.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 3 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

u guys captain ahab's song snakes on the brain won the song contest and is going to play over the end credits! go captain ahab!!!!!!!

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Friday, 23 June 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

you can hear it here http://www.tagworld.com/captainahab2

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Friday, 23 June 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

My husband had maggots in his car once. It was recalled because of a defect in the heater, but the mechanics at the Toyota place refused to work on it until he cleaned it out and fumigated it.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)

When this movie was released, employees of the theaters would dress as monsters and run through the theaters.

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 24 June 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, I haven't thought of Ray Dennis Steckler in a while. They ran a series of long interviews with him in Flipside in the mid-'90s. I've only seen one of his films once - I think it might have been that one.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Saturday, 24 June 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Read The Book, Watch The Movie, Snake The Plane

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Best Book Ever!!!, June 16, 2006
Reviewer:
David Wolf "davidwolf84" (CO) - See all my reviews
This is probably the best book I've ever read. It has action, suspense, everything. I can't wait for the movie. Christa Faust really does a nice job. I couldn't put the book down until it was done.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Saturday, 8 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

i think this has had some bad marketing, i've talked to three people who thought the movie was already released and then disappeared from theaters. i blame those stupid news stories and interviews with the net dorks who were pushing for the changes in the film.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 8 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

a review of the novelization

http://www.crazymonk.org/images/soap_short_review1.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

hey doods look for chaki playin bass in the snakes on the brain music video during the end credits (hopefully)

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Monday, 10 July 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

no way

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Snake The Plane

Nice. What could this be an idiom for?

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/alextrakker/serpents_avion_2.jpg

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 22 July 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I went past a bus with an advert for this on it this morning. The tag line was "Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the Fright"

Classic.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

> The tag line was "Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the Fright"

i'm guessing that's what "asseyez-vous, detendez-vous et profitez du voyage" is very nearly french for. um, wait, doesn't that ignore the pun?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I had to translate that french bit using babel fish to make sure I wasn't repeating something that had kind of been shown. Now I can't stop doubting myself and thinking I maybe misread the poster and just saw what I wanted to see...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

I still want to see this movie even though I think the MFing snakes off the MFing plane line is completely unfunny and actually kinda insulting to SLJ/audience alike.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

"The Snakes on the Plane" is a totally superior title

doaple gonger otm, there's something pretty icky about "SLJ has to say 'motherfucking snakes' an' shit!"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Blanks on a Blank, a short film competition for those who seek variety in what animal is terrorizing people on various modes of transport:
http://www.originalalamo.com/sites/2blanks/films.aspx

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

asylum home entertainment's take

available on dvd 8/15/06

(no lance henriksen though)

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoyed Samuel L Jackson turning up at the Miami Vice premiere wearing a Snakes on a Plane t-shirt.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://lawrenceklein.net/snakeslarge.htm

SNAKES ON THE BRAIN VIDEO IS OUT! LOOK FOR MY BIG SCENE LICKING MY OWN BASS!!!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/

Have Samuel L. Jackson call your friends!

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

ilx, get out your machetes

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Much like the Arcade Fire and Amanda Congdon, Snakes on a Plane has become one of those topics that Internet people love writing about, mostly because they feel a sense of ownership over its cultural impact.

Hello Internet article about Snakes On A Plane!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

The only purpose of Snakes on a Plane is to make its audience feel smarter than what it's seeing. Which adds up, since that's part of the reason people like reading the Internet.

Hello Internet article about Snakes On A Plane Pt. 2!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, talking about the Arcade Fire is an internet phenomenon?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

You missed it?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

I must have been booked for other memes that day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

they're advertising this on british tv at the moment...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Jenny is in law school, and one of her classmates went to a movie in April. When the coming attractions started, the first image was of dozens of unsuspecting plane passengers sitting in the cabin of an airborne 757. The moment he saw this, the mischievous law student yelled, "Snakes on a plane!" presumably to amuse and unify the other patrons. Unfortunately, this turned out to be a trailer for United 93

Now THAT is funny!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

the klosterman article is technically not an internet article as it appeared in the print edition! anyway, he's kinda right

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand what his stupid story about his made up law student girlfriend proves? "Ppl be saying stupid shit at previews: Film at 11". He IS kind of right but it doesn't stop the fact that it is a pretty poorly written ("pretty poorly") article with random, laughable stuff that makes utterly no sense. He sounds like a drunken 55 year old all about kids these days!

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

yes i agree with that.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

He's just aiming for where he was always headed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Who is Amanda Congdon?

Studios bowing to the demands of young people on the internet! Oh noes!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

we're the juggernaut, bitch

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know who any of the people he mentions as internet discussion topics are!! Maybe I'm not actually on internets?

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Just not on the internets where "Peaches" is still a timely and amusing reference.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dude, that took me like a really long time to parse and figure out wtf oldster was even talking about.

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Klosterdude is a tool.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Congdon

Amanda Congdon is someone we shouldn't give a shit about, but obviously lecherous old journalist dudes do.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he would be happier with us if there was a mass movement to get Amanda to show us her tits.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

DOODS WHY DONT YOU GUYS CARE THAT IM GOING TO BE IN THIS MOVIE

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I can't watch the video until I get home from work. :ccc

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

someone please pay attention to chaki

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know you were going to be in this movie, chaki.

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

is there a video that you're also in, chaki? i would be very interested in that

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I guess taking swipes at Kloster's pop. cult. anal. is low hanging fruit, but really... it's perfect that someone yelled "snakes on a plane" during a United 93 preview, since the SOAP phenomenon keys into our sublimated post-9/11 anxieties in a very primal way.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know you were going to be in this movie, chaki.

Yeah, same here -- what did I miss?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

BTW I heard chaki is in this movie

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

That "Snakes on the Brain" video is not safe for work. Or the home. Or the car.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

My computer won't play it for some reason. Can you put it on youtube?

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

chaki, u in the real movie or just that video?

also, check out what this guy did
ihttp://www.giantmag.com/2006/07/movies/snakes-on-his-motherfucking-flesh/#more-148

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were banned?

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

THE VIDEO IS TO BE AT THE END OF THE MOVIE. THANKS FOR PAYING ATTENTION TO ME GUYS I NEED ATTENTION. :)))))))

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

the snake tattoo guy is the dumbest bastard on earth

tattoo yr blog on yr forehead jerk

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

cousin larry needs a hug.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

i'd prefer a tattoo of a hug, thx

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

ON YOU TUBE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNt0_uSAJ24&search=captain%20ahab

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I actually liked that a lot.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/
Have Samuel L. Jackson call your friends!

someone did this to me today. it was kinda funny.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

i cant get flash to play on my linux machine here, or else i'd be spamming my brother all day with it today.

