- Listener Mail this week from Jaime of the Girls Night In podcast! ( Send your own, if you dare, to flickabrac @gmail.com - space added to protect against spambots. If you don't want it read on the show, please make a note of that. )
- In Theaters October 12.
- Mini-review of The Game Plan
- What I like and dislike about the movie Gremlins.
- As in-depth a discussion of Gremlins and its sequel as one can get, considering what these movie are -- nothing more than ordered chaos. (With thanks, as always, to Kim and Wendiigo, as well as Other Kim, for their participation in the discussion.)
11:42 - Host refers to Gremlin leader as "Spike", when it is Stripe in the first movie. Spike is the leader of the second movie's crowd of gremlins. We apologize for the host getting his gremlins confused.
14:04 - Host says Steven Spielberg directed... not sure why. Host knew better, as he had said at the beginning of the movie chat (even though he got it wrong then, too) that Spielberg merely Executive Produced. There is no excuse. The host is stupid. In truth, Joe Dante directed both Gremlins movies.
During the portion of the program where the host mentioned the various references he spotted in Gremlins 2, the two references he completely omitted -- and which were the most fun -- were the Leonard Maltin review of the first Gremlins film (and the criticism such a review subsequently garnered) and the "breaking" of the film, which admittedly is more amusing when viewed in a theater. (As I recall, actually, they had done a video-specific sequence for the VHS release... I wonder if they included that in the special features I didn't bother to watch.)
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October 13:
Adaptations
November 3:
Stranger Than Fiction
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