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Post by petrolino on Dec 28, 2017 1:52:31 GMT
'Tremors' takes place in the tiny town of Perfection, Nevada, a former mining outpost located in the desert near the Sierra Nevada mountains. The town is attacked by gigantic underground worms called graboids so the inhabitants pull together to fight them off. "With its excellent, offbeat cast, its sprightly pacing and its goofy tone, Tremors is the kind of movie that propels you out of the theater with a grin on your face"
- Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post Dispatch via Wisconsin Union
Main Cast :
Kevin Bacon as Valentine McKee - handyman
Fred Ward as Earl Bassett - handyman
Finn Carter as Rhonda LeBeck - seismologist
Michael Gross as Burt Gummer - gun nut
Reba McEntire as Heather Gummer - gun enthusiast
Bobby Jacoby as Melvin Plug - prankster
Charlotte Stewart as Nancy Sterngood - moral guardian
Tony Genaro as Miguel - steady eddie
Ariana Richards as Mindy Sterngood - pogo kid
Richard Marcus as Nestor Cunningham - xenophobe
Víctor Wong as Walter Chang - hardware store owner
Conrad Bachmann as Dr. Jim Wallace - camper
Bibi Besch as Megan Wallace - caravan artist
Graboid
'Subterranean Homesick Alien' - Radiohead
'Tremors' is b-movie perfection. You'd go a long way to find better chemistry between three performers than that struck up by Kevin Bacon, Finn Carter and the great Fred Ward. All the people in Perfection are like the people of a small community under siege. You've got the couple with bunker mentality who store canned goods for the apocalypse but are forward thinking and brave. A pair of competent handymen who love beer, ladies and pleasing their fellow man. Small-scale entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck where there's hardly any. A fish out of water who takes a different approach to each problem. Everyone in Perfection is friendly deep down, give or take a punk troll or two.
"Never have I seen a small town setting work for a movie as well as Perfection, Nevada works for Tremors. Sure, the actors are top-notch and the right choice for their characters, the effects are convincing, and the script is ripe with sarcasm and wit, but the setting is what ties all of these elements together. Perfection is an ex-mining town of 14 residents; if it truly existed, it would be on a map just so vacationers could drive through it and count all the people. Beyond the population sign on the outskirts of town is an eccentric cast of characters, all of whom speak and act in a manner befitting not to the time in which the film was made but to Perfection itself. Tremors is a timeless piece of horror cinema because the setting serves as its own entity, not stricken with the boundaries of the times. Dare I say that Perfection is perfect?"
- John Dubrawa, Classic-Horror.com
"Tremors is one of my all-time favourite film series; it’s rather difficult to just convey everything through just some words. I’ll try to be as short as I can. You can just feel the love, creativity and dedication that was put behind the script, characters and creature designs. They were adventurous, thrilling, funny, and most of all full of heart."
- David Sword, Tremors Blog & Tremorcast
Fred Ward & Kevin Bacon
Finn Carter
The creature design is cool and director Ron Underwood was granted a very reasonable $11,000,000 budget to work with. What really impresses me is the way the ground shifts, contorts, contracts and often realigns in close-ups of the roving graboids on the hunt. Polish cinematographer Alexander Gruszynski is the unsung hero here, shooting out of his skin with monster p.o.v. and capturing the seismic smells emitted by these enormous sandworms. There's also a great sound design that incorporates fine music, songs and the screech of the graboids. 'Tremors' has so far spawned four sequels and a tv series. I've seen it 50 times. Check it out, it's a classic!
