Burt Gummer is played by Michael Gross who at the time was known as "America's Dad" due to his ultra liberal father role on Family Ties. When he read the part, he asked if they really thought he was the right guy. He is the only actor to be in all 7 Tremors movies, once as his own ancestor... so yeah, you get a bit more story about him.
@Hive Slayer , @Chrisfragger1 Guys, it's not a political comment... He played an Ultra Liberal dude for years, and followed it up with this Super Survivalist. Yup, he got typecast in one direction, and this movie flipped the typecast. That is all. Complain to TV Guide for declaring him one of the 50 Greatest American Television Dad's.
I really like the detail where after Martin gives back the gun to Burt, Burt checks the chamber of the gun even though he knows there's no bullets in it. Guy is definitely a gun nut and follows the rules. Nice.
@@evenrisk I used to watch Family Ties all the time on reruns as a kid and Tremors was one of my favorite movies in the 90's and I never made the connection. I didn't find realize until a couple months ago, they are the same actor.
too bad the later movies kept coming up with reasons for him not to have fire arms. need more characters who are responsible gun owners rather than all those 2nd amendments that treat them as nothing more than a penis extender.
Totally agree, it's like every department were on their A-game for this movie, the camera work and special effects are so impressive, and the script is perfection.
@@MrZilla Exactly. In the days of black and white movies. The color movies more often considered to be A movies. B movies were considered to be black and white. There have been many A movies though which were black and white such as: From Here to Eternity", " In Harm's Way ", "Stalag 17 ", but " Gone with the Wind ", " The Wizard of Oz " were color filmed. Some black and white B movies were: The Attack of the Crab People ". " Them ", " The Creature from the Black Lagoon ", " Homicidal ", " The Blob ", " Rodan ", " Godzilla ". I don't actually know what I'm to get at, but " Tremors " is an A movie by the cast alone in its advantage. Oh well.
@@MrZilla 'B' in B-movie, doesn't necessarily represent a lower grade or lack of quality film. It can also mean 'a lively, energetic film uninhibited by the constraints imposed on more expensive projects and unburdened by the conventions of putatively serious independent film.'. So a film that, due to lack of financial stakes from a studio, is free to be as creative and experimental as it likes... which Tremors definitely fits into. I think it should wear the 'Best B-movie' badge proudly!
Tremors does what it needs to do perfectly. - Lovable characters - Good and simplistic exposition - Interesting enemy - Good set-up - Great use of show-don't-tell It is a simple movie but amazingly well made.
Not only that, all the characters are intelligent and believable. They are constantly throwing out ideas to try to solve the problem, and many times it works! But then the monsters adapt and they have to find a new solution
Never noticed it before but when Kevin Bacon is jumping on the truck at the beginning of the movie, Earl falling out of the truck in the sleeping bag foreshadows the prehistoric worm flying off the cliff later in the movie. Even the color of the outside and inside of the sleeping bag mirror the worms.
Fun Fact: At the time Kevin Bacon hated this because he felt like being in a "low grade monster movie" was the death of his career, he since has come around and embraced the weirdness of the movie and it´s fans Also this movie was supposed to be rated R but then they decided to widen it´s audience by cutting out most of the gore and over 20 different uses of "Fuck" Happy Halloween you two
Hope you had a great Halloween! I can totally imagine an actor seeing this movie as a low point in your career at first. Good thing he ended up embracing it!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight Bacon also took a long time to come around and embrace the Friday the 13th fandom thanks to his role in the first film. He was embarrassed by that for years too for some reason.
I remember watching this movie on NBC in 1994-95 while I was growing up on the Navajo Nation. The idea of the movie came from Brent Maddock and SS Wilson whom were in the Navy. They were sitting on a large rock in a Nevada Test Site, taking notes, 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.
I saw this a few months after it was released at the discount theater. It was a Friday night show, and the place was PACKED! We were all looking for just a fun time, and we got it. The whole crowd got so into it, screaming, “RUUUUUNNNN!” whenever the GraboidCam shot started. Probably my favorite moviegoing experience ever.
21:25 I always love the little detail that Burt checks the gun when he gets it back. He knows it's not loaded, but he checks anyway, because that's just proper gun safety.
What I love about this movie is how it pretty much flips a lot of monster movie tropes on their head: a majority is set during the daytime, the monsters are smart and thinking animals, they got a naturalistic design and not overly monstrous and look like a thing that could feasibly exist, there’s more than one from the get-go, The characters aren’t stupid teenagers, both are kept on their feet in a game of cat and mouse, the creatures have no origin (by this film) and not overly explained.
One of my absolute favorite examples of that is when they ask Rhonda and her response is basically "how the hell would I know; I'm a geologist?!" The script played so well on the whole smart scientist fish-out-of-water role for her while also playing against type with her as the female lead. The writing for these characters should be studied by every aspiring film school student.
@@themillera9 At least it was nice to see monster-movie people finally asking the smart person in the proverbial room for advice~😅😆 But I do love that they further expounded on that in the second film. "They're pre-Cambrian lifeforms, Burt! How the Hell is anyone supposed to research pre-Cambrian lifeforms?!" 🤣🤣🤣
One of my favorite movies. First time I saw it was years ago when VHS tapes were common and DVDs weren't even remotely a thing. How Burt and Valentine act both together and in the movie, rare to see it done so well in modern movies and that's sad.
