Yes, I know, I'm super late to the party here.Lmao.What a hilarious, unexpected romp of a movie. Of course I knew what they looked like going in, and most people I know have seen this, but somehow it slipped through the cracks as I grew up. This movie has so many things. It has the classic cheesy 80's setting/set-up (complete with a woefully inept father who somehow pays for a great house. That family would be homeless in today's financial climate). I love the fact that it's a Christmas/Halloween mashup with a score to match. It has tons of tropes which I can't tell are satirical or not (it was written by Chris Columbus who does love his cheese, but a lot of it seemed to be tongue-in-cheek).SPOILERS: I have so many ridiculous thoughts after watching it. Gremlins is not at all what I expected. It's pleasantly absurd. So many things came out of left field. For example, the first three murders by Zack Galligan's mom made my jaw drop. The most innocent-seeming person in the movie killed a gremlin in a blender, before stabbing the next in the heart, followed by microwaving the third, all in the span of a minute and without hesitation. Not five minutes later I was laughing hysterically after seeing one of the funniest movie deaths in history when the crotchety old woman was launched out of her mansion from her modified electric stair assistant.At first I thought it was pretty odd that the gremlins acted so human, but then I bought into it. Watching them go caroling before wreaking havoc in a bar had me grinning. There was a drunken Irish gremlin, a Flashdance gremlin, cowboy and prostitute gremlins - all laughing like Salacious Crumb while destroying whatever they could get their nasty fingers on. But the most nonsensical moment in the movie didn't come from the gremlins. No, Columbus had to shoehorn in possibly the most ill-timed first kiss in cinematic history. While the town is crumbling and people are dying, Phoebe Cates narrowly escapes the bar, dodging a bullet from an armed gremlin. When Galligan rescues her, she intimates that the reason she hates Christmas is because her Dad died in the chimney dressed like Santa with a handful of presents, snapping his neck on the way down. Not only is that how she found out Santa didn't exist, they only found the body because she could smell her father rotting. Galligan barely acknowledges her story, and five minutes later they kiss each other while going on a gremlin killing spree. Amazing.Best line in the movie comes from the guy trying to pick up Phoebe Cates: "You haven't seen my new apartment. Come on, we're talking cable!"Can't wait to watch the sequel. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2PGYkvp
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