Film Comment: Tremors

In the hilarious 1990 horror-comedy film, Tremors, Kevin Bacon's character Val (short for Valentine) tells his friend, "Ya know, if you budget your time just right, you ain't gotta do nothing today."

For those who don't know, Tremors features two slacker handymen, portrayed by Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, who discover giant and exceedingly hungry prehistoric flesh-eating worms (they call them "graboids") in the sands under Perfection, Nevada, a tiny desert town which the two men have decided to leave "one damn day too late!"

Instead of slacking, the two have to get very busy. They discover that if you take care of the worm today, you won't have two worms waiting on you tomorrow.

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:10

"And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;" Colossians 3:23

Matthew 25:2-13 The tale of the five procrastinating virgins.