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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.

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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

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Jason has spent a lot more time taking boat than he has taking Manhattan.

That dog has been missing all this time and it just suddenly reappears for the life boat.  And now the dog is gone again…

Jason may have saved the girl from rape; but he was too late to save her from aids needle.

OK, that dumpster shot was too perfect.

YEEEEEES! It took way too long for that sorry old s.o.b. to die!

Oh no no no you silly goobers.  Electricity doesn’t bring Jason to death, electricity brings Jason to life.

Still waiting for the dog to show up again.

That’s…one of the goofier looking Jason faces.

WAT…he just turns into a normal human??  And I thought Jason’s face was always messed up, even when he was still alive originally?  Oh well.

Bingo! And THERE’S the dog!

Rating: Sex, drugs, & rock and roll.  Unmistakably 80s.

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New Nightmare (1994)

New Nightmare (1994)

The plot overview on Wikipedia made this sound really stupid; but, it all works out quite well.

I wonder if all the actors who were playing themselves had greater freedom to ad-lib or reword their own lines to better match their own speech patterns, or if they all had to follow the script exactly as it was written?