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Fasten your seat belts: 'Snakes on a Plane' is a bumpy ride
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 18, 2006 | Bob Longino

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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To: Miss Marple

love the editorial cartoons I've seen about this movie...my fav was a terrorist watching "Snakes on a Plane" and holding a paper talking about the recent failed attacks and saying "Now, why didn't I think of that?"


161 posted on 08/18/2006 4:49:55 PM PDT by boughtwithaprice
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To: half-cajun
Wolf spiders?

I have those, almost stepped on one on the way to bed a few weeks ago.
162 posted on 08/18/2006 4:59:13 PM PDT by fanfan
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To: Froufrou

The sequel-
Feral chihuahuas on a cruise ship. :-)


163 posted on 08/18/2006 5:02:20 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: BigTex5
Check out the thread on Fark, people are treating it like the next Rocky Horror Picture Show.

LOL, really? I will have to go check on that. Too funny. I just love stuff like that, well then, I already did say my sense of humor was low. Heh!

164 posted on 08/18/2006 5:06:24 PM PDT by RikaStrom (The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
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To: Cecily

Slithering 'Snakes On A Plane' Cast Ready to Strike
By PETER RAKOBOWCHUK, Canadian Press

MONTREAL (CP) - If the cold-hearted cast of Snakes On A Plane could talk they would probably tell you not to believe all the hype and hyssssssssteria surrounding the movie.

The film, which stars Samuel L. Jackson, slithers into movie theatres this Friday with the help of a lot of Internet buzz and the computer wizardry of a Quebec company.

The eagerly awaited movie inspired an explosion of online websites over the past year which included homemade trailers, rap videos and even comic strips.

More than 400 live snakes that were actually used during the movie shoot in Vancouver may try to take the credit.

But the reality is the slinking serpents didn't rise to the occasion and didn't take their roles seriously enough.

They got help from a team of 80 people at Quebec's Hybride Technologies Inc., whose credits include Sin City and the Spy Kids trilogy.

Philippe Theroux, Hybride's 3-D supervisor, says "snakes on a set" don't move around a lot and are kind of quiet.

"In some cases, we had to erase the live snakes to put in computer-generated images of snakes which were more aggressive to make the movie scarier," he said in an interview.

The creepy cast included nine different types of computerized snakes, including rattlesnakes and cobras.

The animation experts spent a year working on the more flexible computerized versions at Hybride's headquarters in Piedmont, northwest of Montreal.

Theroux said some highly realistic animated snakes were created. But when the movie's producers first saw them, they complained the snakes weren't scary enough.

"So then we had to cheat," Theroux said. "In some scenes. . .we had to make the fangs bigger than they are in real life, to see more of the teeth to make the shot more scary."

The computerized snakes were sometimes made to move faster or do things real snakes would not be able to do "in order keep the audience on their toes."

Hybride produced about 150 visual effects shots and its final contribution of venomous and poisonous snakes amounted to eight minutes.

"To be honest, in some shots, you'll see snakes that don't even exist," Theroux admitted.

The movie itself focuses on Jackson who plays an FBI agent assigned to escort a witness to a brutal mob murder from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify.

But the crime boss he is about to testify against has hundreds of poisonous snakes smuggled onto a red-eye commercial flight in a crate. They are set to be released among passengers as the plane is halfway over the Pacific.

The Internet reaction prompted director David R. Ellis to think twice about changing the movie title back to Pacific Air 121.

The online critics also recommended Ellis reshoot the movie and include a line of dialogue that was written for Jackson.

The line, which has been used in TV promos and has slid into the film, is:

"Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherf-in' snakes on this motherf-in' plane!"

Ellis also added violence, some nudity and extra dialogue to get the rating changed from PG to R in order to appeal to a broader demographic.

Canadian actor Keith Dallas, whose Big Leroy character is part of the entourage of a rapper in the movie, said he was told "to swear your head off" when the movie was reshot.

"The movie was fine the way it was originally shot, but it needed a sharper edge," Dallas said.

"It could fail. . .but I hope it's a big success and we get to do snakes on a train, or snakes on a skateboard or whatever the next one will be."

Special effects expert Theroux agreed the film is "way over the edge."

"It's just a fun movie. . .If you go there and you expect to see something serious or something realistic, you're missing the point," Theroux added.

Dallas also said he "really really" wasn't worried at all by the live snakes on the set.

"I was pretty safe and confident they had everything taken care of," he added.

