Snakes on a Plane

[dalecarnegie]

In your Snakes on a Plane preview, you mention that the plane should just land and evacuate. They can't land, the flight is between Hawaii and LA, it's all water buddy.

[Tim Z]

Thanks for the question. I've gotten a few emails saying the same thing and I guess I shouldn't have asked the question to begin with. However, I was implying that the plane should be turned around and landed as opposed to landing on water necessarily. It's possible that the snakes get released at the mid-way point of the flight, which once again throws my theory out the window.

Honestly, I'm not sure what situations require pilots to make emergency landings, especially on water. Recently, a friend of mine was on an airplane that had to make an emergency landing due to the backed up on-board plumbing. Supposedly, it was a real threat to everyone's safety. Now, the landing was not on water, of course, but what if the plane had been in the middle of the ocean at the time. It was a trans-Atlantic flight.

So, I'm not sure if dozens of loose snakes wouldn't be enough to force the pilots to make an emergency water landing.

Having said that, would you rather take your chances with the snakes? There's a real possiblity that you might crash anyway due to the chaos on board. Take another look at the trailer and think about it:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/media.php?id=21&place=trailer

[lydia2693]

If there were snakes on a plane, you think there would be enough people to
kill them all, I mean there venomous snakes who have no defence but there
bite. And even if they sneaked up on people, they can't strike from that long of a distance (only about 3-4 feet). And if people do get bit, the plane might have enough time to fly back to get the people treated. But my question is how many snakes are there? a dozen- two dozen? well... if it's only a dozen or two, than once a snake bites once, then its not going to have enough
venom to bite again. And if passengers' lives were indangered by snakes on a plane, then i think that would be more than good enough reson to make an emergency landing. But just to let yall know i don't anything about this movie except what i read on the other peoples' post. so i might be wrong about this whole thing. But i'm just writing about what i know about snakes.;)

[lydia2693]

Couldn't they distract the snakes on board and try to capture them one at a time. I mean there are abunch of bags lying aroung, it is plane.:confused:
And why would snakes try to kill people on purpose? they only try to kill you if you are crossing their paths, not them crossing your paths. are they trained? and i don't think it is possible to train a snake,because it is just like trying to train a shark. They are too dumb to be trained to do some thing like killing people. Crawling up a snake charmer's nose and out their mouth is different from being trained to kill. I don't think it is possible for a snake to catch rabbies. And lets say someone did train a snake to kill... wouldn't
that kinda be like a terrorist?:confused: I mean if they can sneak atlease a dozen snakes on board, then wouldn't they be able to sneak on a gun.
What are their intensions? to kill people on board or crash the plane? I could understand trying to crash a plane flying to NY or ATL but why hawaii? The only reson i could think of is that mabey there is someone important on board.
and like i said, it would be easier to shoot the people. But i guess i will just have to watch the movie.:rolleyes:

[brigulon13]

If your watching a movie called "Snakes on a Plane" your I.Q. probaly drops a few points just for being there. Like, why go in the water if there is a 25 foot maneating shark making mince meat out of your small island resort town? Or, why not just kick the little doll across the room, grab the knife and destroy m.f.er? Oooorrr, run cloning experiments on a known xenomorph that has destroyed the crew of 2 spaceships and a small prison colony? Or, remake "The Fog", make a sequel to the "Grudge" or "The Ring" or a "Madea" movie or "Crocodile Dundee", or put Beyonce in a movie? Or Queen Latifah or Johnny Knoxville or Steve Irwin? Sorry. That's Hollywood. Make a bunch a fake hype for something we have to see or we are uncool. Please support the small ones. If you like 'em. Or we get a sequel to "Are We There Yet?". Or, they just might make another T.V. show into a movie. Or, heaven forbid another Renny Harlin flick. Maybe, "The Fast And The Furious:Knight Riders".

[lydia2693]

okay i'll admit you have a point there. :D I guess i just got a little carried away:D

[iceman]

I like that movie, I saw the commercial, seems pretty OK never seen it tho... But the idea is good ;) something with snakes again, speaking of snakes also Anakona was good ;)

[Hootowl]

From what you guys are all saying, it doesn't sound like this is a movie that I want to see. Just sounds dumb to me.

[fairykisses]

I haven't seen this flick (nor do I have a desire to) but I just read tonite elsewhere that when the film was released one of the ways they promoted the film was by allowing you to give some basic information on a form and then Samuel L Jackson, based on the info., would call a freind to leave a funny message promoting the movie. You could also go to a website to hear the message if you received one.

[MLBurke]

While our snake is not venomous, and I wouldn't WANT a venonmous snake, I do know a thing or two about snakes. (Ours is a ball phython, by the way) Snakes, as a general rule, don't go seeking people to bite because there's no chance they'd be able to actually EAT them, so it would be a waste of their venom. The whole premise to the movie is far fetched, and is all hype.

[GrannyEsme]

I think the premise included some kind of hormone to make the snakes more aggressive. The idea for any movie or novel or whatever is "suspension of disbelief" where you turn off the critical part of your brain for a while. Some writers make it believable and some just go too far off on a tangent. For the sake of this story, I was willing to buy the hormone thing. :) It was a fun time-waster.

[MLBurke]

Okay, if you're saying some stupid scientist gave these snakes steroids or something, I can see where they might be aggressive, but still, I don't think a snake would hunt people down. :rolleyes:

[Hootowl]

I guess if it were 110 degrees in the shade, the air conditioner at home were on the fritz, and I had no place else to go to cool off, I might go see that movie in a theater. But other than that, I doubt it.

[monkey4]

The movie was fine as a rental, Sam J is cool no matter what (usually), but I really would never watch this movie again - this coming from someone who has enjoyed some seriously weird ass movies. :D

[trickofthehand]

I think the premise included some kind of hormone to make the snakes more aggressive. The idea for any movie or novel or whatever is "suspension of disbelief" where you turn off the critical part of your brain for a while. Some writers make it believable and some just go too far off on a tangent. For the sake of this story, I was willing to buy the hormone thing. :) It was a fun time-waster.

people could learn a lot from you. but then again, everyone's a proffesional film critic these days. I think people won't be happy until hollywood makes a film about a guy who works monday through friday, nine to five and.... thats it. just that over and over for years on end until his mortgage is paid off and he can retire at 60. but then they would complain that its unrealistic and he should've retired at 55 on his income, not at 60.