Saturday, February 1, 2020

Super Bowl Alternatives

First Quarter Moon

There are better ways to spend a Sunday than to wrap yourself in The Flag, memorize commercials, agonize over instant replays, and bloat your belly with junk food/alcohol. You could actually think for yourself. You could do what is best for your own self-interest. You could bike your favorite bike trail. Or hike at the nearest National or State Park. Or hit the beach with the kids. Or crochet something cute for your nieces. You could ski.

Or...you could immerse yourself in what is indisputably the greatest B movie series in cinematic history - you could binge watch all six of the Tremors movies. Not only will you be thoroughly (down to the cellular level) entertained, educated, and stimulated, you will prepare yourself for the imminent release of Tremors 7, slithering, stomping, and plowing soon toward (obscure) theaters near you.

Big Plus: there are gratuitous references to geology, geologists, and paleontology.

Listen, you can keep your Star Wars and Star Trek and Batman movies. They are fundamentally flawed, dishonest B movies with giant budgets and kitschy gear promos. Tremors fans know truly, honestly, absurd-in-the-best-way, tongue-in-the-cheek, Heroic Cultural Parody when they see it. They know that Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) is a God/Legend and that Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is the Powderfinger King of the Deplorables.

The one and only Fred Ward, RIP.

Michael Gross, postmodern praying-for-the-Apocalypse American hero. Whatever.
For your convenience and for your Sunday fun, in your own self-improvement best interests, I have compiled a preview list of trailers for each of the six previously released Tremors movies and (teaser warning) Tremors 7. The SciFi channel had a Tremors marathon two weekends ago. I pray you recorded them. BUT, I am sure you can find each movie with ease on the interwebs. AND/OR, if you become as humbled and devoted a fan as millions of the rest of us, you can purchase all of them online in DVD or Blue Ray, whatever the hell that is, from your friendly Zombizon botperson.

Prepare to fall in love. This will change your life and possibly eliminate that phony little ad-hook that leads you around by the holiday nose all the time. Welcome to Perfection.

Click on the franchise poster captions to view each trailer.

Tremors 1
Why Kevin Bacon got top billing on the above poster I will never understand. Fred Ward is the indomitable star.

Tremors 2: Aftershocks

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