The Jamaican-born actor, who spent his teens in Vancouver, has worked extensively on American and Canadian television and feature movie productions.

Dallas, 28, had roles in a number of Canadian TV series including Da Vinci's Inquest and Cold Squad.

He has also starred in Dark Angel and The Collector, two American TV series which were also shot in Vancouver.

08-17-06 22:19 EDT


165 posted on 08/18/2006 5:27:00 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Mike-o-Matic
And that one was intentionally campy.

Still, you gotta love William Shatner. There was a period there where the poor guy was willing to try anything to get out of the Captain Kirk image.

166 posted on 08/18/2006 6:19:39 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Cecily

Interesting title.....

....oh, wait, I thought it said....

...Snake Named Plame....


167 posted on 08/18/2006 7:55:58 PM PDT by EagleClaw
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To: Cecily
I just got back. The movie is awesome.

The movie promised snakes on a plane and it delivered. It was just incredibly honest and without pretension; it's there to entertain you in the most direct way possible. The plot was full of absurdities and cheese, and the whole premise is impossible to take seriously, but it just makes the final product that much more fun to watch.

Too many hollywood films nowadays are ruined by trying to be something that they're too stupid and absurd to be. Snakes on a Plane tries to be exactly what a movie about snakes on a plane can only be.
168 posted on 08/18/2006 10:31:38 PM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: xp38
"To be honest, in some shots, you'll see snakes that don't even exist," Theroux admitted.

That's especially true with shots of tequila.

169 posted on 08/18/2006 10:44:13 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Cecily
A pilot called in local talk radio that was discussing the movie and he said they could of ended the crisus in a couple of minutes by the pilot cooling down the plane to a cool 40 degrees which could be done quite easily at 30,000 feet. The snakes would become almost dormant allowing the passengers to squish their little heads. Rational thinking works every time its tried.
170 posted on 08/18/2006 10:46:51 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Cecily
A pilot called in local talk radio that was discussing the movie and he said they could of ended the crisis in a couple of minutes by the pilot cooling down the plane to a cool 40 degrees which could be done quite easily at 30,000 feet. The snakes would become almost dormant allowing the passengers to squish their little heads. Rational thinking works every time its tried.
171 posted on 08/18/2006 10:47:05 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Cecily

Whats the movie about?


172 posted on 08/19/2006 1:11:47 AM PDT by weegie
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To: Always Right
This movie's concept irritates me because presumably it is an attempt to exploit our fear of terrorists on airplanes--snakes traditionally are symbolic of evil and scary stuff.
173 posted on 08/19/2006 1:16:58 AM PDT by cgbg (MSM aid and comfort to the enemy costs American lives.)
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To: weegee; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; martin_fierro
Bring some rubber snakes and you have the new Rocky Horror...

How long before people show up with real snakes? Now that would be a realistic movie experience: snakes in the theatre.

If that idea gets out the whole snake concept might backfire. Stay away from the midnight showings.

174 posted on 08/19/2006 1:31:14 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: Thinkin' Gal
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!

And the preceding soliloquy was shouted at the screen by the blowhard in the row behind me.

175 posted on 08/19/2006 6:33:17 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: cgbg
Dear God are you reading too much into this movie.

The movie is meant to be fun. The reason it became such a internet sensation in the first place was because of how goofy the premise was.
176 posted on 08/19/2006 9:26:22 AM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: GSWarrior
And don't forget those other Seventies classics, Stanley and Sssssssss!
177 posted on 08/20/2006 11:58:49 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Re'eh, 'Anokhi noten lifneykhem hayom berakhah uqelalah.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Heather Menzies....rrrrrrr.....


178 posted on 08/21/2006 9:07:21 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: leda
"then we came home and fed our son's ball python a rat."

My son's ball only gets mice. I'm looking forward to giving him rats, though. Mouse day is a scary day for us because Slithers always confuses my hand for the mouse. Once of these days I'm going to end up with a snake on my hand.

179 posted on 08/22/2006 3:00:10 PM PDT by T.Smith
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To: T.Smith
"cuddles" ... yep, that's what he named the snake...
just moved up to rats. we have a separate tank just
for feeding the snake, not the tank it lives in.

the guys just toss the snake and the rat in the tank
together and let the snake chow down. it always turns
into a teen gathering...cheap entertainment ;)
180 posted on 08/22/2006 3:18:40 PM PDT by leda (Life is always what you make it!)
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