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ColonelSandurz42 t1_iu9j1rw wrote

I like that John Goodmans character had his own theme music.

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i-Ake t1_iu9j87k wrote

Goddamn. I was gonna say the exact same thing. It's great and an instant tone-shift.

This and Tremors are both classics.

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Gottawreckit t1_iu9lo8i wrote

Have you seen any of the tremors sequels though…. Lol. But I agree. Both classics.

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Facebookakke t1_iu9s6xi wrote

What’s wrong with the sequels? Stupid dumb fun, love em

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Gottawreckit t1_iu9s9ue wrote

Hahaha. They are fun. But totally B movies.

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CensoryDeprivation t1_iu9t5aj wrote

B is generous. They literally call a new species “ass blasters”. And not as a throw away joke, for an entire film.

That said they are hilarious and terrible and I watch them whenever they pop up.

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DeadT0m t1_iub7vyn wrote

Not just an entire film. Every film following 3 calls them ass blasters. It's just their goddamn name.

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hemingway_exeunt t1_iubg25f wrote

Stephen King once named an invading parasitic alien race "shit weasels," so the bar may be a bit lower than you'd think.

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DeadT0m t1_iubothn wrote

Yes but that was like a colloquial term and only applied to one variant. They also called them 'gray-boys' and other such epithets. Something Kurtz even explicitly cracks down on once the operation goes loud.

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hemingway_exeunt t1_iuc79yk wrote

It's worth noting that King's wife Tabitha referred to Dreamcatcher as "the one about the shit weasels." I can't find a direct citation to prove that, but I'm 100% confident of its accuracy.

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DeadT0m t1_iucfhrj wrote

Pretty sure he mentioned that in one of the forewords to a later novel. He and Tabby both don't really consider the book one of his best.

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awol5943 t1_iubyvlu wrote

Ass blasters we're only applied to one variant as well.

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DeadT0m t1_iuc002y wrote

That's true, but with the shit weasels it's still at least implied that even the people using the term know it's not going to fly once actual academics get involved. In Tremors even the paleontologists call them ass blasters.

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OneHumanPeOple t1_iuaxumu wrote

The last tremors sequel was painful. I’m the type of person who is all about suspending my belief in order to be entertained by a stupid movie. But just wow. A thin and yet somehow confusing plot strung together by endless cliche. The character tropes go hard but there is zero of the self awareness of the first film. And I call it a film because it’s a masterpiece.

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Facebookakke t1_iuaxxu9 wrote

I have not seen the newest unfortunately

Edit: or maybe fortunately, by the sounds of it

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OneHumanPeOple t1_iub07se wrote

Lol yeah. Fortunately. I even got gloriously stoned so that I was properly stupefied and not even that worked.

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Whowutwhen t1_iubxpdh wrote

2 was pretty damn good IMO, from there it got progressively shlocky but all fun for what they are. Its hard to live up to Tremors which is a master class B-rate creature feature.

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Gottawreckit t1_iuc2sf8 wrote

It really was. Also helped that the first time I watched it, later that night there was a small earthquake where I was. Really added to the movie.

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i-Ake t1_iubx71d wrote

I'm only taking about the first... for the record.

I've never seen the others.

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ABearDream t1_iuaguj5 wrote

The tremors movies are good for what they are up to the 4th one. After that theyre pretty meh

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mick_ward t1_iu9macx wrote

Molly Jennings: Why is all the wood rotting?

Delbert McClintock: I'll tell you why. Bad wood.

Molly Jennings: So... what do we do?

Delbert McClintock: Tear out bad wood. Put in good wood.

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ColonelSandurz42 t1_iu9s93l wrote

He was so good in this movie! I wish him and Jeff Daniels worked together more often.

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LupinThe8th t1_iu9w8tx wrote

I watched this film as part of my Halloween watchlist this year, and then the next day watched Graveyard Shift...which also features a crazy exterminator played by a character actor having far more fun than anyone else, Brad Dourif.

All I could think is that I wanted their characters to meet and go into business together. Six seasons and a movie, please.

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Nyghtshayde t1_iuaq476 wrote

When I think of crazy exterminators I think of Christopher Walken in Mousehunt....

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ColonelSandurz42 t1_iua6371 wrote

I recently watched Spontaneous Combustion with Brad Dourif. I just kept picturing Chucky in my head whenever he started yelling. lol

We've been meaning to watch Graveyard Shift. It sounds pretty good!

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devonta_smith t1_iu9uxaz wrote

Also how he sounds like he's doing a Bill Murray from Caddyshack impression

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AztecPussyWizard t1_iucdcvr wrote

It's called a leitmotif if you want to sound fancy and talk all purdy

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WFPPtheSound t1_iucanv0 wrote

I played an arachnophobia drinking game. Drink if you see a spider but if Goodmans on screen you drink for the duration of his theme music.

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Practical-Exchange60 t1_iudfb6f wrote

I don’t know why but this is one of my favorite John Goodman roles. I realize that’s weird to say with his catalogue of work.

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