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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
What happens when gremlins take over a high-tech building in New York City? Let your imagination run wild with us as we explore "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" in all its chaotic glory. From Gizmo’s unforgettable Rambo moment to the disastrous antics of the various Gremlins, we tackle every zany scene with humor and nostalgia. Our mixed feelings about this wacky sequel—wildly entertaining yet maybe a one-time adventure—fuel a lively discussion. Join us as we delve into malfunctioning technology, cunning gremlins, and human characters that entertain.
Imagine the gremlins let loose in Las Vegas! We take you on a hypothetical journey envisioning gremlins in the glitzy alleys of Sin City, drawing hilarious parallels with "Mars Attacks!" The conversation unveils our desire for "Gremlins 3," a film loaded with practical effects. Daniel Clamp’s parody of Donald Trump and Ted Turner gets a spotlight, as does Leonard Maltin’s amusing cameo. Our cinematic nostalgia deepens with nods to William Castle's "The Tingler" and the laugh-out-loud moments from an altered VHS scene. This episode is loaded with trivia, humor, and a love for the chaotic cinematic world of gremlins.
From memorable bar scenes to wild gremlin antics, every quirky character gets its due. We reminisce about the Chicago roots of Robert Prosky’s Grandpa Fred while celebrating the voices that brought these gremlins to life. Our discussion takes a delightful turn towards beloved Looney Tunes characters, adding a layer of nostalgia to the mix.
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast, where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason To survive a war. You got to become war because this week we recommend Gremlins 2, a new batch baby, batch baby it's the first time you've had a quote from a movie within a movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it just like pops up twice and I was like hell, yeah, it's such a rad quote and I love when they, you know, when gizmo comes out and he does his one thing in the whole movie, he like shoots the flaming, the flaming pencil and then like they catch him and like they have him and then BBK goes. What happened to him? They must have pushed him too far and he just like has, just like a bandana on. That's like it, it's like.
Speaker 2:I could have watched. If the whole movie was just watching Gizmo, watch Rambo, I would have watched it he seems like a perfect companion to watch movies, dude.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to ask you a question. This is a big question for me. Alright, did you like this movie?
Speaker 2:it was fun. I don't necessarily think I'll ever watch it again what Unless my kids want to, but like I thought it was pretty fun to watch. Dude this movie's wackadoo and I love it.
Speaker 1:It's so insane it's like just put it in my veins, Put all the weirdness in it. Yeah, it was definitely entertaining.
Speaker 2:It's like they just were like all, all right. What did everybody love about the first?
Speaker 1:one. The gremlins are wacky. It's like what if we make them even more wacky, even wackier? Let's break the fourth wall. Let's barely have gizmo in it at all. Yes, that's. That's probably the the most negative part of it. It's like where's my boy, giz dude?
Speaker 2:because he like what he crowd tested as like the least popular, gremlin, I think it's the main character.
Speaker 1:I think it was Joe Dante, the director of the film. You know he loves making creatures and stuff, because that's kind of what he did he make makeup and creatures. And I think he's just like probably had more fun making the Gremlins than he did anything else, but they're like the best little dudes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're the best part of the movies because they get into so much shit. I know they're gremlins they break everything.
Speaker 1:and I like the idea that in the first one you know you have uh murray, uh the old man, the neighbor guy that kind of comes in and visits new york. The first one he's always like there's gremlins, they mess everything up. And then we go to New York and they're in this clamp like building that does fucking everything and nothing in there works properly and I'm like it's so funny.
Speaker 2:What do they call it? Automatic door?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Constantly spins or never spins.
Speaker 2:They had a weird name for it and it's just like just call it a door and it's great because it's like, because they did the rules of three.
Speaker 1:Comedy comes in threes, where they show you at the beginning, they show you not working in the middle, and then the third one, clamp, comes in and he's trying to go through it and they try all of them and it doesn't let them in.
Speaker 2:He just goes to the next door, the normal door.
Speaker 1:I just think I'm like oh so the first movie. They're like. I just think I'm like oh so the first movie. They're like dang, foreigners can't make anything good anymore. And this one they go to like where Americans kind of make everything. They're like no, this stuff works. It's like man. That's so true. Nothing ever works that long. But so did you think it was too weird, not weird enough?
Speaker 2:Equal perfect amount of weird it was a weird, not weird enough. Equal, perfect amount of weird. It was a good amount of weird, yeah, I just. There's so much happening, there's like we don't have a story. We just got to make a bunch of shit happen. Yeah, and it's going to be fun and it was the story is Gremlins in a building and there's a research lab.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a buck-ass wild yes, which is pretty much all I want in a movie with gremlins.
Speaker 2:That's all you need, and is this?
Speaker 1:You got to have shit that makes them weird and things that they can destroy, like all the characters are fun, like, even the like, the obnoxious ones, because you know you have the bank lady in the first one and it's just like's nobody I absolutely hate and they all have pretty good funny moments. Forrester would be the most hateable one, it's like the assistant guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the assistant.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's kind of a douche. Oh wait, no, no, no, I meant his assistant, the guy that was driving him, his chauffeur in the very beginning. He's such a kiss ass yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like really the only one I hated. Yeah, he's kind of the worst part, but hey, he gets a chill, he's he's forced to get married to a gremlin. So you know, I guess it all worked out. I'm trying to think what's your favorite gremlin in the whole movie? The brain one.
Speaker 2:Brain one.
Speaker 1:It was so funny when he popped up with glasses oh, I drank some formula.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess it made me have glasses whenever I heard brain gremlin, I thought like it was gonna have this big, gross brain sticking out.
Speaker 1:The top of it, kind of like the vegetable gremlin yeah, dude, the vegetable, what the?
Speaker 1:fuck vegetable gremlin they use. They take an olive out of them to put in their martini. That's so that's so good. Yeah, it's like a booger. I think the third one should be like good brain, gremlin gives, yeah, gives, good brain. It's just the girl again, oh God, by the way, I think they say the female gremlin in one of the like the cartoon. I think she's in the cartoon. Her name's Greta, oh nice, so later on I'll call her Greta.
Speaker 2:I do not remember anything about that cartoon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never watched it, but I just looked up like, hey, are any of the gremlins in from New Batch in? Whatever? The show is Completely forgot that there even was a gremlin. I think it's funny because the brain gremlin he's the main gremlin from this. But the movie makes you think it's going to be Mohawk. Yeah, who turns into a spider, which, fuck yeah, that's rad, but all Mohawk wants to do is just beat the shit out of Gizmo man. Yeah, gizmo spends like a good hour 15 minutes just getting beat up in this movie.
Speaker 2:He gets the last laugh, though he's changed forever he's changed forever but you know he gets pushed too far.
Speaker 1:Yeah alright, we'll hop into some facts. So, following the massive success of gremlins in 1984, warner brothers immediately sought a sequel from director joe dante. However, dante passed due to his interest in other projects, before returning seven years later, when he was given free reign by the studios, which is why everything's buck wild. Yes, in his absence, several plot ideas entertained the notion of bringing gremlins to planet Mars or the city of Las Vegas. According to the Gremlins 2 DVD commentary, dante eventually agreed to make the film when Warner Brothers allowed him to retain total creative control, at which point he conjured the Skyrise plotline. So, uh, let's see. Would you rather do it in Las vegas the skyrise thing that we actually got or mars? Where do you want gremlins to go?
Speaker 2:uh, las vegas las vegas.
Speaker 1:That'd be great.
Speaker 2:I'd have been a great double feature with mars attacks in yeah man, because they've got, there's so much shit that they can do like they can gamble. Yeah, they can.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude you know they'd be gambling. Yeah, they'd be a whole scene where, like, they end up breaking another gremlin's legs because he's cheated and gambling, he's counting cards yeah, there's like all those live shows, man, and they're all about musical numbers yeah, it'd be um, who was in mars attacks? What's that guy's name? Yeah, yeah, uh, he'd probably still be in it he's been he's been there for like 30 years, right?
Speaker 2:Oh, you'd have the guys with the tigers Just getting eaten by tigers.
Speaker 1:God, let's do it. They do need to do Grimlands 3, right, I mean.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about what would it look like today? It couldn't be as it has to.
Speaker 1:If it was all CG, I won't watch it I refuse it, I want it to look, because even whenever they do the practical effects and it's obvious that they superimpose a gremlin in it and it kind of looks weird. I prefer that over CG, I'd rather, they do that. All right. So Daniel Clamp is a parody of Donald Trump and other billionaires.
Speaker 2:That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie, though If Trump acted like Clamp, I'd be way more into Trump. This guy is just a little sweet treat in this movie. He's kind of silly, ignorant and, you know, just kind of like he's a good guy with a lot of money and he doesn't even know what half of his building is doing at this point.
Speaker 2:And that's what I immediately thought when I saw him. I was like that's Donald. Trump because he's a real estate, whatever. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because he's kind of like a greedy power hungry real estate tycoon. Yes, Named Daniel Clamp. The character is amalgamation of Donald Trump and media mogul Ted Turner, and the film setting Clamp Tower is a riff on Trump Tower and while this is fairly easy to recognize, a deleted scene found on DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film features a voice that states you know, I've been thinking, Mr Clamp, you could make a great president 26 years later Clamp, I'll put the clamp down.
