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One of the things I love about this movie is that it did such a good job making me care about the characters and their tiny, dusty town (very similar to one I grew up in) that I was pulling for them the entire time. Too often in killer beast movies I begin sympathizing with the beast and then end up bummed out in the end. Not here. Fuck the Graboids! Humans rule!
This movie was a treat for me. If I'm not mistaken this was the first movie that I've seen starring Kevin Bacon so that was entertaining in and of itself. As for the movie I found it to be hilariously good or bad, depending on how you want to look at it. I also enjoyed the lack of attention to detail, it definitely helped with the comedic side of this film. Like when Burt just casually fires his elephant gun from underneath his shoulder, that sold the dumb hick-like character really well.
That's the great thing about Tremors - the expectations are not high. It wears its B-movie credentials on its sleeve. The worms are... unconvincing but good enough to not draw you out of the film (like the Rodents of Unusual Size in Princess Bride). It's just plausible enough that you willingly suspend disbelief - "sure, there could be giant killer worms in this weird and forgotten corner of the California/Nevada border... I guess." Tremors benefits greatly from low expectations. It doesn't have to succeed much in order to succeed. By way of comparison, Waterworld was originally intended to cost about as much as Tremors. It was supposed to be a movie like Steel Dawn: But it got burdened with a budget the size of Titanic and nobody wants to watch that except for the schadenfreude. M Night Shamalyan described Lady in the Water as "A $60m art film" without appreciating that nobody makes $60m art films. The guys behind Tremors took that one to heart.
Tremors: The best use of the word "fuck" in any movie. Very enjoyable movie, as everyone else has said it's just believable enough while still being outlandish. Kevin Bacon is fantastic and so is everyone else in the movie, it's a combination of red-neck and big worms and guns and well, how can you not at least think it's a fun movie.
I've enjoyed this movie ever since I saw it on AMC as a little kid. I think it's actually what kickstarted my adolescent fascination with monster movies, which led to horror movies and then horror writing. Tremors in particular is good for younger viewers because it's monsters are just well done enough to take seriously in the film, but the minute you try and picture one in your living room/bedroom, it's a silly thing that's easily remembered as pure fiction.