My wife and I saw Gremlins on our first date the day after it opened. She gabbed hold of me when the first gremlin jumped out of the cupboard at Billy;s mom and hasn't let go since. We'll celebrate our 35th anniversary in September and stuffed Gizmo I gave her a few days after that date still sits by the bed.
For those that are too young to remember, they had these toys come out in the 90's called Furby's, they looked very similar to Gizmo, so Warner Brothers sued the maker of the toy company due to copyright infringement.
@LordRain1031 - They don't actually record anything. They were supposed to "learn", but all that did was that the longer they were active, the more "words" they would use. It was a lot of panic over nothing.
I was so spooked by gremlins I used to piss out of my bedroom window if I woke during the night, because I was too scared to go to the toilet.. it was the “there may be a gremlin in your house” line that cemented it in my head forever
To be honest that scene about Kate's Character talking about how her father died made me love her even more because she has a very vulnerable moment where she shows a lot of trust to Billy in all this chaos and destruction and revealing something very personal about herself. Something she probably would not have done to anyone. And it totally fits her not loving Christmas and being very depressed around that time (as she mentioned it earlier in the movie). It left a huge trauma for her but it just makes her even more likable & believable because despite this traumatic experience, she still remains a very sweet, loving and supportive person. Someone you just wanna love and protect. Phoebe was perfect in that role and in all honesty i still have a huge crush on her.
I just mentioned that before I saw your comment. I agree! It would have made no sense for Kate to snap at Billy about hating Christmas without explaining it later in the movie. The scene I’m glad got cut was the ridiculous subplot about Mrs. Deagle and her stock-swindling dead husband, Donald. You can hear hints of this subplot on the news just before Mr. Wing comes to the Peltzer house etc reclaim Gizmo. On a side note, if Joe Dante had cut that scene, we wouldn’t have the hilarious callback in Gremlins 2! 💚🤣🤣💚
I am glad Phoebe Cates and Zach Galligan were cast. I like them both, innocent, gentle personality's, with cute looks which fit . I first saw Phoebe in an 80's 2 part series called 'Lace' so recall her from this. Zach I love in 'Waxwork' also.
LOL, I would love to see a 3rd one come out with today's media. I can picture gremlin Selfies everywhere. Can just imagine the flasher taking a selfie.
While I love the first and kind of like the 2nd, my best guess is that 3rd would turn out to be horrible and ruin the franchise. Just look, what the did to Men in Black.
@Ultra CNC Well Carpenters 1981 Thing remake of the 1954 (?) original was imho pretty good (the 2011 prequel not so much), same with the Alien Sequel by Cameron. And to be honest, the RoboCop remake looked pretty good, it was just ruined because they wanted to avoid R and went for a PG-13 rating. More violence, blood and a lot more cynicism and it could have been pretty good (yes the actual result wasn't, I agree). Same with the Total Recall remake. Good actors, excellent FX, good photography. Could have been pretty rad, but a bad, formulaic script lead to a just mediocre result, far inferior to the original. I guess the issue is not the "remakes can't work", but that most studies just use a formula for doing remakes instead of trying to recapture, what made the original so outstanding. I'm pretty sure you COULD do Gremlins 3 that would work if you put someone on the script who really knows what he is doing (eg Columbus/Spielberg), but that rarely seems to happen..
@Ultra CNC See ? I told you to go to law school and I also advised you to win the lottery yesterday. But did you listen to me ? No ? I'm just your old Mum who can be ignored. You even ignored me, when you were little and I told you to clean up your room. So don't blame me now, for you not listening to my advise.
People still argue that Gremlins isn't a "Christmas" movie because its mock horror. BS its a Christmas movie. Still one of my favorite Christmas movies, as a matter of fact. PS I had the Atari game as a kid
@ The skull on my desk wears a Christmas hat all year long. But I guess the only serious contender for being more of a Christmas movie than Gremlins is Die Hard.
