10 Films That Don't Live Up To Great Premises

2. Snakes On A Plane

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The story is that a group of screenwriters were jokingly pitching around titles for the dumbest elevator pitch imaginable when one of them came up with Snakes On a Plane. How such a film came out of such an instance is a minor miracle, guided in large part by Samuel L. Jackson's own insistence that we follow the internet's fickle whims where ever they may take us.

It's a shame everything else about the movie is so pedestrian. A B-plot involving on-the-ground action as a snake expert tries to identify the venom necessary and the action, outside of Jackson's oft-quoted title drop and "Bitch, get off my dick!" is sub-par.

What could have been a so-bad-it's-good blast turned out to be a bit of a bore once it started to know how bad it was, like the cinematic equivalent of R. Kelly's "In the Closet".

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Kenny Hedges is carbon-based. So I suppose a simple top 5 in no order will do: Halloween, Crimes and Misdemeanors, L.A. Confidential, Billy Liar, Blow Out He has his own website - thefilmreal.com - and is always looking for new writers with differing views to broaden the discussion.