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GREMLINS (1984) FULL LENGTH MOVIE REACTION - WATCH ALONG (Patreon)

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GREMLINS (1984) FULL LENGTH MOVIE REACTION - WATCH ALONG

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Matthias Fendl

Love it! I was going to watch this 80s gem the next Days💎 What a nice surprise😎🥳

Joey Cintron

Man I have seen this hundreds of times

TheMediaKnights
>>157269781

Now we're adding it to our holiday list of films we'd like to rewatch, this year we get to rewatch Die Hard and Lethal Weapon with some nice hot cocoa!

Mathilde

The movie that prompted the PG-13 rating to be created, but it never really scared me. Gizmo was my dream pet as a kid! I so understand the urge to boop the snoot with him. 🥰

Ryan Liechty

OMG I literally just watched this for the first time 3 days ago, ready to rewatch it with you

Casimir

Gremlins! Weee

Pete Luhtaniemi

That town square? Same set where they filmed Back to the Future 😊 even the clock tower is there.. And Billys mom is Martys grandma.

Melissa Creel

This is such a great movie. "Gizmo Kaka" Saw this in the theaters. It was such fun. So glad you know it now too.

Melissa Creel

A few people got upset about this when it came out because this came out right after ET. So people thought, Spielberg movie, great for kids. And this is definitely not E.T. and some parents ended up leaving the theater with their kids.

Cameron Kerby

I watched this for the first time right along with you guys. And I loved it. I don’t know what I was waiting on for so long but this is a great movie.

Melissa Creel

My Grandfather fought in WW2 and he was like that older guy about foreign products. He was in Japan so that prejudice carried over to products made by them. Which in the 80's, everything was made by Japan the way everything is made by China today. And the prejudice against the Beetle was because it was German. After the war he had a hard time of letting all that go. Not saying it was right, just that some still saw things through the lense of the war.

Joseph Thompson

I just learned Howie Mandel voices Gizmo. Not sure how to handle that.

Dioskur

Born 1980, I was at the exactly right age when it came out, loved it! Some things: After the final battle when the family is watching TV, the news say they were talking with the old couple in the hospital that was injured by the tracktor. So yay they survived! I love that they are mostly chaotic, not purely evil like a demon or something. They feel like agents of chaos more then anything. Like evil cartoons they seem to allways keep the performance in mind. The mother was awesome because you would assume shed be the shock victim to show how dangerous the freaky things are, but no, she goes to action hero mode and slays them :) I am quite sure that the street they walk down after they leave the bank during night is the street that marty drives down when he jumps back from 1955 to 1985 in BTTF. He crashes into the cinema that we see at the end of the road in this movie as well.

Robert Robillard

Hi 👋 Ari & Denise Hope You Both are Doing well.. Just Finished Watching this Movie 🎬 along with MY., Friends 🧡 (You) It is a VERY GOOD Movie, a GOOD, XMAS Type film along with "DIE HARD" & many more from the Holiday Season - VERY Funny Humor & Creepy to think something so SCARY to come out if something SO VERY Cute & Cuddly. Thank-you for another GREAT Movie & Reaction., ALL the Best & Until your Next One .. Cheers 🍻 HUGs 🫂 & Love for Friends 🧡 • a Suggestion for a possible Future Reaction: "Critters" 1 (1986) & 2 (1988) There are 6-Movies in this Franchise .. But ONLY 1 & 2, I, Recommend.

Joey Patterson

The gremlins remind me of the hyenas from who framed Rodgers rabbit which if you haven't seen it you need to add it

Casimir

Second one is a great watch too.

Tom Haycock

You should give Violent Night a try.

dragon keep

the toys furby was modeled after gizmo and they made a gizmo one you need to see part 2

