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Post by captbart on Jul 18, 2010 16:46:58 GMT -5
eternity8 - I, too, am looking forward to Tucker's monster. Really good syfy can do several things. I really like BAD Japanese Monster flicks because they are pure escape - My Japanese friends put a whole new view on some of it for me as well. The secret to GOOD syfy is to ask the view/reader to suspend belief about one or two things and everything else must follow logically (I think Asimov said that but it could have been Heinlein). Allow the existence of Graboids and their life cycle, everything else follows logically. The people behave as you'd expect a smart mouth kid, survivalist, aging hippie, etc. to behave. The fun is watching these folks (I know one or more example of each - heck, I am an example of one or more of the types) adjust and adapt to the incredible situation. That was the strength of the the great syfy epics like "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Everybody behaved in character and the results were very believable given the situation. The Tremors movies do that. The series is a bit father out but by adding Mix-Master into the plot it allows for some delightful variations. The writers are truly brilliant, in my not so humble opinion.
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Post by eternity8 on Jul 19, 2010 2:51:21 GMT -5
I definetly agree! Tremors has such a good plot and a great writing and acting team which doesn't make it tacky. I actually think the storyline is quite believeable as there are so many different species and animals in the world that have yet to be seen or recorded and if a creature like that existed, i think they would react in the same way making it more realistic also!
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Post by captbart on Jul 26, 2010 15:59:04 GMT -5
The only part I found tough to accept was the lack of government over-reaction in T3 and the series. I just can't believe the gov't let them stay. I also find it tough that Burt didn't shoot "Mel" after the 55 gallon drum incident in T3 or the first episode of the series. Other than that I'm on board with the realism.
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Post by captbart on Sept 7, 2010 13:39:37 GMT -5
In 'Ghost Dance' the mine "played out long before the Graboids" - I assume that it was still Hiram's mine since they kept the 'dirt dragons' a secret. It still seems strange to me that Burt's family lost the history of the mine yet remained in Perfection. Was Burt maybe not a direct descendant of Hiram?
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Post by timforston on Sept 7, 2010 15:03:56 GMT -5
yes and the fact that in 1 when they are all in the store burt said 'thats why me and heather moved here geographic isolation' ?? his 'great-great granddad built the house on the hill with a basement i was lost
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Post by captbart on Sept 25, 2010 12:18:29 GMT -5
Watching T4 ... anyone notice the NAME of the gun store Hiram goes to? I just caught it in passing. I can't believe I've missed it until now! HINT: "Developed in 1935 by Charles Richter in partnership with Beno Gutenberg, both of the California Institute of Technology" from Wikipedia. I'll give everyone a chance to figure it out before I spill the beans. I am amazed at the creative subtleties of the writers. I think I'd like them if I ever got to know them.
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Post by Mr.ELBlanco on Sept 25, 2010 12:26:38 GMT -5
The Richter Scale
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Post by captbart on Sept 25, 2010 12:31:51 GMT -5
Yep ... With all the seismo related stuff in the movies and the series it just seemed so appropriate to use Richter's name on something as critical as the gun store. I confess I felt foolish for not noticing sooner ... after all 'a man must know his terrain".
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Post by Mr.ELBlanco on Sept 25, 2010 13:06:55 GMT -5
Haha, I didn't think about it till you mentioned it either.
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Post by timforston on Sept 25, 2010 19:22:16 GMT -5
i had noticed it and never even connected it way to go
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Post by project412 on Sept 25, 2010 19:27:37 GMT -5
Neither did I, that's awesome!
And another theory I came up with (I seem to be doing this a lot lately). People have stated that the date Perfection was formed is contradicted in T4, though that's not necessarily that case. Early on in the movie, the residents stated that the town needed a better name than "Rejection". At the end, when people are beginning to settle there once again, it is renamed "Perfection". Though it probably wasn't officially renamed Perfection until the date on the sign in the modern day movies.
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Post by captbart on Oct 12, 2010 16:17:08 GMT -5
412, You're probably correct. A lot of little western towns were 'founded' several times as ore played out and was replaced by a different ore or timber or an interstate or ? I just marvel that there remained a US Post Office for a town of less than 2 dozen people. They got down to four or five in modern times.
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Post by captbart on Nov 1, 2010 16:29:29 GMT -5
I've been watching T4 and looking at some of the layouts in the other movies and series. Seems to me that Chang's is the anchor coupled with the water tower and everything else moves about. I do wish the Stampede crew would do a "History of Perfection" either as a book or another movie. Doesn't necessarily NEED Graboids but it sure would be fun to have a development (as in Tucker's Monster) of the town. I sign up for a pre-published version right now.
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Post by project412 on Nov 2, 2010 9:14:16 GMT -5
that would be an awesome book! But right now, I'm just waiting for Fraidy Cats.
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Post by eternity8 on Dec 8, 2010 14:45:30 GMT -5
Been watching the Tremors boxset again and I think that T4 is the scariest tbh! It is more subtle than T1. They don't have any technical equipment or communications system so they are on their own plus scientific knowledge was more limited back then so I don't even know how they survived. Also they don't have any knowledge of them or how to avoid them like T2/3.
T1 is more overly horrorsome but that scene where Jim is sucked under and Megan is trying to get him out and then gets sucked under herself *shivers. She knew something was up!!
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