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From: eric@whuxle.UUCP (Eric Holtman)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: GREMLINS (GREAT. (SPOILERS))
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Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 12:42:52 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 12:42:52 1984
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I went to see Gremlins last night.

Thus movie is GREAT. S. Spielberg takes continual pot-shots
at his own movie, E.T. all through this wonderful flick, and
that added to the AWESOMELY appropriate humor, SFX, and slight
horror make this a really great flick.

I saw the 10pm show here at our local mall, and the crowd, was, to
understate, appriciative. I think we spent more time in unrestrained
shouting and cheering than we did silently watching the movie.
For example, in the movie, the house has two samurai swords hanging
near the door. In the beginning, every time someone walks in, the
swords fall off the wall. When the son finally comes home to 
rescue mommy, he bursts in, and sees mommy under the CHristmas tree
beset by nasties. Of course the whole audience shouts "GRAB THE 
SWORD", and we broke into shouts of joy when he waded two handed into
the evil suckers. 

Spielberg also has a taste for the intensely funny non-sight gag
For example, while the mother is upstairs trying to find the nasties,
she hears a noise downstairs. At that moment, the stereo begins playing
a Christmas tune: "Do you hear what I hear?". The audience took about
45 seconds to regain their composure.

Of course there's violence in this movie. Gremlins bite it bigtime
in blenders, microwaves, they fall to the samurai sword, they get
burnt. People get slashed, burnt, run over by snowplows. But,
WHO CARES?? This is a horror/comedy, and no one can say that they
weren't warned........ Spielberg has really outdone himself this
time, folks!!!!


Estimated Entertanment Value: $6.50 (that's right!!!)
				    (i only had to pay $4.00)



				harpo!whuxle!eric