Speaker 1:Back in the day, people were just like Donald Trump's going to be our president. At some point he's going to take over. I mean, they're like, wouldn't it be funny if that happened? That would be crazy. There's no way, though. Right, who would want a billionaire to be a president? Oh, jesus, turns out a whole bunch of people, right? Oh, damn right, a whole bunch of states. So the guy that you know was big into Looney Tunes, chuck Jones. He came out of retirement to do like the opening and ending of the film. Oh, sure, you know, like Bugs Bunny and Daffy. So you know, it starts with those two, bugs Bunny and Daffy. These scenes were constructed by Looney Tunes creator, chuck Jones, who was talked out of retirement by Joe Dante to work on the film. According to deleted scenes and DVD commentary, the opening cartoon short was much longer than seen in the theatrical cut. This is also a post-credit scene involving Daffy, duck and Porky Pig.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, I thought I turned on the wrong movie. Yeah, Because I turned it on and walked to the kitchen to pour some coffee and I'm like, oh, what the fuck. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it kind of throws me off too every time. I'm like oh yeah, forget about this. But you know, hey, if you want to throw some Looney Tunes in a movie, do it whenever you can.
Speaker 2:And Batman? Yeah, because I think.
Speaker 1:Warner Brothers owned Batman. Yeah, they own the movie rights and stuff to him. I think just in general, they own Batman.
Speaker 2:They just own him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, batman's, you're mine. So the critic in the movie that like is talking about Gremlins 1. Oh yeah, and then he gets attacked by Gremlins.
Speaker 2:He's like it's a 10.
Speaker 1:It's a 10. So that's Leonard Maltin. He's like a famous. He had a show, you know. He talked about movies and reviewed them.
Speaker 2:So in the movie Police, guy blows the whistle, yeah, so in the movie Police. Guy blows the whistle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So he obviously has a cameo in this and he famously gave the original Gremlins a negative review. So, despite being offended by the critique at the time, Dante specifically cast Moulton to restate his criticism of 1984 film, during which he is savagely slaughtered by the gremlins on the fictional movie police. Tv show when the gremlins assault him as a dismisses the video he begs. I was just kidding, it's a 10 dude. I mean that's amazing, though, right like I would love to do that.
Speaker 1:It's like hey no hard feelings, come be my movie and I'll kill you. Let's see. So I guess there was an altered VHS scene. Oh, if you had it on VHS. So Gremlins 2 features a gimmick taken from William Castle's the Tingler, in which Gremlin characters attack a movie theater projection room to appear as if they're breaking the fourth wall and appearing in the movie theater itself. However, two different versions were constructed for various release of the film. For the theatrical release and cable airings, footage of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan is shown during the project projection scene. In the VHS version, footage of John Wayne from the movie Chisholm is shown with an actor overdubbing his voice. This was done to make it appear as if the VCR has broken rather than the theater projector.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, it's so good. It was very confusing. I could see how that would be very successful. Yeah, that's a funny-ass scene. They're doing the shadow puppets, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so apparently Joe Dante came out and said that Warner Brothers kind of messed with the release date of this movie because apparently they were going to do it a different day. But they thought this movie was going to make so much money that they actually put it alongside Dick Tracy in June 1990. And this was in order to keep the record setting box office performance of Batman intact. So they didn't want to mess with their record-breaking movie. So they kind of put this next to a movie that you know like wouldn't make as much money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm like well, that sucks.
Speaker 1:How about we all just make a lot of money here? And one of the last ones is Joe Dante prefers the sequel over the original. Hell yeah brother. Ones is john joe dante prefers the sequel over the original. Hell yeah, brother. Um, although the 1984 original earned more money and better critical reviews, director joe dante has stated on the dvd commentary that he actually prefers the sequel. According to dvd commentary for grim original gremlins, dante stated that he still has no idea why the first movie was so successful. In addition, to have a bigger budget, more creative control, dante enjoyed making what he called a parody anti-sequel that poked fun of the original and skewered movie sequels in general. That's wild yeah.
Speaker 2:Wild as hell. I thought the bar scene in the first one was so incredible with the flash dance. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Man, that was great with the flash dance. Yeah, man, that was great. I forgot about that, I know, but in like that one it's just kind of like chaos. This one's just like a party for the gremlins baby. It's just a nice fun party.
Speaker 2:It's so much more ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I know In every way. And it's just like one of those things, you know, I love it. I love it, baby, I fucking love it. I was looking at the wrong one. There's some more facts, but I mean, I don't want to go too long on facts, so, um, I guess we should probably just hip hop into this movie oh, here's a fact.
Speaker 2:Uh, how much does grandpa fred look exactly like al lewis as grandpa munster yeah, that is definitely what they are going for.
Speaker 1:But it's played by Robert Protsky, who's just kind of like this. He kind of got his start. I know he did theater in kind of like one of the, I think like Chicago and he's very much a Chicago guy and he's great in this movie called Thief and he's like the bad guy. He's usually a bad guy and he's great in this movie called Thief and he's like the bad guy. He's usually a bad guy and stuff and he's just. He just looks it. I don't know, but he's so good in Thief. We should do Thief at some point. Fuck yeah, love Thief. It's a Michael Mann movie.
Speaker 2:He did Heat, collateral, things like that oh cool, and I've never yeah A video game called Steve.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about. So, yeah, pretty great cast. Got Zach Galligan as Billy, phoebe Cates as Kate, howie Mandel as Gizmo, which is this book as well, they should have given him a goatee, yeah. Tony Randall does Brain Gremlin. John Glover is Daniel Clamp, my boy, so funny. Robert Prosky is grandpa fred. Robert picardo is forrester chris for lee baby, dr catheter, such a good name.
Speaker 1:Um, and you know that's pretty much like the main. The main people, most people understand dick miller is murray futterman. Of course, love the guy so good.
Speaker 2:Are the scientists like the twins? Are they real twins? Yeah, they're real twins.
Speaker 1:And their names is Martin and Lewis, and don't ask me which one's which.
Speaker 2:Doesn't matter. This is the most interesting scientist experience I've ever done.
Speaker 1:When I was doing notes and you know you first see one, it says Lewis. I tell you every time If you look in the trash that's where you find stuff. And then I was like, oh yeah, this guy. And then whenever it shows back up later and there's twins. And I was like shit, I forgot there's twins. Which one's which? This is going to make my notes hard.
Speaker 1:But then luckily they did everything and the Loose, all right. Hell yeah, let's go baby, all right. Gremlins 2. A new batch we open up with the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes opening. It's like what, if I just did it all serious which is great, you know, it's fine I feel bad for Daffy. Can we just talk about how, like you know's fun. I feel bad for Daffy. Can we just talk about how, how, like you know, bugs Bunny is like the main Looney Tune, but like mad respect and love for Daffy, who's my favorite of all the Looney Tunes. I know he's so good, just wish he'd win some. Let him win.
Speaker 2:Bugs don't have to win every time they don't let him win because he's kind of a jerk sometimes, I guess. But so is Bugs Bunny. He's just more charismatic.
Speaker 1:Bugs is the biggest jerk he's constantly seducing men by being a lady and he's like just kidding and they're all like what? I'm so confused and then he drops like an anvil on their head or something. No, but I love Daffy Duck, mad respect. It goes Daffy and then it goes Marvin the Martian and then it goes Bugs for Me.
Speaker 2:Mine was was always Wile E Coyote hell, I didn't even think about.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, it's Daffy, then it's Wile E and then it's Marvin the Martian.
Speaker 2:I love Marvin, though I don't know he's got that cool hair monster, or no, that's. That's just an episode episode.
Speaker 1:That's just like its own. Yeah, it's its own thing, its own its own guy. And then you got to, of course, what's his name? Shooter McG. Shooter McGavin yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh no, no, that's a. What's his name? Yosemite Sam.
Speaker 1:Yosemite Sam. Oh, that got. It's like it's New York City, baby. This is all shots from Superman 4, by the way, oh, really, yeah, nice, just a little fun. And then we get into Chinatown, and then we get the Chinatown music, of course, because you can't just go to Chinatown and have normal music. It always has to become some sort of Asian type of music. It's like no, I can tell we're in Chinatown by the buildings, guys. So we see a limo driving through. Then we get a businessman who will learn is Forrester, what's a limo doing here? Yeah, what In Chinatown what? And we see Mr Ween, my boy Ween. Funny thing is he said if y'all do a third one, I have to come back, even if it's a flashback. He's going to have kids, yeah, cause he, you know he sadly dies in this way.
Speaker 2:That's horrible Thinking about him and his new wife. It's just so awful, who.
Speaker 1:Forrester.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the crippled lady.
Speaker 1:I hope it worked out for him. Oh God, a man shows Mr Wing a video of Daniel Clamp. Daniel is trying to convince Wing to sell his business to him. Classic gentrification, you know what I mean. This big company is trying to buy all these houses and businesses His store is pretty cool.
Speaker 1:The ironic part is nothing in there works either. It's just these movies are about how nothing works. And then the gremlins show up and then they're like it's the gremlins fault. I'm like I kind of think it's your fault, guys. Y'all just can't build things.
Speaker 2:I just thought it was really funny after they talked to Mr Mr Wing. He just dies, yeah, like a minute later. Your idea was so bad, I died. Is it television that killed him?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so, but yeah. So after they show him the video, mr Wing says step off, bitch, they are mad and leave and leave the TV. Our boy Gizmo is caged and turns the TV to Rambo to survive the war, you have to become war. Mr Wing coughs and outside the businessman says he's probably going to die. Turns out he died.