@@NiceDudeMovieNight funny fact, Michael Gross that plays Burt Gummer, he also played Steven Keaton from Family Ties whose character was an ex-hippie liberal. Guess Burt Gummer was what Steven Keaton would be while on some kind of steroid
first time isaw it was on tv back in the day, kept switching channels between this and a season 1 episode of X-Files (this was back when x-files was first airing)
You must watch the 2nd movie! They finally explain where the graboids come from, and it is as good, if not better than the first. I rewatch the first three movies of the series every year at least once, and often the second one more than the others.
I love Tremors 2: Aftershocks a lot. Not, maybe QUITE as much as this, but it's definitely a worthy sequel. That's the only other movie I've seen, though I watched a few episodes of the later TV series...couldn't really get vibing with it.
2 for me is the best sequel of the series. 3 had it's moments (favorite line was Burt telling the guy if he shoved his head up his rear for warmth or the view) and even 4 had some moments as well. 5 onwards is very meh for me and turns into the quality of crappy SyFy Channel flicks.
I love Tremors!! Fun fact: The lady who plays Heather (Burt's husband) is country singer Reba Mcintire and the lady who plays Mindy's mom was Ms. beadle from Little House On The Prairie.
for a jaws knock off, and there were tons, this one has so much character and good sound design. so much more than its genre deserves. a perfect little film. kevin bacon at the time thought this was the end of his career. luckily he went on and the cult fanbase changed his mind on this film
One of my favorites. PLUS they didn't break up Valentine's relationship afterwards. Those character just don't show up again letting you imagine they lived happily ever after.
Best comedy/horror flick ever. I particularly liked that none of the characters acted like complete idiots like in most horror flicks. They all acted like real people dealing with a strange and dangerous situation.
I firmly believe that Tremors is a perfect film. Legitimately a perfect movie. I can't find a single flaw in it. Everything from casting to effects to tension to timing to narrative... it's impeccable. Fun fact: This film was shown on Cable so often that various networks and stations would often have their own "version" of Tremors edited for T.V. This includes some extremely memorable and downright hilarious "edited for content" overdubs, some of which were included on the most recent BR release. A childhood classic growing up for me, personally, to the point where I tend to remember the _edited_ content over the original these days. lol
Yup. That movie had to be edited down to PG 13 from R due to LANGUAGE alone. "Motherhumper" and "Can you fly you sucker?" are not the actual said lines of dialogue.
Oh my god, the overdubbed cursing for networks were so funny, not even close to the original. "Good morning Mr. Basset. This is your wake up call. Please move your -BUUUUTT-"
Almost a flawless script, so many satisfying setups and payoffs. Just the right amount of characterization for our main cast. A lovely mix of horror vibes, humor and action. Some may disregard this film as a "jaws on land" cheapo flick, but I absolutely love it - I can't really find any aspect of this movie that doesn't deliver. RIP Fred Ward, a real one.
I think the fact that it's a monster movie makes people underestimate how well made it really is. To what you've already said, I'll add editing and sound. E.g. at 12:40 when you hear the pogo stick and realize what that means.
I am 40and feels old knowing you two have never watched this movie. But I love your reactions... especially with the appreciation of the cinematography and effects and filming. You guys really do seem to have an understanding of how amazing these older movies are compared to the CGI movies of today.
God this has been one of my favourite movies since I was knee high to a grasshopper. The dialogue is perfect, the characters aren't stupid, the monsters are interesting and cool and the practical effects have aged so incredibly well over the years. Truly a 10/10 movie.
RIP Fred Ward. I knew him from a very cheesy movie called TimeRider that played incessantly on HBO in the early 80s. And of course, Remo Williams. He's great.
You should see him as astronaut Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff-he is fantastic, as are Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, and a young Jeff Goldblum amongst a cast of real heavyweights.
I get so giddy every time someone discovers this amazing gem of a movie. It's seriously so much fun and so much better than it has any right to be. The writing is top notch. Everything that happens in the latter half of the film is set up beautifully early on. The pogo stock and Mindy's music, the gun nuts becoming the heroes who take down the second monster with ridiculous firepower, Melvin being the little turd that cried wolf and not being taken seriously when things really go sour, the refrigerator acting up at the worst time. It's all set up so organically and feels so satisfying when you get the payoff. I've watched this movie countless times since I was a kid and I'll never get tired of it or the sequel.
Ever since you guys teased watching this movie I have been DYING for the reaction to the Wall of Guns/"Broke into the wrong g** d*** rec room!" My favorite action line ever XD
The warm heart beating under every scene of this movie makes it a feel-good, even as the horror mounts. The practical effect of the porch lifting board by board as they run in front of it is just a minor touch that is so satisfying. Not too many perfect movies out there, but this is one. Everyone who watches it enjoys the fun.
I’m glad you guys really enjoyed The movie and I can’t wait for you guys to watch some of the sequels especially with the evolution of Burt Gummer who is one of my favorite characters in this whole series.
