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Don't watch trailers!!!! Don't look at movie posters!!!!! Unless you don't care about spoilers....JUST WATCH THE MOVIE BLIND.....NO SPOILERS!!!! The marketing department that make the trailers and the movie posters don't care a rats hairy backside about spoiling the movie....They are not the people who make the movie or write the story.....Their only job is to get backsides in theatre seats and they will give away the whole movie to get those paying customers in theatres. I could name over 2 dozen movie posters that absolutely give away the entire plot and ending right there on the theatre wall or DVD cover......so just don't look!!!
I live in Phoenix, definitely lots of little towns like this a short drive away. Fun movie with a cult following! I loved Fred Ward in this as well, always in great shape for his age. You should see him in "Remo Williams". RIP Fred Ward.
Heck yeah, those little "one gas station and a taco bell" towns strewn along the interstate. I always wonder how people even live in those towns, there's like 3 places to work 🤣
I grew up in an area that looks JUST like this. As a kid I really thought it was in my area. There is even a town called bisbee (sounded like Bixby to my young ears). Tremors two is super fun too. You can stop at tremors two though. After that they go off the rails and even lower budget. Burt was my HERO as a kid. Having a rec room like that was my dream. I came damn close through the years. Nothing to brag about, just funny how this movie impacted my life.
Wouldn't say they go off the rails. They definitely lean hard into the "cheap B movie" style but they're still a fun watch because of it, they generally never take themselves too seriously.
@ramonacosta2647 I love how DAWN refers to them as ''the really prepared couple '' not surprising since they are preppers , it's made even funnier knowing Burt Gummer is played by Micheal Gross who played the ex hippie father on the sitcom Family Ties both he and Reba McEntire as his feisty wife make an awesome couple . Love DAWN's reaction to this it's definitely a popcorn sci fi classic
@@harveylee51 I used to watch Family Ties as a kid. It was a bit of a shock to see him in this role. Of course it shouldn't be since he's just an actor playing a role.
@@harveylee51Oh, if you want a shock, check out a TV movie he was in called "In The Line Of Duty: the FBI Murders", also starring David Soul and Ronny Cox. (Had a great gun fight in it.)
Tremors is top level filmmaking. Great script. Good, distinct characters, character development, good pacing, set ups and payoffs. You name it, Tremors has it. It puts all the crap being made today to shame.
Lol I guess everyone has their views, it was decent all the others are seriously not worth it and waste of money. Literally the only one that survives from the first film was the guy sho played reba’s husband as he continued the franchise … don’t get me know he good actor but there was way too much bad acting in all the other TREMORS films after it.
Kevin Bacon was embarrassed about the movie for many years. He didn't want to talk about it. It took him a long time to realize how much fun he had making it and how much of a cult favorite it had become.
"We plan ahead, so we don't do any work right now... Earl explained it to me." 🥓 delivers that line perfectly. He's a lot funnier than he gets credit for.
"What kind of fuse is that?" "Canon fuse." "What the hell you use it for?" "My canon." Great reaction. If you haven't seen it yet you might like 'Lake Placid' it's a fun giant creature movie
She has one line that she says to the blonde cop that made me spit a mouth full of beer straight into my girlfriend's face. Enjoyed the movie rest of the night was a bit lonely
Yes, elephant guns were for shooting & taking down elephants, from back in the days when elephants were hunted for their ivory tusks for the ivory trade.
"Tremors": The B-movie that rose to A-level with a mix of Humor, Horror and Romance.;) Kevin Bacon made "Tremors" at a low [point in his movie career. For years he was "yeah, I made 'Tremors." These days he's "Hell yeah I made 'Tremors!"
As a small child I remember pretending the carpet at home was the Sea full of Sharks and jumping from chair to chair. Think that's why this movie feels like it does.
No, she's not making a cake. That is a bullet case tumbler. They clean their own brass casings to make their own bullets. I'm in the south, several people are gunsmiths or gun owners and they use those.
Yeah I know a couple people here in Oklahoma that load their own rounds and I have a good friend who's a Gunsmith and my boss owns a 1,000 acres with a gun range on it
God that was a horrid movie, absolutely trashed the source material. So many other good Fred Ward movies and you go there? It’s probably time to seek professional help.
One of my favorite things in this movie (and there are a lot of things I love about this movie) is that Burt and Heather are treated as being useful and competent. You'd never, ever see that today. They'd now be portrayed as absolute loons who talked a good game but fell apart as soon as real trouble arose, or as lunatics who did something incredibly stupid to get themselves killed. Michael Gross, who plays Burt, adored this role, and played it for years afterwards in sequel after sequel. It was quite the change of pace for him, after playing the hippy, peacenik father in Family Ties for years. Reba says someone always asks for an autographed DVD of Tremors at her concerts. Oh, and sure, you could buy tons of guns like that, but it would cost you an absolute FORTUNE.
I'm working on it LOL. Got a third locked in a vault of what they had. Mostly classic firearms not made anymore, WWII era and such. My late New England raised parents loved those two, and watched the sequels with Burt in them and tv show. RIP Mom n Dad... miss you, and thankyou for being the best of the best,.....of the best. They loved MIB too. ;)
@@fidel2xl Preppers ARE a joke and they always will be. But as this movie points out, they certainly would be handy come some absurd situation like Tremors. I don't know what kind of woke dystopia you imagine yourself in, but it seems to me most movies still romanticize the good guy with a gun.
The use of the “tongues” as the first revelation of the graboids, and the careful framing of them as distinct smaller creatures through the early part of the movie makes the reveal really, really effective.
Grad student means graduate student. She's trying to achieve a PhD, a doctorate. And the term seismologist is a real word. We have a lot of earthquakes in the United States.
@@Dave-hb7lx True, but this the field of seismology. So she's going for her PhD. Because just like geology, seismologists normally work for oil companies. And they don't hire too many seismologists with masters degrees.
