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07/25/2006: Snakes on a Billboard.

This new billboard reminded me to tell you that none of you should be here on 8/18. Be a part of history.

Snakes: Poconos Snake & Animal Farm — Drug Dealer Snake Dude PSA.

PS, I finally got better encodes of that Monster House spot I did. Check it here. Also dipped back and got a better encode of the Zathura sweepstakes spot I did last year — click here for that one, and keep an eye out for the X-E reference.


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Discussion Thread: 114 comments

yea this looks like its gonna be a pretty funny movie

Ghosted by pdac @ 07/25/2006 8:35 PM EDT

They’re already selling shirts with lines from the movie. That’s Hot Topic for you.

Ghosted by Kell @ 07/25/2006 8:47 PM EDT

Thanks for the link to the Snake and Animal Farm article. That was one of my favorites! I loved the haikus.

I really thought Snakes on a Plane was already out, I’ve been hearing so much about it.

Ghosted by LuLu @ 07/25/2006 8:47 PM EDT

YAY! Fourth comment! Matt, I wanted to tell you about this KOOL-AID WATCH!

Niftyness, right?

Oh and I seriously loved your old articles on the Worst Witch and the Tim Curry ‘Curse’ haha.

Ghosted by Kerstin @ 07/25/2006 8:56 PM EDT

Ah yes….the drug dealer snake dude. In the wake of girls who get squashed into wrinkly mushes by computers because they can’t go "above the influence," I miss the scarier approaches.

Dumb teens who take drugs have gotten dumber if this is how you have to appeal to them.

Ghosted by Mars @ 07/25/2006 9:06 PM EDT

Begging the pardon of Matt and my fellow bloggers, I’d like to continue a survey I began on yesterday’s blog: Please share your bad experiences working in fast food. I’ll begin by repeating my own story: one day within the last three months, I was working the register at my local McDonald’s and had just totaled the customers order. I went to get the food, as I figured would be a good idea, but I hadn’t taken the money yet. My manager would have been wise to remind me to take the money and give change before fetching the order. Instead, he grabs me as I am leaving the register, drags me in front of it, and stands behind me working my arms like a puppet, performing the necessary actions, all in full view of the customers.

Ghosted by Hoverbored @ 07/25/2006 9:24 PM EDT

This is going to be the greatest movie ever!

Ghosted by Darth Poop @ 07/25/2006 9:25 PM EDT

Defamer has already started the SoaP backlash, but if you go to the site they’ve got links toward the blinged out movie tie-in jewelry. Can’t wait to see this one.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 07/25/2006 9:37 PM EDT

SoaP comes out three days after my 21st birthday. What a week that’s gonna be.

A few months ago, when I got ’snake fever’, I was telling my friends about it and one of them replied "I dunno, sounds like a pretty bad movie." Well, DUH.

Ghosted by Daniel85 @ 07/25/2006 9:45 PM EDT

The Zathura link isn’t working, you forgot the "s" in sweepstakes.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 07/25/2006 10:12 PM EDT

Thanks…fixed. :)

Ghosted by Matt @ 07/25/2006 10:40 PM EDT

I hope the hype didn’t turn it into a "the kind of bad that isn’t even fun to make fun of" movie, or make it appear to be aware of its badness…

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 07/25/2006 11:06 PM EDT

One thing is for certain…SoaP is going to either be an Oscar contender or the worst movie of this millennium. Either way, it’s going to have a cult following like no other.

Ghosted by Frito @ 07/25/2006 11:07 PM EDT

What really scares me is the movies in the next few years that are going to make a conscious effort to recapture the magic of SoaP. I don’t know what methods they’ll try, but since it’s Hollywood, they will be trite, insulting, and ultimately futile. It’ll be like the Blair Witch saga all over again.

Oh, and Matt, nice easter egg in the commercial. Very Lucasesque.

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 07/25/2006 11:19 PM EDT

Ok, if anyone skipped my newly-posted comment in the last blog, I said that the last blog is actualy Blog #800, instead of the one 5 blogs earlier.

Fun fact: the SoAP poster was made in a Fark photoshop contest to make a theatrical poster for it. Apparantly, it was one of the biggest draws at Comic-Con this year (with an airplane fuesalage being remodeled to look like a snake as its booth)

And I’ve never worked in Fast Food, and upon seeing Clerks II, I don’t want to. And besides, how on earth was a Mooby’s (or any fast food place) staffed by only 4 people?!

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 07/25/2006 11:28 PM EDT

The Krusty Krab is staffed by only 3.

