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Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins/Tremors Reviews:
Tremors 4; The Legend Begins
2008-10-19 - When first saw this movie, I thought it was as good as the origional Tremors movie and had charachter development, an entertaining storyline, and plenty of scares, laughes, and suspense.

Plot;

The movie starts out in 1889, beginning in a mine where someone is suddenly pulled up and, when is pulled down, is found with his head eaten off.
It is later revealed that seventeen workers were killed in that one day, and most of the people of what is known as Rejection Valley (soon to be changed to Perfection) flee from their homes, leaving less than ten people there.
Desperate, the remaining people telegram a message for help, and get a response that the owner of the mine is coming, and, becom excited, hoping that this owner will help them with their current predicament, but are highly dissapointed to find out that the owner, Hiram Gummer, is no more than a snappy, well-spoken, bossy man who loves making bad jokes, pulling pranks, has no idea about the "Wild West," (as they call it) doesn't carry a weapon, and can't even ride a bicycle!
When Hiram and some other surviving miners go of to investigate the mine and find body parts in a very small mine, Hiram decides that there is now no threat and they set up camp for the night.
When two of the people on the trip are killed, Hiram's new friend Juan Pedilla kills one of the attackers, which turns out to be what will be known as a Baby Graboid, but is what they call a "Dirt Dragon", and upsets the people of Rejection greatly, so they telagram for a qualified gunfighter, waiting over a month before a one named Mr."Black Hand" Kelly comes in and goes on a trip with Hiram and Juan, where they find how the "Dirt Dragons" have hatched so quickly; the hot springs near the mine, where they also discover the eggs of the Graboids.
When they spend the night in a cabin, they are attacked by fully-grown Grabiods, and telegram a message for help, and are rescued by one of the people from Rejection, Ms. Christine Lord and are pursued.
When they get back, however, Hiram leaves, but when he hears that the people of Rejection are in serious trouble, he sells the only thing he has in the world, and gets weapons to defend Rejection, and comes back, so, when the Graboids come, everyone is ready. Hiram kills one of the Graboids by blowing a hole in its head with a punt gun, but is snatched by the second oneand dragged underground. The second one is impaled when another resident, Tecopa, bangs a saw in the ground, and, as the Graboid rushes to eat him, impales itself on the saw. The third Graboid becomes smart, avoiding all of their traps, until they manage to attach its tail to the old steaming train, and, in its attempt to go underground, is blown up.
The people of rejection rejoice, and Hiram comes to terms with them on;

a.) no one can ever know about the "Dirt Dragons"
b.) since Tecopa's statue was destroyed by the Graboid, they will get
a new statue that looks like him (since the other didn't look like him at all)
The movie ends with Ms. Lord presenting Hiram with a new gun, and Hiram having fun shooting at cans.
This is a highly recommended movie!

Let it end here
2007-07-07 - The best that can be said about this film is that it is better than Part 3, which was the nadir in this series that managed to produce two good films before taking a nosedive. This time the action moves to the Old West, where the burrowing graboids (this time christened "dirt dragons" or something like that) have killed all the workers at a silver mine near the town of Rejection. Prissy Eastern mineowner Gummer (Michael Gross), an ancestor of the later gun nut, comes out to investigate why profits from the mine have declined so precipitously.

Although the change of era is inspired, this film just seems to be going through the motions. I wouldn't have expected the filmmakers to get even two good films out of the premise of burrowing worm monsters, but going for four was definitely overreaching. There is a lot of self-referential jokiness that might appeal to fans of the franchise, but I found it tiresome. I find myself hoping that the subsequent TV series won't be released on DVD because my [...]-retentive tendencies will probably force me to watch it in the interests of completeness.


QUITE GOOD FOR THE FOURTH ENTRY INTO THE SERIES
2007-03-15 - I don't know how many other movie franchises can make this claim. Having three worthy sequels is a major feat! This installment may be the best since the first film, with a good mix of chills and laughs! The monsters are much more convincing than the last film with no CGI and there are plenty of jabs at the series. If you are a fan of these films, this is another good entry.

Good old-fashioned Western complete with monsters!
2007-01-05 - The original Tremors was a modern-day Western in many respects, with stars Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward playing the two cowboys who became monster hunters against their will. Michael Gross (Family Ties) played against type as the slightly-skewed survivalist who never saw a firearm he didn't like (or own). Gross carries the lead role in "Tremors 4" as Hiram Gummer, Burt's grandfather, a true "Eastern dude" in fancy dress who must travel to Rejection (not Perfection) Nevada to find out why his silver mine has suddenly stopped producing.

Hiram Gummer is much closer to Gross's "euridite gentleman" persona that he played so well on Family Ties, and the veteran actor has a lot of fun with the role as the story unfolds. The desperate town actually hires a real live gunslinger to "fill the monsters full of lead", yet it is Hiram who must eventually save the day. There's a genuineness to this film in its respect for its characters and subtle reverence to the pioneer spirit of the 1800's that takes this film to a higher level, echoing the days of classic Western TV shows like Gunsmoke. The Chinese couple with their young son are the town's immigrants, the forebears of storekeeper Walter Yang in the first film, and the townspeople as a whole form a nice ensemble around Hiram Gummer's increasingly desperate efforts to save the town.

As in the original, there is a rootin'-tootin' showdown with the monsters, complete with a cannon(!) that is worthy of Gunfight at the OK Corral, only messier. Director SS Wilson wisely limited the use of CGI here in favor of the more traditional special effects used in the first film, which allows the monster scenes to broaden instead of detract from the story.

In the end the stalwart townspeople win after amassing a sizable body count, but we are shown the birth of Perfection Nevada as they repaint the name on their recently-built water tower, and Hiram receives a wedding gift from his bride-to-be: a brand-new Gatling gun. (He's a lousy shot, you see.) Of course, they all agreed to never tell anyone about the "dirt dragons" they had vanquished, otherwise the town would never grow!

An excellent bookend on the series, and the only sequel that's proven worthy of the original film. Highly recommended.

The Legend Begins
2006-07-06 - The film may be called Tremors 4, but this is very much a prequel to the three movies seen thus far and the TV Series. This film is set in 1889 pretty much 100 years before the events in the first film. In this film Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross aka Burt Gummer in the previous movies and series) a rich, high class snob who owns the silver mines. Its here that the Legend begins as whilst mining the workers employed by Hiram stumble upon the origins of the Grapoids, and subsequently begin to disapear. Hiram can't get the local town people of Rejection to help him kill the Grapoids preventing him from mining, so he has to hire a lean guman. Black Hand Kelly arrives in town, collects his fee and then with Hiram sets about taking on the Grapoids.
This is a good film and a vast improvement over the poor series and the very low budget third movie. Michael Gross is on the ball again, playing the Great Grandfather of his better known Character Burt. The film does well to show the change in character of the Gummer's, from snooty businessmen to crazed gun-loving hunters. Also the fact the film moves away from the heavy CGI use seen in the TV Show and 3rd Film and goes back to the Anamatronic Puppet effects seen in the first two films does a lot to make the action more believable and steer it back towards the first movies quality.
The only slight downers with the film would be its slow start and the action seens are a little on the short side. Another thing I didn't like is that with this being a 'Straight to Video' production it has a low budget so the cast is pretty much as cheap as possible, so there is some really bad acting. However it didn't stop me from enjoying this film as I have the others in the series. I can only hope they keep the stories coming and hope for Tremors 5.
If you're a fan of the Tremors films you'll love this one as its better than the other two movies, but is not as good as the first probably due to the bigger budget and the star cast. Its a step back in the right direction however and is certainly a good film to pass a an hour or two.