Considering Xenomorphs took inspiration from parasitic wasps and moray eels, Jean Jacket took inspiration from cuttlefish and jellyfish, and Graboids took inspiration from bobbit worms, I think the best movie aliens should always take inspiration from the most fucked up parts of nature
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Rewatching one of my favorite childhood movies, Tremors, a b horror movie starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward about underground monsters that hunt by sound, and I want to talk about a specific character.
Specifically the main female lead and love interest to Kevin Bacon’s Valentine- Rhonda Lebeck. For a movie made in 1990, Rhonda is a surprisingly feminist portrayal of a female lead (like Laura Dern’s Ellie in Jurassic Park).
Rhonda is a student studying seismic activity in the isolated town of Perfection, Nevada and is constantly acknowledged, by every character int he movie including (and especially) the men, as the smartest person in town. They constantly ask her opinion and respect her intelligence and never question the fact that a woman is smarter than they are. Any time she has an idea it is never question because she is a woman and she never has to do that not-really-feminist-a-woman-must-prove-herself thing movies to this day still do.
There is one scene about halfway through the movie where Rhonda gets tangled up in barbed wire and must take off her pants in order to escape the monster dragging her into it’s mouth using said barbed wire. The scene is in no way played as sexual, or a gratification scene for the men watching the movie. any close up of Rhonda is shot from the waist up and we only see her bare legs in wider shots meant to showcase the monster, not her half-nakedness. the only time we see a closeup of her bare legs is when her wounds are being tended to, it only lasts a few moments, and you can see that she has hair on her legs. Which took me a few re-watches to notice but I feel added to the non-sexual take on her bare legs, as even to this day women in movies and tv are always shaved as smooth as dolphins.
She also dresses appropriately for the situation she’s in- hiking boots, cargo pants, long sleeved shirt. Earlier in the movie she wears shorts that aren’t halfway up her ass. She dresses for doing fieldwork in the middle of the desert and the filmmakers didn’t take it as an opportunity to have her parading around in short shorts and a bikini top like some movies have done to female characters in horror movies.
I just like how Rhonda is treated like a character, not just a two dimensional love interest. The relationship between her and Valentine is also really sweet and it’s revealed in later movies, that neither character appear in, that they get married and have a daughter together (although it is implied in later movies the two have gotten divorced).
Just a solid character and one of my favorite female characters in a movie.
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wanted to try painting/rendering over an image (I don’t remember what it’s called) and decided to also do the ibis paint default color challenge!!
love me some graboids ^_^
Original image :-)
(I know it probably doesn’t look great, I’ve only done this like one time before sry)
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silly little moment with friend is when they tell me i "know lots about movies" and like!!!!!! wow!!! i do??? I do!!! (not really)
fanboying irl so bad like i just know some things and now you gotta know okay
i was talking bout the movie Tremors with the aliens and sand (even though i only vaguely remmember the movie)
I watched the trolls movies with this friend!! And during lunch at school we are watching the hunger games together!!!!! so i guess whenever we are together i talk about old movies and such because when i see her it reminds me of things i like; specifially movie plots that i want to share with her, or even watch togrther one day.
Itss been really fun looking back in a positive light of what is now :3
Anywho may post lots more fanboying like this ive just been super busy, i want 2 share more fanboying and silly things i enjoye if thats okays ^_^
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Having a marathon of the Tremor movies tonight. Just finished the first and about to order food before I start the second.
I don't care what anyone says. These movies are great.
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When the Bacon keeps getting away.
Grumpy chonky Graboid.
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can you imagine if Perfection, Nevada had a town Facebook page
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Tremors is called "Marksommer" in Norwegian, meaning "Worm Summer." I'm pretty sure these sneaky bastards called it that because Jaws in Norwegian is called "Haisommer" meaning, you guessed it, "Shark Summer." So we got ourselves a little unofficial "[X-creature] Summer" movie universe, you could say.
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they’re wondering if you’d still love them if they were worms how do you respond 🥺🥺
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