Saturday, September 20, 2008

tremors, one of my favorite movies

seriously.

Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon are genius together, like Bogart and Bacall. And having lived for 3 years in Arizona, I have a soft spot for the desert and its inhabitants. So many of the details are perfect, from the mishmash of idealistic losers, to the rough economics of scraping out a living. It is exactly like what you'll find driving across Arizona.

I don't really think it is a western--the structure and story is straight sci-fi, all Alien, no Rio Bravo.

3 comments:

Ms. 8 said...

Which one is Bacall? Bacon?

matt hutchins said...

no, bogie is bacon. ward is bacall.
and Reba McIntyre is Sam.

Ms. 8 said...

Brilliant - I can see it now, Reba singing "as time goes by" in that lovely twang of hers. And I feel I should correct you - with all the Casablanca references, Bacall should really then be Bergman.