Hubris & Hubbub

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

SLITHER




I'm watching the dang ole Slither thang. Kind of a zombie/alien/end of the world sort of thing. My favorite character is this middle aged dude that I think is the Mayor of this small town that they are in or something. He's got some good lines and he goes on about the fact that he likes Mr. Pibb in this one scene and it's pretty histerical. OH SHIT! So I guess his name is Jack and they just got him! DAMMIT! I liked that dude.
At any rate, so at the beginning the guy from Mallrats that plays the dad of the girl of Jeremy London's affection gets attacked by this alien worm and becomes a crazed monster that uses this girl as a womb for more little worms. They find this girl in a barn all bloated up like homeslice in Strange Brew when he drinks all the beer in the beer tank. It's pretty rad how she goes on about how she's all hungry and junk and can't stop eating and then BANG! she pops and all these alien worms come out and infect the town. The cool parrt about it is the guy who first got attacked is pretty much the mind of all the zombie victims any of the worms attack. His wife, Starla, gets all batty when she finds out that he is still alive but in multiple bodies that can spit zombie poison acid and junk.
I've been trying to finish it for the past couple of days here and there but it's been hard because Tracey is not into the genre of HORROR! Oh yeah, Nathan Fillion from Firefly fame is in it. Dippity-dooed Malcolm Reynolds playing all sheriff in a small town with infectious alien worm ridden zombies!

UPDATE: I just finished Slither and it was Slitherific! I mean, if you enjoy alien wormed zombies, explosions, monsters trying to impregnate you with their hook like phaluses, romantic comedies you would love it!

I GIVE IT A NETFLIX RATING OF 4 STARS FOR FUNTASTICNESS

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY



Before sitting down to watch this again, I told Tracey to "get ready for a cinematic EXPERIENCE!!!" She asked what made it an EXPERIENCE!!! and I told her that it had to do with the fact that there are "themes" and "philosophies" in the film that would just about blow her mind and please sit down and stop doing laundry. To which she replied "2001: A Nap Odyssey". har har.
I guess I never paid attention to the 3-5 minute black screen in the beginning of the film. You hear an orchestrated bit of weirdness that is audible but not too audible. This made me turn the volume up. I was all waxing like I had a pair and told Tracey that "this is symbolic ... it's all 'in the beginning there was nothing' kind of thing". I don't think she buys my thoughts on "symbology" sometimes.
Ok, so I'm lying on the couch and just kind of getting into the 2001 thing while she's cleaning up and walking around and not enjoying the film when Mike Graves calls and is telling me that there is an Ali G marathon on HBO right now and I should watch it and yadda yadda.
I turned off the movie and watched some Ali G all cold cracking on some wrinkly geriatrics. Anyway, I ended up watching 2001 a couple days later with some beers and Tracey on the couch. I love this movie. It is awesome. I think I said "this is badass because there is no CGI" like 28 times.

I GIVE 2001 A NETFLIX RATING OF 5 STARS IT IS AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT AND MANKIND SHOULD BE GREATFUL TO STANLEY KUBRICK