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 28, 2017 2:52:24 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Dec 28, 2017 2:58:51 GMT
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Post by gunshotwound on Dec 28, 2017 3:01:20 GMT
I am a fan of the movie also. The first time I saw it I was channel surfing. The movie had already started (about 5 minutes in) and it looked interesting so I decided to watch it. Loved it! I was totally surprised. I saw the second one in the series and did not like it very much so I stopped and have not seen any of the others in the series nor the TV series. |
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Dec 28, 2017 3:03:29 GMT
Loved it. Entertaining creature feature.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 28, 2017 3:07:46 GMT
I am a fan of the movie also. The first time I saw it I was channel surfing. The movie had already started (about 5 minutes in) and it looked interesting so I decided to watch it. Loved it! I was totally surprised. I saw the second one in the series and did not like it very much so I stopped and have not seen any of the others in the series nor the TV series. Hey gunshot; the sequels tainted my love of the original for a good few years (never saw the tv show), no doubt. I put the original on the permanent backburner, eventually questioning my own mind, thinking, was it really any good? Truth is though, I was about 13 or 14 years of age when it came out on VHS video, and I loved it like no other, and I still do. Like so many great sci-fi horrors, it's as much about the resourcefulness of the people being stalked as it is about the supercool monsters doing the obliteration. And on top of that, 'Tremors' is a really inventive and well-made film if you consider the modest budget. Who else at the time was pole-vaulting like legendary athlete Sergey Bubka in the movies? |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2017 3:18:50 GMT
petrolino I like The Thing from Another WorldI loath The Thingknowing that, would you think it likely that I would like or loath Tremors ?
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Post by petrolino on Dec 28, 2017 3:24:35 GMT
petrolino I like The Thing from Another WorldI loath The Thingknowing that, would you think it likely that I would like or loath Tremors ? You'll love it, BAT, mark my words.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2017 3:26:38 GMT
petrolinoOk then. It's on "the list" (along with how many others now ?  ) Thankee !
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Post by outrider127 on Dec 28, 2017 13:02:14 GMT
One of my favorite movies
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2017 13:55:22 GMT
Looky what I found:  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2017 13:58:44 GMT
"We could get in People magazine"
"People ?
Hell !
National Geographic !"
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 28, 2017 14:02:24 GMT
Earlier this year I watched (on one of them thar movie quests o'mine) Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins and Tremors 5: Bloodlines, sent for the entire series online, plus the short-lived TV series. Didn't get around to watching the TV series as of yet. I had seen the first movie back in 1990, but not the sequels. They are all fun and a little bit wacky, Michael Gross is the only continuing character throughout the whole series, he stars in the TV series as well. The Graboids eventually spawn some other nasty creatures in the later entries. There's been talk of another sequel or reboot, this time involving Kevin Bacon for the first time since the original movie. Gotta love that Jaws inspired poster:       |
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Post by petrolino on Dec 28, 2017 14:07:41 GMT
Earlier this year I watched (on one of them thar movie quests o'mine) Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins and Tremors 5: Bloodlines, sent for the entire series online, plus the short-lived TV series. Didn't get around to watching the TV series as of yet. I had seen the first movie back in 1990, but not the sequels. They are all fun and a little bit wacky, Michael Gross is the only continuing character throughout the whole series, he stars in the TV series as well. The Graboids eventually spawn some other nasty creatures in the later entries. There's been talk of another sequel or reboot, this time involving Kevin Bacon for the first time since the original movie. It's a shame they were never able to get the three main characters back because they had great chemistry as a monster-fighting unit. I only saw parts 2 & 3 but I was disappointed off the back of the original. Not sure I've got the mind to rewatch them and progress to parts 4 & 5 but I might do somewhere down the line. I've heard good things from fans about the tv series. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2017 14:12:26 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 28, 2017 16:26:14 GMT
I can back petrolino up: I'd say there's kinship between the slyly humorous charm of The Thing From Another World and Tremors; in both, it's firmly rooted in character and situation rather than generic catch-phrase or tagline-type gags. And like TTFAW, it's more about those characters than about the creatures, although it's no slouch in the latter department either, with some modestly-scaled but impressively compelling practical effects. Kevin Bacon's career was in the doldrums when the film went into production in 1989, and he's said that he feared he'd hit rock bottom with a low-budget "creature comedy." Maybe it was professionalism, frustration or simply a "what the hell" attitude that fueled his characterization of the volatile Val, or perhaps even a moderating force from his easy rapport with Fred Ward as the genial Earl. Whatever it was, they make a great team. But the most rewarding revelation is the normally mild-mannered Michael Gross as the resourceful survivalist and armed-to-the-teeth 2nd Amendment devotee, Bert Gummer, a character whose dimensions he quite skillfully expanded through multiple sequels. And it's here that I can back up Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄: we added all five films to our collection as they became available, and find no diminishing of our enjoyment with each successive viewing of any. Each manages its own fresh take on the continuing saga, and here again, Michael Gross proves invaluable. While something of a pill in the first, often serving as comic foil for Val and Earl, the militaristic Bert becomes increasingly endearing with each outing and, in the fourth (a prequel), scores with a wonderful reversal of the persona as fussy, gun-shy Gummer ancestor Hiram. As direct-to-video releases, the sequels are of necessarily smaller budgets, but what they lack in scale is compensated by the offbeat affability that they all share. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2017 16:30:40 GMT
So basically, Doghouse6, you liked it ? Right now, you really liked it ?
