Are you really that surprised? Is it really shocking that Snakes on a Plane didn't break box office records? Nobody cared about the movie except the media — and we doubt those who talked about the movie every other day for the past three months even went to see it. Because if everyone who talked about the film saw it, the ratings would have likely been much better.

But, they weren't much better at all. Just shy of $15 million when the critics predicted $30 million? We guess bleeping out Samuel L. Jackson's "mother fuckin'" wasn't quite enough allure to draw the masses.

Five demerits each to Box Office Guru, Coming Soon and EW for predicting Snakes on a Plane's weekend grosses in the $30 million range ($28 million, $30.8 million and $31 million respectively) when one Saturday morning prognosis is eyeballing a Sunday-night figure of $15,322,000 …

… A dip is expected today (the hard-cores went to see Snakes on Thursday and Friday nights — R-rated, young-male fare always drops off on Saturday) so there's a chance it may total out a bit south of $15 million.

Either Americans just didn't buy the hype, or this is a good example of why nobody should put Julianne Margulies in a movie.

'SNAKES' OVERHYPED AT B.O… DISAPPOINTS WITH $15.3M OPENING [Hollywood Wiretap]