{"id":1789,"date":"2010-10-13T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:38","slug":"gremlins-2-usa-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Gremlins 2 (USA, 1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/56\/Gremlins2poster.jpg><br \/>\nIn this movie, virtually nothing coherent happens, and thousands of tiny green violent anarchists go wild in a high-tech tower. Still astonishing. Haven&#8217;t seen it for well over a decade, and I got more of the movie references &#8211; the referential density of this film might outweigh even <em>Spaced<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I laughed and laughed, and then I laughed some more. Cal sat with furrowed brow; this movie is not for everyone, it seems. She at least had the good grace to be alarmed when the film apparently broke, in the film&#8217;s most famous sequence; the DVD film uses the theatrical version, in which gremlins in the projection booth have snapped the film and the usher fetches Hulk Hogan to scare the gremlins into carrying on. There&#8217;s also a video version which went out on the VHS release, in which the film greys out as VHS tapes used to do and the gremlins turn up interspliced with a John Wayne movie. Also of note is this bravura fan effort, updating the film break sequence to the DVD era:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/REGCV6z3VkM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n(More info on this <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2008\/09\/02\/gremlins-2-film-brea.html\">at BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I love this movie. It&#8217;s an easy 100 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>(Scott Tobias at the AV Club puts it in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-new-cult-canon-gremlins-2,2427\/\">new cult canon<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this movie, virtually nothing coherent happens, and thousands of tiny green violent anarchists go wild in a high-tech tower. Still astonishing. Haven&#8217;t seen it for well over a decade, and I got more of the movie references &#8211; the referential density of this film might outweigh even Spaced. I laughed and laughed, and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gremlins 2 (USA, 1990)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,23],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen","tag-film","tag-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-sR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}