@@MandoWookie It's not that unreasonable. It is actually pretty common for most gun enthusiasts. All you have to do is buy 1-2 guns every year or two, which isn't that difficult. By the time you are 40 you've got a "wall of guns".
Samantha, she is cleaning the brass cases left over from firing their ammo cartridges during shooting. The device is a tumbler with cleaning media like crushed walnut shells to remove the powder residue, so those brass cases can be reused. The cleaned cases are ready for the reloading process to make reloaded ammunition.
Surprisingly this movie has probably the most accurate gun usage of any movie I’ve seen. Little things like Burt checking the revolver after he gets it back from Melvin (even though he knows it’s empty it is proper to check it anyway), or Burt’s comment about Hydra-Shok hollow points really make it enjoyable.
"Tremors" is one of the GREATEST B- movies of all time! And I mean that. It was never any kind of a blockbuster, and when it came out, the responses to it were pretty underwhelming. I can't imagine it made much money in the theatres. But over time, "Tremors" has just kind of... grown its' own fanbase. Like a fine wine, "Tremors" has pretty much aged outstandingly. It wasn't very highly thought of when it was first brewed, but the older it gets, the more it seems to appeal to people.
@@DanJackson1977 just because somethings bombs in theater doesnt mean its a total. bomb. shawshank redemption wasnt successful. but its a timeless classic now.
I really do think this should be taught in film schools. It hits that perfect balance between action, characters, and storytelling. We know just enough about these characters to be invested in their survival without having to rely on stereotypes or quirks to inform the characters. They are well rounded and not just there to be victims, the movie has one of the highest survival rates of most monster movies. The action is so well paced and well executed and nothing drags on too long. And the script and the story has no fat on it, no tangents or improved scenes that they had to fit together later, everything that happens is set up and paid off. And for me personally I don't live anywhere as remote as Perfection, but I do live in a rural area and it is so refreshing to see rural people not portrayed as bumpkins and buffoons. They may not be the smartest people but they can problem solve and think on their feet and adjust when things go wrong.
It was also a fairly cheaply made movie. They shot it in a cheap location. Almost all of their effects were practical and they didn't need to have the monsters on screen with the characters a lot aside from a few set pieces. It is essentially a "how to" on filmmaking and especially a "how to" on 'horror', which are fairly cheap by themselves.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's a very lean and efficient film with not a wasted moment, and sharply done in practically all aspects. And indeed practically no silly tropes or ridiculous characters or any of that. In fact, I'd call this one of those quite rare films that plays dumb but is actually quite smart.
It really is the perfect movie. If you consider pacing, character development, Just the right amount of humor, And creature effects that truly live up to the term movie magic , it is perfect.
the concept is "jaws on land". by any other producers, it would be complete schlock. but this movie has witty dialogue, character, every plot point is set up and pays off.
The actual story behind this movie according to DVD commentary: The writer would take lunch breaks out in the desert while working in town. During one particularly boring day as his break was winding down he wondered, "What if there was something down on the ground that would prevent me from going back to work". After a few more months Graboids were born.
Tremors is like Robocop. It hits at all levels. It's funny, ridiculous, exciting and actually scary at times. When I visited Joshua Tree as a kid, I was still scared of Graboids lol
MY MAN! Appreciate the shout to RoboCop, which I agree that they're both very efficient films that are satisfying in practically all the elements that make for good cinema as well as all the aspects specific to each film they bring up (and then some). Simply put they're both films that play dumb but are actually both very sharp.
Tremors is basically the kind of movie you would show to film students. It hits all the marks in terms of great movie making. Great characters with motivations and actions that make sense. It utilized every special effect known at the time. Needless to say, they make few quality movies with heart and soul like this anymore.
Part of the genius of this film is pairing up Michael Gross, the strait-laced middle class dad from the sitcom Family Ties, and Reba McEntire as gun-nut survivalists.
What I really enjoy about this movie is how intelligent most of the characters are. When a problem shows up they work to solve it. Only Nester dies from a bad decision. And in the end over half of the main cast survives to the very end. I like that a lot.
18:50 That is called a brass tumbler. It is full of "media" which is small pieces of abrasive material. It vibrates and the media slowly cleans the inside and outside of used brass. It is used by reloaders who make their own ammunition.
the real gift of this movie is that the main characters are not the brightest bulbs on earth.. but in order to deal with the problem.. they have to constantly THINK their way out of each new complication
I really appreciate the character writing in this movie. They’re simple country folk, but they’re still competent and at least basically intelligent. As opposed to most other horror movies that take place in a rural setting, where the characters are all just complete freaking morons.
@@marcuscato9083 Actually all horror movies have the cliche of the cast and people in it being stupid hence the jokes black people make about how white people always split up like scooby doo every time they hear some weird shit in the woods or etc. As well the rural and heartland are not that great in reality either, just like everywhere else.
Again most horror films make most if not every character a moron for plot and or to make their horror element work Tremors is one of those few movies that breaks that mold, but still has the dumb ass characters like Lester, the Doc who basically gets himself eaten from the legs up by not listening to his wife, etc. etc.
Tremors (1990) Tremors 2 : Aftershocks (1996) Tremors 3 : Back To Perfection (2001) Tremors 4 : The Legend Begins (2004) Tremors 5 : Bloodlines (2015) Tremors : A Cold Day In Hell (2018) Tremors : Shrieker Island (2020) There was also a TV series in 2003
I always hear Desert Jack saying this in the third film, the tourist kid says take a picture of me with the Tremor and he's like "They're called Graboids!"
A few years ago i made a list of these movies : 1990 Tremors, 1995 Aftershocks, 2001 Back to perfection, followed by a 13part series in 2003, 2004 The Legend Begins, 2015 Bloodlines, 2018 A Cold Day in Hell, and planned for 2020 Shrieker Island. And although too many sequels often become silly or superflous, at least the first 3 or 4 movies continue nicely, [small SPOILER follows!] : similar to the Alien movie series revealing more and more of the Alien lifecycle
Does this count as a "B" movie? Seriously asking. This was a quality movie all around. Might be better than Pitch Black, from the creature movie angle, I mean.