Speaker 2:He's got like a counter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we cut to Clamp network.
Speaker 2:we see that mr wing died. Fuck, the shop belongs to clamp now because the news is covering it.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, because it was like the last business that would not like give in to him. I guess now he owns all of chinatown. I guess, um, we cut to gizmo, who's just alone and sad in the building. Um, uh, and he looks so sad I feel like I could die. Did my owner just die?
Speaker 1:yeah did my owner that only kept me in a cage and never let me do anything, die now. I'm sad, but let's be real. Uh mogwai are just little shitheads. They might not be as bad as the gremlins, but they do not listen and do whatever they want. So they're cats? Yes, let's see. Yeah Also, they start demolishing the building and he has to run for his life.
Speaker 2:Hey guys, let's check if there's any live animals in there right, or and you think that they at least get all the crap out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's got to be something in there. I mean, I guess it's all.
Speaker 2:Get your TV that. You guess it's all. Get your TV that you, if it's all worthless, I guess? Sure, but like man. Has anybody really gone through? Are there any terracotta warriors in?
Speaker 1:there, right, but I mean to a billionaire, everything's worthless, right. Yes. Unless it's yours.
Speaker 2:Like how Martha Stewart or whatever. I think there was a fan that asked her if she could have one of the flower arrangements that they had made on the show and she's like, nah, we just throw those out. Those people don't deserve them. God.
Speaker 1:I love that we just allow Martha Stewart to be a terrible person. We all idolize her for it. It's crazy. It's like she's allowed to be just mean, but because she hangs out with Snoop Dogg and doesn't look like a woman that should go to jail, we're all just like hell. Yeah, she's badass. So yeah, he runs for his life. It's cute. I love when he's running and scared. It's just because it's just like you know he's so animated and he's there's that really bad part where he's walking.
Speaker 2:It kind of looks like CGI, like bad.
Speaker 1:CGI. Yeah, it's like they uh, superimpose them. Yes, that's the word I was looking for. Yeah, um, and then we see him in the street laying next to some trash and a man named lewis grabs him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who the fuck he's like? Gotta go downtown to find weird stuff I don't know, maybe he lives in chinatown. This guy's just picking up animals off the street for tests in his lab. I'm sorry if I see that I'm gonna be like I don't know, maybe he lives in Chinatown, this guy's just picking up animals off the street for tests in his lab.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry If I see that I'm going to be like I don't know what this is, but I have to have it. And then we meet up with Billy and Kate. They think everybody is so rude in New York. They're from a small town, classic New York stuff. Hey, I'm walking here, I've never actually been there, yeah me neither. So they go to clamp. We see the weird-ass revolving door. This guy gets stuck in it and just keeps spinning.
Speaker 2:Billy and Kate. He goes backwards.
Speaker 1:Throws him out. So good, Kate gives Billy a pep talk. Billy draws up. We learn that Billy kind of draws up concepts for rat-ass buildings.
Speaker 3:That building looked insane man With the dragon around it With a pair of thing looked insane. Man with the like the dragon around it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like y'all really gonna build, that it's gonna be. There's gonna be so much maintenance on that like a fire breathing out the mouth. Yeah, it's so cool, um and this. We kind of meet marlo, which is his boss and stuff. He gets into trouble because forster comes in. He starts saying you have a plant? Yeah, company policy, we're only allowed to have certain things that the company allows. And then he kind of looks at the picture he drew his hometown. That looks really good, good art.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is like blocks and circles that don't look like anything Fucking corporate art, classic, it's all very corporate. Yeah, it sucks, and I guess that's the theme. And I'm assuming Joe Dante is kind of saying something about the movie business and sequels here, because this place doesn't like creativity, no, right, which I think this movie is super creative, obviously. Sure, you can't if you don't like it. Or if you do like it, you can't say it's not creative, right, and I think that's kind of the whole theme of this movie is just like joe dante was allowed to do whatever he wanted with the sequel and it's like, hey, we could have got this toned down, hey, basic art version of gremlins, but instead we got this like techno color kaleidoscope of a movie here. Yeah, um, uh.
Speaker 1:Then we cut to. We start seeing that they have this crazy security system where they can like zoom in and they have, if something's triggered, they can they get an alarm for it. And so there's this guy, the guy from the movie disney movie, look of the irish. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, he gets fired for taking a smoke break. It's like, damn, they did my boy like everybody just smokes everywhere.
Speaker 2:Like what is the problem here?
Speaker 1:I know, right next to a bunch of gasoline. The problem is he was taking a break.
Speaker 2:He's gonna take a break.
Speaker 1:Smoking had nothing to do with it yeah and uh, the guy that gets fired from, look of the irish, he's also in the burbs uh, joe dante. Yeah, that's the one I recognize him from, yeah which we'll have, uh, the security guard a little later. That gets Billy. It's also Tom Hanks' friend in the burbs.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, joe Dante did the burbs a little later, after this movie, okay, or a little before, something like that. So then we see Kate. She's a tour guide in the Clamp Building the coolest hat, yeah, I know. And they make fun of the hat later and it's like fuck off, marla, that's stupid. So then we cut to Grandpa. Fred who's filming a vampire kid show? Yeah, but they're like no one's going to get scared at 3 am in the morning. I'm like, technically that's when people watch horror movies if they're weird-ass fakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's whenever the Crypt Keeper would be on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I love Grandpa Fred. Yeah, he's fun. He's a very fun character in this movie. He looks wild. He's so down and out because he's like, oh, they don't play the moan sound.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, and his show's failing. They bump him to 3 am and he's like no one who watches TV at 3 am is going to be scared of a cross-eyed puppet. It's like that's true, true, yeah, yeah, um, then fred brings up and talks about the weird experiments clamp does. We'll find out a little soon, as in the next scene we meet dr catheter who is wanting diseases. Um little quote peggy the lab receptionist says dr cath catheter, this just came for you, dr catheter. Oh, splendid, this must be my malaria. Sees, sees that it's not.
Speaker 1:Rabies. I've got rabies and I'm supposed to get the flu this week. I mean, dialogue like that is just love it. So funny. This is classic humor. A lot of prop humor in this one, yeah it's prop heavy, coming from a man who loved to make props.
Speaker 2:Joe Dante, this giant bean, or is it a peapod that he comes out with later?
Speaker 1:Right. So in the research lab we see elephants and monkeys and apparently the monkeys were scared of the gremlins so when they were, like you know, going to release them out so that they could kind of come out and interact with the gremlins, they all went to the corner of their cage and just hit.
Speaker 2:Start throwing shit.
Speaker 1:They're just like terrified of them apparently.
Speaker 2:I'm with two man.
Speaker 1:So we see the twin researchers Martin and Lewis. They show the doc Gizmo. They show how cute Gizmo is by playing a song on the radio and letting Giz cook baby. But of course the doctor wants to cut him open and do experiments, you get this off the street.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's fucking fuck with it. Let's cut it open.
Speaker 1:Let's do some experiments. What did that brain look like? And, of course, gizmo's scared. What'd that brain do? What'd that brain do? Billy at his desk is frustrated because nothing really works in his office. Nothing in his office, nothing in this whole place.
Speaker 2:The flashlights, anything. None of it works. No, um, kind of like his dad, though, right, oh yeah, because I thought he had something to do with this, because they talk about the self-cleaning ashtray and that was something he made in the first one yeah, I think so I believe it was like the ashtray that had, or it was a smokeless ashtray that's what it was smokeless ashtray, which doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:No, no, um, but for if you're billy, you're like golly dude. Can I be somewhere where something works for once in my life? Yeah, because he had all those kitchen gadgets that just destroyed everything the juicer that just sprayed juice everywhere and it's like, hey guys, just stop using this stuff that's such a fun, like whenever you have a character like that.
Speaker 2:Because they did it with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. You know you got the mad scientist that makes just the dumbest shit. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1:I love it. It's always fun. Gotta love bad scientists. And a funny thing at the end of this movie, when everything you know is saved apparently his dad was was there's supposed to be a scene with his dad where he brings Gizmo a wetsuit so that?
Speaker 2:he can't get wet.
Speaker 1:It was too long of a scene and there is already kind of. I guess they thought it was too long. So then he hears, oh yeah, Billy being frustrated. And then he starts hearing a mailman whistle the Gizmo famous whistle song. And he asked the mailman where he heard that song. So he goes to the research area. We see the twins injecting high voltage serum and cheese to give to a rat so they can power new york. They put a light bulb too.
Speaker 2:This reminded me of that. The thing from step brothers who's like r and d. What do you got Like?
Speaker 1:put white out on a, b, yeah, so good, um so, um, billy goes into rescue gizmo. Extremely easy, yeah, it was like went in there, got them, walked out and it's like, well, damn, that was pretty easy.
Speaker 2:Cause there's no form or like process going on. It's just like what we're gonna do next guys like shoot.
Speaker 1:Well, grab an animal I don't know, put some shit in it so I don't know, like what if we made a bat, a porcupine that'd be kind of crazy right hell yeah, um so genius yeah billy rescues gizmo, he goes into the men's room worst rip men's room ever yeah, can you?
Speaker 2:imagine going in somewhere like, oh I'm sorry, Go ahead.
Speaker 1:It's like it starts talking to you and you go in. Hey, mister, welcome to the men's room.