A lot of people are probably aware that voice acting genius Frank Welker led his talents to Gremlins. Not as Gizmo, of course. Most people know he was voiced by Howie Mandel. But I remember being stunned, as a kid, to see that the equally legendary Peter Cullen’s voice was also used in Gremlins! Peter and Frank are the best of friends and are of course amazing as the voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron! 💚🤗🤗💚
*I absolutely love Gremlins .* *I actually liked the story of how Christmas was ruined for kate .* *Also it did not come out of nowhere .* *It was mentioned a few times that she did not like Christmas & no one knew why .*
Was going to say the same thing. She mentions she didn't care for the holiday. So, when she went into detail it wasn't a shock to me. Made her character more believable.
@@SweWolf74 I thought of the same thing: the follow up, or sequel story, that Kate begins to tell of a traumatic incident of Lincoln's birthday (or President's Day?); either way, she starts to mention meeting a man who looked and dressed like Abraham Lincoln, however, Billy is instantly over it and turns his attention to more pressing matters, almost like saying it's what he should have done in the original film. :-)
When I heard about people trying to remove that tragic story scene from this movie, I was relieved in knowing that they left it in. I always thought the scene was essential in bringing the audience back to reality after all the shenanigans the gremlins caused. In my opinion the gremlins unleashing chaos is meant to be funny, but to show that chaos isn't okay there is that somber scene to pause the comedy and laughter for a little while.
I've always had an issue with the third rule, "Never feed them after midnight". This means they can only be fed up until 11:59pm the day they're born. It would have made more sense if the rule was, "Don't feed them from sundown to sun up".
I like that they joke about this rule in the sequel. What would happen if the Mogwai are on an airplane and they eat something while crossing a time zone? Does daylight savings time count? Lol its still a great movie!
I don’t remember Gremlins being super scary when I was watched it as a kid, but I was watch rated R horror films at the time too. Lol Also, I’m looking forward to “The Burbs” review being reuploaded soon. 😁
One of my favorite Minty videos so far. Loved the "low tech" new clips. Have you ever made ONE showing all your cool stuff and memorabilia? I'd love to get to see a beyond Minty type set tour video. Totally love your videos on all those great 80s movies
I can definitely tell an improvement in your presentation and allowing your personality to show since the first video. I want to watch every movie again after watching your videos. Keep it up!
the scene where Kate explains about her father dying makes sense because several times during the film she expressed her dislike of Christmas. when finally pressed by Billy to explain how anyone could dislike Christmas she needed a humdinger of a reason i always felt "never feed after Midnight" was too vague. don't feed between 12:00am and 6:00am, 7:00am, whenever would have tightened the script
I love how they covered it in the second movie 'but what if it eats before midnight, gets a sesame seed stuck in it's teeth and swallows it after midnight?' A gremlin then made rather timely interruption.
On 3/19/2022 I FINALLY found a dancing Gizmo toy like you have. My pets wondered what it was but when I turned it on and it started to sing and dance, they jumped back as if they're thinking 'What's that?' The best thing about it was that this Gizmo was the LAST one they had left so I quickly grabbed it.
Thanks Minty you've definitely grown over the years in confidence and how you present your videos. I can tell you're a genuine person and a good guy, I'm always happy when I see your videos they brighten my day for 12-15 mins. You're in a tight race with Bearing for my favorite Aussie on CZcams I love you both but no worries you're a much kinder person than he is!😂...Keep up the great work can't wait for your next video...See Ya!
This film was both funny and scary but is an 80's classic Gizmo is soooooo cute and the Gremlins were funny I love this film minty take care yourself and stay healthy ❤👍❤👍❤👍
I don’t get the confusion over the that’s how I found out there was no Santa clause scene. People would be losing their shit more if it had been removed saying why is there that scene where billy walks Kate home and she tells him she doesn’t like Christmas yet it’s not explained why she doesn’t? But what do I know
FYI: the set of "Hill Valley" or "Kingston Falls" has been used in numerous other movies and TV shows (it is located in the Universal Studios backlot.) Off-hand I can think of "Bruce Almighty," "Groundhog Day," and "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark." The set's generic "town square" set-up is relatively easy to redecorate with alternate facades in order to give the set the look of different towns which, shockingly, all have the same street plans: basically, a square of roads, guarded externally by connected buildings/businesses, around a large, open, squared central area which is usually backed by a large, often government type building. (i.e. the courthouse/clock-tower of "Back To The Future.")
