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Title: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Furiously on August 04, 2006, 07:34:34 PM http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/ (http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/)
You can have the voice of Samuel L. Jackson call someone and make fun of their job, car, interests in life and body. And tell them to go see snakes on the plane. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Zetleft on August 05, 2006, 12:32:37 AM Oh I am so abusing this.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Yegolev on August 05, 2006, 08:42:21 PM Mua-ha-ha.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Rithrin on August 06, 2006, 06:52:18 PM This is one of the best marketing attempts. ever.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 06, 2006, 07:07:33 PM That is really incredible.
On a side note, I am planning to camp out in front of the theater 48 hours to Snakes on a Plane's release. Anyone in Southern California, you're more than welcome to come and throw eggs. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: schild on August 06, 2006, 08:47:03 PM Camp out for Snakes?
Are you kidding? Is it supposed to be a social statement? Some sort of commentary on commercialism? Cuz it's fairly stupid no matter how you slice it. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Sky on August 07, 2006, 06:30:47 AM I just saw the commercial for this movie last night. My quote was "Have they finally run out of ideas?" Looks like the dumbest movie ever.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Strazos on August 07, 2006, 08:56:21 AM I think it's just a test of how stupid a movie can Hollywood make that people will still go and see?
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: HaemishM on August 07, 2006, 09:01:57 AM It's proof that if you treat your concept with some self-respect without taking yourself too seriously, people will be interested no matter how fucking stupid it sounds. I'm looking forward to seeing it with a big ole box of popcorn. It's a shut your brain off and enjoy it movie.
It'll also probably be about 70 trillion times more entertaining than 90% of the Oscar-nominated stuff from the past 10 years. English Patient my left testicle. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Strazos on August 07, 2006, 09:02:48 AM Having good ole Samuel L Jackson kind of counts for a lot.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: HaemishM on August 07, 2006, 09:05:35 AM Well, what better actor to have in a movie? I mean, the guy played Mace Fucking Windu just to be in a Star Wars movie. He did Formula 51. It's quite obvious that if Sam Jackson ever stops working, he will explode.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Merusk on August 07, 2006, 09:08:50 AM Jackson picked this one up without reading the script at all. He got the screenplay, saw the title and said, "Oh man, I've GOT to be part of this."
I find that incredibly humanizing about the man. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: UD_Delt on August 07, 2006, 09:43:34 AM I hope this movie does well. Not that I intend to see it myself but because I just see the hilarious sequels that could follow if/when this movie makes some money:
Spiders on a Plane! Tigers on a Plane! Aligators on a Plane! Hyenas on a Plane! and finally the series ending: Sharks on a Plane! Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Nija on August 07, 2006, 10:02:21 AM I caught some of Coming to America over the weekend and our buddy Sammy L. is the guy who tries to rob the McDonalds and gets mop-fucked by our hero, Eddie Murphy.
Snakes on a Plane is definately the next logical step. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Morfiend on August 07, 2006, 10:15:28 AM That is really incredible. On a side note, I am planning to camp out in front of the theater 48 hours to Snakes on a Plane's release. Anyone in Southern California, you're more than welcome to come and throw eggs. What theater? Ill come throw some eggs at you. Also, myself and my coworker are going to see the 12:00 show. Just because its SNAKES ON A MOTHAFUCKIN' PLANE! Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WayAbvPar on August 07, 2006, 10:34:24 AM I got a call from Mr. Jackson Friday night (courtesy of Furiously). I almost never answer my home phone (no one calls for me on it...I get all my calls on my cell), but happened to be walking past it when it rang. I sat and laughed and laughed my ass off...very funny stuff. I will definitely see this one; like Haemish said, you can just turn your brain off and enjoy the absurdity and silliness of it.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WindiaN on August 07, 2006, 10:50:06 AM i'll probably see it but i feel like this thing is a part of some extra long joke which was only sort of funny when i first saw the trailer and even less after the countless other marketing attempts.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Furiously on August 07, 2006, 12:15:03 PM So - I'm walking around the workplace campus, and there are 4 50-60'ish ladies taking a walk at lunch on the other side of the road when I hear one of them say, "Yea, Samuel Jackson called me. I think I might go see Snakes on a plane."
