Somehow I suspect there will be icons shortly...

[tzikeh]

What with today's frightening news, I thought we could use just a little levity.

From anw:

I confidently predict that next year's greatest movie release will be:

Snakes On A Plane.

Take a moment to digest that. Snakes on a plane.

And let me reassure you: It's not some ponderous metaphor-rich Todd Solondz movie about ennui and anguish and how terribly mean we all are to each other, set in a small town launderette and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Patricia Clarkson.

It's about snakes on a plane. And it stars Samuel L Jackson.

The plot:

"On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes."

And that's it! And that's all you need! Snakes! On a plane! To quote Samuel L Jackson himself; "You either want to see this movie or you don't. Snakes On A Plane! There's no mystery to that!"

Obviously it'll be a massive hit, and they'll want to make a sequel. The law of diminishing returns suggest it'll most likely be Goats On A Bus, or Chickens On A Pedallo, starring Jason Patric. I'm hoping for Bears On A Cruise Ship, or Leopards On A Space Station.

They briefly changed the title of Snakes On A Plane to Pacific Air Flight 121. Samuel L Jackson made them change it back.

"I get to spend six and a half weeks going to set every day going 'Ah! Ah! Ow! Ow!' I don't have to go in every day and figure out the dramatic purpose of this particular scene."

Snakes On A Plane.

Comments

[watergal.livejournal.com]

*big giggle*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

SNAKES ON A PLANE!

[chere-soleil.livejournal.com]

OH GOOD GOD! ITS SERENITY!

[topaz7.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe this is the actual title! Too funny. I've come up with some more sequels:

The Sequels:

Spiders in a Car
Bacteria in a Lab
Grizzlies in a House
Tigers in a Rental Caravan
Killer Bees in a small-ish room

OMG. Thanks for sharing this cinematic masterpiece! :o)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Ok, the sequel game is going to go on for days.

SNAKES ON A PLANE!!

*goes to make icon*

[yummyteece.livejournal.com]

ps... the Hamlet icon is fucking brilliant!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

The Hamlet icon is totally shareable. Go ahead and take it if you like.

[yummyteece.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! Credit will be listed

[danceswithwords.livejournal.com]

::boggles::

You know, even the SciFi channel knows you've got to make it chupacabras on a cruise ship demon snakes on a plane.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA!

SNAKES ON A MANSQUITO!

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

What scares me is that this is approximately what I thought when I saw your post.

"Snakes on a Plane... sounds about as good as Mansquito!"

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Obviously it'll be a massive hit, and they'll want to make a sequel. The law of diminishing returns suggest it'll most likely be Goats On A Bus, or Chickens On A Pedallo, starring Jason Patric. I'm hoping for Bears On A Cruise Ship, or Leopards On A Space Station.

help--dying--laughing--dying--omg. Funniest thing ever.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

We need icons. And I just *know* I'm going to be shouting "Snakes on a Plane!" the way Perry White would shout "Great Caesar's Ghost!" or Robin would shout "Holy FUCK, Batman!"

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

yendi has a SoaP icon already.

[ratcreature]

Heh. Well, it *could* work. Sorta like Jaws just on a plane instead of on water and, well, with snakes not fish...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

"We're going to need a bigger plane."

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

That is Way Too Funny. *dies*

For sequels I suggest:
Scorpions in a Rickshaw!
Dingoes on a Train!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

"Hyenas on a Recumbent Bicycle!"

"Jellyfish in a Toyota Prius!"

[yummyteece.livejournal.com]

"Agressive Mold Spores in a Kayak"

"Duck-billed Platipi on a Little Red Wagon"

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Dingoes in a Tent. Historical accuracy, please. :p

[corinna-5.livejournal.com]

A screenwriter who went in on the rewrites for this movie has a hysterical blog post about the title here:

http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/snakes-on-motherfucking-plane.html

Now out of both loyalty to the sacred bond between studio and screenwriter and also a serious desire to keep getting hired in this town, I will not give away any of the plot details of SNAKES ON A PLANE. But know this. As the great Sam Jackson would say: There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane.

What else do you need to know? How the snakes get on the plane, what the snakes do once they're on the plane, who puts the snakes on the plane, who is trying to get the snakes off the plane...This is not for you to ponder. There are snakes on the plane. End of fucking story.

