Tremors (1990)

Kevin Bacon: Valentine McKee

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• Earl Bassett : Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser.

  Valentine McKee : Yeah, well you're half right.

• Valentine McKee : Roger that Burt, and congratulations. Be advised, however, that there are two more, repeat, two more motherhumpers.

• Earl Bassett : Is this a job for an intelligent man?

  Valentine McKee : Well, show me one and I'll ask him.

• [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, I know that for sure. Okay, so they predate the fossil record. But 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• Valentine McKee : [to Rhonda]  GET OUT OF YOUR PANTS!

• [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.

• Valentine McKee : What the hell's in those things, Burt?

  Burt Gummer : A few household chemicals in the proper proportions.

• Valentine McKee : I can't believe we said no to free beer!

• Earl Bassett : Dammit, I'm gonna kick his ass!

  Valentine McKee : I'm gonna help you.

• Earl Bassett : No way those things can outrun these horses!

  Valentine McKee : Yeah, well, for all you know, they can fly.

• Valentine McKee : What the hell is going on? I mean what the HELL is going on!

• Valentine McKee : [to Earl]  Who died and made you Einstein?

• Valentine McKee : This valley is just one long smorgasbord.

• 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!

  Miguel : Hey Melvin... wanna make a buck?

  Melvin Plug : [Flips him the bird]  Eh, eat it!

• Valentine McKee : [hearing music from below ground]  So where the hell's that goddamn golden oldie comin' from?

• 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.

• [as the graboid feels at the building] 

  Valentine McKee : What's it doing, Rhonda?

  Rhonda LeBeck : Why do you keep asking me?

• 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.

• Valentine McKee : Good morning Mr. Bassett, this is your wake up call. Please move your ass.

• [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!

  Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys. What's going on? Hey, did you notice anything weird just now? I mean, it just hap-

  [she notices the dead monster] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : ... What's that?

• 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?

• Earl Bassett : You suppose he wanted to kill himself?

  Valentine McKee : Come on, somebody must'a chased him up there.

  Earl Bassett : You mean someone that ain't scared of a Winchester rifle? Then what'd they do? Camp out down below and wait for him to die?

• Valentine McKee : [as the last graboid falls off a cliff]  Yeah! Can you fly you sucker? CAN YOU FLY?

• 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.

• Valentine McKee : "We gotta do somethin'." I don't know why "we" always has to be me every damn time. We, we, we. What do I look like, an expert in worm?

• Valentine McKee : Good luck shithead.

  Earl Bassett : Don't worry about me jerkoff.

• Valentine McKee : Was it a heart attack, Doctor?

  Dr. Jim : No, died of dehydration, thirst.

  Valentine McKee : That doesn't make any sense, that takes a couple days, doesn't it?

  Dr. Jim : Maybe even three or four.

  Earl Bassett : You mean he sat up there three or four days? He just sat up there and died of thirst?

• 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.

• 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!

• Valentine McKee : I've got a goddamn plan!

• 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.

• Earl Bassett : [yelling]  AHHH! AHHH!

  Valentine McKee : What? What is it?

  Earl Bassett : Damn prairie dog burrow.

  Valentine McKee : Sons a bitches.

• Valentine McKee : We decided to leave town just one damn day too late!

• Earl Bassett : [after digging out the dead graboid]  There's no way Walter Chang's getting his slick mits on this for no 15 bucks.

  Valentine McKee : You got that right!

• Valentine McKee : I'll tell you. Nobody handles garbage better than we do.

• Valentine McKee : Wait wait wait. This one's not falling for it. This one ain't dumb. He's tryin' to trick us.

  Earl Bassett : Use your bomb!

  Valentine McKee : It's our *last one!*

  Earl Bassett : Well what else you gonna use it for?

  Valentine McKee : So what if we make it to the rocks? We'll be dead in three days anyway!

  Earl Bassett : Well I wanna live for the three days!

  Burt Gummer : What the hell, what's the matter? Use the bomb, for Chrissake!

  Melvin Plug : Throw that bomb, man! Scare them away!

  [pause, they look at Rhonda] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : Throw the bomb!

  Valentine McKee : [looking at the bomb]  This bastard ain't smarter than us.

  Earl Bassett : For Christ's sake, Val!

  Valentine McKee : I'm gonna go for it.

  Earl Bassett : Go for *what?*

  [Valentine takes off running; Earl runs after him as the graboid bursts out of the ground] 

  Earl Bassett : Shit! What're you *doing?*

  Valentine McKee : I GOT A GODDAMN PLAAAAN!

• Valentine McKee : Hey - check this out! I found the ass end!

• Valentine McKee : What the hell are those things? And how can they bury a whole station wagon?

  Earl Bassett : WHY would they do it?

• 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!

• [Ground Starts to bulge] 

  Earl Bassett : Must be a million of them!

  [Graboid breaks through the surface of the ground] 

  Valentine McKee : Nope, just one!

• 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.

  Valentine McKee : That is the plan! I mean goddamn! What the hell are those things? How could they bury a whole station wagon?

  Earl Bassett : Or WHY would they do it?

• Burt Gummer : We don't see anything, Val! Now what the hell are you talking about, over?

  Valentine McKee : Burt, they're under the ground, they're UNDER the GROUND! They can dig like a sonofabitch, big monsters, underground, now get out! Hurry!

  [the wall of Burt's rec room begins to shake and bow, tools fall to the floor as the monster bursts through the bricks] 

  Burt Gummer : [over radio]  Jesus Chri...!

  [transmission turns to static] 

• Valentine McKee : Who died and made you Einstein?

• [Valentine and Earl get chased by a Graboid, they get trapped in an empty canal until the Graboid makes a huge crack in the wall] 

  Earl Bassett : [realizes nothing's happening]  Stupid son-of-a-bitch. It knocked itself cold.

  [the Graboid's snake tongue dangles lifelessly followed by bleeding] 

  Valentine McKee : Cold my ass. He's *dead.* We killed it.

  [long pause] 

  Valentine McKee : [triumphantly]  We killed it! FUCK! YOU!

• [first lines] 

  Valentine McKee : [seeing Earl sleeping in the back of the truck]  Good morning, Mr. Basset. This is your wake-up call.

• Valentine McKee : Earl explained it to me: we plan ahead, that way, we don't do anything right now.

• Valentine McKee : That's how they git you. They're under the goddamned ground!

• Valentine McKee : They're under the ground. They're under the ground!

• Valentine McKee : [looking at Old Fred's messed-up corral with chunks of dead sheep lying on the ground]  What the shit?

• Earl Bassett : [Graboid eats Rhonda's shovel]  Don't he have a home to go to?

  Valentine McKee : That's why Edgar never got down off that damn tower.

  Rhonda LeBeck : I think I have an idea.

  Earl Bassett : You know, we're gonna have to come up with some sort of plan, he's just going to wait us to death.

• Earl Bassett : [Earl and Val have fled from the creatures into a concrete trench. One of the creatures crashes through the wall]  Stupid sumbitch. Knocked itself cold.

  Valentine McKee : Cold my ass. He's *dead.* We killed it! We killed it! FU--UCK! YOU!

  Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys! What's going on?

  [Not seeing the monster's corpse] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : Did you notice anything weird a minute ago? I mean, it just hap-

  [finally seeing the creature] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : What's that?