Loved this movie as a kid. Played this for my kiddos recently and my 8 year old LOVED it. What Heather is doing with the bullets is polishing the shell casings, most likely to reuse them and make more ammo.
Excellent to see the tradition of showing this movie to kids who are really too young to be watching it continue, LOL. This and Jurassic Park were basically my bedtime stories. My Dad also raised me on 80s action movies and Star Wars. Good times.
One of those movies that you end up watching every time you see it’s on. Fun, funny, intense, exciting, it has everything. All these years later, still can’t get over how well Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward play off each other. Wish we had more films with them together.
"Tremors" was basically my "The Floor Is Lava"...the game where you can't touch the floor. I based my version of that game on this movie...and even called it "Tremors"...that's how much I love this movie. And Reba! Gotta love Reba McEntire! She's not on Dolly's level, but she's still royalty in country music.
A few things I really like about Tremors as a horror-action movie: It takes place mostly in the broad daylight, it's really satisfying that the creatures follow well-defined rules that the human characters exploit in clever ways, and the practical effects are fucking amazing!
A genuine classic. Kids who grew up in the 90s watched this countless times on cable channels like TBS, TNT or USA. It seemed like the movie played constantly all summer every summer.
An absolute classic. When we went to see this at the cinema we had no illusions about it and was using it as a filler because there were no other big movies about for our weekly film night. When we came out we were hooked, I must have seen it countless times since. This, The Princess Bride and Galaxy Quest are three films that just get better and better as the years go by.
That is a great observation! Sounds almost like one of Uncle Iroh's! Your other comment also reminds me of Taoist concept of wu wei - doing nothing in order to do more! 😁
Easily one of Kevin Bacon's best performances and introduces everybody's favorite survivalist; after this are Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Beginning, Tremors 5: Bloodlines, Tremors 6: A Cold Day in Hell and Tremors 7: Shrieker Island; this brilliantly mixes animatronics, miniatures and other practical effects
It's the movie series that simply will not die. I've never been overly impressed with any of the sequels, just because it's not the same without the two main characters. But apparently it has enough of a following to keep justifying them. For me, the first film is all I need. I'm a simple guy.
A ~30min video was poated to the Tremors youtube channel in 2020 called "Tremors: Making Perfection", a retrospective doc of the making of the movie. Fans should check it out.
YES!! I grew up watching this movie on the Navajo Nation! The idea of the movie cane from Brent Maddock and SS Wilson whom were in the Navy. They were taking notes while sitting on a large Boulder in a Nevada Test Site and one of them said, "What if there was something under the ground that would never let us off this rock?" And thus Tremors was born. They filmed the movie on location in Lone Pine, California, which is where they filmed Back To The Future 3.
18:55. That’s a brass tumbler. If you reload ammunition, one part of the process is to place the used brass casings in a medium (corn husk, etc) inside the agitator. After some time, the brass is clean and shiny, ready for a new primer, powder, and bullet.
@@MandoWookie Got a friend who uses little stainless steel pins instead of corn husk. But I still just use corn husk and sometimes put in some oil or brass cleaner with it.
The SyFy channel did a whole biological history of the Graboids. They are officially a lost offshoot of land evolved squids that survived from prehistoric times.
@@TBRSchmitt Longtime lurker, first time commenting! This was one of the first, if not the first, movie I rented from our local video store back in early 90s! You might also enjoy this short video project (ruclips.net/video/PaXEzvosnSE/видео.html) that explains graboids in the style of 1960s wildlife reports. If you haven't seen Tremors 2, you should skip the part between 1:54 and 2:15 since it is a bit of a spoiler! Also, you two are just the best! Keep up the good work!
Poor Mindy, traumatized in Perfection Valley, goes to her Grandfathers new park (Jurassic), traumatized again, returns to perfection Valley...She is a movie unto herself!
Mm...my impulse was to say that seeing the notification was the best thing that's happened all day, but on reflection, it's been a pretty swell day all around. Let's say it's a perfect ending for the day, then.
I would Highly recommend Tremors 2, I love all of em honestly but mostly 1 & 2, Three is kind of fun too and has some amazing lines so if you want give it a watch but I would very much encourage you to watch Tremors 2 it is IMO as good as the first one.
i have the tremors attack pack, with the first 4. tremors 1 - 3 are awesome, and the 4th one is kind of like back to the future 3, it's ok as an old west movie, but not as good as the previous iterations.
2:08 foreshadowing, Ward falling out of the jeep in the sleeping bag looked like the creature shooting out the side of the cliff at the end after noise attracted it to that direction.
Great movie! One of the funny things about the character of Burt Gummer(played by Michael Gross) is that Michael Gross had just finished filming the last episode of “Family Ties”. His character in that show, Steven Keaton, is a left-leaning peace-love-dope ex-hippie, the polar opposite of Burt Gummer- which made Michael Gross’ character that much more funny.
This is just a delightful movie. It's the perfect "I can watch grown-up movie, I'm not a kid anymore" fare. The chemistry between the actors is perfect. The dirt effects are believabe. No CGI, and where the effects actually DO look fake, it just adds to the charm. Amazing. The characters make intelligent decisions, but are defeated at every turn Oh NO! Thanks for your excellent reactions, once again.
There's some really nice realistic touches in this film too, like showing the main characters eating a meal when they get back to town, since they spent all night on that boulder. Of course they would be hungry, but some movies wouldn't bother to put a small detail like that in there.
it was originally much more grown up as the intention was for an R rating with 17 f-bombs. the studio wanted it more family friendly, so most were edited out leaving just a single one instead
@@synaesthesia2010 And I am glad they made that decision. So many kids had fun playing 'The floor is Lava' after seeing this - they would have missed out!
@@RetroRobotRadio The second one is more or less "okay," nothing special. But it should have ended there. Every sequel after that next one gets progressively more boring, and less entertaining.