im new to your channel so this is the first time i have seen the gremlins one, im 41 and my mum allowed my siblings to take me to see gremlins in the cinema when i was like 6 or so when it came out, she thought it was advertised as a childfrens movie. i loved gizmo, but when they turned green i screamed my head off and i had to be removed. but really love the movies now lol. and i have an original gizmo from the time the movie came out. loving all these videos :)
I'm 39. I didn't see it in the theater. But, my family rented the VHS a few years later. I was NOT A FAN. I think I lost it when the one was microwaved & blended, and was freaked out by the Santa story. I know I didn't watch it again for a decade. It was my most hated movie for a long time. Oddly enough, I didn't hate Gremlins 2. Probably because one could talk. 🤷😜
Hey Minty, I'm on board with your suggestion, 100%. Let's get a petition started or something so that we can, after decades of waiting in white-knuckle angst, finally get to see that smug, last-beer-guzzling vagabond E.T. get blasted. I will put my signature down, of course since it's for a good cause, you know, for the good of humanity or somesuch thing.
Gremlins was the first movie I saw in a theater with out my parents. I was 10 when a friend of mine and I were dropped off to see it. I remember not being TOO scared in the theater, but then later having nightmares about it two nights later. I loved it. Well not the nightmares so much, but did really love the movie. Thanks for the vid!!!
Another great video Minty! You can see you have gained more confidence in your videos, but still you had the gift back then as you still do now dude! Keep up the great work mate! ;)
Gremlins was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I too watch it from time to time as a grown man. However when it's Christmas time, instead of Gremlins, I watch the old cartoon of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
I saw this in the theater. I was 8 and my mom took me and my friend to see it. My friend got so scared when they turned into gremlins that he waited in the lobby for the rest of the movie.
About the Kate scene: It would have been weird for Joe Dante to cut it out, because it was foreshadowed earlier in the film when Billy walks Kate home from Dorry’s Pub. Also, maybe it’s because I’ve watched both Gremlins movies countless times, but it bothers me that Kate is described as the barmaid at Dorry’s. She worked at the bank with Billy. Waitressing on weeknights was something she did for free as a favor to Dorry so he wouldn’t have to pay an extra waitress. The woman was a fucking Saint, which is why it was so funny to see Phoebe Cates play a complete bitch in Date With An Angel!
That christmas tree scene... and the stairlift scene used to get played, rewound (slowly on vhs for comedic effect) and played again. And agian. DVD generation wont understand the comedy found from slow rewind - including audio... priceless. Also at the end of Casper when the kids on eachothers shoulders run into the string lights while trying to prank the party, that was the BEST in slo mo rewind... My sides are still sore.
And despite it being an enormous success it still took six years for the sequel to be made, in which time the latex puppets from the first film had started to disintegrate so the props department had to make completely new ones.
the death story scene was great. having just a little bit of twisted darkness was the thing that made this movie so appealing to kids, who it was obviously made for
Minty! Great work! Check out the dude wearing glasses and puppeteering the gremlin in the Christmas tree attacking “Billys Mom”. (Best seen in slo-mo. I was freaked of what may have been lurking in our tree, then I saw that guy and was very grateful for the reassurance “”it’s only a movie”
I love the Gremlin duology, and Gremlins came out on my 5th birthday on June 8, 1984. At a local comic-con, I got to meet Zach Galligan and he signed both Gremlins movies for me.
Keep up the good work! I enjoy you and videos. I would love to see movies like "Fast Times", " Up The Academy", " Porky's" & one horror "Silent Night, Deadly Night"
Rumours of a 3rd installment of this movie have been floating around forever. Personally I'd love it if they would make it darker instead of goofy. Also I think it would be awesome for a climax scene in the 3rd one if Gizmo purposely eats after midnight near the end of the movie in order to gain some size and strength for a final fight with Spike. They always pick on Gizmo once they turn into Gremlins and I think it would give him a fair shot if he turned into a good Gremlin. Honestly if you think about it; the other Mogwai are already bad in their Mogwai stage so why shouldn't Gizmo metamorphosize into a good Gremlin. I think it would be epic!
