“Snakes on a Plane”
starring Samuel L. Jackson
Plot Outline: On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who’s a witness in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes.
Sallah: Indy, why does the floor move?
Indiana Jones: Give me your torch. [Sallah does, and Indy drops it in.] Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?
Sallah: Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.
you a’skeered of snakes Dale?
The trailer is absolutely hilarious.
And the funny part: it’s not supposed to be funny.
This</a](http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/snakes-on-motherfucking-plane.html">This</a)> is a fun blog entry from a screenwriter who almost worked on it. Language warning.
You can also buy the t-shirt</a](http://damnation-inc.com/order.php?item=1">t-shirt</a)>.
I, uh, respect them. I’m also uncomfortable in planes. It’s not about flying through the air at 30,000 feet in an aluminum tube. It’s about NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT. So, this movie isn’t QUITE my worst nightmare, but it’s close. My worse would be:
Getting a Root Canal by a Deranged Endodontist on a Plane Filled with Snakes
Ah, yes. Marathon Man. Featuring the most amazing movie villain of all time.
Oh, you can get out - it’s just hard getting back in again.
Snakes I can live with but Spiders on a Plane would be my one of my worst nightmares.
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I’ll have to look that one up. I have heard references to it after watching Oldboy.
Get your Dental check-up out of the way first 
Slan,
D.
Ants would be mine.
I’m not sure what your definition of “supposed to be funny” is, but the interview on NPR yesterday with the director made it pretty clear that he considered it to be the very least campy, if not LOL funny. After reading some of the blogs, they edited some scenes th “add more gore,” increase the nudity, and “let Sam Jackson swear some more.” IOW, add a little more B movie to the B movie with a big budget. How seriously can anybody (including the director and producer) take a movie that pretty much grew out of a title someone came up with?
Well, my impression of this was that the people working on the film had set out to make a serious action film, but all of the internet attention (mostly derogatory laughter) caused them to take an extra 5 days of shooting to “take it into the R-rated territory” and all together make it out that they had intended to be laughed at from the start. This is hinted at in the Wikipedia article (not to assert its reliability):
In recognition of the unprecedented internet buzz for what had been a minor movie in their 2006 line-up, New Line Cinema ordered five days of additional shooting in early March 2006[6] (the principle shooting had wrapped in September 2005). While re-shoots normally imply problems with a film, the producers opted to add new scenes to the film to take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory > and bring the movie in line with the growing fan expectation> . Among the reported additions is a vulgar line that originated as an internet parody of Samuel L. Jackson’s traditional movie persona: “I want these mothering snakes off the mothering plane!”
Emphasis (and censoring) mine.