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

gah, why do i click on chuck klosterman links?

(Much like the lyrics to the 1995 song "Peaches," the title Snakes on a Plane defies deconstruction.)

how can one man be wrong about so many things in one parenthetical aside?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Nice job rocking the bandana, Chaki. Now if only there were more booty in that video..

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure if being the Electric Six of nu-metal is a good thing or a bad thing yet

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

(note: proliferation of asses = leaning towards "good thing")

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the Captain Ahab thing >>>>>>>> this

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/156025971X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63279767_.jpg

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry it's so large. I guess there is a market for a book about the public anticipation of a movie that hasn't even come out.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

No one should ever used the word "deconstruction" again, including undead Jacques Derrida

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

The book should be called "Let's Anticipate Snakes on a Plane!" (xpost)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nice job rocking the bandana, Chaki. Now if only there were more booty in that video..

If only.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/nightofthelivingderrida.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i can't even begin to picture who would buy that book.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

That guy with the tattoo, if he can read.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Friday, 4 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Klosterman got one as prep for his insightful article.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZijbpxNXII

on the daily show

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

i already booked my tix for the 10pm chelsea showing tomorrow

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

i may see this in a month when the douchebags stop masturbating and salivating

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

movie delivered the goods

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

were there snakes?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

I actually heard the snakes are a metaphor for the protagonist's crippling heroin addiction and do not actually appear (only he can see them)

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

haha, daily show - ferrets on a panel truck. s on p and tube jokes are in a neck and neck battle for internet comedy anti-hero hero.
i still don't know if i want to pay full price for this...

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 18 August 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/snakesonaplane

oddly enough, this already has 105 votes

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

Watched it in a theater FILLED with annoying ironic t-shirt dudes and I wanted to gouge my eyes out. The movie was really quite terrible but there was some enjoyable gore/absurdity.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to see it because it's film for folk like me: internet assholes!

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide if the Cobra Starship theme song is terrific or terrible.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

"I want these mother------- snakes off the mother------- plane!"

according to EW the line is "i've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!"

which is a lot funnier, really.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide if the Cobra Starship theme song is terrific or terrible.

You should see the full-length music video that accompanies the end credits. uuuuugh.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why Polyphonic, you're being rather sly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

"A movie which combines two of man's worst fears"

How this film could get all the hype and "Atomic Twister" a straight-to-video release is utterly beyond me.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect if Armond White ("Sam Jackson = Stepin Fetchit") reviews this, it'll end with "I want this motherfucking minstrel off my motherfucking screen."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

both the song and the video are fabulous pop - sing the chorus in a flat disinterested Mancunian accent, lopping off the backing vox but leaving the instrumentation exactly the same, and voila: New Order

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why Polyphonic, you're being rather sly.

I would like to see Snakes on Ned's Dad's Submarine.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I bet we can come up with some better 'scary combination' film-titles.

Crocodiles With Carbines
The Ghost Of Osama Bin Laden
They Saved Hitler's H-Bomb
Basic Instinct 3: The Ann Coulter Story
Zombie Spider Paedophiles
Manchester United 93

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Basic Instinct 3: The Ann Coulter Story

ok, that one is scary.

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

wait i thought chaki's video was at the end of this movie

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Owen Gleiberman must've been at the same showing:

As Snakes started, a few cheers went up, but the sneer never quite disappeared: It was applause as a form of one-upmanship -- a desire for entertainment, yes, but also a celebration of the audience's superiority, its power over the movie. More potent than anything in Snakes on a Plane is the fantasy offscreen: that if enough people talk up their desire to see this film and, at the same time, take an overt delight in what an unabashed piece of junk it is, they will fuse with the hype, with the movie's mystique. They will not just watch Snakes on a Plane; they will own it.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

i heard they took it out at the last minute cuz the fallout boy guy is a bitch and didnt want any other video but his :( the song plays over the credits though!

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

pwned by fall out boy.
:(

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

"I bet we can come up with some better 'scary combination' film-titles."

Mel Gibson in... The Thing With Three Souls

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

a celebration of the audience's superiority, its power over the movie.

When did this audience-as-performer shit start? stage diving?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

"performer" doesn't really = "power over the movie". Director, yeah. . .

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Birds 2: H5N1

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

It was applause as a form of one-upmanship -- a desire for entertainment, yes, but also a celebration of the audience's superiority, its power over the movie

Currently the top Google match for "ironic appreciation" is an article about a movie - guess which one.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

10. Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a "lamp"; not a woman, but a "woman." To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.
18. One must distinguish between naïve and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naïve. Camp which knows itself to be Camp ("camping") is usually less satisfying.
41. The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
44. Camp proposes a comic vision of the world. But not a bitter or polemical comedy. If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
58. The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nice try.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Owen Gleiberman

who--it must be said--thinks "nat'l born killers" is the most important film ever, or something like that

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Link please.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

He's got NBK as best film of the 90s and #10 best film of the century here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/ballot_list.php3?critic=23

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

His EW Review:

Natural Born Killers

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman

NATURAL BORN KILLERS (R) Oliver Stone's brilliant and haunting new movie seems to have exploded directly from the filmmaker's psyche, a gonzo-poetic head trip about America's escalating culture of ultraviolence. Stone unfurls the tale of Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), good- looking punk lovers who go on a reckless homicidal bender. Overnight, they become celebrity psychopaths, superstars of the tabloid-media age. What makes their lurid odyssey so mesmerizing is Stone's revolutionary cinematic language. Shooting on more than a dozen film and video stocks, he captures the surreal everyday madness of the image culture. Watching the movie, we're really inside Mickey and Mallory's heads-we're watching the two of them watch themselves. Stone rubs our noses in our own lust for excess, transforming his attraction to violence into an art of depraved catharsis. A ( 237/238, Aug. 26/Sept. 2) -OG
(Posted:09/09/94)

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

i have to say "owen gleiberman" sounds like the same of an allergenist or something

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about THE best, but NBK is totally one of the best films of the 90s, yes.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't like it at all.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's pretty good.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Owen's point about film stocks and visual styles is interesting and probably correct, but the plot and performances don't do much for me.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

the singer from fallout boy makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the Cobra Starship video though!