Absolute cult classic, I love this movie. There are 7 Tremors movies. The second one is pretty good, but the rest are kind of so so except the fourth one, it's horrible. btw that is the girl from Jurassic Park.
Burt (Michael Gross) had just finished the TV series "Family Matters" as Michael J Fox's, ex-hippie, father. So this was a massive change in character for him and it surprised all of us.
Family Ties, and yes, I was just thinking about how newer viewers don't have that connection for Gross. Back then, it was almost like watching Mr Rogers turn Rambo!
As a kid the difference between Burt and him in Family Ties was my first time experiencing an actor playing two such different characters. He did such a good job that by the end of the movie he was no longer The Dad from Family Ties for me. The only thing that comes close is lovable Woody from Cheers turning into a serial killer in Natural Born Killers.
this movie is my guilty pleasure i LOVE all the tremors movies have fun watching them. its a young kevin bacon its a low B monster movie it has 6 sequels
Fun fact: for the pole-vault scene they couldn't find a bunch of boulders line up like that, so they had to bring in a bunch of heavy machines to move the boulders into position.
Greatest B-Movie of all time... so glad you guys did this one! Edit: 2:17 it knew the car was there from an earlier scene... if you watch when Burt and Heather arrive home, their truck bounces slightly into an indentation in the ground... that's a Graboid hole...
This is proof that my phone is spying on me. I just watched this movie last night and then this channel just shows up on my YT suggestions....then again I do watch it every month.
Note the hair color change at 27:38 - The original ending was just Val and Earl riding off into sunset, the kissing scene was added way later after test audiences hated that Val and Rhonda didn't have any kind of closure to their story at the end. One of my all-time fav films and a perfect friday night popcorn mayhem movie. \o/
I HIGHLY recommend the second one. It went straight to video but was meant for theatrical release but Universal cut down the budget and backed out on a theatre release at the last second. But even with a slightly smaller budget 2 is funnier and actually scarier. You can stop at 2 though. Its a huge down slide after that one.
I'm so happy to get to see you guys enjoy this one! Tremors is just a perfectly executed movie! It knows exactly what it is and what it wants to do, and it does it all with so much wit, charm and joy! It's so much fun to watch and it never gets old, either.
I love this movie. It's like Aliens: whenever it's on tv, I am compelled to watch it. The chemistry between the cast is incredible. I completely forgot that Lex from Jurassic Park is in this. She also returned for Tremors 3.
19:17: This scene sparked my interests in guns. The type of weapons they used in this scene are as follows: Heather: Winchester Model 70 Burt:Steyr-Mannlicher SSG-PII rifle Winchester 1200 Defender HK 91A2 (FAL carbine) Colt AR-15 Sporter 2 Remington 870 SIG-Sauer P226/Ruger Redhawk William Moore 8 gauge shotgun (Elephant gun) M8 flare pistol
I JUST watched this on cable this afternoon. I've only seen it about 37 times, but I always enjoy it -- good script, some fun acting (even if some is over the top), and a fun "monster". Good fun watching you two watch it! This is what you can call fun entertainment.
YES!!! Welcome aboard the The world of Burt Gummer. The firearms expert rabbit hole. After the second Tremors I only watched to see what Burt was gonna do next.
I love this movie to but the biggest plot hole is definitely Burt's truck. We learn in the movie the Tremors hunt via vibration. The doctors car made sense because the wife was inside it moving around. The buildings made sense because the cast where up on the roof and the Tremors where like "Hey I can feel them moving around, why can't I find them?" Even old stumpy makes sense as you could argue there was no need for Val to go all bullfighter. We know the bombs overloads the Tremors senses and they run away from the explosions. So Stumpy wasn't really going after Val, it was running away from the bomb. But Burt's truck was just sitting there, engine off with nobody in it while Burt and Heather was up on the roof of their compound. So how in the heck did the Tremor possibly find Burt's truck? That was the 1 plot hole in the movie that didn't make sense.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Tremors 2 is pretty good too. Though Kevin Bacon and Reba McIntyre don't return. I'm afraid the law of diminishing returns kicks in with the sequels and TV series. If you want to see more Fred Ward, who played Earl, I suggest Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. A very entertaining movie with a terrific performance by Joel Grey. BTW, that was the girl from Jurassic Park.
@@kamkelevra There's wonderful dialogue between Remo and Chiun. Chiun especially has so many great lines. Chiun: It would be better for you to eat this can than what is inside it. Why must everything in your country be coated in monositi...monosoti... Remo: Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it Chiun: I can say "rat droppings". That does not mean I want to eat them.
And I remember him saying something about how old he was comparing his age to a tree it's been so long I can't remember for sure...and that crazy obstacle course he completed and then had the lights turned off him and the smart ass guard dogs...it's a forgotten jem
@@kamkelevra Remo: How old are you? I mean, you're really old. Aren't you? Chiun: For and apricot, yes. For a head of lettuce, even more so. For a mountain, I have not yet begun in years. For a man, I am just right.
Great reaction and discussion.. perfect balance of horror and comedy. Have always loved this movie... totally rewatchable due to a great script and great acting by the primary characters.
19:00 - "What's she doing?" She's cleaning spent brass casings. They're survivalist types, so they reload ammo for their guns. When you go shooting, you collect your used casings, clean them and reload them with custom bullets and powder charge. This allows you to make ammo that's more powerful than commercially available ammo. Or to recycle casing for expensive ammo, cutting your costs to shoot. Reloading used to be a lot more common in the 1980's/90s. After the fall of the Soviet Union, cheap ammo imports from former Eastern Bloc nations helped drive down the cost of ammunition, so reloading became less common.
Usually in movies like this the scientist character will spout some pseudoscientific nonsense to explain the monsters. Which is why I love how in this movie the scientist very correctly says, "I don't know!"
Good observation! That is what makes Rhonda (the seismology student) such a great and likable character. She makes some good and sound assumptions about graboids because she has the best scientific background, but later she almost jokingly lampshadss it by replying "Why do you keep asking me?" since this is not her area of expertise.
