WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH…
WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH…
Why has it got such a cult following?
Look, I’m happy to continue smiling and nodding whenever F-train excitedly mentions the upcoming Samuel L. Jackson flick, but if someone could explain the fascination, that’d be awesome.
April 21st, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Oh yeah! To me too.
April 21st, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Snakes on a plane!
April 21st, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Alceste,
yeah? Aaaand??
April 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Wait…is this gonna turn out to be a guy thing?
April 21st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
There’s these snakes, see, and they’re on a plane! That’s crazy! Snakes shouldn’t be on a plane!
Yet there they are. And Mace Windu, too.
April 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pm
I knew it was going to be something like that and I’d have to just be like ‘o-k then’.
April 21st, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Well…snakes really shouldn’t be on a plane.
April 21st, 2006 at 7:15 pm
It’s not just a guy thing, it’s snakes on a plane!
April 21st, 2006 at 8:21 pm
OMG, Alceste, who is that? I love her….and everything she stands for.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:31 pm
F-train’s future wife.
April 22nd, 2006 at 9:55 pm
So. I was traveling back home from Los Angeles to Phoenix one time, with some family friends. One of the kids with us had a rubber snake in his carry-on, which he had purchased at Disneyland. The airport security wouldn’t let him take it on board. They said it was on the list of prohibited items — “you could use it to scare someone,” they said. They made him run back and put it in his checked luggage.
Now I understand.
By the way, this was at least 10 years before 9/11. Lessons learned? Rubber playthings in child’s luggage? Prohibited as dangerous. Boxcutters in pockets of Saudi adults? Okey dokey.
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:40 pm
the hype started as a grass-roots facination with a film that promised to be so stupid that its entire plot can be summed up in a four word title.
but it lost me when the studios caught on, re-edited the film to artificially inflate the camp-value, and even got samuel l. jackson to come back to say “there’s snakes on the motherfucking plane!!!” the imaginary line that hopeful fans were hypothesizing jackson would exclaim at some point in the film
and i don’t think it’s a guy thing. hell, i found out about it from a female friend of mine who couldn’t stop talking excitedly about the film on her blog. my impression is that more women than men are going nuts over this film. but maybe that’s more a reflection of the type of women i hang around with
the movie doesn’t come out til august. i’m still betting that it jumps the shark at some point between now and then. this much excitement about potential camp just can’t sustain itself that long