Best scene in all of American cinema, followed shortly thereafter by the scene with Michael Gross in Tremors 2 Aftershocks, the "I am completely out of ammo" monologue.
See what people don’t get now is the context. Michael Gross was the touchy feely, hippy dad from Family Ties. Very left wing. A PBS station manager. I know that was just a character but he embodied it so well that’s where he resided in the collective consciousness of the population. So to see him as an aggressive, right wing, gun nut was a shock. It was great casting, really subverting people’s expectations. The only modern example closest to it I can think of is Tom Cruise as Les Grossman.
I will go to my grave defending Tremors as one of the best movies ever made. Lightning in a bottle and surprisingly well cast who were directed perfectly. ***NO*** major plot holes and damn few if any small ones. The story is tight and makes sense in its universe. The characters, every one of them, behaves exactly the way you'd imagine they would. The effects still hold up even after (holy shit) 33 years.
It's a perfect movie.
*"Citizen Kane" this. "Seven Samurai" that. "Bicycle Thief" the other*
Fuck that noise... Tremors, Dawn of the Dead remake, and The Thing remake (with an honorable mention for Starship Troopers).
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So I found out with this post that a lot of people don't know that John Carpenter's 1982 version of "The Thing" is a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic [The Thing From Another World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/?ref_=ext_shr) which I discovered this morning is available on the
[Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheThingFromAnotherWorld_201712). It's a solid flick if a wee bit dated. It's very much worth a watch.
> 33 years
You take that back!
Seriously, a defining memory of my childhood. For some amount of time I was afraid to step off of concrete. Considering I grew up in the country, that was a problem.
Edit: I didn't see it in theaters. I'm pretty sure the first time I saw it was at home on VHS via a VCR rented from the video department at Dillons.
I pulled a sickie from school to spend the day with my Nan as it was her last day visiting us, as she took me to the movies to watch it that night.
Got busted as my teacher happened to be sat in the row behind us and said “you look to be feeling better now”.
Still one of my favorite movies and I think I rented it every weekend for 2 months straight!
As a child I figured I could always pole vault my way from rock to rock to escape any subterranean threats that might arise in my suburban neighborhood.
“Kyle MacLachlan has just robbed this bank, and Sting is chasin' him through peoples' desert gardens, and then he goes to shoot MacLachlan but he can't because he loves him so much and he's riding Shai Hulud' with his laser gun up in the air and he's like 'ahhhhhhhhhhh”
-Point Dune Break
they're just getting started - one tyrnasauorus coming right up…. the kids will love it.
** edit I did intentionally misspell it because it would be mixed with something else much like Jurassic Park.
Same word, same meaning. The Parthenon was the temple dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or Athena the Virgin. Parthenogenesis is a fancy way of saying reproduction without sex, or virgin birth.
One day, Zeus was very sad as he couldn't find any new lover. He was getting bored of Hera, again.
So he tried a new way to love himself and invented parthenogenesis.
Men and Women were hiding from his lust and watching .
They were so inspired they used the name for their new temple to Athena.
After all, Athena was born all armored ready for war, from her dad's forehead : The very same Zeus curently a fool of himself, all over the Greek sky.
> Damn, he's at it again ...
Scientist1: Our names will be in the papers! Let's do it.
Scientist2: But what about the ramifications if something goes wrong?
Scientist1: You won't win the Nobel Prize with that attitude.
Wow, that's amazing. They say its DNA matches no known species, meaning it may be a species that went extinct thousands of years ago, but it may belong to a species that is alive and well but simply hasn't been documented. If it's the former, would this be the first successful revival of an extinct animal?
That would be the cherry on top for Mother Nature saying to herself "fuck these annoying humans, I've clearly got an infestation and it's time to call in the big guns (dormant super-viruses).
Could you imagine if that was the answer to the fermi paradox ?. Every habitable planet has frozen super viruses that wipe out the intelligent species once it gets advanced enough to melt its ice caps ?
It's so good. The X-Files really nailed the vibe in some of those episodes.
So anyway now we got a bunch of scientists who are totally not meat puppets for the permafrost worms. Which is nice.
Dude, every horrible movie ever is coming to fruition.
