The first movie scarred me for years! My trauma was so bad that I couldn't walk by the Christmas tree without keeping my distance and rushing past it. I was about 5 or 6 when my dad rented this movie. I should have listened to him when he told me that this movie was too scary for a kid my age. But did I listen? Noooo! I wanted to be a, "big girl," like my sister, who was about 15 or 16 at the time.
I saw this in a theater when I was about that same age,4 or 5 but I didn't find it scary I just really loved it. As a kid I saw it as more of a Christmas movie but one with ferocious little creatures. Maybe it's a boy/girl thing Idk and I'm not bragging or anything,that would be a stupid thing to brag about. But yeah your story is adorable,I forgot I read it before and was about to say what I said again but to my surprise I already said it. That decade,especially in the middle was a golden age for movies if you were a kid,in just 1984-1985 you had this plus Back To The Future,Goonies,Karate Kid,Ghostbusters,Indiana Jones 2 and more which were all incredibly fun for someone,especially boys between the ages of 4 and 10. The late 1980s is when action movies became supercharged with movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon which I think we're also perfect for the age I was. Damn now I'm just depressed
@@michaelblaine6494 the sentiment of fear generally appears later, during year 5 to 7, when you understand the world better and start to understand danger and life. I've often seen young kids in my family, like 4 years old kids watching scary things on TV and didn't care. But the same kids with few more years were afraid of the same stuff later.
Those lunchboxes,I forgot about them but now I can still remember how they smelled with or without anything in there. That thermos made everything taste the same and weren't very functional since anything cold was warm by the time you got to it in school and vice versa
I was born in 1980, I loved Gremlins as a kid. This was one of my essential childhood movies, I place my childhood with the movies Gremlins, Tron, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Alien (which scarred me for years, but that's a story for a different day) I love Gremlins to this day as a holiday movie and plan to show it to my nephew who's 8. I think he'll like it, he already thinks zombies are cool, so I figure this might scare him a little but not be too much, just like with me and my siblings.
Ya know, Gremlins is similar to Ghostbusters. Both had two movies that came out in the 80's & 90's, both Gremlins 2 & Ghostbusters 2 struggled when they came out in theaters and both had a third installment in the works ever since Gremlins 2 & Ghostbusters 2. The third Ghostbusters movie came out and....well, it's not what people have been waiting for all these years. Is Gremlins 3 doomed to have the same fate?
Zack seems really cool! It’s nice to hear that the kids growing up watching Gremlins that became filmmakers when they were older, including Zack in on the projects! I think that’s pretty cool! Zack seems like a good person who deserves good fortune!
I was the perfect age for 80s movies and like one poster said, I matured with 80s movies as they matured. I'm sure I'm one of many who would adore for movies with that sense of wonder, innocence and corniness to come back. Sadly, there'd be no hope for that and every attempt they've made has been a failure except for maybe Zombieland and a few others that were ok.
Them talking about opening day against Dick Tracy, that's pretty much the same concept of why Ghostbusters 2 didn't do as well because in 1989 it opened up against Tim Burton's Batman with Keaton.
It had a bigger opening than even Indiana Jones 3. Indy 3 opened 3 weeks earlier, but by GB2's fifth week, Indy 3 was making more money than it again. GB2 fell fast not because of Batman but because people were very disappointed with it. And Indy 3 earned 30% more than it by the end.
Summer of '89 was insane with sequels. Imagine if Back to the Future 2 was on time. It was supposed to come out in July. But they were better off with the delay, that way they didn't have to compete with all the other sequels and had Thanksgiving weekend to themself to break a record.
Zach, coming from a 80's child, Gremlins was not too extreme for kids back in the day. I'm happy to see Gremlins made it on to Netflix. I just finished watching it before seeing this video. 80's movies had an assortment of classic movies that withstood the test of time. We cherish your contributions to the film industry.
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I think hopefully if they do make a Gremlins 3 movie that Zach Galligan could definitely be in it because 1. He looks younger than he is and 2. They could just push it back a few years so it clips in with how old Billy is supposed to be but they will have too make sure certain devices are not in it because they may not of been invented in the year the movie is set to take place. They could make the never feed them after midnight rule depend on what time zone they were born in, say Billy goes on holiday to Australia but by accident Gizmo got in his suitcase and a few were born in Australia which means there feeding time would be never feed them after midnight when it’s midnight in Australia
I come bearing gifts! WB is making a Gremlins cartoon for their streaming service! (So original cast is possible! Like with Tron Uprising, which despite the lack of Season 2, is an outstanding addition in toon form! If Lucas didn't sell Star Wars, Disney had more Tron planned.)