Wooh, Tremors! Great reaction! I love this old monster flick. It was the first sort of "scary" movie I saw as a kid and I also loved it. Surprisingly well made for what it is, good use of low budget FX, good pacing, decent characters and there's something about 80s and early 90s movies where there was some thought out behavior and traits (rules) of the monster that the characters can learn and then use to overcome and defeat it. Tremors, Aliens and Predator were the main inspirations of a lot of games (not digital ones) me and my friends would play as kids. Good memories! :D
I'm excited for you all to watch 'Tremors 2' which is THE best of the entire Tremors franchise! (including the tv series) for 1 simple fact.. BURT! (the father in family ties) and has one of Burt's best lines. ".. I am.. completely out of ammo!.... that's never happened to me before..."
Tremors! A fantastic pick. I was afraid it wouldn't come up because I figured y'all saw it already but good to see I was wrong (well, half-wrong lol). Needless to say I immediately smashed that like 😉 But this was yet another fantastic video more than worthy of it! EDIT - Loved Sam's cheering for Burt and Heather. Which I do too. They're awesome indeed!
I told my little cousin that the store owner was Mister Miyagi from Karate Kid and that Ralph Macchio was very sad when the Graboids got his teacher. She never forgave me for that.
Actor Fred Ward (Earl) passed away today…Rest In Peace
The basement gun scene was a defining moment of my childhood.
Same lol
Saw this in theater when I was like 13 or 14 everyone was screaming and laughing when that pan to the back wall happened
That basement scene, and Burt Gummer in general, may have set me unreasonable life goals.
@@MandoWookie It's not that unreasonable. It is actually pretty common for most gun enthusiasts. All you have to do is buy 1-2 guns every year or two, which isn't that difficult. By the time you are 40 you've got a "wall of guns".
Broke into the wrong goddamned recroom didn't you, you bastard!
Samantha, she is cleaning the brass cases left over from firing their ammo cartridges during shooting. The device is a tumbler with cleaning media like crushed walnut shells to remove the powder residue, so those brass cases can be reused. The cleaned cases are ready for the reloading process to make reloaded ammunition.
WoW finally THANK YOU after like 20/30 years I finally know
Surprisingly this movie has probably the most accurate gun usage of any movie I’ve seen. Little things like Burt checking the revolver after he gets it back from Melvin (even though he knows it’s empty it is proper to check it anyway), or Burt’s comment about Hydra-Shok hollow points really make it enjoyable.
I've had the same question since I first saw this movie so thank you for the explanation.
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Thank you for explaining. I’ve been wondering for many, many years what she was doing to those slugs .
"Tremors" is one of the GREATEST B- movies of all time! And I mean that.
It was never any kind of a blockbuster, and when it came out, the responses to it were pretty underwhelming. I can't imagine it made much money in the theatres. But over time, "Tremors" has just kind of... grown its' own fanbase. Like a fine wine, "Tremors" has pretty much aged outstandingly. It wasn't very highly thought of when it was first brewed, but the older it gets, the more it seems to appeal to people.
I saw this with my dad and grandpa when it came out. We were there only one there on opening weekend. Kinda flew under the radar, sad but fun movie.
apparently the vhs sales more than made up for the box office disappointment. sometimes all that stands between success and failure is timing.
i think it went to theaters didnt it? but yea very good.
@@deathgrinderb3284 it did, but it bombed. It found its audience on home video.
@@DanJackson1977 just because somethings bombs in theater doesnt mean its a total. bomb. shawshank redemption wasnt successful. but its a timeless classic now.
The reveal of that wall of guns is just glorious every time.
I really do think this should be taught in film schools. It hits that perfect balance between action, characters, and storytelling. We know just enough about these characters to be invested in their survival without having to rely on stereotypes or quirks to inform the characters. They are well rounded and not just there to be victims, the movie has one of the highest survival rates of most monster movies. The action is so well paced and well executed and nothing drags on too long. And the script and the story has no fat on it, no tangents or improved scenes that they had to fit together later, everything that happens is set up and paid off. And for me personally I don't live anywhere as remote as Perfection, but I do live in a rural area and it is so refreshing to see rural people not portrayed as bumpkins and buffoons. They may not be the smartest people but they can problem solve and think on their feet and adjust when things go wrong.
It was also a fairly cheaply made movie. They shot it in a cheap location. Almost all of their effects were practical and they didn't need to have the monsters on screen with the characters a lot aside from a few set pieces. It is essentially a "how to" on filmmaking and especially a "how to" on 'horror', which are fairly cheap by themselves.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's a very lean and efficient film with not a wasted moment, and sharply done in practically all aspects. And indeed practically no silly tropes or ridiculous characters or any of that. In fact, I'd call this one of those quite rare films that plays dumb but is actually quite smart.
It actually is in some films schools to teach how to make a perfect movie
Another RUclipsr made a video about great storytelling that used lots of examples from this movie.
Well said
It’s just a film where you get REAL LIFE PEOPLE like us
This is the perfect movie, hands down, so rewatchable.
The perfect movie, no. Great movie, sure. Rewatchable, of course.
One might say... "Perfection."
honestly one of the legends of pre-cgi effects. just a masterwork.
So much fun and always worth a rewatch when it is on TV!
It really is the perfect movie. If you consider pacing, character development, Just the right amount of humor, And creature effects that truly live up to the term movie magic , it is perfect.
the concept is "jaws on land". by any other producers, it would be complete schlock. but this movie has witty dialogue, character, every plot point is set up and pays off.
Jaws on land is a great way to describe Tremors!
I feel that cheapens it
This concept can be found in the 1964 ep of The Outer Limits "The Invisible Enemy" with Adam West but on Mars. 😱💀
The actual story behind this movie according to DVD commentary: The writer would take lunch breaks out in the desert while working in town. During one particularly boring day as his break was winding down he wondered, "What if there was something down on the ground that would prevent me from going back to work". After a few more months Graboids were born.
yes, and not at all as stupidly ridiculous as "Jaws in the air" (Sharknado movie series)
Earl passed away today. 79 years old. R.i.p. Fred ward
2 years ago already
Tremors is like Robocop. It hits at all levels. It's funny, ridiculous, exciting and actually scary at times. When I visited Joshua Tree as a kid, I was still scared of Graboids lol
Good comparison.
