We had too much fun watching *TREMORS* (First time watching reaction)
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
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Oh man. This movie RULES! It dominated in our Patreon poll, and now we know why! Enjoy our reaction to TREMORS for the first time, directed by Ron Underwood and starring Kevin Bacon!
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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.
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!
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.
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.
This movie has the most "these are real people" characters in a monster movie. It's great.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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? 🤔
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!"*
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)
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
It's rare in modern movies to see good set ups for satisfying rewards. Love these old movies
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 😮
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?
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.
Glad you guys enjoyed the film and the special effects. The effects company that made them Studio ADI, made a UA-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!
Kevin Bacon: Can you fly you sucker?
Graboid: Just wait for Tremors 2!
Now for tremors 2: aftershock!
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"
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.
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! 😁
Fred Ward just passed away a couple of months ago
Oh man, we didn’t know that. He did amazing in this movie
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!
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 😂
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.
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 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.
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.
this is a halloween classic rewatch for me n im so glad u guys enjoyed it
We are too!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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 UA-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.
Title should be: "Tremors had our jaws on the ground." 😀
L o l that's a good one!
The first title on the script was "Land Shark".
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.
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
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 movie and every other movie in the franchise are my favorite dumb monster movies, and watching them always makes me feel weirdly festive.
"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.
This has always been one of my favorite movies. I've watched this movie so many times.
A great thing about this movie is that not at any point does anyone act like an idiot because the script says so. The characters are always learning about the monsters, and how to counter them, and in turn, the monsters also learn how to circumvent obstacles and tactics used by the humans.
One of the most under rated movie ever. The first movie I watched that had me on the edge of my seat for the whole thing.
I love these reaction videos. It's so good to see people love my favorite movies
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!
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.
Great effective scriptwriting. Incredible and under appreciated!
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! :)🥰
i adore this movie and the series (there are like 15+ now??). the first one is ridiculous but kind of tries, the sequels just embrace absurdity and get progressively weirder. a+ franchise, so glad you watched it
You've gotta watch the whole series now.
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
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
That movie is so cool. Kevin Bacon hated it back in the day, but over the years he came to love it and his involvement in it.
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.
One of my favorite creature movies! Thank you guys. Your reactions mirrored mine. Thank you for the fun
This is one of my favorite movies. Your reactions are priceless. I love all 7 movies.
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.
"the sam raimi shots gonna get you rhonda" i am Wheezing y'all! I'm so glad you guys enjoyed this movie, this and the ones that come after it are so fun and I think you'd enjoy at least 2 & 3 as much as this one!
Tremors is such a classic. I've loved seeing it's endurance as a work. It deserves it.
Thanks for watching this. Fun memories! Happy Halloween to you both, as well
One of my favorite movies, glad you guys loved it as much as I do.
this has been one of my favourite movies for almost 30 years, i can quote the whole thing verbatim with perfect inflection
I'll always love how Burt checks the gun when he gets it back
My cousins and I wore out Tremors on vhs back when we were kids. I also love how they refuse to change the monster on the poster even though it looks nothing like the graboids.
An interesting detail that’s been pointed out is how Val waking Earl, his sleeping bag making him resemble the worm, foreshadows it’s death at the end.
Damn this awoke a memory watching this as a kid.
An all-time favorite of my family & myself. Such a fun classic, perfect casting & my personal favorite creature feature monster.
Your guy’s “jaws on the ground” description is actually pretty fitting, since the running title for the movie was gonna be “land sharks”
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.