# Am I the only one who Missed the SOAP train? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825 "2006-08-15T14:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/21 "2006-08-15T17:13:06Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Confused? You won’t be after you’ve seen the movie. [/QUOTE] I sense this is a meta-reference to the fifth-greatest sitcom of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/22 "2006-08-15T18:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Confused? You won’t be after you’ve seen the movie. [/QUOTE] Perfect! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/23 "2006-08-15T18:05:04Z")
[QUOTE=Meeko] I mean, I feel this is Emperors New Clothes. [/QUOTE] _Emperor’s New Clothes_? Never heard of that movie, what’s it about? ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/24 "2006-08-15T18:07:55Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] Look, I can watch Samuel Jackson yell and kick ass for hours. They can have a movie called Samuel Jackson Yelling and Kicking Ass and I’d se it. [/QUOTE] Yes, but… what would it be about? 😕 I DON’T GET IT! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/25 "2006-08-15T18:31:09Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] I sense this is a meta-reference to the fifth-greatest sitcom of all time. [/QUOTE] Sorry, third. After “Captain Nice” and “Quark”. But ahead of “My Mother the Car” and “The Good Guys”. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/26 "2006-08-15T18:31:56Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Sorry, third. After “Captain Nice” and “Quark”. But ahead of “My Mother the Car” and “The Good Guys”. [/QUOTE] Heretic. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/27 "2006-08-15T18:33:11Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] Look, I can watch Samuel Jackson yell and kick ass for hours. They can have a movie called Samuel Jackson Yelling and Kicking Ass and I’d se it. [/QUOTE] Bingo. I’d be all over it, and I hope that they boil more stuff down like this. Just give me a movie called “Topless Women in Car Chase Kung Fu Gun Battles” and I’d probably never watch anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/28 "2006-08-15T19:06:43Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] What in this thread would prompt the Google ads to try to sell us mushroom-growing kits? [/QUOTE] And they aren’t even the kind of mushrooms that might have inspired the movie concept. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/29 "2006-08-15T21:09:13Z")
Perhaps you need a [call](http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com) from Samuel L Jackson to convince you? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/30 "2006-08-15T22:26:55Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Look, I can watch Samuel Jackson yell and kick ass for hours. They can have a movie called Samuel Jackson Yelling and Kicking Ass and I’d se it. [QUOTE=Tracy Lord] Yes, but… what would it be about? 😕 I DON’T GET IT! [/QUOTE] It’s a comedy, actually. Samuel Jackson plays a character who has twenty-four hours to stake a claim to a remote gold mine. The plot revolves around his being stuck in the middle of the desert with a donkey that refuses to move. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/31 "2006-08-15T22:45:15Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] [quick hijack] Hey **Eve** , heard any buzz on whether [The Black Dahlia](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387877/) will be worth seeing? [/hijack] [/QUOTE] Not **Eve** , but it’s going to be a fantastic noir film. It’s based on a novel by James Ellroy, who wrote \*L.A. Confidential \* (fantastic book and movie), and weaves details of the real-life unsolved murder together with dark, twisted, hard-boiled fiction. It’ll probably be quite disturbing and violent if Brian DePalma remains true to the source material, but if it’s even half as great as _L.A. Confidential_, it might be the best movie to come out this year. From the little I know about **Eve** , I would worry it might not be her kind of movie, despite the retro Hollywood/L.A. setting. And bringing this back on track, I have every intention of seeing _SNAKES ON A MUTHAF\_\_KIN’ PLANE_ on opening night this Friday, preferably in a packed theater with a loud, enthusiastic, geeky audience. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/32 "2006-08-15T23:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] It’s a comedy, actually. Samuel Jackson plays a character who has twenty-four hours to stake a claim to a remote gold mine. The plot revolves around his being stuck in the middle of the desert with a donkey that refuses to move. [/QUOTE] Actually, the name of that movie is “Stakes on a Plain”. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/33 "2006-08-15T23:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] What in this thread would prompt the Google ads to try to sell us mushroom-growing kits? [/QUOTE] Maybe they think we already have the badgers? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/34 "2006-08-15T23:49:17Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Bingo. I’d be all over it, and I hope that they boil more stuff down like this. Just give me a movie called “Topless Women in Car Chase Kung Fu Gun Battles” and I’d probably never watch anything else. [/QUOTE] Really. BTW the straight-out “this is what this movie will show” title idiom has been used by, of course, pornos for years now (though very often misleadingly 😛 ). Again, mainstream lags behind 😃 In a way, this is like a reverse Rocky-Horror: the SoaP fans created the cult while the movie was still a work-in-progress precisely because it was so deliciously post-somethingorother High Concept, and fan input from their blogs and suchwise was worked into the final cut (things like NOT changing it from its working title to a “final title”, AND shooting extra footage of S.L.J. actually saying “mo’f’n snakes on this mo’f’n plane”) Of course, I’m waiting to see how long on Friday before the TSA guys at the airport have to get on the bullhorn and announce: \*“OK, next joker who asks if the new regulations allow mo’f’n snakes on the mo’f’n plane, is gonna get a mo’f’n full cavity search and THEN get hit with the mo’f’n taser!” \* ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/35 "2006-08-16T00:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Confused? You won’t be after you’ve seen the movie. [/QUOTE] 😃 I’m with the OP. I’m just not interested. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/36 "2006-08-16T01:05:25Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] It’s called “high concept:” a movie that can be described fully in one sentence. In this case that sentence is also the film’s title. More action movies should do this. [/QUOTE] I’m holding out for ‘Lightsaber duels without all that other crap’, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/37 "2006-08-16T01:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Actually, the name of that movie is “Stakes on a Plain”. [/QUOTE] Are you sure? I thought Stakes on a Plain was about a maverick restauranteur trying to open an eatery selling prime cuts of beef in the middle of Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/38 "2006-08-16T01:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Are you sure? I thought Stakes on a Plain was about a maverick restauranteur trying to open an eatery selling prime cuts of beef in the middle of Kansas. [/QUOTE] Hardy har har. Punners go to a Bad Place, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/39 "2006-08-16T02:13:54Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Are you sure? I thought Stakes on a Plain was about a maverick restauranteur trying to open an eatery selling prime cuts of beef in the middle of Kansas. [/QUOTE] No, That is [Belpre Fillet](http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Belpre/index.html). It isn’t just about the difficulties of opening a successful restaurant, it is also about doing it while suppressing affections for the butcher that supplies the incredible meat. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/40 "2006-08-16T02:25:46Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Hardy har har. Punners go to a Bad Place, you know. [/QUOTE] Dear, I’m going to hell for many better reasons than THAT. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825.md?page=3)