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― 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
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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
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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
If you did not cry at ET you are probably a Cylon or a zombie.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
prolly a hardass due to childhood ET trauma
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Probably. I think it was the part about not having a home? And possibly not having a mother to make it okay. What year did that thing come out? My bro was probably only...5? 7?
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
ET is '82
if somebody had made a cylon vs zombies movie in 1978 I would have been the happiest 8 yo alive
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
1982 - At least that's the year ohn the tag on my ET Doll.
That is so sad Laurel! I watch ET once every couple years and p much start crying when he first gets lost straight through to the end. The final scene where he has to say goodbye to Elliot and the ship is there with his family - OMG forget about it. Full-on blubbering.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
1982. (Same year as Poltergeist!)
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
The ghost librarian made me jump, but I wasn't scared. There's a long build up to it, and it's a sudden shock, but there's nothing else in Ghostbusters that's purposely designed to make you crap yourself.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
I swear my sister got scared & bawled her eyes out at every movie we saw in the theater as kids...she cried at the whale scene in Pinocchio, she cried when Christopher Lloyd revealed his cartoony eyes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit...pretty sure she cried in Ghostbusters...I don't remember getting super-scared that much.
I was afraid of the idea of horror movies for a long time though. The covers in the video store's horror section was enough to keep me good and scared for at least 13 years, lol.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
I have never seen ET.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
If you are not crying by AT LEAST the time the older brother finds ET in the drainage ditch after he disappears on Halloween, you are probably not a person I want to be friends with.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I saw poltergeist and ET on their respective opening nights within a week of each other, 11yo me preferred the former
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
i saw so much fucked-up shit in the 70's on t.v. starsky & hutch alone...probably a lot of it went over my head. saw so many hookers get murdered by the time i was 10.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
aged 8 that ET-in-a-ditch bit was the most shocking scene ever, still getting over that one. horrifying!
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
same here. I was watching old episodes of the night stalker on netflix recently and couldn't believe how gritty it was. one scene took place in a brothel.
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― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
don't be afraid of the dark, though. jesus. that was on regular t.v. in the middle of the day when i first saw that. severe trauma.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Mr Veg still has his recorded-off-the-tv vhs cassette of Assault on Precinct 13. We watched it a few years ago and it is kind of awesome that the icecream truck scene happens and then *boop* commercial break. O_O
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
night stalker was a great find on KCPQ back in the days of yore.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
"hi, lil' scott. see ya later when you're in bed..."
http://campblood.org/Newblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dbaotd.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Hill Street Blues was way grittier than any movie i'd seen and yet no one seemed to mind me watching it as a pre-teen kid just cause it was on TV. it's like *proper* gritty if you're 9.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.kindertrauma.com/
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
a) Christopher Lloyd revealed his cartoony eyes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit This is terrifying.
b) If you are not crying by AT LEAST the time the older brother finds ET in the drainage ditch after he disappears on Halloween - This is the part I mean!! I am a goner from that point straight through to the end.
c) AP you should see it. It's wonderful.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Sick ET is the saddest. He's all pale and transparent and I bet if I thought hard enough about it or looked for pics online I would get misty-eyed.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Poltergeist and ET both had their origins in the unmade script for Night Skies
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
large marge hella freaked out my son a year or two ago, took a lot of coaching to get him to finish watching the movie
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
and yeah, Christopher Lloyd in Roger Rabbit was the scariest thing i'd ever seen as a kid
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
More disturbing for me in "Roger Rabbit" was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPkAUBr4Sc
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link