Correct me if I'm wrong here, BUT, I don't recall ever seeing you guys do a video going over the VFX for Constantine from 2005. Would love to see you guys cover that one. I'm sure there'd be someone from the team who worked on the film that would love to come talk about it. A lot of it still holds up! Keep up the good work guys!
The Indian in the closet scene reminded me of LAND OF THE GIANT'S , please do a vid on practical neffect's using LAND OF THE GIANT'S thank you from OZ🦘🦘
Tremors has aged soooo well that it’s insane. The script, staging, and even 95% of the effects hold up shockingly well. One of the few film from my childhood I can look back on as an adult and like just as much now as I did back then.
Gonna be honest, the first time they showed that composite shot of the guy blasting away at the miniature, it went by so fast that I didn't even immediately register that it was comped. In that split second, it looked real. Which I guess is half the artistry behind special effects. Not just knowing how to make things look realistic, but also when and where to employ special effects in the first place.
I wish re-releasing old movies was normalized. That people would actually go to watch them in theaters. If that was the case studios wouldn't be making so many remakes. And you know tremors is eventually getting a remake that will probably suck
I don't want to be that guy, but I wonder how that compares to when things first started picking up steam by the exact numbers as opposed to the percentage. When they first started this series, did they have more viewers than now? I subscribed after I saw enough of their content, so they got +1. If viewership is down, and the algorithm isn't feeding their content out, is 80% as impressive as we all want it to be? Haven't checked the the numbers of their past videos but interesting to see
@@Raymal100 it means that less people are generally watching now. i used to be a subscriber but after their AI animation bullcrap, i stopped supporting their website and unsubbed from their youtube channels. i kinda lost all respect for these people. and judging from numbers, i'm by far not the only one.
Boy, this one hit home, one of my best friends was the old Indian who dies at the opening of the movie, and I worked on the VFX for tremors 3 & 4. Some of the best people I ever worked for. You guys are top shelf.
Tremors is a timeless classic. As a kid I watched it literally 100s of times on VHS. Exciting, thrilling, funny, creepy... a ton of fun. By far my favorite monster flick.
@@aerthreepwood8021 it creeped me out as a little kid, but watching it again years later gave a whole new appreciation! Next "react" movie, Critters? :D
When I was in school, they used to do this Friday sci-fi movie day, every so often. Tremors was one of those movies. I vaguely remember renting out the sequels after that. Other movies included Chucky and Critters, but I was too scared to watch those back then, I was under 10 and not nearly as desensitized as I am now (-_-;)
I think tremors was the first pg13 movie I saw I wasn’t allowed to watch that kind of stuff at home But my friend had more lax parents so we got to get them from the rental store. I remember all the Tremors movies fondly
I had a teacher in high school use it as an example of perfect narrative structure/pacing because of how each scene is intentional and planned, like the guys said in the video
Indian in the cupboard is one of those movies you forget about growing up then the second you see one frame the entire story rushes back into your mind. Its crazy to think they did so much work for a kids movie.
Tremors and The Indian in the Cupboard are two of my most beloved movies from my childhood that I haven’t revisited in years. It’s so validating to see it through this lens to show just how excellent of a job the studios did with them.
I haven't seen Indian in the Cupboard since I was a kid and it's incredible how the effects still hold up. The 90's were such a magical time in terms of insanely high quality VFX shots.
You didn't talk about one of the smoothest seamless cuts transitions from full-size to miniature in Tremors. In the basement shootout scene when Bert throws down his rifle, the camera cuts to it clattering to the ground, and then pans over to the monster. It you pay attention real close, once the rifle stops bouncing it nearly seamlessly cuts into a scale miniature of the rifle. 10/10 one of my all time favorite movies.
The original Tremors graboid props are displayed at the museum of western film in Lone pine California. The museum mostly consists of memorabilia from westerns and old mafia movies but one corner is completely dedicated to the movie tremors with a full scale graboid and some creatures from the second film. It’s all surround by a replica set of Chang’s market. Definitely worth checking out.