I've seen this a movie a hundred times and I just noticed that Valentine is wearing a heart belt buckle! It's details like that, which show how much the people who made this movie really cared.
The beauty of this series is how the monsters evolve with each film in the series. In the first four films, you get to see the entire lifecycle of the creatures, and it's really cool.
One of the best parts of this movie is how relatable the characters are. If you live in or grew up in a rural town, you know people who are just like them! This is in my opinion, better than Jaws.
Don't even remember how old we were when we watched it. Our parents literally had to break down to us as kids why the graboids couldn't 'get us' in our little village in England when we first watched this movie. Basically the sands and the timber houses were easy enough for the creatures to tunnel/break through and our dense clay soil and solid brick/concrete houses would make it nigh impossible for them to move/hunt freely. (and the giant ocean separating them and us was an added bonus)
Thanks for watching! This is one of my favorite movies ever! The comedy, horror, characters and sheer fun is amazing! Plus my favorite film of Kevin Bacon, and also of Fred Ward who sadly died this past May. I’m not really a fan of the sequels with the exception of the second one “Tremors 2: Aftershocks” which I definitely would recommend for you guys next!
I've been a big tremors fan since i was a kid but as an adult the thing that made me appreciate them even more is that most campy monster movies use bad or dark lighting or all night shots to hide imperfections but tremors does it all in broad daylight which means you see it all.
Glad you guys enjoyed the film and the special effects. The effects company that made them Studio ADI, made a TH-cam channel a while back showing the behind the scenes from this , starship troopers, some of the alien's sequels, etc. might be worth checking out at some point or reacting to as a spin off video.
What I love the most about this classic is the friendship of Valentine and Earl. It feels so genuine. Their banters and interactions are like real long-time friends. Rarely to have those in movies nowadays.
I love the set up with the doctor and his wife. The actors do so well of portraying an elderly couple that are still very much in love. In just a few minutes you understand how happy they are together, what they mean to each other and that makes it so heartbreaking when they get killed. They're just this adorable old couple building their dream house together and you immediately think "Aw I don't want anything to happen to you"
A big part of what makes this movie so great, and the series as a mostly whole is that each character even the guy that dies minutes into the films have more personality then most horror films.
Loved your reaction!!! You need to watch the sequels. While the quality dips a bit as you go on, the Fun does not. As Kevin Bacon does not return, slowly but surely Burt becomes the star of the franchise. They also made a short-lived TV show in the town with Burt as one of the main characters.
This movie was so over the top! It's absolutely wonderful. One of the best B movies ever. The plot moves along. It never fails to deliver on the fun and Michael Gross and Reba McIntyre deliver golden comic performances. I remember seeing this in the theatres with a good buddy and we both kind of felt a cult classic may have been born. Fred Ward is one of my favorite character actors from that time period. I would have loved to see him do a comedy-horror movie with Bruce Campbell. It would have been gold.
RedletterMedia said it best one of the best comedic moments is when you think Bert and Heather are about to die but the camera pans to a wide shot of all their guns 😂
A channel called Dead Meat does horror movie kill counts; they go into how Tremors was made, where it was shot, and a load of other details that you wouldn't know just from the movie itself. If you're interested in Tremors or any of the sequels, it's worth a watch as well!
The scene where they’re pole vaulting from boulder to boulder was filmed in the Alabama Hills, located in Lone Pine, CA (Eastern Sierra). Lone Pine has a quaint and thorough movie museum with a Tremors display, in addition to Iron Man, Django Unchained displays, and dozens of exhibits celebrating western movies and TV shows.
Awww the memories of watching this with my Grandparents, Mother and older brother when it first came out on VHS.... Still love it and would love to have a digital version of this! :)🥰
Well, now you gotta watch the sequel. No Bacon this time, but they do a lot of fun things with Burt's character. They kinda start to get meh after the second movie, though. And they do expand on the lore of the graboids a bit.
Only thing better than watching one of my childhood favorite movies... is watching other people enjoy it for the first time. Just the right amount of goofy and the right amount of scary.
This was such a shock for me because I only knew Michael Gross (Burt) as the hippie dad from Family Ties. He spent a good few years making these movies.
one of my favorite 'not a horror' movies ^_^ TY so much for doing this!! I just know you are going to contaminate all your freinds' brains with this :P
This has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Remember there's no CGI in this movie. There's a making of the movie video out on TH-cam that you should watch...it's amazing how they did a lot of the effects. This to me is just a perfect movie. The cast, the monsters are so unique, the right amount of scary and funny. Perfect.
Fun fact about this movie. When they were filming it was a super cold time, so much so it was snowing. Everyone were only shooting in short intervals before they needed to cut and get jackets on.
Rip Fred Ward, Tony Genaro, Victor Wong, Sunshine Parker and Michael Dan Wagner, On September 11 2001 Wong and his wife Dawn Rose spent the day trying to get news of Wong’s sons who lived in New York City (they were unharmed) after Rose went to sleep, Wong stayed up to continue following the news, he died of a heart attack at some point during the early hours of September 12 2001 he was 74, Fred Ward died on May 8 2022 in Los Angeles California at the age 79, his family declined to cite a cause
Your fixation on Melvin reminded me that in the Tremors lore, Melvin becomes a sleazy land developer by the third movie and is a secondary but incompetent antagonist in the series for a couple episodes.