One of the very first giant monster movies I watched growing up! 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 Nuclear 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. RIP, Fred Ward, 1942-2022
There was a Tremors spin-off TV series on the Sci-Fi Channel and when that was on they had a website had all the information on the biology of the Graboids. They are actually a prehistoric squid that adapted for life underground. They also have a very long life and hide as eggs for decades, which is why they are not often seen.
I think Fred was just wondering why it took so many hits to get the nail embedded into the wood. Holding the hammer at the end, it would normally take only about two strokes of the hammer.
They dubbed lines to get it form R to PG13 , way more F word in it and Victor Wong got the shop name changed , not the old days where you could hire token asian guy , like in Airplane James Hong plays Japanese ww2 soldier , but in that movie whole scene is a joke.
I love that the survivalist is played by Michael Gross, who at the time was known as the liberal father of conservative Alex Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox on the 80s TV sitcom Family Ties.
Back in the day, fizzy drink bottles had separate plastic bases glued to the bottle to keep them from tipping over. When recycling became popular, the bases were discontinued in order to save on plastic.
On the topic of collecting guns: In most states here in the US when you go into a gun store or other store that sells guns, you can take home the rifles and shotguns the same day you buy them. You just need to pass a background check. Before you can buy the firearm you fill out a form, the store then contacts the FBI to run a background check through the "National Instant Criminal Background Check System" (NICS). This can take from a few minutes to three days. If you pass the background check you can buy and take home the rifle or shotgun. Handguns follow the same procedure with an additional wait time in 12 states. The length of this time varies by state but is typically 5-10 days. So, if you have the funds to buy the firearms, you could get them all in a week or so. Assuming you do not fail the background check (no felony convictions, etc.).
As to your question about guns. If you are a citizen and can afford them... and live in a state that isn't insane. You can get them just about as fast as you can afford them lol.
The worst way to die: To be eaten to death.. It doesn't matter what is eating you if you are alive; a lion, tiger, bear, shark, ants, or even flesh-eating bacteria...it all has to absolutely suck.
In most states, the only thing keeping one from having an arsenal like Bert and Heather is lack of money. That is a very expensive collection of guns. There is federally no requirement for training or licensing to own a gun, or many guns. There is no limit to the number of guns one can own. "Elephant gun" is a bit colloquial. It's a rifle meant for hunting big game, with elephant being the largest representative example. Calling something an "elephant gun" is a shorthand way to say that there is no animal on land that the gun is incapable of killing. "Seismologist" is a real word. It's from the Greek "seismos" meaning earthquake.
This was filmed outside of Lone Pine California, on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. I have a friend that lived in Lone Pine at that time and he somehow got one of the "prop rocks" used in the movie. They were made of styrofoam and light as a feather
Yep, the first rock they're on is real the others were fake, and other than the wind picking them up and they had to be chased down while filming, they worked great lol
Tremors refers to tremors in the ground. Also, the technique of not immediately showing their monster gained popularity upon the release of the movie Jaws.
That's not exactly true, a lot of monster movies from the 1950s would be 50% of the way through before the creatures would be shown. Especially the big bug movies like Them! and The Deadly Mantis.
I would argue that isnt exactly factual. Jaws had a ton more shark footage filmed but the director realized how bad the shark looked. By minimizing screen time and maximizing the effectiveness of the quality of what was actually shown it greatly improved the effect. The result is the same either way. Much better. Less is more.
I would like to live in that environment simply because it does not get too humid, but it can get cool in the winter. Being in a hot and humid place with lots of rain and storms, I crave the dry and the cold and the open spaces like in this movie. As for "learning these things," there used to be some books more widely available before the internet got popular. Army-Navy stores were sources as well as military handbooks. At the same time, checking some out of libraries might get flagged.
3:36 - "Did he say grass dude?" - He said "grad student". 18:26 - "Look at the bottom of that bottle of juice, it's got a flat bottom. I've never seen that before." - When 2-liter soda bottles were first introduced in the U.S., they originally had a sort of "cup" pressed/glued onto the bottom to give them a flat bottom. These were made out of the same type plastic as the caps, and were usually colored to match the bottle (green for Sprite, blue for Pepsi, etc). At some point they stopped using them, probably to save money. I didn't know any company was still using them in 1990, but that's what it looks like to me. 19:57 - "What are you making?" - It's device to clean and polish used bullet shells so that they can be reloaded. It vibrates them in sand, which is abrasive. 22:38 - "Told ya they were clever.Disabling your Jeep." - Not really. It attacked the Jeep because it was making noise after it accidentally sent off the alarm. The next three movies are also worth watching. Tremor 2 and 3 are sequels, while the fourth one is a prequel. After that, the movies went downhill and they switched to using all CGI for he creatures. There was a one season TV show on the SciFi Channel, but it was pretty corny. in 2018 Kevin Bacon returned to film a pilot for a Tremors TV show, however the show never got made, and the pilot has never been shown. You can find a trailer for it on TH-cam.
The girl is a Grad Student (not 'Grass Dude'). When they say 'Grad Student' it's short for Graduate Student...a Graduate Student (aka 'Grad Student') is someone either pursuing a Masters Degree or a PhD. A student in Med School ('Medical' School) pursuing an MD degree (Medical Doctor degree) or a student in Law School pursuing a JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence degree) can also be described as a Grad Student. Also, yes, 'Seismology' and 'Seismologist' are indeed words. Not to come across as 'that guy', but these are words I've known since I was a child. They are common words. So, I thought you were kidding when you puzzled and asked if those words really exist...lol.
It was filmed about an hour and a half away from me. The town was just a set, built on some private land, the buildings are now gone. There's still some debris at the location though.
This was followed by five sequels, a prequel and a TV series. Other films with Kevin Bacon include Animal House, Friday the 13th, Footloose, Hollow Man, A Few Good Men and X-Men: First Class. The actress playing Mindy is also in Jurassic Park
I literally got water up my nose because I was drinking it when you said "Seismology? Sounds like something they made up..." I'm guessing there isn't a lot of geological activity in Scotland? I've heard about seismologiets and seen siesmographs in real life a few times, even as a kid. And have seen a hundred scenes in movies and TV talking about seismologists. And have read countless news articles about seismologists saying this or that set off the seismographs. Such as atomic bomb tests, volcanic explosions, earthquakes, meteor strikes, dam collapses, and more. Also the ground shaking is called a "tremor" and the creatures in the movie cause a lot of those, hence the title. You need to watch more disaster movies, Dawn!! I bet you would be fun watching those.
