The Reel Rejects - GREMLINS (1984) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:56 This is what I know. Every person references gremlins for one reason. It is it. The first movie and the second movie are completely different genres. I don't know what genre either of them are. I don't either. I know people whip this one out around Christmas. Oh, is that true? Yeah. All right. Give it to the Jew then.

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Starting point is 00:06:44 Super into that. God, what a cast, too. What would you say the genre of that film was? That's a good question. I mean, it's definitely like a mishmash. It's definitely got, you know, horror, comedy, family, holiday. Like, you know, it's not...

Starting point is 00:07:01 Howie Mandel. What? Special vocal effects. Frank Welker, fun. Oh, yeah. Okay, there you go. Yeah, you got a bunch of, like, voice actors to do. At least, I'm sure, Maguire and others.

Starting point is 00:07:13 But yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, this is one of those... It's like, it's a horror comedy, but it's also, like, you can watch this with your family. Like, it's... I feel like, you know, kids, there's nothing too harsh or crazy that would either freak or scar. freak out or scar like a kid

Starting point is 00:07:31 and there's nothing too adult really happening so like yeah it's like a family horror comedy holiday something or other this is a weird question but like what do you feel like the lesson

Starting point is 00:07:44 of the movie is like it's a cautionary tale I mean I guess so because at the beginning you know it's dad's not taking no for an answer and he's like I must have this

Starting point is 00:07:57 like I guess it's that thing of like assuming that you can just, is it with enough money that you should just be able to have anything you want and, that's the funny part because they didn't have money, but he spent $200, you know? Yeah, which in the moment seemed like he was like, I'll give you, you know, money is no, is, is no object, but yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:19 Then we know they're hurting. So I don't know. I think it's maybe about respecting nature or something. Yeah, like the lesson at the end. And, like, you think that you knew what you were doing and you don't. Yeah. Your society is always doing this bullshit. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:36 Step out of it. You're always kind of perverting and exacerbating the things that are laid out for your abundance by nature, you know, and not leaving well enough alone. Peter Gabriel. I love him. You know, one of the most impressive parts to me was the music. I thought that they just did an excellent, excellent job with the music. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because it's, like, endearing and sweet when it needs.

Starting point is 00:08:58 to be and then it's like bouncy and demented when it needs to be and it all kind of feels appropriately within the spirit of the holiday and all that yeah I'm into this yeah me too I mean I like them I enjoy and I think they're kind of rare now these experiences where you watch you're like what genre is this is so many things all at once and it's I think that helps make it unique now I'm super curious about the second one if it's more of a comedy or more of a horror. From the vague things I have heard people joke about it, it seems like it's like more zany, more comedy is my guess, but I don't know.

Starting point is 00:09:36 I'm sure they'll incorporate some level of horror in some way or another. Is there a world in which you add this to your Christmas rotation? Yeah, actually. I would say definitely. Like, because for me, because for me, like, you know, I am certainly a year-round horror fan. And I think this is nice. This is like a good like November or early December kind of move. Yes.

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Starting point is 00:11:30 If you were going to add this to your rotation. Yeah, I mean, for me, this is like the perfect, like, November or early December kind of movie where, you know, like, because I... Why November? Because it's not like, it's a Christmas movie, but it's not so much a Christmas movie that it's, like, about... It's not solely being a Christmas movie, about Christmas things. first and foremost, I guess, is why. So, like, this is a fun Christmas-based adventure, and it feels like Christmas time,

Starting point is 00:12:01 and there are, you know, warm notes. There's certainly warmth from the family, and there's warmth from, like, the developing relationship between Billy and the Phoebe Kate's character and stuff like that. And it harkens to a lot of Christmas movies, but it's not necessarily, you know, the spirit of Christmas. As you're saying that, I remember that there's that debate,

Starting point is 00:12:22 you know, how it. I mean, it's been put to bed, but, like, is diehard of Christmas movie? There's that debate. I've heard that with Gremlins, too. Is it a Christmas movie? And, like, to me, this clearly was a Christmas movie. But I do get what you're saying. It's a Christmas movie without, like, Christmas themes.

Starting point is 00:12:37 It's just at Christmas time. Like, it starts with the Christmas present. Yeah. But I don't feel like the theme was, like, family is more important than any, you know. Yeah, it's like. But then we do hear that story from Phoebe Kay's character about Christmas. Yeah. that was a striking little piece of tragedy, right?

