Everyone's talking about it. It's going to be the biggest, most epic, most fantastical film of the summer. Snakes On A Plane already has the best name of any film, ever. Now it's getting an, er, ok-ish soundtrack to go with it.
The Bronx, Coheed and Cambria, Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo and Panic! At The Disco have all contributed tracks to the soundtrack of the Samuel L. Jackson-starring flick, released on August 18th.
MTV managed to prise Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz (gut pictured) away from ravishing fit emo bitches in Scrooge McDuck's gold vault just long enough for him to opine:
"Basically I think the whole concept behind the film is hilarious, and it's something that just kept growing and growing, so I had to be a part of it,” he panted, mopping his sweaty brow.
“I called all my friends and we got some remixes and here it is. To be honest, part of the reason I did this was to meet Samuel L. Jackson."
Here are some of the other people who've met Samuel L. Jackson in the last few months.
Cobra Starship - 'Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)'
Panic! at the Disco - 'The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage'
The Academy Is ... - 'Black Mamba'
Cee-Lo Green and Organized Noize - 'Ophidiophobia'
The All-American Rejects - 'Can't Take It'
The Sounds - 'Queen of Apology'
Fall Out Boy - 'Of All the Gin Joints in All the World'
Gym Class Heroes - 'New Friend Request'
The Bronx - 'Around the Horn'
Armor for Sleep - 'Remember to Feel Real'
Jack's Mannequin - 'Bruised'
Coheed and Cambria - 'Wake Up'
Donavon Frankenreiter - 'Lovely Day'
Michael Franti & Spearhead - 'Hey Now Now'
Trevor Rabin - 'Snakes on a Plane — The Theme'
In other news, Wentz this week revealed to The Sun his anguish at having pictures of his little soldier circulating on the internet. He would've quit, apparently, if it wasn't for the protestations of his bandmates. Send your best 'snake' puns to kev.kharas@drownedinsound.com.
This person needs to write news more often. Brilliant.
And WE GOT SNAKES PEOPLE!!
that's alright
for a soundtrack.
although it does look like exactly what my flatmate listens to while playing that skateboarding game.
but, who cares about the music? when there are SNAKES. ON A PLANE.
NO
THERES MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE MOTHERFUCKER!
Get it right.
I WANT THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES OFF THE MOTHERFUCKING PLANE
I've Been Looking Forward To This Film For AGES
Now Seeing The 'Soundtrack' I Think A Little Part Of Me Just Died
...
If you've been looking forward to the movie then seeing the soundtrack shouldn't really matter..
Good soundtrack..
Your having a fuckin laugh!
Lets hope the film is better but i doubt it
i heard something
about the soundtrack being 'really exciting' and i was hoping for a rock meets beats mash-up a la Judgement Night and Spawn.
but, no...
A band has seriously called a song
'New Friend Request' - that's actually unforgivable.
bands i'd forgotten about
armor for sleep.
i always quite liked them. this sound track is officially ACE for reminding me about them.
isn't there a Les Savy Fav song
about snakes in an aeroplane? Or am I just being daft?
Wake Up A Snake I believe
I think they also have a song called Snakes & Plagues.
I'm sorry...
Where are the songs by Aiden, Dashboard Confessional, My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday? Without them it's only half a fag-fest
sorry to be a wet blanket
But I think the way that what is essentially a giant peace of crap is being peddled as 'amazing' for some sort of ironic reason is just yet another contributing factor to the devolution of mankind.
Just because everybody knows its crap, that doesn't suddenly make it cool. In fact its worse. You know its crap, and yet you still want to pay money to see it, making millions for producers who should otherwise be dragged out into the street and shot. Instead, talented movie makers struggle to get by while these scumbags make a fortune on peddling shit. Then more and more idiots realise how easy it is to make a piece of golden shit, and we end up with nothing but shit. But its OK, because we 'know' its shit. They're going to waste more and more millions making sequals to this film, because they've manipulated people who can't be arsed to go out and find something worthwhile to do with their time, and instead just gorge themselves on whatever slop gets thrown down on their plates. But its OK, because we 'know' its shit. Its cool to be shit?!
Sorry to get all heavy on your asses, but the encouragement of stupidity for the sake of irony makes me really angry.
personally
I don't see anything stupid about snakes being on a plane.
LOL
don't be a wet blanket...
it's gonna be alot of fun.
i think the only irony will be in that we are all dissapointed at the fact that it may actually be a good film
but what are the chances
i mean
snakes? on a plane?
MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES...
sorry, I'll stop.
Snakes On A Plane
was infact a really good movie. If any of you judge it by the previews or movie trailers then you're really stupid. Yes, the movie title is straight forward but how long has it been since there's been a film where the movie title is straight forward? FOREVER.
...
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And if that moron didn't want pictures of his cock on the internet, he shouldn't have taken pictures of his cock and put them on the internet. And if he didn't want people to laugh, he shouldn't have posed in an emo-hoodie with a "hey baby" look on his face (it's on Buddyhead). Honestly, he's as fucking stupid as his music.
Snakes on a plane
Will be a tour de force piece of cinema.
Fact.
Armor for Sleep covered Today by the pumpkins and didn't fuck up too badly.
You see
you're just being ironic again. I don't believe that you're dumb enough to actually think that its really a 'tour de force' so why bother?
Why do people feel attracted to shit? Why is something so obviously rubbish going too be 'a lot of fun'?