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

i just had to teach NBK in a class and man, stone is such a salty bitch in the deleted scene commentary.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

i heard they took it out at the last minute cuz the fallout boy guy is a bitch and didnt want any other video but his :( the song plays over the credits though!

-- chaki (chaki.tim...), August 18th, 2006.

aww that sucks, i started waiting to see the captain ahab video but that other crappy one came on instead!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

effin' Owen Glib-erman

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

anyway, the movie delivered on its premise to portray snakes running amok on a plane

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

if i go see this, i'll be wearing this shirt:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/shirt.jpg

― grady (grady), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

am i allowed to like a movie that was never intended to be anything BUT camp? and earnestly appreciate it as good entertainment?

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I say yes. totally agree. maybe it was just because we don't roll ironic in the south, but the audience when I saw it seemed totally genuine in their appreciation of an awesomely-entertaining strip of film. there was no baggage, just a bunch of people who had been waiting for months to see snakes bite assholes and then get killed by samuel l. jackson, got exactly that, were happy to have it, and showed their appreciation by cheering and applauding wildly throughout the movie.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

since the movie industry BEGAN there have been over-the-top genre pictures that were made with large helpings of irony. and audiences are pretty savvy about this kind of stuff -- even the dumbest dumbshit yokels see the camp value of something like independence day.

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to myself: (I guess maybe that is sort of baggage, but it's not the bad kind. I mean, you go into an action movie wanting to see shit get blown up, and you go into Snakes On A Plane wanting to see snakes fuck shit up. I don't see why appreciation of SoaP is any less sincere just because there is less of a precedent for snakes fucking shit up.)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

there was a surprising amount of genital mutilation and private=part violation in this film. freud would have a field day!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, when it comes to enjoyment of summer blockbusters i don't see much cognitive difference between the film-school dudes and the regular suburban blow-shit-up dudes. (xpost)

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to latebloomer: either that or most of the body is unremarkable expanses of smooth skin and it is just more entertaining to have the gaudy oases get bit

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

i was really disappointed the bad guys didn't get their comeuppance...like, the mobster guy should've had a scene where he gets a present in jail and its...a cobra. (FADE OUT)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the ending... it was a great typical "buddy picture" ending.

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

BITCH GET THE FUCK OFF MY DICK.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 19 August 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

even the dumbest dumbshit yokels see the camp value of something like independence day.

When Robert Loggia was on Politically Incorrect, Bill Maher insinuated that Independence Day was basically a piece of shit, Robert Loggia got real offended and said that he thought it was one of the best films he had ever been a part of, and thought it was the right movie for America at the time or some other similar batshit lunacy.

Which is to say that I think some people are not reading it as camp so much as they just suspend their belief entirely and completely buy into the message of the movie, no matter how banal or kitschy it might read.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 19 August 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

eh, some people are just nuts.

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 August 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur...

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 19 August 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, they should have called this "Great On A Movie." In the end, after all the internet tomfoolery and geek one-upmanship, what we have here is a first-rate disaster movie, never losing itself in Airplaneism or lingering too long on its beloved titular snakes. There are stock characters, there is a premise, we get snakes on a plane, and from it all we get chaos, thrills, and delighted laughter. The assortment of geek packs in the audience started out jawing through the previews, making badly-delivered jokes and doing ironic slow-clapping, but once the actually film really got rolling, the audience fell silent and the movie owned them, like any good movie should. 100% recommended.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. But I will admit one disappointment: at no point in the movie does the soundtrack feature any semblance of Kurtis Blow re-recording "The Breaks," which is what I imagine every time I hear the title of the movie. "Snakes on a plane! Snakes on a train! Snakes to make you go insane!"

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

, what pisses me off about sontag, and about things like snakes, is that before she got ahold of the word, camp had a lingustic/poltical structure, snakes on a plan proves that any of the language or the politix is forever gone

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it's fair to blame Sontag for the fact that you hate fun.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 August 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

i dont hate fun, at all.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

douche on a thread

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 19 August 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

words evolve

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

snaks on a plan

― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 19 August 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

i understand that, im a little sad that this evoultion, because i think it adds a gap to the language is all...

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

anthony i don't really get what your argument is here.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 19 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

anthony, you add gaps to language with every post

― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 19 August 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

'evoultion': the last great self-fulfilling prophecy

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

anthony is proof of intelligent design

― mentalismé (sanskrit), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

im just saying, that media created camp for camps sake, takes away some of the audience reclaiming and political implications that has existed by using that word--though the politics is long gone.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.montanafolk.org/bearhug/images/camp_map_large.jpg

― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

im sorry,

SNAKES ON A PLANE WILL BE AWESOME, I FUCKING LOVE SNAKES ON A PLANE, TOTAL CAMP CLASSIC, OH YOU SAM JACKSON, YOU RASCAL, OSARS AHOY

is that better?

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Bewilderment has been replaced by outright hilarity.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

i dont get the problem, and i always get trouble on film threads

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

go figure

― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

sars ahoy

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1059051747-00.gif

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 19 August 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

dammit.

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 19 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2350/105905174700nd5.gif

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 19 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

let me try one more time

is anyone else nervous, that we are giving the studios exactly what they want, that we are rewarding them for making stupid and violent work, and then saying hey, guys isnt it all a joke...arent we are wonderful for sharing this joke with each other?

so we have venal studio heads deciding what is now camp, and pervious camp films, like Meyer or Woods, etc were outside the studio system, and were made out of a combonation of love for the material and outsider aesthetics...and what was a camp film was decided organically by an audience.

with this, the recent reissues of valley..., and the genuine lack of mavericks making movies right now, i dont think that rewarding SOAP is a good thing, or in the words of ee cumming: there is some shit i will not eat.

now i am going to be mocked here, and have been, for hating fun, or not having enough fun, or anything of the other shit, and i know that language changes, and i do have fun with the movies, but i want to determine camp classics, not smug hipsters or despeate studios.

(and calling it camp is difficult for me, because i think camp is a verb more then a noun, and camp is a poltically charged word, but sontag staked claim, and lost this battle for us, so thats a fight not worth having)

also i dont get the jpegs of maps from video games

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite film of all time, Braindead (Dead Alive in the States), is 'camp' horror comedy; it's violent and maybe a tad stupid, but it's also done with such charm and wit that I can't help but fall for it every time. I've not seen SOAP, but presuming it abides by similar principles I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with people liking it and talking about it as a 'camp classic'.

