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Gottawreckit t1_iu9lo8i wrote

Reply to comment by i-Ake in 'Arachnophobia': Frank Marshall reflects on his eight-legged directorial debut by JannTosh12

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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