I was thinking Jaws.. Land Shark
MY MAN! Appreciate the shout to RoboCop, which I agree that they're both very efficient films that are satisfying in practically all the elements that make for good cinema as well as all the aspects specific to each film they bring up (and then some). Simply put they're both films that play dumb but are actually both very sharp.
Also like robocop, the sequels aren’t worthwhile
actually, i feel this is more like arachnophobia. campy and fun. pure 89 90
Tremors is basically the kind of movie you would show to film students. It hits all the marks in terms of great movie making. Great characters with motivations and actions that make sense. It utilized every special effect known at the time. Needless to say, they make few quality movies with heart and soul like this anymore.
Part of the genius of this film is pairing up Michael Gross, the strait-laced middle class dad from the sitcom Family Ties, and Reba McEntire as gun-nut survivalists.
The incomparable Michael Gross as seen in Cool As Ice
What I really enjoy about this movie is how intelligent most of the characters are. When a problem shows up they work to solve it. Only Nester dies from a bad decision. And in the end over half of the main cast survives to the very end. I like that a lot.
18:50 she's polishing cases for reloading
Oo thanks for the clarification!
18:50 That is called a brass tumbler. It is full of "media" which is small pieces of abrasive material. It vibrates and the media slowly cleans the inside and outside of used brass. It is used by reloaders who make their own ammunition.
the real gift of this movie is that the main characters are not the brightest bulbs on earth.. but in order to deal with the problem.. they have to constantly THINK their way out of each new complication
I really appreciate the character writing in this movie. They’re simple country folk, but they’re still competent and at least basically intelligent. As opposed to most other horror movies that take place in a rural setting, where the characters are all just complete freaking morons.
Yeah that and I like the whole idea of the community coming together to solve a problem, however weird that problem may be.
Man, that is so spot on. Hollywood loves talking about tolerance but in reality their portrayal of rural people is overwhelmingly negative.
@@marcuscato9083 Actually all horror movies have the cliche of the cast and people in it being stupid
hence the jokes black people make about how white people always split up like scooby doo every time they hear some weird shit in the woods or etc.
As well the rural and heartland are not that great in reality either, just like everywhere else.
Again most horror films make most if not every character a moron for plot and or to make their horror element work
Tremors is one of those few movies that breaks that mold, but still has the dumb ass characters
like Lester, the Doc who basically gets himself eaten from the legs up by not listening to his wife, etc. etc.
As my one of my favorite book series puts it the people in Tremors have "flexible minds" ie when shit gets weird they just adapt to it
Tremors (1990)
Tremors 2 : Aftershocks (1996)
Tremors 3 : Back To Perfection (2001)
Tremors 4 : The Legend Begins (2004)
Tremors 5 : Bloodlines (2015)
Tremors : A Cold Day In Hell (2018)
Tremors : Shrieker Island (2020)
There was also a TV series in 2003
When I was younger, instead of playing "floor is lava", me and my friends would play "tremors".
The title 'Tremors' refers to the vibrations in the ground that are recorded by the seismograph.
The monsters were called 'Graboids'.
I always hear Desert Jack saying this in the third film, the tourist kid says take a picture of me with the Tremor and he's like "They're called Graboids!"
It's a common mistake that they make fun of in movie 3.
A few years ago i made a list of these movies : 1990 Tremors, 1995 Aftershocks, 2001 Back to perfection, followed by a 13part series in 2003, 2004 The Legend Begins, 2015 Bloodlines, 2018 A Cold Day in Hell, and planned for 2020 Shrieker Island. And although too many sequels often become silly or superflous, at least the first 3 or 4 movies continue nicely, [small SPOILER follows!] :
similar to the Alien movie series revealing more and more of the Alien lifecycle
The gun bunker scene is one of the most memorable of any "B" movie. Great film!
"Broke into the wrong godd*mn rec room, didnt ya, you b*astard!"
It reminds me of the scene in Predator when they're all just unloading into the jungle.
Does this count as a "B" movie? Seriously asking. This was a quality movie all around. Might be better than Pitch Black, from the creature movie angle, I mean.
Never... Ever... Break into a survivalist's rec room. It won't go well for you.
And then along came Tremors 2 and nobody could stop Burt's reign as the greatest man ever.
Fred Ward is such a hoot he’s great in every role classic old time actor, thanks again y’all that was a blast
I never really was a fan but i thought REMO WILLIAMS was a very good and underated movie.
@@CaptWalker just read he passed away today, Rip Mr Ward I and many others enjoyed your work
@@thunderstruck5484 man I can't believe he's gone just found out he was a fellow Airman too. Hate seeing all these people from my childhood pass away.
Loved this movie as a kid. Played this for my kiddos recently and my 8 year old LOVED it.
What Heather is doing with the bullets is polishing the shell casings, most likely to reuse them and make more ammo.
Excellent to see the tradition of showing this movie to kids who are really too young to be watching it continue, LOL.
This and Jurassic Park were basically my bedtime stories.
My Dad also raised me on 80s action movies and Star Wars.
Good times.
@@MandoWookie Great dad. Pass it on. haha
One of those movies that you end up watching every time you see it’s on. Fun, funny, intense, exciting, it has everything. All these years later, still can’t get over how well Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward play off each other. Wish we had more films with them together.
That blue thing Heather started up uses the sand and vibrations to clean the empty brass cartridge cases...
You're exactly right, the actress who plays little girl would go on to Jurassic park
"Tremors" was basically my "The Floor Is Lava"...the game where you can't touch the floor. I based my version of that game on this movie...and even called it "Tremors"...that's how much I love this movie.
And Reba! Gotta love Reba McEntire! She's not on Dolly's level, but she's still royalty in country music.
Woohoo, Tremors. Here we go.
