Posted on 08/18/2006 12:03:48 PM PDT by Cecily
Here we are at "Snakes on a Plane" and ... what was that?
That over there. It moved. It looks like a wire, but it moved.
Hey, something almost touched that guy's foot.
It's a snake! I know it! They're coming now! Pick your feet up! They're here!
Mister Pilot, please stop hitting at that snake slithering over the control panel. Put that clip board down, sir. If you keep hitting at that snake something bad is going to happen. I'm sure of it.
Don't ... don't. If you don't stop, man, I'll come up to that movie screen and slap you all the way to China. I don't like snakes.
I knew it. He hit the air bag controls. They've dropped in the cabin and now all the snakes are loose!
I see a cobra! A rattler! They're here! They're everywhere! Dozens of 'em. They're in that woman's face. Oh, they bit that lady over there. Oh, they bit her again. Stop it! Stop it now!
Help me! Help me, Mace Windu! Save me, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi!
It's snakes on that ever-lovin' plane!
Oh, why do I have to be here? Why do I have to sit through this? I don't like snakes.
Oh, mama. They said there's gonna be 450 snakes in this movie! I lost count after 10. There's big ones, little ones, coiling ones, spitting ones, hissing ones. They're ridin' the drink cart down the aisle!
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"Why snakes??? Why did it have to be snakes...."
Better than spiders, any day. I HATE spiders!!!
How dare you??? Spiders are the sweetest, nicest, most wonderfulest little varmints in the whole wide world!!!
But it must be really sad to have a phobia of spiders considering that they're everywhere. They're in your house, in your yard, in your trees, in your car . . . in fact, a respected British arachnologist once estimated that your average square inch of field or grassland has a blue million spiders! But don't you worry about that.
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!
They already made "Speed."
Well, surely.
But that was a long bus and the passengers were not tards.
Have you no sense of drama?
Do tards have some sort of strange antipathy to long buses? Must a bus be short in order to please them??? GARN!!!
Hey, wait a minute . . . I've driven short buses!!!
Well I took the plunge, snuck out of work and saw it this afternoon.
Both my wife and I nearly fell out of our seats laughing. It's most likely the best summer movie in quite some time.
Well worth it.
For some reason rural Southerners (black or white), especially of previous generations, are traditionally terrified of even the most harmless snake. Would you believe I grew up in a world where I was taught that spread natters are poisonous? I mean, who in their right mind would be afraid of a cute li'l ole SPREAD NATTER?
Is it a comedy/action thriller?
A horror movie?
How would you classify it?
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Michael Medved is having his brother on.
They co-wrote the Golden Turkey Awards books a couple decades ago and are going to talk movies.
Snakes On A Plane and others.
All of the above. It's not very scary (I guess if you have a thing about snakes). There is a lot of humour (you'll think twice about joining the mile high club).
Action wise it really doesn't let up. The things a roller coaster from start to finish.
Of course if you go in there with a penchant for picking holes in scripts and / or you are unwilling to suspend disbelief for an hour or two, the movies not for you.
It's fun. I saw Dead Man's Chest this summer and felt (as does my wife) Pirates doesn't even come close, for popcorn entertainment this is the real deal.
Did you know that if a female wolf spider drops her egg sac her maternal instincts are so strong that she will pick up a rock or something in its place?
I have Medved's Golden Turkey Awards book. That's where I learned about such masterpieces as "Plan Nine from Outer Space."
It's the title. Somehow it just grabs you. It's a fresh out-of-the-box approach, much like the "Saw" movies. Believe it or not, it's actually the reason why Samuel L. Jackson signed onto the to project.
At the altitude planes fly all the crew would need to do is turn off the heating or disable it, and those cold blooded, reptilian snakes would be forced into hibernation in about three minutes. No matter - how many snakes there were.
The passengers would be uncomfortable, but not seriously threatened.
Those films got a lot of play on the coasts but I didn't see them until the 1980s in part BECAUSE those books brought enough attention to them that they were screened on tv.
Dr. Pepper even sponsored a package of those films in the 1980s.
I don't know why but I'm seriously interested in seeing this movie
It's the title. Somehow it just grabs you. It's a fresh out-of-the-box approach, much like the "Saw" movies. Believe it or not, it's actually the reason why Samuel L. Jackson signed onto the to project.
Bet it ain't as good as Frogs!
Michael Medved was unaware of the lore about "the line" of dialogue but he brought it up and said that the crowd stood and cheered when it was finally delivered.
It still is kind of a setup cult film (but not nearly as much as Napoleon Dynamite which gave away tons of free screenings for months and encouraged people to see it free 3 times to win not so valuable prizes). That had people quoting the film and making related jokes.
Then wouldn't it be Snakes Under a Tricycle?
Man, I'm losin' it . . . that one was weak!
If you "HATE spiders!!!", then I have the perfect movie for you: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099052/
"Do you think this is happening everywhere, Mr. Smithhhhh???"
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