tiny baby kitty man

You guys tend to post these things when I'm at work and I always take a peek at the intro on the sly just to see whether or not it's a first watch or a "it's been awhile" watch, to determine whether I'm going to watch the full-length or just get the highlights with the YT cut later on. With this one, as soon as Denise was like, "How are these cute and cuddly little guys going to factor into a horror movie?" and obliviously conveyed that - while you were aware of what a (what you would eventually know is called) mogwai looked like - you had NO IDEA what an actual gremlin looked like... I was SO IN. Just had to stop and grab booze and eggnog on the way home for the viewing, because I knew it was going to be a riot. Despite watching this movie dozens of times as a kid, I don't think I'd seen it in its entirety in maybe 20 years before tonight. That means I've had that many years more experience watching movies, reading about movies, understanding movies, etc. My appreciation of film composers - as well as my own musical ability - has also increased exponentially since then, and so the main takeaway I had on this viewing was how cool it was that the musical motifs were used in so many different ways. Goldsmith was cookin' on this one. So was Dante. So were the SFX crew. Goddamn. Anyway, you made me drink too much eggnog so now I am forced to do the obvious: You gotta do the next one. You now know gremlins as a creature. But to fully understand Gremlins™ as a cultural artifact you have to watch part 2. It is imperative. P.S.: And... just a suggestion, but it would be dope to do a bonus reaction to the Key & Peele sketch about Gremlins 2 afterwards. Maybe it's tacked onto the Gremlins 2 reaction, maybe it's a Patreon exclusive, I dunno. Just make sure you don't watch that sketch before G2 (yeah, we're calling it G2 now) because it would spoil tons of shit.

Michael G. Munz

"Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts. Then later there's running, and the screaming..." -Dr. Ian Malcolm

Osiris66

I watched this movie in the theater when I was five. Gizmo is the man.

Harold Wright

Love this flick. Had a great time rewatching with you. If you get a chance the second one is also worth a watch at some point, definitely not as good of a movie, but it cranks the silliness to 11, and is a fun watch. :)

Tom French

This movie is highly underrated. In addition to merging genres and pushing ratings boundaries, there is a fun layer of 1980s-era subtext. The evil gremlins can be seen as a metaphor for unsupervised/bratty/hyperactive (choose your adjective) children, out of school at times and causing chaos throughout the holiday season. It begins with the sugar rush of Halloween and ends with a sleighful of toys. Gizmo is a clear contrast with his reserved attitude and calm demeanor. He's the gremlin with good parents 😆 As a side note, our elementary school has been performing the Gremlin Rag at their Christmas concert for decades now. 🎶🥁🎷🎺

BubblyRainbows

I pulled this movie off of the DVD shelves when I was very young. It had a cute furry Gizmo on the front, and I totally missed the other bits at that age. I wasn't ready for this kind of movie. The scene in the bank with Kate's story about her dad dying was how I found out there was no Santa, and the Gremlins in general scared the heck out of me. Especially that very end narration, where they say "... there just might be a Gremlin in your house." I had a fear of the dark that lasted into my late teens. I didn't appreciate this movie until I rewatched it years later, as a way of facing my fears. I loved it on my second watch. It's been part of our Christmas lineup every year since (along with "Die Hard" and "Scrooged.") I'm glad you enjoyed it. I can't complain about another full watch this Holiday Season. It's time well spent.

Tatiana Ferreira

I have a mechanic Gizmo doll in my couch. It's just too cute to handle 🤗 I love this movie since I was a child. Great reaction as always 😁

Daniel Karlsson

Excellent choice! A cult classic that has everything you need: Christmas, cuties, horror and action. The animatronic work is insane and this movie truly showcases why it is a bit of a lost art. Pretty much every scene holds up really well and shows us why we should take a look at these sort of effects again instead of always leaning on what can be done on a computer. I love the tone of the movie as well. The whole build up into actually meeting the gremlins is well done and well paced. We get ample time to get to know the town, Billy and Gizmo before meeting the actual gremlins, which makes us care for the characters a lot (especially Gizmo of course). The acting doesn't really stand out, but nothing is bad either so it works just fine. So happy you guys did this one, not seeing it would have been a real loss. I highly recommend the sequel as well, although it leans a little bit more into the comedy aspect than this one. Now we are officially in the holiday spirit!

Joey Cintron
>>157269781

I have so many family memories of watching this movie with my parents as a kid. Snowy winter nights, popcorn. It's so good. Have you guys seen Violent Night with David Harbour? It's amazing. It's like John Wick wearing a Santa outfit... LMAO