@DawnMarieX The movie is supposed to be in Nevada, but mostlikely California. It's the Mojave desert which is in Arizona, California, and Nevada, I used to live there and it would be about 38°c is fall. Of those states, Arizona is your best bet for land and buying guns, if you stay out of Phoenix. You could get all those guns, with a few exceptions, as soon as you were a citizen and had the money. Sheep would be your best choice for livestock and you can have an irrigation well for water especially if you were in the hills. I could go on. Burt has been my hero since I saw this in the theater.
Fun fact: movies shot more than 30 miles from LA means the actors get paid mileage fees for shooting "On Location". Vasques Rocks, those slanted rocks during the Gorn fight in Star Trek and Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure, are at the edge of the mileage range (25 miles), so they get a lot of use in movies and TV.
Love your colorful commentary. At first Kevin Bacon was not thrilled about making this movie but he needed the money to get married. He thought it was the worst thing he ever did. But later,after the movie got a cult following and he said it was the most fun he ever had making a film.
If you moved to Nevada(like the movie) and became a US resident, the easiest way to purchase a firearm is to become a US, and state resident. From there you could just go through a background check for each purchase. Each state has different gun laws. Or, you could also take classes and get a concealed carry permit for the state, great for protection, good place to start learning. You could also purchase as a non-US resident, but there is a little more paperwork and hoops to jump through. Also, plenty of places like you described in Utah and Nevada, but wind will always be a constant.
It would be very easy in the U.S. and very costly. An Elephant gun has been used in the past to hunt and kill pachyderms. Seismologists are scientists who study the movements of the Earth. As a California resident I've had my share of earthquakes. By the way, A small earthquake is also called a tremor. Thank you again Dawn Marie for being so adorable and so much fun to rewatch movies with. 💖💖💖
A seismologist studies the movement of Tectonic Plates (Earthquakes). Tremors are gentle shifts. The Area they shot in was in Nevada. Great Reaction, Dawn Marie!
The drawing on the dvd cover may have been from a concept drawing prior to making the movie. That said, the actual look of the creature had probably not been determined yet.
There's a gun show near me (Virginia) almost every weekend, you could easily build up an arsenal like that (with maybe the exception of fully automatic weapons) in no time.
The actor who played Burt is best known for playing the dad on the 80’s sitcoms Family Ties which is the show that made Michael J Fox famous, he played Michaels dad. The little girl on the pogo stick played the granddaughter in Jurassic Park. What we call station wagons you would call an estate.
I'm pretty sure that the inspiration for this movie came from an old TV program from the1960s called The Outer Limits. In one episode these astronauts on Mars were being terrorized by a "sand shark", that traveled underground.
Dawn Marie, Your wish is my command: Most of the scenes from Tremors were shot around the town of Olancha, between Ridgecrest and Lone Pine in central California. Viewers of the film can experience the majestic backdrop of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and its expansive desert terrain, offering unparalleled views from every angle. If you are visiting here in Central California and you really like the heat, you really need to visit Death Valley. The name says it all. Usual temperatures are about 120 F/49 C. Crazy hot.
I dated a girl in college from that area. It's in a high desert region of California, Alabama Hills region. Every single guy I met, teen and up, from the area, chewed tobacco.
You don't have to be trained or licensed for guns in 'Murica. You just have to have money, an ID, and be able to pass a background check. Sometimes just the money'll do.
Most states in the US you can put together a collection like that pretty quickly as long as you have enough money to afford them. What she was doing with the sand shaker thing with brass casings in it was cleaning the empty shell casings. Lots of people who are into guns reload their spent casings. Not only is it cheaper in many cases than buying new ammo, you can also tailor your loads (powder charge/bullet type and weight) to where it performs best in your specific gun. If you ever come to the US, visit Las Vegas. The land scape around vegas looks just like this movie. Nevada is a very pretty state.
Seismology is a real science and seismologists are real professionals in that field. They study movement in the Earth’s tectonic plates that cause earthquakes. The device you saw that was measuring the vibrations the Graboids caused is called a seismograph, they are used to measure, detect, and research earthquakes. NASA even took some to the Moon during the Apollo missions in order to see if there are moonquakes and to see what readings they would get if they hit the Moon with parts of the rockets used to take the astronauts there. Turns out, there’s not a lot of geologic activity on the Moon, but it helped answer some questions about it.
I saw this in theater and there were a bunch of drunk bikers sitting in the back. Every time Reba was on screen the biker would yell "yah Reba"! I can't help but hear them everytime I see this movie.
Dawn wants the specific odor details!! Mrs Gummer is Reba McEntire dubbed the QUEEN of Country!! Looks like the seismologist is the one who "BRINGS HOME THE BACON 🥓" 😅 Great Channel Miss Marie!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
The little girl (Ariana Richards) played Lex, Hammond's Granddaughter, in Jurassic Park. ** The Gummers are polishing brass, in a Brass Polisher (go figure). They re-load their own ammunition.
The movie was filmed in the high desert area of California, near Bishop. We used to camp in the mountains there. The high desert has a beauty all it's own.
Regarding collecting a weapon arsenal like the one shown in this movie, my uncle had a felony assault conviction (he assaulted someone who was a domestic abuser so he wasn't a bad guy) When he passed we cleaned up his stuff and he ended up having hundreds of guns...
There are 7 Tremors movies Tremors Tremors 2 Aftershocks Tremors 3 Back to Perfection Tremors 4 The Legend Begins Tremors 5 Bloodlines Tremors 6 A Cold Day In Hell Tremors 7 Shrieker Island
If you want a place like this, just go to any of the places near Lone Pine, CA where it was filmed...like maybe Tecopa Hot Springs. Sadly, there's no structures left from the film to visit.
