Let's take a Ladies Picnic and Discuss What We Learned!

[Trekker4747]

I learned that people will easily drink unidentified spirits of indeterminate age found in abandoned shacks.

I also learned that the first things some people will want to do in said abandoned shacks is to take a hot bath in an old washtub.

I learned that, apparently, there's more than one kind of tub.

I learned that stop-motion is a lost art. (I didn't think the stop-motion in this movie was too bad considering the budget it likely had.)

I learned that when flying cross-country (?) for an important seminar/convention it's better to fly private than commercial.  Except, considering how things turned out, maybe not.

I learned that giant arachnids with 6 visible eyes either see in regular, human-like, vision; red Predator-like vision or red, 5-point, kaleidescope-vision.

I learned that college girls give in to lesbian tendencies pretty easily, and that harder-assed college girls will treat her peers like children, taking on a maternal role.

[kunedog]

If calling the police and Air Force fails to immediately accomplish your lofty goal of striking back at the spiders, then you shouldn't forget the fallback goal of merely escaping.  A simple taxi will do.

The girls is just girls.

Possible spider movement sounds a lot like a swingset, but is in fact a windmill.  I personally thought it was a braying donkey.

[Trekker4747]

I learned that Bruce Campbell from "Ice Breaker" must have gotten his RPGs from this military group.

[MerryWanna]

I learned that Rifftrax and Edgewood Studios seem to be developing a symbiotic relationship.

[Compound]

I learned that airmen carry a hell of a lot of grenades.

[Thrashalla]

I learned that Rifftrax and Edgewood Studios seem to be developing a symbiotic relationship.

Haha, easy to see why but: nope. Coincidence. All of this stuff just happened to finish up and launch in a similar window.

[MerryWanna]

I also learned that spiders have the hind ends of ants, and are a single khaki green- gray color.

[fodder650]

I learned that Rifftrax and Edgewood Studios seem to be developing a symbiotic relationship.

Haha, easy to see why but: nope. Coincidence. All of this stuff just happened to finish up and launch in a similar window.

At this point how much does Edgewood have left in their film vaults?

[Trekker4747]

I learned that sometimes stern-demeanor-ed college students will treat her classmates like they're little kids during a sleep-in.

Seriously, what was with that?! She was talking to them just like two little kids have a sleep-over even when after the look over the excitement late at night she ushers them back to bed with a "come'on enough excitement for you two, back to bed."   I get she was sort of an ass and the two other girls were kind of idiots but the way she treated them was sort of messed-up and unrealistic.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I learned that spiders molt like insects, even though they are not insects.

I learned that the "destroy the Queen" trope of horror movies trumps the basics of spider social structures and biology. We could have ended the threat by blowing up the nest, but no, we have to Kill THe Queen, because of course there is a queen, this is a creature feature horror movie and we have to have a fight scene where we kill the queen, even if our actual protagonists have no involvement in that.

I learned that a species which has un-spider-like larval stages will still have young emerge fully formed as tiny adults from a victim that has eggs laid in him, even though said young spiders are actually smaller than the worm-like larvae.

Seriously, the spider biology was all over the map here.

I learned that you can employ just about every creature feature trope in the book but still have enough original thought in your head to not kill off the black character.

I learned that professors specializing in prehistoric life-forms will forget that there used to be really huge bugs all over the planet if they are pompous and unlikeable enough.

I learned that the alcohol in a snotty professor's flask does not need to follow conservation of mass as long as there is a good old-fashioned jug of moonshine for him to turn down in an attempt to prove he's snotty.

I learned that lesbian and bisexual women are better at surviving onslaughts of giant prehistoric spiders than mainstream television.