Your words about 'camp' being politically charged just utterly confuse me. If Graham Norton makes the House of Commons I might see your point, but as things stand I simply don't know how to respond.

SOAP is not the only film out there. It's the most-hyped, but I don't blame it, you don't get a genius title like that every day of the week.

And I'd quite like to see some of those 'pervious' camp films to which you refer. I might even get a 'combonation' of love... ;-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

i dont mean poltical as parlimentary...have you seen v for vendetta? the scene with stephen frey, and the terrorist, and the patomine? thats a good example of what i mean, the mocking of powerful figures, and mocking good taste, etc etc...

and i like horror comedy, i like venal and violent, i just dont like smug hipsters

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

and what was a camp film was decided organically by an audience

This is admittedly true of SoaP, though, in'nt? I think what needs to be clarified is the demographic of the audience. I'm perfectly OK with not even using the word camp at all in discussing any movie in which Sam Jackson doesn't appear in drag.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

(i.e. No matter what the intention of the audience or how tongue-in-cheek their appreciation of a given film is ... some films intended as camp can simply not be camp, so don't worry about it.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

i dont know, im not sure it was, it was fueled by the studio, who took over initial mild interest, but im willing to acknowledge being wrong about the tag line

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't describe the exaggerated parody of political figures as 'camp' in the slightest, unless it was incorporated into a Widow Twankey-syle panto. I'd describe that as 'satire' (and direct you to the Chris Morris thread). 'Camp' is simply the trivialisation and -playful- subversion of 'how things ought to be'.

Not sure about the 'smug hipsters' comment, I'll leave that for you to explain further.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

i always thot that the reclaiming of Widow Twankey by anglo fags was high camp, and camp had a large portion of satire, and maybe was a kind of satire

the smug hipster line seems pretty self explanatory

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Earnest Goes To Camp

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

latebloomer wins

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yeah, Widow Twankey pantos are generally both camp and satirical, but they're an isolated case. Carry On Doctor or Up Pompeii are hardly satire, and Brass Eye for all its frivolities isn't exactly camp. Satire is always far more of a focused assault, camp is normally for its own sake.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Anth, do you know the story behind SoaP at all? The "venal" producers kept trying to remove the "camp" elements (even the damn name) and the public (along with Samuel Jackson) kept pushing for them to be brought back in; they wanted this to be "camp". I can't think of any other major movie whose content was more "organically decided on by an audience" than this one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

anthony i think the audience (the internet/blog audience at least) TOTALLY determined this movie's campitude. it may have influenced the studio to ham it up even more, sure

(xp--what casuistry said, totally)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

i think what anthony's is talking about is the difference between latent camp and intentional camp; the camp lying in the reading rather than being an intentional part of the process of production. i don't think the fact that the internet got hold of this thing and influenced the studio to camp it up more mean that the campness in the film was "organically decided on by an audience", it seems only a very clear example of market forces at work.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn godless market-hating commies get off my plane

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Having seen the movie, I think it's far less camp and more conventional than people have painted it to be, though it is often absurd and self-consciously so.

I think the only things AE might be offended by would be the sexual violence of some of the snakebite scenes, and the male steward, a fairly gratuitous red herring.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

, whatever anthony wants hasn't existed for a long long time. the audience can't ask for anything that isn't already there, it doesn't know how i can't believe i'm posting on this thread UGH

wait, this movie has sexual violence? cool man

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

so we have venal studio heads deciding what is now camp, and previous camp films, like Meyer or Woods, etc were outside the studio system.

See to me, this whole thing was an act of audience dadism. The act of embracing SoaP is similar to, for example, every Internet dork deciding to collectively flash mob out and buy the new Vanilla Ice album as a joke. It's an attempt to say, "Fuck you Hollywood, your audience cannot be successfully put in a demographic box," but in doing so, have just defined (or reinforced, really) a new box for Hollywood to market to -- ironic, jaded, wired young people, and mostly men at that.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

because hollywood never marketed to affluent young men before

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Earnest Goes To Camp

lawlz

― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

because hollywood never marketed to affluent young men before

Right, so as a "fuck you," it's completely ineffective.

Also, it reminds me of this a bit.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

I half-seriously think the only way Hollywood can continue to suck up to SoaP fans would be to make Snakes on a Plane 2, by which I mean honest-to-God sequels and not coat-tail-riding copycats.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Great as that article is, the problem with The Onion is that their headlines are usually so inspired as to tell the entire story of the article without you actually having to read it. This is no exception.

And Michael, it won't be Snakes On A Plane 2. It'll be something along parallel but not identical lines.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=snakesonaplane.htm

this is gunna be number 1, shockingly

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm disappointed that Ronny Yu didn't stay with the movie

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

450 snakes were used including one 22-foot-long Burmese python.

This film's title originated at an after-work happy hour among Hollywood colleagues to see who could come up with the most awful pitch for a movie. Producer David Berenson, who worked for DreamWorks at the time, gave his pitch for this movie based on a script called "Venom."

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Onion AV Club interviews with

1) SLJ

2) director David Ellis

contains this exchange:

The A.V. Club: We haven't seen the movie yet because it isn't being screened for critics. So… is it any good?
David R. Ellis: It's great. It fucking rocks. The decision to not screen it for critics was mine, the reason being… and it's the same reason that we didn't test the movie. The buzz on the Internet because of all the fans has been so insane that to screen it—we did not want to kill the buzz. We're not going to improve on it, but we might get that one person where it's not their kind of movie, trying to bash it. But at the same time, more importantly, the fans have worked so hard to promote this movie with their songs and poster art and videos. We felt we should give it to the fans first, and the critics can see it when they see it. And they can say what they want about it, but I think we're going to surprise a lot of them, probably all of them, because the movie really rocks.

