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mo_flixx
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:24 pm Reply with quote
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The more I think about it, I'm looking forward to the commentary on the SoaP DVD. Should be pretty interesting.

BTW, director David Ellis was a Disney child actor, then a stuntman and a surfer, then a second unit director. I though it was interesting that he incorporated the surfing into the plot.
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shannon
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I don't see how Joe gets that Snakes on a Plane was only the working title until the internet hype hit. Samuel L. Jackson has said in interviews that he was presented with a script titled "Snakes on a Plane" and he said yes before even reading it based solely on the title, so the name was decided upon well before his involvement. And really, the hype didn't hit until every person in America started quoting "I've had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin'- plane!" about nine months ago when the trailer "leaked" to the internets.

Really, I'm not suprised that tremendous hype didn't translate to tremendous ticket sales. The movie is titled Snakes on a Plane. People know what to expect. I mean, hype or no, Snakes on a Plane can't really be about much else and, no matter how funny it looks, you're just not gonna get me to spend $8+ to see a movie about snakes on a plane. I'll rent it, though. For sure.
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billyweeds
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:08 pm Reply with quote
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shannon--I got more bang for the buck from Snakes on a Plane than from a dozen "good" movies I've seen in the past few years. However, seeing it in an audience of five would not work for me.
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Joe Vitus
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:37 pm Reply with quote
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Shannon,

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Although its anticipated cult status is high, the film doesn't seem to have been created as a ready-made cult classic. It began like many other action films, as a god-awful B-movie script with a simple premise and simple thrills that needed some rewrites. It was filmed to be a PG-13 snoozer with the working title "Snakes on a Plane." A groundswell of Internet love for the title emerged. The title was changed by New Line Cinema to "Pacific Air Flight 121." The Web erupted into e-riots. The studio, realizing the golden, rotten egg upon which it sat, restored the original title and shot new sequences to push the rating from PG-13 to R.


http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2006/07/17/snakes/index.html

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jeremy
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Snakes On A Plane has to be one of the greatest it-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin film titles, ever.


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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:28 am Reply with quote
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jeremy wrote:
Snakes On A Plane has to be one of the great it-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin film titles, ever.


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Joe Vitus
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:43 am Reply with quote
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Now that's a movie I really want to see.

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Joe Vitus
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That one, not so much.

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smoot wrote:
jeremy wrote:
Snakes On A Plane has to be one of the great it-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin film titles, ever.


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For an early review of SOAP:

http://tinyurl.com/zu5jb

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chillywilly
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:48 pm Reply with quote
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Ok, mark me down as someone who had fun seeing SOAP.

There were some cheesy parts, some so-so lines uttered and some mediocre acting, but this was a fun movie. I laughed a lot, and had a good time. This is a movie not to be taken seriously by any means. But when the build up leads to Samuel L Jackson getting "tired of these motherfuckin' snakes on the motherfuckin' plane!" it was pretty cool.

I think this may be a new cult classic, but I'll wait till DVD before I watch it again ... so I can get plowed before watching it (which I didn't have time to do tonight).

Some parts of the movie reminded me of "Airplane!", which I think was intentional on the director's part.

Hardly anyone at the theater we went to, which was a bummer, but the 10 or so people that were there laughed as much as I did.

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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:27 am Reply with quote
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chillywilly wrote:
Ok, mark me down as someone who had fun seeing SOAP.

There were some cheesy parts, some so-so lines uttered and some mediocre acting, but this was a fun movie. I laughed a lot, and had a good time. This is a movie not to be taken seriously by any means. But when the build up leads to Samuel L Jackson getting "tired of these motherfuckin' snakes on the motherfuckin' plane!" it was pretty cool.

I think this may be a new cult classic, but I'll wait till DVD before I watch it again ... so I can get plowed before watching it (which I didn't have time to do tonight).

Some parts of the movie reminded me of "Airplane!", which I think was intentional on the director's part.

Hardly anyone at the theater we went to, which was a bummer, but the 10 or so people that were there laughed as much as I did.


I am never seeing Snake On A Plane!!! Never!!! No matter how many people tell me to go see it I am never seeing it!!! I mean even the name is stupid. Not in the theater not on DVD not anywhere!! Oh and that song by Cobra Starship is so dumb too!!! But that's just what I think. Everyone else can go see it if they want I'm not stoping anyone from seeing it.

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Joe Vitus
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:40 am Reply with quote
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I love that post.

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chillywilly
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:22 pm Reply with quote
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movielover14 wrote:
Oh and that song by Cobra Starship is so dumb too!!! But that's just what I think. Everyone else can go see it if they want I'm not stoping anyone from seeing it.

The ending credits played this song. It was pretty lame, IMO. Didn't know who the band was.

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