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 (27 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

Man, the Lack of Faith link made me laugh so loud, I think I woke up my roommates.

Seriously, though, I think Snakes on a Plane will be a great movie! Especially if they go all wholesome and family with it and give the snakes little personalities. There will be the "friendly" snake, the "clumsy" snake, and the "funny" snake. One of them can even befriend a little girl onboard, and, like, bring her a flower or something. And there will have to be some grouchy old man who starts out hating the snakes, only to be won over in the end by their more endearing qualities. And of course lots of comic relief like scenes where Dad (played by Charles Grodin) accidentally sits on a snake, or opens up his laptop case to find that a family of snakes have taken up residence there. Either way, at some point, all of the snakes have to, come together and prepare for some daunting task, like, I dunno, landing the plane or something. Do I sense a "things getting done montage" here? Yes, I think I do.

oh yeah, and, Snakes on a Plane!
posted by afroblanca at 7:58 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

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.

I think there also needs to be a pregnancy subplot whereby one of the snakes lays a clutch of eggs, and a friendly veternarian (Robin Williams cameo?) must keep them safe throughout the flight. And then once they land, the snakelets hatch and people take them home as pets, leaving room for the aforementioned sequels.
posted by afroblanca at 1:51 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