I've just noticed that the poster shows a Graboid that basically looks like a giant snake with teeth and eyes. Yet the Graboids in the film look nothing like it!
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Could be like the movie Predator. They had a monster ready to go but eventually dropped it because it was not practical or menacing at all.
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Actually the cover is accurate except for the size, the cover depicts the snake tongue thing, not the entire graboid. Look closely.
shareCan you please explain about 2 versions of Predator?
shareCan you please explain about 2 versions of Predator?
"Someone else described it as a cross between a duck and turtle, which is about the single-worst description I've ever heard.
Here's an image of it in sculpture form:
http://www.movie-moron.com/wp-content/gallery/images/predator-original -design-van-damme-1.jpg
The problem was that once it was made into a suit for the actor to wear, it just looked silly. It was very bulky and top-heavy, and in the little on-set footage they shot, it just looked too fake.
The design itself isn't bad, but the suit ruined it. "
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Can you please explain about 2 versions of Predator?
Someone else described it as a cross between a duck and turtle, which is about the single-worst description I've ever heard.
Here's an image of it in sculpture form:
http://www.movie-moron.com/wp-content/gallery/images/predator-original -design-van-damme-1.jpg
The problem was that once it was made into a suit for the actor to wear, it just looked silly. It was very bulky and top-heavy, and in the little on-set footage they shot, it just looked too fake.
The design itself isn't bad, but the suit ruined it.
As an aside note, you get to see the original design in the movie PREDATORS which came out in 2010 only it is used as just another species that is being hunted by the familiar predators.
While we're off topic on the whole 'Predator' thing... and just to blow your mind.
The guy in the original Predator suit was a very unhappy Jean Claude Van Damme who had been told by his agent that he was starring opposite Arnie in the movie, technically correct I suppose.
See it here...
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/76015
It looks just like the monster's tongue.
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You are all correct, silly me
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Actually the size isn't necessarily wrong. It's simply a case of perception and placement. The tongue is in the foreground, therefore it looks much larger than the people far away in the background.
sharethe "snake" that you see on the cover of the movie is one of the three tentacles "tongues" the graboids have.
shareSorry to all of you that think it's a pic of one of the "tongues" it is not, the tongue part of the grabboid does not have elongated teeth as shown on the movie cover, they have teeth that are more like human teeth. What we see on the cover is nothing that is shown in the movie, it is a completely different creature. I am watching Tremors right now and have always wondered why they used a different "monster" on the cover, but the actual grabboid isn't all that scary looking, so it seems to me that they used a little creative license to make the grabboids looks scarier than they actual are.... Just my opinion.
shareThe thing on the cover looks like a T. rex's mouth; it doesn't look like a graboid tongue.
shareThe shape of the body and head and all that is EXACTLY the same as the graboid "tongues". The only difference is the teeth.
Remember in the movie at first they end up with one of the tongue snake things on Val and Earl's truck and for a while everyone, including the audience if you haven't seen the larger monsters before, thinks that is what the monster is. Only later do they discover the true nature of the graboids. I figure they probably intentionally used the snake body on the video cover to help sell the initial in-movie deception. They probably added the teeth to the cover just to make them look meaner to help sell it.
I think they were doing something like the poster for "Jaws" where they show a huge monster coming under some unsuspecting people.
sharethey explained the reason on the making of dvd. I forget the reason exactly...
share"I think they were doing something like the poster for "Jaws" where they show a huge monster coming under some unsuspecting people."
That's the vibe I got from it also.
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Old post, but I will still add my two cents. I think they're trying to make it seem like the creatures are kind of like big underground snakes ala Beetlejuice in the poster. When they're really maggot like in structure, and the snake part of it is actually the tongue. If you had seen the poster before the movie you might expect these to be the creatures. However you'd be surprised by the reveal of the maggot-like monster in the movie, and their actual size and power. Maybe, just maybe, that is what they were going for. The shocker.
shareThere are actually several reasons:
1. As many have stated, it's one of the snake-like tongues. Yes, it is slightly different--the teeth are more pronounced for effect. But your can still see their little black antennae. The shark in Jaws doesn't look exactly like the one on the poster art either.
2. Which leads directly into the second reason--it's also an homage to the classic Jaws poster.
3. Finally, it's a fake-out that plays along with one of the surprises of the film: For a significant portion of the film the audience is only shown the snake-like tongues. Because this is what we also see on the poster art, we assume these are what the monsters are. It's only later on, and one of the big surprises of the film, that we discover the "snakes" are actually the tongues of giant 30 foot beasts.
My best guess is that:
Whoever did the cover art never bothered to watch the movie.
I remember when Cleopatra went to the Temple of Ra to lead a few cheers.share
Can you please explain about 2 versions of Predator?
The graboid on the poster draws attention, but something that huge and menacing in the actual film would have, in my opinion, ruined it. These days with all the CGI they would make the creatures look like that, but in 1990 they had to restrain themselves with practical effects. This made for a more grounded movie with intimidating but beatable foes.
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