# Snakes on a Plane \[at last!\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192 "2006-08-18T04:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/21 "2006-08-18T18:01:46Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] There was not a review of SOAP in today’s Chicago Tribune because the movie was not made available for advanced screenings. This is usually a major indication that the movie is complete crap. Based on the above reviews, that does not seem to be the case here. [/QUOTE] From the [AV Club interview with director David R. Ellis](http://www.avclub.com/content/node/51670): > [@](#): > > The A.V. Club: We haven’t seen the movie yet because it isn’t being screened for critics. So… is it any good? > > David R. Ellis: It’s great. It fucking rocks. The decision to not screen it for critics was mine, the reason being… and it’s the same reason that we didn’t test the movie. The buzz on the Internet because of all the fans has been so insane that to screen it—we did not want to kill the buzz. We’re not going to improve on it, but we might get that one person where it’s not their kind of movie, trying to bash it. But at the same time, more importantly, the fans have worked so hard to promote this movie with their songs and poster art and videos. We felt we should give it to the fans first, and the critics can see it when they see it. And they can say what they want about it, but I think we’re going to surprise a lot of them, probably all of them, because the movie really rocks. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/22 "2006-08-18T18:06:50Z")
[QUOTE=AwSnappity] From the [AV Club interview with director David R. Ellis](http://www.avclub.com/content/node/51670): [/QUOTE] Jim Dandy review from [cnn.com](http://cnn.com): [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/18/review.snakesonaplane.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/18/review.snakesonaplane.ap/index.html) I saw it last night. I loved it. HUGE audience interaction. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/23 "2006-08-18T18:10:21Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Lucy is a snake, a ball python to be specific. … Lucy is about five feet long. [/QUOTE] That would make her kinda large for a ball python. They normally grow to be about four feet long. Of course, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/24 "2006-08-18T18:28:41Z")
\> BANG! \< [Moderator pounds gavel for attention] > [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > You’re just a big fucking snob, then, and I’ll bet anything you haven’t seen any of the recent comic book movies. C’mon, **Lou** , this kind of comment is WAY THE FUCK OUT OF LINE\* for Cafe Society and you know it. You are Officially Warned, again. And reminded to read the forum rules. Personal insults are not permitted in this forum. - Yes, I know that upper case is shouting. I’m shouting. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/25 "2006-08-18T19:50:22Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] \> BANG! \< [Moderator pounds gavel for attention] C’mon, **Lou** , this kind of comment is WAY THE FUCK OUT OF LINE\* for Cafe Society and you know it. You are Officially Warned, again. And reminded to read the forum rules. Personal insults are not permitted in this forum. - Yes, I know that upper case is shouting. I’m shouting. [/QUOTE] Aww, c’mon, Dex … all day I’ve been hoping for one of the mods to come forth with _'I want these muthafucking insults off this muthafucking board!"_ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/26 "2006-08-18T20:02:33Z")
How is the CGI? The trailers have left me…unimpressed. I’d have a hard time enjoying it if it didn’t look any better than _Anaconda_. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/27 "2006-08-18T20:03:54Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] You’re just a big fucking snob, then, and I’ll bet anything you haven’t seen any of the recent comic book movies. What was Shakespeare in his day, aside from someone who created mass entertainment for the common people, that just happened to be very good and transcended its time and purpose? You are just proving your ignorance in a forum dedicated to fighting it, and I won’t be able to take anything you have to say elsewhere seriously as a result. [/QUOTE] Shakespeare is a writer whose works have stood for hundreds of years, inspiring millions with his uncanny ability to peer into the human heart. Spiderman is a comic book about a boy who got bit by a spider, thereby being able to perform feats of strength and mass-creation that goes beyond the realm of Barely Plausible Physics into the Land of Unbelievable Nonsense. (I’m thinking of that train-stopping sequence in Spidey2). Whether or not you think I’m ignorant on every other subject I may wish to discuss merely for pointing out the obvious silliness of comparing an action flick to, say, _King Lear_, is not, and never will be, a concern of mine. To be honest, that reaction says a lot more about you than I. Just FYI. As far as “recent comic book movies”, I’ve spent my time on V for Vendetta (if they wanted to remake 1984, why not remake _1984_?), X-Men 3 (I wonder if Shakespearian-trained actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McLelleland are thrilled to spend their careers on second-rate American fairy tales? ), Superman Returns (actually, not bad, but then nobody embarrased themselves comparing it to Shakespeare, either). It’s not that I hate the genre… I just don’t deceive myself into thinking that they are anything but B-movie pictures and plots with A-movie budgets. Anyway… enough of this hijack. If you care to make more personal observations about my character based upon my views about a silly movie genre, that’s why the administrators created the Pit. On with the snakes! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/28 "2006-08-18T20:06:42Z")
And had I read further along the thread, I would’ve seen CK’s response. If y’all want to, feel free to delete my above post: I’ve no desire to hijack this thread. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/29 "2006-08-18T20:38:24Z")