16:44 - While, their are no Burt and Heather 🎥, Michael Edward Gross (who plays Burt) IS in the sequels. He really showed his stuff in "Tremors 2", and it was funny seeing the actor play Burt's inept ancestor in "Tremors 4". The line "You missed!? With a cannon!" makes me 😁 everytime.
Its a simple premise a simple script but its tight and done with people who gave their all to make it work. The characters are loveable, the plot is simple and the solutions to their issues are great. A true hidden gem
This is a classic, so many great moments just like Starship Troopers. Also I cracked up with you called Burt and Heather a gun couple, understatement once you saw their wall of guns.
The "Gun Couple", are Charles Gordon and Reba McIntyre. She's the famous country music singer and he was in such films as the 1976 King Kong and the Beethoven series, the one with the St. Bernard.
One of my all time favorite movies. I saw it in the theater back in 1990. I loved back then when I was a little kid, and I still love it today. And you're right about it being Jaws on the ground. The movie's original title was "Land Sharks".
I seem to remember that the sound of the worm when it falls to the bottom of the canyon is the same effect they used in Jaws when the shark sinks to the deep.
Yes!! I watched this when I was 10 and fell in love with this movie!! Glad you guys reviewed it :D Now I think you need to watch Tucker and Dale vs Evil, a Horror comedy like no other :D
I had a friend as a kid who had this movie. I'd go over to her house every weekend for a sleepover and we'd watch this more often than not. Thanks for reminding me of that
I see that the Nice Dudes have dressed up as two of the most beloved Italian icons in American History.
Hahaha completely unintentional there 😂
And two that know how to clean your pipes right out, no matter what some goombah has shoved down there.
@@NiceDudeMovieNight please watch 2 and three
@@supergoldfish2010 I think you mean 1 down 6 more to go
American history? Nintendo is Japanese.
Burt Gummer is played by Michael Gross who at the time was known as "America's Dad" due to his ultra liberal father role on Family Ties. When he read the part, he asked if they really thought he was the right guy. He is the only actor to be in all 7 Tremors movies, once as his own ancestor... so yeah, you get a bit more story about him.
It truly is the Burt Gummer series lol I love his character so much.
Not to mention the the TV series
I'd never want a liberal as a father, lol. Let alone and "Ultra Liberal".
Burt was always my favourite character in the series.
@Hive Slayer , @Chrisfragger1 Guys, it's not a political comment... He played an Ultra Liberal dude for years, and followed it up with this Super Survivalist. Yup, he got typecast in one direction, and this movie flipped the typecast. That is all. Complain to TV Guide for declaring him one of the 50 Greatest American Television Dad's.
I really like the detail where after Martin gives back the gun to Burt, Burt checks the chamber of the gun even though he knows there's no bullets in it. Guy is definitely a gun nut and follows the rules. Nice.
i love that bert is played by the hippie father from Family Ties
@@evenrisk I used to watch Family Ties all the time on reruns as a kid and Tremors was one of my favorite movies in the 90's and I never made the connection. I didn't find realize until a couple months ago, they are the same actor.
Because he follows gun safety rules !
THE ALEC BALDWIN RULE-Treat every gun as if its loaded
too bad the later movies kept coming up with reasons for him not to have fire arms. need more characters who are responsible gun owners rather than all those 2nd amendments that treat them as nothing more than a penis extender.
Just one of the best B movies of all-time. Every single person involved 100% understood the assignment.
Totally agree, it's like every department were on their A-game for this movie, the camera work and special effects are so impressive, and the script is perfection.
Hi, an " A movie " the best movie of 1990.
Can this really be considered a B movie? Sure, it has the premise of one, but it's very well made.
@@MrZilla Exactly. In the days of black and white movies. The color movies more often considered to be A movies. B movies were considered to be black and white. There have been many A movies though which were black and white such as: From Here to Eternity", " In Harm's Way ", "Stalag 17 ", but " Gone with the Wind ", " The Wizard of Oz " were color filmed. Some black and white B movies were: The Attack of the Crab People ". " Them ", " The Creature from the Black Lagoon ", " Homicidal ", " The Blob ", " Rodan ", " Godzilla ". I don't actually know what I'm to get at, but " Tremors " is an A movie by the cast alone in its advantage. Oh well.
@@MrZilla 'B' in B-movie, doesn't necessarily represent a lower grade or lack of quality film. It can also mean 'a lively, energetic film uninhibited by the constraints imposed on more expensive projects and unburdened by the conventions of putatively serious independent film.'. So a film that, due to lack of financial stakes from a studio, is free to be as creative and experimental as it likes... which Tremors definitely fits into. I think it should wear the 'Best B-movie' badge proudly!
Tremors does what it needs to do perfectly.
- Lovable characters
- Good and simplistic exposition
- Interesting enemy
- Good set-up
- Great use of show-don't-tell
It is a simple movie but amazingly well made.