A few things I really like about Tremors as a horror-action movie: It takes place mostly in the broad daylight, it's really satisfying that the creatures follow well-defined rules that the human characters exploit in clever ways, and the practical effects are fucking amazing!
Plus one of them you never see until the end it will always stay underground when it grabs something.
a pick-up, a six-pack, a drive-in and this - perfect friday night out...
But it’s Saturday evening which means Dexter.
Sounds perfect!
A genuine classic. Kids who grew up in the 90s watched this countless times on cable channels like TBS, TNT or USA. It seemed like the movie played constantly all summer every summer.
An absolute classic. When we went to see this at the cinema we had no illusions about it and was using it as a filler because there were no other big movies about for our weekly film night. When we came out we were hooked, I must have seen it countless times since. This, The Princess Bride and Galaxy Quest are three films that just get better and better as the years go by.
Correct!
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I agree! Absolutely love all these films!
The wisdom of Tremors: "Running's not a plan. Running is what you do when the plan fails."
That is a great observation! Sounds almost like one of Uncle Iroh's! Your other comment also reminds me of Taoist concept of wu wei - doing nothing in order to do more! 😁
Easily one of Kevin Bacon's best performances and introduces everybody's favorite survivalist; after this are Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Beginning, Tremors 5: Bloodlines, Tremors 6: A Cold Day in Hell and Tremors 7: Shrieker Island; this brilliantly mixes animatronics, miniatures and other practical effects
And then there is the TV series...
It's the movie series that simply will not die. I've never been overly impressed with any of the sequels, just because it's not the same without the two main characters. But apparently it has enough of a following to keep justifying them. For me, the first film is all I need. I'm a simple guy.
Burt became the hero!
Surprisingly, they kept the quality fairly high through #4. I've seen #5 and the half finished cgi is tough to watch.
A ~30min video was poated to the Tremors youtube channel in 2020 called "Tremors: Making Perfection", a retrospective doc of the making of the movie. Fans should check it out.
7:44, yes it is! This was her first giant monster movie!
YES!! I grew up watching this movie on the Navajo Nation! The idea of the movie cane from Brent Maddock and SS Wilson whom were in the Navy. They were taking notes while sitting on a large Boulder in a Nevada Test Site and one of them said, "What if there was something under the ground that would never let us off this rock?" And thus Tremors was born. They filmed the movie on location in Lone Pine, California, which is where they filmed Back To The Future 3.
Nice! That’s awesome!
Many movies have been filmed around Lone Pine :-)
@@DeltaAssaultGaming Weird
Ah yes, that makes sense about the BTTF3 filming location.
18:55. That’s a brass tumbler. If you reload ammunition, one part of the process is to place the used brass casings in a medium (corn husk, etc) inside the agitator. After some time, the brass is clean and shiny, ready for a new primer, powder, and bullet.
I prefer wet tumbling myself, less dust and cleanup afterwards.
Also quieter.
@@MandoWookie Got a friend who uses little stainless steel pins instead of corn husk. But I still just use corn husk and sometimes put in some oil or brass cleaner with it.
I just today learned that my uncle does rock tumbling, so I understand this whole conversation!
The SyFy channel did a whole biological history of the Graboids. They are officially a lost offshoot of land evolved squids that survived from prehistoric times.
Woah that’s crazy!
@@TBRSchmitt I think Syfy is the one who did the tremors TV show
@@daryl772003 They where.
"I still vote for Outer Space. No way these were local boys."
@@TBRSchmitt Longtime lurker, first time commenting! This was one of the first, if not the first, movie I rented from our local video store back in early 90s! You might also enjoy this short video project (ruclips.net/video/PaXEzvosnSE/видео.html) that explains graboids in the style of 1960s wildlife reports. If you haven't seen Tremors 2, you should skip the part between 1:54 and 2:15 since it is a bit of a spoiler! Also, you two are just the best! Keep up the good work!
Poor Mindy, traumatized in Perfection Valley, goes to her Grandfathers new park (Jurassic), traumatized again, returns to perfection Valley...She is a movie unto herself!
23:16, "Making Bombs!? These two are awesome!" Couldn't agree more!
19:24, Burt's such a badass! He's got a wall full of guns! Lol!! He always comes prepared!
Mm...my impulse was to say that seeing the notification was the best thing that's happened all day, but on reflection, it's been a pretty swell day all around. Let's say it's a perfect ending for the day, then.
That’s awesome! Hopefully you have a perfect day tomorrow and the next!
35:50, $15 million dollar budget= $20 million dollars at the US Box Office, and an additional $50 million worldwide.
I would Highly recommend Tremors 2, I love all of em honestly but mostly 1 & 2, Three is kind of fun too and has some amazing lines so if you want give it a watch but I would very much encourage you to watch Tremors 2 it is IMO as good as the first one.
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agreed. i think 2 was always my favorite. mainly because of burt.
The first four are all worth watching.
i have the tremors attack pack, with the first 4. tremors 1 - 3 are awesome, and the 4th one is kind of like back to the future 3, it's ok as an old west movie, but not as good as the previous iterations.
@@hoopsmccann639 then you have the series which does have a guest appearance from christopher lloyd near the end... if I'm not mistaken.
26:37 you can see he was standing in a piece of plywood or something with dirt over it. The ground and bush moved when he started to run lol
Tremors and Critters were such cult classics.
2:08 foreshadowing, Ward falling out of the jeep in the sleeping bag looked like the creature shooting out the side of the cliff at the end after noise attracted it to that direction.
Great movie! One of the funny things about the character of Burt Gummer(played by Michael Gross) is that Michael Gross had just finished filming the last episode of “Family Ties”. His character in that show, Steven Keaton, is a left-leaning peace-love-dope ex-hippie, the polar opposite of Burt Gummer- which made Michael Gross’ character that much more funny.
This is just a delightful movie. It's the perfect "I can watch grown-up movie, I'm not a kid anymore" fare. The chemistry between the actors is perfect. The dirt effects are believabe. No CGI, and where the effects actually DO look fake, it just adds to the charm. Amazing. The characters make intelligent decisions, but are defeated at every turn Oh NO! Thanks for your excellent reactions, once again.