I had completely forgotten that movie until i saw it in this video but i remember this was one of my favorites as a child. I believed it was all real and wanted a cupboard like that to make my toys come to life
It was one of my favorites as well, as a kid, it changed my childhood in many ways, I watched it again last year and I was blown away by how good it still is.
I literally refresh constantly waiting for these episodes every Sat morning. Kind of like waiting for Sat morning cartoons when I was a kid. Keep ‘‘em going!
Man, you need to just pony up the cost of a corridor digital subscription! You get them a day early, and they're ALL longer cuts. This youtube episode has a bit over 9 FEWER minutes of content than the corridor digital version. Pay that extra 75 CENTS per episode and give the boys some love!
The thing that really stands out to me is how Niko doesn't compromise on productivity, while remaining as genuine and kind as he is. That's a difficult balance for the best of managers/employers.
Same. Also, sam's laissez faire attitude about the actual name of the character is hilarious. "I know we're wrong, but I'm too lazy to look it up. Oh you're nagging me, fine I'll look it up!" Also also, that whole exchange they had reminds of the Honest Trailer for TNG.
Hearing that 80% of your viewers now are subscribed made me tear up a little. I love this channel and I'm super happy that more of your audience is supporting you guys
@@brianconnolly6326 There’s a title you don’t hear about anymore! I think more people know the cheat code for Contra than they do the actual game. Talk about a series that’s ripe for a resurgence- two guys land on an alien world and have to shoot their way through grotesque, slimy, tentacled monsters that are also sometimes robots. It’s perfect.
I love how it subverts your expectations, though. In so many movies, you see a couple of heavily armed people (like soldiers, for example) just unloading their guns into the movie monster and it shrugs off the attack and kills them all. The first time I saw Tremors, I fully expected this to happen. It was so exciting to see them win that battle, and I'm glad they took their time with that scene. What a fight!
Indian in the cupboard is one of those movies that I just loved as a kid, it has so much heart and it’s such a cool concept for a movie, I feel like if the premise about the box were to be made today, it would never feel as grounded in the real world.
Unpacking how a scene is made is such a joy to watch. The amount of work you guys put into explaining how it works is amazing! These videos can go straight to film school
With your reaction on Indian in the Cupboard you’ve just unblocked my long lost memories of me watching this heartwarming movie in my early childhood instead of going to school, thank you
This show has turned me into you guys. I was watching Shadow and Bone and they showed this overall landscape shot and I was like "Oh there's the real set and there's the line where the background is CGI"
yeah i was watching a movie the other day and i immediately recognized the muzzle flashs and smoke were cgi. Now Im kind of worried that im gonna start just seeing cgi and lose focus on movie plots :/
@@RemoverBacterias Nah, if you get distracted by stuff like this then its on the director for not keeping your attention where it counts. I have made the observation that people often complain about film-making related problems whenever the movie is not good enough at keeping them 100% interested and focused.
@@RemoverBacterias Don't worry. I grew up in the 70s and early 80s when stop motion was the main special effect technique for producing fantasy scenes. When I watched Perseus fighting Medusa in Clash of the Titans or Luke Skywalker riding his Tauntaun across Hoth in some wide shot, even as a young kid I could tell the lighting and movement wasn't quite right. But it didn't really matter, even though I knew it was fake, I still kept wondering how Perseus was going to survive or how cool it would be to ride Luke's tauntaun. It all comes down to characters. If the writing and acting is great enough that you truly care what happens to the characters, then you end up caring more about their outcome than any distractions from the film making techniques. It's then when you rewatch the film because you liked it so much the first time that you'll really start to see how they did it and often appreciate the movie even more because of all the work that went into it.
@@mrquirky3626 My favourite comparison is always back to theatre. For thousands of years, humans sat down to watch people prance around in costumes in front of painted backdrops, pretending to be kings and paupers and monsters and villains. Anyone with functioning eyes could see that it wasn't real. And yet it was enough to enthrall people, to move people, to create many of the greatest cultural touchstones in history. All you need is a willing audience, and you can get away with zero production values.
