Gottawreckit t1_iu9s9ue wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:47 PM

Hahaha. They are fun. But totally B movies.

MulciberTenebras t1_iuam6e7 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:19 PM

II through IV are B-movies.

The SyFy Channel sequels are like Z-Listers.

Sea-Cpt_1992 t1_iubb4in wrote on October 30, 2022 at 12:34 AM

everything syfy makes is z tier and has been since they changed the name to "syfy"

Gottawreckit t1_iuam8tk wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:20 PM

Lol

CensoryDeprivation t1_iu9t5aj wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:53 PM

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.

DeadT0m t1_iub7vyn wrote on October 30, 2022 at 12:08 AM

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

hemingway_exeunt t1_iubg25f wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:15 AM

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

DeadT0m t1_iubothn wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:28 AM

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.

hemingway_exeunt t1_iuc79yk wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:33 AM

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.

DeadT0m t1_iucfhrj wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:23 AM

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.

awol5943 t1_iubyvlu wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:01 AM

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

DeadT0m t1_iuc002y wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:12 AM

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.

awol5943 t1_iuc044c wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:13 AM

Fair point.

OneHumanPeOple t1_iuaxumu wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:49 PM

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.

Facebookakke t1_iuaxxu9 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:49 PM

I have not seen the newest unfortunately

Edit: or maybe fortunately, by the sounds of it

OneHumanPeOple t1_iub07se wrote on October 29, 2022 at 11:07 PM

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

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Facebookakke t1_iu9s6xi wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:46 PM