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Snakes+Plane+Sen Dog=potential hilarity · by Sach O
Clearly the right choice for all your soundtrack needs.
New Line Cinema clearly doesn’t have any idea what to do with Snakes on a Plane. Despite the film’s entire buzz coming from internet geeks who’re treating it as a comedy, the movie still looks to be a Redeye style thriller that didn’t realize the hilarity of its own concept. Even worse, the soundtrack is mostly terrible emo rock bands that no one over 17 cares about. I don’t know about you, but when I think of Samuel L Jackson, I don’t think of whiny white people.
They should have taken a cue from a previous Sam hit, Deep Blue Sea. Now THERE’S a movie with an appropriate end theme! James Todd Smith comparing his hand HAT to Shark fin goes up there with any John Williams score for “best musical moment in cinematic history”. Still, I think they could do one better: what if Cypress Hill did the closing theme to Snakes on a Plane?
Start it off with a dusty Muggs breakbeat. If you can’t clear the sample, just recreate the sound like Beck did on Guero. The verses aren’t really important either, just have B-Real rap back the plot of the film in classic cheesy early 90’s movie-rap style. The chorus is the real killer:
Both: SNAKES ON A MOTHAFUCKIN PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!
Sen Dog: SNAKES ON A PLANE! SNAKES ON A PLANE!
Both: SNAKES ON A MOTHAFUCKIN PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!
B-Real: CUZ WE COMIN WITH MAD MARIJUANA AND CO-CAAIIIIIIINNNEE!!
I swear, it sells itself. Someone over there should hire me.
Comments for "Snakes+Plane+Sen Dog=potential hilarity"
I am confident he was comparing his hat, not his hand, to a shark’s fin.
— smoothjimmyapollo Jul 25, 06:32 PM
You are indeed right sir. Correction on it’s way.
— Sach Jul 25, 09:01 PM
Sen Dog=a truly excellent idea.
— sankofa Jul 26, 07:31 AM
Amazing. I can actually hear it. They would sell massively greater number of tickets.
— Kerry Jul 26, 11:49 AM
nah homie, my HEAD is like a shark’s fin
— llcoolj Jul 28, 12:32 PM
You are an asshole. Yeah I hate emo, but of course it’s relevant to Sam Jackson. Do you realize who is biggest supporters are? Geeky white internet kids. You know who he made this movie for? Them, and himself. He is one of them. Maybe not white but he’s a fucking geek. OF COURSE you should think of whiny emo bands when you think of Sam Jackson. He’s an awesome guy and you can’t pin him down. I didn’t see a bunch of “black” blogs outpouring their fucking time, support, and energy to make this film the huge event that it has become. Sam Jackson is gonna be a very,very rich man thanks to this movie, thanks to geeky white [or mainly just geeky] kids on the internet. And no, the movie is fully aware of its own hilarity. It didn’t wink at us the whole movie ala Airplane because that is fucking TIRED. It’s not Scary Movie. It’s balanced perfectly. It’s awesome. And if you don’t like it that’s cool, but don’t say stupid incorrect shit about it.
— cthulhu Aug 18, 11:05 AM
Cthulhu,
Honestly, I can’t follow a word you’re saying.
But I’m assuming from your handle that you’re a Lovecraft fan. Do you like his book “Mountains of Madness”?
Speaking of which I saw this on your Myspace page.
Nice penis-shaped arrow you drew there. Good work.
What were we talking about?
— Rafi Aug 18, 12:04 PM
Much anger I sense in you.
I’m just calling the soundtrack out for being wack, I ain’t taking money out of Sam’s mouth (or “pin him down” for that matter). In fact I’ll be in line with the homies (geeky white/black/asian kids incidentally) to catch this one tommorow.
While I recognise that you may have some pretty big emotional investments in this movie, I think you need to take a few deep breaths and step away from the ledge. It ain’t that serious. Cypress Hill doing the end theme would have been dope. Doper than Cobra Starship anyways.
— Sach Aug 18, 12:35 PM
I hope you realize the penis shaped arrow was intentional, because otherwise I [or you?] would pretty much have to be retarded.
Thanks for the invite!
— cthulhu Aug 19, 11:30 AM
Actually I really don’t, or didn’t, care too terribly much about the film until I saw it. I knew about all the hype but it wasn’t my thing. I love horror, to a ridiculous extent, but I also love and respect snakes and I thought the whole premise was absurd and stupid. Funny, but stupid. I still saw it on thursday night though. And I appreciate all that went into it, and what it represents in a way.
No, my emotions are more wrapped up in the idea that black man = hip hop music. Uh oh, Sam Jackson’s in a movie but it has no hip hop soundtrack! Did the studio not realize he’s black?
While I love Cypress Hill, and hate bands like Cobra Starship [really and truly] I think it would have been boring to have a hip hop heavy soundtrack for this film. Hip Hop, which I love and am intellectually immersed in, is part of a culture that is often times very conservative and close-minded. If anyone wants to argue that with me, fine, but I think it’s obvious. It kind of takes an open mind to embrace the concept of a movie like soap, so I don’t think hip hop is deserving of an exclusive hold on the soundtrack. However, the soundtrack really should consist of both rock and hip hop.
Mainly I’m pissed because I’d hate to think that “urban” kids won’t be interested in seeing this movie just because it wasn’t marketed as a “hip hop” thing. Like no matter how much they like Samuel L. Jackson, they won’t go see it because of the “whiney white kid music” theme song.
— cthulhu Aug 19, 12:00 PM
There’s a fine line between being open minded and an apologist though. Cee-Lo’s song on the soundtrack isn’t really anymore “Hiphop” but it’s a much better piece of music (imo of course). There are hundreds of Indie rock/pop groups that could have had a great time with the concept, I just think that they chose some pretty bad corporate aproved angst rock, moreso aimed at teenagers than the film’s audience (it IS rated R). As for Cypress Hill, they’re a 15 year old Latino rap group who’ve done rock songs: I suggested it in jest because I thought it’d be funny, not because I thought they’d reach an “urban demographic”.
Believe me when I say that this post wasn’t a screed against rock music. I listen to a ton of it and think that the genre is in much better shape creatively than Hiphop (sadly) thanks to a robust independant scene. It’s just that unfortunately most of the acts on the soundtrack are pretty shrug inspiring.
The irony of all this? The movie is an absolutely awesome time. I saw it with friends last night to a packed house and we laughed our ass off. And the film’s score is nor rock nor Hiphop.
— Sach Aug 19, 12:31 PM
Well, yeah I kind of suspected you might be retarded or at least insane in the membrane.
My evidence was you trying to read deeply into a post that basically says “it would be campy fun to hear Sen Dog shouting ‘Snakes on a Plane!’”
And since you longed for it, I’ve sent that invite.
— Rafi Aug 19, 12:48 PM
Rafi, I got your comment confused with Sach’s. I was referring to the invite I received from Sach, not requesting one from you.My bad. But thanks for so quickly obliging.
— cthulhu Aug 19, 01:02 PM
Oh Word moves in internet time. We don’t play!
— Rafi Aug 19, 04:42 PM
Mountains of Madness was so scary when I read it on the internet late at night here last year: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
— David Aug 20, 05:10 PM