Phoebe Cates thought the father story was a joke the first time she read the script. She did a great job with it, but the story was just so contrived. Although, as a kid watching the movie in 1984, I didn't think it was at the time.
The problem I have with the story; is we haven't anything that indicates that either Billy or Kate are new to town; so, we have to assume they grew up in this same small town; and Billy should have known how Kate's dad died. It's too weird to have escaped small town gossip.
My wife and I saw Gremlins on our first date the day after it opened. She gabbed hold of me when the first gremlin jumped out of the cupboard at Billy;s mom and hasn't let go since. We'll celebrate our 35th anniversary in September and stuffed Gizmo I gave her a few days after that date still sits by the bed.
That is so sweet, thank you for sharing. Congratulations :)
Happy belated anniversary, lear1980.
Bruh awesome! Congratulations!
Nice!
Great memory bro nice one
I still do Gizmo's "bright light, bright light" whenever someone turns on a light
Lol
Me, too.
Same
Same
Me too lol 😂
I love the mobster gremlin in the bar scene.
For those that are too young to remember, they had these toys come out in the 90's called Furby's, they looked very similar to Gizmo, so Warner Brothers sued the maker of the toy company due to copyright infringement.
My little sister had one and it was super annoying so I'm really glad that fad died! It was the worst
Loved Furbys. They were awesome!
They must have made a deal at some point because I have a vintage furby made and called Gizmo.
Furby's were also legally banned from federal buildings! Because they record what they hear.
@LordRain1031 - They don't actually record anything. They were supposed to "learn", but all that did was that the longer they were active, the more "words" they would use. It was a lot of panic over nothing.
Gremlins is a good 80's movie that will never die.😀👍
I was so spooked by gremlins I used to piss out of my bedroom window if I woke during the night, because I was too scared to go to the toilet.. it was the “there may be a gremlin in your house” line that cemented it in my head forever
I love the scene where the grumpy old lady was launched out of the window. That was funny
I remember thinking "serves you right for not giving that poor mother and her kids a chance."
To be honest that scene about Kate's Character talking about how her father died made me love her even more because she has a very vulnerable moment where she shows a lot of trust to Billy in all this chaos and destruction and revealing something very personal about herself. Something she probably would not have done to anyone. And it totally fits her not loving Christmas and being very depressed around that time (as she mentioned it earlier in the movie). It left a huge trauma for her but it just makes her even more likable & believable because despite this traumatic experience, she still remains a very sweet, loving and supportive person. Someone you just wanna love and protect. Phoebe was perfect in that role and in all honesty i still have a huge crush on her.
I just mentioned that before I saw your comment. I agree! It would have made no sense for Kate to snap at Billy about hating Christmas without explaining it later in the movie.
The scene I’m glad got cut was the ridiculous subplot about Mrs. Deagle and her stock-swindling dead husband, Donald. You can hear hints of this subplot on the news just before Mr. Wing comes to the Peltzer house etc reclaim Gizmo.
On a side note, if Joe Dante had cut that scene, we wouldn’t have the hilarious callback in Gremlins 2!
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@@Lesley_RedRhody Yeah screw Mrs. Deagle >_< The only person who deserved hitting with the Gremlins. lol
Okay weird?.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 😑?.
I am glad Phoebe Cates and Zach Galligan were cast. I like them both, innocent, gentle personality's, with cute looks which fit .
I first saw Phoebe in an 80's 2 part series called 'Lace' so recall her from this.
Zach I love in 'Waxwork' also.
Zach is gorgeous!
LOL, I would love to see a 3rd one come out with today's media. I can picture gremlin Selfies everywhere. Can just imagine the flasher taking a selfie.
While I love the first and kind of like the 2nd, my best guess is that 3rd would turn out to be horrible and ruin the franchise. Just look, what the did to Men in Black.
@Ultra CNC
Well Carpenters 1981 Thing remake of the 1954 (?) original was imho pretty good (the 2011 prequel not so much), same with the Alien Sequel by Cameron. And to be honest, the RoboCop remake looked pretty good, it was just ruined because they wanted to avoid R and went for a PG-13 rating. More violence, blood and a lot more cynicism and it could have been pretty good (yes the actual result wasn't, I agree).
