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Do we even need to see Snakes on a Plane?

Published Tuesday, August 15, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

Good question. Glad I asked it. And the answer is...no, not really. It seems as though we've had a full calendar year to remark upon and mock the upcoming film, Snakes on a Plane, because it has been an entire year since Samuel L. Jackson kickstarted the Internet buzz machine. At the time, Jackson said everything you needed to know about the movie was its title. A year later, we've talked and mocked and talked and mocked so much about the film that its actual release is, well, almost besides the point.

Here is my story about it, in today's Boston Herald.

One of my colleagues (or was it something I read online?) wondered whether SoaP could start a new movie genre. Perhaps. But a filmmaking challenge in Austin, Texas, may have made that question moot. The challenge is called Blanks on a Blank, and it generated random combinations of animals and vehicle. So much so, that, Hollywood already may have missed the boat, too. "Hippos on a Segway," anyone? Already taken.

Slight tangent alert. YouTube.com was down earlier today! That meant no access to any YouTube videos -- quelle horror! It's back up now, which means I can link you to a couple of SoaP-related clips.

1. Samuel L. Jackson makes his 2007 MTV Movie Awards guarantee