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 07/25/2006 11:32 PM EDT

I have tragically somehow managed to miss the buzz on this film. Maybe it’s because I don’t watch commercials and rarely go to the theater. This and other sites I visit seem to have an inordinate amount of anticipation. I’m not sure I’ll be able to see the movie, because I’m horribly afraid of snakes. I mean like I occasionally wake up yelling because I was dreaming there are snakes in the bed.

Just so I can see what’s got everyone so excited, can someone point me to a trailer? Maybe one that isn’t too scary?

Hoverbored-
When I was 17, I was a shift manager at a Dairy Queen. This lady came through the drive through and ordered food and a bannana split. Her fries were going to be a couple minutes because we had just run out, and it was like a 100 degrees outside. So when she got to the window I told her I’d wait to make her split until her food was almost ready, so her ice cream wouldn’t melt. She told me to go ahead and make it now, so I did. She wolfed half of it down, then bitched that it was melted when her food finally came out. I told her that I’d offered to wait, and that I would NOT refund her money or give her another one. She got pissed and asked to talk to my manager. I pulled my head back in the window and turned my hat around backwards. I stuck my head out the window, and said in my cheeriest voice "Mike tells me that you have a complaint. How can I help you?" She really flew off the handle then. I ended up giving her the owner’s home number to get her to go away.

Ghosted by spaz307 @ 07/25/2006 11:34 PM EDT

Yeah, SoaP my BIL will not stop talking about it he’s had the shirt for a least 3 months or so, so I’ll be seeing it I’m sure.

And again, I enjoy seeing your commercials. I’ll never see them on TV but if I ever to I’ll feel all proud that I have the inside scoop! :D

Ghosted by IHAQ @ 07/25/2006 11:39 PM EDT

I never worked fast food, but I did work in the kitchen at a retirement home for a short while when I was 16. It sucked huge balls. I never knew you could puree so many different foods. Shit. This one time we ran out of prune juice. Mass chaos ensued.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 07/25/2006 11:49 PM EDT

I never worked fast food, but once in retail an elderly African-American woman came into the store, and two different employees made the mistake of asking if they could help her. She immediately flew into a screaming rage, saying everyone in the store was "harrassing" her and how DARE "you bitches think I’m stealing ’cause I’m BLACK!" We had to call security, and she was permanently banished from the mall.

Ghosted by Welsh Rabbit @ 07/26/2006 12:41 PM EDT

Apparently I’m all psychic and shit. I ask for SoaP and you deliver, Matt. Cheers!

Anyone hear about this Star Wars Kid who sued his friends for posting his video? If he can’t laugh at himself now, he’s gonna have major problems in the future. You can’t sue everyone who makes fun of ya kid, and there are those of us who think that video was cool (on principle) and not ridicule worthy. He was working it, and then someone was nice enough to add the effects. Some people are going to make fun of you for liking Star Wars, get used to it. Find strength in loving it in spite of them. There is a community waiting for you.

Ghosted by Knegative @ 07/26/2006 12:48 PM EDT

We got Motherfrakkin’ Snakes on my Motherfrakkin’ plane! And there’s not a Got-Damn thing we can do about!

Seriously, I can’t wait for this movie. It will be the greatest thing in the world, simply knowing that people on the internet got them to refilm some dialogue just to make them happy.

It actually raises some interesting questions…Could internet interactivity lead to more things like this? Say a film studio pitches an idea, and then invites people to comment on it. Then they take the best comments and put them in the movie. Maybe put their names in the credits or something for credit.

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 07/26/2006 1:00 AM EDT

Cameron: the problem with that is, it’s gotta be legally binding. You would have to register for that kind of page and promise in the form that you would never ever sue if you felt you deserved more credit than you were promised. More than just a few people would show up, and some of them WOULD try to sue. Too many cooks spoil the broth, as the saying goes.

Ghosted by Mars @ 07/26/2006 1:15 AM EDT

This would have better fit in the last post, but Thursday I’m going to Paramount’s Carowinds amusement park; it’s loaded down with all kinds of Nick themed stuff. My question to you all is "Any suggestions as to ‘can’t miss’ attractions?" Link is to the Rides & Attractions section of the Carowinds site.

Ghosted by Ragnarok @ 07/26/2006 1:23 AM EDT

I saw the movie, Monster House in 3-D Imax. We sat second row in front center. IT IS AWESOME! :)

By the way where’s the reference to x-e in the sweepstakes spot?

