Travels with Grumpus

Thoughts and considerations coming into Slither:

Okay, that looks promising. A funny horror movie. Maybe it’ll be like Shaun of the Dead. A romantic comedy. With zombies. But this time it’s snakes. Or some weird alien slug thing. Whatever. It looks funny. It’s got Elizabeth Banks, I like her. And it’s got Nathan Fillion. I liked him a lot in Firefly. Wow I miss Firefly. Too bad they had to cancel it. Well it looks like Nathan Fillion’s playing the same sort of character in this movie. Movie got good reviews too. So okay, I’ll see it.

The aftermath:

Hunh. Well that was okay, but it could have been better. Yeah it was funny and scary, but it sort of ended too abruptly. Didn’t get that nice emotional punch at the end. Started off right, hillbilly podunk redneck town, good set-up, and wow I think they cast the ugliest people in America for that bar scene. The gruesomeness was nicely over-the-top, which of course was funny. But I don’t know. Maybe the acting wasn’t hammy enough so there wasn’t that nice interplay between the slime, ick and gore and exaggerated this-is-the-end-so-I’ll-let-it-all-hang-out tearfulness… Hard to say. Maybe it was edited wrong. Could have been more compact, maybe some scenes could have been cut out in the beginning, give the climax a bit more time to play out.

Thoughts and considerations coming into Pirates of the Carribean:

Jeez. I can’t believe how much money this movie’s made. It’s a movie based on a freaking Disney ride. That’s not right. Didn’t like the first one much. And it’s got two actors I don’t much care for. Yeah but whatever. Mickey wants to see it. Guess there are worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon. Maybe it’ll be funny. Johnny Depp’s pretty funny. So I’ll take that.

The aftermath:

*shrug*