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

i don't really know the whole history of camp before sontag took hold of it, but i think we're so far down the pathway from either that its use on this thread is pretty unobjectionable, it just implies that there's something considerably less (or other) than a direct emotional commitment happening with this film for some folks.

that said i'm not sure that even the earlier concepts of camp that anthony seems to favor were all that "political" as opposed to just kind of expedient, in a particular historical circumstance...

also people mocking anthony for his typos are being dicks.

the interview on the daily show where jackson big-ups ronnie yu and then says, deadpan, "and then he was fired," is pretty hilarious.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

massive xposts:

chris
i know the story, and i think the whole thing has been stage managed from point one, it had to be r rated, but the whole renaming, pg 13 thing wasnt done in relation to the audience, but maniupliating it...

michael
i expect that the movie itself will be less camp then i expect, that siad, its not the film im upset at, its the marketing.

nazi
i realise my desire for maverick camp isnt going to happen anymore, and my nostalgic desire for it might be not only toxic, but prevent me from seeing interesting work

polyphonic
can you expand by wht you mean by audience dadaism

kingfish
thats what im talking about, exactly, that this was a joke by hollywood, on an audience, and its a clvere enough joke thatit convinces the audeince that the vice versa is true

am
i know that we are too far down the garden path, but the v for vendetta example, that wasnt in the comics, suggests that there is use for this kind of camp, and this camp isnt wholly dead (other examples: kiki and herb, rufus wainwright, lady bunny, johnny ryan, parts of sin city, grindhouse and kill bill, mr and mrs smith, and large portions of youtube)

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think what's really coloring my take on camp and a g-d Sam Jackson movie (hell, if it is camp, it's probably pretty amazingly subversive: making fun of faggots and all; just ask John Waters) is that I wrote a review of Attack of the Killer Tomatos and compared it unfavorably to Kentucky Fried Movie by saying it tried for that film's "frat guy camp" but placed the emphasis on the first part of that qualifier. The review ended up printed with the following interjection from my (also gay) editor: "There is no such thing as frat guy camp. I made that oxymoronic shit up."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

The other problem with Anth's position is that camp only works for people who are in an otherwise powerless situation, who are in a situation where pullling everything down around them makes sense. Anth's position of wanting meaningful camp back is a position of wanting the glamour of near-total helplessness back, the glory of striking back from such a position.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

i think that we are less powerful then you do chris, but we have had this convo...

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_wilderness/god_sends_snakes/nm21_06a.jpg

Numbers 21:6

At this, God sent poisonous snakes among the people.

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

anthony, are you mourning the loss of the word or the loss of the thing? personally, i mourn the loss of the term "corn".

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

i mourn the lack of man pussy in my life

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

(the loss of the term, btw, i blame on salinger, natch)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

, good god, this thread

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ny6ibkr9fakm

1 Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) Cobra Starship ... 3:19
Performed by: Cobra Starship, Academy Is..., Sounds
2 The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage [mix] Panic at the Disco 3:35
3 Black Mamba [mix] Academy Is... 3:31
4 Ophidiophobia Green, Cee Lo ... 3:56
5 Can't Take It [mix] All American Rejects 2:58
6 Queen of Apology [mix] Sounds 3:05
7 Of All the Gin Joints in All the World [mix] Fall Out Boy 4:14
8 New Friend Request [mix] Gym Class Heroes 4:16
9 Around the Horn [mix] Bronx 3:25
10 Remember to Feel Real [mix] Armor For Sleep 4:03
11 Wine Red [mix] Hush Sound 3:27
12 Bruised [Remix] Jack's Mannequin
13 Wake Up [Acoustic] Coheed & Cambria
14 Lovely Day Donavon Frankenreiter 3:02
15 Hey Now Now Michael Franti, Spearhead 5:35
16 Snakes on a Plane -The Theme Trevor Rabin 6:48

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

so is fall out boy's schtick simply having really long song titles?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

good god, this thread

That's for sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the fun got sucked outta here pretty fast.

I think I missed the part where I was supposed to be ironic about my appreciation of bad action movies, because I liked it in a totally sincere way.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

so is fall out boy's schtick simply having really long song titles?

no obviously its panic at the disco's shtick

― =[[ (eman), Sunday, 20 August 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

*schtick

;]

― =[[ (eman), Sunday, 20 August 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

ahoy dickso stick

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 20 August 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

=[[ how could you leave the exclamation point

that is 90% of the fun of typing Panic! At the Disco's terrible name

also aren't they like Fall Out Boy's proteges or something? which I guess would make Fall Out Boy actually Radioactive Man...

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

maybe he's called Fall Out Boy because he falls out with everybody he meets...

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Re: supporting and going to see "Snakes On A Plane":

>> because hollywood never marketed to affluent young men before
> Right, so as a "fuck you," it's completely ineffective.

This is kind of where I get lost in this discussion. I never got the impression that the geek/internet world's excitement about SoaP was any kind of "fuck you" to the system - more like a "THANK you" - THANK you for making movies pitched exactly to what we want: blatancy, a smooth mix of irony and sincerity in doing big, stupid concepts but not grinding them down into something totally generic. The vibe was very much the same reaction the general movie audience gets to your average action/thriller picture: "This is going to be awesome!" Before the shirts, the youtube clips, whatever, when I first heard about Snakes On A Plane my reaction was "That sounds great!" Why is it assumed there's something more going on here?

I keep wanting to compare it (and may already have done) to Nintendo's announcement of a decades-on sequel to the NES "classic" Excitebike: Excitetruck. It's simple, it's awkwardly phrased, and it tells you everything you need to know: this game is going to be great! Not ironic, not camp, not deconstructivist or any other such thing, just a great-sounding idea for a game that I would want to play.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I would play Excitetruck.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

fuck that, i want an Excitebus! It's like that 70's flick Superbus, only MORE!

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 20 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

When did this audience-as-performer shit start? stage diving?
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), August 18th, 2006.

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"performer" doesn't really = "power over the movie". Director, yeah. . .
-- Handmaiden of Hip Hop (poxyfule...), August 18th, 2006.

I wasn't reffing the production/Web feedback, but the kind of 'oh let's cheer and laugh at crap to show how above it we all are' that the Owen Gleiberman review was describing at the screening.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

And Michael, it won't be Snakes On A Plane 2. It'll be something along parallel but not identical lines.

I dunno if this joke has been done already but they HAVE to do a sequel along similar lines just so they can call it Snakes On A Plane 2: SCALING NEW HEIGHTS

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

since this one is a b.o. 'disappointment,' the next will be str8-to-vid and star Leslie Neilsen.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

need Charlie Sheen :(

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

no, it needs Dolph Lundgren and/or Christopher Lambert

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't seen the movie yet, but the video rules! cobra commander!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAoSwQqo44

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've seen anyone cheer or applaud in a cinema since Rocky cut Ivan Drago.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

(slight hijack but fuck it this is awesome)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8vl-Oe4eCo

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ underperforming at box office

― gear (gear), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i know one person who saw this. he told me it wasn't quite as good as 'eight-legged freaks'.