Speaker 2:Hope you washed your hands. Yeah, what if one of them was like hey man, nice cock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Wow, you're well endowed.
Speaker 2:It's like yeah, sir Jerry, you should get that looked at you sit on the toilet.
Speaker 1:Wow, you're so big you're about to touch the water. Oh no, like it only says positive things, though, it's like hell, yeah, it does, that's right, nice stream, yeah. But we get the. They reunited gizmo and billy back together, um, and so he takes them back to his office. He tells gizmo gizmo to chill and hang out in the drawer and not make a noise. You know the thing that he refused to do and all of them can't do.
Speaker 1:And then suddenly Clamp pays a visit and it's the first time we get to see him. He's happy, energetic, he's kind of like a dimwit, almost a little bit, or he just knows nothing about his entire business.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he's a real estate guy. Yeah, Because he's a real estate guy yeah.
Speaker 1:And he's just like he buys properties, sells them, I'm sure for a lot of money, and then just like doesn't know what else to do with his life because he's a billionaire. Yeah, usually, I guess they just get so bored they decide to get into politics, because that's where this movie goes. Yeah, so he loves Billy's drawing that he sees, except Marla earlier told him that oh, you need to put trees in it. And then he does, and then Clamp comes in. It's like there's too many trees and it's like damn it.
Speaker 2:I love when he picks up the picture of his hometown. He's like what's this? Can I own this? Yeah, Do I own this.
Speaker 1:It's like I own everything in here, right. It's like I own everything in here, right. And then we cut to Marla, who is super excited about the visit Clamp just paid and says this could mean a promotion for both of them. She asked him to dinner to talk about it. She obviously wants the bone, oh, billy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she just likes, power. Yeah, she does.
Speaker 1:It's just you know a classic, something that doesn't age well. He tells Gizmo to stay put and someone will get him while he goes to dinner. He immediately gets out With the little paper clip rope. Yeah, he doesn't even like really use it, he just kind of falls down.
Speaker 2:It's fun though.
Speaker 1:I just love how you know creative these little mogwai are. And just you know he's just watched so much TV. He's like, oh, obviously I got. I gotta throw this down even if I don't use it. So billy tells kate that he has a meeting and tells her that gizmo is there. She flips her shit and is scared she's like please, no, don't do this to me again. Um, she doesn't want to take him home. Obviously he explains the rules again. You know, no eating after midnight can't't get them wet, and they love TV.
Speaker 2:I know it's so funny when she says oh yeah, and don't let them eat after midnight. Good job, Good job. You're good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's see he walks off and she follows after him and sees that walks off with Marla, who of course puts her arm around his arm and it's like Billy, Billy, step the fuck up, Keep it professional. Yeah, so Gizmo hangs out in the hallway and a janitor is fixing a water fountain and Gizmo tries to dodge the water.
Speaker 2:Is this the dumbest way to get wet?
Speaker 1:I know, it's like dude Gizmo, just run further away. But he does drive.
Speaker 1:But I mean he is staying in the little office section he was told to stay in, so I guess you can't get too mad at him. This is so silly. Yeah, he tries to dodge the water, but the janitor guy just keeps fixing it and making it worse and go everywhere and it ends up going onto the paint, dripping on down and then, like, slowly falls right on Gizmo and then he starts popping out little guys. So something fun I read about apparently there was they're going to be more colorful Mogwai in this one because of the paint.
Speaker 1:oh yeah so the color of the paint they kind of did it with like the brown and white, and then one's like black yeah, but it didn't really show the paint running. Yeah, where the water is yeah, they decided it was going to be kind of too complicated and cost too much money to do, so they decided not to do it, but they did. Let them have like small variations of color Cool.
Speaker 2:Were these? The same things that popped off of them in the last one? Yeah, so they just.
Speaker 1:So they pop out of them, and then once they eat hey we're back. Yeah, well, it's like they all have like different. Everyone that grows like has a different personality, like the yeah, the crazy googly odd one, but you know what bro? It's time to let the fun begin cause now we're fully into the movie, so we see a bunch of goofy mogwai. They immediately start causing trouble. So you have George. He's the black and white and he's grumpy and he's always with Lenny. You got Lenny.
Speaker 2:Not very bright, has buck teeth and hangs with George those funny buck teeth.
Speaker 1:You have Daffy, the most childish of the gremlins. He's the youngest. So they kind of base it off like age, on how they portrayed him, because George is the oldest, lenny is the second oldest, daffy is the youngest. That's why they made him the most childish. And you got Mohawk, who's like the second youngest. He's the badass, but he becomes the leader of the Gremlins and he's essentially the reincarnation of Spike from the first movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so it's not the same exact person. Yeah, but it's like Gremlin, it's the bad one. Yeah, did you notice in the three or Alvin and chipmunks? Really, one of them was Theodore and the other one was Simon.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I didn't notice that at all. Hell yeah, jason, that's rad. Um, so, out of these four, which one's your favorite?
Speaker 2:Uh, uh, the buck teeth one was pretty funny. I guess.
Speaker 1:Lenny yeah, fucking Daffy goes wild. Mohawk looks rad, but Daffy, I think, is kind of my funny With those crazy eyes, yeah, and he's the one that's getting into the pain and gets taken home. So Mohawk, george and Lenny throw Gizmo in the vents and lock him in. So cute. And I guess, daffy, that that one does not care about beating up on gizmo like the other.
Speaker 2:Yeah what the hell, like he just gave birth to y'all, yeah, well, it's like they know that he's he's, though that he's, he's the I'm assuming, like mohawk wants to kill him because he's like oh, he's, we came from him.
Speaker 1:We got to kill him because he'll be the leader. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how, uh, they're just me, they're just bullies. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how. They're just me, they're just bullies. I don't know how the society of gremlins works. Let's go, yeah. So Moe, george and Lenny escape into the building. Kate thinking Daffy is Gizmo. She takes him home. It's like hey, dude, did you not remember what Gizmo look like? Do you remember him acting like this? Okay, maybe we have a situation here. Okay, it's like did you not watch the movie you're in? Yeah, remember that one. We talk about it a lot on this one, yeah, and she thinks New York made them hyper, because she's like this is what New York will do to you. It's like no, it usually makes you more grumpy and hate people.
Speaker 2:I don't know. You got to be on your grind all the time, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cut to the other three mogwai and they're in the food court watching people eat. And then Marla and Billy are eating in a weird Canadian restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they clean the fish right in front. Yeah, it's like oh yummy.
Speaker 1:She starts talking about their relationship and puts her foot between his legs. Then they bring out a moose dessert. Do you want the antler? He leaves, but Marla kisses him before he leaves, leaving lipstick mark on his face, dang. That's why man's gotta carry you know, mirrors the little pocket napkin yeah that's what that's for.
Speaker 2:Is that what it's for? It's when you cheat on your wife as a businessman don't cheat on your wife, guys.
Speaker 1:Come on, let's be good here, guys. Kate is trying to take care of Daffy, but he is fucking insane. The guy can't eat. That's all the model I want to do is eat. They're tiny but they love to eat.
Speaker 2:So they can eat all day long, as long as they don't eat after.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I love, we'll get to it, we'll get to this. So Billy comes home, kate sees lipstick, she's pissed. He immediately sees it's not gizmo and Daffy is going apeshit. And then the doorbell rings. Oh, the poor Futterman, the poor Futterman. But it's great because Murray, like nobody, believed Murray about his wife, didn't believe him about the Gremlins which is funny. So they came to visit. Bad timing, looking at the church, yeah, it's like, damn guys, y'all pick the worst day to come. But it's good for Murray, cause he gets to realize he's not crazy, he's like finally somebody believes me.
Speaker 1:Um, so Murray's immediately being racist, like he wasn't the first one, but this time towards Russians. Um and K and and Billy. They're like oh, our place is being fumigated and uh, so you have to get a hotel. And I'm like damn, dude in New York City. Huh, the Futtermans are all like damn, they really don't like us, I guess. And so back at the clamp. Uh, studios are building, the gang is eating up a storm just watching people eat, and they're one's just got ice cream going directly in his mouth. Yeah, squeeze the juice. Kate and Billy show up. It's after midnight, bum, bum, bum. So they get the idea to turn off the water so that they can't multiply. But Rick Documan, right, yeah, I think that's how you say his name. It's a weird last name. Show up to stop him. This is a guy from the Burbs. Oh shit, the best friend from the Burbs. I love him. He's so funny. Yeah, he is really funny. Satan is cool, satan is a friend.
Speaker 1:God we got to do that soon. Hell yeah, maybe next October We'll get Natalie on she's the one that showed me it. But Daffy goes crazy on him and bites his nose, bites Rick's nose. The guy, rick takes him away and takes Billy away and he says look guy, I'm pointing a gun at you, even though I'm just a security guard, you're not that aggressive, I don't know. I'm pointing a gun straight at your chest, touching you with it, kill shot, crazy. So Rick takes Billy away and we pan up to see some cocoons I didn't know they cocooned.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whenever they ate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's uh, okay yeah so, uh, then we cut to kate goes to get him out of jail. This was essentially. The whole point of this was hey, we have to let them just say so, let's make him just go to jail for a long time.
Speaker 2:I think I missed this entire part of my dog, hit the controller and fast forwarded it like 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's. There's so little that happens. You just miss some mimes getting arrested, essentially.
