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Started by onionhead, April 08, 2003, 03:58:23 AM

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onionhead

Okay, I like SG1, but why is there Tremors: The Series??  The first flick was enjoyable enough with Fred Ward fresh from The Right Stuff and Remo, but where can this thing go?  A land developer wants to take over Perfection for a golf course and gets eaten by--grabboids!  Burt gets engaged to a NRA spokeswoman, but she gets eaten by--a grabboid!  The Founder's Day Parade is interrupted by--grabboids! Burt takes a trip to Yosemite and finds Old Faithful plugged up by--grabboids!
Seems like a one-liner to me.
How about---Shannon Doherty goes out to the desert to pull a stoopid stunt on some poor schmuck in Scare Tactics and gets eaten by--a grabboid!
Hmmmmmmm, I'd pay to see that one . . . .

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fireal

I haven't seen this show yet but they shouldn't have even made the mvie sequels really.

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Brother Ragnarok

I love the three Tremors flicks.  The series, from what little I've seen, leaves a lot to be desired.  The fourth movie could really go either way.  It's a delicate balance.
The MTV Spring Break house is attacked by...graboids wearing big stupid diamond necklaces shaped like dollar signs!!!

Brother R

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fireal

There's a fourth movie!?!? Oh dear.....

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Flangepart

I'm trying to give the show a chance, but, yeah. what can they do? If they treat it as an example of weird behavior lived by stress junkies...uh...maby...
I do have trouble thinking the Gov. would let such a dangerious creature live, or at least live free. The whole world would be on the look out for these monsters, and there would be "Shoot on sight" orders where ever shey get spotted.
I keep comeing back to "The effect of Kaiju in the third world". Poor countries would be a feast for a pack of Grabboids! An ugly truth that has never been addressed. Only well armed peoples coule have a chance at survival....thats where Burt comes in.
Paranoid? I don't think so....

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Fearless Freep

The problem with the progression of movies was that Burt's character was fine as a comic relief sidekick type, but not as a main character.  Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon worked well as the principles and the interplay between the two did well, with Burt sorta off to the side, over-the-top, but in small doses.  As the sequels went on and the principles moved on to other things, Burt went from being the comic-relief to the main character.  His schtick can be funny in small doses when kept in check by the other characters, but as the main focal character, it gets pretty annoying after about 20 seconds.

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Chadzilla

Scare Tactics is stunningly offensive.  I heard that the producers are getting sued by a few of their 'guests'.  Can't blame them, really.  The show is like watching a bad traffic accident.

I saw an episode of Tremors and was hooked, but it could go either way.  I've enjoyed the movies (Tremors being one of my top ten favorites of all time)and the producers have hinted that more new monsters are on the way.  I joked to my wife that the writers have probably been given a strict number of times they can have characters say "Ass Blasters" in a given episode.

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raj

I'm willing to give Tremors a chance, though it does look like story lines are going to be a bit limited.  Probably the series will last two seasons, then the writers will run out of ideas.

As for keeping the grabboids alive, under the Endangered Species Act, they'd have to be kept alive (hell, there are some who think the ESA applies to the smallpox virus!)

Dunners

well I just saw one episode a while back and have to say its actually pretty good. though its no where near as messy as the movies got ina few scenes its got some fun characters to enjoy and the monsters dont look like total crap CG( they mix puppetry in as well) and are done moderately well for a TV series.

makes me wish I had cable because this one hour long series is quite good. I'd say its better than the second movie but just a little below the first.

JohnL

>Burt's character was fine as a comic relief sidekick type, but not as a main
>character.

The problem is that the series is turning him into a cartoon character. Burt started off as a survivalist with a thing for collecting guns, but over time he's been turned into an overly paranoid nutcase who's handy to have around.

I've been watching the show and will almost certainly keep watching it, but I don't think it will last. I've read that they plan to introduce different types of creatures to keep it interesting. If you noticed, in the episode they aired second, the one with Christopher Lloyd, they kept mentioning "mixmaster", a substance to make genetic splicing easier. So all kinds of mutant creatures will be showing up as targets for Burt.

Flangepart

Rosealita....a babe, who wears no bra, and they found a way to get the T-shirt wet in the ass blaster eph. Oh, yeah, i'd sign up for Burt's survival class if she were the guest lecturer!

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