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beccaelizabethTremors is one beautifully constructed film.
It's not just funny ("broke into the wrong goddamn rec room"), with explosions and gore and goopy insides, though that stuff is good. The monsters are good too: they make enough sense, and consistent enough sense, that they're predictable and logical and yet still pretty surprising in the specifics. But the best bit is just how it's put together so well. Introduce the characters, show their setting, show their connections, give them a simple goal: Get out of town. Then throw progressively more monster at them and keep raising the stakes. And it never depends on anyone doing something stupid, and while there's moments of clumsy or mistakes they're not ohnoes I fell over a pebble, they all just roll along out of what we've already seen. We see barbed wire before it's crucial to the action, we see the crazy survivalists and they're there for the same features that are now causing a problem, it all clicks together.
Plus, whole numbers of women, kick arse in their own ways, wide range of ages, and at least a tiny bit of ethnic diversity.
I end up watching it whenever it's on TV, and this time my recorder box kept it.
Haven't seen any the sequels or whatever else got made. Only know they exist cause googled just now.
Cannot now remember why I watched it first time, because it doesn't really sound like my kind of thing, and yet, multi rewatch.
It's not just funny ("broke into the wrong goddamn rec room"), with explosions and gore and goopy insides, though that stuff is good. The monsters are good too: they make enough sense, and consistent enough sense, that they're predictable and logical and yet still pretty surprising in the specifics. But the best bit is just how it's put together so well. Introduce the characters, show their setting, show their connections, give them a simple goal: Get out of town. Then throw progressively more monster at them and keep raising the stakes. And it never depends on anyone doing something stupid, and while there's moments of clumsy or mistakes they're not ohnoes I fell over a pebble, they all just roll along out of what we've already seen. We see barbed wire before it's crucial to the action, we see the crazy survivalists and they're there for the same features that are now causing a problem, it all clicks together.
Plus, whole numbers of women, kick arse in their own ways, wide range of ages, and at least a tiny bit of ethnic diversity.
I end up watching it whenever it's on TV, and this time my recorder box kept it.
Haven't seen any the sequels or whatever else got made. Only know they exist cause googled just now.
Cannot now remember why I watched it first time, because it doesn't really sound like my kind of thing, and yet, multi rewatch.
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Date: 2009-05-26 02:51 pm (UTC)I do love it for being an original concept movie though, which is nice as we're currently in the land of remakes and gag-me-with-another-unnecessary-sequel being thrown at us left and right. If I ever catch Tremors on the tv, I'll watch it without a doubt :D