Snakes On A Plane. There is nothing else to say.

August 27, 2005 2:04 AM

Snakes On A Plane. Perhaps this explains why the majority of big-budget Hollywood movies in the past several years have been remakes of cult classics or popular television shows. If nothing else, we'll have a hip new catchphrase.
posted by deusdiabolus (25 comments total)

I first read about Snakes On A Plane at CHUD a while back. I was so let down when they changed the title. Jackson better be right about changing it back.
posted by brundlefly at 2:29 AM on August 27, 2005

You know all those posts where people ask is this the best of the web? This is mine.
posted by rdr at 2:37 AM on August 27, 2005

Snakes On A Motherfucking Plane from I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing which was posted here on Mefi a little while ago.
posted by dodgygeezer at 2:44 AM on August 27, 2005

Uh, by the way I'm not suggesting this is a repost, just pointing it out for folks who missed it. Snakes on a Plane!
posted by dodgygeezer at 2:53 AM on August 27, 2005

Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane sounds even better to me. I'd pay to see that! Are there rules about censoring titles?
posted by Acey at 3:13 AM on August 27, 2005

That'd have to be the sequel. The trilogy would be completed by Holy Shit! More Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane!
posted by dodgygeezer at 3:26 AM on August 27, 2005

Question to Samuel L Jackson.

What are you saving up for?
posted by priorpark17 at 3:38 AM on August 27, 2005

Snakes on a Plane is a great title. At first you think, Aw, I wouldn't want to see that. And then you think, How can I not see Snakes on a Plane.
posted by maxsparber at 4:02 AM on August 27, 2005

maxsparber, exactly right.

Seriously, I won't go see this movie if it's not called Snakes on a Plane. With a title like that, I could enjoy it, even if it sucks, but with a title that's all serious and drama-y or whatever, I don't know if I could. Yeah, maybe I'm really shallow. Fine. Don't come to my house with your salads, okay?
posted by DyRE at 4:03 AM on August 27, 2005

Sadly, there is nothing new under the sun: This sounds like a lame ripoff of an under-appreciated TV movie from 1974 called Fer de Lance, featuring David Janssen and Hope Lange asp-deep in vipers. Although its British theatrical title was Death Dive, it could just as well have been called Snakes on a Sub. You could look it up!
posted by rob511 at 4:10 AM on August 27, 2005

Okay, so there's a few movies set in a plane lately.
Do studios hear about one project, and greenlight a script they've opted, hoping to ride a wave, or what?

westerns, meteors, they all come in waves.

however, Snakes on a Plane is the best name.
posted by Busithoth at 6:25 AM on August 27, 2005

The sequel will be Serpents on a Train. And then, when that fails and the third film is made as a direct-to-DVD shot, Pythons on a Vespa.
posted by jscalzi at 7:19 AM on August 27, 2005

sounds like a lame ripoff of an under-appreciated TV movie from 1974 called Fer de Lance

Well, if they had just called it Serpents sur un Avion, we'd all still remember it. There's a lesson in that for this remake. Call it Snakes on a Plane, or into obscurity you go.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 8:00 AM on August 27, 2005

Snakes on a plane, snakes on a train, snakes to make you go insane. Snakes in love, snakes in war, we've got snakes to get you on the floor.

Cause these are the snakes.
posted by StopMakingSense at 8:57 AM on August 27, 2005 [1 favorite]

Piracy is killing the movie industry.
posted by fleetmouse at 9:10 AM on August 27, 2005

Are they going to give Lorne and the gang a cut?

I'm convinced that Sam is saving money to start a secret counter-terrorism intelligence agency.
posted by keswick at 9:11 AM on August 27, 2005

There will be the "friendly" snake, the "clumsy" snake, and the "funny" snake...

I think when the pilot gets unwittingly locked in the bathroom it should be a pair of adorable teenage snake twins who end up landing the plane.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 10:14 AM on August 27, 2005

Snakes all the way down.

Just sayin'.
posted by wendell at 10:42 AM on August 27, 2005

Snakes on a Plane 2: Snakes on a Higher Plane.

With Shirley McClain.
posted by ikkyu2 at 12:59 PM on August 27, 2005

What, no Snakes on a Plane tag?
posted by The Cardinal at 3:06 PM on August 27, 2005

nice find, keswick.
I doubt it, though.

I mean, Alan Moore got $8,000 for the rights to V for Vendetta. LorneCo. wouldn't get a free pass to the premiere.
posted by Busithoth at 3:09 PM on August 27, 2005

This made my night, thanks. Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane, oh yeah.

I'm thinking it's a good litmus test. If you say to someone "what do you think of a title called Snakes on a Plane?", and they're all "eurgh, that sucks" then you know they're a bit boring, but if they're all "snakes on a muthafuckin' PLANE!" then you know that person's a keeper.
posted by livii at 4:53 PM on August 27, 2005

Ikkyu2, you're a genius. Here we go..

Snakes on a Plane
With Shirley McClain
Know what I’m sayin’?
No need to 'splain
Drive you insane.
posted by mono blanco at 7:03 PM on August 27, 2005

My personal variation, for the record is "Snakes On A Plane, bitches!" You could also substitute biotch or niggaaaa, I imagine...

Oh, and thanks to dodgygeezer for posting the link to the other blog's piece on this. That's where I came to the realization that this at least has memetic potential.
posted by deusdiabolus at 11:20 PM on August 27, 2005

snakes on a plane: meh
posted by neuron at 10:26 AM on August 28, 2005