In fact, during the two or three days that precedes my phone call with the studio, I become obsessed with the concept. Not as a movie. But as a sort of philosophy. Somnewhere in between "Cest la vie", "Whattya gonna do?" and "Shit happens" falls my new zen koan "Snakes on a Plane".

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

So it's basically Red Eye. With snakes. And Samuel L. Jackson. Okay then...

[luminosity]

I read this the other day, and I can't wait to see it. Snakes. On a plane. Think about it, man! there will be *snakes!* On a *plane*!

D00d! Snakes!

[luminosity]

On a plane!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Snakes! ON A PLANE! ON A PLAAAANE!

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I saw that on Metaquotes last night and laughed myself silly. Seriously, this is the best movie idea ever. It sounds like a SciFi Channel Spectacular! ;-D

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

Samuel L. Jackson is 100% right! A person either wants to see a movie about snakes on a plane or they don't. Tarting it up with a better title would be pretentious, & really, if you're making a movie about snakes on a plane, you can't really afford to be pretentious.

Besides, three-quarters of the people buying tickets for it are going to say to the ticket-seller: "Yeah, two for that movie about the snakes on the plane." (The other quarter's going to say "the Samuel L. Jackson movie.")

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

A person either wants to see a movie about snakes on a plane or they don't.

I entirely agree - and I want to see a movie about snakes on a plane!

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

Of course you do! We all do! And thanks to Samuel L. Jackson, now nobody who wants to see Snakes on a Plane can possibly miss it!

Snakes! On a Plane!!

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

Here, have a "transcript" of the trailer:
http://www.yankeefog.com/archives/2005/08/snakes_on_a_pla_1.html

(found in the comments of the blog Corinna_5 linked to ...)

Re: Snakes! On a Plane!!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

OMG rules.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I cannot predict the sequel's title (really, they're all good), but I can absolutely unequivocally predict the leading man -- Ice Cube.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You are so, so right.

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

Now there's a paranoid fantasy even *I* never thought up. I hate snakes. Yuck.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

I want to see Leopards in a SPace Station OMG!

Leopards in Space Station

[yummyteece.livejournal.com]

OMG! YES... that's the one i was waiting for!

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

But do they fight crime?

[yummyteece.livejournal.com]

He's a lounge-singing zombie vampire hunter ON A PLANE. She's a time-travelling impetuous SNAKE from Mars. They fight crime!

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

*squee*

Color me there!

Warning! Spoilers for SNAKES ON A PLANE!

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

SNAKES ON A PLANE! + sleep deprivation = this

So, I headed on over to IMDb to see what they had to say about this, & found listed in the cast & I found: Adam Behr .... Puppeteer

So, for 10 minutes my mind has been picturing a plane with a children's birthday party (complete with puppet show) being menaced by snakes, which Samuel L. Jackson valiently tries to save them from.

Unfortunately, it seems he's an actual puppeteer, which I'm guessing means they'll be using at least some puppet snakes. OTOH, he looks like just the right man for the job, having worked on a 1999 TV movie called "Can of Worms."

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm doing Slodwick's Worst Case Scenario challenge, and even though my scenario has nothing to do with snakes, I think it really has to be called Snakes In A Puddlejumper.

Actually, that would be a great challenge. SNAKES IN YOUR FANDOM!

Snakes in the Bronze!
Snakes in the loft!
Snakes in a puddlejumper!
Snakes in the Batcave!
Snakes in the Gryffindor common room!
Snakes in the Consulate!
Snakes in a Canadian shack!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

SNAKES IN YOUR FANDOM!

OMG marry me.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Aw, okay. *takes your hands* LOOK OUT! SNAKES IN OUR WEDDING!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

*DEAD*

[yummyteece.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO!

[ascetic-hedony.livejournal.com]

*worships*
Kryptonite infected snakes in the mansion or the Talon
bite random kid (Preferably bookish and socially incompentant)
Snakeman!

Suspect it will have to happen in smallville canon soon

[utforsker.livejournal.com]

What's a brother gonna do? Of course he's cold-blooded. HE'S A MOTHERFUCKING SNAKE.

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

ANTS IN YOUR PANTS!!!