In case your internet connection just returned from a six-month hiatus, the movie featuring Samuel L. Jackson fighting snakes on a plane (guess the title) comes out today. All of you guys who went crazy over this film had better go see it.
The only review that I can find claims the movie is pretty good. Add yours if you’ve seen it.
***Update***
Gratuitous meta wonkery: $30 million as an over/under line seems low for a halfway decent Samuel L. Jackson movie riding a wave of net hysteria, even if the enthusiasm peaked early in my opinion. Might as well stake my faith in ‘net power and go with over.
***Update 2***
It probably bears reminding that snakes are coldblooded. A less-entertaining movie would have the pilots turn the AC down to 55 or so and then send stewardesses around fifteen or twenty minutes later to pick up the inanimate snakes.
Tom
What’s it about?
Pb
Yeah, I’m definitely going to see this one. Snakes. On a plane. With Samuel L. Jackson (who wanted in basically because of the title). What more could you possibly want in a movie?
Doctor Gonzo
I’m so there, and I’m going to be wearing my SoaP shirt. Woot!
Moss
Snakes. Why the snakes? Maybe he is selling off the disease?
carpeicthus
Any NYC-er Balloon Juicers? I’m going with a group at 9:45 in Times Square. Rubber snakes and all.
SeesThroughIt
Oh, there’s no question I’m seeing this thing. I probably won’t see it until next week, thogh. Gotta dodge the theater crowds.
Mac Buckets
Over/under is $30 million this weekend. Which are you taking?
Andrew
SoaP will pull way more than $30 mil.
Ross
Under. I think the recent London beverage flight scare is going to quell peoples’ appetites for scary airplane movies.
Keith
So I take it then that snakes have not been banned from planes yet? With Hollywood (moguls, directory, actors, oh my!) practically giving terrorists new ways of harming the American people, it’s only a matter of time. Plus the things expel LIQUID!!!!
Pooh
HSX (which tends to be good at these things) has it at about $28.9. I’m taking the under.
Roeper, filling in for Ebert, killed it:
Andrew
Hell, SoaP has 76% on Rotten Tomatoes! Plus, it has snakes. On a plane.
Dug Jay
I understand that Anna Diggs Taylor pretty much steals the movie in a cameo appearance as a “good” terrorist, one who is deathly afraid of snakes.
Pooh
Try harder and someday you’ll be a real troll.
Dug Jay
Come on, Pooh, nobody could hope to achieve the heights of trolldom reached by one so great and good as yourself.
Zifnab
Snakes on a Plane > Braveheart
I’m telling you, this thing will gross $100 million easy by the end of the week. Just because of repeat viewership.
Bombadil
This could turn out to be the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” of herpetological cinema. Midnight showings, people dressing up as their favorite characters and/or snakes, chanting the dialogue, spitting venom on fellow patrons. It will be huge.
Pooh
I’m not sure how to respond, so I guess I’ll stay on your level and say I know you are but what am I…
Andrew
Got served.
Jack Roy
Yeah, we were all going to go just to shout “too soon!” when the snakes showed up. But I think the explosive fluids to-do may have stepped on our punchline.
Punchy
What I love is how the porn industry tends to make spoofs of these movies’ titles…I’m betting on some like…
Snakes on a Poon
Snakes on a Plame
Snakes in Plane Sight
Snakes in a Mouth
VidaLoca
Well, they’d be lethargic for sure, but inanimate? I’d still be entertained by seeing stewardesses crawling around under the seats in search of groggy but still dangerous snakes.
Now if they REALLY wanted to cool things down, they could just open a window. That would be entertaining.
chopper
maybe they’re special warmblooded snakes. ever think of that?
Ancient Purple
True. But CNN and Boston Globe give it 3.5 out of four stars. The fact that it is already a cult classic means it will make plenty of money.
Besides, what is not to like. It has snakes. On a plane.
Tim F.
No gratuitous shower scene? That could count against it.
Andrew
Does a gratuitous lavatory scene count?
Jon H
The problem with the A/C strategy is that the snakes might seek warmth in the clothing of the passengers before they become lethargic.
YellowJournalism
To go along with the porn title suggestions:
Snaked on a Plane
DougJ
POTD
Zifnab
Haha. That movie did NOT have a PG rating. Snakes on a Nipple!
Jcricket
Snakes on a nipple, snakes on a crotch, snakes in your eye, snakes up your dress. SNAKES! ON A PLANE!
That was the most fun I’ve had at a movie in basically forever.
There were people chanting the dialogue, throwing rubber snakes at key moments, a couple people dressed as a pilot and flight attendent.
There were some actually scary moments, and a couple of the death scenes were pretty cool (if you like gore). There were, of course, a couple that went totally over the top (but I expected that). Even the unintentionally hilarious moments were great, too, like all the product placement (which the audience all commented on).
That was awesome.
nyrev
And I screamed like a girly girl at one of the most over-the-top, goofy “surprise! it’s a snake!” moments of them all, and laughed my ass off during most of the film. It was great.
Mac Buckets
Looks like a “paltry” $13M for SoaP’s opening weekend. I made a lot of dough on the under there. Since “Step Up” opened at $20M last weekend. I guess the math works out like this:
Ironic Intertron Fanboys = 2/3 (teenaged “girl power dance movie” fans).
demimondian
Yeah, Mac, but we all know that Diebold manipulated the results to keep those Hollywood lefties under control.
Mac Buckets
I also have my doubts as to the accuracy of ticket-receipt filings by Cine-burton.