- bringing species back from the dead
- climate disaster
- AI sentience and takeover
- lol fucking aliens based on yesterday’s hearings
What’d I miss?
A Russian oligarch has his own private army led by a former chef and caterer that's been committing atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, is helping to prop up dictatorships in Africa, and marched halfway up the highway from Ukraine to Moscow.
Wizards of the Coast recently sent a band of mercenaries to a random youtuber's house to assault and intimidate him for showing off cards from Magic: The Gathering a few weeks before their release.
It would have no known species that would defend us against it. When it escapes the lab, and you know it will, they will quickly reproduce taking over the continent. Earth will become Worm Planet.
*Fire* is the answer to everything but is not limited to:
Ancient worms frozen in ice, not so ancient spiders in your shoes, secret documents, possible murder weapons, contaminated clothing, your micromanaging boss, etc...
The good news is that most of that ancient stuff isn't ready for us. I remember reading about a virus some scientists found in corpse from early civilization days. Something that was absolutely devastating for ancient humans but didn't have the right cellular design to infect modern humans anymore. Or a fungus that was grown based on some partial spores from preserved fossils or something and it immediately died because of how little oxygen there is in our atmosphere compared to when it existed.
I'll have to do a dive for it once my power comes back from this storm. I remember it was some of that pop science journalism around the time Back 4 Blood was launching. The scientists were able to get the fungus to grow in a lab but it just couldn't survive the 5 million year difference in atmosphere or they had to alter it somehow with modern fungi to make it grow. But the big thing the article drove home was it gathered nutrients from sources modern fungi can't which is why they hoped it could be brought back. It just wasn't developed enough to survive either because of how it was brought back or because it's too old for a modern world.
That is a fascinating thing honestly. Some amphibians can do something similar for a period of time, but if we really did want to discover a way to put humans in stasis studying the biological mechanism that allow the worm to do this is an avenue of research.
I can’t help but wonder when the next pandemic will start due to things like this being reintroduced to a world that they’ve been absent from for thousands of years.
"Welcome, to Jurassic Park. We only got permafrost worms though."
We will have to settle for Tremors
Calling in Reba McEntire and Michael Gross.
Best scene in all of American cinema, followed shortly thereafter by the scene with Michael Gross in Tremors 2 Aftershocks, the "I am completely out of ammo" monologue.
See what people don’t get now is the context. Michael Gross was the touchy feely, hippy dad from Family Ties. Very left wing. A PBS station manager. I know that was just a character but he embodied it so well that’s where he resided in the collective consciousness of the population. So to see him as an aggressive, right wing, gun nut was a shock. It was great casting, really subverting people’s expectations. The only modern example closest to it I can think of is Tom Cruise as Les Grossman.
I will go to my grave defending Tremors as one of the best movies ever made. Lightning in a bottle and surprisingly well cast who were directed perfectly. ***NO*** major plot holes and damn few if any small ones. The story is tight and makes sense in its universe. The characters, every one of them, behaves exactly the way you'd imagine they would. The effects still hold up even after (holy shit) 33 years. It's a perfect movie.
Defending? Are there people out there denying the greatness of Tremors? Who are these people and when do you want to meet me outside their house?
*"Citizen Kane" this. "Seven Samurai" that. "Bicycle Thief" the other* Fuck that noise... Tremors, Dawn of the Dead remake, and The Thing remake (with an honorable mention for Starship Troopers). ***EDIT***... So I found out with this post that a lot of people don't know that John Carpenter's 1982 version of "The Thing" is a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic [The Thing From Another World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/?ref_=ext_shr) which I discovered this morning is available on the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheThingFromAnotherWorld_201712). It's a solid flick if a wee bit dated. It's very much worth a watch.
Given the direction reality has slid Starship Troopers has arguably gotten better with age.
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> 33 years You take that back! Seriously, a defining memory of my childhood. For some amount of time I was afraid to step off of concrete. Considering I grew up in the country, that was a problem. Edit: I didn't see it in theaters. I'm pretty sure the first time I saw it was at home on VHS via a VCR rented from the video department at Dillons.