Ghosted by Matt's secret admirer ----->---@ @ 07/26/2006 1:23 AM EDT

spaz, all the buzz originally started in the blogosphere (I love/hate that word). The condensed version is snakes fever hit the internets about a year ago, then the PTB went back and reshot some additional footage to up the ante on the sex and violence in the movie, and incorporate the already famous line about motherfucking snakes on motherfucking planes. The movie was gold before the first teaser trailers ever hit.
Now I’m starting to wonder if I need to get tickets early for 8/18. This and Pirates are the movies I’m counting on to meet my expectations of an awesome summer movie.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 07/26/2006 1:27 AM EDT

Thank you to all the people who responded to my survey! :) I’d just like to say that "Snakes on a Plane" sounds like a bit a of simple premise to me. But, I suppose it would be a tough thing to face in real life, since you couldn’t really run away anywhere(I guess that’s the whole idea). As a matter of fact, I imagine that sort of thing has happened in real life! Pretty frightening, I imagine. One more thing: what’s the deal with all the sequels and remakes these days? I can almost imagine it now:

You thought it was over…

You thought there was no one
left…

You were wrong…

SHE’S BACK!!! SHE’S BAD!!!

TITANIC II: THE SURVIVORS

Coming to a theater near you around the same time pigs fly…

Ghosted by Hoverbored @ 07/26/2006 2:28 AM EDT

I just don’t get what the big deal is. There’s already infinity movies like that out; it just shows that people don’t watch enough bad horror. I’ll take "Mosquito" with Gunnar Hansen wielding a chainsaw against giant mosquitos any day. It just seems like SoaP is trying too hard, and I think people will be disappointed after realizing they paid 8 dollars and spent two hours watching a movie just to tell people they saw it, not necessarily because they wanted to.

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/26/2006 3:28 AM EDT

I have been waitin for SoaP my whole life. Well, for the last several months. If anyone lives in the philly area, my friends and I are trying to get a big-ass group together to go to one of the first showings. We even have a myspace group Snakes on a Plane on Philly or SoaPoP. Yes, we are losers.

Ghosted by Geoffinsanity @ 07/26/2006 7:33 AM EDT

maybe this is a stupid question, but why can’t they just land the plane?

Ghosted by bitchpants @ 07/26/2006 10:05 AM EDT

I am excited for SoaP. For whatever reason I am on the bandwagon of people who just want to hear the mandatory lines of the movie. Bandwagons are fun. It also seems as though it’s gonna be one of those things that people are "so over" because it became huger than huge.

Ghosted by kb @ 07/26/2006 10:09 AM EDT

Knegative

What’s this about the Star Wars kid? That’s the first I’ve heard of it.

bitchpants

I’m guessing that they can’t land the plane, because then the movie would be too short.

Ghosted by bad karma @ 07/26/2006 10:19 AM EDT

I always thought the snakes were supposed to be some diabolical way of highjacking a plane. I mean, you should be able to get them through a metal detector, and a venomous snake is probably even more deadly than a boxcutter. This is going to give Snakecharmers a bad name… now everyone will think they’re terrorists! Might I conclude with saying that I too missed the buzz on this movie and I really have no idea what I’m talking about.

Ghosted by Megatron78 @ 07/26/2006 10:44 AM EDT

I’ll definitely need more convincing to go to SoaP. I don’t mind snakes, but … I don’t know, just the whole thing doesn’t even sound very interesting. :/ Maybe there’s more to it than just some stupid ol’ snakes getting loose on a plane? Maybe? Hopefully?

Matt’s secret admirer: The X-E reference is in the very beginning, when the space ship flies by, you can see "X-E 79" on the tail, and the communication guy says "Shuttle X-E 79, please report your status." :D

Ghosted by Ryane @ 07/26/2006 10:56 AM EDT

As someone who liked Anaconda, Anacondas, Arachnophobia, Congo, and as one of the few people on the planet who can sit through Eight Legged Freaks without subsequent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, I would dig SoaP with or without the hype. But the hype is what’s gonna make it.

People want to love this movie. They want to cheer at it and turn it into a living, breathing thing, and we haven’t seen theater camp taken to that level since like, shit, Friday the 13th Part IV. It’s going to be testosterone’s answer to Rocky Horror. At this point, the studio has embraced the hype so much that it feels less genuine and awesome than in its beginning stages, but that doesn’t change the audience participation this SoaP is sure to have. See it; this could be the worst movie ever made, and you’ll still have a blast.

Ghosted by Matt @ 07/26/2006 11:03 AM EDT

bitchpants: The plane is flying from Hawaii to (I assume) California, so they can’t land. The reason they’re flying out of Hawaii is so that Samuel Jackson can escort a witness who is going to testify against a Mafia don. I guess the Mafia’s pretty big in Hawaii. So the Hawaiian Mafia sneaks a time-release crate of venomous snakes aboard the plane carrying the witness, dooming him to a fangorious fate before he can testify.

Now do you people see why this movie can’t possibly fail?

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 07/26/2006 11:12 AM EDT

Now what I’m gonna do is, I’m gonna go up in that cockpit and find my snake.

Oh, how I know it’s my snake?

