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Gottawreckit t1_iu9s9ue wrote

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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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