If you liked the filming location, you can see it in many movies. Many of the scenes for this movie were filmed near Lone Pine, California, in the Owens Valley, just east of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The scene with the road crew was filmed on Lubken Canyon Rd, about 5 miles south of town. It's a fun road to drive down at night 😀
The little girl is Ariana Richards who was one of the kids in "Jurassic Park." She played the lead character in sci-fi comedy you would like called "Spaced Invaders."
Little fun fact: This was Reba McEntire's first ever movie she acted in. During the gun room scene, she never once fumbled any of the guns between takes.
This is a great movie that knows exactly what it is! The pop bottle is the same as any other, in the 80s pop bottles had an extra piece of plastic on the base that made the bottom flat until it was phased out, presumably for environmental reasons. Great work Dawn 👏
If I'm not mistaken it was filmed on locations in California & Nevada. The woman that plays Burt Gummers wife is country singer, Reba McEntire 😉 Btw Tremors 4 explains the origins of the Graboids. Also Michael Gross who plays the character Burt in the franchise, his sister Mary Gross, plays the visitor who takes the tour, and thanks Burt for taking a photo with her son.
The Graboid at Burt And Heather's didn't know the jeep was there, until it disturbed the ground enough to trigger the alarm. Since they key on sound, it figured "food". So, while they can get cleaver, sometimes they also just get dumb lucky. Stumpy, the actually cleaver one, is the one that they ripped the tentacle off of with Val and Earl's truck. The movie was made with a few things in mind: The creators were in the desert and came up with the idea of "what if there was a land-shark in the sand, and you were stranded on one of those boulders?". And in a more general sense, it's an homage to the old 50s era monster movies. Now, you've just gotta watch all the sequels and the tv series. They expand a lot more on the lore of the creatures, lifecycle, etc. And all are action-comedy with mosnters.
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Wow! Haven’t seen this movie since middle where my teacher let us watch it in class.. Thanks for the memory DMarie 😉 #prettyeyes
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don't worry there are 6 more i repeat 6 more tremors films for you to watch and i would love it for you to watch all of them
Don't watch trailers!!!! Don't look at movie posters!!!!! Unless you don't care about spoilers....JUST WATCH THE MOVIE BLIND.....NO SPOILERS!!!! The marketing department that make the trailers and the movie posters don't care a rats hairy backside about spoiling the movie....They are not the people who make the movie or write the story.....Their only job is to get backsides in theatre seats and they will give away the whole movie to get those paying customers in theatres. I could name over 2 dozen movie posters that absolutely give away the entire plot and ending right there on the theatre wall or DVD cover......so just don't look!!!
I live in Phoenix, definitely lots of little towns like this a short drive away. Fun movie with a cult following! I loved Fred Ward in this as well, always in great shape for his age. You should see him in "Remo Williams". RIP Fred Ward.
Heck yeah, those little "one gas station and a taco bell" towns strewn along the interstate. I always wonder how people even live in those towns, there's like 3 places to work 🤣
I grew up in an area that looks JUST like this. As a kid I really thought it was in my area. There is even a town called bisbee (sounded like Bixby to my young ears). Tremors two is super fun too. You can stop at tremors two though. After that they go off the rails and even lower budget. Burt was my HERO as a kid. Having a rec room like that was my dream. I came damn close through the years. Nothing to brag about, just funny how this movie impacted my life.
Looks just like my area of Arizona(hell) also 😂
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Wouldn't say they go off the rails.
They definitely lean hard into the "cheap B movie" style but they're still a fun watch because of it, they generally never take themselves too seriously.
@@alexg1778Fair. They are definitely in another category.
@zackgallardo yeah totally. The first two are definitely the best though, I agree on that.
One thing I love is Burt gives Melvin an unloaded gun but when he takes it back he still checks it to see its still unloaded.
That's the bit that sold me on Burt.
@@AFMountaineer2000 As someone who owns guns myself, it’s better to check the “unloaded” gun, then to be wrong and accidentally shoot someone.
Everybody makes fun of preppers until their town is invaded by giant crocodilesnakeworms.
Or a virus and everybody is desperate for toilet paper.
@ramonacosta2647 I love how DAWN refers to them as ''the really prepared couple '' not surprising since they are preppers , it's made even funnier knowing Burt Gummer is played by Micheal Gross who played the ex hippie father on the sitcom Family Ties both he and Reba McEntire as his feisty wife make an awesome couple .
Love DAWN's reaction to this it's definitely a popcorn sci fi classic
Excuse me, Graboids.
@@harveylee51 I used to watch Family Ties as a kid. It was a bit of a shock to see him in this role. Of course it shouldn't be since he's just an actor playing a role.
@@harveylee51Oh, if you want a shock, check out a TV movie he was in called "In The Line Of Duty: the FBI Murders", also starring David Soul and Ronny Cox. (Had a great gun fight in it.)
Tremors is top level filmmaking. Great script. Good, distinct characters, character development, good pacing, set ups and payoffs. You name it, Tremors has it. It puts all the crap being made today to shame.
Plus it's all practical effects, no synthetic looking CG effects here.
@@Johnsrage Absolutely!
This. If you want to be a script writer, watch this movie or you're just wasting your time.
Lol I guess everyone has their views, it was decent all the others are seriously not worth it and waste of money. Literally the only one that survives from the first film was the guy sho played reba’s husband as he continued the franchise … don’t get me know he good actor but there was way too much bad acting in all the other TREMORS films after it.
Kevin Bacon was embarrassed about the movie for many years. He didn't want to talk about it. It took him a long time to realize how much fun he had making it and how much of a cult favorite it had become.
No, it's not stupid or silly to be prepared. Just a few generations ago pretty much everybody was "prepared."
"We plan ahead, so we don't do any work right now... Earl explained it to me."
🥓 delivers that line perfectly. He's a lot funnier than he gets credit for.
yeah he does have some underappreciated comedic timing
Also "Oh, sure, Earl. Everybody knows about 'em, we just didn't tell you."
