[crabapple]

Now, just in case anybody really cares, this is what I understand happened to make "Snakes on a Plane" the way it is:

1. The film's working title (the temporary title it had while it was being filmed because they couldn't think of a real title for it) was actually "Snakes on a Plane." They intended to replace that title with a real title when they figured out what to call the movie for real.

2. Someone told someone else that a really awful film called "Snakes on a Plane" was being made and word started circulating. Thanks to Ed Wood, and the public's fascination with bad movies (can you blame 'em?), the film became much talked about on the internet and the public looooooved the working title because it sounded so funny.

3. The studio, realizing that, for better or worse, the public was now familiar with the film under that title, decided to keep the title and cash in on the (probably tremendous) word-of-mouth advertising--but not only that! They decided to amplify the film's bad elements to make it appeal more to the camp/bad movie crowd.

4. Reshoots were ordered, including a scene of Samuel Jackson ranting out some dialogue that goes something like, "We got motherfuckin' snakes on this plane, and there's not a motherfuckin' thing we can do about it!!"

And so movie history is made!