Gremlins (1984) MOVIE REACTION! COMMENTARY!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- DAY 4 of Christmas Week and we watch a classic Christmas movie that we find very nostalgic, Gremlins (1984) this is not a first time reaction however we both haven't seen it in years.
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I love how Gizmo actually speaks Cantonese because he calls the old. Chinese Man 'Baba' meaning 'dad'. ❤️
I noticed that too at the end’
i thought baba was arabic for father?
@@_zachmcall baba means father in Cantonese and Arabic
@@_zachmcall they speak jibberish in both countries
Fun Fact: The word "mogwai" comes from a Cantonese word that means "demon" or "evil spirit." It's actually a creature in Chinese mythology that reproduces during rainy seasons and brings harm to humans.
TBH, I just wanted to add something here that's NOT about Grogu.
Gizmo is also an exception. Mogwai are all mean-spirited. He just happens to be a nice one.
I read somewhere that originally the movie was going to be much darker, going for the angle that Gizmo is actually evil himself. There was apparently going to be a scene where the dad was on an airplane and the hostess (who was Chinese) told him the meaning of the word Mogwai means demon/evil spirit.
@@MrCageCat I checked and you're right! I think they made the right call dialing it back, otherwise it might not be such a classic. I'm super curious what an R-rated version would be like though. I LOVE 80s creature flicks, even the terrible ones. 🙂
@@deavenswainey6415 Would have probably been more horror then yeah. Who knows though? By the way, do you know that the person who created the Gremlin designs (Chris Walas) also helped to create the creature in The Fly, as well as the creature designs in The Fly 2 (as well as being the director of that film)? If you look at the designs in The Fly 2 (both the cocoon and the fly creature itself) you can actually spot some similarities between them and the first Gremlin film's designs.
Fun fact: According to the novelization, the Mogwai were ordered by some mysterious “galactic powers” to travel to every inhabitable planet in the universe in order to “inspire alien beings with their peaceful spirit and intelligence and to instruct them in the ways of living without violence and possible extinction.”
There are other interesting tidbits of note - from the reveal that the last significant time Gremlins had an impact on a town was back in China in 1945, or the secret desire Mrs. Peltzer had to join the Army, OR that Gremlins know they’re Gremlins even though they’ve never heard the word before, or that the Mogwai can speak - and not only do they speak, they have conversations that are very articulate:
Gizmo is cuter than Baby Yoda. Change my mind
hmmmm i think i would say there equal
Gizmo & Grogu = same mom, different dads. Change MY mind. 😁
What does he cut?
She Who Loves Wedge Antilles hahaha I guess things that begin with G’s have a large attraction
Yog-Sothoth omg typo lol
Chris Columbus wrote this and the Goonies. He references Gremlins in Goonies when Chunk calls the sheriff from the Fratelli’s hideout, and the sherif doesn’t believe him and says “...like all those little creatures that multiply when you pour water on them?” And then the line gets cut by Sloth. Classic! These were my childhood!
Both films producer by Steven Spielberg.
Christopher Columbus?
"I don't think anyone dies in this movie".
Uh... are you sure this is not a first time watching? Lol
Just kidding, have a wonderful Christmas, everyone!
Yes, everyone lived.
Mrs. Deagle was sent flying through her second floor window and she just got up and walked it off.
@@gamemasternintendoo Kid movies Logic
To be fair the Funderman's are shone to be alive in the sequel, so who knows who else actually survived.
@@gamemasternintendoo Wait, she did!? But I didn't see her walks off after that....
Yea because Dick Millers character is in the sequel
You'd probably enjoy the sequel, too. This one's mad; 2 is straight up batsh*t.
I think in modern terms you could call 2 a film that is very 'meta' about Gremlins and Warner Bros in general.
The Brain Gremlin is fucking awesome.
gremlins one of the best movies of the 80s
They dont make em like this anymore, classic eighties gold.
Hahaha "He looks like Sylvester Stallone." ... I'm dead. What a great unwitting hint for Gremlins 2
I LOVE Your Christmas Glasses and Hats for this video
LOL! Yes!! At first I was like, what in 1970s Elton John hell is Shaun wearing on his face! Then I realized it was Christmas tree glasses. It works.