If it's entertaining, I'll go see it. I have no issues with Con-Air. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Cheddar on August 07, 2006, 03:59:44 PM Quote from: Samuel L. Jackson "What are you doing here? It's not Gone with the Wind. It's not On the Waterfront. It's Snakes on a Plane!" (http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-04-17-snakes_x.htm) Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 07, 2006, 04:05:25 PM Camp out for Snakes? Are you kidding? Is it supposed to be a social statement? Some sort of commentary on commercialism? Cuz it's fairly stupid no matter how you slice it. People get to have the fun of camping out for movies for all sorts of crap that's never that good, like LoTR, Star Wars, the Star Trek movies, Serenity... Snakes on a Plane will probably be better than any of those (Not that that's hard), and that way I can at least say I've tried it. Plus, if my friends call up every media outlet in town, I can probably at least feed my attention whore side a bit. ...On a side note, I'm also looking into the logistics of eventually getting onto the California ballot an initiative designed to change the state's official anthem to 2Pac's "California Love". Can you dig it? Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Rasix on August 07, 2006, 04:11:15 PM You need to be taken in back of a chemical shed and shot repeatedly. Or hung, drowned, stabbed, garroted... I'm not a picky man.
Edit: to add options. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Merusk on August 07, 2006, 04:44:36 PM How quickly you all forget tele's an attention whore worse than Bruce and fall for the bait every time.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Strazos on August 07, 2006, 05:53:27 PM if that's him in his avatar, he looks just like a guy I was friends with when I was over in Italy.
That kid was nuts. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 07, 2006, 07:08:04 PM "Attention whore" is a pretty broad term, though. I don't live for the attention itself, I just find amusement in unusual enough sources that more likely than not it'll end up drawing attention to myself, and I don't particularly mind that.
Is there anything particularly wrong with me having a campy campout for Snakes On A Plane? Pretty much everyone I've pitched the idea to (I really don't feel like doing it all by my lonesome) has just sort of rolled their eyes in disgust, but nobody's really explained why they don't like it. Is there some social cue I'm missing here? Also, Bruce and I are opposite ends of the spectrum. Bruce strikes me as a misanthrope; I'm happy and relatively well adjusted, by comparison. Anyhoo, let's not derail the thread into Being About Me. Rather, if the snakes on a plane campout idea is a bad one, tell me why. As for the phone tool: Pure genius. For an added layer of comedy, I used it on the one Hollywood friend I have who actually knows Samuel L. Jackson somewhat, leaving her even more confused than the average recipient. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Strazos on August 07, 2006, 07:25:04 PM You're missing the part where it's stupid and pointless. Camping for ANY movie is stupid and pointless, at least IMO.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 07, 2006, 07:37:26 PM You're missing the part where it's stupid and pointless. Camping for ANY movie is stupid and pointless, at least IMO. Pointless, of course. Stupid? It's the summer, my job is one with billable hours where I can be getting work done while I'm in line, and it seems like it might be fun. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Strazos on August 07, 2006, 07:53:53 PM I'm almost afraid to ask what kind of work that is.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 07, 2006, 11:49:20 PM Research on Sino-American relations and economic nationalism. :)
Anyhoo, SOAP related - Can you believe they were going to name it Pacific Air Flight 121? Ye gads. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WindupAtheist on August 08, 2006, 07:27:24 AM It's not "standing in line" because there is no line. There's only you, standing outside the theater like a retard.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: UD_Delt on August 08, 2006, 08:12:21 AM It's not "standing in line" because there is no line. There's only you, standing outside the theater like a retard. At the least you could bring a cup of pencils and pretend you're homeless. Probably a little more respectable than just being a straight idiot. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: HaemishM on August 08, 2006, 08:51:29 AM What a shock, Snakes on a Plane thread turns into Jew on a Thread.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Morfiend on August 08, 2006, 09:07:21 AM all sorts of crap that's never that good, like LoTR, Star Wars, the Star Trek movies, Serenity... Snakes on a Plane will probably be better than any of those (Not that that's hard) (http://www.dienstraum.com/images/dont-feed-the-trolls.jpg) Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 08, 2006, 09:07:31 AM (http://www.snakesonablog.com/swp/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/snakes_on_plane.jpg)