James Forrest

So glad you guys got to the best, craziest, most creative Christmas movie of them all :) Been a huge fan for years and pushed this pretty hard last year :) Joe Dante is nuts, his work is so meta it's crazy. If you get around to Part II, you will never have seen a movie like it; it's a brilliant sequel full of little inside jokes which I'll enjoy filling you in on should you decide to review it. But this movie is superb. From the Norman Rockwell setting (which turns into a hellscape!) to the characters, nothing about it does not hit perfectly. The Gremlins themselves have always come across to me as crazy, hyperactive children; they have a wicked sense of humour, they play act, they bicker and fight and they enjoy themselves mightily :) If only they weren't also aggressive and dangerous they would be a lot of fun to hang out with haha. The Rules are bonkers :) One of the real delights about the second movie (the only thing I'll tell you) is that they are thoroughly slagged off and critiqued. (Dante explicitly did not want the sequel to take any of it seriously; he wanted to deconstruct the first film and a whole lot more, it's an absolute riot.) But for the purposes of the movie they explain the transformation and the multiplying in a very neat way! They are also supposed to represent simplicity; the crisis happens because of human irresponsibility as much as anything else. If only we'd follow a FEW SIMPLE RULES ... haha. The film very deliberately alternates between dark and light. The fates of some of the characters are deliciously vicious; Missus Deagle gets her just desserts and then some! And there is subversive comedy in there to the Nth degree; Phoebe Cates Xmas story is the classic example. Fully half of the people who've ever watched this movie with me have burst out in uncomfortable laughter and the other half look genuinely unsettled by feeling they want to haha. Roger Ebert called it perfectly when he wrote "Her story is in the great tradition of 1950s sick jokes ..." so he understood that it is most definitely meant to be funny, just not in that way that makes you feel good! Dante fills the whole film with little nods and winks to other works of his. His first movie was another crazy B movie horror classic Piranha. But by the time of this film he'd directed The Howling, the greatest film in the werewolf genre, surpassing even American Werewolf in London; if you've not seen it I cannot recommend it enough. It too is laced with dark humour and is a visual treat. One of its central characters is a serial killer named Eddie Quist. His "calling card" is a yellow smiley sticker. There's one of them on the Peltzer family fridge haha, a little Dante in-joke in a film with more than a few of them. Maybe they had him over for dinner or something! Anyway guys, what a total pleasure it was to watch that with you two. I am glad you enjoyed it, and knew you would :) Now I'm gonna go and watch your Lethal Weapon 2 reaction! I can guess how much you're gonna enjoy that one, as it's a great film!

TheMediaKnights
>>157271178

Can't believe that THIS is what got us PG 13! Omg Gizmo is forever gonna be our dream pet, I just need to boop the snoot, have you seen that face?!❤️😭

TheMediaKnights
>>157302232

Omg that is so cool, thank you so much for joining us on this one! The movie is just so wholesome, cute and gnarly all at once and we had a blast!

TheMediaKnights
>>157310166

Ooooh we definitely gotta check that one out! Adding it to our list, thank you for that recommendation!

TheMediaKnights
>>157304779

Omg thank you for confirming that they ended up surviving, whew!! That's a huge relief haha. Thanks for the support and awesome comment!

TheMediaKnights
>>157308544

Hi Robert, thanks as per usual for the awesome comment! We're definitely gonna add Critters to our list! Thank you for your support and recommendation!

TheMediaKnights
>>157357675

Thank you so much for joining us on this one, we had a blast and definitely can't wait to check out the second one!

TheMediaKnights
>>157339000

Haha duuude that sounds like an awesome night, hope you enjoyed the heck out of your eggnog and booze!! Thank you so much for recommending the sketch as well, we're huge Key and Peele fans so that's definitely gonna be on our list!! Thanks for the awesome comment and support, it means the world to us!

TheMediaKnights
>>157423134

Omg whaat, we need one ourselves asap!! Thank you so much for the support and kindness, you brightened our day with that!

TheMediaKnights
>>157394297

Ooooh love this analysis, thanks so much for sharing that with us, we never even considered it that way! Also whaat, a Gremlin Rag?! That sounds awesome!!

TheMediaKnights
>>157495595

Thank you so much for the support and kind comment, we had such a blast with this one and are so glad we ended up watching this, especially after hearing about it for so long! And you are so correct, the holiday spirit has officially commenced!

TheMediaKnights
>>157819074

What a fantastic comment, as per usual, thank you so much for taking the time to type these up for us! This was such a great breakdown, and we're even more excited to check out the second one now! Thank you again, for your support and kindness, it's always such a pleasure!

Melissa Creel
>>157281061

No, it's not. It's great. I was 16 when it came out and I saw it in the theater but my niece was 6 the first time she saw it and loved it.