Comments on: “Snakes on a Plane” on a Plane

By: Effie Crump

Effie Crump — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:56:45 +0000

Afterthough: Of course, it could be that Qantas has never had a crash, so we don’t worry as much about it.

By: Effie Crump

Effie Crump — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:54:46 +0000

This is all a bit odd – I saw Snakes on a Plane a month ago on the Qantas flight from Sydney to Beijing. Most people on board (myself included) were watching it, and ejoying it in the way that you will enjoy anything on a plane. Certainly no-one else in Cattle Class was worried. I mentioned it to other expats in Beijing, and the response divided in two – the Aussies all said ‘yeah, what a hoot’ and the rest all said ‘oh no, how could you bear to watch it…’. I pointed out that it was fiction, but this seemed to make no difference. The I asked if they had watched movies with car crashes in the country just in case they had one on the way home. They said ‘don’t be silly’ ignoring the much greater likelihood of getting written of in a car crash. So I watched it on the way back again to make up the numbers.

It doesn’t make it a good movie, but it’s fun to watch a movie about a plane on a plane.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:43:50 +0000

I was flying LAX to JFK once and the film being shown was Get Shorty. One of the key plot points is a man who misses a plane and the plane crashes, thus everyone thinks he’s dead.

On the plane it was a train accident.

By: Tracy W

Tracy W — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:51:35 +0000

Right, I could see a certain type of person buying it as a “thrill” pick. Especially the hard-charging excutive type.

Well if the hard-charging executive type is between the ages of 14 and 25 and has a y chromosome, and is not necessarily an executive but has any sort of job ranging from student to mechanic to chef to struggling artist to stockbroker, I agree with you.

I have a lot of male cousins. Some brothers too.

By: Wrongshore

Wrongshore — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:16:29 +0000

I’m with ginger. What’s more, even if a majority of people will be put off by it, a significant minority will be turned on by it, and will probably buy a DVD where they would not have before. As long as you’re not deciding what everyone has to watch together, you can evoke strong negative reactions if you’re counting on just a fraction of strong positive reactions.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:36:35 +0000

I can understand people who are afraid of flying being put out by it, but is it really so amazing for everyone else? Do people in Atlanta cower when they see trailers for Gone With The Wind? Do you go out to the countryside to watch Godzilla? And what about all those drive-in horror movies in which people at drive-in movies get murdered?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:35:32 +0000

A couple of years ago, my parents were on a flight, both engrossed in their reading, when suddenly my father muttered, “Oh my God”. My mother asked what was wrong, and my father said – holding up one of the books I’d given him for Christmas – “I forgot what this was about.”

The book was Alive.

By: fyreflye

fyreflye — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:48:28 +0000

Maybe next they’ll be selling “Flight 93.”

By: engels

engels — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:28:13 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks that “snakes on a plane” sounds like it ought to be an Aussie interjection: “Snakes on a plane, John! I think that dingo’s drinking your tinnie!”

By: William Sjostrom

William Sjostrom — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:27:09 +0000

The plot is wildly implausible, so why worry. As the Steve Goodman classic, Somebody Else’s Troubles, says:
Yesterday I went downtown and saw an old-time picture show
And the hero got a pie in the face;
He didn’t like that, and he stormed around the screen.
Everybody else was laughin’ in that place.

That’s ‘cause it ain’t hard
To get along with somebody else’s troubles,
And they don’t make you lose any sleep at night.
Just as long as fate is there bustin’ somebody else’s bubbles,
Everything’s gonna be all right.
Everything’s gonna be all right.

By: Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:38:42 +0000

I’m tired of these motherf**ing DVDs in the motherf**ing Borders!

By: Z

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:20:52 +0000

From what I heard about Snakes on a plane, the only place where I would consider watch it would be on a plane.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:05:50 +0000

tracy – Right, I could see a certain type of person buying it as a “thrill” pick. Especially the hard-charging excutive type. Sort of “Me? I’m a fearless traveler. Look, I’m watching a movie about snakes on a plane while I’m on a plane – how cool is that?”. Fits the demographic of the movie.

By: MR. Bill

MR. Bill — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:54:27 +0000

OF course, in real life, a airplane full of snakes could be mostly taken care of by turning up the air conditioning to ‘cold’…

By: Ciarán

Ciarán — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:07:12 +0000

Galbraith reported a far more sensitive approach by airport bookshops towards his The Great Crash.