"What kind of fuse is that?" "Canon fuse." "What the hell you use it for?" "My canon." Great reaction. If you haven't seen it yet you might like 'Lake Placid' it's a fun giant creature movie
if for nothing else Bette White is AWESOME in lake placid. I would NOT recommend the sequels though
@@rp8pi I wouldn't recommend them either lol
Betty White elevates Lake Placid to a must watch.
She has one line that she says to the blonde cop that made me spit a mouth full of beer straight into my girlfriend's face. Enjoyed the movie rest of the night was a bit lonely
Yes, elephant guns were for shooting & taking down elephants, from back in the days when elephants were hunted for their ivory tusks for the ivory trade.
"Tremors": The B-movie that rose to A-level with a mix of Humor, Horror and Romance.;) Kevin Bacon made "Tremors" at a low [point in his movie career. For years he was "yeah, I made 'Tremors." These days he's "Hell yeah I made 'Tremors!"
Tremors was never a "B-Movie" go look up what that term means.
Agreed. It was just low budget, but not low anything else.
As a small child I remember pretending the carpet at home was the Sea full of Sharks and jumping from chair to chair.
Think that's why this movie feels like it does.
"The Floor is LAVA"
Dawn: "That's not going in."
Also Dawn: "It's definitely smaller than I originally thought."
Me: That's what she said. *snickers*
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No, she's not making a cake. That is a bullet case tumbler. They clean their own brass casings to make their own bullets.
I'm in the south, several people are gunsmiths or gun owners and they use those.
Yeah I know a couple people here in Oklahoma that load their own rounds and I have a good friend who's a Gunsmith and my boss owns a 1,000 acres with a gun range on it
This girl is dumber than a box of rocks
Thanks for addressing this, Dawn Marie. Fred Ward(R.I.P.) is also memorable in "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins."
That's the first movie I ever remember seeing
Remos theme song is legendary 😊
It would've been the start of a great series if it hadn't come out in the same year as "Die Hard."
God that was a horrid movie, absolutely trashed the source material. So many other good Fred Ward movies and you go there? It’s probably time to seek professional help.
19:41 "Coldest beer in town, but is it the best beer in town?"
It's the ONLY beer in town.
So it would seem cheers?
One of my favorite things in this movie (and there are a lot of things I love about this movie) is that Burt and Heather are treated as being useful and competent. You'd never, ever see that today. They'd now be portrayed as absolute loons who talked a good game but fell apart as soon as real trouble arose, or as lunatics who did something incredibly stupid to get themselves killed. Michael Gross, who plays Burt, adored this role, and played it for years afterwards in sequel after sequel. It was quite the change of pace for him, after playing the hippy, peacenik father in Family Ties for years. Reba says someone always asks for an autographed DVD of Tremors at her concerts.
Oh, and sure, you could buy tons of guns like that, but it would cost you an absolute FORTUNE.
I'm working on it LOL.
Got a third locked in a vault of what they had.
Mostly classic firearms not made anymore, WWII era and such.
My late New England raised parents loved those two, and watched the sequels with Burt in them and tv show.
RIP Mom n Dad...
miss you, and thankyou for being the best of the best,.....of the best.
They loved MIB too. ;)
EXACTLY!!! (Regarding your statement about how preppers would be treated in these lame 'woke' movies today).
Not to mention she'd probably end up on some sort of government watch list.
I always feel bad for Burt and Heather. Like Burt said, they were ready for anything, except...
"Underground goddamn monsters."
@@fidel2xl Preppers ARE a joke and they always will be. But as this movie points out, they certainly would be handy come some absurd situation like Tremors. I don't know what kind of woke dystopia you imagine yourself in, but it seems to me most movies still romanticize the good guy with a gun.
The use of the “tongues” as the first revelation of the graboids, and the careful framing of them as distinct smaller creatures through the early part of the movie makes the reveal really, really effective.
Grad student means graduate student. She's trying to achieve a PhD, a doctorate.
And the term seismologist is a real word. We have a lot of earthquakes in the United States.
I learn a lot 😅
@@Dave-hb7lx True, but this the field of seismology. So she's going for her PhD. Because just like geology, seismologists normally work for oil companies. And they don't hire too many seismologists with masters degrees.
Also Val says at the end that she's going for her Ph.D.
@@theylied1776 Word comes from the Greek for earthquake, and the "logy" part means the study of. (Second part also gives us "logic.")
@@DawnMarieX I am a retired seismologist, geophysics, and this is on of my top movies. So glad you watched this
One of the very first giant monster movies I watched growing up!
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 Nuclear 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.
RIP, Fred Ward, 1942-2022
Elephant gun is exactly what you think it is, it's a large bore gun that shoots a shell powerful enough to kill an Elephant.
There was a Tremors spin-off TV series on the Sci-Fi Channel and when that was on they had a website had all the information on the biology of the Graboids. They are actually a prehistoric squid that adapted for life underground. They also have a very long life and hide as eggs for decades, which is why they are not often seen.
3:16 Kevin Bacon did this on purpose without telling Fred Ward, that’s why Fred looks at the post funny when Kevin walks away.
I think Fred was just wondering why it took so many hits to get the nail embedded into the wood. Holding the hammer at the end, it would normally take only about two strokes of the hammer.
They dubbed lines to get it form R to PG13 , way more F word in it and Victor Wong got the shop name changed , not the old days where you could hire token asian guy , like in Airplane James Hong plays Japanese ww2 soldier , but in that movie whole scene is a joke.
@@ronfehr7899 In a blooper reel he keeps missing the nail completely, they probably hammered the line down between takes and he just lets go of it
@ronfehr7899 hate to be pedantic but it's actually a staple, not a nail.
@@alexg1778Thank you for correcting me. I knew that it had another name, but I couldn't remember what.
Enjoying the armed survivalist image of Dawn (who’s scared of walking across the grass).
A desert survivalist, perhaps?
"You broke into the wrong GD rec room you bastard"
I love that the survivalist is played by Michael Gross, who at the time was known as the liberal father of conservative Alex Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox on the 80s TV sitcom Family Ties.
