Maybe it’s just me, but I think this should be Snakes on a Plane 3: Gate 3-D.
Just because I haven’t seen it here yet, here is the IMDB listing for Snakes On A Plane.
I think an IMDB comment post has a better one:
“Snakes on a Plane vs. Chuck Norris”
I am just now finding out about this movie.
Unless the producers, writers and directors are infinitely cleverer than I have a right to hope, this thing will never, ever, EVER live up to the hype surrounding it to it. It’s so powerful a meme because anyone and everyone can add to it. All the good jokes would have been done on the internet and late night TV, and this thing will be chewed up, spat out, regurgitated, parodied and sequel parodied long before August gets here. I find the stills uninspiring and predictable. I don’t see any really good action sequences happening here. The casting isn’t nearly as quirky as it needs to be. There would have to be some major misdirection, secret stunt casting and major secret twists surrounding this movie to pull off any genuine suprises at this point,and I don’t see that happening. It might make for an entertaining popcorn movie but at this point I’m having skepticism that they can pull that off.
Pass.
Holy crap, Askia… way to be a buzzkill. I highly doubt anyone here is expecting Schindler’s List-level movie greatness- the immense excitement is stemming from the sheer absurdity of the sequence of events- from SLJ insisting the movie stay named “Snakes on a Plane” to NLC agreeing to a re-shoot based on fan comments.
Save the critique for when you’ve actually seen the movie, and leave the masses to their near-hysterical level of excitement.
Who needs plot twists and stunt casting when you have Samuel L. Jackson TASERING A MOTHERFUCKING SNAKE?
…ON A PLANE!
But if you were expecting it, they wouldn’t be surprises, now would they? Maybe the movie will have plot twists, cameos and a shocking ending so surprising, nobody anywhere will have even remotely seen it coming!!! Maybe you better go see it the first night, cause the word of mouth will move so fast that by the next morning everyone will have heard about it!!!1!!
Everyone seems to have missed the obvious allegory in this movie: The plane is clearly Iraq and the snakes are the insurgents, and the occupying armies, in the form of SLJ, are trying to sheperd the mob informant, a.k.a. Democracy, safely to the destination of a safe and free country. Or something.
This movie needs:
Chuck Norris
Mr T.
Christopher Walken
And snakes, of course.
<eegah> “Watch out for snakes!” </eegah>
I don’t know. You get Chuck Norris, Mr. T, and Christopher Walken together, and I’m not sure you need anything else.
I’m just a mild mannered bystander looking at the hype so far and doing my part to lower expectations. This movie will be lucky to rise to the level of mildly amusing mediocrity.
I’ll be happy to be wrong – Sam Jackson is just about my most watchable actor – but if there was ever a movie with “Hollywood box office career poison backlash” on it, it’s this puppy.