What Is The Big Deal About "Snakes On A Plane"?

kronic_dogg420 · 06-11-2006, 08:08 AM

Seriously! WTF!!!

Kashie · 06-14-2006, 01:51 PM

I loved what Samuel L. Jackson said at the movie awards. That was the best promotion ever. I think a lot(!!!!) of people is going to watch this just because he said all that.

**open32** · 06-14-2006, 01:57 PM

I saw the preview in the theater and the people instantly started laughing at how stupid it looked.

Unless the preview doesn’t do it justice, It looks like one of the worst movie ever written. I bet it opens with under 6 million. Cant believe Samuel L Jackson took the part.

**Gumby** · 06-15-2006, 05:13 AM

I think the stupidity is part of the attraction. I mean, come on..."snakes on a muthafu**in' plane!" is just one of those so-bad-it's-good type deals.

Plus, I heard that Samuel L. Jackson took the role simply because of the concept, saying it would either be really cool, or the worst movie ever.

crazymiles · 06-15-2006, 12:29 PM

haha i thought it was a joke at first... but i guess its a real movie.

samuel L is one of my favs... maybe he knew he made a mistake, so hes trying to promote it like what he did at the mtv movie awards.

**open32** · 06-15-2006, 07:47 PM

Quote:

is just one of those so-bad-it's-good type deals.

LOL! Na, that just dosnt work for me.

06-15-2006, 09:39 PM

It just sounds funny. Who would think up crap like that?

**Plastic Flute** · 06-16-2006, 01:17 AM

Whats the big Deal ??? When have you ever heard someone say "Enough is Enough get theses MF*ng snakes off this MF*ng Plane". Its classic. Watch this clip.. Its hysterical ,The guy playing BONO Rocks... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSUr...=sam%20jackson

SAM JACKSON IS MY BRO

Plus ..Sam is about to , Co Star with Josh Hartnett In" Resurrection of the Champ" A sure fire blockbuster !!! ...
For more info on the Resurrection of the Champ News, latest info and pics ...Check out the Josh Hartnett Forum.

SilverSpoon · 06-17-2006, 09:21 AM

I'm actually pretty interested in seeing this. I've seen lots of amateur films where the entire thing is pretty much plotless and and it all focuses around a single incident. This is such a simple concept. Snakes + plane = panic. That's it!

farsighted · 06-21-2006, 11:34 AM

I thought it was supposed to be a farce...intentionally.

People stared cheering in the theatre last time I saw the preview.

PushMyButtons · 06-21-2006, 11:59 AM

I think it's actually gonna have a big opening, despite it being the worst movie ever made, because everyones's gonna want to see the snakes on the MF plane.

Dark Dude · 06-21-2006, 01:20 PM

dude its snakes, snakes on a mother****ing plane!

06-25-2006, 11:50 AM

People cheered in the theatre that last time i saw the preview too. Its obviously an amatuer low budget movie and there spinning it as such, think about the first time u saw one of Kevin Smiths movies, like Clerks... same type of deal if u ask me. Iam definantly gonna go see it

solo1 · 06-25-2006, 04:09 PM

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saying it would either be really cool, or the worst movie ever.

It's going to be cool BECAUSE it's the worst movie ever.

**RebelMan** · 07-19-2006, 07:42 PM

"Snakes" Deplanes Critics
Source: Yahoo News
By Joal Ryan 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

Once you have snakes on a plane, do you really need movie reviews, too?

New Line Cinema has answered that very question with a decisive no. The studio announced this week it would not host advance screenings of its geek-championed horror flick, the one, the only, the actually titled Snakes on a Plane.

Conventional wisdom says such a move--hiding a film from Roger Ebert's judgmental thumb--is a red flag, signaling the arrival of an all-new Glitter. But conventional wisdom has very little do with Snakes on a Plane, opening Aug. 18, with some late-night screenings on Aug. 17.

Not showing the movie to critics is "another badge of honor" for star
Samuel L. Jackson and crew, says David Waldon, author of an upcoming book on the birth of the buzz, Snakes on a Plane: The Guide to the Internet Ssssssensation (Thunder's Mouth Press).

Agrees Nick Nunziata of the genre fan site CHUD.com: "It adds to the fun of it."

Business-wise, Gitesh Pandya of the number-crunching movie site BoxOfficeGuru.com thinks New Line's decision will actually boost Snakes' bottom line.