@brettmuir5679
As the graboid was in it's last 2 seconds of life, that was when it knew . . . . it had f'd up.
"We killed it! You got that? We killed that motherhumper!"
Back in the day, fizzy drink bottles had separate plastic bases glued to the bottle to keep them from tipping over. When recycling became popular, the bases were discontinued in order to save on plastic.
Completely forgot about that! .. they did indeed have plastic on the bottom
On the topic of collecting guns: In most states here in the US when you go into a gun store or other store that sells guns, you can take home the rifles and shotguns the same day you buy them. You just need to pass a background check. Before you can buy the firearm you fill out a form, the store then contacts the FBI to run a background check through the "National Instant Criminal Background Check System" (NICS). This can take from a few minutes to three days. If you pass the background check you can buy and take home the rifle or shotgun. Handguns follow the same procedure with an additional wait time in 12 states. The length of this time varies by state but is typically 5-10 days.
So, if you have the funds to buy the firearms, you could get them all in a week or so. Assuming you do not fail the background check (no felony convictions, etc.).
They are called "GRABOIDS."
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I was going to procrastinate but I'll do it tomorrow.
I tell people, "Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow."
@@rowenatulley852 - I will answer that comment, oh, say, tomorrow, well, maybe next week...
This movie is a masterpiece. The "behind the scenes" is a masterpiece as well. 😊
As to your question about guns. If you are a citizen and can afford them... and live in a state that isn't insane. You can get them just about as fast as you can afford them lol.
Even a non-citizen can pass a NICS background check, as long as they have a permanent resident visa.
@@Stevarooni Very true! I forgot about that lol.
"You can’t tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn’t somehow tied to his name. You’re not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.”
--Jim Gaffigan
I'd watch a Kevin Hot-Dog movie, but I'd probably skip a Kevin Coliflower movie.
The little girl is the one who figured things out with the computer at the end of Jurassic Park!
Called tremors because the antagonists are giant carnivores wormlike creatures that cause seismic tremors when they move
"That's not a crocodile. Crocodiles don't move underground."
Me: They also don't hang out in the desert where there's no water.
She doesn't seem very bright
The worst way to die:
To be eaten to death..
It doesn't matter what is eating you if you are alive; a lion, tiger, bear, shark, ants, or even flesh-eating bacteria...it all has to absolutely suck.
In most states, the only thing keeping one from having an arsenal like Bert and Heather is lack of money. That is a very expensive collection of guns. There is federally no requirement for training or licensing to own a gun, or many guns. There is no limit to the number of guns one can own. "Elephant gun" is a bit colloquial. It's a rifle meant for hunting big game, with elephant being the largest representative example. Calling something an "elephant gun" is a shorthand way to say that there is no animal on land that the gun is incapable of killing.
"Seismologist" is a real word. It's from the Greek "seismos" meaning earthquake.
This was filmed outside of Lone Pine California, on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. I have a friend that lived in Lone Pine at that time and he somehow got one of the "prop rocks" used in the movie. They were made of styrofoam and light as a feather
Prop rocks 😅 amazing
I would love a life size model of a Graboid
Right off of the 395.
Yep, the first rock they're on is real the others were fake, and other than the wind picking them up and they had to be chased down while filming, they worked great lol
@@NathanMalnaa More great info on Tremors. Thanks
When I first seen this movie in the theater, I know it was gonna be one of my all-time favorite movies. Thanks for the reaction. It was great.
Tremors refers to tremors in the ground.
Also, the technique of not immediately showing their monster gained popularity upon the release of the movie Jaws.
That's not exactly true, a lot of monster movies from the 1950s would be 50% of the way through before the creatures would be shown. Especially the big bug movies like Them! and The Deadly Mantis.
@@JohnsrageI realize that, and that's why I said that the technique 'gained popularity.' It had been used before, but not to such extent.
I would argue that isnt exactly factual. Jaws had a ton more shark footage filmed but the director realized how bad the shark looked. By minimizing screen time and maximizing the effectiveness of the quality of what was actually shown it greatly improved the effect. The result is the same either way. Much better. Less is more.
@zackgallardo Thanks for that information. I guess I was thinking more of the finished product, the amount of time that the shark was seen on screen.
I would like to live in that environment simply because it does not get too humid, but it can get cool in the winter. Being in a hot and humid place with lots of rain and storms, I crave the dry and the cold and the open spaces like in this movie.
As for "learning these things," there used to be some books more widely available before the internet got popular. Army-Navy stores were sources as well as military handbooks. At the same time, checking some out of libraries might get flagged.
I'm glad to see Dawn do this one. She's going to enjoy it so much. I hope, anyway.
I did 😏
3:36 - "Did he say grass dude?" - He said "grad student".
18:26 - "Look at the bottom of that bottle of juice, it's got a flat bottom. I've never seen that before." - When 2-liter soda bottles were first introduced in the U.S., they originally had a sort of "cup" pressed/glued onto the bottom to give them a flat bottom. These were made out of the same type plastic as the caps, and were usually colored to match the bottle (green for Sprite, blue for Pepsi, etc). At some point they stopped using them, probably to save money. I didn't know any company was still using them in 1990, but that's what it looks like to me.
19:57 - "What are you making?" - It's device to clean and polish used bullet shells so that they can be reloaded. It vibrates them in sand, which is abrasive.
22:38 - "Told ya they were clever.Disabling your Jeep." - Not really. It attacked the Jeep because it was making noise after it accidentally sent off the alarm.
The next three movies are also worth watching. Tremor 2 and 3 are sequels, while the fourth one is a prequel. After that, the movies went downhill and they switched to using all CGI for he creatures.
There was a one season TV show on the SciFi Channel, but it was pretty corny.
in 2018 Kevin Bacon returned to film a pilot for a Tremors TV show, however the show never got made, and the pilot has never been shown. You can find a trailer for it on TH-cam.
There were a bunch of these movies and a TV series. I've only seen this one.