Speaker 2:But this is fucking deserve.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Those minds. They're always putting invisible walls up, getting stuck in them. We have to help them. Fucking talented. So we cut to the cocoons, opening up the new gremlins, though. See Gizmo back in the vent. He falls right. Oh wait, no, Hold on. So the cocoons open up. We see Gizmo back in the vents and of course he ends up falling and falls right where the cocoons hatched. Oh, brother, and the three gremlins grab him and beat the shit out of him.
Speaker 2:You think for a second that he's going to? It's going to be like a Die Hard scene with Gizmo.
Speaker 1:I know it's like they went Rambo instead of Die.
Speaker 2:Hard.
Speaker 1:Wow, I think Die Hard was probably coming out while they were filming.
Speaker 2:So they probably didn't. I don't think it was out quite yet because I think that was 89.
Speaker 1:No, I think that was 84. We'll talk about when we do it so. And then we see Kate and Billy. They're gearing up while Gizmo is being tortured Because that's the favorite thing in these movies they love to torture Gizmo, I don't know. It's so sad. And they're gearing up by getting these flashlights super bright flashlights that barely work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like the weird boxy flashlights. They're terrible.
Speaker 1:Are they even what I'm like? Are they supposed to be pyramids? They're rat powered. So then Marla shows up flirts with Billy in front of Kate. Kate says Billy is in big trouble if we survive all this. Billy tries to tell Forrester about the gremlins. He's like comes in there. Hey, you have to listen to me. There's going to be all these green things. You can't feed them after midnight. Blah, blah, blah. And he thinks that Billy is going crazy because you know it's insane. Hey, and he thinks that Billy is going crazy because you know they're like hey, we just arrested you. Dude, what are you doing here? How'd you get back in here? So Kate shows a tour of the Microwave with Marge show you have the Asian tourist.
Speaker 2:that's like just wants to take pictures of everything. I am a camera.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how good does the bologna and bean dip roll up sound to you in a microwave?
Speaker 1:Not great, I'm gonna say, just to be honest here you microwave that your house is stinking.
Speaker 2:but I do love the idea of microwave with Marge it's just a show about microwaving things, but she never uses the microwave. I know they never show her this makes really bad sandwiches.
Speaker 1:I could go for a sandwich, though I love sandwiches, yeah. And then we cut to Billy, who's getting a bunch of questions about the gremlins from all the people that watch monitors and stuff. Questions we all asked after the first movie, like what happens about time zones, does that matter? And Billy's like I don't know, okay. I was just told to say the lines in the first movie. But I love that. I love how self-aware this movie is. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah. What if he gets a seed stuck in his tooth? Yeah, and then eats it later.
Speaker 1:Eats it later, he's like he technically didn't start eating it after midnight. He started before midnight. But does that count? Billy's like dude I don't know him.
Speaker 2:And then the chinese man died, like I can't ask him, yeah, and then mohawk attack attacks for the computer like what?
Speaker 1:yeah, how'd you get in there? Just like punches the shit out of guy billy, blinds him with the light and now forster believes kind of.
Speaker 2:He still says he's crazy I know, but they're like they. They don't even really care, they're just like oh, that was a thing that happened Well they have a research lab turning things into bats.
Speaker 1:They're like it's just another experiment going wrong, those crazy guys. So we cut back to Marge, who's cooking. She opens a pot and Daffy pops out.
Speaker 2:So I guess if it's like chicken stock, it doesn't count as water or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess it's considered once it's considered food.
Speaker 2:If it's too starchy, they can't. It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's probably too thick to absorb into their body, I guess I don't know. Then George and Lenny pop out, they start throwing pots into the microwave and turn it on, and then it explodes. This was their bright idea to turn the sprinklers on.
Speaker 2:Uh oh oh, so you think they knew that was gonna happen yeah, that's what they were planning to do.
Speaker 1:They wanted to start a fire cause they wanted babies. I like to think that I mean I don't know. It seems like George is kind of smart. He seems to hate that Lenny's so dumb cause Lenny's constantly doing something and hitting George and George is like like he throws the pot out of him while he's standing next to the microwave yeah, so good Forster he would immediately murder him with a gun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like he did the other guy yeah, yeah, the brain.
Speaker 1:So Forster is watching from security and the whole building is malfunctioning because of gremlins. Classic Mohawk is still torturing Gizmo by copying him a lot in the copy machine, because they're little shitheads. That was so funny. Kate gets into the elevator but the gremlins are controlling it. It's like go up to 34. Up, up, up.
Speaker 2:It's like sounding alarm. Yeah, that was a cool scene. They're all on top, eww I mean mean the gremlins are.
Speaker 1:I mean, minions are kind of based off gremlins a little bit right yeah?
Speaker 2:they have to be. I think they make the same, they do the, they do the whole laugh thing and that's why I like minions yeah, I love minions, they're very similar to gremlins and they wear goggles, overalls.
Speaker 1:So Clamp, who is just bored and chilling in his office, and he's like a bit bored billionaire in the offices in the clouds it's so tall of a building While talking to his secretary a gremlin, let's do some memos. We cut to the secretary that he's talking to in the gremlins, puts a rat trap sandwich and then she just disappears. Yeah. It's in, I guess is a. It ran away. She died and went to hell. I guess and it's like you know the way you hold a sandwich the rat trap wouldn't work, do you stick?
Speaker 2:your tongue inside the sandwich before you think about it's like it would be.
Speaker 1:It would be all over the. It's like you'd bite into it. Be like, oh, there's wood, and then the bread would not allow it to close, but it's a good bit, no matter what. And then Clamp checks it out, gets attacked by one, he's able to put it in the shredder though that was sweet.
Speaker 2:All the goo yeah, that was awesome. When the elevator crashes and they all get splattered yeah, it was awesome, so good.
Speaker 1:And then Billy enforcer show up. Billy tries to tell him to close the building down and not let them out at night. Um, kate, who's getting attacked in the elevator?
Speaker 3:Um, like, they're literally like punching at that point grabbing at her axes, yeah, so good.
Speaker 1:Um, then Daffy shows up and does what Daffy do and messes with the elevator more and plummets the elevator to the ground, killing a lot of gremlins, but Kate survives somehow.
Speaker 2:I guess the bounce of the gremlins maybe. Yeah, it kind of slowed it down. She's like lifting off the ground. That's going so fast she would have also been splattered.
Speaker 1:I think Gremlins make great, like you know, airbags.
Speaker 2:There's just a bunch of marshmallow gremlins. Like you know, airbags. There's just a bunch of marshmallow gremlins, yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's see.
Speaker 2:It's like the Mike Lindell pillow gremlins yeah.
Speaker 1:So Clamp tells Forrester and Billy that they are taking care of it and that they want no media coverage on this. Turns out there'll be so much media coverage on this you can't stop them. He tells Forrester to exterminate them and Billy is to help, since he knows about them. And then we cut to Leonard Moulton, the critic, giving the first gremlins a bad review. And then the gremlins show up and kill him.
Speaker 2:They tap it on his shoulder and then they put a finger on his neck.
Speaker 1:He's like I'm just kidding, it's a 10.
Speaker 2:It's a 10 so I guess that show is being shot inside the building. Yeah, in the.
Speaker 1:TV studio yeah then we cut to Mohawk. He's still torturing Gizmo with the train and shit, yeah, it's so good he's all tied to like a damsel in distress.
Speaker 2:It's so wild it just kind of derails. Yeah, it just derails and Gizmo's like ow.
Speaker 1:Poor and Gizmo's like ow.
Speaker 2:Poor Gizmo.
Speaker 1:And then we cut to the twins, Martin and Lewis. They are in a research lab in a gremlin drinking vegetable medley and start sprouting vegetables all over them. What it's like okay, that's the one where it's like that's, that's the other idea, that's the last idea. And I will say, if you haven't watched the key and pill, uh sketch about gremlins, to go on YouTube right now.
Speaker 2:Watch it.
Speaker 1:It's one of the funniest things yes, so good, especially after you watch it. It's probably good Even if you watch a gremlin too. It's like a great ad for the movie. Cause it's like I have to watch that. Um. One gremlin drinks a brain formula and becomes very smart and can talk. And also glasses I thought that it was glasses now.
Speaker 2:I thought that it was just going to be glasses. Before he started talking, I was cracking up.
Speaker 1:It would be funny. He's like oh, this actually just gave me bad eyesight.
Speaker 2:And then he kind of sounds like a dude from Seattle. What's his name? Frazier? It kind of sounds like I thought it was going to be Frazier.
Speaker 1:Let's see. Let's look up the Tony Randall. Let's see what he's been in. Oh, he does like a bunch of voices, for he's like in the odd couple TV show.
Speaker 2:I thought his, his, his voice, stuff with this gremlin is so good. Yeah, he really is the dial, his dialogue is really good.
Speaker 1:The voice is what makes the brain gremlin, so distinguished.
Speaker 2:And then he's supposed to be really smart but he's still saying all this crazy-ass shit about gremlins. But he's saying it smartly.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then Dr Catheter comes in and tries to reason with him, and then he's just kind of long speeches All his speeches are very long. And then, while Brimland talks, another Gremlin drinks a bat formula and can now fly. Let's go, baby. Then he injects him with sunscreen yeah. And then the Brimland is like you see, my boy, we'll put this into you. And then we can now go outside Daywalkers, yeah. And so he injects into the bat Gremlin the bat G outside daywalkers. Yeah. And so he injects into the bat gremlin. The bat gremlin fires through the wall, creating a batman symbol. Hell, yeah, that's how you know. We're just having some fun now, oh god.