Not to mention the perfect pacing.
Not only that, all the characters are intelligent and believable. They are constantly throwing out ideas to try to solve the problem, and many times it works! But then the monsters adapt and they have to find a new solution
Never noticed it before but when Kevin Bacon is jumping on the truck at the beginning of the movie, Earl falling out of the truck in the sleeping bag foreshadows the prehistoric worm flying off the cliff later in the movie. Even the color of the outside and inside of the sleeping bag mirror the worms.
Fun Fact: At the time Kevin Bacon hated this because he felt like being in a "low grade monster movie" was the death of his career, he since has come around and embraced the weirdness of the movie and it´s fans
Also this movie was supposed to be rated R but then they decided to widen it´s audience by cutting out most of the gore and over 20 different uses of "Fuck"
Happy Halloween you two
He even tried to get a series done but it wasn't picked up unfortunately.
Hope you had a great Halloween! I can totally imagine an actor seeing this movie as a low point in your career at first. Good thing he ended up embracing it!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight Bacon also took a long time to come around and embrace the Friday the 13th fandom thanks to his role in the first film. He was embarrassed by that for years too for some reason.
@@Schnipps There was a TV series that lasted one season. Bert Gummer was the best thing about it.
@@alucard624 The landscape was different back then. Being on TV was seen as a career killer too. Film was where the real work was, was the belief
I remember watching this movie on NBC in 1994-95 while I was growing up on the Navajo Nation.
The idea of the movie came from Brent Maddock and SS Wilson whom were in the Navy. They were sitting on a large rock in a Nevada Test Site, taking notes, 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.
It’s such a simple idea but they put so much heart into the movie that made it work really well!
Never heard the inspiration; very cool! Thanks.
I saw this a few months after it was released at the discount theater. It was a Friday night show, and the place was PACKED! We were all looking for just a fun time, and we got it. The whole crowd got so into it, screaming, “RUUUUUNNNN!” whenever the GraboidCam shot started. Probably my favorite moviegoing experience ever.
Oh man, that sounds amazing. Maybe one day it'll be screened somewhere? 🤔
21:25 I always love the little detail that Burt checks the gun when he gets it back. He knows it's not loaded, but he checks anyway, because that's just proper gun safety.
This movie has the most "these are real people" characters in a monster movie. It's great.
What I love about this movie is how it pretty much flips a lot of monster movie tropes on their head:
a majority is set during the daytime, the monsters are smart and thinking animals, they got a naturalistic design and not overly monstrous and look like a thing that could feasibly exist, there’s more than one from the get-go, The characters aren’t stupid teenagers, both are kept on their feet in a game of cat and mouse, the creatures have no origin (by this film) and not overly explained.
One of my absolute favorite examples of that is when they ask Rhonda and her response is basically "how the hell would I know; I'm a geologist?!" The script played so well on the whole smart scientist fish-out-of-water role for her while also playing against type with her as the female lead. The writing for these characters should be studied by every aspiring film school student.
@@themillera9 At least it was nice to see monster-movie people finally asking the smart person in the proverbial room for advice~😅😆 But I do love that they further expounded on that in the second film.
"They're pre-Cambrian lifeforms, Burt! How the Hell is anyone supposed to research pre-Cambrian lifeforms?!" 🤣🤣🤣
I'm not a horror movie fan, i'm a monster movie fan, and you my friend sound like one too
One of my favorite movies. First time I saw it was years ago when VHS tapes were common and DVDs weren't even remotely a thing. How Burt and Valentine act both together and in the movie, rare to see it done so well in modern movies and that's sad.
Definitely one of the best movie bros out there!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight funny fact, Michael Gross that plays Burt Gummer, he also played Steven Keaton from Family Ties whose character was an ex-hippie liberal. Guess Burt Gummer was what Steven Keaton would be while on some kind of steroid
@@NiceDudeMovieNight You guys should react to the Final Destination films (5 of them, you don't have to do all of'em tho' if you don't want)😁
first time isaw it was on tv back in the day, kept switching channels between this and a season 1 episode of X-Files (this was back when x-files was first airing)
You must watch the 2nd movie! They finally explain where the graboids come from, and it is as good, if not better than the first. I rewatch the first three movies of the series every year at least once, and often the second one more than the others.
Really? I find Tremors is at its strongest by not needing or requiring an explanation.
I love Tremors 2: Aftershocks a lot. Not, maybe QUITE as much as this, but it's definitely a worthy sequel. That's the only other movie I've seen, though I watched a few episodes of the later TV series...couldn't really get vibing with it.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 3rd is ok, then they went a bit crap after that but I still enjoy them. People tend to forget they are just fun monster movies.
2 for me is the best sequel of the series. 3 had it's moments (favorite line was Burt telling the guy if he shoved his head up his rear for warmth or the view) and even 4 had some moments as well. 5 onwards is very meh for me and turns into the quality of crappy SyFy Channel flicks.
