i’m posting this again in hopes that david ellis still cares what anyone thinks and will read it:

possibly the WORST commentary track i’ve ever heard. it’s too bad david ellis spends so much time making really bad jokes to appease sam jackson and be cool instead of doing what he should have done when he was shooting: paying attention to his actors. ALL of them, not just the badass one. i don’t care about your daughter’s boyfriend or the fact that your aunt and second cousin’s sister or whatever other family member you’ve thrown in the movie. if i were one of the actors in the film, i would feel totally disrespected, especially the the husband and wife couple whose real names ellis apparantly couldn’t even remember. our director “jokingly” disses the fantastic lin shaye, barely acknowledges half of his cast, and for some reason, doesn’t even give props to a male flight attendant who pretty much stole the freakin movie. hey, mr ellis: wake up and smell the snakes…

if you pause or look closely when the guy flight attendent puts the snake in the microwave, the button he presses says SNAKE.
and if you pause or look closely when sam is going down the elevator thing to turn the air back on, he pushes a button that says DUMB WAITER.

The elevator thing he uses is called (or is at least some version of) a dumbwaiter. :-)

haha dang.
but how was i to know.
what a weird name.

Brian, I just wanted to say thanks for doing a stand-up job on this site. Thanks to you I had nearly a year of SOAP to share with my co-workers and, to top things off, my wife and her friends have voted me the Biggest Spaz among all the other husbands.

When she found out I was on the DVD (thanks to a phone call from a friend Tuesday night), I knew I would win.

TK

PS - My “immortal” image will forever be found under Special Features > Documentaries > Snakes on a Blog. I’m at the 9:12 mark, just a few seconds before the end, in a yellow shirt holding a trophy and looking like a complete SPAZ!

BUSTER ; DAVID R. ELLIS HERE… YES I DO STILL CARE WHAT THE FANS OF “SNAKES” THINK AS WELL AS THE ACTORS THAT I WORKED WITH ON “SNAKES”. I AM SORRY THE DVD COMMENTARY LET YOU DOWN. TO BE VERY HONEST, I AM NOT REALLY COMFORTABLE DOING COMMENTARY, I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE BEHIND THE SCENES. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE OTHER FEATURES ON THE DVD AND IF NOT WE WILL TRY HARDER NEXT TIME.
ALL THE BEST
DAVID R. ELLIS

I have to say that I had no intention of seeing Snakes until I heard the song by Cobra Starship. Gotta’ say, I liked it alot. Good club play for this DJ. But, stupid me decided to pay the extra couple dollars for the 2-pack DVD release at Wal-Mart with the CD including the “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)” Remix by Juan Maclean. The thing that got me was the chorus and nowhere was that chorus to be heard in the remix at all. Plus the fact that the Cobra Starship song “The Church of Hot Addiction” was basically the same chord progression as “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)” let me down even more. BUT, I LOVE the movie and am so glad that I bought it without ever having seen it, and I owe it all to the original song. But Juan Mclean, I hope you read this and get the message. Your remix SUCKS!! No chorus? What the heck? When I sit back and listen to remixes of most songs it amazes me to picture someone pushing a few buttons or making a few mouse clicks or whatever, completely destroying the essence of the song they’re “remixing” and thinking to themselves, “Man, I’m doing some good work.” Juan, your version is awful, and you should thank whoever you pray to that your “remix” was even given a chance to see the light of day on a bonus CD. I should have just bought the DVD by itself and passed on the opportunity to hear your lazy concoction. I’d have gotten more enjoyment out of the couple packs of Pez I could have bought. Anyway, with that said, I SO love this movie! If you don’t own it, GO GET IT!! Just stay away from that bonus CD. NOT worth it. The other songs aren’t even that good. Nuff said.

Bonus discs?

What bonus discs!??!?!?!?!?!?

Hey David Ellis, It was awesome having you mention my kindergarten class on the commentary. Thanks again for the poster and kind acknowledgements thrughout the journey. I thought the commentary was hilarious. Could you please enlighten us as to what Samuel L. Jackson was eating during the commentary?

Matt Barr; when we did the commentary they had popcorn, candy, Red Bull ect.. I am glad you liked it, thanks for the kind words. Please give my best to your class, they ROCK. David R. Ellis

Just got the DVD today and it rocks! And if that’s really David R. Ellis commenting in this thread, thank you very much sir for making the best movie of 2006!

Hey Kevin–

Thanks for the review of the CD that came with the DVD at Wal-Mart. I knew I shoulda went for the copy of “Critters” instead. A day late and a dollar short–story of my life. :-(

I agree with MrP, if that’s really you David R. Ellis, thanks for quite possibly one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. It totally exceeded my expectations, and I’m glad to have been caught up in all the buzz that surrounded the movie!

Keep up the good work!