Snakes on a Plane

You owe it to yourself to nail at least one friend with this one. I was baffled when Samuel Jackson called me...

http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/

I'm going out on a limb and saying that this movie is going to be a disappointment (box-office wise). Too much hype, the mania seemed to crest about three months too soon. At this point, the joke is old.

Hollywood hasn't put out a decent scary flick in some time. Jackson doesn have drawing power and thriller/horror flicks have done ewll of late...I'm sure the movie will be rotten though.

i got everyone at the office with a samuel l jackson phone call. most were unimpressed

Chimone said:

i got everyone at the office with a samuel l jackson phone call. most were unimpressed

Click to expand...

How lame can you be? How can you not be impressed by a sam jackson phone call? Especially when he talks **** to you.

how long does it take to get a call?

...Snakes are OK, just leave your toothpaste, Beoderant and shampoo at home...idiots!!

I flew last week and today...and will again on Thurs...I must be amongst them myself...

the_bird said:

I'm going out on a limb and saying that this movie is going to be a disappointment (box-office wise). Too much hype, the mania seemed to crest about three months too soon. At this point, the joke is old.

Click to expand...

Good call!

I'm kinda glad it has a disappointing opening. The hype was a bit annoying

I haven't seen the numbers yet, what did it pull in? They're going to make a boatload of money on it, regardless, since it was so cheap to film.

EDIT: Oooh, only $15M? They'll still make $$, but had the movie come out about three months ago I would have pegged that figure at at least twice that.

Damn. This is the best thing ever- I'm callin' people I don't even know! Whee!

That is some funny stuff.

6th place in its second week... beaten out by "Beerfest!"

Maybe they WON'T make money after all!

the_bird said:

6th place in its second week... beaten out by "Beerfest!"

Maybe they WON'T make money after all!

Click to expand...

Wow - that's bad. And the funny thing is that it got decent reviews

Speaking of Beerfest, I think we owe it to ourselves to go see that. Maybe have a HBT field trip...

Now, what if the beerfest site let you mail a cold promotional brew to your buddies...?

The reviews that I read were mostly "It could have been a lot worse - and that would have been a good thing!"

Turned out to be just a medicore flick when people wanted a disaster.

the_bird said:

The reviews that I read were mostly "It could have been a lot worse - and that would have been a good thing!"

Turned out to be just a medicore flick when people wanted a disaster.

Click to expand...

Where did you get the infor that it ranked 6th this weekend? Rotten Tomatoes says it's 9th!!!

I bet it does well in the DVD market. It's something I want to see eventually; I'm just not paying $10 bucks and getting a baby sitter to go see it.

I searched Yahoo! News, it was in an article. $6.3M, I think, right below BeerFest and that other college flick, the fake college...

I'm thinking DVD sales will be medicore as well - the buzz is just gone. It just sounds like it was neither terrible enough nor good enough to be entertaining. My ***** with the movie was that it had the potential for a sh*tload of unintentional comedy, but then they tried to force it; you can't intentionally have unintentional comedy, you know?

the_bird said:

...it had the potential for a sh*tload of unintentional comedy, but then they tried to force it; you can't intentionally have unintentional comedy, you know?

Click to expand...

Ya, I agree. I'm a big fan of bad movies - Plan 9, Manos... all those.

Who knows - it will be interesting to see what happens.