"Slither" and Nathan Fillion

I sat on my "free when you buy this tv" leather chair last night wondering what I could do to be "social." As Zena ran around the apartment mewoing at everything that moved (and didn't move), one of my friends, James, called asking if I'd like to go to the movies with he and his girlfriend, Heather. I checked my black book first to make sure I didn't have hot dates planned - all clear till 2010 - and told James I'd love to go.

At their apartment a few minutes later, the three of us started discussing which movie would be worth the $8 per ticket. After a lot of bickering and arbitrary insults all around, we decided to see Slither - Heather's choice. How bad could it be; it starred Nathan Fillion? Those of you who haven't watched the tv series "Firefly" or the movie "Serenity" (a movie continuing the story of Firefly) might not recognize the his name. He has a great character in the story (Mal - the guy in the red shirt) and says some of the funniest one-liners (for example - "They don't like it when you shoot at them. I worked that one out myself. " - "You're right, we take all the money we got saved right now, we could maybe buy a moderately-sized gerbil." - "Absolutely. I got stabbed, you know. Right here." - to name some of my favorites).

On the drive to the movie theater, I had "Mal" quotes running through my head as I giggled and ate my ice-cream cone from Sonic. A great prep for the movie. As soon as Slither started, I laughed. The opening scene is hilarious! I don't even remember the name of Nathan Fillion's character in the movie (maybe Bill or something), all I know is that I laughed the whole time. The laughter came from the stupidity of the plot, the arbitrary gore, but mostly, from the amazing one-liners! "My easy-going nature is gettin' sorely fuckin' tested." - compliments of Nathan's character. The movie wasn't worth the $8 but I'm definately going to get it when it comes out on DVD.