The Slither *SPOILER* Thread - Talk Slither
POSTED BY: Squid
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 15:40
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It's against my genearl principals to spoil the ending but if it will help to support our Captain I guess I can tell you.
SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER!!
Yes he lives. there are some close calls but he does make it.
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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.
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Yikes, just saw on MSNBC that "Slither" had a dismal opening weekend, bringing in just 3.7 million, and coming in number 8. But opening against "Ice Age 2", I guess it should have been somewhat expected. "Ice Age 2" brought in over 70 million.
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I saw the movie yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It was actually pretty enjoyable, though it took awhile to build. I laughed pretty hard at the whole, "Thank Jesus?!" sequence. Also, the line, "Could you pass me that possum over there?" (or something like that) was pretty funny...
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Damn funny flick. I don't remember the last time I laughed so hard in a movie theatre. Including the credits!
The song that plays at the end during the credits is "Baby I Love You" by the Yayhoos. It's on their "Fear Not the Obvious" CD. You can listen to it at http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/listenwatch/0,,719138,00.
html#artist_name
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I just saw Slither and I loved it. It was a hilarious horror movie. Grant Grant was freakin hilarious and so was Filion. All over a great movie.
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Thankya Kayna, now I can go see it without having to run outta the theater cryin'.(I can just run out pukin' instead! 
"Could you not do that...ever?!"
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Well, saw "Slither" this afternoon...
Now horror isn't my cup of tea,
so I didn't go for that, but really just 'cuz Nathan was in it.
Also saw Roper & Ebert's review of it after I saw the film, and I have to agree
with Roper & Ebert: I didn't much care for it.
Gregg Henry was entertaining as the mayor -- he was the sheriff in Train Job.
But what I realized was, the writer/director could've put anybody in the
CHief Bill Pardy role and it would not have
made it better. Just not that much material to work with as an actor.
Especially after you've seen Nathan in Firefly or Serenity. Made me REALLY appreciate
Nathan as an actor cuz of what he can do with the great lines, subtext and high-caliber
of the Firefly actors & scripts.
Came home & put on the Serenity landing scene from the BDM: worth more in 5 minutes than the hour-and-a-half or so of "Slither".
Then watched "Trash" and laughed my ass off and really appreciated all the nuances in that episode. Realized how comic Firefly is consistently -- and its basically a drama.
Now THAT is great writing.
Nathan said it himself on the DVD box set: Firefly is the best thing he's done.
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I'm not sure if this reply is too late for you "ACRAZYIVAN" but if you're still debating...
I have seen Shaun of the Dead (and I'm a big fan), but I have to say Slither is alot more gross than SotD is. SotD only had one really gorey scene towards the end in the bar when David is near the window and the zombies pull him out and then pull everything out... of him. The rest was just general gunshots/gunsplatter.
Slither has naturally the general gunshots/gunsplatter stuff. And alot of those startle sort of moments, which aren't really scary its just you jump in your seat. I can stomach anything but I'm still easily startled and those get me too.
I mean, you can tell when the gross parts are, and then you can just cover your eyes until its over. Bring a good friend or relative who might not mind the gore and they can just tell you when its over. :) There are a couple long scenes of grossness involving tentacles.
If slime, projectile spitting, zombie like characters, slugs, lots of prothetics, eating raw meat, poorly made dead animals, and some blood get you - bring a friend. But if you liked Shaun of the Dead you might like this one. I love both, SotD has very little gore, Slither has alot of gross, both have great comedy, and SotD is the better movie.
I hope that was somewhat helpful. I wasn't quite sure what exactly gets you squeamish so I tried to cover the generalities of what might get people. I wouldn't really call the film scary, its not like something like The Ring where people were haunted by the Samara character after watching it. Its mostly just gross.
Maybe check out a few photos from the film to prepare yourself or see if you're up for it?
This is a pic of the slimey, prothesetic main character alien guy. 
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I really thought the rubber octopus to help people describe what they saw was hi - larious! Also, the mayor trying to explain it as "Lyme Disease".
For the person who got shooed out of the theatre by the cleanup crew, I have had that happen before, but usually once you remind them that you paid to see the whole thing, they will leave you alone. The thing that really cheeses me off is when the projector operator turns the house lights up during the credits so the cleaners can clean faster.
So who is he?
He's my husband.
Well who in the damn galaxy ain't!
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