Speaker 2:And now he's in the sun crazy I know, I thought they were all gonna have sunscreen blood or whatever, but I guess they only had enough for one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it's like brain gremlins should be like all right, make more now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did have a lot yes.
Speaker 1:I don't know, so we get a bunch of scenes with gremlins causing trouble. You have them in the food court popping out of stuff. You got them in the stock market, buy, sell, buy, buy, buy, buy. And then, like the brain, gremlin is like actually like, oh, you see, we need to invest into this. You see, the building is completely overrun at this point. We see this as Kate runs through the building, one flashes her.
Speaker 2:That's what he was doing. Yeah, that's what he did, yeah he flashed her. She kicks him right in the junk.
Speaker 1:Yes, which a little later to the Kate story, we'll have to bring this scene back. Oh good, kate pulls a fire alarm. I love this fire alarm. Building announcements yes, fire, the untamed element, oldest of man's mysteries, giver of warmth, destroyer of forests. Right now, this building is on fire. Woman in corridor what Building announcement? Yes, the building is on fire. Leave the building. Enact the age-old drama of self-preservation Dude, this building fucking goes. Oh yeah, I could work here, yeah it's great Every day would be wild.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the Futtermans are out and about touring New York. Then Murray spots the Bat Gremlin. He's like no, he's coming after me Bad day to visit new york man. He is able to throw the gremlin in concrete where the gremlin gets covered and he also gets like a massive cut on his forehead from its foot. Yeah, that was one scene when I saw that I was like shit, I forgot about the massive cut. It disappears immediately. But I was like I hope if jason's kids watch it that's not too traumatizing watch it because they never want to watch what I want to watch.
Speaker 2:Well, they would love I know, although, what my youngest daughter asked for. She asked every person in our family for Furbies, so she's got two coming from our grandparents and, I think, another two coming from different other people. She just has so many fucking Furbies she has to watch these.
Speaker 1:then she saw this.
Speaker 2:She wouldn't want her furbies anymore, which honestly might be a good idea?
Speaker 1:Might be a good idea, I think, christmas Day you show them both the movies.
Speaker 2:Well, you just call it the Furby movie. Yeah, did you ever watch the Mitchells versus the Machines? Yeah, I love that movie, the big giant.
Speaker 1:Furby. Yeah, so good. That movie's very good. So yeah, Murray gets the Bat-Gremlin covered in concrete and then flies away, landing on a building and becoming a gargle Fucking genius dude.
Speaker 2:It dries up.
Speaker 1:So clever.
Speaker 2:Oh, did you see the fucking robot, the Tesla robots that look exactly like the Mitchells versus the Machine robots? Uh-uh, I haven't. Yeah, you got to look that up Anyway please continue.
Speaker 1:So George now sporting his cigar, which is kind of what he's known for Hell yeah, he's the smoking one. That's how he looks. Different and Lenny are playing in a toy shop where Mohawk runs a train into Gizmo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why?
Speaker 1:do they have a toy shop? This building has a clamp. Clamps got his thingies.
Speaker 2:In every part. He's like hey, we're gonna have tours.
Speaker 1:I know they said they have yogurt yeah, but like oh, yeah, whatever, yeah, okay. And while dr catheter and billy talk, they're having like an argument about something and the film cuts out and we see gremlins making shadow puppets you got a bunny and then a perfect abraham. They start playing women playing naked volleyball. A woman comes out in the theater saying this movie is worse than the first one.
Speaker 1:So apparently this really happened um when someone was watching gremlins um, a woman came out with her daughter saying this movie's too violent to I guess like the usher of theaters or whatever and apparently the kid snuck back into the theater to finish watching it and hid the whole time from her mom so she could continue watching Nice. It's like, yeah, fuck it. It's like I mean the Gremlins, it's a lot of ooey-gooey stuff. There's really no blood except for that one guy. If you can watch Goosebumps, you can watch this.
Speaker 2:I always thought Goosebumps was scary when I was little.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then in a theater. Yeah, it was especially the mask one. It was scary to me.
Speaker 1:Actually it was scary to the gnome one because the kid gets, because during the day it stays still, but then whenever it's in the dark it attacks. And then I just remember the gnome getting into the garage with the kid and it was just like you just hear screaming and I'm like little things, man. Little things scared me as a kid. It's crazy. But in a theater the usher gets Hulk Hogan baby to confront the Gremlins. Okay, you guys listen up, brother, people pay good money to see this movie. When they go out in a theater they want cold sodas, hot popcorn and no monsters in the projection booth. Do I have to come up there myself, brother?
Speaker 2:I'm doing a terrible job. You have to rip off your shirt.
Speaker 1:Do you think the Grimsters can stand up to the Hulks? Well, if I were you, I'd run the rest of Gremlins 2 right now. Sorry folks, Won't happen again.
Speaker 2:He should have had a bigger role in this. I want to see him body slamming some Gremlins, maybe squishing them against the wall, making them explode and goo. Oh man, and the popcorn's like $30. What are you doing? I know you got money, yeah, but yeah, but fuck dude. Yeah, exactly, although I will say now I love the how they're bringing merch popcorn buckets.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, they're huge, though they're so obnoxiously big now we went to see we didn't go see wicked, but they were out of moana too yeah, buckets. So we got a wicked bucket. Oh, really nice. Yeah, I really, I used to get them.
Speaker 1:And then I now I have a bunch of like cups and buckets and I'm like what the fuck do I do with this? Yeah, we've got like five or six just from. Yeah, I really I used to get them. And then I now have a bunch of like cups and buckets. And I'm like what the fuck do I do with this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got like five or six just from Disney World. They're just laying around.
Speaker 1:It's like eventually this whole room could be filled with junk. I bought it at theaters but yeah, put all man. If Hulk Hogan should have been in every movie in the movies.
Speaker 2:He's tried.
Speaker 1:He's just so good at talking. The. He's just so good at talking the grimsters could stand up to the Hulkster he's so ripped Hulk in his prime and they said, hey, he didn't do steroids.
Speaker 1:So back to the film. And Grandpa Fred is in the studio control room. It's a lot of news about clamp building problems. Fred gets the idea he goes to get the Asian guy to run the camera. He's. It's a lot of news about clamp building problems. Fred gets the idea he goes to get the Asian guy to run the camera. He's like I am a camera, oh God. And then we cut to a gremlin drinking electric formula and now we have an electric gremlin.
Speaker 2:Yes, that YouTube video is Key Peele, Key Peele.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh God one gremlin ends up throwing acid in another gremlin's face. I think I'm fat.
Speaker 2:Another gremlin drinks sex, change formula and now we have a female gremlin named greta me I love it yeah it's so it's so forward of them and she's so she dtf. And she DTF, dtf. She's great, she's like the Miss Piggy of Gremlins. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:She's the Guido of the Gremlins.
Speaker 2:She could easily have been on what's that show called?
Speaker 1:What Jim Tane Laundry baby. So Billy Doctor, catheter, forrester. They go back to the research lab, where now it's just pure chaos. Greta gets a crush on Forrester and kisses him and humps his leg a little bit. Yeah, hell yeah, get it girl. Doc has weapons. He says I got weapons right in here. It's like what the fuck, I know.
Speaker 1:He's got like an Uzi in there. But the electric gremlin shocks him to death and he just like turns into the skeleton classic poor Dr Cather. Then the mohawk gremlin he gets a hold of an Uzi yeah, he gets an assault rifle, shoots him.
Speaker 2:It's got like a silencer or an Uzi at the end yeah, it's like a little Uzi.
Speaker 1:I think we see Mo. He grabs the spider form. Oh Mo, I called him Mo in my notes, mohawk gremlin grabs the spider formula he's gonna be a spider. That's a cool ass idea.
Speaker 2:It's so rad, it's so smart like I feel like if they want to make another one, they should make it scarier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be kind of cool yeah well, I always wanted a gremlin del toro to do gremlins maybe. Hell yeah man he can make it scary yeah, and then we see another gremlin. He drinks something but it starts coming out of the bullet holes and then he does. Does the classic. I love it because the minions do the same thing. It's like when something happens they just kind of look around. It's always good. It always cracks me up.
Speaker 2:So he's got like. He has the glass, the beaker on his head that gets shot. He's just waiting to be shot at. You know, it's like when you think of movie making.
Speaker 1:It's just like who, I mean, who thought of a small detail like that? And it's like who just thought, hey, it'd be funny if we had like a gremlin with holes in it. And they stopped and laughed afterwards and it's like, yeah, that's so funny, I wouldn't have thought. I just wouldn't have thought to do that yeah, bring more coke more coke. That's true, everybody was on cocaine.
Speaker 1:They're having fever dreams after doing a whole bunch of cocaine. So, gizmo, he's able to untie himself from the train tracks and he thinks about the Rambo quote to survival you gotta become more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, then the weird training montage. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll see it, we'll see it. It's so good. So Clamp notices Grandpa Fred who is making a live news segment in the Clamp building talking about the Gremlins.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like I don't want any media coverage at all. It's like got media. He's right behind him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tv Gizmo is preparing for battle by working out. He's like lifting stuff he falls through the floor. So good, he's got a bandana on now like Rambo.
