That was a nice surprise having Dawn French voice a character in this.
The search for the eyes felt a lot like a video game plot.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
I guess that’s one way to get a Jurassic Park reference in.
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
I wasn’t expecting <redacted> to die.
Ha, nice subversion! Actually; I wonder if they’re still allowed one F-bomb in a PG-13 movie?
Dolly zoom!
Frankenweenie (2012)
I don’t know if it was just the dvd; but I didn’t realize this was stop-animation. I kept thinking it was cgi imitating stop-animation. I might have to watch this again in 4k.
Friday the 13th (2009)
I didn’t know kerosene generators are apparently a thing. After hearing that Jason was stealing kerosene, I was wondering why there were electric lights at Camp Crystal Lake instead of lanterns. Surely someone hasn’t been paying the electric bill all this time.
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
When an unstoppable chu meets an immovable pah.
Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
I don’t know. I suppose it functions as well as a reboot as Jurassic World does to Jurassic Park.
I think the silliness level was a bit too low. The original had the best blend of silliness to seriousness.
Jason X (2001)
It was a thing. I watched it.
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
OK, yeah, it made sense. Although the vow of silence over the “Dirt Dragons” felt a bit tacked on; the explanation could have been so much worse.
No “Graboids: In Space” yet; but “Graboids: In the Wild West” ended up being way more friggen’ awesome than I would have expected.
It feels like it retraces many of the steps the original took; but then again, that helps it to function stand-alone. If someone were not otherwise interested in the series, and watching IV as their first film got them hooked enough to watch the rest, that would be just fine.
I hope my tactic of hoping the next movie will suck so I end up being pleasantly surprised continues to pay off. Still have one more from 2015, and apparently a new one is coming out THIS YEAR.
It seems odd that after being dormant for so long it just starts right back up again.
Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Keeps up the goofiness from the second one. Maybe I just need to keep expecting them to suck so my expectations can be surpassed each time.
But surely the next one will suck. The overview on imdb says:
“A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about how the town of Perfection, Nevada became founded and how they defended it against the Graboids with the help of Burt Gummer’s ancestor, Hiram.”
In the first film, Graboids are previously undiscovered lifeforms, no one had EVER seen one before. I guess I will find out if it manages to make sense.
Do I really have so much nothing to say about part 3 that all I can talk about is part 4 before I’ve even watched it?
We’ve seen them in the ground, then on land, and now in the air. Should Tremors IN SPACE have been the next step? Maybe I should just go ahead and watch Alien (1979) next.
Rating: more of the same