Snakes on a plane. It says what it does. And it sounds even better when Samuel L. Jackson lends his inimitable style to the phrase: “I’m sick of these mo********ing snakes on this mo********ing plane!”
A refreshing antidote to the bent for too-clever-by-half post modern (in some cases, post post modern) movie making, the world’s most hyped internet movie charmed even the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw.
But what particularly tickled my fancy is how the phrase has apparently entered the contemporary lexicon. According to the Urban Dictionary it is equivalent to ‘cest la vie’ or ’sh*t happens’. For example:
A (aghast): “I can’t believe the BBC paid £5m to Graham Norton to host goddawful semi reality tv for another 3 years!’
B (in suitable California surfer drawl): “Snakes on the plane, man, snakes on the plane.”
3 responses so far ↓
z // August 30, 2006 at 9:05 am |
…I’m pretty confident that in order to be considered a Serious Blogger, one has to make public their two cents on the Snakes On A Plane phenomenon, if not the movie itself.
nausicaa88 // August 30, 2006 at 12:58 pm |
Oh totally… it is just so ridiculous and topical that who could resist? Not i (Serious Blogger status questionable)! I also love particularly the unofficial toy sets of the movie that have come out. Complete utter tosh (though amusing).
Movie and Psychiatry // September 14, 2006 at 6:05 am |
Snakes on a plane¡¡Jackson¡¡is Cool
Jackson¡¡is very Cool. He always acts die hard character.