I got super excited that you guys reacted to "tremors". I feel like you missd the exposed wire pulling the lawnmower down the ditch, one of the few mistakes of the first movie 😅. Absolutely one of my favorite all time movies. RIP Fred Ward
What an amazing series. When I started watching it i didn't know anything about VFX. Now 98 episodes later still don't know much about how they do it, but I've learned to appreciate the effort and skill VFX artists go through to make dreams real.
tremors has it all. great dialogues, great scares, great effects, good humor action and pacing. in my eyes it's a perfect film. i used it at school as an example for storytelling.
Man! Some of these old movies did some crazy things to get those effects! ...Wait, were there a Ferengi and a Cardassian fighting each other with Robocop and Darth Vader and T-rex in that cupboard?!
(Indian in the Cupboard) It's amazing how well the effects still hold up, especially for a movie from 1995. It was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Aside from the roto-ing on the stick, I couldn’t see a single one of the slight issues they pointed out in The Indian in th Cupboard, even when they zoomed in and slowed down. Absolutely incredible.
Love that y'all are doing Tremors! My favorite monster movie; Sam is right, it's also just an extremely well-made movie. I would love to see y'all cover Tremors 2 and 3 as the series shifts away from practical and more to CGI (for better or worse).
The Star Trek Deep Space Nine reference in Indian in the Cupboard brought to mind another composition masterpiece, the episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" which, on a TV budget, took influence from Forrest Gump by inserting new characters into the narrative of an original Star Trek episode. The editing, composition work, color timing, set design, it's easily some of the best 90s-era TV visual effects. Hell, it arguably holds up better than some of the stuff from Forrest Gump.
There was an impressive water walking scene in The Nevers too. A man whose body treats water as if it were solid and a physically normal woman having a fight in the middle of a lake. Throughout the fight, he's standing on "solid ground" while she's plunging in and out of the water and keeping a grip on him to avoid completely sinking.
Makes me wanna continue to watch the older movies. Recently just rewatched Batteries Not Included, i’m still amazed at how decent the effects still are… i’m working myself up to watching Malcolm again.
I want to say the effects company that did Tremors was their first movie. A couple of years later they won an Oscar for the effects on Death Becomes Her. Criminally underrated from an effects standpoint.
In my college photography class my final project I chose to do was photographing usually incredibly busy places around town but with nobody in the shot! Same concept as those videos. It was a LOT of patience, and sometimes asking a person or two to move out of the way for a minute.
Tremors is such a wonderful movie. It manages to nail all of the mainstream movie beats on the acting side while being one of the best practical effect B-movies ever made. It's one I revisit often.
I just want to thank corridor crew for making top notch content. It’s always so full of fun, great information and just entertainment. Thanks to the entire crew for onsistently making great content that brings a smile to people’s faces!
Love that the Indian in the Cupboard is the best (maybe only) instance of Star Trek and Star Wars characters onscreen at the same time - you've got Vader fighting a T-Rex, meanwhile a Ferengi and Cardassian are going at it on the lower level (maybe Quark and Garak are finally having it out regarding root beer)
that's definitely Dukat, not stylish enough to be Garak. lol also, on the ILM easter egg. they also snuck some ET aliens in the senate scenes of episode 1.
Tremors is one of the best films ever made. You could show it to any human being from any culture or period of history and they would be entertained throughout.
Oh yes please do more Tremors movies! They're not all ... "good", per se, but they all do have great budget effects that deserve the VFX Artist Reacts treatment.