First four are all definitely worth the watch and go through the full life cycle between them
I love Tremors!! Fun fact: The lady who plays Heather (Burt's husband) is country singer Reba Mcintire and the lady who plays Mindy's mom was Ms. beadle from Little House On The Prairie.
for a jaws knock off, and there were tons, this one has so much character and good sound design. so much more than its genre deserves. a perfect little film. kevin bacon at the time thought this was the end of his career. luckily he went on and the cult fanbase changed his mind on this film
One of my favorites. PLUS they didn't break up Valentine's relationship afterwards. Those character just don't show up again letting you imagine they lived happily ever after.
Best comedy/horror flick ever.
I particularly liked that none of the characters acted like complete idiots like in most horror flicks. They all acted like real people dealing with a strange and dangerous situation.
Fun fact every single sequel is essentially a Burt spinoff would love to watch you guys react to all of them hahaha
I firmly believe that Tremors is a perfect film. Legitimately a perfect movie. I can't find a single flaw in it. Everything from casting to effects to tension to timing to narrative... it's impeccable.
Fun fact: This film was shown on Cable so often that various networks and stations would often have their own "version" of Tremors edited for T.V. This includes some extremely memorable and downright hilarious "edited for content" overdubs, some of which were included on the most recent BR release. A childhood classic growing up for me, personally, to the point where I tend to remember the _edited_ content over the original these days. lol
Yup. That movie had to be edited down to PG 13 from R due to LANGUAGE alone.
"Motherhumper" and "Can you fly you sucker?" are not the actual said lines of dialogue.
Oh my god, the overdubbed cursing for networks were so funny, not even close to the original. "Good morning Mr. Basset. This is your wake up call. Please move your -BUUUUTT-"
I love those edits! Snakes On A Plane did something similar 😂 I'll totally look up the edits on this movie too
I've also been saying this for years. Absolutely perfect.
@@NiceDudeMovieNight Snakes on a Plane the TV edit is epic for all the right and wrong reasons.
Almost a flawless script, so many satisfying setups and payoffs. Just the right amount of characterization for our main cast. A lovely mix of horror vibes, humor and action. Some may disregard this film as a "jaws on land" cheapo flick, but I absolutely love it - I can't really find any aspect of this movie that doesn't deliver. RIP Fred Ward, a real one.
I think the fact that it's a monster movie makes people underestimate how well made it really is. To what you've already said, I'll add editing and sound. E.g. at 12:40 when you hear the pogo stick and realize what that means.
I am 40and feels old knowing you two have never watched this movie. But I love your reactions... especially with the appreciation of the cinematography and effects and filming. You guys really do seem to have an understanding of how amazing these older movies are compared to the CGI movies of today.
Thank you! We're glad you're enjoying!
What I like the best about this series is how much thought went into the monsters
Yeah and the characters learned about them so organically too!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight if you guys want more it spawned six sequels and a tv series.
God this has been one of my favourite movies since I was knee high to a grasshopper. The dialogue is perfect, the characters aren't stupid, the monsters are interesting and cool and the practical effects have aged so incredibly well over the years. Truly a 10/10 movie.
RIP Fred Ward. I knew him from a very cheesy movie called TimeRider that played incessantly on HBO in the early 80s. And of course, Remo Williams. He's great.
You should see him as astronaut Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff-he is fantastic, as are Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, and a young Jeff Goldblum amongst a cast of real heavyweights.
I get so giddy every time someone discovers this amazing gem of a movie. It's seriously so much fun and so much better than it has any right to be. The writing is top notch. Everything that happens in the latter half of the film is set up beautifully early on. The pogo stock and Mindy's music, the gun nuts becoming the heroes who take down the second monster with ridiculous firepower, Melvin being the little turd that cried wolf and not being taken seriously when things really go sour, the refrigerator acting up at the worst time. It's all set up so organically and feels so satisfying when you get the payoff. I've watched this movie countless times since I was a kid and I'll never get tired of it or the sequel.
Ever since you guys teased watching this movie I have been DYING for the reaction to the Wall of Guns/"Broke into the wrong g** d*** rec room!" My favorite action line ever XD
The warm heart beating under every scene of this movie makes it a feel-good, even as the horror mounts. The practical effect of the porch lifting board by board as they run in front of it is just a minor touch that is so satisfying. Not too many perfect movies out there, but this is one. Everyone who watches it enjoys the fun.
Earl: Running's not a plan, running's what you do when a plan fails.
*Valentine running for his life: "I GOT A GODDAMN PLAN!!!"*
Fun fact, the movie originally didn't have the ending kiss, but at the test airing the audience were shouting for a kiss, so they added it.
I’m glad you guys really enjoyed The movie and I can’t wait for you guys to watch some of the sequels especially with the evolution of Burt Gummer who is one of my favorite characters in this whole series.
Thanks, we appreciate that!
I've seen this a movie a hundred times and I just noticed that Valentine is wearing a heart belt buckle! It's details like that, which show how much the people who made this movie really cared.
The beauty of this series is how the monsters evolve with each film in the series. In the first four films, you get to see the entire lifecycle of the creatures, and it's really cool.
One of the best parts of this movie is how relatable the characters are. If you live in or grew up in a rural town, you know people who are just like them! This is in my opinion, better than Jaws.