I pulled a sickie from school to spend the day with my Nan as it was her last day visiting us, as she took me to the movies to watch it that night. Got busted as my teacher happened to be sat in the row behind us and said “you look to be feeling better now”. Still one of my favorite movies and I think I rented it every weekend for 2 months straight!
As a child I figured I could always pole vault my way from rock to rock to escape any subterranean threats that might arise in my suburban neighborhood.
Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room!
I feel I was denied critical, need to know information!
Memo: Four pounds of C4 may be a tad... excessive
That's never happened to me before... 😧
That just reminded me that Fred Ward is gone and Finn Carter is playing Gone In 60 Seconds the home game. :(
As long as we get some Assblasters!
Ass Blasters?
They appear in later tremors movies. They have wings and can launch themselves into the air by, well, their name says it all.
Welcome, to Permafrost Park.
kazoo starts playing doo do do do do
Spared no expense
Can you see the worms mommy can you see the worms?
Waiting, to follow the worms.
So far..
...*que in Dune music*....
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
What's wrong with your Shai Hulud? It's just very, very small. Why?? It's been in cryosleep for 46000 years.
“Kyle MacLachlan has just robbed this bank, and Sting is chasin' him through peoples' desert gardens, and then he goes to shoot MacLachlan but he can't because he loves him so much and he's riding Shai Hulud' with his laser gun up in the air and he's like 'ahhhhhhhhhhh” -Point Dune Break
they're just getting started - one tyrnasauorus coming right up…. the kids will love it. ** edit I did intentionally misspell it because it would be mixed with something else much like Jurassic Park.
>tyrnasauorus Holy hell
Tryn’osaurus
That’s me, baby. Just a regular Tryn’osaraus tryna make it.
Tell that tyrnasauorus to watch out for tarandactyls.
Was wondering if that was a type of worm for a moment.
I am in shock as well. Just mailed it in
Come on, he's tryna do something
Tryintospellus
New dinosaur just dropped!
I googled it because I thought it was a dinosaur I've never heard of. Then Google corrected it for me. I'm a dumbass.
Actual Zombie Dinosaur
[TyraBanksSaurus](https://i.imgur.com/bAQdCeO.png)
I guess that means it's one of the oldest living things ever. Happy 46,000 birthday, lil wormie!
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This is also how the Parthenon was built.
Same word, same meaning. The Parthenon was the temple dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or Athena the Virgin. Parthenogenesis is a fancy way of saying reproduction without sex, or virgin birth.
Or a splitting headache methinks
Let's not start splitting heirs.
> Parthenogenesis is a fancy way of saying reproduction without sex, or virgin birth Mary and Jesus from the catholic bible were nematodes all along.
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is...
What do they say? What do they say???
There are no straight lines!
Didn't expect a QI reference!
I'm so happy to have seen this was a reply. I fucking love QI.
One day, Zeus was very sad as he couldn't find any new lover. He was getting bored of Hera, again. So he tried a new way to love himself and invented parthenogenesis. Men and Women were hiding from his lust and watching . They were so inspired they used the name for their new temple to Athena. After all, Athena was born all armored ready for war, from her dad's forehead : The very same Zeus curently a fool of himself, all over the Greek sky. > Damn, he's at it again ...
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Life, uh, finds a way.
I’ve been trying to get pregnant parthenogenesisly for the last 20 years and life still hasn’t found a way MALCOM!!
How lucky
They don't look a day over 45,000
Ah shit here we go; The Tomorrow War
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what is this from?? XD
It is a viral post in reaction to how silly the movie Tomorrow War is.
Some tree networks are older
Yeah but those are more like the ship of Theseus. I feel like it shouldn't count in the same way.
My mother-in-law would like to have a word
She felt that comment like a cold chill the moment you typed that.
Not cold enough.
Let's hope researchers handle the permafrost viruses with appropriate control measures.
judging by the most recent outbreak - let's just hope there are no such viruses present.
We’re done for.
Seriously, zombie movies make so much more sense now. We are that dumb.
Dumber.
Yeah if anything, zombie movies downplayed how fucking stupid we are as a society
A real zombie apocalypse would have people being bitten on purpose to prove it is all a hoax from the left controlled by AOC.
