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Submitted by S Fields
This film is actually a little darker than I remember it being. Let me explain the movie for LOLcat fans: Gizmo is like Happycat, a mogwai. But when he eats after midnight, he turns into Basement Cat. Also, it’s Christmas, or something.
Gremlins is a classic that still holds up pretty well today. Anyone know how well the sequel holds up? I’m guessing not as well. I do remember a part where Hulk Hogan yells at the screen.
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LOVED this movie as a kid, and I still LOVE it today.
And yes, I even liked the second one, no matter how bad people say it is.
Ugh, the sequel is so cheesy you might as well put it in a can and squirt it on a cracker. Lame. There are all these inexplicable cameos by horror stars, like Christopher Lee actually has a part, but John Astin (Gomez Aadams, or Samwise Gamgee’s dad) is a repair man, and Grandpa from the Munsters is in it. And one of the Gremlins learns to talk like Tony Randall.
But isn’t baby Corey Feldman adorable in the original? Answer: yes.
Mmmm i love cheese. I must watch it if it is cheesy
It was also Lee’s 200th movie.
I like the first one, but love the second movie for one reason – All the quotable lines that my friends and I STILL throw around today – Like the ones by Tony Randall’s Gremlin.
(In a financial advisor’s office, on the phone with a caller)
Gremlin #1: [repeated phrase while on telephone in stock exchange] BUY! BUY! BUY!
Gremlin #2: [repeated phrase while on telephone in stock exchange] SELL! SELL! SELL!
Brain Gremlin (Randall): [on telephone] Well, it’s rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they’ve got into canned food and shotguns.
And the TV interview with the Brain Gremlin must be watched, to be fully appreciated….
Epic FAIL for trying to advertise lolcats on the description.
You know what web site you’re on, right? This is like going to the 700 Club’s web site and saying they fail for advertising Christianity.
Gizmo is nothing like a cat. Gizmo can sing, never poops to stink up the house, can fire a bow and arrow and will not scratch you for poking his belly.
Fail in your name fail.
The sequel is hilarious if you know that the guys who made it didn’t want to, and only agreed to do it if they were allowed to do whatever they wanted. The studio agreed, and they proceed to make a sequel that makes as much fun of the first film as possible. Win!
The chick that works in the office is pretty hot. She has dark hair.
Because of Adam Carolla, all I can think of when I hear Gremlins is the ridiculous story Phoebe Cates tells of her dad getting stuck in the chimney on Christmas morning. I’ts SO RETARDED.
The sequel makes fun of that, too.
The sequel makes fun of your mom.
Ahh… Phoebe Cates…
Ahh missing the reply button
Favorite line in that whole movie: “Gizmo KA-KA!!!!!”
Honestly, I have no interest in the first Gremlins whatsoever. I love Gremlins 2, though. It’s completely silly and a lot of fun.
my dorm showed this last weekend. it’s amazing! i still don’t understand if it’s supposed be to funny or scary… lol
Both, of course!
i remember watching this movie when i was three and i wasn’t able to watch it again until 17 after watching the sequal and stopped being afraid of gremlins. it’s a pretty badass movie. the original, not the sequel. the sequel is just goofy.
The sequel is actually pretty smart.
Saw it again a year ago.
How can you not include the theme?
I can’t stand it! Is it 100% Casio keyboard?
So… you’re saying that they recorded it in the 80’s…
Trying to insult a movie FAIL.
XD This is the worst earworm EVER.
When I still had ambitions of learning the piano as a little kid (AKA before my hands stopped growing just short of an octave), I had my mother copy down the notes to Gremlin Mega Madness.
My parents let me watch this but wouldn’t let me see Ghostbusters that was out at the same time because they said GB was too scare. HUH? This was way scarier than GB. But, still loved it and had several Gizmo dolls.
The library sceen in GB was way more scary then anything in Gremlins. The only thing that scares me more is the stuff clogging your shower drain.
I loved Gremlins and the sequel. Watched it when I was a kid and it gave me nightmares for years but I kept watching it. Now it’s just hilarious.
Its PG and one of the gremlins gets put in a frikin blender, and another in the micro wave.
Trivia: How long is the gremlin in the microwave before it explodes?
I’m pretty sure that scene is the reason they invented PG13. Seriously.
Actually, PG-13 was invented for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, iirc.
One thing I have to add is that they mentioned Hulk Hogan yelling at the screen. I never saw it in the theaters and first saw it on VHS (wooohhhh remember those?) and that part with hulk wasn’t in it. It started out with a little static line moving down the screen and then went to full static like the gremlins took over your VCR and got in a gun fight with John Wayne; the Duke won… of course. Not until I saw it on HBO years later did I realize the change. Still, I gotta say that the second one was better than the first. There was more humor in the second and once HBO and Cinemax played the first one for 3 years straight, I didn’t want to ever see that movie again.
I remember this freaking the daylights out of me.
I always think of the scene when the mom is icing gingerbread men and “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and they attack her in the kitchen. I wanted Gizmo so bad!
Didnt they invent PG-13 for this movie?
because of the scene about her dad dressing up as Santa? or was that just me? anyway i still have this movie in my Tivo.i LOVE the main character
i still have a crush on him in this movie,i dont want to know what he looks like now,it would kill it for me.
i laughed my a… off when i read that