Snakes On a Plane (muthafucka)

[Mamalakabubadaya]

wow i have been looking forward to this film all summer and it comes out today (is it really friday?). i\'m a pretty big fan of samuel l. jackson. damn. can\'t wait to see this...



if you go to http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/, you can enter info and have samuel l. jackson call people to tell them to see it. it\'s funny. do it.

[wildcoyote]

I do not like snakes on a plane.
I do not like them on a train.
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in my house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

[Spacey]

I don\'t possibly see how this film can be of any quality or worth.

[Me!]

3 words: Samuel L. Jackson

[Spacey]

3 words: Samuel L. Jackson

God himself couldn\'t save this movie.

[Todd]

I don\'t possibly see how this film can be of any quality or worth.

:that: Seems pretty ridiculous!!

[Spacey]

I can\'t wait for the plot line. How does that many snakes get onto a plane? Do they really ship cargo like that on a passenger flight?

[Me!]

it\'s a terroist thing somebody puts them on to try and kill someone....

[Spacey]

if they make you pay for a ticket for this movie, you might want to ask to speak to the manager.

I say it lasts 2 weeks in the theater.

[Me!]

\'Snakes\' Slithers Into First Place
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 21) - The Internet buzz over "Snakes on a Plane" turned out to be nothing to hiss about. The high-flying thriller preceded by months of unprecedented Web buildup technically debuted as the No. 1 movie, but with a modest $15.25 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Distributor New Line Cinema included $1.4 million that "Snakes on a Plane" raked in during 10 p.m. screenings Thursday to get a head start on the weekend. Without those revenues, the movie\'s weekend total would be $13.85 million, putting it just behind "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," which took in $14.1 million in its third weekend.

David Tuckerman, New Line\'s head of distribution, said it was customary for studios to include late-night previews in a movie\'s opening-weekend total.

"It\'s an industry standard to do that, to roll that in," Tuckerman said. "Also, with this kind of picture, I would tell you unequivocably that at least 90 percent of that business would have gone to see it Friday night if not Thursday."

Rory Bruer, head of distribution at "Talladega Nights" studio Sony, declined to comment.

Box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations ranks movies according to numbers provided by studios, putting "Snakes on a Plane" in first place based on New Line\'s figures, said company president Paul Dergarabedian.

Starring Will Ferrell  as a NASCAR driver obsessed with winning, the comedy "Talladega Nights" was No. 1 at the box office the previous two weekends and raised its three-week total to $114.7 million.

With its campy, tell-it-like-it-is title and the star power of lead actor Samuel L. Jackson , "Snakes on a Plane" became an online phenomenon, prompting endless Web chat and parodies long before anyone saw the movie.

That buzz proved fairly hollow when it came to showtime, with the debut weekend a respectable but unremarkable return for a movie with a production budget of just over $30 million.

New Line\'s Tuckerman said "Snakes on a Plane" would turn in a solid profit but that he did not know why the movie failed to live up to its Internet hype.

"I think people were more excited about the marketing than the actual movie," said Dergarabedian of Exhibitor Relations. "New Line did not set out to create this Internet buzz. That\'s actually a marketer\'s dream, but when marketing translates into awareness but does not inspire people to get out from behind their computers and into the theater, that\'s a problem."

The movie stars Jackson as an FBI agent battling killer snakes that have been put on a red-eye flight to do away with a witness about to testify in a murder trial.

Universal Pictures\' comedy "Accepted," about slackers who start their own college, had the next-best showing among new movies, debuting at No. 4 with $10.1 million. MGM\'s "Material Girls," starring Hilary and Haylie Duff as cosmetics heiresses, opened at No. 9 with $4.6 million.

The year\'s biggest hit, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man\'s Chest," was No. 8 with $5 million, lifting its domestic total to $401 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "Snakes on a Plane," $15.25 million.

2. "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," $14.1 million.

3. "World Trade Center," $10.8 million.

4. "Accepted," $10.1 million.

5. "Step Up," $9.9 million.

6. "Barnyard: The Original Party Animals," $7.5 million.

7. "Little Miss Sunshine," $5.7 million.

8. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man\'s Chest," $5 million.

9. "Material Girls," $4.6 million.

10. "Pulse," $3.5 million.

[jocelyn]

This must be one of those "it\'s so bad it\'s good" kind of movies.

Definitely a great title if nothing else. :lol:

Someone did the phone message thing to me. It\'s decently funny. I was pretty damn confused when I first heard it...

[Todd]

Goes to show that there are a lot of dumb people that will go to see dumb movies

[Mamalakabubadaya]

Goes to show that there are a lot of dumb people that will go to see dumb movies

well on that note, as soon as i get out of the city today i am prob going to see snakes on a plane. i will take lots of notes and write a review for you guys.

[Me!]

^^can\'t wait, be as brutal as I know you can be Holly

[Mamalakabubadaya]

hey no problem--i have no interent at my apartment so it might take a few days, but i\'ll try.