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Article: Snakes on the screen: An Internet sensation for months, "Snakes on a Plane" is coming to theaters Friday. Will the movie itself be as captivating as its title?
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2006
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Byline: Joe Eaton
Aug. 17--Forget box cutters.
If you're an assassin trying to take down a plane carrying a guy on his way to testify at a mob trial, time-release a mess of poisonous snakes midflight.
There will be fangs, victims and no place to run in the narrow pressurized shaft flying through the clouds -- unless, of course, there happens to be a cobra-strangling FBI agent on the plane.
That's the premise of "Snakes on a Plane," a film opening Friday that pits an airborne Samuel L. Jackson against a mess of slithering snakes.
Sight-unseen, the low-budget film has long been a cult favorite on the Internet, where the concept ...