rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban) (05/14/84)
There will be a nationwide sneak preview of "Gremlins" on Saturday, May 19th.
ruffwork@iham1.UUCP (Ritchey Ruff) (05/20/84)
[] I saw the sneek preview to GREMLINS last night and have to say it was very good. No, not excellent, but still VERY good. It is contrived, predicable, slightly inconsistant...but also its LOTS OF FUN!!! Its cute (Speilburg(?) REALLY is becoming an expert at funny looking little guys...) and gross; will have you laughing one minute and scaried the next. The special effects were really good (yes, some slip ups, but all in all very good...), and in my book I say its well worth the $3-$5 it costs. Bright light, bright light, Ritchey Ruff ...iham1!ruffwork ...waiting for May 23...
cbspt005@abnjh.UUCP (Eric Carter) (05/21/84)
I second the motion. This movie was FUN!! There are a lot of inside
jokes and funny things happening in the background, as well. Terrific.
Warner Brothers also attached a FANTASTIC trailer to the "Gremlins"
print for "The Neverending Story", which opens July 18, nationwide. It elicited
many ooh's and ahh's from the sellout crowd.
Eric Carter/ AT&T-IS /S.Plainfield,NJ
{allegra,ihnp4,akgua,whuxle,mhuxl}!abnjh!cbspt005upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve Upstill) (05/22/84)
Well, let's just say that, regardless of how closely he supervised
it, Gremlins is stamped right out of the Spielberg mold. Count the
elements: Middle American family, cute monsters, slick and spectacular
special effects, mixture of comedy and horror, a general nurds-eye
view of reality, and more old-movie references than you can count.
But I liked it anyway, ***-worth. Should fill the bill pretty well
if you don't expect anything but a few good laughs.
Old-movie references? Oh boy, does this movie have old-movie
references. Some are fairly obvious (like the Wicked Witch of the
West clone), some are at the Trivial Pursuit level (the theater marquee for
"A Boys Life" -- the smokescreen title for ET), others are incredibly
obscure (the sign on the projection booth wall for Miracle Pictures).
In fact, let's play Spot the Ripoff. If everyone who sees this movie
will send their favorite old-movie moment to me, I will compile a
complete Gremlin-watchers guide and submit it later.
Steve Upstilleric@whuxle.UUCP (Eric Holtman) (06/24/84)
I went to see Gremlins last night. Thus movie is GREAT. S. Spielberg takes continual pot-shots at his own movie, E.T. all through this wonderful flick, and that added to the AWESOMELY appropriate humor, SFX, and slight horror make this a really great flick. I saw the 10pm show here at our local mall, and the crowd, was, to understate, appriciative. I think we spent more time in unrestrained shouting and cheering than we did silently watching the movie. For example, in the movie, the house has two samurai swords hanging near the door. In the beginning, every time someone walks in, the swords fall off the wall. When the son finally comes home to rescue mommy, he bursts in, and sees mommy under the CHristmas tree beset by nasties. Of course the whole audience shouts "GRAB THE SWORD", and we broke into shouts of joy when he waded two handed into the evil suckers. Spielberg also has a taste for the intensely funny non-sight gag For example, while the mother is upstairs trying to find the nasties, she hears a noise downstairs. At that moment, the stereo begins playing a Christmas tune: "Do you hear what I hear?". The audience took about 45 seconds to regain their composure. Of course there's violence in this movie. Gremlins bite it bigtime in blenders, microwaves, they fall to the samurai sword, they get burnt. People get slashed, burnt, run over by snowplows. But, WHO CARES?? This is a horror/comedy, and no one can say that they weren't warned........ Spielberg has really outdone himself this time, folks!!!! Estimated Entertanment Value: $6.50 (that's right!!!) (i only had to pay $4.00) harpo!whuxle!eric
jdd@allegra.UUCP (John DeTreville) (06/24/84)
Good morning, campers! I keep reading reviews, pro and con, of Spielberg's
new movie, "Gremlins". Perhaps someone who has seen Spielberg's version can
compare it with Dante's version, now playing here on Earth-Prime, and tell
us which is better?
Cheers,
John ("Master of the Low-Key Insult") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hillscooby@ihopa.UUCP (Scott Mitzel) (06/25/84)
Anyone who fails to go see the movie Gremlins will have definitely
missed one of the year's best movies. The story line is excellent, and
it often found a way to be humor filled and tension packed at the same
instant. The mogwai (spelling?) alone are worth the price of admission.
They are as cute and cuddly as Ewoks (unless you break the rules) and
they have facial expressions that outdo Yoda. Even after they become
Gremlins they are just as amusing, and often times more so (even if it
is in a destructive manner).
This film is a must. One final comment. If you thought the
Cantina scene in Star Wars was a classic (or even if you didn't) you
will love the barroom scene in Gremlins.
--
Scott Mitzel
..!ihnp4!ihopa!scooby
AT&T BELL LABS, Naperville, IL.jaczak@ihuxi.UUCP (Russell Spence) (06/25/84)
I finally got to see Gremlins and I must say that I enjoyed it (for the most part). I didn't think that it was perfect. Some of the scenes where very hokey, and the plot wore thin in places. It had some very funny moments, and the mogwai (sp?, plural?) were very VERY cute, but it had some problems. For one thing it was a very violent movie. The cutsy scenes and the humor make you tend to forget the scenes where the cute little gremlins actually kill people. Personally, I found that having the violence played side by side with the humor was a little perverse. This is especially true when you see these cute little gremlins being sold in practically every shop in the nation. This movie is definately NOT a movie for children!! It is not a bad movie but I wouldn't let anyone under about 13 see it and I think is in really poor taste to make a big marketing campaign of it. As a movie, I can enjoy gremlins, but when little gremlins dolls and coloring books and who knows what else are being sold to children, I get kind of scared. This is not the kind of thing that kids need to be exposed to. I am also afraid of parents expecting it to be another E.T. and unwittingly taking their children to see it. The movie itself is good, I just wish that Spielberg Inc. would tone down his ad- vertising and marketing campaign. Russell Spence (using a friend's account)
hutch@shark.UUCP (06/26/84)
<don't feed this bug after midnight!> OH COME ON, PEOPLE! GREMLINS is a horror movie!! Not a "cute funny" nor a "cute sweet" like ol' ET. It was intended as a SCARY film and it succeeds! I was literally petrified at parts of the film. It has humor in it; so did American Werewolf (but slightly different types). I was NOT impressed by Gizmo's cuteness. I had a puppy when I was a kid and I'm immune to excessive cuteness from that kind of critter. I was VERY impressed with the humanity of the Gremlins. They acted NOT MUCH DIFFERENT from the way I have seen people act, in bars and on the streets. Yes, I know real people who would (and did) think it funny to throw lit cigarettes to ducks along with bread. I know people who think it funny or macho or cool somehow to throw darts or knives at other more peaceful people. The Gremlins were imitating the vilest habits they could find in human beings, and the worst thing about the film was that I could understand and even LIKE some of them, even thought they were still quite evil. I joined the audience in cheering when Stripe growled out "DEEEGLE!" (There, nobody who hasn't seen the film will understand THAT one!) Horror movie. Not comedy. Take kids to it if they can handle horror. Hutch