Posted on 04/11/2006 8:32:25 AM PDT by presidio9
Come on, you're ten days late.
I've not heard of this. I guess I'm not as cool as I thought I was.
Oh. They're talking about real snakes. I thought this was a movie about a plane-load of liberals, RINOs and media types.
C'mon, it's got motherf#*king snakes on a motherf*#king plane. How bad can it be?
The critics remarks have thus far been venomous, at best referring to this as just another plane old movie. The plot slithers along and the storyline never gains legs. Jackson himself said that he felt constricted in his role.
The story takes place on a boaing.
My fascination with this film stems from an SNL skit involving cobras on a plane from about 10 years ago. It was one of those "so incredibly bad (unfunny) it's good" moments on SNL. The only saving grace was the intercomm voice of Will Farell as the re-assuring pilot of the airliner.
The hype included the fact that Samuel Jackson agreed to do the film before he even read it because the name was so great.
I surprised this isn't a Segal or Stallone movie. They're box-office poison these days.
I read that one of the alternate endings had the military downing the plane with a sidewinder missile fired from a cobra helicopter...
"Hello drop oxygen masks and depressurize the plane."
Aw, gee, pal, now ya gone an' spoilt the plot for everyone. The only thing we don't know now is how many holes in the plane will occur as SLJ fires off his .357 mag at rapidly moving snakes.
Now, what sort of snakes are they - spitting cobras, diamondback rattlers, boa constrictors? My vote is on saw-scaled vipers - nasty 18" buggers that have a high fatality rate and absolutely wicked symtomatic envenomation (lots of orifice bleeding). Take one of the these in the back of the neck and its a REAL horror film...
"There is no chance in hell that this movie can suck worse than "The Blair Witch Project.""
I don't know that it's possible for any movie to suck worse than "The Blair Witch Project". I had the misfortune to see that in the theatre, and it was, without a doubt, the most unpleasant two hours or so that I've ever spent in a movie theatre. It was boring. It was stupid. It was poorly and annoyingly produced. Blech.
Yuh huh!
This sounds a lot like the "hype" and "buzz" for Howard Dean...and we know where that went.
Fangs for the ping.
I'll not be a viper dodger, or a Dodge Viper. I'd boa fool to try to wriggle out of commenting after being pinged, so I'll bite.
I recoil in horror at the foul-mouthed promotional use of the F-word. I'd strike that kind of talk, because it's the speech of a water moccasinner and I try to be a gentleman. No skin off my back, though.
Non Moulton Labe. Don't shed your skin or your guns....
The producers wanted to rename it something boring like "Flight 121." Samuel L Jackson put the kibosh on that.
SD
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