Other Titles • Tremors • Beneath Perfection (1990) • Dead Silence (1990) • Land Sharks (1990) • Im Land der Raketenwürmer (1990)
Quotes from Tremors (1990)
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Valentine McKee: I can't believe we said no to free beer!
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Valentine McKee: Roger that Burt, and congratulations. Be advised, however, that there are two more, repeat, two more motherhumpers.
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Earl Bassett: Is this a job for an intelligent man? Valentine McKee: Well, show me one and I'll ask him.
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Earl Bassett: We gotta run. We've got a schedule to keep. Valentine McKee: Yeah. See, we plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now. Earl explained it to me.
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Valentine McKee: Earl explained it to me: we plan ahead, that way, we don't do anything right now.
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Earl Bassett: Damn it Valentine, you never plan ahead, you never take the long view, I mean here it is Monday and I'm already thinking of Wednesday... It is Monday right?
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[Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee are about to meet Rhonda LeBeck. Valentine McKee pictures her] Valentine McKee: You will have long blonde hair, big green eyes, world class breasts, ass that won't quit and legs that go all the way up.
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[Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee have just been chased by a 30 foot long monster] Rhonda LeBeck: Did you notice anything weird a minute ago?
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Valentine McKee: This valley is just one long smorgasbord.
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Earl Bassett: Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser. Valentine McKee: Yeah, well you're half right.
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[Burt Gummer looks at the monster fought off with his "toys"] Burt Gummer: Guess you broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya!
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[Burt Gummer looks at his bomb shelter for perhaps the last time] Burt Gummer: Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters.
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Earl Bassett: Dammit, Valentine! You never go for any girl unless she fits that stupid list of yours from top to bottom. Valentine McKee: Well, sure. Earl Bassett: Yeah, and it's dumber than my hind end! Like that Bobbie Lynn Dexter. Valentine McKee: Tammy Lynn Baxter! Earl Bassett: Doesn't matter. They're all the same: dead weight. "Ooh, I broke a nail!" Ugh! Makes my skin crawl. Valentine McKee: Yeah, well, I'm a victim of circumstance. Earl Bassett: I thought you called it your pecker.
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Valentine McKee: STAMPEDE! Stampede, Earl! Get out of the way, get out of the way! Earl Bassett: [waking up] You dumb shit. I was in a stampede once. Five hundred head, all hell-bent for the horizon. Valentine McKee: Now, exactly how many cattle are required for a stampede, Earl? Is it three or more? Is there a minimum to 'pede? Earl Bassett: I wish they'd stampede up your ass.
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Earl Bassett: No way those things can outrun these horses! Valentine McKee: Yeah, well, for all you know, they can fly.
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Earl Bassett: Well, there sure as hell ain't nothing to stop us now... everybody we know between here and Bixbe's already dead.
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Burt Gummer: No tracks, no sign, no spoor... you'd think after eating all those sheep they'd have to take a dump *some*place
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Valentine McKee: Come on you two, let's go, we're headed for the mountains! Burt Gummer: [Hefts bag of weapons] If that's how we're doin it, we're going prepared!
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Valentine McKee: We can't hold still long! These things are damn smart! They're getting smarter by the minute! Burt Gummer: That's fine! [Holds up a stick of dynamite] Burt Gummer: We got some new things to teach 'em!
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Rhonda LeBeck: They only respond to vibration, right? Couldn't we... distract them somehow? Valentine McKee: Yeah, something to keep 'em busy, like a... like a decoy! Earl Bassett: Hey Melvin... wanna make a buck?
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Valentine McKee: That's how they git you. They're under the goddamned ground!
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Valentine McKee: Hey - check this out! I found the ass end!
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Valentine McKee: hearing music from below ground] So where the hell's that goddamn golden oldie comin' from?
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Valentine McKee: What the hell is going on! I mean what the hell is going on!
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Valentine McKee: I've got a goddamn plan!