Same with the Total Recall remake. Good actors, excellent FX, good photography. Could have been pretty rad, but a bad, formulaic script lead to a just mediocre result, far inferior to the original.
I guess the issue is not the "remakes can't work", but that most studies just use a formula for doing remakes instead of trying to recapture, what made the original so outstanding. I'm pretty sure you COULD do Gremlins 3 that would work if you put someone on the script who really knows what he is doing (eg Columbus/Spielberg), but that rarely seems to happen..
@Ultra CNC See ? I told you to go to law school and I also advised you to win the lottery yesterday. But did you listen to me ? No ? I'm just your old Mum who can be ignored. You even ignored me, when you were little and I told you to clean up your room. So don't blame me now, for you not listening to my advise.
The amount of kids who found out about Santa by watching that film.
Lol
I still believed
Graham Douglas-Meyer amount is volume, or numbers; not mass. Your vacuous reply confirms your pretentiousness. Please go back to reddit.
@@hayliedlr Me too. Also when Kate said “That’s when I found out there’s no Santa”, you can literally see Gizmo as his cute little heart broke 😢
People still argue that Gremlins isn't a "Christmas" movie because its mock horror. BS its a Christmas movie. Still one of my favorite Christmas movies, as a matter of fact. PS I had the Atari game as a kid
It's a Christmas movie you don't get a more festive feel than this movie.
Agree. It' the only Christmas movie, I wholeheartedly love.
@ The skull on my desk wears a Christmas hat all year long.
But I guess the only serious contender for being more of a Christmas movie than Gremlins is Die Hard.
@@frankschneider6156 "And now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho" He even says, "Ho Ho Ho!" It's got to be a Christmas movie, right?! :D
@@jedironin380 Die Hard is the epitome of a Christmas movie, but I love Gremlins too (although it has not enough chainsaws in it).
Gizmo is the original Baby Yoda
(baby Yoda is literally a bald green mogwai!)
LOL, i can see that!
I have a hamster named gizmo!
Ikr
Waaa
Lol!!!! Good one! 😆 😆
A lot of people are probably aware that voice acting genius Frank Welker led his talents to Gremlins. Not as Gizmo, of course. Most people know he was voiced by Howie Mandel.
But I remember being stunned, as a kid, to see that the equally legendary Peter Cullen’s voice was also used in Gremlins! Peter and Frank are the best of friends and are of course amazing as the voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron!
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I still say from time to time, "Gizmo.. Ca-Ca" and "Bright light, bright light" when the lights go on.
If they want to do a reboot of this they can always ask tim Burton to direct now 😁🤞
I hope it’s still the same as the original, like Gizmo being the cutest damn thing ever, but I wouldn’t mind a Gremlin killing someone lol
*I absolutely love Gremlins .*
*I actually liked the story of how Christmas was ruined for kate .*
*Also it did not come out of nowhere .*
*It was mentioned a few times that she did not like Christmas & no one knew why .*
Was going to say the same thing. She mentions she didn't care for the holiday. So, when she went into detail it wasn't a shock to me. Made her character more believable.
Yeah it was foreshadowed earlier in the movie and really did not come all that surprising.
Kinda dumb how she has a Father in the second film. Like they forgot about this scene all together. Unless her mother remarried?
Let's assume she remaried. Anyway, she does like a parody of that scene in the sequal, she start to tell a creepy atory but noon has time to listen...
@@SweWolf74 I thought of the same thing: the follow up, or sequel story, that Kate begins to tell of a traumatic incident of Lincoln's birthday (or President's Day?); either way, she starts to mention meeting a man who looked and dressed like Abraham Lincoln, however, Billy is instantly over it and turns his attention to more pressing matters, almost like saying it's what he should have done in the original film. :-)
My number 2 favorite Christmas movie behind Die Hard.
When I heard about people trying to remove that tragic story scene from this movie, I was relieved in knowing that they left it in. I always thought the scene was essential in bringing the audience back to reality after all the shenanigans the gremlins caused. In my opinion the gremlins unleashing chaos is meant to be funny, but to show that chaos isn't okay there is that somber scene to pause the comedy and laughter for a little while.
