In many ways, though, Gremlins is ingenious. Gizmo yanks at your heartstrings with both furry fists, then sits out a few scenes while suspense builds, then plunges back with more vim than ever. The small-town setting, right out of a gushy Frank Capra movie, manages to be timeless, nostalgic, and slightly ridiculous all at once.
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Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture.
A welcome reissue of the 1984 creature feature in which a Capra-esque idyll is besieged by ravening beasties.
Gremlins was hailed as another "E.T." It's not. It's in a different tradition. At the level of Serious Film Criticism, it's a meditation on the myths in our movies: Christmas, families, monsters, retail stores, movies, boogeymen. At the level of Pop Movie-going, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés. But don't go if you still believe in Santa Claus.
Gremlins is far more interested in showing off its knowledge of movie lore and making random jokes than in providing consistent entertainment. Unfortunately, it's funniest when being most nasty.
A delightfully offbeat reminder of how inventive and witty blockbusters seemed when you were a kid.
A jangling, lunatic sugar rush of a movie, in love with everything it satirises and bursting at the seams with psychotic energy
What's confusing yet ultimately illuminating is the way his gremlins function as a free-floating metaphor, suggesting at separate junctures everything from teenagers to blacks to various Freudian suppressions.
A/语气在中段悄然转折之后几乎一路狂笑到结尾,预计可以和惊声尖叫并列影史最好笑恐怖片。将儿童/青春片类型与恐怖/惊悚类型桥接起来的并非未成年与成年的陈旧对位,(父亲仅仅为开头把这个故事拉开序幕),而是玩具/宠物貌似可控的机械性与内在于机械性中破坏性的神秘。因而成年人的机械制造与儿童对玩具的掌控处于同一平面。试图将童话变成现实的成年人,与不断释放着玩具、宠物以及其自身的破坏力的青少年共享着同一种美妙的欲望。怪物既会被电影院的光影所吸引,也会撕破并翻转着银幕,真正狂欢的《天堂电影院》。
4k hdr,要是在圣诞节看这片是够恶趣味的,开头的仿夺宝奇兵广告牌无缝衔接电影字幕steven spielberg presents好妙啊,老斯制片哥伦布剧本,看前面以为是毛茸茸蠢萌的圣诞合家欢,结果40分钟开始突然变成恶趣味恐怖片了,老妈在厨房战斗力超强(画面也很恶),菲比凯茨当了花瓶,一群大魔怪智商很高啊,感觉前40分钟铺垫里有的人物和设定没什么用处
男主是个煞笔,上班偷偷带狗(如果是坐办公室的职位还可以纠结一下,但搞客服的你居然带狗,要是客户过敏送急诊怎么办?你有钱赔?)从这一点就能看出来他无视规矩,养不了魔怪,更别说主动给魔怪身上滴水给学校老师示范(第一次是无意的也就罢了,再犯就是坏)。 房东老太太虽然脾气坏,但她从头到尾没犯错,给租客延期是她善良,不给延期是本分。 还有男主爹,没有一样发明是能用的,要么你像李安那样乖乖在家搞发明做家务,十年磨一剑;要么就好好出去找个工作养家。发明武器也行,反正你老婆杀魔怪时用起来挺顺手。 最后女主的故事,闭嘴吧你,你爹自找的,怨不了圣诞节。
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Gremlins和当年同时上映的Ghostbusters在英语国家早已是文化现象,国内知名度竟这么低。对这类片子的故事细节不合理之处是不用在意的,看年代想像力就好。(女主刚开始讲述童年悲惨小故事时无聊得要睡过去了,结果完全被震到……(Gizmo真的可爱,不是样貌的可爱,是可爱的可爱,我真的好想养他
所以说半夜过了十二点再吃东西就会从可爱的毛茸茸变成丑八怪啊!
死伤最多死法最丰富最爆浆的……圣诞夜电影。最无用男主和最神勇妈妈。剧情没什么出奇,但在84年要完成这样一部电影,技术的难度和繁杂十分可佩。而且小细节上的恶趣味十分中我意。PS:人类区分可爱vs恶心的标准就是毛绒绒vs皱巴巴。讽刺的是人类天然秃溜溜而且总有一天皱巴巴。
说了人家叫魔怪,干嘛要叫小精灵?说了不能碰水,干嘛要把水洒人家身上?说了不能半夜喂食,干嘛要给鸡腿?别说什么不是故意的,根本就是不够重视,责任感不强。用魔怪的天赋害了整个社会,只能怪人类自己,最后的中国老爷爷说得对,你还没准备好,你没资格养它。PS:Furby是魔怪在美国遗留的私生子?
80年代的恐怖喜剧,Mogwai就是来自这部电影。斯皮尔伯格曾想让蒂姆·波顿执导本片,但后来又因当时的波顿没执导过长片而放弃。养小魔怪三大规条:一,别让它接触水;二,别让它接触阳光;三,千万不要午夜后喂它。
CC的剧本就是这么童真还带点恶趣味。马麻在厨房真是好身手。Stripe这淘气鬼臭爆了,诡计多端。说什么隐喻,用不用这么累啊各位影评,好看好玩就好嘛。
再经典不过的美国恐怖片。1984年出品啊,比我都大了几岁。很喜欢,小魔怪的故事告诉我们--------对于未知应保持敬畏。#不要误操作啊#
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老电影了,看的是圣城家园翻译的版本,小魔怪好可爱,年轻时候的菲比凯茨真美啊,可惜她早早嫁人息影了
变身后很恶
Gizmo太可愛了!喜歡最後壞魔怪電影院看《白雪公主》,及群魔亂舞宛如《畸形人》、《侏儒都是這樣長大》般的失序。
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小魔怪大闹祥和中产阶级社区。女主角的悲惨故事听着很有喜感啊
明显就是从《恐怖宠物店》第一回里掰出来的嘛~就是不知道有没有付钱给秋乃茉莉。
太有意思了!!!!!!
我讨厌美国人总把唐人街看的那么妖!~!
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