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movie review - Gremlins

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2021.12.17

I showed the kids this '80s classic movie tonight. I had not realized just how silly and lame it really is. Of course, I haven't seen it since I was the same age The Boy now is, but still... I mean, who made all the gremlins' clothes? Who produced the working gremlin-sized handguns? Some of the dialog, such as the ham-fisted story Pheobe Cates tells of her father dying in the chimney on Christmas eve.

Ah, well.

Not recommended. Avoid.

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