History Film / SnakesOnAPlane

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The crate that is full of the snakes is a time-release crate, with the countdown timer set for 2:00:00 (2 hours). Once the timer on the crate reaches 0:00:00, the crate opens and the snakes are free to slither around and go on a rampage.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The crate that is full of the snakes is a time-release crate, with the countdown timer set for 2 hours. Once the timer on the crate reaches 0:00:00, the crate opens and the snakes are free to slither around and go on a rampage.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The crate that is full of snakes is a time-release crate, with the countdown timer set for 2 hours. Once the timer on the crate reaches 0:00:00, the crate opens and the snakes are free to slither around and go on a rampage.

* HeroicSacrifice: The flight attendant who gets bitten while rescuing the baby.

%%* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a Plane With Snakes on It]]

->''"Enough is ENOUGH! I have HAD IT with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane! Everybody strap in! I'm about to open some fuckin' windows."''

''Snakes on a Plane'' is a 2006 action film directed by David R. Ellis that, more than most movies you'll find, does pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Steven Price, a snake expert whom Flynn's partner consults for help, while slightly annoyed at being forced to miss a conference, immediately grounds himself to the reality of the situation and the danger the passengers are in once he's up to speed. His advice is delivered calmly yet seriously, he's able to obtain pictures of virtually every snake species on the plane in order to secure the proper anti-venom for each, and he knows exactly who Kim must have contracted to supply him with the snakes.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Snakes in reality act NOTHING like the motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. Then again, the pheromones and stuff, so it's also ArtisticLicenseChemistry. There's also a picture of a Scarlet King snake (which can also be seen sneaking its way into a handbag in one of few shots that use real snakes and not CG ones) when the expert is looking through the world's most dangerous snakes - when it isn't venomous in real life, though the filmmakers were likely hoping it looked similar enough to a coral snake to fool most viewers.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Snakes in reality act NOTHING like the motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. Then again, the pheromones and stuff, so it's also ArtisticLicenseChemistry. There's also a picture of a Scarlet King snake when the expert is looking through the world's most dangerous snakes - when it isn't venomous in real life.

** Flynn tells the other passengers to hold their breaths before he shoots out the windows to depressurise the interior of the plane. Doing so would in fact cause lung overexpansion injuries (which is why scuba divers are taught to never hold their breaths).

* PerfectPoison: Averted. Dr. Price, the herpetologist who helps the heroes, explains that snakes have venoms of all different levels of potency, from death sentence if not dealt with quickly down to those that can be endured with some orange juice and sleeping off the side-effects. He makes clear, however, that if the wrong kind of anti-venom is administered to deal with the bites, this will definitely kill the patient, so knowing what snakes are on board is crucial.

** To be fair, the one who was outright retiring never mentions this fact until after being bitten and being unlikely to survive.

[[caption-width-right:300:I have HAD it with these motherfuckin' snakes in this motherfuckin' page image!]]

* CampingACrapper: The DeathBySex and GroinAttack victims are attacked in the airline's lavatory.

* SortingAlgorithmOfMortality: In full effect. Start with DeathBySex, followed by {{Retirony}}, followed by [[AssholeVictim the man]] [[KickTheDog who throws a dog at the snakes]].

-->'''Flynn:''' Enough is enough! I have HAD IT with these monkey-fightin' snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane! Everybody strap in; I'm about to open some freaking windows!

* GagBoobs: The chick of the first couple to be killed has a pretty impressive rack. When they are attacked by snakes, one of them bites her on the nipple. The species of snake that bit her was apparently a '[[StealthPun milk snake]]'.

The film turned out exactly as ludicrous as the premise and title sound, and it [[RefugeInAudacity reveled in its]] SoBadItsGood-ness. When [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio wanted to give it a serious title]] (''Pacific Air Flight 121'') and turn it into a more serious ActionHorror film, Jackson suggested they change it back when the absurd title gained popularity online and became [[MemeticMutation a huge online meme]]. The studio responded by angling their action horror idea far more towards BlackComedy, refilming several scenes to add new lines (including the now-infamous [[ThrowItIn page-topping quotation]]) and having the rating upgraded from PG-13 to R to accommodate the newfound audience. While the hype failed to translate into large-scale box office success, ''Snakes on a Plane'' did ultimately make a profit.

* DeathBySex: Among the innocent passengers on the plane are a young couple who are all over each other before the plane even takes off. [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality Guess who dies first]].

* ShesGotLegs: Tiffany wears a short skirt, which is subtly emphasized when she's introduced walking next to her fellow flight attendant Claire, who's wearing pants.

* DramaticLandfallShot: The opening of the film has one for Hawaii.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: One of the snakes that invade the cockpit is a Gaboon viper.

[[caption-width-right:300:ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I have HAD it with these motherfuckin' snakes in this motherfuckin' page image!]]

Enough is ENOUGH! [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere I have HAD IT with these motherfuckin' tropers describing this motherfuckin' topic!.]]\\\
The 2006 [[ScareQuotes "]]PsychologicalThriller[[ScareQuotes "]] ''Snakes on a Plane'' does pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Sean Jones (Creator/NathanPhillips), who becomes an accidental witness to a murder of a prosecutor by international gangster [[BigBad Eddie Kim]] and his men, gets hunted by Kim, so the FBI puts him under the escort of agent Neville Flynn (Creator/SamuelLJackson) as he flies from Hawaii to California to testify. Kim and the gangsters come up with an unusual method of trying to bring the plane down: they unleash motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane during the flight to try and bring it down before it gets to California. Lots of people die, sacrifices get made to save lives, and Flynn kicks reptilian ass.

The movie turned out exactly as ludicrous as the premise and title sound, and it [[RefugeInAudacity reveled in its]] SoBadItsGood-ness, with cheesy glowing effects, {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s, and many snakes. When the studio wanted to give it a [[ExecutiveMeddling serious title]] (''Pacific Air Flight 121'') and turn it into a more serious ActionHorror film, Jackson suggested they change it back when the absurd title gained popularity with Internet nerds and became [[MemeticMutation a huge online meme]]. The studio responded by turning the film into a dark-comedy horror/action film, refilmed several scenes to add new lines (including the now-infamous [[ThrowItIn page-topping quotation]]), and had the rating upgraded from PG-13 to R to accommodate the newfound audience. While the nerd-hype failed to translate into large-scale box office success, ''Snakes on a Plane'' did ultimately make a profit.