r/MovieDetails • u/GraboidGirl • 11d ago
⏱️ Continuity In Tremors (1990), the poles that Earl, Rhonda and Val use to polevault away from the Graboids were left behind from a fence Val & Earl didn't finish
As demonstrated by their fixing of the fence in the beginning of the movie. The boys aren't the best at completing their jobs. Which is fortunate later when their laziness leaves a pile of poles next to a boulder for a quick getaway.
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u/zripcordz 11d ago
The end of this clip is great...can't hit the staple for his life.
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u/ComfyInDots 11d ago
I was getting frustrated watching that.
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u/jayboosh 11d ago
This movie is perfect. Literally perfect
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
One might say it's.....
Perfection.
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u/Xanthus179 11d ago
Just watched it for the first time a couple months ago, which is slightly ridiculous since I was born in the 80s.
It really is fantastic. Excellent mix of comedy and horror.
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u/magseven 11d ago
Fright Night 1 and 2, Gremlins 1 and 2, Monster Squad. Hopefully you haven't missed any of these.
A newer film that is like Tremors on meth is "Feast". It has some sequels that are completely bonkers but lower quality.
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
Feast is the only horror movie I've seen to have the balls to graphically kill a kid and I respect it. That movie is BONKERS.
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 11d ago edited 11d ago
Have you seen IV? It is too, in the worst possible ways.
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago edited 11d ago
You mean Tremors 4: The Legend Begins? If so, I totally agree. It's the best Tremors movie.
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u/caniuserealname 9d ago
Legitimately my go to example of a perfectly constructed movie.
Doesn't necessarily mean its everyone's favourite, doesn't mean it's the best movie ever, but just on a purely academic level there's so little wasted energy. Everything you need to understand what's happening is included in the movie ahead of time, without beating you over the head with it.
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u/TheTresStateArea 11d ago
Checkovs fence
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
When in doubt, assume every detail of Tremors comes back around eventually.
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u/NikoOo1204 11d ago
I have to watch Tremors
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 11d ago
Again or for the first time?
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u/NikoOo1204 11d ago
First time, I heard so much good about it.
commented here so I do not forget to watch it this weekend
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 11d ago
I'm so happy for you. Crank that sound and enjoy.
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u/Samwise-42 11d ago
Tremors is arguably a perfect movie. So many details set up early on pay off later. So many seemingly casual lines of dialogue inspire later plans and ideas. You're in for a treat. Most of the sequels aren't terribly great, but I enjoy the second and fourth, myself.
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u/Local-Sandwich6864 10d ago
I'm gonna have to watch the third again. I remember enjoying it but being disappointed with the terrible CGI.
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u/Icy_Error2709 6d ago
Watched if for the first time today...going for the 2nd one now
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u/NikoOo1204 6d ago
Watched it this weekend with a friend.
Awesome 90s monster movie! It has no right being that good!!
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u/RichCorinthian 11d ago
It's a great "horror for people who don't like horror" movie. Also a good genre intro for kids who aren't averse to some swears.
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u/-sharkbot- 11d ago
If you like Tremors you would like Nope, they end up having the same kind of vibe, but instead of ground creature, it’s sky creature.
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u/HeidelCraft 11d ago
They are building a wire fence though
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u/Alive_Ice7937 11d ago
They could be using the wire to patch a gap in the pole fence caused by recent activities
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u/bullwinkle8088 11d ago
Sometimes a crude gate is made in fences using two fixed poles, but the barbed wire is attached to a third pole that is typically held closed using a fixed loop of barbed wire at the bottom of the fixed pole on one side that the pole is slid into and a movable loop of regular wire which is pulled down over the top of the movable pole.
It's quick and easy to build, fitting their characters.
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u/TacTurtle 10d ago
It is not uncommon to use pole fencing near gates and roads to prevent unauthorized access by cutting the barbed wire, then use cheaper barbed wire away from the gates.
Pole fencing is also used where it changes direction frequently like near gullies or ridges as barbed wire posts need bracing when they change directions (otherwise tensioning the wire tends to pull over the ends).
My family cabin just up the road near Bishop is fenced like this.
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
The wire fence demonstrates that they have precedent of working on fences in the film. Else the question would be "Who built the pole fence?". If we see them working on one fence, it can be assumed the unfinished fence is also their handiwork.