Gremlins is definatly a christmass movie
I watched on New year's Eve covid 2020 and loved it
I've always had an issue with the third rule, "Never feed them after midnight". This means they can only be fed up until 11:59pm the day they're born. It would have made more sense if the rule was, "Don't feed them from sundown to sun up".
I like that they joke about this rule in the sequel. What would happen if the Mogwai are on an airplane and they eat something while crossing a time zone? Does daylight savings time count? Lol its still a great movie!
Yep, me too. Like what, they've got a time zone monitor inside their DNA? Are they tuned into the atomic clock? It's always confused me.
What if one gets some food lodged in their teeth before midnight but it dislodges after midnight?
There is not time problem, we all know that there is just one valid time zone: Stardate
It’s not really an issue. The 3rd rule is just shorthand for before dark/bedtime.
Nightmare before Christmas and Gremlins are my favorite Christmas movies.
Mine too.
The 80s,the decade that kept on giving.
Not 'keeps'?
One of the BEST Christmas movies ever reviewed by one of the BEST CZcamsrs ever :-D
DEEEGAL...DEGAL!!
I think this is my all-time favourite from you Minty. Thx so much for this. 😊
I don’t remember Gremlins being super scary when I was watched it as a kid, but I was watch rated R horror films at the time too. Lol Also, I’m looking forward to “The Burbs” review being reuploaded soon. 😁
Agreed. I never thought of this as a horror movie until long after adulthood when I started collecting horror items.
A Christmas Classic Gremlins!
Definitely. Trading Places as well!
One of my favorite Minty videos so far. Loved the "low tech" new clips. Have you ever made ONE showing all your cool stuff and memorabilia? I'd love to get to see a beyond Minty type set tour video. Totally love your videos on all those great 80s movies
Nice to see an earlier version of your content
I can definitely tell an improvement in your presentation and allowing your personality to show since the first video. I want to watch every movie again after watching your videos. Keep it up!
the scene where Kate explains about her father dying makes sense because several times during the film she expressed her dislike of Christmas. when finally pressed by Billy to explain how anyone could dislike Christmas she needed a humdinger of a reason
i always felt "never feed after Midnight" was too vague. don't feed between 12:00am and 6:00am, 7:00am, whenever would have tightened the script
I love how they covered it in the second movie 'but what if it eats before midnight, gets a sesame seed stuck in it's teeth and swallows it after midnight?'
A gremlin then made rather timely interruption.
"Lets be honest, Who doesn't like Gremlins?" Im guessing the characters IN Gremlins aren't too keen on them.
On 3/19/2022 I FINALLY found a dancing Gizmo toy like you have. My pets wondered what it was but when I turned it on and it started to sing and dance, they jumped back as if they're thinking 'What's that?' The best thing about it was that this Gizmo was the LAST one they had left so I quickly grabbed it.
I always often wondered what would Gizmo would look and be like if he was fed after midnight and became a Gremlin... 🤔
Thanks Minty you've definitely grown over the years in confidence and how you present your videos. I can tell you're a genuine person and a good guy, I'm always happy when I see your videos they brighten my day for 12-15 mins. You're in a tight race with Bearing for my favorite Aussie on CZcams I love you both but no worries you're a much kinder person than he is!😂...Keep up the great work can't wait for your next video...See Ya!
This film was both funny and scary but is an 80's classic Gizmo is soooooo cute and the Gremlins were funny I love this film minty take care yourself and stay healthy ❤👍❤👍❤👍
Anyone remember the Gremlins cereal? Tasted like Mr. T cereal
Love how they kept the gag where the girl friend has a traumatizing event on the hoilyday in the second movie.
I don’t get the confusion over the that’s how I found out there was no Santa clause scene. People would be losing their shit more if it had been removed saying why is there that scene where billy walks Kate home and she tells him she doesn’t like Christmas yet it’s not explained why she doesn’t? But what do I know
.... what?