Don’t forget to get Samuel L himself to [give you (or a loved one) a ring.](http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/30 "2006-08-18T20:53:06Z")
I have no interest in seeing SOAP, but for all the fans out there, I offer: [[Blanks] On A [Blank]](http://www.originalalamo.com/sites/2blanks/films.aspx) – a filmmaking challenge. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/31 "2006-08-18T21:51:09Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] There was not a review of SOAP in today’s Chicago Tribune because the movie was not made available for advanced screenings. This is usually a major indication that the movie is complete crap. Based on the above reviews, that does not seem to be the case here. [/QUOTE] Increasingly, studios are just skipping the critics when they decide that the review won’t help the movie - good reviews wouldn’t help this movie, for example, since the buzz already exists, and bad ones could hurt it. Thanks to **SNenc** for thinking to use spoiler boxes even though I left “Spoilers” out of the thread title. Although to a certain degree, _Snakes on a Plane_ is un-spoilable. Great. Snakes on crack. And now, I’m off to see the movie again. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/32 "2006-08-18T23:11:07Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] I have no interest in seeing SOAP, but for all the fans out there, I offer: [[Blanks] On A [Blank]](http://www.originalalamo.com/sites/2blanks/films.aspx) – a filmmaking challenge. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Shit, man, you beat me to it. Who gives a rat’s ass about snakes on a plane when you can have motherfucking **RACCOONS** on a motherfucking **COMMUTER SPACE SHUTTLE**? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/33 "2006-08-18T23:55:48Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] Who gives a rat’s ass about snakes on a plane when you can have motherfucking **RACCOONS** on a motherfucking **COMMUTER SPACE SHUTTLE**? [/QUOTE] Sounds a lot better than my daily experience of _Incontinent Bums on a Commuter Train_. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/34 "2006-08-19T01:14:18Z")
The New York Times - excuse me, the motherfuckin’ _New York Times_ – has given SoaP a good (!) [review](http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/movies/19snak.html?8dpc=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1155949809-lW+aynKHv7m193/dl0uQ6Q). (Free registration required.) Their verdict: “All anyone needs to know about this amusingly crude, honestly satisfying artifact is snakes + plane + Samuel L. Jackson.” The fact that the NYT liked this movie amazes me; I would have expected a pan just on general intellectually elitist principles. I am so going to see this movie. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/35 "2006-08-19T01:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] The New York Times - excuse me, the motherfuckin’ _New York Times_ – has given SoaP a good (!) [review](http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/movies/19snak.html?8dpc=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1155949809-lW+aynKHv7m193/dl0uQ6Q). (Free registration required.) [/QUOTE] Ahem…the NYT is quite clear that it’s a motherfucking “_13-letter epithet_” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/36 "2006-08-19T01:33:22Z")
From [Defamer](http://defamer.com/hollywood/chris-rock/defamer-premiere-report-the-inevitable-snakes-on-a-plane-writeup-195328.php), which has a great write-up on the premiere: All we wanted from the 'Lil Airborne Reptilian Infestation Movie That Could was for at least one guy to have his genitals fanged-up while in the process of bodily waste elimination, and God bless their pandering little hearts, they delivered the mandatory junk-chomping scene with cynical aplomb. Once that lone condition was satisfied, we were more than happy to laugh at lines of dialogue both intentionally and accidentally hilarious, hurl ourselves forward in our seat with delight when the areola on a bare, surgically enhanced breast became a targeting mechanism for a mamba strike, and generally stop giving a shit about how someone might smuggle several hundred angry predators aboard a red-eye even with the aid of the most corrupt of airport security regimes. Motherfucking snakes were on the motherfucking plane (see how easy it is to fall back into it?), they were biting everything in sight, and that was enough for us, as we are constitutionally incapable of not enjoying a well-executed fake-titty attack. I am SO going to this movie. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/37 "2006-08-19T02:12:12Z")
I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane…it may not be the best-made movie of 2006, but _Snakes on a Plane_ is certainly the most fun. Fun deaths and Samuel L. Jackson kicking ass- what’s not to love? (And be sure to watch his interplay with Kenan Thompson during the climax.) _Snakes_ may be silly, but it certainly lives up to the hype. Do as I say and you live- see _Snakes on a Plane!_ ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/38 "2006-08-19T02:14:41Z")
I have no idea why I wrote that like a cheap movie reviewer. I did really enjoy the movie. Oh, and one more thing…All praises to the PlayStation! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/39 "2006-08-19T02:23:39Z")
**DeadlyAccurate** quotes Nell “Daddy Vast Wasteland” Minow about the fact that the film has four writers. That startled me, because I figure too many writers spoils the broth. I was also startled by the fact that two were credited for the actual script and the other two were credited for the treatment, and neither of the team of two actually worked together (credited with an “and”- per WGA rules, you get an “and” if you worked seperately but an “&” if you’re a team). But I guess it worked out okay for this film. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192/40 "2006-08-19T02:36:22Z")
Sorry, these motherfucking snakes keep making me post! I forgot my Fun Fact: The scene in which A snake in a toilet bites a man on the penis was suggested by the president of New Line Cinema himself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-at-last/369192.md?page=3)