Snakes. On a plane.

I remember my first exposure to Snakes On A Plane. It was a series of small, grainy captioned images on the web somewhere. I don't recall the exact content, but it came across as a mildly amusing parody of disaster films put together by someone with too much time on their hands. The thrust of the plot involves the loosing of large numbers of venomous lizards on a airline jet in the most stark raving bonkers attempt to assassinate a passenger outside of a Roger Moore Bond film and only Samuel L. mother ****ing snakes on a mother ****ing plane Jackson can save the day. All gloriously stupid.

Except it turned out to be real. Snakes On A Plane is a real film, like some internet parody write large. I can't decide whether it's madness, genius, an unusual spark of self-awareness from the Hollywood marketing machine or the first sign of the impending apocalypse. Possibly all of the above.

The funny part of this is that Snakes On A Plane seems likely to turn out to be a very bad film saved by the title. A more serious name would simply doom the film. Terror On Flight 49? Meh. That way lies obscurity. Snakes On A Plane, though? Hell yeah! Sign me up! Certainly the internet seems to have taken the film to heart on the strength of the title alone, although the presence of Samuel L. Jackson undoubtedly helps (rumours persist that a recent round of additional shooting was to allow Jackson to film a scene to include the parodied "mother ****ing snakes on a mother ****ing plane" dialogue).

Probably the worst thing thing that could happen to Snakes On A Plane (I'm tempted it abbreviate the title having typed it so often, but it's kind of fun. Try it and see kids) it that it turns out to be merely ordinary. Mediocrity will ensure that it's quickly forgotten, whereas if it's a genuinely awful enough to live up to that title, well, Showgirls style immortality beckons.

I've heard it said about Hollywood that nobody ever sets out to make a bad film. With the impending release of Snakes On A Plane, I'm no longer sure that's entirely true...