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From: jack@hp-dcd.UUCP
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Subject: Gremlins: A Spielberg Abortion
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 03:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 03:35:00 1984
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Nf-From: hp-dcd!jack    Jun 20 23:35:00 1984

Gremlins: simply dreadful

Q: Is it a kiddie film?			A: no
Q: Is it a film for adults, then?	A: no!
Q: Is it a film for anybody at all?	A: no no no!!!

Just *who* would this atrocity appeal to, anyway?  Is Spielberg trying
to aim for the kids with his destruction of a town and many deaths
(all sanitized for your protection)? Is he perhaps trying to aim for
the adults with his sugary-sweet puppets with big brown eyes and
cute voices? Is he desperately trying to hook the teenagers with
ten seconds of token romance?

"But it had good special effects", I hear you say.  So what?
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF SPECIAL EFFECTS MOVIES!
Give me a plot.  Give me interesting characters.
Give me anything but the crutch of special effects.


				-Jack "I hated E.T. too" Applin
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