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Ironwood on August 08, 2006, 09:22:04 AM As a fairly mild but noticeable Ophidophobe, I find this film, this thread and everything scale related to be slightly disturbing.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Yegolev on August 08, 2006, 11:54:46 AM My eyes went blurry when I got to the part where Straz and Tele were playing Post-Pong.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Strazos on August 08, 2006, 12:13:24 PM I conceded that game.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Soln on August 09, 2006, 06:10:12 AM How quickly you all forget tele's an attention whore worse than Bruce and fall for the bait every time. nope Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Ironwood on August 16, 2006, 03:35:01 AM SLJ is just the coolest guy.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/51668/1 (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/51668/1) Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Kenrick on August 18, 2006, 05:09:25 AM http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snakes_on_a_plane/
SoaP: 78% fresh WTC: 70% fresh Not that I plan on seeing either one of these films, but I thought that was pretty damn funny. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: bhodi on August 18, 2006, 06:55:25 AM http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snakes_on_a_plane/ Yeah, reviews by "Eric. D. Snider at ericdsnider.com" and "luke y thompson @ lytrules.com" yeah I trust these guys...SoaP: 78% fresh WTC: 70% fresh Not that I plan on seeing either one of these films, but I thought that was pretty damn funny. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WindiaN on August 18, 2006, 08:18:30 AM Yeah, reviews by "Eric. D. Snider at ericdsnider.com" and "luke y thompson @ lytrules.com" yeah I trust these guys... Are you actually going to base your decision about whether or not to see SoaP on a review? It's a entertaining B horror-comedy movie which wants to be funny because it's ridiculous/bad(cliche or otherwise). It either tries too hard, too little, or does it just right. I guess that depends on your tolerance of bad movies, what you are expecting when you go to see it and the atmosphere you see it in because I'd imagine this movie would be much more enjoyable if the whole theater is laughing. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WayAbvPar on August 18, 2006, 09:53:14 AM If/when I see SOAP, it is going to be with a reasonably high blood alcohol level. I can sit through nearly anything if I have enough hootch, plus it has been YEARS (almost decades, which fucking depresses the HELL out of me) since I have snuck booze into a movie theatre.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Morfiend on August 18, 2006, 01:21:31 PM If/when I see SOAP, it is going to be with a reasonably high blood alcohol level. I can sit through nearly anything if I have enough hootch, plus it has been YEARS (almost decades, which fucking depresses the HELL out of me) since I have snuck booze into a movie theatre. I saw it last night, at a 10:00 show. For what it was, it was good. A cheesy horror movie about snakes on a plane. There is some very funny stuff, just cause its SOOOO over the top. I enjoyed it. Also, the music video during the ending credits is awesome. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Azazel on August 19, 2006, 02:15:10 AM It's not "standing in line" because there is no line. There's only you, standing outside the theater like a retard. WUA wins the thread! Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Llava on August 19, 2006, 11:17:10 AM It was great.
Before the movie started, about 8 kids (late teens, I think, maybe early 20s) came in carrying a giant, home constructed snake made largely out of sheets and planks. It was sort of like a chinese parade dragon. Following them was one kid wearing a sheet and plank plane around his waist. Of course, the entire audience cheered for them. The audience was rowdy, loud, and perfectly appropriate for the movie. Any other movie this would have irritated the crap out of me, but when Samuel L. Jackson is hitting on a girl and someone yelled "SHOW HER THE SNAKE!" it only enhanced the experience. The entire audience chanted along with Samuel when the infamous "I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes etc etc" line came up. I had fun with my friend pointing out who would die and who would live. Everyone I said would survive did, but a lot more people got out alive than I expected. If you're in the right mindset and can see this with a fun audience (read: late night), there's no reason not to see this movie. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Fabricated on August 19, 2006, 11:32:16 AM All I can hope for is that the fad dies off reasonably quick as it spends a few weeks in theatres.
Maybe I'm just old but all I see is a bad movie. Samuel L. Jackson certainly is cool and all, but I'm gonna pass thanks. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Merusk on August 19, 2006, 12:30:45 PM Some things transcend being 'just a bad movie' and instead become some sort of cultural experience. Think of it like RHPS.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Gutboy Barrelhouse on August 19, 2006, 12:48:21 PM And Krispy Kreme doughnuts
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Llava on August 19, 2006, 03:55:20 PM Think of it like RHPS. The experience was very much how I imagine that to be. People were totally into it. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: stray on August 19, 2006, 04:43:06 PM "Snakes on mothafuckin' plane!!" has unseated Chuck Norris in Barrens Chat.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Yoru on August 19, 2006, 07:18:59 PM Saw it. It's Snakes on a Plane. It is its title. That is all.
