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From: jaczak@ihuxi.UUCP (Russell Spence)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: GREMLINS (not a spoiler)
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 12:19:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 12:19:06 1984
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I finally got to see Gremlins and I must say that I enjoyed it (for the most
part).  I didn't think that it was perfect.  Some of the scenes where very
hokey, and the plot wore thin in places.  It had some very funny moments, and
the mogwai (sp?, plural?) were very VERY cute, but it had some problems.  For
one thing it was a very violent movie.  The cutsy scenes and the humor make
you tend to forget the scenes where the cute little gremlins actually kill
people.  Personally, I found that having the violence played side by side with
the humor was a little perverse.  This is especially true when you see these
cute little gremlins being sold in practically every shop in the nation.
This movie is definately NOT a movie for children!!  It is not a bad movie
but I wouldn't let anyone under about 13 see it and I think is in really poor
taste to make a big marketing campaign of it.  As a movie, I can enjoy gremlins,
but when little gremlins dolls and coloring books and who knows what else are
being sold to children, I get kind of scared.  This is not the kind of thing
that kids need to be exposed to.  I am also afraid of parents expecting it
to be another E.T. and unwittingly taking their children to see it.  The movie
itself is good, I just wish that Spielberg Inc. would tone down his ad-
vertising and marketing campaign.

					Russell Spence
					(using a friend's account)