They talked about Tremors, one of my favorite films of all time, and they even focus on one of my favorite scenes but they completely overlook one of the best transition shots of all time. I don't know if they talk about it on their website int he longer cuts of these videos but for those who don't know what I'm talking about than I'll tell you about it. So in the bunker shoot out, there's a very fast shot of Burt firing his gun, running out of ammo and tossing the gun on the ground. What makes it so amazing is that the camera follows the gun being thrown to the ground, we see Burt's foot leave the frame and in one, continous shot the camera pans over to the Graboid flailing around. So how they did it was very simple. They have the footage of Burth throwing the gun down onto the ground and stepping out of frame. Then thye recreated the shot with a full miniature oh not just the gun, but the spent bullet shells on the floor too! So much detail for a shot that lasted for maybe 2-3 seconds and that most viewers don't even realize what they did. It's fantastic. I suggest people check out ReLetterMedia's Re;View of Tremors because they talk about a lot of the small details that make this fim one of the greatest films in history (imo).
The Indian in the Cupboard book series was my all-time favorite growing-up. The movie was one of the first I can remember seeing in theaters. It was magical!
Tremors and Tremors 2 are definitely my favourite from the series. I seem to remember Tremors 2 having some good VFX as well. It's been a while since I watched them though.
Indian in the cupboard was my childhood favorite. My grandmother always put it on for me not sure if it was because I was native American or if she just really liked the movie
As far as kilmaru goes, it’s VERY easy to find places where there isn’t a soul, and ironically, it’s at the places you’d imagine would be most busy. I remember driving with my buddy through LA at 6:45 on a Saturday getting to my grandparents place up north. I live in Orange County so I’m more than familiar with LA, I have NEVER seen LA so dead in my life. I was completely shocked. Completely bright outside, clear morning, absolutely nobody in sight. It was insane. It wasn’t until later I learned that nobody really “lives” in downtown Los Angeles. It’s more of a business district and tourist spot. I assume other places around the world are similar.
I had the VHS of indian in the cupboard when I was a kid. And i remember you could reverse the cover to make the case look like the cupboard and it came with a little indian figure and key. Awesome stuff as a kid
I remember when EVEN I was once part of the 80% that watched your content but hadn't subscribed I'm supportive and amazed at how it's literally flipped
I’d love to see these guys do a “favorite movie explosions” type of episode. I love the one from the ending of The Mask of Zorro. It seems so huge, and I’d love to see a breakdown of it!
There's a shot from the Tremors gunroom scene which just blows my mind and I learned about from RedLetterMedia - it transitions between full-size and miniature. Mr Gun (I forget his name) drops his rifle, the camera shows it on the ground, and there's a basically seamless cut to a *perfectly* crafted miniature of the same shot - even down to tiny cartridge cases - which then pans over to the miniature graboid. The detail on the miniature is flawless, and you only really spot it because the grade is marginally different. It's breathtaking and simple all at once.
Being Italian and having lived in Rome for a year I can assure you that, no matter how early in the morning this was filmed, he would never be able to get shots like these. The areas he’s filming are filled with bars and restaurants that usually get supplies in the early hours of the morning. I think the solution is actually much simpler: this was filmed during the heavy covid lockdown we had and released years later. My camera phone is full of pictures and videos with the exact same vibe. You’d go out the house to get groceries or medicine and literally see nobody for minutes and minutes. No paint-outs, no CGI, just being in Italy when this was actually going on.
As I became interested in film I began to believe that most movies I frequently watched as a kid were just bad movies because no one talked about them. No one tells to you to watch tremors or the Indian in the cupboard while studying the medium. Now I know that even though they may not have had the greatest narrative, their filmmaking and artistry were still very valuable. Thanks for opening my eyes guys.
I'm sure it's one of the simpler tricks but one of my favorite shots in Tremors is when the graboids are chasing the people into the buildings and it goes under the wooden porch/walkway, pushing up the boards in a wave.
Every time people ask my favorite movies, Tremors is ALWAYS on the list. It’s that good, that it’s consistently among what I consider some of the greatest movies ever made.
Ah, you missed the best shot in that gun room scene! One of them drops a rifle on the floor and it cuts from a real one to a miniature scale model of the gun with a shell casing on screen too. It's so seamless I love it. Tremors is so great.
