Snakes on the plane. Best viral marketing ever!

[Furiously]

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.

[Zetleft]

Oh I am so abusing this.

[Yegolev]

Mua-ha-ha.

[Rithrin]

This is one of the best marketing attempts. ever.

[Telemediocrity]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Strazos]

I think it's just a test of how stupid a movie can Hollywood make that people will still go and see?

[HaemishM]

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.

[Strazos]

Having good ole Samuel L Jackson kind of counts for a lot.

[HaemishM]

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.

[Merusk]

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.

[UD_Delt]

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!

[Nija]

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.

[Morfiend]

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!

[WayAbvPar]

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.

[WindiaN]

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.

[Furiously]

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.

[Cheddar]

"What are you doing here? It's not Gone with the Wind. It's not On the Waterfront. It's Snakes on a Plane!"

[Telemediocrity]

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?

[Rasix]

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. 

[Merusk]

How quickly you all forget tele's an attention whore worse than Bruce and fall for the bait every time. 

[Strazos]

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.

[Telemediocrity]

"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.

[Strazos]

You're missing the part where it's stupid and pointless. Camping for ANY movie is stupid and pointless, at least IMO.

[Telemediocrity]

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.

[Strazos]

I'm almost afraid to ask what kind of work that is.

[Telemediocrity]

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.

[WindupAtheist]

It's not "standing in line" because there is no line.  There's only you, standing outside the theater like a retard.

[UD_Delt]

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.

[HaemishM]

What a shock, Snakes on a Plane thread turns into Jew on a Thread.

[Morfiend]

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)

[Telemediocrity]

[Ironwood]

As a fairly mild but noticeable Ophidophobe, I find this film, this thread and everything scale related to be slightly disturbing.

[Yegolev]

My eyes went blurry when I got to the part where Straz and Tele were playing Post-Pong.