Cinepals - GREMLINS (1984) Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

When his father brings home a new pet as a Christmas present for his son, Billy accidentally breaks the three main rules of what not to do with his new mogwai, causing a breakout of monstrous chaos.  This film stars: Zach Galligan (Waxwork), Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High & Drop Dead Fred), Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke (Kung Fu), Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys, Stand by Me, The Goonies, & The 'Burbs) Dick Miller (Piranha), Frances Lee McCain (Footloose), Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Airplane, & Incredibles 2), Belinda Balaski (The Howling), Jackie Joseph (Little Shop of Horrors), Judge Reinhold (Beverly Hills Cop & The Santa Clause), Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), & Howie Mandel (Little Monsters)   Join our Patreon www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay for the full length reaction to this show and many others ans subscribe to our YouTube channel for the cutdowns www.youtube.com/@cinepals   SOCIAL MEDIA ~CinePals~ Twitter, Instagram, & TikTok: @TheCinePals   ~VIVIAN DAY~  Instagram: @DarlingVivling

Senna. Pals. Very excited to jump into watching Gremlins for the very first time. I know it's crazy. We are both old enough that we should have seen it as a kids. We did not, and so we're going to watch it together now. Look under all the beds, because you never can tell. There just might be a gremlin in your house.

One right next to me. I'm just kidding. Just feed me nachos before midnight, and I'll be fine. This was such an unexpected adventure. I didn't think it was going to get that dark. I didn't think it was going to get that violent. The mixture of tones is fascinating to me. Because, you know, it feels like a kid's film.

The way it was introduced and everything like that, it was just very hunky-dory and happy. And it felt almost like, I don't know, it's been a minute since I watched it, but like the Goonies or something, just that kind of tone. I haven't seen that either. And so for it to go the direction it did,

I'm like, what? Like, the microwave moment was just crazy to me. Some characters dropped off in the film It kind of made me a little bit sad Like the mom dropping off And then the young kid Who I think is in the movie The Lost Boys

If I'm not mistaken, I can't remember too well I'd have to look at the IMDB Yeah, so anyway, would you think of it? I see why a whole generation was traumatized Like I said like The responses I always heard Was either like Oh, we love it

It's like a cult classic You know, people have all the gear They love everything about it Or the other side of it They're like, nope No, no thank you, no thank you. It did me in, uh-uh, never again. So, um, isn't there another one?

I think that the other second one, yeah. Yeah, so it keeps going. I like that they were respectful to the Asians as well, considering. But there was an era of time where Asians were just like normal people in cinema and in TV. And then it started going backwards. Like even in Friends era, it was like... No, Julie. Julie was normal like you.

Julie? Well, I mean, as normal as one. one can be. I knew it. He was in The Lost Boys. You were right. Yeah. So his name is Corey Feldman. Oh, Corey. Oh. Yeah. So, stand by me. He's been in Bond. Just of the Goonys. Speaking of the Goonies. Yeah, he's been in a ton of stuff. So he just kind of dropped out of the film. He, the last thing we saw of him was like him inside of his bedroom just like knocking them away or something like that. Yeah, with the slingshot. I wonder if he came back in the second one. Like a little older. Quite possible. He was a watch. I liked it. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad I'm glad I

watched it. It was a good throwback, like it felt nostalgic. It felt like a good throwback in terms of the way films used to be and just how characters used to be. I think it held up though. That's the thing. It's like, I think that for it being a film from 84, it still like kind of put me off, not in a bad way, but like, you know, like, oh my gosh, that's actually like kind of frightening. And I had to think about that for a second and process it. I'm like, this is ready PG. And it's making me uncomfortable. I can only imagine how like, as a kid, how I would have processed that. watching it and we're talking about like the tone and how scary it is and whatnot. I was thinking to myself, well, Paltregeist, I think is also rated PG, if I'm not mistaken. No way. I think it

is. Really? And then there's Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters and all that stuff. And, um, I think a labyrinth. Um, well, I never, I never actually watched the labyrinth. Oh, that one's, um, intense. Poultergeist. P.G. 1982. But I mean, today, things were different back then. Today, today, if you did that, I feel like it would be PG-13. You know, like, this is before. Both of them. This is before PG-13 was invented. Yeah. And so I keep saying this.

I should probably fact-check it, but I think that PG-13 was invented as a result of the Temple of Doom. Yeah, this predates that, I think, and, like, it can get away with it. But it's so violent. But, you know, I think that we took some of these things for granted at the time.

You know, I was re-watching Seinfeld not that long ago, and there was this whole episode where he literally jokes about people offing themselves. I'm phrasing it like that on purpose because if you say certain kids, keywords, the YouTube AI will come after you. And so it's just like, it's just a row of jokes in the episode.

It's like, and everybody's like laughing together. And I'm like, yo, like we used to be okay with this topic. And only in the last 10 to 15 years have we gotten more and more sanitized where we cannot laugh about a number of things that we could before. And while I understand like the feeling and the sentiment today around that and why we don't laugh at it anymore, I do miss that bygone era of. and we could just laugh at a lot more than we do now. I mean, the things they were doing in this film,

you wouldn't do that today, you know? Not even close. Yeah, for PG, the most violent thing you're going to see is like Madagascar or something like that. You know what I mean? Overall, I really enjoyed it. Just thinking about how it might have been made as well. Yes, I think that was the most for me, too.

Yeah. Because all the shots, all that, just think about all the puppets alone. I don't know how much was robotics and how much was just some stop motion. Yeah, stop motion and some. dudes just like, do, do, do. Sure, oh, hand puppets, yeah, puppeteering. And also, because I was huge back then, too.

Yeah, I would imagine there was also probably, like, actual string puppeteering going on as well, because there was one shot in the bar where I saw a Gremlin running across the bar floor, and I'm like, that thing was moving at a clip, and it didn't look like stop motion. So it had to have been, like, puppeteering, yeah, like that. There was a use of rear screen projection inside of the convenience store, not the convenience store,

the department store, where you saw the mogwai inside the car, and you saw the motion behind him. And I'm like, at the time, you wouldn't have known that's for a screen projection. It's just like you're just, you know, so invested in everything going on. It's like, this is cool. But this is a great analogy for AI or a virus.

I'm trying to think like what else. TikTok. It's like, you know, what else Joe Dante has done? Inner space, that's a big one. The howling, I don't know that. Small Soldiers, that was a big one. That makes so much sense that he did Small Soldiers. Oh my goodness.

That was a movie I really enjoyed when it came out. Oh, really? I haven't seen it. in forever though. That's a ton of fun. It's an alternate to die hard. This is a fun Christmas movie, you know? I hate Christmas.

Yeah. I mean, yeah, for the Kate character got, she got dark. Like, the, just the walk to her house was like full of red flags. There was just, hot. You know what I'm saying? Date, date, date.

His type. Yeah, because then you end up trying, well, yeah, the problem is you end up trying to save the person. It's like, oh, you have problems, I'll save you, I'll help you. help your problems. Definitely not boring. Yeah, exactly. Keep you engaged, like a YouTube video. Speaking of which, I enjoyed this a lot. I hope you guys did too. Thanks so much for

hanging with us. Make sure to subscribe bell icon, all notifications about this up. I'm Jabby. Cowie, this is Vivian Day. Peace out. Bye.