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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.

Posted by Matt on 07/25/2006. E-mail me!

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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.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/26/2006 1:27 AM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 07/26/2006 2:28 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/26/2006 3:28 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 07/26/2006 7:33 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 07/26/2006 10:05 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/26/2006 10:09 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 07/26/2006 10:19 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Megatron78 @ 07/26/2006 10:44 AM

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."

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 07/26/2006 10:56 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/26/2006 11:03 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 07/26/2006 11:12 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jules Winnfield @ 07/26/2006 11:13 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/26/2006 11:16 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Dr Sketch @ 07/26/2006 12:00 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 07/26/2006 12:16 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 07/26/2006 12:28 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by brianfax @ 07/26/2006 12:47 PM

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…"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/26/2006 12:57 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Todd @ 07/26/2006 1:46 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/26/2006 2:22 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Whatever @ 07/26/2006 2:38 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/26/2006 4:21 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/26/2006 4:36 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/26/2006 4:39 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 07/26/2006 4:55 PM

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