― gear (gear), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

You mean "Eight Legged Freaks." (No hyphen, for some inexplicable reason.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Rocky IV

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

nah, this was way better than eight legged freaks.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I was at a 10:30 AM Sat showing and there were maybe twenty people in the audience, tops. No cheering, no laughs, no nuthin, and frankly, I liked it that way -- New York audiences can be totally overbearing with HA HA I GET IT YEAH SEE HA HA I TOTALLY GET IT HA HA HA reactions.

Today's NY Post headline about John Mark Karr being transferred to America: SNAKE ON A PLANE.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Not with a bang...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes! It only made lots of money rather than lots and lots of money!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Budget: $36 million

It hasn't made anything yet. poor snakes. :(

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite part is this: Gray said other movies that fit this description include "Clerks II," "Team America: World Police" and "Serenity," none of which did as well as "Snakes" in its opening weekend. If "Snakes" took a "technical" #1 and beat three strong geek brands (Kevin Smith, South Park, and Whedon), then surely it's doing fine, right? It seems the only story in here is how everybody's expectations were wrong - the film's a success by any reasonable standard, unless it doesn't sell enough additional tickets to recoup its cost - which it will, I think it's safe to say. Probably would help them if they could have made some dough off all those t-shirts though...

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

this thing bombing is pretty funny

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

does that budget include the stupid ads and payola to 'net geeks?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Budget: $36 million
It hasn't made anything yet. poor snakes. :(

Figures for rest of world outside of North America? Give it a week, it'll be fine.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

that's just the production cost, not marketing.
xpost

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

i was excited for this six months ago, sort of. but then the whole 'it's gonna be awesome because it's gonna be so dumb and samuel l. jackson is totally gonna say that line because blogs made him' killed it for me. i'd rather see 'accepted' at this point.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

'motherfucker try to step to this?'

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

i mean who gets excited about samuel l. jackson anymore, really? what's he done since 'pulp fiction'? '187'? that movie where ben affleck scrapes his car? that shitty 'shaft' remake?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

he is the white man's black man

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

i kid, it's just a coincidence, he's very talented

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

eve's bayou was pretty good! jackie brown! was 'fresh' before pulp fiction? the incredibles! die hard 3's my fave die hard i kid you not. s.w.a.t.'s watchable! hmmm. when he pops up in 'out of sight' i was like 'hey alright'! there've been worse espys hosts!

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

you're very excited!

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i do miss when he was 'sam jackson' and he'd be awesome in spike lee flix and then get tinyass roles in other movies and you'd be 'hey - it's sam jackson!'. i can't imagine what his mister senor love daddy would be like now. or i can but choose not to (and that's the double truth ruth).

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

to be honest what's prevented me from seeing this so far isn't the hype or sam jackson or whatever so much as juliana marguilies' involvement.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

She barely does anything except some hugging and moping. And her hair looks purty.

SEE IT FOR THE SNAKES

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Do it for the brothers in Houston."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

i saw anaconda four times in the theater, i still feel bad for punking out and not seeing the sequel, it's gonna be hard to swtich parties and see this. plus devil wears prada is at the dollar now.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, in the "What is the last film you'd expect Blount to see" category...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

On the other hand, 51st State is the worst film ever. Rules of Engagement is not far behind it. (xpost)

I'm going to see Snakes on a Plane tomorrow, I think. I like silly thrillers, hype or no hype.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

BLOUNT----ANACONDAS SECRET OF THE BLOOD ORCHID IS RAD> SEE IT.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

i figure the devil's gonna look pretty funny walking around in prada, it'll be like the shaggy d.a. only theological. i have no memory at all of the 51st state - is it about puerto rico or great britain? is cloning involved? rules of engagement was some 'all the kings men'/'black hawk down', "no sir, you're out of order" nonsense right?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh god 51st state, that was some sub-sub guy ritchie knockoff shit.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

slocki otm re blood orchid

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't mean Rules of Engagement. I mean, that was kind of meh, no, the really shit one is Basic.

Summary: Hey, John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson were so cool together in Pulp Fiction! Let's put them in something else! Fuck, we've spent all our budget on them, let's get some no-mark writer to cobble a story together! Who cares if it's shit? It's got John Travolta! AND Samuel L Jackson!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

The vibe was very much the same reaction the general movie audience gets to your average action/thriller picture: "This is going to be awesome!"

yes- this all reminds me a lot of my and, IIRC, ILX's reaction to nicholas cage in 'National Treasure'. 'he has to steal the declaration of independance to save it from sean bean! awesome!'. the big dumb concept.

x-post. i agree with gear on wanting to see something else and with slocki that anacondas was great.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

all i remember about that film is i was flipping channels and came upon oprah, who was about to introduce travolta and they cut to a shot of him all flabby and shirtless in some scene and all the ladies in the crowd were all 'whoooo!'

it was some military base bullshit, right? like 'the general's daughter' without rape?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Someone answer me a question that's been pissing me off since, like, 04: is "50 First Dates" a pun on "51st State" or not?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

was 'basic' the shitty 'rashomon meets all the kings men' thriller or was that 'the general's daughter' or dear god has travolta made TWO shitty 'rashomon meets all the kings men' thrillers?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe they're still milking the 'pulp fiction' reunion stuff. i keep hoping for excited hype over the re-teaming of 'pulp fiction' co-stars julia sweeney and frank whaley

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

every travolta role over the past decade has been some riff on his overly serious 'white man's burden' role or that moment in 'broken arrow' where slater accuses him of being crazy and he's all, 'yeah ain't it cool, lol!'

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Dom - no, 50 First Dates is called that for a completely different, plot-related reason.

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Basic was like a competition to shoe-horn the most twists ever into a plot. Basically: Travolta interrogates people to find something out, one at a time. Bloke A's story is in flashback. Move onto bloke B. His flashback has everyone doing things all different from what Bloke A said. Ooh, who's telling the truth? Repeat for every fucking character. Cut to end when, oh, look, no-one's telling the truth. Something completely different happened. The last two hours = complete waste of time.