"These kind of movies are marketing-driven, not critic-driven," Pandya said. "So the only thing the critics could do is hurt it. And even if the reviews are good, they wouldn't mean much."

The position of New Line, which will screen Snakes clips Friday at San Diego's fanboy orgy, Comic-Con International, is that it's performing a public service of sorts--sidestepping critics in order to preserve the movie-going experience for the fans.

"Understanding that they would be the driving force behind the film, we decided early on they should be the first to see it," the studio said in a statement to Variety, which first reported the announcement.

To Waldon, New Line's strategy is nothing less than "brilliant."

"The movie could very well suck, but they're putting a very creative spin as to why they're not showing it," Waldon said. "And even if the movie does suck, it goes along with the whole thing."

The whole thing is the Snakes on a Plane oeuvre: The title; the star; the star conjugating the title ("Get these motherf--kin' snakes off the motherf--kin' plane!"); the star complaining that any other title (i.e., Pacific Flight 121) would be unacceptable, not to mention un-conjugatable; the acronym ("SoaP"); the fan-made posters; the fan-penned fiction; the fan-nudged reshoots; and the blogs upon blogs upon blogs.

And so it's been for almost a solid year now. And if fans have been paying attention, Nunziata argued, they should be fully prepared for the Snakes on a Plane experience, advance reviews or no.

"I don't think anybody who works in our little world here expect[s] the film to be wonderful," said the Webmaster, who, in the larger world, has a movie in development at New Line. "Anybody who gets blindsided by Snakes on a Plane probably needed that reality pill, probably needed that slap."

This is not to suggest that Nunziata is dreading the arrival of an all-new Glitter--or, worse, an all-new Superman IV. Far from it. "I'm excited as hell about the movie because it's the kind of B-movie that our site was born out of," he said.

Likewise, Waldon said the target audience (read: young males) seems eager for a "god-awful" good time.

"A lot of the people I interviewed for the book wanted the movie to be crap--they're looking forward to it being crap," Waldon said.

The worst-case scenario for Snakes on the Plane, Waldon said, is that the movie turns out to be mediocre or--horrors!--boring. (A recent review from a mole on Ain't It Cool News presented the presumed best-case scenario: "Finally here's a movie that hunkers down to give the audience a shameless good time.")

In the end, Pandya predicted, Snakes on a Plane will do big business relative to its modest budget (estimated at $35 million). "I don't think it's going to move much beyond the core audience," he said. "[But] I think the core audience is large enough to begin with."

If Snakes slinks to the top of the box office in its first weekend--and Pandya expects it will--it'll join the likes of When a Stranger Calls, Madea's Family Reunion and Underworld: Evolution, all 2006 films that claimed number one status without the benefit and/or distraction of critics' screenings.

"As it becomes more common to open films without press screenings, it becomes less of an issue," Pandya said.

Besides, in the case of Snakes on a Plane, Ebert's thumb might be entirely unneeded. Said Nunziata: "The review is four words--it's the title."

solo1 · 07-20-2006, 03:45 AM

It's the ultimate nose-thumbing to the critics. They will all say it's crap and we'll all go to see it anyway.

Although that happened with The DaVinci Code too. Bugger.

Captain Beefheart · 07-24-2006, 03:48 PM

They reference the movie constantly on The Daily Show and the Colbert Report. All indications are that this movie is going to be THE movie event of the year. Our generation’s Citizen Kane. We can only hope there will be a sequel.

Sure it might be dumb to be fanatical about this movie, but it's even more dumb to be a hater of this movie.

**open32** · 08-11-2006, 03:37 PM

There selling advanced tickets for the movie. Hum, they are expecting a big turnout. Looks horrible.

SilverSpoon · 08-12-2006, 07:58 PM

People just want to hear Sam Jackson say his line.

**i_survived_disturbia** · 08-12-2006, 08:05 PM

I saw a commercial for this when we were watching a new episode of "Psych" (I think) last night and it looks kind of dumb.

06-11-2006, 08:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
kronic_dogg420 "The Shizm, Shazm" Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 69 My Profile	What Is The Big Deal About "Snakes On A Plane"? Seriously! WTF!!!

