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| Carl |
Posted - 08/25/2005 : 10:14:06
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=17043
Snakes On A Plane Is Back!!!
Flight 121 has a new title. Can you guess what it is yet?
16 August 2005
Good news, people! Flight 121, the movie formerly known as Snakes On A Plane has changed its name to… Snakes On A Plane! YES! GET IN!
For Empire, this is particularly good news. We've been tracking this project, in which the Mob try to wipe out a key witness on a flight by unleashing 500 poisonous snakes, ever since it was first announced a couple of years ago, with Ronny Yu at the helm. For if ever a movie was destined to become a cheesy as hell, guilty pleasure, it's a movie called… Snakes On A Plane!
However, our enthusiasm began to wane a little recently when New Line, getting a case of cold feet, changed the nigh-on perfect title – a Ronseal name if ever we saw one – to the dull and drab Flight 121.
So, unbeknownst to you lot, for the past few months, we've been waging a relentless and mostly silent campaign to get the name changed back. We've lobbied our MP, we've written to Ant & Dec, we've written rude graffiti about New Line in the toilets at Empire Towers – and now the movie's star, Samuel L. Jackson has confirmed that our campaign has paid off!
"We're going back. It's not Flight 121," he told Zap2it.com recently. "It's like, 'come on!' You either want to see this movie or you don't. 'Snakes on a Plane'! There's no mystery to that!'
Jackson, who plays an FBI agent who has to transfer the Mob witness in Snakes On A Plane, also went on to reveal more about the movie's plot. Like a movie called Snakes On A Plane has a plot.
"In the middle of the ocean, this crate time-releases and there's 500 poisonous snakes in there and they scatter out all over the plane," he added. "So it's us battling snakes to LA. I get to spend six and a half weeks going to set every day going 'Ah! Ah! Ow! Ow!' I don't have to go in every day and figure out the dramatic purpose of this particular scene."
Hear hear. Snakes On A Plane, which will be directed by Final Destination 2 and Cellular helmer David Ellis, will be out next year, and also stars Rachel Blanchard, Adam Behr, David Koechner (Champ Kind from Anchorman, fact fans!) and Julianna Margulies. With that plot, and that cast, and that title, we're calling it 'Best. Film. Ever.'. Well, it's certainly the best film called Snakes On A Plane ever. At least, that is until we release IRA Zombies 2: IRA Zombie Snakes On A Plane…
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| Carl |
Posted - 08/29/2006 : 07:11:38
I saw 'soap' last night-I was watching Eastenders! *bum-tish!* Please, take my wife!!
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/28/2006 : 15:42:03
I missed another chance to see SoaP tonight. I was 15 mins late for it, and even though i'm sure i wouldn't have missed any major parts of the plot, i still didn't go and see it. I'm not a johnny-come-lately when it comes to films
I did, however, go and see Severance.
(P.S. Everyone needs to go see Severance)
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| Ziggy |
Posted - 08/24/2006 : 03:53:02
Haha, on second thoughts, it's a pretty obvious way to lead to a sequel. |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 16:46:42
True, I wasn't even thinking along those lines. Going surfing was the more cheesy way to end it, you 'gotta admit. :)
 "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 16:44:41
I quite enjoyed it. Pretty damn graphic in parts. Strangely underwhelmed at the end, though. Would like to have seen then pursue, and totally own that Chinese gangster. |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 13:11:21
quote:
Originally posted by ScottP
There's an old joke about two men camping where one guy gets bit on the wiener by a snake and the other guy is a bit reluctant to remove the venom. Did that scenario play in the new movie? Or, are we going to have to wait until "Snakes on Brokeback Mountain" comes out?
I can't tell you... well, I can, but then Transmarine will come in here and freak out about spoilers. :P
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 13:10:30
I think they had unrealistic expectations. They made the movie as a matinee thriller and so they'll be most likely to get that sort of crowd, or the weekday evenings. I'm sure that the movie will do just fine. Did they think an R-rated movie was going to be number one of all time? It was always destined to be, at best, a cult movie. That they came in first place on opening weekend is pretty good in my mind.
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 13:06:06
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
The early word seems to be that it lives up to the hype. I may go and see it, if I'm in the mood.
I have to say I was startled to read that Carl. You started this topic months ago, have posted in it a bunch of times, yet you never had serious intentions on even watching it?
This has to be the longest topic about a movie on this forum which only one person has seen. Namely, me. I was really disappointed in the box office results, 15 million when the over under was 26. What a shame. I may have to watch it a million times in the theater by myself just to make up for it.
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... "Dear Sir Charles Chuck Chuckie King of Rock Ruler of the Guitarmen holiest of holy pied pipers, poppabear daddyo blackus frankus blackus top banana king chicken guy I love in a manly country kinda way y'all" OldManInaCoffeeCan
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| ScottP |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 12:53:26
There's an old joke about two men camping where one guy gets bit on the wiener by a snake and the other guy is a bit reluctant to remove the venom. Did that scenario play in the new movie? Or, are we going to have to wait until "Snakes on Brokeback Mountain" comes out? |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 12:43:39
1) "herpetological" sounds like an STD society
2) Saw the movie last night and enjoyed myself more than I was expecting. Anyone else seen it yet?