The girl is a Grad Student (not 'Grass Dude'). When they say 'Grad Student' it's short for Graduate Student...a Graduate Student (aka 'Grad Student') is someone either pursuing a Masters Degree or a PhD. A student in Med School ('Medical' School) pursuing an MD degree (Medical Doctor degree) or a student in Law School pursuing a JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence degree) can also be described as a Grad Student.
Also, yes, 'Seismology' and 'Seismologist' are indeed words. Not to come across as 'that guy', but these are words I've known since I was a child. They are common words. So, I thought you were kidding when you puzzled and asked if those words really exist...lol.
An elephant gun was used to hunt elephants when the British first started colonizing Africa. Mostly now only old or nucience bulls are hunted.
It was filmed about an hour and a half away from me. The town was just a set, built on some private land, the buildings are now gone. There's still some debris at the location though.
18:25 I forgot about those. 2 liter soda bottle used to have a black cap on the bottom to make it flat because the clear bottle was round like a dome.
This was followed by five sequels, a prequel and a TV series. Other films with Kevin Bacon include Animal House, Friday the 13th, Footloose, Hollow Man, A Few Good Men and X-Men: First Class. The actress playing Mindy is also in Jurassic Park
I literally got water up my nose because I was drinking it when you said "Seismology? Sounds like something they made up..."
I'm guessing there isn't a lot of geological activity in Scotland? I've heard about seismologiets and seen siesmographs in real life a few times, even as a kid. And have seen a hundred scenes in movies and TV talking about seismologists.
And have read countless news articles about seismologists saying this or that set off the seismographs. Such as atomic bomb tests, volcanic explosions, earthquakes, meteor strikes, dam collapses, and more.
Also the ground shaking is called a "tremor" and the creatures in the movie cause a lot of those, hence the title.
You need to watch more disaster movies, Dawn!! I bet you would be fun watching those.
I love the accent, my dad says things the same way. "Wirrim," "Russeeyan," "Poeeum..."
@DawnMarieX The movie is supposed to be in Nevada, but mostlikely California. It's the Mojave desert which is in Arizona, California, and Nevada, I used to live there and it would be about 38°c is fall. Of those states, Arizona is your best bet for land and buying guns, if you stay out of Phoenix. You could get all those guns, with a few exceptions, as soon as you were a citizen and had the money. Sheep would be your best choice for livestock and you can have an irrigation well for water especially if you were in the hills. I could go on.
Burt has been my hero since I saw this in the theater.
Fun fact: movies shot more than 30 miles from LA means the actors get paid mileage fees for shooting "On Location". Vasques Rocks, those slanted rocks during the Gorn fight in Star Trek and Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure, are at the edge of the mileage range (25 miles), so they get a lot of use in movies and TV.
Im just here to hear her say "crocodile" all movie 😊
Love your colorful commentary. At first Kevin Bacon was not thrilled about making this movie but he needed the money to get married. He thought it was the worst thing he ever did. But later,after the movie got a cult following and he said it was the most fun he ever had making a film.
If you moved to Nevada(like the movie) and became a US resident, the easiest way to purchase a firearm is to become a US, and state resident. From there you could just go through a background check for each purchase. Each state has different gun laws.
Or, you could also take classes and get a concealed carry permit for the state, great for protection, good place to start learning.
You could also purchase as a non-US resident, but there is a little more paperwork and hoops to jump through.
Also, plenty of places like you described in Utah and Nevada, but wind will always be a constant.
One of the first of it's genre to take the whole thing not so seriously. For that it deserves kudos, as well as it's other virtues.
Three of my favorite movies with Fred Ward "The Right Stuff," "Uncommon Valor" and "Miami Blues."
It would be very easy in the U.S. and very costly. An Elephant gun has been used in the past to hunt and kill pachyderms. Seismologists are scientists who study the movements of the Earth. As a California resident I've had my share of earthquakes. By the way, A small earthquake is also called a tremor. Thank you again Dawn Marie for being so adorable and so much fun to rewatch movies with. 💖💖💖
A seismologist studies the movement of Tectonic Plates (Earthquakes). Tremors are gentle shifts.
The Area they shot in was in Nevada.
Great Reaction, Dawn Marie!
The drawing on the dvd cover may have been from a concept drawing prior to making the movie. That said, the actual look of the creature had probably not been determined yet.
I had to pull out my copy and look. I always thought it was one of the smaller biter tongue things...just incorrectly sized.
I think Dawn may have gotten cross wired between the Tremors cover and possibly Lake Placid.
@@mblackwl I mean I get why she was confused when the monster showed because the cover definitely shows something with a bunch of teeth.
(Re looks at DVD cover.) Yeah, my bad. The grabboids on them have a bunch of teeth, despite not having them in the movie.
@@mblackwl I really think it's a bigger version of the tongue biter things + teeth. I noticed they both have the little black eyebrow horn things.
When they were making this movie it was actually called "Dead Silence"... They change the name Tremors after it was filmed.
There's a gun show near me (Virginia) almost every weekend, you could easily build up an arsenal like that (with maybe the exception of fully automatic weapons) in no time.
The actor who played Burt is best known for playing the dad on the 80’s sitcoms Family Ties which is the show that made Michael J Fox famous, he played Michaels dad.
The little girl on the pogo stick played the granddaughter in Jurassic Park.
What we call station wagons you would call an estate.
this is a good classic movie ...... easily watchable and good laughter
My favourite shot of the movie implies the couple in the basement are the next victims... until the camera pans to the wall of guns.
Dawn, I knew it was right on the tip of your tongue. So close. The little blonde girl was the somewhat older blonde girl in Jurassic Park.
I'm pretty sure that the inspiration for this movie came from an old TV program from the1960s called The Outer Limits. In one episode these astronauts on Mars were being terrorized by a "sand shark", that traveled underground.
Most people are too young to remember 'The Outer Limits " , " We now return control of your television set to you "
The Graboids remind me of the sand worms from Dune but smaller
Dawn Marie, Your wish is my command: Most of the scenes from Tremors were shot around the town of Olancha, between Ridgecrest and Lone Pine in central California. Viewers of the film can experience the majestic backdrop of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and its expansive desert terrain, offering unparalleled views from every angle. If you are visiting here in Central California and you really like the heat, you really need to visit Death Valley. The name says it all. Usual temperatures are about 120 F/49 C. Crazy hot.