Gremlins is one of my favourite films and probably my favourite Christmas film. The original script that Chris Columbus wrote was way darker. I’m pretty sure Barney, the dog, died, the mom died too. When Billy comes back home, he looks around for his mom and her severed head is thrown down the hall way towards him. And Pete, Corey Feldmans character, would be dragged away into a forest, or something like that, by a bunch of gremlins and his screams would be drowned out by near by carollers. Also there was no Stripe originally. Gizmo would have turned into the main gremlin but Steven Spielberg thought Gizmo was too cute
I think it's a better way, not only because that betrayal of the cute would be too much to bear, but also to show that the Mogwai have different personalities - there's always a token good one in a species.
Very interesting, I'm honestly glad they went with the true format. Gizmo especially, it's nice there is at least 1 good one.
It's more dramatically interesting to keep Gizmo as a protagonist, IMO.
I remember when this movie came out and parents freaked the hell out, this film and Indiana Jones Temple of Doom are responsible for the PG-13 rating being implemented later that year.
Return of the Jedi is the reason for the PG-13 rating.
@@charliegoodson808 Interesting if true. Was it entirely Leia's outfit? Because nothing else about that movie seems even remotely problematic for a PG rating.
@@shockmesane4158 That's because it had nothing to do with Return of the Jedi, which came out a full year before.
@@stevemccullagh36 Then I guess it wasn't interesting.
I thought 'Gremlins' was classified a 15 when it came out in the cinema.
I remember our parents taking us to see it at the cinema but they wouldn't let my sister in so we watched 'Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom' instead.
Have you two seen the sequel. It's amazing.
And in a way totally different.
no its not to me
I actually think the sequel might be better. Apparently their is a script going around for a 3rd. Apparently clamp (who was meant to be trump) becomes president and both the main characters work under him and the gremlins take over the Whitehouse.
@@randomreviews4278 Nor me.
Filmed on same set as Back to the Future Hill Valley as you can tell from start Hill Valley in snow
Also Monster Squad.... did you see that one? It was a beauty!
And offspring ‘get a job’ music vid i think
A Warner Bros movie filmed on the Paramount Studios backlot?
@@adamclifton29 it's universal that owns the backlot, and it's very common for movie studio's to rent out there backlots to other film companies
The dead dad story was almost cut from the film because they felt it was out of place but they decided to keep it because it was a good way to show the overal tone of the movie, being at the same time goofy and quite dark. In the sequel they even made fun of this part... in fat the sequel made fun of everything possible from the first movie.
Joe Dante got a LOT of pressure from the studio to cut the chimney story - the movie was testing REALLY well and they expected to make a massive pile of cash with it, but the chimney story really threw them. "If you'd only cut that scene, the movie would be PERFECT!" they would say. Spielberg was the final arbiter between Dante and the studio - if Spielberg didn't have Dante's back, it would have come out. Dante said the back and forth went on for weeks until Spielberg told him one day that the studio REALLY wanted the chimney story gone, bottom line. Dante asked Spielberg what he thought of the chimney story to which Spielberg said he didn't like it, it wasn't his kind of thing, but it was Dante's movie and Spielberg would back him up whatever he decided to do. So it stayed in. :)
That scene still really divides people, apparently. I love it. It's really the peak of this movie's dark humor.
This movie is absolutely mad and I love it. The gremlins are horrible and wonderful? They just enjoy themselves so much that it's hard to dislike them, even when they're being awful.
I wasn’t allowed to see this when I was a kid! I finally saw it last year when I was 38 😂
I just have to say that dying in a chimney isn’t that unrealistic. It’s happened before. In the last year in the US, a 14 year old boy was missing and they ended up finding his body in a chimney 😢 he suffocated.
Rick Baker who created the Werewolf in American Werewolf designed and created the Gremlins.
Actually, Chris Walas designed and created the Gremlins in this film, whereas Rick Baker took over for the sequel 'Gremlins 2: the New Batch'.
Shaun you only had one job! You should’ve said “I only go by CINEMA RULES. *camera wink*”
I'd forgotten how much personality the puppets and puppeteers were able to inject into the gremlins. Also, I think Gizmo is why I love Corgis to this day.
my favorite scene is the whole thing with Deagle. she was a horrid person and deserved everything she got. everything from the part with the carolers til the part where she goes through the window was movie poetic justice and I laughed throughout, cheering on the gremlins the whole way 😆
horrid, check. deserving... meh. I didn't shed a tear, but...
One of the greatest onscreen deaths I have ever seen.