There's some really nice realistic touches in this film too, like showing the main characters eating a meal when they get back to town, since they spent all night on that boulder. Of course they would be hungry, but some movies wouldn't bother to put a small detail like that in there.
it was originally much more grown up as the intention was for an R rating with 17 f-bombs. the studio wanted it more family friendly, so most were edited out leaving just a single one instead
@@synaesthesia2010 And I am glad they made that decision. So many kids had fun playing 'The floor is Lava' after seeing this - they would have missed out!
This movie is Jaws meets the "the floor is lava".
Underrated comment.
RIP Fred Ward, amazing reaction
Ah yeah!! Love the first two Tremors movies. The sequel is even better for me, because of way more Burt and Earl.
I don’t remember the sequel so I might not have seen it!
@@TBRSchmitt the second was the best sequel. It has Burt and Earl.
@@RetroRobotRadio The second one is more or less "okay," nothing special. But it should have ended there. Every sequel after that next one gets progressively more boring, and less entertaining.
Yeah, and the 2nd one has a new love interest for Earl. Just like part 1 for Val.
Absolute cult classic, I love this movie. There are 7 Tremors movies. The second one is pretty good, but the rest are kind of so so except the fourth one, it's horrible.
btw that is the girl from Jurassic Park.
1+2 are the only ones anyone should watch.. it’s sad they ruined such an awesome franchise ☹️
@@joshtheplow So true, it just went downhill after the second movie
I really liked Shrieker Island.
I love the 4th one. It's better than the 3rd one.
Burt (Michael Gross) had just finished the TV series "Family Matters" as Michael J Fox's, ex-hippie, father. So this was a massive change in character for him and it surprised all of us.
The theatre roared when the camera showed his bunker wall with his collection. Good times.
Family Ties, and yes, I was just thinking about how newer viewers don't have that connection for Gross. Back then, it was almost like watching Mr Rogers turn Rambo!
As a kid the difference between Burt and him in Family Ties was my first time experiencing an actor playing two such different characters. He did such a good job that by the end of the movie he was no longer The Dad from Family Ties for me. The only thing that comes close is lovable Woody from Cheers turning into a serial killer in Natural Born Killers.
this movie is my guilty pleasure i LOVE all the tremors movies have fun watching them. its a young kevin bacon its a low B monster movie it has 6 sequels
I thought there were only 5 myself, but I just looked it up and can you believe there's actually 7 sequels! The last one came out in 2020.
@@robertmolton6761 i know i been following the tremors franchise since it came out we come a long way
It’s an incredibly fun guilty pleasure!
@@TBRSchmitt it is do you guys plan on watching ALL 6 movies? there really fun to watch
@@mastersword123456789 That would be fun! 👍
Fun fact: for the pole-vault scene they couldn't find a bunch of boulders line up like that, so they had to bring in a bunch of heavy machines to move the boulders into position.
Damn it I knew it but you killed a piece of the magic lol
They weren't real boulders, they were made for the scene
@@j.m.marshall669 Well it beats having to move the damn boulders.
Val and Earl are probably my favorite movie duo.
There are movies, and then there is Tremors.
Perfect from script to shot.
Penultimate
"I don't think that word means what you think it means"
penultimate to what?
Edgar, the dead guy that died of dehydration, rented his barn loft apartment to Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse.
Greatest B-Movie of all time... so glad you guys did this one!
Edit: 2:17 it knew the car was there from an earlier scene... if you watch when Burt and Heather arrive home, their truck bounces slightly into an indentation in the ground... that's a Graboid hole...
This is proof that my phone is spying on me. I just watched this movie last night and then this channel just shows up on my YT suggestions....then again I do watch it every month.
Still a classic!!!
Imagination, vigor, great humor, witty writing and great actors. This film is better than any bloated formulaic blockbuster.
Childhood movie right here! Such a fun watch!
18:50 That is a vibrating tumbler used to clean brass casings before reloading
Note the hair color change at 27:38 - The original ending was just Val and Earl riding off into sunset, the kissing scene was added way later after test audiences hated that Val and Rhonda didn't have any kind of closure to their story at the end.
One of my all-time fav films and a perfect friday night popcorn mayhem movie. \o/
Sometimes test audiences can really help a movie. Val and Rhonda needed to end up together.
I HIGHLY recommend the second one. It went straight to video but was meant for theatrical release but Universal cut down the budget and backed out on a theatre release at the last second. But even with a slightly smaller budget 2 is funnier and actually scarier.
You can stop at 2 though. Its a huge down slide after that one.
Yeah the first two are good, I couldnt watch the ones after that, they were terrible.
The 4th film is fun, if you like western films.
Tremors 2 is fantastic... Graboids are cool, but Ass-Blasters is where it's at, lol
@@mmeade9402 3 was fine. 4 felt like an episode of a tv series, but I liked it well enough. The rest I could watch.
I've watched this movie more times than I can count! Awesome cult classic!
Use this comment as a "Please watch Tremors 2" button...
Awesome movie
Surprisingly good sequel.
20:02, "broke into the wrong goddamn wreck room, didn't you, you bastard!" Nice! 👍
I'm so happy to get to see you guys enjoy this one! Tremors is just a perfectly executed movie! It knows exactly what it is and what it wants to do, and it does it all with so much wit, charm and joy! It's so much fun to watch and it never gets old, either.
I love this movie. It's like Aliens: whenever it's on tv, I am compelled to watch it. The chemistry between the cast is incredible.
I completely forgot that Lex from Jurassic Park is in this. She also returned for Tremors 3.
Solid chemistry between cast really makes or breaks a movie and some movies in the 80s just have it down pat.