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This is one of my favorite movies. I’m so happy that you reacted to this video
I dated a girl in college from that area. It's in a high desert region of California, Alabama Hills region. Every single guy I met, teen and up, from the area, chewed tobacco.
Your reactions are so entertaining. Tremors is a fun movie, doesn't take itself seriously, but still has good characters and storyline.
You don't have to be trained or licensed for guns in 'Murica. You just have to have money, an ID, and be able to pass a background check. Sometimes just the money'll do.
Most states in the US you can put together a collection like that pretty quickly as long as you have enough money to afford them. What she was doing with the sand shaker thing with brass casings in it was cleaning the empty shell casings. Lots of people who are into guns reload their spent casings. Not only is it cheaper in many cases than buying new ammo, you can also tailor your loads (powder charge/bullet type and weight) to where it performs best in your specific gun. If you ever come to the US, visit Las Vegas. The land scape around vegas looks just like this movie. Nevada is a very pretty state.
Seismology is a real science and seismologists are real professionals in that field. They study movement in the Earth’s tectonic plates that cause earthquakes. The device you saw that was measuring the vibrations the Graboids caused is called a seismograph, they are used to measure, detect, and research earthquakes. NASA even took some to the Moon during the Apollo missions in order to see if there are moonquakes and to see what readings they would get if they hit the Moon with parts of the rockets used to take the astronauts there. Turns out, there’s not a lot of geologic activity on the Moon, but it helped answer some questions about it.
I saw this in theater and there were a bunch of drunk bikers sitting in the back. Every time Reba was on screen the biker would yell "yah Reba"! I can't help but hear them everytime I see this movie.
Everybody is so young in this movie. I had forgotten Reba Mcintire was in this. And the Asian guy with the funny eye from "The Golden Child"
He's also Egg Shen in Big Trouble in Little China.
Dawn wants the specific odor details!! Mrs Gummer is Reba McEntire dubbed the QUEEN of Country!! Looks like the seismologist is the one who "BRINGS HOME THE BACON 🥓" 😅 Great Channel Miss Marie!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
She also sang the song during the ending credits 😊
He said "grad student," not "grass." 🤣
The little girl (Ariana Richards) played Lex, Hammond's Granddaughter, in Jurassic Park. ** The Gummers are polishing brass, in a Brass Polisher (go figure). They re-load their own ammunition.
The movie was filmed in the high desert area of California, near Bishop. We used to camp in the mountains there. The high desert has a beauty all it's own.
I remember tremors when I was a little kid. I was scared but couldn’t look away!
Regarding collecting a weapon arsenal like the one shown in this movie, my uncle had a felony assault conviction (he assaulted someone who was a domestic abuser so he wasn't a bad guy) When he passed we cleaned up his stuff and he ended up having hundreds of guns...
There are 7 Tremors movies
Tremors
Tremors 2 Aftershocks
Tremors 3 Back to Perfection
Tremors 4 The Legend Begins
Tremors 5 Bloodlines
Tremors 6 A Cold Day In Hell
Tremors 7 Shrieker Island
Always a pleasure watching your reactions.
The opening scene of Val and Earl driving on the "Hwy" it was so cold you can actually see a couple snow flakes.
If you want a place like this, just go to any of the places near Lone Pine, CA where it was filmed...like maybe Tecopa Hot Springs. Sadly, there's no structures left from the film to visit.
If you liked the filming location, you can see it in many movies. Many of the scenes for this movie were filmed near Lone Pine, California, in the Owens Valley, just east of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The scene with the road crew was filmed on Lubken Canyon Rd, about 5 miles south of town. It's a fun road to drive down at night 😀
The terms you were wanting to say are, "Self Reliant and Self Sustaining"
The little girl is Ariana Richards who was one of the kids in "Jurassic Park." She played the lead character in sci-fi comedy you would like called "Spaced Invaders."
Little fun fact:
This was Reba McEntire's first ever movie she acted in. During the gun room scene, she never once fumbled any of the guns between takes.
This is a classic! Action and comedy.
Love it.
This is a great movie that knows exactly what it is! The pop bottle is the same as any other, in the 80s pop bottles had an extra piece of plastic on the base that made the bottom flat until it was phased out, presumably for environmental reasons. Great work Dawn 👏
The second Tremors film is good too.
Grad Student = graduate student= working on Master's Degree. "Mindy" was in Jurassic Park. This is a family favorite!
If I'm not mistaken it was filmed on locations in California & Nevada.
The woman that plays Burt Gummers wife is country singer, Reba McEntire 😉
Btw Tremors 4 explains the origins of the Graboids.
Also Michael Gross who plays the character Burt in the franchise, his sister Mary Gross, plays the visitor who takes the tour,
and thanks Burt for taking a photo with her son.
The Graboid at Burt And Heather's didn't know the jeep was there, until it disturbed the ground enough to trigger the alarm. Since they key on sound, it figured "food". So, while they can get cleaver, sometimes they also just get dumb lucky. Stumpy, the actually cleaver one, is the one that they ripped the tentacle off of with Val and Earl's truck. The movie was made with a few things in mind: The creators were in the desert and came up with the idea of "what if there was a land-shark in the sand, and you were stranded on one of those boulders?". And in a more general sense, it's an homage to the old 50s era monster movies. Now, you've just gotta watch all the sequels and the tv series. They expand a lot more on the lore of the creatures, lifecycle, etc. And all are action-comedy with mosnters.
Best part of this is hearing Dawn say worm in that accent. Lol
Always try to be prepared. We live in a crazy, beautiful world. Elephant gun is a way to be prepared 😮😂😅😊
Kevin originally said he didn't like this role, but later said it has turned into one of his favorite ones!
24:50 Miss Dawn can you say “the Worms will take over the world” ten times fast? You Scots say “werms” funny. 😂