I always think of this movie fondly but dude I forgot how dark some of the parts are hahaha awesome video as always!! Merry almost Christmas everyone!
You should do more commentaries of movies you've seen cuss it's nice to see you feel nostalgic for movies you've seen as kids
I have the same tree glasses lol and you guys should watch the sequel at some point (on your own time or on youtube) if you haven’t already
the second one is much better IMO, a proper "anti-sequel" sequel that takes everything up a notch
I don’t think it’s better, it’s on the same level. They just had a bigger budget to work with. Both are awesome.
@@jaymanuel3396 oh they are both amazing, but for me personally the glorious "fuck it" attitude of the sequel reigns supreme
Warner Brothers wanted a sequel and for Joe Dante to direct. Dante said the first film was a complete story and there was nothing left to do with the Gremlins. However, WB kept on and Dante said he would direct, but only if he had free reign to make the film how he wanted and Warner Brothers agreed. So that's why he could crank the absurdity up. The bat winged Gremlin was meant to actually mock the upcoming Batman film, but Warner Brothers actually loved it and said that was a great way to advertise their upcoming film. The budget was meant to be smaller but due to various issues and things Joe Dante wanted, WB kept on giving more money. Gizmo and the Gremlins look much better in the 2nd film, due to new animatronic techniques that had been developed and new types of puppets that had more detail.
Am I the only one who hated the sequel?
@@KevyNova No. I hate it too.
In my humble opinion, this is the absolute greatest Christmas movie of all time! It's tradition in my house to watch Gremlins every Christmas Eve, has been since i was a kid.
This movie is crazy it's funny and creepy. You are going to love it and I can't wait to see your reactions to cuz guys are funny as hell. You always manage to make me laugh so damn hard. If and when you get a chance don't forget to check out lady in a cage with Olivia de Havilland and James Caan is really a good suspenseful Thriller of a movie.😁
my cat is called gizmo
Your videos are a highlight & getting me through a rough time, hilarious reactions you guys are the best pick me up.
Cute as hell when stripe sees the candy sign and says "yum yum". sorry not sorry
I'm loving your video's! Can you do a reaction video on the horror/thriller film "Wrong Turn"? It's in the style of The Hills Have Eyes, but creepier. The sequels are not as good, but the first one is quite entertaining.
Fun Fact: The Set for the town center of Kingston Falls is the Courthouse Square. It is a backlot located at the Universal Studios. A lot of movies and series have been shot here. Some examples are: Back to the Future, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bruce Almighty, Knight Rider, Jingle All the Way and many many more.
Yeah, seems to me I remember someone saying this was shot during the hottest weeks of the year and the poor cast had to be bundled up in all those heavy winter clothes trying to act cold. LOL!
Shaun looks like a christmassy pope
Hahahaha!!!! Yes he does.
6:17 he's so disgusted 😭🤣🤣🤣
My favorite aspect of this movie is the wildly shifting tone of it. It's an anarchic mix of Spielberg cute family style with depressing and gruesome thrown in for good measure.
I'm just starting to realize that I've never seen the first Gremlins, only the sequel!!
Oh gosh I'm a bit late to the upload but yes this movie was something! I watched the first time as a 21 year old & I didn't find it scary just funny and entertaining. Those hats made me lose it thou lol 😂
FYI, the one cop is Mike from Breaking Bad!
No way!!! I’ve never noticed that before. It’s so obvious now haha
@@JuciyLucy I never noticed it till this reaction. Pretty cool, great character - Mike! Happy Holidays Lucy!
I love how the boys were most disturbed by the Santa Claus story
What a fun reaction! I'm excited (albeit a little scared) to see what you make of "Krampus." For me, it's a new Christmas classic. I can't explain why, but I love that movie so dearly even though the final act kind of just...suddenly happens. But that stinger in the end...
The girl's Christmas backstory has always seemed so weirdly morbid, like an emotional drama suddenly crash-landed into the film. The scene has been very divisive over the years with the studio and even Spielberg wanting it removed, but Joe Dante the director insisted on keeping it and they relented. I can respect that stubbornness over his vision for the film.
It's one of my favorite scenes in the history of cinema lol
Wasn't this scene spoofed/mocked in the sequel? Phoebe Cate's character starts talking about something similar, then gets cut off. And the film critic Leonard Maltin then gives out about it (meta movie moment).