On reflection, it might actually be worse than 51st State.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

John Travolta: Let Him Out

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

(Rules of Engagement had Tommy Lee Jones in it, and was like a crap A Few Good Men. I'm sorry for calling it a bad SLJ film, it's Citizen Kane compared to Basic)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dom, yeah, I think you're right. By which I mean, I thought that it was too, so it's not just you. Yeah, we're right. It is.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

50 first dates originally titled 50 first kisses btw

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Before someone realised 50 First Dates was like a pun on 51st State, yes?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

haha 'maybe we can get some of that 51st state buzz'

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone pointed out yet that Snakes on a Plane is rated R and don't R movies, like, not usually do very well? or is my wisdom here not just received but imagined?

ps I just realized that dom should do a Q&A column called "Received Wis-Dom"

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah most of the smart spec of 'why it bomb' i've seen blames the interweb spawned changes that goosed it to an 'R' along with release date misstrategery (i was thinking 'they should've waited til school was back in' until i realized school is back in now). in retrospect they should've kept it pg-13 and rushed it to theaters like the weekend before 'summer' started (ie the weekend before m:i3), kept straight horror/thriller promotion, maybe patch the 'muthafucka snake muthafucka' line if you can keep it pg-13 (can you say 'fuck' in a pg-13 flick? seems borderline), let the cult take care of itself, reach out to everyone else.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

i think to a lot of people the 'high concept' of the plot might seem a little boring and stupid, and i don't necessarily blame them.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

someone somewhere wrote something about snakes on a plane as a mad tv sketch about united 93 - second maybe third time anything involving mad tv has made me laff.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

i mean i remember the conversation i had where i first heard about the film. some dude wearing a shaun of the dead t-shirt and a paunch was raving about 'this awesome movie, snakes on a plane!' and i agreed that it might be a good time. everyone else he was talking to thought it sounded stupid. he's like, 'don't you get it? it's about snakes...on a plane...and samuel l jackson is in it. the title sums up the movie!'

that logic doesn't get america running to the theater.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

It got my husband convinced to come with me. That is almost word-for-word all it took to convince him (he inhabits a world where internet hype doesn't exist).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

is your husband a nerd?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, glass houses here obv, and not an insult

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not as such, no. I'm not sure what you're getting at. He doesn't read internet message boards or film reviews or anything like that. He, like me, does like silly blockbuster action films.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't claim it to be awesome or anything, but the "it's got snakes! on a plane! and Samuel L Jackson" was enough to convey the general gist of what I believe the film to be about and convince him it might be fun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's enough for people to want to see it, some people. like me! i'll see anything (up to a point). if that's all i knew about it, i'd see it. the hype killed it for me, personally. but i think for a lot of people, the audience who doesn't see movies as much, they need it to be an Event Picture. that's the audience that turns movies into hits.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

i'm doing the variety.com analysis here. like when they reviewed 13(tzameti) and complained audiences won't like it because the violence isn't pleasant, just unsettling and tense.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

slocki otm re blood orchid

-- gear (speed.to.roa...), August 22nd, 2006.

see, i refuse(d) to see that because it takes place in asia somewhere and the Anaconda is a south american snake. they should have made it Reticulated Python: Secret of the Blood Orchid.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

the first Anaconda is kinda awesome though, admittedly

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

o god yes, maybe the best use of cgi ever

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Walking out, the only way I could improve on it as a fun experience was if it had had Jason Statham in it.

Its that kind of movie.

Vis a vis camp, and knowingness way upthread - I had an epiphany on this a while back. Even if you think you know what you are doing, you fuck it up. Here they fudged the best Die Hard On A Plane scenario - but in doing so they clipped all airline disaster movies, did it with an unusual cast and enough good spec effects to make you actually enjoy yourself. I went to see "Snakes On A Plane": I saw snakes on a plane.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

o god yes, maybe the best use of cgi ever

-- j blount (jamesbloun...), Today 7:44 PM. (papa la bas) (later)

also best use of ice cube in safari shorts

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Both Anaconda movies, I will rep for. My memories of them are vague though - wasn't Hugh Laurie in one of them?

Yo I just saw this preview for what might as well have been Transporter 3 starring JASON STATHAM - but it wasn't actually Transporter 3 - does anyone know what this movie is called!?!?

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

haha as though we have ever or ever will again see Ice Cube in safari shorts.

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

CRANK

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

CRANK'S GONNA BE TWENTY TIMES BETTER THAN SNAKES ON A PLANE, NO DOUBT

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

"nice... snakes on crank"

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

"MY NAME IS CHEV CHELIOS"

--crank trailer

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

HIS NAME IS CHRIS CHELIOS

TIE DOMI IS GONNA GET FUCKED UP

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Crank is DOA on crack so it should be called Crack-A-Doa.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think it might actually be DOA on crank.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

just going by the title.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, this thread has exploded into amazing new Anaconda related territories. Incidentally, my mother is referring to Snakes On A Plane as "Snakes Alive!" which is also what she called Anaconda when that came out. It would have been a great name for the latter, and obviously would have ruined SoaP - although I respectfully submit that "Snakes On A Plane 3: Snakes Alive!" would do well if the series has completely descended into winkyness by then, which I hope not.

My favorite part of this thread, tho, is blount apparently deciding to mix up 51st State and The Sixth Day ("is cloning involved?")....

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Saw a trailer for Britflick Hot Fuzz tonight, might start anticipating that now.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

how about that other sam jackson one, with christina ricci as a nympho he tries to cure or something? also with a snake name. snakes on a chain?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/b/blacksnakemoan/002_l.jpg

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
snakes on a train, maybe?

ahem.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Her right arm looks gigantic. Why does she have band-aids on both elbows?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

both elbows got injured

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

sterling you know there's that snakes on a train out from asylum right?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

OMG ASYLUM'S COMING OUT WITH THEIR OWN 9/11 MOVIE!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

I might want to see "Black Snake Moan" more if they called it "Crossroads II: Black Snake Moan".

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG ASYLUM'S COMING OUT WITH THEIR OWN 9/11 MOVIE!

I think you mean to say Asylum should get its own thread now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, we saw this last night and I thought it was really good, really entertaining. I am plesantly surprised as I had told my boyfriend it would be a "waste of $8".