It’s the one that says Bad Motherfucker.

Ghosted by Jules Winnfield @ 07/26/2006 11:13 AM EDT

I guess it just hit me that some don’t know how this movie became famous. So click on my name :)

Ghosted by kb @ 07/26/2006 11:16 AM EDT

Hoverbored, click my name and watch the video for Titanic 2: Two The Surface. So funny, and so well done!

I’m looking forward to SoaP, just because of the hype and the backstory. The fact that the studio gave people what they wanted (or at least what they said they wanted) for once will be good to see; the last time I remember New Line doing that was Freddy vs Jason!

Ghosted by Dr Sketch @ 07/26/2006 12:00 PM EDT

YES! Finally, X-E hits Snakes on a Plane. I have the teaser poster hanging up in my office right now and have been so excited to see this movie that I can hardly stand it.

It’s going to be so bad! and that’s good! Not bad in a cool way, like, I’m so bad with my white leather jacket, but, It’s bad like, that brown and yellow chunky milk is bad, and fun to play with.

Ghosted by Fox @ 07/26/2006 12:16 PM EDT

Ok, it wasn’t until I just read the Wikipedia thing that I realized the movie might actually work. Let me back up, I first saw a preview for it a few months back and thought "This is the worst thing I have ever seen…ever. This premise is so ridiculous…so why is Samuel Jackson in it? Hmmm."

Then I read that it was initially intended to be a little less serious than I was led to believe. So ok, I wanna see it now. Plus Sam Jackson yelling obscenities at snakes? C’mon, that’s celluloid magic!

Ghosted by Justin @ 07/26/2006 12:28 PM EDT

plan on picking up the SOAP soundtrack when it releases? i do.
i was in NYC last week and saw that billboard and took something like 10 pictures. here’s my best one:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/36718258/

word up.
cant wait for dailu august updates.

Ghosted by brianfax @ 07/26/2006 12:47 PM EDT

When the news came out about the ‘Net-influenced changes, I should have started a online campaign to include a musical number. Real Buzby Berkley kind of stuff.

"We’re Snakes,
Snakes on a plane!
Poisonous serpents,
Both fancy and plain.
We’re snakes,
Snakes on a plane!
We have to kill the witness
Who’s such a pain!
We’re snakes,
Snakes on a plane!
You wouldn’t have to
Deal with us if you
Took the train!
We’re Snakes!
SSSSSssssss…"

Ghosted by kingklash @ 07/26/2006 12:57 PM EDT

Hooray for net-generated trends! Vive le snakes, also. I am so definitely going to see this movie. I *do* wonder if it’ll be a Blair Witch Project, but I don’t think so since the issue I had with that movie was that it was pretty much not fun to view/endure it more than once. I did like it the first time tho.

Ghosted by Todd @ 07/26/2006 1:46 PM EDT

8 Legged Freaks is great…you’ve got ScarJo, David Arquette and goop-filled arachnids, how can you go wrong?
BWP was much more gimmicky than SoaP. Though if it turns out that someone kicks dat map outta da fucking plane I might reconsider that position.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 07/26/2006 2:22 PM EDT

That voice that says "Shuttle XE 79…"
It sounds so familiar…

Ghosted by Whatever @ 07/26/2006 2:38 PM EDT

Bad Karma

Basically this kid made a video of himself performing the Darth Maul/Obi Wan/Qui Gon fight with what looked like a shower rod.

His friends posted it on the internet and it became a sensation. Then he complained that he was ridiculed because of it, and sued his friends.

If only he had friends who thought what he was doing what cool. Oh wait, he did, and they made him famous, and then he sued them.

dee dee dee

Ghosted by Knegative @ 07/26/2006 4:21 PM EDT

For me, the entire POINT of Snakes on a Plane is that it is a stupid, ridiculous premise and a completely unoriginal title. That automatically=="crap movie."

But when the internet got a hold of it and started lambasting it for how stupid it was, rather than get all pissed off, the producers said "you know what? They’re right…So lets go back and make it even MORE stupid and ridiculous"

Thus, it now automatically=="Crap movie that is so terrible that you can’t stop laughing." (an example of this type of movie would be The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Kudos to the producers for recognizing their idea was shit and going with it.

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 07/26/2006 4:36 PM EDT

Does anyone remember the SoaP sketch they did on SNL a couple of years ago? This was way before the movie was even the movie was even a concept. I think Samuel L Jackson even hosted that week. At the end the snake looks right at you and gives you some funny warning.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/26/2006 4:39 PM EDT

Kingklash, you’ve said many awesome things in your career, but this is the best. I would kill for musical accompaniment for this! LOL

Ghosted by Terror Claws Cole @ 07/26/2006 4:55 PM EDT

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