Talk:Tremors (film)

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Contents 1 Article split 2 Moved article 3 Truck 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Earl Bassett.jpg 5 Pop culture references? 6 Dune

[edit] Article split

I went ahead and split the TV series information out of the article into its own. See Tremors (TV series). Lady Aleena 12:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the creatures could also have their seperate pages, much like the Xenomorph from Alien and the Yautja from Predator. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jerkov (talk • contribs) 05:44, 16 May 2006.

Graboid already has a seperate article. ~ Hibana 05:31, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved article

I’ve moved this article to Tremors (film) from Tremors. My reasoning is that:

a) The most common meaning of tremors is a quivering movement, which is unrelated to the movie other than the earthquakes these creatures cause.

b) Tremors are commonly understood to be a medical condition so I shouldn’t have to move that article into Tremors (symptom) which would make no sense.

c) Most movies are disambiguated as with “(film)” in the title anyway.

d) I did a few quick Google and Yahoo searches are more article occur for the words "tremors medicine" and "tremors medical" than "tremors film" and tremors movie".

I've fixed a few double-redirects already but I'm not sure how to check to see all the articles that link to the previous title. Just a heads-up. --Mad Max 22:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Well done, you will hear no objections from me.
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 23:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Here is the link to the page with the links to the old one - link I have already gotten a few, but you may want to clear a lot of the rest. There are two pages to look through and verify.
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 00:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I went ahead and fixed all of them.--Mad Max 03:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to have to agree, even though I would rather have a case of the shakes than large dirt-dwelling monsters that follow my every footstep eat me alive. But your call, I guess. Tarkaan 22:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Truck

The truck is actually a 1963-1967 Jeep J-300 Thriftside (stepside), though there is no written proof of this. It's been done by a few different people on various forums I've searched, as well as myself - I've compared it to the J10, J20, etc. and the 300 seems the closest, since it had a longer bed than the others. A picture can be found here [1]. The boards that I searched even identified the color, axles, and tires on the Jeep. I can't really say much about them, these guys are experts. Zchris87v 09:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

First, always avoid trivia. Second, we can't just go by a picture of what the truck is, even though it isn't very relevant anyway as the truck wasn't all that special in the film. Nor can we accept the word of forum members. Regardless, the identity of the truck doesn't really hold any encyclopedic water. Bignole 11:22, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Earl Bassett.jpg

Image:Earl Bassett.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pop culture references?

What about a pop culture reference section? I know that "The Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass" features an enemy that is undoubtedly a Graboid... they look identical (they're located on the Isle of Gust). The player is warned that they hunt by sound and to tread lightly over the sand... even the way these enemies blow up when you trick them into eating a bomb seems to be a tribute to Tremors. I'm sure there are other references out there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.79.199 (talk) 11:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dune

There is no reference to Frank Herberts Dune at all which is rather dissapointing. On the Dune wiki, Tremors is listed as inspired by Dune. Whether completely true or not, it should be added as a similarity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.125.72.91 (talk) 22:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)