Oh, and drink heavily before the movie, if you can. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Zetleft on August 20, 2006, 04:51:04 PM i went in expecting snakes on a mutha fuckin plane and it delivered in spades. Two thumbs up.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Merusk on August 20, 2006, 05:27:33 PM This reminds me of that Dudley Moore movie, "Crazy People" where the asylum folks became successful advertising moguls through truth in advertising.
"Porsche. It's a little too small to get laid IN it, but you get laid the minute you get out of it! " "Metamucil. It makes you poop" Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Fabricated on August 20, 2006, 05:41:27 PM Ahhh, thank you god, people may have good taste after all.
Quote Snakes slithers into first with a modest opening (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/20/box.office.ap/index.html) LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Internet buzz over "Snakes on a Plane" turned out to be nothing to hiss about. The high-flying thriller preceded by months of unprecedented Web buildup technically debuted as the No. 1 movie, but with a modest $15.25 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Take that internet. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: schild on August 20, 2006, 06:24:25 PM 15.25? Hahahhaha. All the buzz in the world won't help a stupid movie.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WindupAtheist on August 20, 2006, 06:47:45 PM I wish I still had that image from the Serenity thread, the one of George Lucas going "Shut up Internet, you don't matter!"
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: bhodi on August 20, 2006, 06:53:15 PM How much did it cost to make?
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 20, 2006, 07:27:33 PM AFAIK the budget was low - but once they felt they had a hit on their hand, the ad budget was pumped up accordingly. So who knows.
I really hate that when articles mention how much a movie cost to make, they almost never take ad/marketing budgets into account. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: stray on August 20, 2006, 08:00:34 PM The budget wasn't low, but it wasn't high either. $36 Million.
Mediocre is talking out of his ass about pumping up the ad budget. That's where they paid virtually nothing. It was almost completely driven by internet hype. Studios pay $30 million alone or more for this kind of publicity. Supposedly, they only had a pay a few million for this. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 20, 2006, 09:44:50 PM True. I was going on what I'd heard from hearsay, which is that once they realized the movie actually had legs the ad budget got pumped up. Looks like I heard wrong.
Quote The average big studio movie costs an average of $63.6 million to produce and another $34.4 million to market. "SoaP" ran New Line only $36 million to make and reportedly, 10 days before opening, it had spent only 7 percent of its $30 million marketing budget promoting the film. So there you have it. My general point about people not mentioning the marketing costs for most movies is still true, though - as noted above, it usually runs about as much as the production budget. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: naum on August 22, 2006, 01:58:33 PM Live Rattlesnakes Released In 'Snakes On A Plane' Theater
http://www.local6.com/news/9717727/detail.html In my homntown, er, cross town from my Glendale confines... Quote Two live diamondback rattlesnakes were released in an Arizona movie theater during a showing of the new film "Snakes on a Plane," according to Local 6 News. .Authorities said pranksters released the young venomous rattlesnakes in a dark theater at the AMC Desert Ridge near Tatum and Loop 101 in Phoenix. The two snakes caused a panic in the dark theater, according to the report. "That to me is very scary," herpetological association representative Tom Whiting said. "I would hate to be watching a movie about snakes and have a rattlesnake bite me." Wranglers were called to collect the snakes, the report said. No one was injured in the incident and, so far, the culprits have not been caught. Officials believe the snakes were smuggled into the theater in backpacks. "This thing is under someone's chair and they go to sit and they just push your foot in the air and startle it -- obviously all they got to do is startle this thing," Phoenix Herpetological Society spokesman Daniel Marchand said. "It's dark. They can't see you, you know that well. If it's scared, boom it strikes." The snakes were released into the desert. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Yegolev on August 22, 2006, 02:00:23 PM Herpetologist afraid of snakes. Living in Arizona. Durka?
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: WayAbvPar on August 22, 2006, 03:51:30 PM That is majorly fucked up. I wonder what kind of charges you could bring against those asshats? Attempted Assault with a Deadly Weapon? Attempted Murder? I am sure some bright eyed DA could have a field day.
Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Kenrick on August 22, 2006, 03:58:47 PM Yeah just saw that on headline news... was coming here to post it.
Talk about people who just don't get what it means to take a joke too far over the line. Serious jail time is required here. Title: Re: Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever! Post by: Telemediocrity on August 22, 2006, 04:10:16 PM If it were non-poisonous snakes, it would still be wrong but I'd LOL a bit. Rattlesnakes? That's just fucking evil.
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