The perfect XMAS reupload for the very start of June
FYI: the set of "Hill Valley" or "Kingston Falls" has been used in numerous other movies and TV shows (it is located in the Universal Studios backlot.) Off-hand I can think of "Bruce Almighty," "Groundhog Day," and "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark." The set's generic "town square" set-up is relatively easy to redecorate with alternate facades in order to give the set the look of different towns which, shockingly, all have the same street plans: basically, a square of roads, guarded externally by connected buildings/businesses, around a large, open, squared central area which is usually backed by a large, often government type building. (i.e. the courthouse/clock-tower of "Back To The Future.")
im new to your channel so this is the first time i have seen the gremlins one, im 41 and my mum allowed my siblings to take me to see gremlins in the cinema when i was like 6 or so when it came out, she thought it was advertised as a childfrens movie. i loved gizmo, but when they turned green i screamed my head off and i had to be removed. but really love the movies now lol. and i have an original gizmo from the time the movie came out. loving all these videos :)
I'm 39. I didn't see it in the theater. But, my family rented the VHS a few years later. I was NOT A FAN. I think I lost it when the one was microwaved & blended, and was freaked out by the Santa story. I know I didn't watch it again for a decade. It was my most hated movie for a long time. Oddly enough, I didn't hate Gremlins 2. Probably because one could talk. 🤷😜
Hey Minty, I'm on board with your suggestion, 100%. Let's get a petition started or something so that we can, after decades of waiting in white-knuckle angst, finally get to see that smug, last-beer-guzzling vagabond E.T. get blasted. I will put my signature down, of course since it's for a good cause, you know, for the good of humanity or somesuch thing.
I found it a funny movie growing up especially the bit with the old lady and the chair
Thank god this video is back. Its the video that got me to love this channel.
Gremlins was the first movie I saw in a theater with out my parents. I was 10 when a friend of mine and I were dropped off to see it. I remember not being TOO scared in the theater, but then later having nightmares about it two nights later. I loved it. Well not the nightmares so much, but did really love the movie. Thanks for the vid!!!
My favorite scenes: the bar, the kitchen and the theater.
11:00 Maybe in Return of Oz. A creepy parent death story would have fit in.
Another great video Minty! You can see you have gained more confidence in your videos, but still you had the gift back then as you still do now dude! Keep up the great work mate! ;)
Gremlin reunion: "Never mess a mother's kitchen. Specially when she making cookies.
Gizmo turns into stripe, thats so much better and makes more sense.
I love Gremlins! I have pet sugar gliders which go by the same rules almost
Still hoping for gremlins 3
Me too. 😀👍
Yip!
Please, no! It would be ruined today.
Do 10 things you may not know about Silent Hill please. Huge fan of your channel!
Gremlins was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I too watch it from time to time as a grown man. However when it's Christmas time, instead of Gremlins, I watch the old cartoon of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
I saw this in the theater. I was 8 and my mom took me and my friend to see it. My friend got so scared when they turned into gremlins that he waited in the lobby for the rest of the movie.
Glad you re-uploaded this one. I had wondered why you had done Glemins 2 but not the original.
Thank you for re-uploading! Love this classic!
Happy 8 year anniversary Minty
About the Kate scene: It would have been weird for Joe Dante to cut it out, because it was foreshadowed earlier in the film when Billy walks Kate home from Dorry’s Pub.
Also, maybe it’s because I’ve watched both Gremlins movies countless times, but it bothers me that Kate is described as the barmaid at Dorry’s. She worked at the bank with Billy. Waitressing on weeknights was something she did for free as a favor to Dorry so he wouldn’t have to pay an extra waitress.
The woman was a fucking Saint, which is why it was so funny to see Phoebe Cates play a complete bitch in Date With An Angel!
That christmas tree scene... and the stairlift scene used to get played, rewound (slowly on vhs for comedic effect) and played again. And agian. DVD generation wont understand the comedy found from slow rewind - including audio... priceless.
Also at the end of Casper when the kids on eachothers shoulders run into the string lights while trying to prank the party, that was the BEST in slo mo rewind...
My sides are still sore.
I love your stuff... You cover all the movies I love from my childhood! Great job!