06-16-2006, 01:17 AM	#8 (permalink)
Plastic Flute ICHiBAN HoOT Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 13,400 My Profile	Whats the big Deal ??? When have you ever heard someone say "Enough is Enough get theses MFng snakes off this MFng Plane". Its classic. Watch this clip.. Its hysterical ,The guy playing BONO Rocks... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSUr...=sam%20jackson SAM JACKSON IS MY BRO Plus ..Sam is about to , Co Star with Josh Hartnett In" Resurrection of the Champ" A sure fire blockbuster !!! ... For more info on the Resurrection of the Champ News, latest info and pics ...Check out the Josh Hartnett Forum. Last edited by Plastic Flute : 06-16-2006 at 02:37 AM.

06-14-2006, 01:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
Kashie Bunny Gooz Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: dk Posts: 2,060 My Profile	I loved what Samuel L. Jackson said at the movie awards. That was the best promotion ever. I think a lot(!!!!) of people is going to watch this just because he said all that.

06-14-2006, 01:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
open32 Administrator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 7,649 My Profile	I saw the preview in the theater and the people instantly started laughing at how stupid it looked. Unless the preview doesn’t do it justice, It looks like one of the worst movie ever written. I bet it opens with under 6 million. Cant believe Samuel L Jackson took the part.

06-15-2006, 05:13 AM	#4 (permalink)
Gumby Ya Rly! Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 959 My Profile	I think the stupidity is part of the attraction. I mean, come on..."snakes on a muthafu**in' plane!" is just one of those so-bad-it's-good type deals. Plus, I heard that Samuel L. Jackson took the role simply because of the concept, saying it would either be really cool, or the worst movie ever.

06-15-2006, 12:29 PM	#5 (permalink)
crazymiles Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: wisconsin Posts: 122 My Profile	haha i thought it was a joke at first... but i guess its a real movie. samuel L is one of my favs... maybe he knew he made a mistake, so hes trying to promote it like what he did at the mtv movie awards.

06-15-2006, 09:39 PM	#7 (permalink)
Explosivo Posts: n/a	It just sounds funny. Who would think up crap like that?

06-17-2006, 09:21 AM	#9 (permalink)
SilverSpoon Kamen Rider Kiva Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: www.canofnothing.com Posts: 7,529	I'm actually pretty interested in seeing this. I've seen lots of amateur films where the entire thing is pretty much plotless and and it all focuses around a single incident. This is such a simple concept. Snakes + plane = panic. That's it!

06-21-2006, 11:34 AM	#10 (permalink)
farsighted Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 568 My Profile	I thought it was supposed to be a farce...intentionally. People stared cheering in the theatre last time I saw the preview.

06-21-2006, 11:59 AM	#11 (permalink)
PushMyButtons Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 69 My Profile	I think it's actually gonna have a big opening, despite it being the worst movie ever made, because everyones's gonna want to see the snakes on the MF plane.

06-21-2006, 01:20 PM	#12 (permalink)
Dark Dude sla-pus a bit-chus Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: San Antonio Posts: 932 My Profile	dude its snakes, snakes on a mother****ing plane!

06-25-2006, 11:50 AM	#13 (permalink)
EvilChronos Posts: n/a	People cheered in the theatre that last time i saw the preview too. Its obviously an amatuer low budget movie and there spinning it as such, think about the first time u saw one of Kevin Smiths movies, like Clerks... same type of deal if u ask me. Iam definantly gonna go see it

