Tremors (1990)

Michael Gross: Burt Gummer

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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.

• [Burt Gummer, with his wife Heather at his side, berates the dead monster fought off with their "family arsenal"] 

  Burt Gummer : Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't ya you bastard!

• [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.

• Burt Gummer : [handing out weapons and refusing to give Melvin one]  I wouldn't give you a gun if it were World War 3.

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

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

• Melvin Plug : Burt, you asshole! There's no bullets in this gun!

  Burt Gummer : Got you moving, didn't it?

• 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!

• Heather Gummer : You didn't get penetration even with the elephant gun?

  Burt Gummer : Shit!

  Heather Gummer : Good Lord.

• 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!

• Burt Gummer : What do you people got against being prepared?

• Burt Gummer : We got the cliffs to the north, mountains to the east and the west. That's why Heather and me settled here in the first place. Geographic isolation.

• [Melvin has a Graboid snake tongue wrapped around his neck] 

  Melvin Plug : [screams]  It's got me! It's got me!

  [Melvin bursts into laughter. Everyone realizes he was playing a joke] 

  Walter Chang : Melvin!

  Burt Gummer : Damn it, Melvin!

  [gets in Melvin's face and Melvin stops laughing] 

  Burt Gummer : You came that close, too close. No more games.

  Earl Bassett : Melvin, one of these days, somebody's gonna kick your ass.

• 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!

• 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] 

• 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

• Melvin Plug : Hey, gimme a gun! I'll take one!

  Burt Gummer : I wouldn't give you a gun if it was World War III.