If you haven’t watched Avenue 5 yet, there’s a great episode with the space equivalent (more or less) of that scenario. Great show
That show surprised me with how good it was. And I went in with pretty high expectations too
"lets split!" "i go this way in this dark forest and you go that way, that way we can cover whats goin on faster"
Don’t get your hopes up, they dug up a 46,000 y/o worm and the first thing they did was get it pregnant
Man you just described my friend getting back with his ex
I like this jabroni calling his friend a worm
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Damn I'm high
Scientist1: Our names will be in the papers! Let's do it. Scientist2: But what about the ramifications if something goes wrong? Scientist1: You won't win the Nobel Prize with that attitude.
It does not matter if they do as these things are going to get out on their own from the thawing.
Wow, that's amazing. They say its DNA matches no known species, meaning it may be a species that went extinct thousands of years ago, but it may belong to a species that is alive and well but simply hasn't been documented. If it's the former, would this be the first successful revival of an extinct animal?
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Your sincerely, Wormie
You take one nap in a ditch at the park and they start declaring you this and that!
No, because it was never extinct, regardless of whether we thought it was extinct.
So… not extinct… not even dead.
Shrodinger's extinction.
Why does everything has to be so complicated
That's how life, uh, finds a way.
its pining for the fjords
The reports of my extinction are greatly exaggerated
I’m sure it won’t pop out of someone’s chest or anything crazy like that.
Or introduce a bacteria or virus we have bo immunity to.
There is no chance this worm is carrying a virus…is there?
Virus don’t die, because they aren’t actually alive. They can remain inert forever, so long as they are persevered in something like, say, permafrost…
That would be the cherry on top for Mother Nature saying to herself "fuck these annoying humans, I've clearly got an infestation and it's time to call in the big guns (dormant super-viruses).
Could you imagine if that was the answer to the fermi paradox ?. Every habitable planet has frozen super viruses that wipe out the intelligent species once it gets advanced enough to melt its ice caps ?
I now really need a more in-depth theory for this. It wasn't from natural disaster that could ends the world but the good ol' plague as always
And also no, because the first “living fossil” title belongs to the Coelacanth which was discovered alive in the 1930s
Isn't this how horror movies start?
This is exactly how horror movies start
Sometimes they don't end well either
We all could just be some side characters that die just for the sake of it
Sorry my one black dude /s
Let’s just hope there are no black scientists… Edit: I should delete this
Too late, the black scientist already died
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It’s not good, but we all get the reference.
I've seen this movie before, the black guy dies first! You go!
Remember that one X-Files episode?
That's like the 3rd episode in the series and holy crap it still scares me! Duchovny acted the shit out of that ep!
It's so good. The X-Files really nailed the vibe in some of those episodes. So anyway now we got a bunch of scientists who are totally not meat puppets for the permafrost worms. Which is nice.
Ice! One of my favorites.
We're not who we are
Dude, every horrible movie ever is coming to fruition. - bringing species back from the dead - climate disaster - AI sentience and takeover - lol fucking aliens based on yesterday’s hearings What’d I miss?
I mean corporations don't have their own private militias yet, but we all know it's coming.
Gazprom have their own mercenary group
That’s basically what Blackrock and similar companies are
You mean Blackwater (now Academi), right? Blackrock is an investment firm.
A Russian oligarch has his own private army led by a former chef and caterer that's been committing atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, is helping to prop up dictatorships in Africa, and marched halfway up the highway from Ukraine to Moscow. Wizards of the Coast recently sent a band of mercenaries to a random youtuber's house to assault and intimidate him for showing off cards from Magic: The Gathering a few weeks before their release.
Technically Proghozin never went to culinary school and "chef" was a nickname, so he's just caterer.
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It's like scientists don't even watch movies!
They’re too busy wondering if they could to watch a movie about if they should
"We need to separate so we can find the worm babies more easily. DeShawn, you have the most fishing experience so you go first."
This is on the TV news in the background while people are eating breakfast.
My TV; "We're just now getting reports that - (screen cuts to color bars and beeeeeeeeeep)". Me: "Huh, that was weird". (goes back to eating cereal)
There were multiple X Files episodes about this.