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07-19-2006, 07:42 PM	#15 (permalink)
RebelMan AgEnT oF ChAoS Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Web Posts: 10,121 My Profile	"Snakes" Deplanes Critics Source: Yahoo News By Joal Ryan 1 hour, 39 minutes ago Once you have snakes on a plane, do you really need movie reviews, too? New Line Cinema has answered that very question with a decisive no. The studio announced this week it would not host advance screenings of its geek-championed horror flick, the one, the only, the actually titled Snakes on a Plane. Conventional wisdom says such a move--hiding a film from Roger Ebert's judgmental thumb--is a red flag, signaling the arrival of an all-new Glitter. But conventional wisdom has very little do with Snakes on a Plane, opening Aug. 18, with some late-night screenings on Aug. 17. Not showing the movie to critics is "another badge of honor" for star Samuel L. Jackson and crew, says David Waldon, author of an upcoming book on the birth of the buzz, Snakes on a Plane: The Guide to the Internet Ssssssensation (Thunder's Mouth Press). Agrees Nick Nunziata of the genre fan site CHUD.com: "It adds to the fun of it." Business-wise, Gitesh Pandya of the number-crunching movie site BoxOfficeGuru.com thinks New Line's decision will actually boost Snakes' bottom line. "These kind of movies are marketing-driven, not critic-driven," Pandya said. "So the only thing the critics could do is hurt it. And even if the reviews are good, they wouldn't mean much." The position of New Line, which will screen Snakes clips Friday at San Diego's fanboy orgy, Comic-Con International, is that it's performing a public service of sorts--sidestepping critics in order to preserve the movie-going experience for the fans. "Understanding that they would be the driving force behind the film, we decided early on they should be the first to see it," the studio said in a statement to Variety, which first reported the announcement. To Waldon, New Line's strategy is nothing less than "brilliant." "The movie could very well suck, but they're putting a very creative spin as to why they're not showing it," Waldon said. "And even if the movie does suck, it goes along with the whole thing." The whole thing is the Snakes on a Plane oeuvre: The title; the star; the star conjugating the title ("Get these motherf--kin' snakes off the motherf--kin' plane!"); the star complaining that any other title (i.e., Pacific Flight 121) would be unacceptable, not to mention un-conjugatable; the acronym ("SoaP"); the fan-made posters; the fan-penned fiction; the fan-nudged reshoots; and the blogs upon blogs upon blogs. And so it's been for almost a solid year now. And if fans have been paying attention, Nunziata argued, they should be fully prepared for the Snakes on a Plane experience, advance reviews or no. "I don't think anybody who works in our little world here expect[s] the film to be wonderful," said the Webmaster, who, in the larger world, has a movie in development at New Line. "Anybody who gets blindsided by Snakes on a Plane probably needed that reality pill, probably needed that slap." This is not to suggest that Nunziata is dreading the arrival of an all-new Glitter--or, worse, an all-new Superman IV. Far from it. "I'm excited as hell about the movie because it's the kind of B-movie that our site was born out of," he said. Likewise, Waldon said the target audience (read: young males) seems eager for a "god-awful" good time. "A lot of the people I interviewed for the book wanted the movie to be crap--they're looking forward to it being crap," Waldon said. The worst-case scenario for Snakes on the Plane, Waldon said, is that the movie turns out to be mediocre or--horrors!--boring. (A recent review from a mole on Ain't It Cool News presented the presumed best-case scenario: "Finally here's a movie that hunkers down to give the audience a shameless good time.") In the end, Pandya predicted, Snakes on a Plane will do big business relative to its modest budget (estimated at $35 million). "I don't think it's going to move much beyond the core audience," he said. "[But] I think the core audience is large enough to begin with." If Snakes slinks to the top of the box office in its first weekend--and Pandya expects it will--it'll join the likes of When a Stranger Calls, Madea's Family Reunion and Underworld: Evolution, all 2006 films that claimed number one status without the benefit and/or distraction of critics' screenings. "As it becomes more common to open films without press screenings, it becomes less of an issue," Pandya said. Besides, in the case of Snakes on a Plane, Ebert's thumb might be entirely unneeded. Said Nunziata: "The review is four words--it's the title."

07-20-2006, 03:45 AM	#16 (permalink)
solo1 Heartless Bastard Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,387 My Profile	It's the ultimate nose-thumbing to the critics. They will all say it's crap and we'll all go to see it anyway. Although that happened with The DaVinci Code too. Bugger.

07-24-2006, 03:48 PM	#17 (permalink)
Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 3,911 My Profile	They reference the movie constantly on The Daily Show and the Colbert Report. All indications are that this movie is going to be THE movie event of the year. Our generation’s Citizen Kane. We can only hope there will be a sequel. Sure it might be dumb to be fanatical about this movie, but it's even more dumb to be a hater of this movie.

08-11-2006, 03:37 PM	#18 (permalink)
open32 Administrator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 7,649 My Profile	There selling advanced tickets for the movie. Hum, they are expecting a big turnout. Looks horrible.

08-12-2006, 07:58 PM	#19 (permalink)
SilverSpoon Kamen Rider Kiva Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: www.canofnothing.com Posts: 7,529	People just want to hear Sam Jackson say his line.

08-12-2006, 08:05 PM	#20 (permalink)
i_survived_disturbia Moderator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Colorado Posts: 4,953 My Profile	I saw a commercial for this when we were watching a new episode of "Psych" (I think) last night and it looks kind of dumb.