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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Snakes On A Plane opens Friday
2006-08-16
Nelville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson): "I've had it with these motherf***ing snakes on this motherf***ing plane!"
This movie looks like how I've been feeling for almost five years now: "There's motherf***ing snakes on this planet!" And very few of us are willing to even agree that poisonous snakes roaming freely around our cabin is a problem. We keep trying to *understand* the snakes.
In case you aren't familiar with the phenomenon, Snakes on a Plane was greeted with disgust and sneering before the movie had even been made: the premise was pathetic. The title said it all. So the movie studio asked the audience that if SoaP is destined to be a campy, bad movie, then what would they want to see in it? This resulted in several script re-writes, changing the rating from PG to a hard-R.

20,000,000 Google web hits later, the studio has tried to make the movie so bad that it is good. Campy awfulness that will sell itself by word of mouth, and hopefully, actually make money from a movie originally destined for the discount direct-to-DVD bin. It is the flip side of marketing: not selling what you have made to the public, but having the public design what they want you to sell. And movie studios are watching the results of this experiment, which could change the way many movies will be made in the future.
Posted by:Anonymoose

#15  All this movie will do is result in more herpetological phobia. Snakes are a vital link in the food chain and, more often than not, destroy quite nasty vermin (e.g., rats and mice). See The Simpsons, re: "Whacking Day."
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-16 20:58  

#14  When I was a kid I was gonna climb a tree in my front yard and nearly stepped on a big ass snake wrapped around the base. Screaming I told my dad who promptly got a shovel and whacked its head off.

I found out later the snake was someones escaped pet. Sorry, but I'm guessing you probably wouldn't know the replacement from the old one after awhile.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-08-16 17:30  

#13  Almost as scary as "Kennedys in a Car".
Posted by: tu3031   2006-08-16 15:21  

#12  Seafarious.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-16 10:31  

#11  AoS, or whomever is the teal mod, hearing you say snakes around our cabin made me think of the INCREDIBLE speech Sen. Zell Miller gave on the floor of the Senate during the debate over Iraq. Being from small town Georgia (and believe me, Young Harris is still small, not even a red light), he compared it to a den of copperheads under his front porch, and how they threatened his wife and grandkids and that he wasn't gonna wait for City Council approval to kill said copperheads. Quite a speech from a Southern boy.
Posted by: BA   2006-08-16 10:30  

#10  Where's Harry Potter whn you need him?
Posted by: Korora   2006-08-16 09:58  

#9  Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Posted by: Professor Jones   2006-08-16 09:21  

#8  Fluffy the corn snake got out of his bag while my daughter was moving last week. My daughter unpacked everything and eventually found him curled up in a hiking boot.
Posted by: mom   2006-08-16 09:16  

#7  Just like American Express, Anti-venom; don't leave home with out it.
Posted by: Delphi2005   2006-08-16 08:30  

#6  When I was growing up, we had a rosy boa (named Rosie) for a pet, and my father used to pack her up in a gunny-sack and take her into the lab once a month for her live-mouse lunch (labs always have an overstock of mice, you see). But she got out of the sack one day, on the ride home, and although we searched the car very carefully, we never found her. You have no idea how nervous people were, riding in that car for months afterwards. Especially the ones who didn't care for snakes.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-08-16 07:28  

#5  Funny thing is how the fan stuff gets to be used, re the SLJ quote; reminds me of the "I'm the Juggernaut, b*tch" of X-men 3. It looks like the internet has more rewarding material to offer to geeks than just PrOn, who knew?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-16 05:31  

#4  It has to be said: Air Cobra.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-08-16 05:23  

#3  I'm glad I wasn't walking under that plane's flight path. I wouldn't want to look up and suddenly see a cobra tumbling and writhing out of the sky onto my head.
Posted by: Monsieur Moonbat   2006-08-16 05:17  

#2  Speaking of Snakes on a plane, a friend of mine was flying a Pilatus Porter in Laos way back in the Air America daze, when his man in the right seat looks back and sees a cobra in the cabin. Well, both guys freak out and are crouched on their seats flying the plane and finally land. They carefully searched the plane, and gingerly opened up the maintenance ports and checked out the whole plane with mirrors and flashlights. No cobra, so they figured that it slithered out of the plane while airborne.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Kotzebue, Alaska   2006-08-16 04:19  

#1  How sad that the first movie in years I've actually been waiting to see (at least since Gladiator came out) is titled "Snakes on a Plane".

And no, I couldn't get worked up over a Herbie remake.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2006-08-16 00:07  

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