Trailerology: Snakes on a Plane
Submitted by jim on Sat, 03/18/2006 - 12:23
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Wow, there really is a movie with Samuel L. Jackson coming out called Snakes on a Plane! I thought it was an elaborate hoax. But here's the trailer (scroll down to watch it). I think, no matter how bad the reviews, I'm going to have to see that one.
An interesting news item:
Samuel L. Jackson's new mile-high thriller Snakes On A Plane has created such a buzz among internet film fans, movie bosses have called for re-shoots - to give the film a tougher rating. The film, which stars Jackson as an FBI agent trying to keep a federal witness alive onboard a plane full of snakes, wrapped last September - but went back before the cameras earlier this month for five days of additional shooting. Film bosses at distributor New Line Cinema opted to add new scenes to the film to take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory, according to industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter. They claim the second round of filming became necessary after intense and growing fan interest in the film, which is scheduled to be released this summer. Among the reported additions to the film is a foul-mouthed rant from Jackson in which his agent character bellows, "I want these motherf**king snakes off the motherf**king plane!" The line is expected to take on cult status. The film-makers have reportedly added more gore, more deaths, more nudity and more snakes to the finished product.
From imdb...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Nudity? "Naked Snakes on a Plane"?
:-)
Not sure if this is good news, not that the movie had anything going for it but Jackson and pure schlockiness in the first place.
If producers really had their ears to the ground (or wire, or T1 line, or whatever) they'd be pumping more money into the CGI.
You didn't see any clothes on them snakes, did you?
Honestly, at this point, I have zippo interest in this film...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Why on earth not?!
Oh, well sure, there's that...
So what was the last movie (if any) you looked forward in spite of (or perhaps because of) the certainty it would be awful?
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Wow, what a shock that must have been!
Yes, I'm not ashamed to admit it. But...
"Shock" has a negative conotation. I think people have largely forgotten the pre-War of the Rings mind set. What had Peter Jackson ever directed? "Liv Tyler" is your big name? I've never even heard of WETA. Over a year to shoot? Recasting one of the leads after shooting started. I don't recognize any of the actors except Elijah Wood and that gay guy from England. Gollum is going to be performed by Jar-Jar technology... great. Three hours long!? This is going to be the end of New-Line. Orlando who?
and on and on and on and then we saw what Jackson had wrought. Anyone who says they weren't amazed is a fool, a liar, without a soul or just wasn't there.
Try to recall what you thought the true-believers were going to do to Peter Jackson. Not a pretty picture.
I guess I'm a liar then.
But I was also the only person swearing that The Passion of the Christ was going to make a bundle back when everybody else was calling folly...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
That's one option. How did you know?
I never doubted LOTR, but then I'm a Jackson fanboy from way back.
That means I'm probably going to have to check out The Frighteners. I have only read about it and I had no clue that Jackson was up to the job.
"The Frighteners" is very good, as is "Heavenly Creatures". "Dead Alive", though... that's not a film, that's a religious experience.
Whichever one is the best precursor to LotR and King Kong (and Halo, I guess.)
*sigh*
I'm boring. My mind just doesn't work that way...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Come now, there must be a chink in your armor somewhere... Ah yes, there it is... How'd you manage to catch Tremors for the first time? :-)
Good reviews.
See? :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Hmm, I guess I'll have to keep looking then. Everybody has a weakness. Everybody.
The movie will suck and make oodles of money for its great title alone. Oodles!
Then there will have to be a sequel...
Snakes on a Ship.
The series will be the next Saw, before Saw finishes. I can't wait for Snakes in a Cubicle with Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy.
I wanna see Snakes in a Hollywood Studio...but the execs may get territorial.
I don't know which snakes I'm supposed to root for.
Who's down for "Snakes in a Rickshaw"?
I am so down. I just hope they don't ruin the franchise by making Worms on a Plane.
And after a while, it'll be Snakes in a Spaceship.
"Houston, we've got a waaaugh! get it off! get it off! get it off!"
This MUST be a comedy.
Seriously, a dude starts beating another dude with a snake.
This must be the most tongue-in-cheek film of all time.
Otherwise, I don't understand how this film exists.
I think he's beating the snake to death on something so that it appears to be a person seated nearby.
Genius is so rarely appreciated in its own time. To quote extensivley from The Johns Hopkins News-Letter:
This movie is Snakes on a Plane.
As you can tell, this movie is about snakes on a plane. There are other elements to the plot, like an assassin trying to eliminate a witness in protective custody, but this is all secondary to the main point of the film: snakes that are on a plane. Or, conversely, a plane that has snakes on it. Either way, we know what we're getting: some sort of snake/plane combination, with action-packed results.
As if this wasn't amazing enough, we also have a stellar cast, led by one of the greatest thespians of our time: Samuel L. Jackson. This man needs no introduction. He's been in every movie ever made. He's made shouting into an art. I'm not sure exactly what he's going to do in this movie, but I can tell you this: Samuel L. Jackson doesn't take crap from anybody. Especially snakes. Especially when they're on his goddamn plane.To quote the book of Samuel L. in the March 2006 issue of Premiere magazine:
That comes from a man who oughta know... and once more from the JHNL:Don't tell me that you don't know what you're getting yourself into... sheer bloody genius."This man needs no introduction. He's been in every movie ever made. He's made shouting into an art."
Funniest thing I read today.
let me say this before i watch the trailer... i hope to god he's the witness and not the assassin.
ok... after watching the trailer, as much as I may be tempted to see this... i can't simply because of the risk in gouging out my own eyes seeing a movie with this much lazy cgi... my god, how hard is it to use real effects with a bunch of normal sized snakes... this could be as bad as the two wolves in the day after tomorow... hell why have sammy acting in the picture when you can get just as much box office by making a cgi replica... maybe then he'll win an oscar.