@@EmlynBoyle Yep lol Lincoln's birthday
You might appreciate knowing that the Gremlin design and practical effects were created by Chris Walas, who also created the practical make-up effects for David Cronenberg's 'The Fly'.
Do a Film Noir series: Start with Fargo. Then...
The Usual Suspects
Memento
Angel Heart
Double Indemnity
Chinatown
The Third Man
Love this channel so much!!!!
These videos have very quickly become a highlight. Loved this, can't believe you sat through the whole film with those hats on. My head would be itchy! Can't wait to see what you think of gremlins 2
my favorite xmas movie 🥰
React to Child’s play (1988)
Best title opening to any given Christmas movie.
plz watch the 2d movie if you guys liked the first movie you’ll like the second
You should all clearly add Snow White to your list, then. Plus, y'know... Gremlins 2.
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I love the cameos in this movie-- the Time Machine, Robby the Robot, Chuck Jones... so much fun.
The big plot hole in this film is: snow.
Snow is water. Water makes Gremlins multiply. It's winter. Snow is everywhere. There should be billions of Gremlins...
Guess you have to chalk it up to supernatural logic - water (in it's liquid form) otherwise the moisture in air would be a factor. Any don't get me started on don't feed them after midnight.... when? what timezone? What if its daylight savings time?
And don't gremlins need to drink water?
@@ThreadBomb Do they? They aren't "real", in case you hadn't noticed. They might not need anything.
Did you spot the Spielberg cameo when Billy's father is at the convention?
Also the double bill on the cinema marquee during the opening titles ("Watch the Skies" / "A Boy's Life") were the working titles for Close Encounters and ET, respectively.
Got the dvd and now last week the blue ray arrived. Love the film. Gizmo rules! Michael Winslow from Police academy makes alot of the Gremlins ' sounds.
Howie Mandel does Gizmo.
The badass mom is also Tatum and Dewey's mom from Scream, Gordy's mom in Stand By Me and Marty McFly's grandma. She and Dee Wallace are the greatest movie moms ever.
I spy with my little eye...the new reaction video? Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs. Huh? Huh? Just saying, Shaun just said "I only know this song from this movie"
When are you guys reacting to "Death Becomes Her" (1992)? If you appreciate 90s over the top dark comedies you must see it. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn like you've never seen them before.
Omg YES!!!!!!!
You definitely need to do Gremlins 2. They stepped-up the practical effects a lot for it, as well as the humor. Pretty much everything went up a notch. It had a bigger budget but wasn't a Christmas movie. It's a lot of fun to watch.
Totally awesome! Great commentary! Fun watch. Keep it up.
Thanks guys. It's always a fun time with Cinema Rules.
Did you notice a similarity with the dissolving gremlin and the movie The Fly? Same special effects guru Chris Walas x
1987? That's 1984 bud.
@ 3:15 Mrs. Deagle IS my mother IRL...so when the gremlins sabotage her stair climber I can’t help 🤣
I rewatched it last year for the first time since I was a kid. Absolutely loved it, saw it the other day again, a new Xmas tradition. It still shocks me how violent it was. This and Indiana Jones Temple Of Doom were responsible for the PG-13 rating in the US and the 15 here in the UK
You should do a creature feature series and start with Critters.
its not really violent... its damn funny lol
Phoebe Cates' dead dad Santa story is a Christmas tradition in our house. Even if we don't watch the movie, one of us (probably me) will do the monologue at some point. Merry Chrimble!
It was rated PG in the us. It helped create the PG-13 rating here.
Gremlins 2 next, you'll love it! It's so over the top, and Hulk Hogan saves the movie. :D
The town square in this is the the same as Back To The Future. Also look for the Rockin' Ricky Rialto poster spoofing Raiders of the Lost Ark
7.4 only! :O We usually agree, Tom. This is way better than that.
The mom was bad@$$!
Classic movie, i do prefer Gremlins 2 though i find that one a lotttt of fun!!!
If you thought that the bar scene was quirky and this movie was a little cheesy, just wait until you watch Gremlins 2.
This was my favorite Christmas movie as a kid.
Such a cute if not crazy comedy horror film, from Producer Steven Spielberg and Director Joe Dante. They showed this film and it's Sequel as part of the Sci-fi Christmas Day Movie Marathon, along with The Shadow, Matinee, The Flintstones, Jetsons: The Movie, BATMAN in 2003.
Great reaction guys , one of my faves, I would describe it as a dark comedy for a Christmas movie, best watch when you having a few drinks and laughing at the antics.