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Earl Bassett: Hey, Rhonda you ever seen anything like this before? Valentine McKee: Oh, sure Earl. Everyone knows about them we just didn't tell you.
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[Burt cuts off a piece of fuse for a bomb for Earl] Earl Bassett: What kind of fuse is that? Burt Gummer: Cannon fuse Earl Bassett: What the hell do you use it for? Burt Gummer: My cannon!
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Earl Bassett: Dammit, I'm gonna kick his ass! Valentine McKee: I'm gonna help you.
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[Ground Starts to bulge] Earl Bassett: Must be a million of them! [Grabiod breaks through the surface of the ground] Valentine McKee: Nope, just one!
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Earl Bassett: Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!
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Valentine McKee: Good luck shithead. Earl Bassett: Don't worry about me jerkoff.
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Valentine McKee: Good morning Mr. Bassett, this is your wake up call. Please move your ass.
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Earl Bassett: They must be long gone by now. Valentine McKee: Yeah. Hey, why don't you go take a little stroll and find out?
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Earl Bassett: No breakfast? Valentine McKee: I did it yesterday. It was baloney and beans. Earl Bassett: No, it was eggs. I made eggs. Over easy. Valentine McKee: The hell you did! Baloney and beans. It's your turn! [They go through a quick game of paper-rock-scissors, which Valentine loses] Valentine McKee: Well, I guess when I'm your age, I'll forget what I eat, too.
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Earl Bassett: What're you bringin' that vacuum cleaner, for? Valentine McKee: I like this vacuum cleaner. Earl Bassett: Y'never use it. Valentine McKee: Well, it's good for parts.
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[as the graboid feels at the building] Valentine McKee: What's it doing, Rhonda? Rhonda LeBeck: Why do you keep asking me?
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Rhonda LeBeck: [to Val] Well, thanks for everything, you know, saving my life and stuff.
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Rhonda LeBeck: I think I have a plan. Why don't we throw a bomb the way we want to go and then when it goes off, we run like goddamn bastards! [Everyone looks at her] Rhonda LeBeck: Pardon my French.
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[repeated line] Earl Bassett: Pardon my French!
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[Monster slams into a concrete retaining wall] Earl Bassett: Stupid son-of-a-bitch, knocked itself cold! Valentine McKee: Cold, my ass, he's dead! We killed it. We killed it! *Fuck you!*
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[trapped on top of a boulder by a Graboid, Val, Earl, and Rhonda are thinking of explanations for where the creatures came from] Valentine McKee: [joking] They're mutations caused by radiation. No, wait; the government made 'em. *Big* surprise for the Russians. Rhonda LeBeck: Well, there's nothing like them in the fossil record... Okay, so they predate the fossil record. [not buying it herself] Rhonda LeBeck: That'd make them a couple of billion years old... and we've just never seen one until now. Right. Earl Bassett: I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys.
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Walter Chang: Earl. Here's some swiss cheese and some bullets.
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Earl Bassett: [yelling] AHHH! AHHH! Valentine McKee: What? What is it? Earl Bassett: Damn prairie dog burrow. Valentine McKee: Sons a bitches.
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Valentine McKee: [to Earl] Who died and made you Einstein?
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Rhonda LeBeck: No, you don't understand, these creatures are absolutely unprecedented. Nestor: Yeah, but where do they come from?
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Earl Bassett: You little asswipe! You don't knock it off you're gonna be shittin' this basketball... pardon my French!
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Earl Bassett: [Valentine has just freed the truck from a hangup, after a struggle] Y'know, that's a good way to break an axle. Valentine McKee: Could you shut up? Earl Bassett: Hey, I don't need to spend the night out here! Valentine McKee: [long pause] Crybaby.
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Earl Bassett: Here's the plan. We don't even stop. Ride like hell. Tonight we keep right on going. We'll walk the horses.
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Earl Bassett: Melvin! One of these days someone's gonna kick your ass!
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