Starting point is 00:12:57 That feels like that could be its own movie. Yes. Oh, my God. Different tone. Yeah, very. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the nice thing is I feel like this has a lot of Christmas spirit in it, kind of around the periphery and stuff like that. Because, yeah, it's like everybody is just trying to deal with the holiday in one way or another.

Starting point is 00:13:18 You've got, yeah, your people who are in the spirit. You've got your people who are, like, they touch on that. think that's kind of a nice thing for a movie like this because it's it's a real thing that they didn't have to do that whole discussion of like people get really depressed around the holidays and not everybody is in you know the spirit and and here's might be why and then taking the time to give that character that backstory and that monologue for phoebe kates which was really touching and even the way they draw the family it's like you could have had conflict or or just like i don't know other tensions and it's like you know the the

Starting point is 00:13:52 main family like they love each other and there's not like a huge like I feel like his inventions in a different movie might have like caught been a big source of tension and they're just like a quirky detail and like you pointed out it's like the mom she really loves him and she's kind of amused by his wacky little inventions and stuff and there's like a lot of warmth there for the family you get to choose how you feel about things sometimes and like they just kind of the son too like he's so excited with the present and he loves his dad and even when at the bank someone calls it out like your dad's a loser never whatever like they are a tight family unit so maybe it is more about family than I'm even letting on but like it is I think that's really sweet we

Starting point is 00:14:32 always see the the wife that's so annoyed with her bumbling husband you know like kind of like the marge simpson Homer Simpson issue and this was like I felt the genuine love between the dog the parents the kid like and when they walk in it's not like oh why is the sword keep falling or like, oh, this orange juice. It's just kind of like what it is. I am curious what happened to Corey's character. He did kind of just trickle off. This is another interesting.

Starting point is 00:15:01 I feel like movies were also kind of poised differently in previous decades where like this had that also a quality. I don't even know quite how to describe it where you have your main characters that you're kind of always with and you have some distinct side characters who you peer in on but who aren't like the points so yeah they don't all get like wrapped up like you know mr futterman doesn't really get like a big wrap up and cori feldman doesn't get like a big wrap up or something like they're mentioned and they pop up and like you know cori's on the radio at one point i think that's

Starting point is 00:15:34 the last we hear of him um and things like that yeah like i can understand wanting some resolution on them but at the same time it didn't bother me too much it's just interesting yeah because like the situation resolves with our main characters in a very sensible way and then i i i i I appreciate the way it handles the rest of them because it almost does feel like just bumping into people around town in a small place where everybody sort of knows each other. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

Starting point is 00:16:05 See, I usually finish it, but you didn't know that way. Sorry, I got to watch more cheers, I'm sorry. You haven't seen cheers? I've seen like scattered episodes, but not enough to be like, I have binged it and know all the, I don't know the theme song by heart. obviously. You're sitting with the Boston girl, though. You know that, right? I'm sorry, by the next time we hang out and I'll have

Starting point is 00:16:25 seen all of cheers. Blasphemy. And I'll go to Fenway Pack. I did think that the guy, the bumbling drunk guy, he definitely had a Boston accent not a New York accent. I was thinking that for a minute. But I was like, okay, some Boston people move over. The neighbor? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:40 Mr. Futterman? Dick Miller! Yeah, he definitely sounded very Boston in this for some reason. Yeah, he's got one of those like, East Coast East Coast Indeterminate accent

Starting point is 00:16:53 Totally like Certain words I was like Where are we again? Yeah But yeah I thought that this is really Like for a movie

Starting point is 00:16:59 That came out in 1984 That you and I have heard About our entire lives That's been probably hyped up By everybody we know Yeah And that Like definitely obviously

Starting point is 00:17:09 Technology changing To the extent that it has For me to be like Well I really enjoyed myself During that I'm pretty excited That was the takeaway

Starting point is 00:17:18 Oh, yeah. Like this, I can absolutely see the love that this has garnered over the years. And this does have, again, a slightly different sensibility than the here and now. And it definitely feels like something more akin to like the time that like an ET comes out or something where, yeah, it starts out kind of fun and fanciful and then becomes like a serious situation after a while. And it doesn't lose its sense of fun and fancy, but it does become much more of like a horror movie by then. also felt like a Steven Spielberg produced film. Yeah. And it also felt like it borrowed from a lot of classics, like a Wizard of Oz type with the witch. But also a lot of currents borrow from this. Oh, 100%. This is funny.