And despite it being an enormous success it still took six years for the sequel to be made, in which time the latex puppets from the first film had started to disintegrate so the props department had to make completely new ones.
I loved this Gremlins video.
Im surprised with all the remakes these days, they have not done a remake of Gremlins.
Please don't give hollywood any more bad ideas. Lol
They could sell so much Gremlins merchandise lol
Thanks for doing a video on one of my favorites Christmas films ❤!!!
Grimlens is my Christmas movie too.
the death story scene was great. having just a little bit of twisted darkness was the thing that made this movie so appealing to kids, who it was obviously made for
Minty! Great work! Check out the dude wearing glasses and puppeteering the gremlin in the Christmas tree attacking “Billys Mom”. (Best seen in slo-mo. I was freaked of what may have been lurking in our tree, then I saw that guy and was very grateful for the reassurance “”it’s only a movie”
Plain and simple, Gremlins is a fun, dark movie, as is the Wizard of Oz.
My first two dogs back in the late 80s were named Gremlin and Gizmo; thanks for this walk down memory lane Minty
Lord Minty ! Love all your videos ! Great info to use when I'm on Jeopardy
I love the Gremlin duology, and Gremlins came out on my 5th birthday on June 8, 1984. At a local comic-con, I got to meet Zach Galligan and he signed both Gremlins movies for me.
That was pretty cool - didn't know about the Gizmo toy. Awesome video, Minty!
The controversial scene was joked at in the gremlins sequel
The way Minty says, "burgers". Love it! Keep up the awesome videos.
Excellent re up Minty! Keep up the great work amigo 🍁🍻
Gremlin's and Die Hard are two of the best Christmas film's ever made. They will be on TV here in Ireland at some time over Christmas.
One of my favs as a kid, thanks Minty.
Keep up the good work! I enjoy you and videos.
I would love to see movies like "Fast Times", " Up The Academy", " Porky's" & one horror "Silent Night, Deadly Night"
Awesome vid!!! I would absolutely love to see you re-upload the Tales from the Crypt episode!!
Rumours of a 3rd installment of this movie have been floating around forever. Personally I'd love it if they would make it darker instead of goofy. Also I think it would be awesome for a climax scene in the 3rd one if Gizmo purposely eats after midnight near the end of the movie in order to gain some size and strength for a final fight with Spike. They always pick on Gizmo once they turn into Gremlins and I think it would give him a fair shot if he turned into a good Gremlin. Honestly if you think about it; the other Mogwai are already bad in their Mogwai stage so why shouldn't Gizmo metamorphosize into a good Gremlin. I think it would be epic!
That would be cool.😎
Thanks for this Minty! Stay safe 🙏
She made that confession she thought she was gone die
Phoebe Cates thought the father story was a joke the first time she read the script. She did a great job with it, but the story was just so contrived. Although, as a kid watching the movie in 1984, I didn't think it was at the time.
I adored this film as a kid, as it is one of my favorite movies from the 80s. I still have a stuffed Gizmo.
To this day I still crack up every time I see the caroling Gremlins outside of Mrs deagle's house
With the Mogwai I know we all had so many questions about the whole eating after midnight thing. Like what about timezones and day light savings? Lol
I'll bet the Gremlins taste kinda Minty. they are green you know.
Har Har :)
I was in the middle of this video when it got pulled down. Thanks for reuploading
The problem I have with the story; is we haven't anything that indicates that either Billy or Kate are new to town; so, we have to assume they grew up in this same small town; and Billy should have known how Kate's dad died. It's too weird to have escaped small town gossip.
One of my favorites
"Who doesn't like Gremlins?"
Me: My wife. 😔
Our newest kitten is named, Gizmo.
Nice. Can you re-upload facts about leatherface video.
Hi Minty, I agree with watching Gremlins during Christmas time. It up lifts the spirit! This movie is awesome. Great review.
I love Gremlins! Great job Minty!
Good for you minty 🤙🏽 love the content Sir 🇦🇺
Wow! You were so young back then. I barely recognized you. You even had a different accent back then. You've come a long way. We are so proud.
I'll never get tired of watching this.
I love your gizmo toy!! Adorable!!