Recently subscribed. You guys seem pretty chill and genuinely get a laugh out of me with your banter.
Thank you so much, and we’re glad you enjoy! 😁
Don't even remember how old we were when we watched it.
Our parents literally had to break down to us as kids why the graboids couldn't 'get us' in our little village in England when we first watched this movie.
Basically the sands and the timber houses were easy enough for the creatures to tunnel/break through and our dense clay soil and solid brick/concrete houses would make it nigh impossible for them to move/hunt freely. (and the giant ocean separating them and us was an added bonus)
Thanks for watching! This is one of my favorite movies ever! The comedy, horror, characters and sheer fun is amazing! Plus my favorite film of Kevin Bacon, and also of Fred Ward who sadly died this past May. I’m not really a fan of the sequels with the exception of the second one “Tremors 2: Aftershocks” which I definitely would recommend for you guys next!
Also, lots of excellent writing here!
Reminder, the first stampede of the movie had Earl *worming his way* off of the truck.
That's a really interesting callback! What a tight script 😮
Fred Ward just passed away a couple of months ago
Oh man, we didn’t know that. He did amazing in this movie
I've been a big tremors fan since i was a kid but as an adult the thing that made me appreciate them even more is that most campy monster movies use bad or dark lighting or all night shots to hide imperfections but tremors does it all in broad daylight which means you see it all.
Glad you guys enjoyed the film and the special effects. The effects company that made them Studio ADI, made a TH-cam channel a while back showing the behind the scenes from this , starship troopers, some of the alien's sequels, etc. might be worth checking out at some point or reacting to as a spin off video.
Heck yes, that sounds awesome. Altaf's a fiend for behind-the-scenes content, so we appreciate the recommendation a lot!
Love the Halloween costumes. Mario and Guy Fieri is a wild combo.
Thank you thank you 😂
Oh!!! GUY!!! LOL.. well the singer dude looks similar
@@lifewuzonceezr haha you mean steve harwell?
It's rare in modern movies to see good set ups for satisfying rewards. Love these old movies
What I love the most about this classic is the friendship of Valentine and Earl. It feels so genuine. Their banters and interactions are like real long-time friends. Rarely to have those in movies nowadays.
Crazy to see the father from Family Ties, go to guns and swearing. So glad they kept Burt's story going in the rest of the Tremors movies.
I love the set up with the doctor and his wife. The actors do so well of portraying an elderly couple that are still very much in love. In just a few minutes you understand how happy they are together, what they mean to each other and that makes it so heartbreaking when they get killed. They're just this adorable old couple building their dream house together and you immediately think "Aw I don't want anything to happen to you"
A big part of what makes this movie so great, and the series as a mostly whole is that each character even the guy that dies minutes into the films have more personality then most horror films.
Kevin Bacon: Can you fly you sucker?
Graboid: Just wait for Tremors 2!
Loved your reaction!!! You need to watch the sequels. While the quality dips a bit as you go on, the Fun does not. As Kevin Bacon does not return, slowly but surely Burt becomes the star of the franchise. They also made a short-lived TV show in the town with Burt as one of the main characters.
This movie was so over the top! It's absolutely wonderful. One of the best B movies ever. The plot moves along. It never fails to deliver on the fun and Michael Gross and Reba McIntyre deliver golden comic performances. I remember seeing this in the theatres with a good buddy and we both kind of felt a cult classic may have been born. Fred Ward is one of my favorite character actors from that time period. I would have loved to see him do a comedy-horror movie with Bruce Campbell. It would have been gold.
Now for tremors 2: aftershock!
I can remember seeing this in theaters just before I turned 5 with my Uncle and cousin. One of my all-time favorite movies.
This movie is a f'n masterpiece. The sequels are fun, but, nowhere near what this 1st one was. To this day, still one of my all time favorite movies
RedletterMedia said it best one of the best comedic moments is when you think Bert and Heather are about to die but the camera pans to a wide shot of all their guns 😂
Have y'all ever seen Remo Williams, starring Fred Ward? Another really fun one to watch!
We have not, but it's been mentioned to us before!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight It's a campy fun action movie with good humor, based on a series of adventure/espionage novels.
A channel called Dead Meat does horror movie kill counts; they go into how Tremors was made, where it was shot, and a load of other details that you wouldn't know just from the movie itself. If you're interested in Tremors or any of the sequels, it's worth a watch as well!
this is a halloween classic rewatch for me n im so glad u guys enjoyed it
We are too!
The scene where they’re pole vaulting from boulder to boulder was filmed in the Alabama Hills, located in Lone Pine, CA (Eastern Sierra). Lone Pine has a quaint and thorough movie museum with a Tremors display, in addition to Iron Man, Django Unchained displays, and dozens of exhibits celebrating western movies and TV shows.
Title should be: "Tremors had our jaws on the ground." 😀
L o l that's a good one!
I literally have no idea how many times I've watched Tremors.
With Val and Earl it's like a buddy cop movie but with underground monsters!
"I never thought I'd see Kevin Bacon do a performance like this." Neither did Kevin Bacon!
Hahaha I read about that after we watched the movie actually!
