Part of Buddy the Elf, What's Your Favorite Color?

“I make the illogical logical.”

Never expose it to bright light, especially sunlight, which will kill it.

Christmas is nostalgia. Most everything about the season, from the movies to the carols to the decorations to the gifts, is about manufacturing memories. Some of those memories may have arisen from a crass or materialistic or cynical place, but once fogged up with the warm glow of the past, they become halcyon and sentimental. Ask what one envisions when they think of Christmas, and the answer is unlikely to be a pure, unfiltered moment from actual days past—it is probably a take informed by A Charlie Brown Christmas or Norman Rockwell or Courier…

Every time that I watch Gremlins I am deeply conflicted because I am always rooting for the gremlins even though I know the inevitable outcome.

They are so cute and hilarious and far more interesting and loveable than any of the human characters. I do like Gizmo because he is even more adorable and funny but I would rather that he just joined the side of the gremlins and stopped acting like such a pussy although it is pretty awesome when he hijacks a pink Barbie Corvette during the climax, my 2nd favorite part.

My favorite part is when all of the gremlins are having the time of their short little lives watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarves not…

It's hard to put into words how astonishingly perfect Joe Dante's Gremlins is. There is simply no horror-comedy that has even come close, except maybe Gremlins 2: The New Batch or The Howling; also directed by Joe Dante. He just understands how to craft a film, plain and simple. He understands that you need to show and not tell, he understands that unnecessary exposition is UNNECESSARY, and he understands that it doesn't hurt to scare the child audience. Truly, this is mean't for kids who want and can take a good scare, because some moments still freak me out.

Man, this review is messy. I mean, It's just so hard to talk about this utter masterpiece without going into endless…

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Film #1 of the March Madness 80s Sci-Fi Movie Challenge!
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It's not Christmas in my house until Mrs. Deagle learns to fly (the hard way) and household appliances become deadly weapons!

Director Joe Dante created the perfect holiday film by highlighting everything we love about Christmas and then he desercrates it royally! If Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives of Courier and Ives fame could see what Dante did to this picturesque small town all decked out with Christmas decorations and spirit they'd spin in their graves!

PG rated films like this and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pushed the boundaries past their limits! (The infamous microwave scene) The increased violence, the darker tones accompanied…

Vacation. Weekend. Day Off: An '80s Autumn

"Hey kid, it's Christmas not Halloween!"

Apparently debate rages over whether Gremlins is a Christmas or a Halloween movie, but I actually think it was a stroke of genius setting it around the former holiday period rather than the latter. With its picturesque and traditional snow covered setting of the approaching festivities, Joe Dante gives the film enough sweetness to allow the sour humour of Gremlins to shine. This is best exemplified perhaps by the scene in which Kate (Phoebe Cates) reveals to Billy (Zach Galligan) just why she hates Christmas; relating how her father died of a broken neck whilst climbing down the family's chimney dressed as Santa Claus. Studio bosses and…

Il cult natalizio più figo di sempre.
Oserei dire che è un'insolita figata che un film del genere sia diventato così mainstream (thank you for the name Steven).
Perchè Dante te lo confeziona con nonchalance come il tipico film per famiglie americane del cazzo...e poi improvvisamente esplode per ridicolizzare e uccidere ogni cosa, in primis la società americana.
Il pucciosissimo Gizmo appare dal nulla e senza spiegazioni (bellissima questa cosa): dalla sua immensa dolcezza nascerà l'inferno dei Gremlins.
E per favore compratemi qualche pupazzo del Gremlin cattivissimo col ciuffo bianco perchè è troppo bello (magari che non costi 30.000 dollari come quello del film).
Il fatto di rendere così spietate le creature è fantastico: pistole, motoseghe, ruspe, morti violente, diabolicità…