Starting point is 00:18:02 And it was interesting to watch as they, there were a lot of things, and I'm sure there are more than I'm going to remember. But there are a lot of ways in which I feel like they were homageing Christmas movies because it's like he works at the savings and loan. And they're watching, you know. It's a wonderful life at one point. And Mrs. Deagle is clearly Scrooge slash also Mr. Potter. And yeah, you have these other little touchstones to various Christmas movies and iconography and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:18:32 In ways that I thought were, if it was now, they would be more like in your face. Like, see, huh? Reference, huh? Whereas here, like, they happen and you can catch them and you can go like, hey, that's fun. But they're not like screaming. They felt a little bit more subtle. little bit more sort of yeah and same thing with the christmas music like sprinkled in but not all the time and even when it was there it was kind of like a twist of variation on it yeah for sure yeah it's not

Starting point is 00:18:58 like beating you in the face with it and it's like i liked uh the effects i really thought that the way that they chose to you know they they props to jo dante and i've seen a couple of his movies namely i mean small soldiers certainly kind of harkens to this and i really like the way that they shot the magui the gremlins because there's so many many moments where you're like, okay, great use of, like, off-screen elements and camera movements to hide the things that are especially hard to achieve with either stop motion or puppetry, but then there is a bunch of puppetry, and there's a bunch of stop motion animation, or at least here and there for some of the more complex moments, there's stop motion animation. And I thought

Starting point is 00:19:36 it blended all those things together in a really, really nice, smooth sort of way. I agree, and I don't mean this in any way that, like, I know that people don't like this Sports or nots, but I thought it was really cute the way that it all blended together. Like, I thought that the Maguai was very cute. And I even thought that the gremlins, like when they're all marching towards us and you were like, ooh, that stop motion of all of them like coming towards. I thought it was endearing and cute. Yeah, there's zany and wacky and kind of cute.

Starting point is 00:20:06 Yeah, totally. I'm into this. Yeah, me too. I liked this a whole lot. Yeah, this was kind of everything I hoped it could be. And nice to have that experience where you're like, I don't quite. quite know what this is. Yeah, we were like an hour in and I said,

Starting point is 00:20:19 what's the genre? Yeah, and it just keeps kind of twisting and warping. And yeah, it's unique. It's very unique in that way. And I appreciate that quite a bit. Like, yeah, I'll definitely pull this out year after year during the holidays. I would be curious to see the second one. So you guys, if you want to see us do that, like, comment, subscribe.

Starting point is 00:20:40 Don't forget to tell your friends. We just watched Gremlins for the first time. Maybe they haven't seen it. holiday season's a good time to do a nice watch along with us. Any final Gremlin's thoughts? I feel like we touched on most everything. I like the cast. I thought the cast was all very charming.

Starting point is 00:20:57 Everybody, you know, was very earnest in their different roles. Good, again, the main cast I thought was really nice. Good character actor work popping up and everything. And a solid script as well. I thought this was a solidly made picture all around. We might be the rejects, but we don't reject this. Not at all. We accept it.

Starting point is 00:21:16 We accept. You got to change your hat then. Accept. Yes. Yeah, the dropping next month gets your acceptance hat from the re-johnation. On the backside, you'll be there so you can kind of flip it. The reversible, yeah, you flip it inside out. A nightmare before Christmas's face.

Starting point is 00:21:32 Yeah, the mayor, it'll be just like that. That's another great, like, November or early December movie where it's like for part-way. But also October. Yeah. Sure. Do not, do not come at me right now. with Nightmare Before Christmas is not a full-blown Halloween movie. It is.

Starting point is 00:21:50 I don't watch it during Halloween time, but I don't begrudge anybody who does. I also think it's a Christmas movie, but it's not a Halloween movie. It is. It is a Halloween movie. That's a debate for a different time. Thanks for being here with us. We'll see you soon. Love you all.

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The Reel Rejects - GREMLINS (1984) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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