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For anyone that isn’t aware of the pop culture reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane
by cloudier 5y ago
For anyone that isn’t aware of the pop culture reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane
- lamontcg 5y agoand the line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amYzBQMT4VI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amYzBQMT4VI
- zxcvbn4038 5y agoIt was a really lousy movie - but I watched it three times just to hear Samuel L. Jackson say that line! :)
- geenew 5y agoa good bad movie. an entertaining movie
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah that's the only thing I remember from that movie :) I mean, seriously, the title was the whole plot.
- dhosek 5y agoI remember when I heard about the movie telling my wife about it and she didn't understand. "It's simple: There are snakes. And Samuel L. Jackson. And they're on a plane! What more do you need?" I went to the theatre alone.
- peterburkimsher 5y agoand the pop punk song: Cobra Starship: Bring It! (Snakes On A Plane) [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - 4,585,530 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1wMyKQ6jUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1wMyKQ6jUg
- paranoidrobot 5y agoThere's also the 'family friendly' version of the line. I think this[1] is the right one, but I'm not able to listen to it right now. [1] https://youtu.be/ejxR0zGaflg https://youtu.be/ejxR0zGaflg
- gexla 5y agoFor anyone unaware of Samuel L Jackson as bringing a character to the character in his movies, see the (NSFW) video below. There are a lot of actors who do similar, but Jackson is maybe the best and most versatile among them. Not sure he is top tier among Hollywood actors, but he's got a great niche, and has become a cultural icon IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU
- version_five 5y agoYouTube wants me to sign in to watch it because it might be inappropriate for me
- gexla 5y agoIt probably should be. I mentioned it's NSFW. His Quentin Tarantino movies were graphic and violent.
- m348e912 5y agoI don't agree with making you sign in either. Here's a mirror: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU https://yewtu.be/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU
- pabs3 5y agoThe combination of mpv and yt-dlp lets you watch it without signing in. Not sure how they achieve that though.
- jhugo 5y agoYouTube's CDN doesn't enforce authentication, only the UI, account backends, etc do. So if you can determine the URL(s) for retrieving the video from their CDN, you can watch it without auth.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoApparently, youtube-dl can't do this anymore (assuming it ever did), since trying to download an age-gated (which was my strat) video fails where it used to succeed.
- franciscop 5y ago> "Many of the early fan-made trailers and later other viral videos and commercials circulated via YouTube, and captured media attention there with such titles as: Cats on a Plane [...], Snakes Who Missed the Plane, All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us [...], Steaks on a Train, and Badgers on a Plane I'm dying at how creative these internet names/early memes where
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- peterburkimsher 5y agoWhat surprises me is how few views (~50k) constituted a meme back then! "Cats on a Plane" - 51,477 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYCi3wP-W8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYCi3wP-W8 "Snakes Who Missed the Plane" - couldn't find it "All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us" - 2,059,853 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAoSwQqo44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAoSwQqo44 "Steaks on a Train" - 52,715 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXI-DgdgfQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXI-DgdgfQ "Badgers on a Plane" - 32,989 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2R8v_oj0Vo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2R8v_oj0Vo
- jhugo 5y agoI went along to the midnight premiere of this film at my local cinema. It was completely full, and the crowd was... quite a different crowd to what the cinema usually attracted. At one point before the movie started someone loudly said "it feels like the whole Internet is here!"
- kilbuz 5y agoSame with me: the Orpheum on State St. in Madison, WI. Great memories...
- jonah-archive 5y agoSame -- went to the midnight (iirc they just moved it ahead to 10pm, since unlike LotR/etc no one cared) show at the Cinerama in Seattle and it was packed. People brought pool noodles to wave around, the whole crowd was hissing -- I've actually never rewatched it because I assume nothing could compare to the experience of watching it in that setting.
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoDoes anyone remember a website where you could type your phone number, and it would call and play messages from Sam Jackson about the movie?
- dhosek 5y agoThere was an officially licensed "Snakes on a Sudoku" book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402743432/donhosek http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402743432/donhosek
- roonyh 5y agoThis is why I check HN every morning. Made my weekend.
- AgentME 5y agoWhen I saw this comment, my first thought was "this explanation must be useful for people who don't get internet references, like old people". And then I remembered the movie is from 2006. Oh god we're the old people making not so topical references to ancient stuff and wondering why the young people don't get them.
- t-3 5y agoI remember the history unrolling differently than wiki says, but I'm not entirely sure... Didn't the entire idea start on 4chan in the early 2000s?
- Stratoscope 5y agoOne of the scariest moments in my life was when I went to Portland to visit my cousins. We got to talking about their parents, my aunt and uncle and so forth. We were all getting up in years, just as their parents and mine did. And then one of my cousins said "now we are them!"
- methyl 5y agoRealising that you can remember your parents when they were the age you are now is one of those scary moments.
- excalibur 5y agoSnakes on a Plane is almost exactly the same age today that Silence of the Lambs was when SoaP was released.
- jhugo 5y agoI just realised that this movie pre-dates HN itself.