Speaker 2:He's punching the bag yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the Futtermans are at the clamp building and Murray's like I'm not crazy Looks at his wife, I told you I'm not crazy, and she's like you're not, you're not crazy. He starts taking more pictures right in front of his eyes. Moha drinks the spider formula and he rules even more. Now Billy talks, the clamp and the electric gremlin comes in the room, but billy is able to act quick and puts him on hold in the phone system that's so good, so ridiculous how do you?
Speaker 1:how do you uh, I don't know. Figure that out later. Yeah, I guess that's how they work here. Yeah, clamp tower it's like that gremlin's like invincible, now like can you even kill that one?
Speaker 1:I thought it was cool how they had him on the screen just like screaming and they they weren't originally gonna do this because they didn't think they were gonna be able to, like, do the animation. But then they came up with some sort of like a new cg animation type thing came out and they were like, oh, we can, we can actually do it now. So we ended up doing it and then Clamp plays a Clamp video building announcement because of the end of the civilization.
Speaker 2:I never thought I'd get a chance to use this one.
Speaker 1:The Clamp cable network now leaves the air. We hope you enjoyed our programming, but more importantly, we hoped you enjoyed life. Clamp's crying. It's so beautiful apparently all news, like cnn fox news. They all have a video like this oh damn.
Speaker 2:It's a play at the end of the world. It's like on wally. They had one too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that had to be found it's like man that made me scared reading that fact actually I was kind of like my butt clenched a little bit like they're prepared for the end of the world.
Speaker 2:We should make one for the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just like. Upload it real quick. Please listen, rate and subscribe please. There's no need. You're all dead. So Billy comes up with a plan. He has Clamp to move the clocks forward three hours so they can trick the gremlins into gathering in the lobby.
Speaker 2:and they can kill them with the sun. Pocus, pocus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't bring up hocus pocus the movie's mid as hell Hot take, I'm just not a big hocus pocus boy. The second one was an atrocity to my eyes. Yeah, it was bad, so bad. Oh, what if we had a Walgreens?
Speaker 2:I did like it in the second one how they were like leaned heavy in on like their relationship as sisters. Yeah, it was very sweet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm so glad we got it. Just kidding, if you can make fun of Point Break, I can make fun of Hocus Pocus. You can make fun of whatever you want, that's true, it's America, baby. Whatever you want, that's true, it's America, baby. So Clampo has to block out the sunlight from outside. He's excited to use his secret escape hatch and he loves the idea that he can save the city.
Speaker 2:Because he's just like a. I would love to see him getting into this hatch. I'm sure he has like a big slide, Kind of like Batman. He just goes into the slide and goes down into the capsule. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I love it. Oh capsule, yeah, I love it. Oh crap. What was I going to say?
Speaker 2:It's just because it's under a plant on the street. Yeah, it's so good. We should all have one.
Speaker 1:Then we cut to George and Lenny. They're watching movies and love when they see humans die.
Speaker 2:It's like a giant tentacle takes a guy and they're like yeah, the monster like picks him up, yeah and they just laugh.
Speaker 1:Then we cut to Marla who just walks straight into a spiderweb because it's so dark in there. We see Gizmo. He starts punching a speed bag that ended up punching some back Classic bit. Then we see Clamp rising from the ground.
Speaker 2:He's so happy.
Speaker 1:He's just smiling because he loves that. He just used it Hell yeah. So he comes out of his secret hatch, he is bombarded by the media and he, expertly, doesn't answer anything at all. Mary goes into Clamp's hatch, though, to help Billy. Way to go, mary, lenny. He starts messing with the AC and air pressure, causing more chaos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like a windstorm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like they can control the like like I don't know the environment Like sucking all the air pressure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:And then, because of this, billy gets tricked by a gremlin and gets knocked out. It's by Daffy. Gizmo starts creating weapons. He makes a bow and arrow out of paperclips and pencils. We see the time moving forward. Behind him, though, grandpa Fred, he sits down with the brain gremlin to have a talk with him on air.
Speaker 1:I was going to do the whole quote, but it's like damn, it's like three paragraphs. I didn't want to do that. The brain gremlin says they just want to create a civilization, have all the niceties that humans have. During this, he's all this that he's saying he shoots a gremlin. That annoys him. So you see, this is not how we want to react, but because we don't have the civilization that the humans do. And then outside the building we see the cover. They're covering all the windows like a night time looking thing, so funny. And then we man I love the news program, grandpa Fred after he brain gremlin shoots somebody's like, oh okay, I should probably exit now. And then we cut to Billy, who's tied up in a dentist chair. Daffy turns out to be the dentist. Why is there a dentist?
Speaker 2:chair in this building. I love how they all have uniforms. They find uniforms for all these different jobs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's great and I love the idea that Clamp's probably just like you know what. Actually I don't want to have to leave too much, so I'm just going gonna have, like a doctor, a dentist an optometrist.
Speaker 2:Whenever they talk about how they came from the lab, he's like we could have had two psychiatrists and a plastic surgeon in that room.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and lucky for Billy Murray shows up and they blind Daffy and he runs off. Kate, looking for Billy, runs into Marla who's caught in the web. Marla admits nothing happened between Billy and her and that it was mainly just all Marla stuff. While cutting her out, marla admits nothing happened between Billy and her and that it was mainly just all Marla stuff. While cutting her out Mohawk shows up in spider form. Yeah, hell yes, looks rad in silhouette, oh God.
Speaker 2:His arms are coming out in the shadow.
Speaker 1:It's just like not enough. Mohawk, though, in the movie yeah.
Speaker 2:They're about to be killed, but Gizmo shows up with a match and fires a flaming pencil arrow at the spider and burns him alive. Way to go, gizmo, you got your revenge. Yeah, the whole montage for one scene, yeah, and then gizmo pretty much doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1:Um, billy and murray show up to help the two women. I just realized that I put bill and then I put murray and I was like, wow, bill, bill Murray, but they show up to help the two women. Kate, kate looks at Gizmo. What happened to him? Gizmo looking tough. Now Billy, I don't know. I guess they pushed him too far, so cute. Fuck yeah, they just carried him around the rest of the time as they watch Mohawk burning Billy wants to give up.
Speaker 1:But Murray Futterman, we can't give up now. Washington didn't give up, lincoln didn't give up Kate. Please, murray, what's wrong? Kate? Don't mention Lincoln. Something terrible happened to me when we were on Lincoln's birthday what? I was six or seven and I had the day off from school and mama, let me go to the park. She made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I was six or seven and I had the day off from school and mama, let me go to the park. She made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I was going through that peanut butter and jelly sandwich phase and this man with this Billy honey I Kate beard and hat and he looked just like Abe Limpkin.
Speaker 1:Billy honey, I really don't think we have time for this right now. You know, Kate, he had this raincoat. I remember, oh God, he said hello, little girl. Oh, no, Flashing no.
Speaker 2:She got flashed as a kid, as Abraham Lincoln Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's why she hated that flashing Kremlin so much. Took her back, but I love that they did this.
Speaker 2:I love it Because of her insane speech in Kremlins 1.
Speaker 1:And they're like let's come up with something super ridiculous. Oh, about her dad dying in the chimney.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this was just essentially like they're just parodying that from the first movie, let's go, baby. I want to know where this Lincoln guy is. Is it the Lincoln guy at the statue or what's the cliff face with all the president's heads? Oh, the, because there's a guy there that is always dressed as Lincoln.
Speaker 1:Oh, is it really.
Speaker 2:Like a super tall guy. I've never seen it. He's like a.
Speaker 1:You take pictures with him and give him tips. It's gabe from the office. Yeah um. So now all the gremlins are in the lobby getting ready to leave, and then we get brain gremlin singing new york, new york. Dude, this is just pure joy. At this point, when they start partying, I'm like feed it into my veins, straight to it.
Speaker 2:So they're all excited that they're about to go outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're about to see New York. They're about to take over the world, baby.
Speaker 2:The musical number.
Speaker 1:Fred's like it's weird, they seem to be doing a musical number now, and then they have all these signs or whatever, and they all flip them down and it makes the thing for Greta's face, and then the eye has something like a little spiral thing that shrinks and then she comes out. It's so good, it's beautiful. We cut to some gremlins preparing for war. They have bazookas. They're like lighting dynamite.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's like what the hell is going on here. They're all so cute, clamp is about to drop the giant tarp covering the windows, but classic Storms comes in just to ruin everything.
Speaker 2:Great, we get a shot of Gremlins just I thought they were going to like say, get the weather machine. Yeah, yeah, right, why doesn't he have them?
Speaker 1:right outside we get shots of Gremlins, just you know l-i-v-i-n. Yeah, just living drinking. They're getting wb tattoos one of the tattoos we get the phantom of the opera gremlin did they do the whole bit? I love like he's playing the piano and then the one dressed up as like the girl from phantom opera turns around winks, takes the mask off.
Speaker 1:He's like yeah it's like well, you were already ugly either way. It's like genius Billy comes up with a plan, though. He wants to flood the lobby with water and then release the electric gremlin to shock them to death that's probably why it's in the movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they needed a way to kill these things. Yeah, it's like how do?
Speaker 1:we kill them. Murray turns on the water and they all start popping more out. It's great. I love it Because you see them when they zoom in. You see the bubbles on them. And then you like their little babies. Little babies, so gross and beautiful at the same time, god. And so they're popping out, they release the electric gremlin and they all start to get electrocuted and start melting. You got the one with the witch hat.