Did you all go to see Crocodile Dundee 3, Basic Instinct 2 and Barb Wire and claim they were masterpieces?
All I'm saying is never underestimate the power of major studios to manipulate their audiences. It all just seems like a very savvy ploy to cash in on what would otherwise be nothing but a dismal failure, straight to video, bargain bin filler.
Imagine the scenario - Mr. Big is being filled in on how the movie's going. Its pretty obvious to all that its turning out to be a stinker. Studio will lose millions. But they can't afford to not put it out. A light pings on in Mr Big's head:
"I know, why don't we try this: we admit it's crap, its all a big joke, we weren't really trying to make a serious action thriller, we're actually laughing at ourselves. We employ a team of PR leaches to spend the next couple of months on web forums kicking up hype about this new movie thats so bad its good. People LOVE crap, as long as they KNOW its crap."
"sir, you're a genius"
"I know, now get the director on the phone and give me a blow job"
None of those films
had snakes on a plane though.
its a winner
cause its honest!
everyone hates snakes
flying is scary
samuel l jackson is great
swearing is cool
no crappy trailers throwing in tits and guns, seducing us to hand over our money with terrible lies, just balls on a plate.
i still dont see
how being 'honest' about being shit makes it good. if DiS were sent a demo of a band called Snakes on a Plane and the Biog went something like this:
"Hi, we're Snakes on a Plane (SOAP for short! Ha Ha!). We started out as a serious band trying to make serious music, but we soon realised that we weren't very good. In fact, we were just 'plane' shit!
So we decided to forget all this 'art' and all that nonsense, and just make the worst music imaginable! At least we're honest! Hope you find us hilariously awful!
Regards
Snakes on a Plane"
Would they think "Gee, at least these guys are honest about their lack of talent, they must be worth listening to" or would they think "Twats. what a waste of time. Noel Edmonds and Chris Evans spent years trying to entertain people by being honestly naff and they were twats too. In the bin you go."
I still maintain there's nothing good about crap, being 'honest' about it doesn't change that. And besides, I just described to you why I think they are seducing us with terrible lies. Pretending that they were in on the joke the whole time. Did you actually read what I said, or were you too busy trying to think of a witty ironic reply?
I can see no one here actually gives a damn about wasting their lives watching crap for the sake of irony. When you're lying on your death bed thinking back about your life and all the hours that you wasted watching shit television, shit films, reading shit magazines and so on and so on, you can die happy in the knowledge that you 'knew it was shit'.
i think
Samuel L Jackson is of the sort of calibre to be able to turn down a film if he knows it's going to be shit.
You seem to be missing the point
Remember Bad Taste?
60's Batman?
Some films are tongue in cheek shit, and it's very hard to pull off. From what I've seen on the trailer, it's a very clever film, getting all the right laughs, and the concept is hilarious.
I suppose you thought the Holy Grail had low production values too.
Well...
Your analogy has in fact already come true. I refer you to <a href="http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/7774">this</a> review.
They have a song called "who the chuff are the Mardy Bums?" If that isn't the equivalent to Snakes on a Plane, I don't know what is. But what I do know, is that, yet again, I will be forced to buy something based purely on a fantastic name.
Also, who said either Snakes on a Plane or The Mardy Bums were <i>bad</i> due to their stupid names?
I know an oscar-winning documentary maker. His favourite film? T2. Why? Because it is the perfection of an art form, in this case, mid 90s blockbusters. Who's to say that SoaP won't do the same for B-Movies?
I'm not sure
if it makes the movie more or less hilarious that the album is filled with utter crap. I couldn't believe how bad the theme song was when I heard it.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
I love
Coheed and Cambria, but even I skip that song.
I thought
that the film got really bad preview screenings and so they decided to market it as "so bad its good". Sure there are some films that truly fit that category (Plan 9 From Outer Space) but I don't think Snakes On A Plane is one of them.
As for the person who said Samuel L Jackson's quality of acting meant that he would turn down a shit film obviously has never seen any of the Star Wars films he was in, The 51st State, XXX, Coach Carter, The Man or SWAT. Come to think of it, has he actually been in any good films since Jackie Brown?????
THANKYOU
Placid's absolutely right. They were also going to change the name to "Pacific Air Flight 121" in a bid to make it more credible, but they changed it back as part of the whole 'so crap its good' scheme.
There's absolutely no point in comparing a film like this to Bad Taste or Monty Python, because they are completely different; Bad Taste was a brilliantly inventive piece of budget filmaking, Holy Grail WAS A COMEDY. Snakes on a Plane, despite how it is marketed, is just a crap film that has been very cleverly marketed. and people are falling for it.
About the only thing to have not been on a plane in Hollywood??
According to IMDB: Samuel L. Jackson only signed on for this film because of the title. It was later changed to "Pacific Air Flight 121", but Jackson demanded they reverse the change. "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title."
So we can expect another Deep Blue Sea ("We need to get these motherfucking sharks out of here??" Maybe.)
I'm thinking future Samuel L. films might also hint at content through their titles. Pending roles include:
Pulp Fact
The 52nd State
xXx 3: The Next Next Level
Shift: Shaft's iGeneration brother
Seriously though he is currently making:
Farce of the Penguins
Black Snake Moan
2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey
He was good as well. Bugger.
Pete
Didn't post them on the internet.
&the soundtrack features a lot of amazing artist.