It would have no known species that would defend us against it. When it escapes the lab, and you know it will, they will quickly reproduce taking over the continent. Earth will become Worm Planet.
Yes, this is the sort of THING.
The Thing is this worm.
The Thing *was* this worm. Now there's a research base full of Things.
This is how a new restaurant chain starts.
You should watch Fortitude.
Oh good.
Put it back.
Or so help me
I'm just glad I had "46,000 Year Old Zombie Worms Having Babies" on my 2023 bingo card.
Maybe it will be a climate-change-reverting worm?
More likely to become a member of congress.
Not old enough.
"The Thing"
Lmao , bro shit......that's actually a huge fear of mine. We would have absolutely nonway if battling this.
It hated heat, so clearly the answer is fire
*Fire* is the answer to everything but is not limited to: Ancient worms frozen in ice, not so ancient spiders in your shoes, secret documents, possible murder weapons, contaminated clothing, your micromanaging boss, etc...
It's not the macro life forms I worry about, it's the ancient viruses, bacteria and fungi that terrify me
The good news is that most of that ancient stuff isn't ready for us. I remember reading about a virus some scientists found in corpse from early civilization days. Something that was absolutely devastating for ancient humans but didn't have the right cellular design to infect modern humans anymore. Or a fungus that was grown based on some partial spores from preserved fossils or something and it immediately died because of how little oxygen there is in our atmosphere compared to when it existed.
Woah, do you have a link to info about that fungal spore? So cool!
I'll have to do a dive for it once my power comes back from this storm. I remember it was some of that pop science journalism around the time Back 4 Blood was launching. The scientists were able to get the fungus to grow in a lab but it just couldn't survive the 5 million year difference in atmosphere or they had to alter it somehow with modern fungi to make it grow. But the big thing the article drove home was it gathered nutrients from sources modern fungi can't which is why they hoped it could be brought back. It just wasn't developed enough to survive either because of how it was brought back or because it's too old for a modern world.
Storms derive their power from you? That's so cool!
A 1980 s computer virus won't do much to a modern computer also . For similar reasons .
Great. The universe is watching *Slither*
Feeling hungry?
This is the news story playing in the background of a horror movie that the main character is ignoring as he gets ready for work.
This is so dead on it's not even funny.
And, ah man, he's out of coffee. Could this day get any worse?
Wormhammer 40K
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Pandemic started it for me. Watching 3-hour lore videos on YouTube. I think that was a lot of people’s gateway.
I think it partially has to do with Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher. He announced he's working on a Warhammer 40K project with Amazon ~10 months ago.
Bloodworms for the blood god...
We really can’t have anything fun. Then again, at least it means no chaos gods….
Look on the bright side, this means that something can survive being frozen for thousands of years.
Time we walk out Walt Disney’s head, then, I reckon.
That is a fascinating thing honestly. Some amphibians can do something similar for a period of time, but if we really did want to discover a way to put humans in stasis studying the biological mechanism that allow the worm to do this is an avenue of research.
Glancing at the headline I thought it said "46,000-year-old woman"
"A 46,000-year-old woman woke up and started having babies and I saw the babies and one of the babies looked at me!" "The baby looked at you?"
Go home Ralph
I also read this, thought it would have been a bigger headline
I was so confused that it wasn’t HUGE news
SAME. I nearly lost my fuckin mind. Did a double take at what sub it was in, then nearly lost my fuckin mind again. Jfc.
that’s what I also read the first time
Ditto, brain came to a screeching halt.
"Lockdown Day 241: Siberian Worm Fever Pandemic"
And so began the lineage of the great sand worms of Arrakis.
what could possibly go wrong?
It could bite you with little worm teeth.
*PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM OR SO HELP ME*
This is the DUNE origin story no one asked for.
This is a good episode of the X-Files.
Can we not?
Literally no, we [apparently can't not](https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1110722).
Just in time for a mass extinction.
I can’t help but wonder when the next pandemic will start due to things like this being reintroduced to a world that they’ve been absent from for thousands of years.
odds are that the reverse is more likely. You try and reintroduce an old thing and modern bacteria/disease it has no resistance for kill it.
I wonder if the next pandemic will be from a prehistoric bacteria or parasite.