@likari (LindaR)
It seems we have a similar taste. Please share your list of favourite films some day!

@Ron
Cheers!

For the squeamish, don’t worry. It’s funny gross, not sickening gross. I agree, it’s got a kooky bent like Tremors.

Thanks for reviewing this! Now I want to watch it again. Nathan Fillion was good, but because of this movie, now if I see Elizabeth Banks is in a movie, I’ll give it a try too.

I read an interview (or maybe it was a DVD extra?) with James Gunn where he talked about the movie becoming a version of King Kong by the end — Grant Grant turned into a monster, but still remembered what it was like to love Starla — and for the first time in his/its (it being the alien that Grant became host to) existence, it felt a human emotion — something close to love. Anyway, that emotional aspect stayed with me more than the romance between Pardy and Starla. And I love both Elizabeth Banks and Nathan Fillion.

Other fave quotes:

“Bitch is hardcore.”

Also McReady’s rant in the car about Mr. Pibb.

I pretty much loathed all the characters and alternated between wanting to slap them, shake them or read them the riot act. It got to the end and I was like, “that's supposed to be a romantic movie?”

Then again, I didn't like Love, Actually.

I new I loved this blog for a reason. People who share my *very* subjective tastes, LOL!

http://twitter.com/NathanFillion

I so, so love him.

Omg, no, you are SO not the only person who reacted like that to the movie.

I pretty much loathed all the characters and alternated between wanting to slap them, shake them or read them the riot act. It got to the end and I was like, “that’s supposed to be a romantic movie?”

Come to think of it, I didn’t like Notting Hill, either. Must be Hugh “The Faux Floppy Fringe” Grant then, because he appeared in all these three films. The only Hugh Grant films I liked were The Bengali Night, Maurice, White Mischief, Impromptu, and perhaps, About a Boy. The rest? Blegh. Ahem, sorry for going off the track.

@BookBoor
Captain Tightpants? (laughing) What a great nickname. I was never sure if Chiwetel did a good American accent. Nice to hear it confirmed. Yeah, he was great in American Gangster. It’s a great film. It reminded me why Russell Crowe was a good actor as well.

@Zoe Archer
Squeamish? By blood or creepy-looking creatures? Slither has both, but in sense of ‘Ew, that’s disgu…oh, my god! Hahaha!” Similar to The Evil Dead.

But if you’re that squeamish, don’t watch it. Watch something else like…let’s think…for Nathan Fillion: Waitress, or for Chiwetel: Inside Man – a fun bank heist thriller. It has Clive Owen. Actually, Owen & Chitwetel appeared in a film again, Children of Men, but do watch Inside Man.

And please let me know when your ‘Chiwetel in glasses’ book is ready to be released.

@Jessa Slade
Oh, that’s a good comparison! I agree, it’s similar to Tremors (oh, Fred Ward…). Thanks. I’ll re-watch Tremors. It’s been ages. :D

@bam
I’ll pretend I didn’t read that bit about Jack Frost because I haven’t seen it yet and the picture you drew is a bit… dodgy.

And Kinky Boots is a fabulous movie! Chiwetel is fabulous in it -’ and under used in Love, Actually.

He was wasted in Love, Actually, but then so was the rest of the cast IMO. I think I’m one of the few women in the world that didn’t like that film (one of the other ones being my best friend who I saw it with). I was depressed and annoyed when the credits ran. The only two couples I actually cared about had a crappy ending (Sarah/Karl) or an unresolved one (Harry/Karen). *blech*

Oh, and during the bathtub scene where the girl was relaxing in the bubbles, oblivious to the slugs crawling all over her house and heading for the tub… I had my hands clapped over my eyes and I was muttering, “oh, god, oh god, please don’t… please not in the ‘gina.”

Speaking of which, you guys should check out this horrible movie called Jack Frost where the snowman assaults Shannon Elizabeth in the tub and uh… well, he had this carrot…

I thought the characters were all wonderful and the pacing was excellent. Sometimes I find my attention wandering in these spatterfunfests, but not this time. Slither reminded me of Tremors, with Kevin Bacon. Same kind of great humor and horror blend.

I didn’t catch the Harlequin through a glass darkly angle, but now that you point it out… Ha.

And I loves me some Chiwetel, too. I’m using him as inspiration for the hero in my latest WIP. And I put a pair of spectacles on him. Yum.

My favorite lines from Slither:

Bill Pardy: Hell, if he had a ‘gina, you’d'a married him, too.
Kid: What’s a “‘gina”?
Bill Pardy: [after an awkward pause] It’s a country. You know, where “Ginese” people come from. Learn to eavesdrop better.

Chiwetel is also one of those Brits that can do a seamless American accent. The kind where when you hear them speak in an interview you’re startled by their normal accent!

He was great in American Gangster too.

And Kinky Boots is a fabulous movie! Chiwetel is fabulous in it — and under used in Love, Actually.

@Kalen
Yeah, Fillion has some charisma. I’ll (begrudgingly) give him that. Chiwetel, on the other hand, has loads! He’s a rarity by being an excellent character actor and having”film presence. I should re-watch Kinky Boots. Haven’t seen it for ages. Thanks for mentioning it. :D

(Some of you might recognise Chiwetel from Love, Actually as Peter, the half of a couple with Keira Knightley as Juliet.)

Chiwetel Ejiofor. Oh, yeeeeeeeeeeah. Kinky Boots! I think the speach about Red is one of the best soliloquy evah. And the fact that he played Lola in Kinky Boots and the Agent in Serenity in the same year just makes it even better. Any man who can strut around in 8″ fuckme boots is a man I want to know better . . .