Ok...three votes yes from folks whose opinions I value. It's fer shure on the list now and moved up towards the top. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 28, 2017 23:05:35 GMT
Earlier this year I watched (on one of them thar movie quests o'mine) Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins and Tremors 5: Bloodlines, sent for the entire series online, plus the short-lived TV series. Didn't get around to watching the TV series as of yet. I had seen the first movie back in 1990, but not the sequels. They are all fun and a little bit wacky, Michael Gross is the only continuing character throughout the whole series, he stars in the TV series as well. The Graboids eventually spawn some other nasty creatures in the later entries. There's been talk of another sequel or reboot, this time involving Kevin Bacon for the first time since the original movie. It's a shame they were never able to get the three main characters back because they had great chemistry as a monster-fighting unit. I only saw parts 2 & 3 but I was disappointed off the back of the original. Not sure I've got the mind to rewatch them and progress to parts 4 & 5 but I might do somewhere down the line. I've heard good things from fans about the tv series. There's some fun chemistry between Michael Gross and Jamie Kennedy in Tremors 5: Bloodlines, that's if you Don't mind Jamie Kennedy, I know he's not for everyone. This sequel was made very recently, a long time after the last one. It seems like all involved were rejuvenated, not the usual tired part five of some series, I really liked it. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 28, 2017 23:11:13 GMT
I can back petrolino up: I'd say there's kinship between the slyly humorous charm of The Thing From Another World and Tremors; in both, it's firmly rooted in character and situation rather than generic catch-phrase or tagline-type gags. And like TTFAW, it's more about those characters than about the creatures, although it's no slouch in the latter department either, with some modestly-scaled but impressively compelling practical effects. Kevin Bacon's career was in the doldrums when the film went into production in 1989, and he's said that he feared he'd hit rock bottom with a low-budget "creature comedy." Maybe it was professionalism, frustration or simply a "what the hell" attitude that fueled his characterization of the volatile Val, or perhaps even a moderating force from his easy rapport with Fred Ward as the genial Earl. Whatever it was, they make a great team. But the most rewarding revelation is the normally mild-mannered Michael Gross as the resourceful survivalist and armed-to-the-teeth 2nd Amendment devotee, Bert Gummer, a character whose dimensions he quite skillfully expanded through multiple sequels. And it's here that I can back up Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 : we added all five films to our collection as they became available, and find no diminishing of our enjoyment with each successive viewing of any. Each manages its own fresh take on the continuing saga, and here again, Michael Gross proves invaluable. While something of a pill in the first, often serving as comic foil for Val and Earl, the militaristic Bert becomes increasingly endearing with each outing and, in the fourth (a prequel), scores with a wonderful reversal of the persona as fussy, gun-shy Gummer ancestor Hiram. As direct-to-video releases, the sequels are of necessarily smaller budgets, but what they lack in scale is compensated by the offbeat affability that they all share. That was a nice switch up, having Gross' character's ancestor be so gun shy. This series at least tries to be original. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 28, 2017 23:12:56 GMT
So basically, Doghouse6 , you liked it ? Right now, you really liked it ?
Ok...three votes yes from folks whose opinions I value. It's fer shure on the list now and moved up towards the top. Watch it BATouttaheck! But you'll never look at worms the same again!  |
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