Hahahaha!! You two are adorable in your Christmas hats. Great job guys.
Went to the theatre in 84 as a teenager to see the gremlins, left only thinking about Phoebe Cates...
Shaun's glasses make him look like that old lady on The Great British Bake off 😛
Yeah Shaun, i agree with the score. A solid 8 for sure. I remember when i watched the first time i was scared the hell out specially in the end but with the second movie they becomre such a wholesome memory that u love them. The second one was more comedy in it. Gizmo is so cuteee
My favourite Christmas film is "Ernest Saves Christmas"
The hats are great...you both would've made great extras in the tavern scene!
Though they might seem similar in some respects, but Ghostbusters and Gremlins were released within days of each other, so GB didn't have any influence on Gremlins....but FLASHDANCE had opened earlier in 1983, allowing them to work in Michael Sembello and the Flashdance Gremlin...
Chris Walas, who did the effects for Gremlins, went on to do the makeup and effects for one of your favorites, The Fly. He rather infamously dropkicked the Gizmo animatronic right after filming ending, he'd had such trouble getting it to work...
And, of course, Gremlins 2 has big spoilers about survivors from THIS film!
You should react to Gremlins 2, it straight up becomes a comedy and depending on the day is the better watch
Y'all should check out "Enemy Mine".
Kate's story about her dad became notorious for coming outta nowhere and adding nothing to the plot 😂 (tho I guess it added to the dark tone of the film). They actually make a meta reference about that in the sequel 😉
If you do watch the sequel, btw, it has a VERY different tone from this one, it's much more cartoony with TONS of celebrity cameos and meta humor. I don't like it as much as the first one, but it's ok if you wanna watch a really crazy movie 🤪
Yeah, doesn't she start some f-ed up story about Lincoln's birthday in the sequel?
what can easily get away - when she tells the story of her father's death and says that this is how she found out Santa doesn't exist - at this point Gizmo's reaction indicates that he JUST found out that Santa doesn't exist
The only good thing about part 2 is commando gizmo.
Part 2 is batshit crazy and funnier and i think there is a sex scene between two gremlins LOL
Bright lights bright lights
Love this movie even now I am 50 years old
One of the best 👍🏻
Love the Christmas outfits boys, looking good
Gizzzzmmmoooooo....KAAAAAKAAAAAAAA!!!
I would say that the most adorable part in this film, to me, is when the Gremlins are in little scarfs and hats posing as carolers singing the main theme to the movie. That part always cracks me up. The bar, and theatre sequences were also very funny.
Also: 10:07 Johnathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut) from Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul.
YEEESSS MY GOD, HILARIOUS REACTION 😂
1984 not 87 I have the Gremlins theme as my ring tone. Lol
Dam I was 9 when this movie came out,I'm so old.
I was 4
I was 4 years old when this came out, my folks took me to the cinema to watch it lol
nice
Corey Feldman was in such classics in the 80s; Goonies, Gremlins, Friday the 13th The Final Chapter, the Burbs and Lost Boys!
Stand by me !!
I grew up with this film and I have always loved it regardless of the cheesy or the wtf!! moments this is just one of those films that just stick with you and make you feel like a kid again. And those are the movies that matter the most because no matter the genre they give you that happy feeling. Or at least that’s how it is for me. But thank you guys! Love your videos and love the hats 😉
This movie scared me so much as a kid that I refuse to watch it as an adult. I’ll watch The Conjuring movies anytime, any day, but as soon as someone suggests Gremlins, I’m out!
Can you watch gremlins 2 on new years eve since it's set in new years eve
this channel. has become just awesome...lol!
“Bye Bye Woof Woof” melts my heart every time!
Also very few things traumatized me as a child as much as that story about the girl’s father getting stuck in the chimney. Like it really messed with me. Great delivery on the actress’s part.
Is the next Christmas movie you watch krampus? Or you watching that on Christmas Day?
Next film Krampus then Christmas Eve is National lampoon 😊 there won’t be an upload on Christmas Day
Cinema Rules oh ok then just asking that cause for me it's December 23rd
Cinema Rules actually you should probabaly save krampus for last of your Christmas horror movies
I need friends. Can I come by and watch it with you
I watched this film when it was first released, way ahead of its time. I enjoyed the sequel too.
Second best Xmas film ever...
Shaun is a fucking STUD!!!!
😁😁