19:17: This scene sparked my interests in guns. The type of weapons they used in this scene are as follows:
Heather: Winchester Model 70 Burt:Steyr-Mannlicher SSG-PII rifle
Winchester 1200 Defender HK 91A2 (FAL carbine)
Colt AR-15 Sporter 2 Remington 870
SIG-Sauer P226/Ruger Redhawk William Moore 8 gauge shotgun (Elephant gun)
M8 flare pistol
I JUST watched this on cable this afternoon. I've only seen it about 37 times, but I always enjoy it -- good script, some fun acting (even if some is over the top), and a fun "monster". Good fun watching you two watch it! This is what you can call fun entertainment.
Omg this is such a fun movie! Can't wait to see what you thought.
YES!!!
Welcome aboard the The world of Burt Gummer. The firearms expert rabbit hole.
After the second Tremors I only watched to see what Burt was gonna do next.
I love this movie to but the biggest plot hole is definitely Burt's truck.
We learn in the movie the Tremors hunt via vibration. The doctors car made sense because the wife was inside it moving around. The buildings made sense because the cast where up on the roof and the Tremors where like "Hey I can feel them moving around, why can't I find them?" Even old stumpy makes sense as you could argue there was no need for Val to go all bullfighter. We know the bombs overloads the Tremors senses and they run away from the explosions. So Stumpy wasn't really going after Val, it was running away from the bomb.
But Burt's truck was just sitting there, engine off with nobody in it while Burt and Heather was up on the roof of their compound.
So how in the heck did the Tremor possibly find Burt's truck?
That was the 1 plot hole in the movie that didn't make sense.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Tremors 2 is pretty good too. Though Kevin Bacon and Reba McIntyre don't return. I'm afraid the law of diminishing returns kicks in with the sequels and TV series. If you want to see more Fred Ward, who played Earl, I suggest Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. A very entertaining movie with a terrific performance by Joel Grey.
BTW, that was the girl from Jurassic Park.
I loved Remo Williams when I was a kid and haven't thought of that movie forever... great movie I must find and watch again thanks for the reminder
@@kamkelevra There's wonderful dialogue between Remo and Chiun. Chiun especially has so many great lines.
Chiun: It would be better for you to eat this can than what is inside it. Why must everything in your country be coated in monositi...monosoti...
Remo: Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it
Chiun: I can say "rat droppings". That does not mean I want to eat them.
And I remember him saying something about how old he was comparing his age to a tree it's been so long I can't remember for sure...and that crazy obstacle course he completed and then had the lights turned off him and the smart ass guard dogs...it's a forgotten jem
@@kamkelevra Remo: How old are you? I mean, you're really old. Aren't you?
Chiun: For and apricot, yes. For a head of lettuce, even more so. For a mountain, I have not yet begun in years. For a man, I am just right.
There were several sequels, a prequel, and a TV series on the SyFy channel, which is in canon with the movies.
Great reaction and discussion.. perfect balance of horror and comedy. Have always loved this movie... totally rewatchable due to a great script and great acting by the primary characters.
I like that it's done tongue in cheek. makes it unique.
Perfect timing just watched the movie a couple hours ago
Awesome! It was meant to be!
19:00 - "What's she doing?"
She's cleaning spent brass casings. They're survivalist types, so they reload ammo for their guns. When you go shooting, you collect your used casings, clean them and reload them with custom bullets and powder charge. This allows you to make ammo that's more powerful than commercially available ammo. Or to recycle casing for expensive ammo, cutting your costs to shoot. Reloading used to be a lot more common in the 1980's/90s. After the fall of the Soviet Union, cheap ammo imports from former Eastern Bloc nations helped drive down the cost of ammunition, so reloading became less common.
Haven't even watched and hit like button so hard almost broke phone one of my favorite movies
Glad the phone survived!
Oh My God Yesss!!! I've Been Waiting For This You Two Are My Favorite Reactors!
A Quiet Place for the 90s.
Or as some have called it, the most intense The Floor Is Lava game of all time.
Hahaha floor is lava with extreme consequences!
@@TBRSchmitt Y'all should watch the sequel.
TBR Schmitt: “it’s not a masterpiece”
Me: 😢
I am so happy you two finally watched Tremors!!!
Usually in movies like this the scientist character will spout some pseudoscientific nonsense to explain the monsters. Which is why I love how in this movie the scientist very correctly says, "I don't know!"
Good observation! That is what makes Rhonda (the seismology student) such a great and likable character. She makes some good and sound assumptions about graboids because she has the best scientific background, but later she almost jokingly lampshadss it by replying "Why do you keep asking me?" since this is not her area of expertise.
The VFX, miniature and matte paintings, were made by 4 Ward Productions, whom won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects on ALIENS.
Wooh, Tremors! Great reaction! I love this old monster flick. It was the first sort of "scary" movie I saw as a kid and I also loved it. Surprisingly well made for what it is, good use of low budget FX, good pacing, decent characters and there's something about 80s and early 90s movies where there was some thought out behavior and traits (rules) of the monster that the characters can learn and then use to overcome and defeat it. Tremors, Aliens and Predator were the main inspirations of a lot of games (not digital ones) me and my friends would play as kids. Good memories! :D
Such a classic movie at this point, a childhood favorite. A really good mix of horror and comedy. Glad to see you two react to it!
You couldn't make a movie like this these days. True classic.
I rented this film at blockbuster when I was 5 and It did freaked me out a little, but I loved it.
I'm excited for you all to watch 'Tremors 2' which is THE best of the entire Tremors franchise! (including the tv series) for 1 simple fact.. BURT! (the father in family ties) and has one of Burt's best lines. ".. I am.. completely out of ammo!.... that's never happened to me before..."
Tremors! A fantastic pick. I was afraid it wouldn't come up because I figured y'all saw it already but good to see I was wrong (well, half-wrong lol).
Needless to say I immediately smashed that like 😉 But this was yet another fantastic video more than worthy of it!
EDIT - Loved Sam's cheering for Burt and Heather. Which I do too. They're awesome indeed!
I told my little cousin that the store owner was Mister Miyagi from Karate Kid and that Ralph Macchio was very sad when the Graboids got his teacher. She never forgave me for that.
This is a gem. Saw it when it first came out on video back in the day.
The best B movie ever made. Such a good ride from start to finish