^^ I am going to C&P that into a word doc and read it to myself every time a poll comes up and I feel that way which is pretty much every movie poll.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Don't feel to bad. Dr Morbius was intimidated too.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
thunderdome has a lot of missteps. max's relationship w/ the feral kid i road warrior was touching but still hardnosed, the lost boys stuff in thunderdome felt like diet spielberg bullshit. and for a guy who made some impeccable casting choices (how many bit players from road warrior have their mugs emblazoned in yr memory?), tina turner was a huge mistake.
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Miller made the cage fight at least funny...but overall I just hate the non-max feel of thunderdome. It's so far from the first 2 in almost every possible way.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Did she have horns or am I making that up. I sort of remember her riding around the desert with big-ass horns.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but as far as PG-13 Mad Max, I couldn't ask for anything more. And if ever there were a movie designed for 13 year olds, it's "Thunderdome." Tons of fun, and sends you back to the first two. Where your childhood ends.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Thunderdome had American financing, so more hands in the pie, more "you know who would be grebt, Tina Turner"
love Frank Thring tho
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
i keep wanting to put big trouble on for the kids but i can never remember if there is anything too scary in it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I've come to appreciate it more over the years, but as a massive max fan who saw thunderdome in the theater at the first available moment, it felt like a huge betrayal
still waiting for miller's written apology to me tbh
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, my little brother did this, too. Then he sang the theme song 70x a day for three months.― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:02 AM (6 minutes ago)
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:02 AM (6 minutes ago)
looool the bryan adams one? p sure that was the first cass single i owned.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
xpost How old are your kids? I'd suggest ... 10 and up.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
iirc underwater corpses are the scariest things in big trouble but the kids have prolly seen scarier things in yr record collection scott
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah maybe i'll wait a year or two. they liked goonies i think. you never know what might freak them out.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
wanna watch gremlins with them too but i might wait for that too.
gremlins is pretty gory but also has major santa spoilers if that's a concern
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'd equate Goonies and Big Trouble, as far as viewing age goes. A little bit of violence, a little bit of sex, but still mostly innocent. Gremlins I'd wager is too intense.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
phoebe cates' whole "here's how I found out there's no santa" story might be more troubling to kids than a gremlin exploding in a microwave
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
cyrus got freaked by kung pow last week. rufus got mad that we couldn't finish watching it. i remember it being tame and silly but there is stuff like the hole in the guy's chest and stuff like that...
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
gremlin exploding in a microwave
Action movie!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
^ ha, my life
tho usually it's the 10 yo boy getting freaked out while the 7 yo girl takes stuff like coraline and ghost rider in stride
xp
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
ooh forgot about the santa thing! man, its been awhile since i've seen some of these. i was happy that they liked flash gordon so much. cyrus got a little scared by the part with the hand in the tree stump tree people scene. but not too scared.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
every time I watch Thunderdome on tv I get so crazily IA, it's SUCH a steaming pile of not-awesome. And being marketed to kids was just, WHY. I get the childhood nostalgia for it (I still love the Tina song) but it was a cinematic crime, pure and simple. Hmph.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
*fist bump*
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
cyrus - who is younger - loved coraline and rufus got SERIOUSLY feaked by it! we had to hide the dvd box from him. he couldn't even look at it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, we didn't have the cassingle, we had the piano sheet music.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
we all loved Gremlins as litlte kids. it's almost completely bloodless iirc and i was always baffled by the '15' rating, although i guess the-dog-tied-up-with-the-fairy-lights is a bit of a jolt if you're 10 or whatever.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
rufus otm
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Along with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, also rated PG, Gremlins was one of two films in 1984 to influence the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating, with Red Dawn being the first film given the new rating in August 1984.[9] The scene in which a gremlin explodes in the microwave was particularly influential to the idea that some films too light to be rated R are still too mature to be rated PG.
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
have only recently convinced my boy to watch spirited away, the old lady in the trailer freaked him out for years
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
So glad I was already 14 when PG-13 came into being.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Gremlins is not bloodless. The Gremlins are mean and violent and have claws and stuff! But then ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN16Wgp48MI&feature=fvwrel
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't allowed to see Gremlins as a kid because Ghostbusters scared the crap out of me to the point where I wouldn't watch it all and had nightmares for weeeks. My mom realized that if I couldn't handle that there was no way I'd be able to handle Gremins which is how I wound up seeing The New Batch way before OG Gremlins and didn't see Ghostbusters in it's entirety until I was a teenager.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
hm yeah some blood then.
they cut the chest scene in the UK for Temple Of Doom! drives me mad that kind of shiz. can't believe it took the doofuses another few YEARS to come up with the '12'; the UK version of 'PG 13' which is what Gremlins/ Temple.. should have had all along.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I want to say Chris Columbus lives less than a mile away from me...
The story I've always heard, once from Dante himself, was that the original Columbus Gremlins script was totally vicious and violent, even more than the finished version, and that the studio had him tone things down. But Spielberg personally lobbied on behalf of Dante to have some of the more grisly bits reinstated! Between Poltergeist and Gremlins, Spielberg sure got away with some nasty stuff by proxy.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
the more I think about gremlins the more I can see why it would freak out kids, there's an almost apocalyptic feel towards the end when 99% of the town's population has been wiped out
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
x-posts
omg i love the Snow White watching gremlins so much
it's almost as good as when they sing NY, NY in TNB which is one of the best things ever imo
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Been trying to figure out when to let my older daughter see Ghostbusters (another action movie!).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
How old is she?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
7
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom AND Gremlins all with my dad when I spent the summer of 1984 with him in Hawaii. (The latter two at a drive-in! As a double feature!) What a summer!
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
most of ghostbusters isn't scary.... but the lady in the library....
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh that's true yeah the script is online. the tone in the finished version is bang on because the tied-up dog is really scary at first but then they pull him down and he's not got a scratch on him. it's kinda nasty-not-nasty.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, she has friends who have seen it and other stuff. but then again, having volunteered in her class, I can also say she has friends who are fucked up.
but then, I was seeing Alien and Jaws when I was five or so.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
Hmmmm. I wouldn't not have been able to handle it at 7 but I was a wimp and really easily scared. Ghostbusters isn't even that scary! Of course I know this now but at the time I was singing an entirely different tune. Maybe wait until 8. That sounds more grown-up some how.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
. but the lady in the library....
Is exactly what made me lose my shit and gave me nightmares. That's in the beginning of the movie too, right? Needless to say I BSd my way though a lot of convos about how great that movie was that year since I hardly saw any of it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
oops sorry if I youtube ptsd'd you
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, thanks E3. Totally not watching that.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
One of my brothers wanted REALLY BADLY an ET-themed birthday, so all his presents revolved around it, and the candles on his cake were made up as little rockets and there were Reese's Pieces everywhere, and then he and all his friends went to actually SEE the movie as part of the party and he was so scared/sad that he cried.
The reason that this is a funny store that we tell sometimes in my family is that my brother's kind of a hardass now.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link