Speaker 2:I'm melting, of course they do I love when they melt and all their bones are showing.
Speaker 1:It looks so rad it's all gooey, all the forms it's melting. Now that it's safe, a the clamp SWAT team, come in the revolving doors don't work.
Speaker 2:He's got a gun too. He's leading the charge.
Speaker 1:It's like wait, this is just like clamp security has a SWAT team come in the revolving doors. He's got a gun too. He's like the leader in charge. It's like wait, this is just like clamp security has a SWAT team.
Speaker 2:It's like I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1:Like they try to go through all the revolving doors. None of them work. And then he like comes to the other door. He slips, slips and falls on all the goo and then so essentially we're just landing the plane here. Clamp decides to make Grandpa Fred a news anchor, tells him to get a tan. It's new clothing. Clamp congratulates the whole gang. Clamp and Marla make eyes at each other. They go boog. Clamp sees Billy's drawing of his hometown. Clamp loves it and wants to build a version of it in New Jersey. What are these?
Speaker 2:little people. Can I own them?
Speaker 1:Clamp Corner where life slows down to a crawl. Oh yeah, Gizmo pops out and Clamp sees him and he thinks that it would be a great toy and float in the Macy Day Parade. They're going to be rich now.
Speaker 2:He's already. He's just already merchandising it yeah.
Speaker 1:And Billy, like in this one conversation, just made like half a million dollars. I mean selling the plants to a town and then now also going to have the rights to Gizmo, which is essentially Furby's. Oh, they're going to own his ass, yeah. And then Gizmo says it's time to go home. Clamp gets a call, though it's Forrester and he's stuck in the bathroom. He has kisses all over his face. Then Greta comes in with a wedding dress.
Speaker 1:Yes, they're gonna get married he throws the bouquet, yeah, and he's like kinda into it yeah, and then they do, like the wedding, the gremlins are making the wedding song voice and we end with a kiss wow, that's gremlins too. Baby, it's a wild ride. I remember watching this with Richard, my friend, growing up. For the first time we watched Gremlins 1, but we did not know about Gremlins 2 like this and we're into wrestling, so Hulk Hogan was great. We're kind of weirdo kids, so seeing all the wacky Gremlins, we just ate it up.
Speaker 1:It's just like candy for me. I mean, I just like weird films and this movie is weird. It is very weird. It's like if you're going to make a kid's film and make it wonky and weird, then like, go for the sequel. You made a lot of money for the first one. The sequel just go buck ass wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what they did. I like that they made it. I mean it's pretty kid friendly, yeah Right.
Speaker 1:It's not too bad, there's not. It's not very. There's a lot of innuendos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure, but like.
Speaker 1:I don't know, like by the time your kid's 10, he's learned it. Yeah, do the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we talk about the good of the film, something we like, the bad, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. What do you want for the good?
Speaker 2:the good. I think I just love this good. I love the puppetry and the all the puppets. Yeah, it's so fun.
Speaker 1:The gremlins, the gremlins, yeah, they're the best, so good they look, amazing, they look they look. When you watch it it's like they're there. It doesn't feel like they're fake. Yeah, like ever. It feels like when you watch it there's just fucking gremlins in this building. It's wild, like it's so expertly done. Joe dante is so good and that's why he's in my good yeah, they're so just fun like by the time they show up after like a couple of minutes, you're like, no, this is just, this is what the world has.
Speaker 2:The world has gremlins. We all know this.
Speaker 1:I see him all the time and I'm not crazy. Yeah, all right, so mine is pretty much gremlins and Joe Dante. What do you got for the bad?
Speaker 2:I mean, there's some really bad like practical effects.
Speaker 1:Only bad. Like practical effects, uh, but only a couple, but it's still. It's very endearing, it's more.
Speaker 2:They're just kind of you know technology just yeah, technology wasn't fully there, yeah, and I don't know. It's just a movie like this is so fun it's hard to even the bad stuff is really just you kind of forget about it.
Speaker 1:You're just there to have a good time right, it's not a movie.
Speaker 2:That's like I have to think now I would really hate to be in that bathroom, though, jesus it's like I have to think now.
Speaker 1:I would really hate being that bathroom, though yeah jesus, it's like taking pictures of you, yeah my bad. I said not enough gizmo and not enough mohawk. Yeah, barely any gizmo or mohawk. Yeah, it's like, come on, guys, let's get a little bit more of that. Training montage was bullshit. Yeah, it's like he didn't learn anything.
Speaker 1:No training like 10 minutes yeah I wish he came out like super ripped, just swole like, shaved his, shaved his stomachs and just abs. Or just like a Hulk Hogan gizmo yeah, just rips the shirt, that'd be great. Alright, what do you? Got for something that didn't age? Well, you want me to do mine first. Yeah, go for it my ugly is nothing and I won't hear it. Yeah, yeah, there's really not a lot to do, mine first.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go for it. Ugly is nothing and I won't hear it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there's really not a lot yeah just a fun little movie.
Speaker 2:It's a fun little movie. I don't think working in a corporate office is necessarily an age. Well, I've never done it before, but it looks awful.
Speaker 1:Clamp is the president, clamp it, clamp it, clamp it, and then we'll go to the fine. My fine was this movie it ages well seriously it's so good and fun and it's forgotten about because of the first Gremlins movie which I want to watch. I want to watch both of them again. What about you?
Speaker 2:what about you?
Speaker 1:what was the fine?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean I think anytime this amount of creativity and, like all these great, there's a lot of really great actors in this movie and when they come together and it looks like they're just having a really fun time yeah you know, actually makes things age well, giving directors in, like the 80s and 90s free reign in movies that aged well, yeah.
Speaker 1:Now all it means is how much CGI are you going to use?
Speaker 2:no, well now it's just like oh, I have free reign.
Speaker 1:Cool, my movie's 10 hours long. Oh yes, that's my free reign. I decided to make the longest movie ever. We'll call it the Jesse Cut. Yeah, it's like dude, don't ever call it the Jesse Cut. Very rarely do you hear me. This movie's. There's only like what?
Speaker 2:two or three movies on this whole podcast where I'm like it could have used a little bit longer.
Speaker 1:Most of the time I'm like, oh man, cut it, cut it to death. I'd be a terrible producer People would be like fuck dude, he keeps telling me to cut things out of my movies. All right, we're going to end this with our final category. That's where we discuss a double feature, something that goes well with this movie. I chose the little, cute little critters from the movie. Critters, critters. They're just little fur balls.
Speaker 2:They got big old mouths and beady eyes and they eat you in your flesh, tiny little hands and big old feet.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so fucking rad. I love it. The movie's so bad and I love it. Billy Zane's in it, baby. Oh yeah, directed by Stephen Herc. Everybody knows Gremlins or Critters, I don't really have to discuss. The director did Mr Holland's Opus and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and the Three Musketeers from 93 guy had actually a pretty good run. Hell yeah, cool. Alright, what do you got for your double?
Speaker 2:feature, I chose the Neverending Story. I kind of came up in this doing a little research projects with the. It's got like the saddest horse death ever, like from your childhood movies, kind of sad. Yeah. But it came really made me want to watch that again.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I need to rewatch it Cause some people will like talk about scenes other than that one and like the boat scene where the golden things and those are the two things and the rock monster those are the three things I really remember and people. Anytime someone brings up something other than those three things, I'm like I have no idea what you're talking about that's so hard to remember anything about. He flies on the dog dragon. That's cool that's.
Speaker 1:I remember that looks so fluffy so I do need to re-watch that. Just need to watch a lot of like old movies I watched as a kid like indian in the cupboard and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:I used to read all those books I had, like Darth Vader in his cover, lightsabering things. Hell yeah, that's Gremlins 2, baby Nice. Hell yes, we did it. And I guess everybody is in anticipation to see are we going to do a Christmas movie at any point? In December, I think we should. I mean, we did Gremlins 2, because it's Christmas adjacent.
Speaker 2:It wasn't Christmas at all. No at all. There's nothing.
Speaker 1:Christmas about it. I just wanted to do Gremlins 2. Yeah, that's fine, it reminds you of Christmas just because of Gremlins. Yeah, the first one. So we're going to do one of my favorite Christmas movies and you can kiss, kiss my bang bang baby Because we're doing kiss, kiss, bang bang.
Speaker 2:It's totally Christmas adjacent. It's Shane Black.
Speaker 1:If it's a Shane Black movie, if you wrote it or direct it, it's a Christmas movie Because he loves Christmas and it stars Robert Downey Jr, val Kilmer, michelle Monaghan. Like, come on, stars Robert Downey Jr, val Kilmer, michelle Monaghan. Like come on, three bangers of actors right there and it's like probably the last. Like super good Val Kilmer performance yeah and I also had a Top Gun Maverick, but he couldn't really talk that well during that he got sick right yeah, he died like shortly after that filming.
Speaker 1:That which was really sad, but it was a great scene still made Still made me emotional because I love Val Kilmer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's really funny in this one. Yeah, oh, he's so good, robert.
Speaker 1:Downey Jr is too, and it's like Downey Jr's back. He's sober and Shane Black gave him a chance. It's before he became Iron man. Yeah, it's like right before. It's like the movie before, I guess. Well, because Iron man was like 08 and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's 05. So make sure you join us for that. If you haven't seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, seems like a good time to do it. It's a fucking good movie. Good time to watch it. So, yeah, join us next week for that. And you know, leave us some reviews, give us five stars.
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