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Originally Posted by Severian

Hmm... I would have thought this one would have held up, kind of like Tremors. I remember really liking it as a kid. But, really, what '80s kid didn't love this movie? It's probably been over 20 years one I last saw it. Maybe I'll revisit.

Don't watch the sequel.. not that you would, just saying. Don't.

I think Spielberg more or less "presented" the entire 1980s. I can't believe he agreed to have his name associated with some of those films. Jesus.

tremors is a grownup movie and the banter between the main characters is hilarious. other characters are appealing as well--walter and the mexican dude and the gun nuts. the annoying kid as comic relief. and the mom/girl while rather nondescript are the "vulnerable" spot that adds drama. the grad student girl didn't do it for me but okay.

this one... maybe appealed to kids through the toy aspect, but it was a rambling mess with too many cartoon characters in only for a brief appearance and then gone

the icing on the shit cake was having the "bad" gremlins as black people cartoons, break-dancing and wearing big hats and in some sort of jazz/blues joint and shit. wtf. i should have known it was coming after the chinese caricatures from the beginning.

but yeah it's not like i turned against this because the racial aspects. it was first and foremost a boring flick made of random parts and way too long

i used to think spielberg was a hack who pandered to the suburban masses, a kind of ideologist of reaganism, which made me skip schindler's list and ryan's privates in their day, but when i finally saw duel, and then empire of the sun, i was like "wait a minute..."