Snake Rattle, Let’s Roll
That’s it. This flick is officially my new pet project. I mean the thing’s called Snakes on a Plane and with that title - sight unseen - I brazenly declare it, the greatest B movie of all time. I thought Sam ‘The Man’ Jackson already locked that title up with Deep Blue Sea (that Jaws rip-off famous for the scene in which he launches into one of his trademark impassioned soliloquies only to see gall interrupted as a shark appears out of nowhere and chomps him in half.) Deep Blue Sea just sunk a few fathoms as Snakes on the Plane inducts the ‘When Critters Attack’ genre into the Mile High Club.
The Internet is already hissing over this title. A quick check at the IMDB message boards finds fans ravenous - eagerly pontificating on the great badness that only snakes on an actual plane could deliver. I found this passage and I think it nicely sums up the questions we all have in our mind:
CyCo PL: I can’t seem to find any information as to what this movie is about. Somebody told me that it has something to do with planes. Is it a fighter jet movie like Top Gun or Iron Eagle? That would be totally awesome.
Leadsalad: I’m not really a fan of those type of films. My primary interest is in the field of wildlife documentaries, in particular the study of reptilian behavioral patterns in unfamiliar environments. Of course, the idea that a single motion picture could satisfy both demographic niches is quite preposterous. Why, such a film would have to be the greatest film ever made! A man can dream though, a man can dream…
Well said, Leadsalad. You clearly have your finger on the pulse of the popular zeitgeist.
Anyway, I leave you with the following. Some inside Hollywood types have had the opportunity to page through the script and extracted the following lines - surely to be the next great catchphrase. Enjoy!
“AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every f#&king snake on the plane. Accept no substitutes.”
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers WITH SNAKE VENOM!!!”
And of course…
“Snakes…… why did it have to be snakes?”
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:16 pm
Here are the answers to the two most asked questions concerning this entry:
1. Is this movie real?
In an age of Stay Alive, Slither, Wrong Turn, Venom, The Hills Have Eyes, She’s the Man, Hostel, A Stranger Calls, Saw II, etc… this flick is what we call Hollywood’s ‘A’ game. Yes, this movie is very real.
2. Did you create that first ‘poster’ featuring a bad clip job of Sam ‘The Man’?
No, I did not. Please - I think I know a little something about Photoshop. The last pic in the post is the actual teaser poster - which I first spied in Entertainment Weekly. When I Googled ‘Snakes on a Plane official teaser poster’ the first pic that came up was that ‘Mother F’n Plane’ one. It is so hilariously awful, I decided to lead with that. The second pic was sent to me by Sean - who was fooled into thinking it was the actual poster. I don’t know - with credits declaring the film is written by Michael Crichton, produced by George Lucas, directed by M. Night Shyamalan - I can see how a guy could be duped. He’d respond, but he’s currently knee deep in the Okefenokee surveying the ‘beach front property’ he just purchased ‘real cheap.’
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:09 pm
1. For Slither, I think they should go with “Worms in my Brain.” That’s if I heard the horrible radio commercial correctly tonight and they are alien worms or some other such nonsense.
2. Yes, I sent the picture, but I believe I prefaced it with the thought it might be a fake. The picture was certainly believeable enough and we all know guys look at the pictures and don’t read the words… which I did not until after I sent it.
3. No beach front property, but I do have a domain to sell. In fact, it’s this one. Anyone interested in that?
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Sunday, July 9, 2006 2:45 am
[...] Next up is the little things that made this the best Superman movie made. Superman II is a great film, but it still has its share of campiness that ran throughout the previous films in the series. Singer got rid of all that and thought about what would a world really be like with a Superman and also what it would be like without one. I think the effects were all pretty invisible in the sense that you didn’t notice it was an effect. This type of thing seems to happen more often now, but we’ll still have Snakes on a Plane to remind us it’s still out there. Little things like the entry and exit of the atmosphere were nice touches. All the flying was well done, although you never got the sense of how fast he really could go. I know it’s sort of stupid, but even the curly-Q bang of the Superman character as good. The uniform was as understated as they could make it while being true to it. I think the muted red of the cape and the texture of the fabric, similar to the film Spiderman costume, made the difference. I mean, the guy is still flying around with his tighty-reddies on the outside. [...]