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/23/2006 : 12:04:27
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-08-22T223648Z_01_N22280791_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-USA-SNAKES.xml&archived=False
Rattlers freed in "Snakes on a Plane" theater prank
Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:36pm ET
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Life imitating art is all very well. Unless, that is, it's a movie about deadly snakes on the rampage.
Movie chain AMC Entertainment Inc. said pranksters at one of its Phoenix theaters released two live diamondback rattlesnakes during a showing of the film "Snakes on a Plane" last Friday. No one was injured.
AMC spokeswoman Melanie Bell said, "One was found in the parking lot during the show, and the other in the movie theater. They were both removed, and no one was harmed."
The snakes were later released in the desert.
Bell had no further details.
The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson, and spins a yarn about a crate-load of escaped snakes that run amok on an airline flight, attacking passengers and crew.
"There were kids at the show, and it was actually very reckless," Russ Johnson, the president of the Phoenix Herpetological Society told Reuters.
"The snakes' bite carries a powerful venom that could have seriously injured someone," he added.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. |
| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 11:34:49
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
That simple horizontal rule represents the straight line one must walk through life.
Hmm, yes. The surprise behind that line is a possible epileptic fit. How cruel life is.
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| Suicide_Samurai |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 10:52:10
And you must walk the line before you get the point. |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 10:21:55
That simple horizontal rule represents the straight line one must walk through life.
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 13:15:06
Thanks. It's not exactly "in your face" or anything, it's like a secret sig. I'll probably add more to it at some stage.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 13:07:46
Offtopic: Wrenn, very nice work on the sig. I'm not sure why, but I love it.
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 10:30:39
Yeah! Why not.
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| Carl |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 10:29:30
Hey, maybe the snakes represent islamic terrorists!
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 10:14:40
*Stares back and waits*
*Gets up and leaves*
*Slams door on the way out*
*Awkwardly re-enters looking for car keys*
*Leaves without finding them*
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| Carl |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 10:03:14
*Blank stare*
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 04:12:16
Aw no! I didn't get to see it last night. Now you've ruined the whole plot for me Carl! I thought that the "snakes" were a metaphor for governmental figures and that the "plane" represented life. And “Sam Jackson” represented the everyman who wants to shoot guns on a “plane” . But it’s nothing like that!
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| Carl |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 16:38:52
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1U7oMAPm2Q
http://poas.ytmnd.com/
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 08:32:18
he said Rats on a Plane, with the tagline "where's a fucking snake when you need one?"
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 08:27:22
Might go see it tonight. And Sam Jackson has mentioned the possibility of a sequel. So... Bats In A Suitcase?
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| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 08:19:11
I cant wait to see it either....i love silly films, just as long as its not too aware that its silly! |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 07:42:14
The early word seems to be that it lives up to the hype. I may go and see it, if I'm in the mood.
What about a sequel....how about Snakes On A Hydraulic Lift?! Although that might be pretty uneventful...
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| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 08/18/2006 : 23:49:23
I saw it tonight. I absolutely adore this movie. This movie is 100% fun. Most enjoyable experience I've had in a theater in a long time, if not ever. The kids were going nuts. It's somewhere in between bad enough to be good but good enough to be great. I thought the ending was slightly anti-clamatic, but it was fun as shit. I think I might see it again tomorrow.
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 11:33:43
Here's the first review:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23861
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| tobafett |
Posted - 07/13/2006 : 18:20:15
"marmots on a dinghy" just doesn't stir the imagination does it? I doubt sam jackson would sign up for that. |
| Carl |
Posted - 07/13/2006 : 17:16:17
I bought that today. They have a funny little sidebar suggesting other films they could have done with different vehicles and animals!
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 07/13/2006 : 10:16:52
The new issue of Total Film:
There's more likely to be a preview in it, not a review. BUT! SOAP!!!
Seán Says: You haven't lived until you've dueled with a midget
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/12/2006 : 18:34:43
Snakes On A Plane: The Music Video!
http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/766/766205/vids_1.html
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| toeknee |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 17:12:00
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I love snakes. I hope they don't get a bad name from this like sharks did from Jaws, spiders did from arachnophobia, and the Nazis did from Schindlers List.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
Oh, the Nazis were the bad guys in that film? I need to make a phone call. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 09:57:32
I love snakes. I hope they don't get a bad name from this like sharks did from Jaws, spiders did from arachnophobia, and the Nazis did from Schindlers List.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 09:17:44
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
The character is shown urinating on a snake "and it leaps up and attacks him in the groin," Ellis said. "He's falling all over the place, holding on to this snake."
Would it be going to far to proclaim it a cinematic landmark before seeing it?!
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