Awww the memories of watching this with my Grandparents, Mother and older brother when it first came out on VHS.... Still love it and would love to have a digital version of this! :)🥰
Well, now you gotta watch the sequel. No Bacon this time, but they do a lot of fun things with Burt's character. They kinda start to get meh after the second movie, though. And they do expand on the lore of the graboids a bit.
Only thing better than watching one of my childhood favorite movies... is watching other people enjoy it for the first time. Just the right amount of goofy and the right amount of scary.
It's Mario
It’s a me
This was such a shock for me because I only knew Michael Gross (Burt) as the hippie dad from Family Ties. He spent a good few years making these movies.
This has always been one of my favorite movies. I've watched this movie so many times.
9:04 The only F-bomb they were allowed to use.
Definitely my faborite Tremors reaction! You guys did great, too many people get bogged down in the 80s of it and miss so much. Favorite movie!
What a classic. I watched it way back thinking it would be a throwaway B Movie and it turned out to be one of my favorite movies.
One of my favorite creature movies! Thank you guys. Your reactions mirrored mine. Thank you for the fun
I love these reaction videos. It's so good to see people love my favorite movies
one of my favorite 'not a horror' movies ^_^ TY so much for doing this!! I just know you are going to contaminate all your freinds' brains with this :P
This has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Remember there's no CGI in this movie. There's a making of the movie video out on TH-cam that you should watch...it's amazing how they did a lot of the effects. This to me is just a perfect movie. The cast, the monsters are so unique, the right amount of scary and funny. Perfect.
This is one of my favorite movies. Your reactions are priceless. I love all 7 movies.
Fun fact about this movie.
When they were filming it was a super cold time, so much so it was snowing. Everyone were only shooting in short intervals before they needed to cut and get jackets on.
An all-time favorite of my family & myself. Such a fun classic, perfect casting & my personal favorite creature feature monster.
Love this movie! I have had solitary Sunday movie marathons where I watch the first 3 of these movies in one sitting. Can't get enough.
Great effective scriptwriting. Incredible and under appreciated!
Rip Fred Ward, Tony Genaro, Victor Wong, Sunshine Parker and Michael Dan Wagner, On September 11 2001 Wong and his wife Dawn Rose spent the day trying to get news of Wong’s sons who lived in New York City (they were unharmed) after Rose went to sleep, Wong stayed up to continue following the news, he died of a heart attack at some point during the early hours of September 12 2001 he was 74, Fred Ward died on May 8 2022 in Los Angeles California at the age 79, his family declined to cite a cause
Your fixation on Melvin reminded me that in the Tremors lore, Melvin becomes a sleazy land developer by the third movie and is a secondary but incompetent antagonist in the series for a couple episodes.
"I want a Burt and Heather movie."
Literally every Tremors movie after this:
Well, okay. Not Heather, in any case. They could only afford Reba McEntire for one movie. Lol.
One of my all time favorites. Looking forward to you two watching the sequels.
Man, I just love Reba in this movie! Her and her husband are certified badasses in this movie and it's great!
The first title on the script was "Land Shark".
One of my favorite movies, glad you guys loved it as much as I do.
16:44 - While, their are no Burt and Heather 🎥, Michael Edward Gross (who plays Burt) IS in the sequels. He really showed his stuff in "Tremors 2", and it was funny seeing the actor play Burt's inept ancestor in "Tremors 4". The line "You missed!? With a cannon!" makes me 😁 everytime.
Fred Ward was also in a great miniseries called Invasion Earth.
Its a simple premise a simple script but its tight and done with people who gave their all to make it work.
The characters are loveable, the plot is simple and the solutions to their issues are great.
A true hidden gem
This is a classic, so many great moments just like Starship Troopers. Also I cracked up with you called Burt and Heather a gun couple, understatement once you saw their wall of guns.
The "Gun Couple", are Charles Gordon and Reba McIntyre. She's the famous country music singer and he was in such films as the 1976 King Kong and the Beethoven series, the one with the St. Bernard.
Omg this is the best tremors to me hands down! i love your reactions to it as well i hope you guys continue the series!! Edit:new fan here!
Wow, you two really nailed so many of the visual ques (like the pogo stick). Well done lol
One of my all time favorite movies. I saw it in the theater back in 1990. I loved back then when I was a little kid, and I still love it today. And you're right about it being Jaws on the ground. The movie's original title was "Land Sharks".
I seem to remember that the sound of the worm when it falls to the bottom of the canyon is the same effect they used in Jaws when the shark sinks to the deep.
This movie and every other movie in the franchise are my favorite dumb monster movies, and watching them always makes me feel weirdly festive.
I saw this in the theater with two great pals and no one else. Fun one to be able to be super vocal through. Great movie memory.
Yes!! I watched this when I was 10 and fell in love with this movie!! Glad you guys reviewed it :D
Now I think you need to watch Tucker and Dale vs Evil, a Horror comedy like no other :D
Loved the reaction! Hope you watch the rest of the franchise... or at least the first 5 of them lol. One of my favorite series of all time!
I had a friend as a kid who had this movie. I'd go over to her house every weekend for a sleepover and we'd watch this more often than not. Thanks for reminding me of that