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u/thorn_sphincter 11d ago
That's not how it works
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
There are a total of 16 people living in the whole valley. 2 of them children, 1 a drunk, an old shepherd and a doctor and wife that had just moved there. The odds Val and Earl had a hand in the pole fence are high.
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u/thorn_sphincter 11d ago
If the fence looked fresh, I'd grant it. But it looks so old amlnd weathered...
This could've been settlers of Perfection a hundred years ago.The bits you call leftovers, that looks like storm damage. You call the fence unfinished, it looks like it was ruined, not unfinished. The same storm that blew that scatter around. And the beer can looks like it's 30 years old.
I like the theory, I love the trio down memory lane, but I can't agree with you. I think you're wrong. Sorry2
u/TacTurtle 10d ago
Untreated wood in the desert bleaches and dries like that pretty quickly, like 5 years or less.
Citation: my family has a cabin up near Bishop, just up the road from where this was filmed.
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
I can be wrong. The point of creating the post is to address the "plot hole" that the poles came out of nowhere. Whether or not V & E were building the fence, someone was and they left their materials behind.
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u/GrandpasSoggyGooch 11d ago edited 11d ago
Just when I think i know every detail about this movie, another cool one is found. Thanks for this! At the end clip thats a genuine reaction from Fred ward from him missing the nail all those times. He wasn't supposed to miss it but they liked his reaction so they kept it in.
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u/GrandpasSoggyGooch 11d ago
Actually now that I've looked at your username and account I see you're a fellow super fan of the franchise and probably already know this! Nice to see another in the wild!
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u/Cartoonlad 11d ago
Everything in this movie is in service to something else in the movie. It's a perfect script. It's a perfect movie.
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u/altasking 11d ago
This film’s script is fucking tight. No loose ends.
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u/GraboidGirl 11d ago
That'll happen when you write and rewrite and write something over 5 years as you shop it around Hollywood.
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u/j_hawker27 11d ago
Sorry, I'm just not seeing what you're talking about. Could you add some more hand-pointing emojis to the clip?
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u/SelmonTheDriver 11d ago
I remember never missing a telecast of this film as a kid.
This was one of those Hollywood Films that just had the American feel to it
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u/web_goddess 11d ago
Sent this to my Dad, who believes he is one of the world’s foremost Tremors experts. He said:
“The detail about the fence is wrong, they were stapling barb wire to posts that were already in the ground, the ones they used to pole vault were round and really long. The pics show a fence made with the long poles they used going between posts with no barb wire.”
Perhaps a continuity error rather than a plot hole then?
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u/typicalguy95 11d ago
One of the best movies of the 90s directed by Ron Underwood who also directed City Slickers and Heart & Souls and The Adventures of Pluto Nash and my personal favorite Mighty Joe Young
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u/OGCelaris 11d ago
It just looks like an old poll fence that was falling apart due to disrepair and time to me.
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u/benzotryptamine 11d ago
interesting why they would be hammering in metal wire at the top but the director forgot it in the last scene
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u/marcus_autisticus 11d ago
Fun fact: I watched this movie back when I was a kid (and way too young for even comedic horror movies). For several days after seeing it, I refused to step outside the house, except on tarmac, concrete and rock. Because the Graboids can't get to you there. Still love the movie though.
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u/jefftickels 10d ago
When I was a kid my brother convinced me tremors were real and every now and then would come running by me when we were playing in the forest screaming "the tremors are coming, the tremors are coming."
Today I learned they're actually called graboids? My childhood was a lie!
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u/BVits-Lover 9d ago
I've seen this movie like fifty times and I never even realized that. Damn God I love this movie. TV show was pretty fucking banger too -- don't @ me about that, I love that tv show and the fact it's only one season is a crime
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u/SuccessPastaTime 8d ago
Was this music from the movie? It reminds me of the music from Midnight Run. Lol.
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u/DJGrawlix 11d ago
The clip cuts off too soon. Kevin Bacon hopelessly swinging at that staple and neither of them commenting on it really set the mood for the whole film.
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u/JunglePygmy 10d ago
That 100 year old beer can next to the rock is definitely not their beer can.. look at the thing, that’s just old desert junk. Also, the fence at the beginning is pretty clearly not a pole-fence? They’re winding barbed wire around a square fence post…
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u/MacGyver_1138 11d ago
I absolutely love this movie. That said, they are building the shittiest fence I've ever seen at the beginning of the movie. That's actually probably on brand for them now that I think about it though, so no demerits.