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Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snacks-on-the-brain dept.

Lev13than writes "An article in The Globe & Mail discusses the disappointing performance of Snakes on a Plane. Despite extensive Internet hype and unprecedented audience involvement in the movie's development, it barely slithered into first place with a meager $13.8M weekend box office. 'The Internet stuff was just fun that people were having with it, but I don't think that necessarily meant that those people wanted to see the movie... those who had made that decision based their decision more on the traditional marketing than on all this Internet buzz.' Was all of the hype about blogger power just that — hype?"

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  1. Wrong audiance for this topic by gatkinso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Half of the Slashdot crowd will just download the flick and wonder why the producers are so disappointed in the film's performance at the box office.

    Then they will post about the virtues of free software... knowing full well that they really mean beer.

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  2. What... by andrewd18 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What, they thought we were serious? *blink*

  3. Re:well yeah by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Actually, I was heavily influenced by goatse. I won't elaborate on exactly how...for legal reasons.

    -Eric

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  4. Re:Exactly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Horses and dogs would trust humans a LOT less

  5. Re:Exactly by genner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bill Gates would be serving his fourth year in prison.
    The legal sysetm tried hard but garbage trucks full of money trump the internet

    John Kerry would be president.
    Many geeks hate all politicians equally.

    Richard Stallman would be on television.
    Give it time. It will happen.

    Churches would fold up because of lack of interest.
    My Level 41 Paladin disagrees with you.

    Anime would be everywhere.
    Give it time. There's a heck of a lot more of it then there was.

    Star Trek would have its own cable channel. Or two.
    And leave out SG-1 and Farscape? It's more likely we'll get a Sci-Fi channel. OH WAIT WE HAVE THAT!

  6. Re:One more possibility by Tim+Browse · · Score: 5, Funny

    SoaP was a hell of a lot of fun when the audience is yelling things like "Red Bull gives your product placement wings!", counting down the last few seconds to snakularity, "First one to scream gets it in the tits!", throwing snakes around the theater at the appropriate moments, yelling "snakes on a cart!" when the beverage cart shows up, appending "Bitch!" to some of Sam's lines, and so on.

    The long winter evenings must just fly by.