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Armond came through:

Samuel L. Jackson epitomizes the lowness of the film’s concept.... Jackson is only here to certify degradation; he’s as much an emblem of exploitation movie crassness as Aunt Jemima is an emblem of pancakes.... Snakes on a Plane is like Airplane without wit and Soul Plane without soul.

http://nypress.com/19/34/film/ArmondWhite2.cfm

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

hack on autopilot, film at 11

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Soul Plane without soul

Plane would be a GREAT movie!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

this was great fun! we like to watch direct-to-video shark movies(i.e. 'dark water' starring lorenzo lamas, 'red water' starring lou diamond phillips) and this was better, which made me happy. it reminded me a lot of 'deep blue sea', where they made super-smart sharks which, of course, started kiling people.

now i want to re-watch 'turbulence', starring ray liotta and lauren holly.

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 26 August 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

deep blue sea was great.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 August 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARKS FIN

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 26 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 August 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

51st State was great! All those awful, awful lines, like when Meat Loaf realizes he's about to die and he says "I'm truly ass-invaded!". It was like Snakes on a Plane but without all the self-consciousness.

― chrisco (chrisco), Saturday, 26 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Saw SoaP for the second time last night. Still awesome!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 26 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

A few centuries late, but...

Serpentes on a Shippe!

Spoylerez!

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 26 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Roeper and Toni Senecal just suggested "Showgirls on a Plane" on today's show, which I think I would have to go see.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Read this and then scroll down a bit to where Matos reacts to it. Amusement follows.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

"sir, you have to raise your meal tray now..."
"but... I CAN'T!!!"

-- Eric H. (ephende...), November 12th, 2003.

Nine Songs is surely the next frontier of in-flight movies, eh?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, thanks Ned. Roeper also said, "I'd rather see Snakes on Claire Danes."
???

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ah,ok:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfvEL8Xai_Y

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

snakes on claude rains

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

snakes on natalie maines

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

snakes on a dane (directed by lars von trier)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

state on a main

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 27 August 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Citizens on a Kane

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 August 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

davids on a blaine

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

strangers on a train

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

threads on a ukraine

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

insane in the membrane (insane in the brain)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

STUPID RHYMING GAME

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

insane in the membrane (insane in the brain)

Dude, I was JUST about to post "insane on a brain".

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

rhyme on a game!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 27 August 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so I went to see Snakes on a Plane tonight. I loved it. People cheered (not, as Onimo said upthread, the done thing in Glasgow cinemas) and laughed and whooped and it was silly and ridiculous and gory and a bit scary and, most of all, FUN. As my pal who loved it pointed out to my pal that didn't, it's called Snakes on a Plane, don't be expecting a Kieslowski film and you won't be disappointed.

"Snakes on crack!" made me laugh more than the MF shitfest. Also, most blatant product placement evah! "Hang on I'm just involved in an ebay auction for something totally fucking irrelevant". "Playstation or X-Box?" "Playstation 2" (subtext: Playstation 2 is fantastic as you can totally land jumbo jets against the advice of seasoned air-traffic dudes after fannying around on a flight sim for ten minutes).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, the product placement really was beautiful. "We need a camera, and a computer!" "This phone has both!"

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

Armond's predictability is only overshadowed by his uncharacteristic restraint. I mean, I fully expected him to write about a bunch of white boys using the internet to make Jackson their own audio slave for the studio's profit.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

awww:

Snakes In A... Car Theft

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Police in Forrest City are investigating the use of snakes in a car theft.

Officers say three people carrying baby snakes walked into a convenience store Sunday and scared two employees into the back of the building, then took car keys a clerk left behind and stole her car.

The car was wrecked during a chase later.

Clerk Bethany Hatcher said she couldn't find her keys after the snake scare, and four hours later saw someone taking her car from the store's parking lot. She reported it stolen and about midnight Sunday deputies in Lee County said they were chasing the car, which had been at the scene of a grocery store break-in.

The car's driver returned to Forrest City and, when police tried to stop the car, four people jumped out and ran away. The car kept moving and struck a natural gas meter and a building before stopping in a ditch.

Four people were arrested, including a 15-year-old juvenile.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

okay, the scene lifted from "Alien" was a bit much

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 1 October 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

I only just heard about it. Can't believe ILX have been discussing this for a year now. Is it any motherfucking good or not?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

It was really over the top, as it should've been. I enjoyed it.

DL, how can you just have heard about it? Have you been living on a remote island for the past couple of months?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

no really. i rented slither and it was on the trailers. my gf hadn't heard of it either. maybe it's because i am britischer?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's been all over the place here in Britishland!

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

it's really disappointing, like it should have been some thing you'd see on Cinemax at 3AM on a random saturday morning.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

see maybe your expectations need to be different. I was expecting it to completely suck and ended up enjoying. perhaps you gave it too much credit going in jeremy.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

oh i enjoyed some of the bits, like how much the filmmakers enjoyed killing their characters off.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

I watched Snakes On A Plane last week... ON A PLANE!

Felt kinda creepy carefully walking through the dark cabin to the lavatory afterwards, looking at all the sleeping passengers, blissfully unaware in their seats.

(Qantas was also showing the WTC. You have to love an airline that gives a little credit to the intelligence of its passengers.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jet Blue is about to get some really bad or really good publicity....

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Dom Passantino!

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)

^this

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/259500/259930LQsp_w.jpg

imagine if the snake had an mp3 player.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.snakesonablog.com/swp/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/2851.gif

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:54 (seventeen years ago)

Should I see this film?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

do you like snakes?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

Do you like planes?

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

do you like motherfucking?

― DG, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

Do you like Samuel L Jackson outstaying his welcome as a big screen star?

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 13:59 (seventeen years ago)

Do you like genital mutilation?

― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

sorry I meant to post that on the Chicago: In The Pocket of Big Oatmeal thread

― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

anyone of these would be preferable:

Shakes on a Plane
Sheikhs on a Plane
Saki on a Plane
Steaks on a Plane
Sega on a Plane

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

Mongoose on a Segway

― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

Snow Leopard in a Transit Van

― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

Komodo Dragon on a Hovercraft

― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

baboon in a helicopter

― DG, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

stick insect on a rocket sled

― DG, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

custos on a thread

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

dj martian in a record shop

― DG, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/191143.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

WAIT - THIS MOVIE IS ACTUALLY CALLED "SNAKES ON A PLANE"!?!?!?!?

-- n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, October 6, 2005 8:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― s1ocki, Thursday, 14 February 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm fucking Matt Damon!

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:39 (seventeen years ago)

COSIGN

― DG, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

i mourn the lack of man pussy in my life
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:09 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:19 (twelve years ago)

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