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> Forty years ago, Hollywood made gremlins loveable—portraying them as adorable, furry creatures. Did the author even watch the movie? The fluffy lovable crea
by supermatt 2y ago
> Forty years ago, Hollywood made gremlins loveable—portraying them as adorable, furry creatures.
Did the author even watch the movie?
The fluffy lovable creatures are mogwai, and they transform into the not-at-all furry or loveable gremlins if fed after midnight. They arent gremlins until they transform.
This inaccuracy invalidates the entire “Hollywood gremlin” discrepancy that is being made for much of the article.
- dundarious 2y agoRead the first paragraph, the author knows. Perhaps the editor and staff did not.
- supermatt 2y agoThey just say they become vicious after midnight but still refer to the mogwai as gremlins, even drawing a parallel with furby later in the article.
- emmelaich 2y agoThe linked Atlas Obscura article is probably better. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-gremlins https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-gremlins
- supermatt 2y agoThat’s a much better article overall.
- surprisetalk 2y agoIn the author's defense, the mogwai were advertised as gremlins: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUI891ejeYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUI891ejeYc The magnitude of the Gremlins bait-and-switch still baffles me. They marketed it as a family/kids' film; it was a horror/comedy for adults. How did the studio think that was going to play out? Anyway, unless you've seen the film or heard people like us rant about it, it's a pretty easy mistake to make.
- supermatt 2y agoThat’s definitely confusing. Is it a real product commercial? I can see parents not wanting the actual gremlins on the packaging lol.
- vtodekl 2y ago[dead]
- marcosdumay 2y ago> How did the studio think that was going to play out? Well, it was the 80s. Studios got away with that kind of stuff all the time. On the author's defense, the GP seem to have overlooked the remaining of the paragraph. But if he actually insisted on that, widely citing a movie without even watching it wouldn't deserve that excuse.
- bryanrasmussen 2y ago>How did the studio think that was going to play out? I'm hoping they thought it was going to be a big hit earning a couple hundred millions of dollars and with a very profitable toy line otherwise they would have been sorely disappointed.
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- stickfigure 2y agoI never really understood this. Isn't 10am ten hours "after midnight"? What exactly is the safe range of feeding for a mogwai?
- t-3 2y agoI always understood the limit as being from midnight to dawn. Midnight should probably be understood as the lunar zenith rather than the clock time as well.
- jon_richards 2y agoLunar zenith isn’t midnight. It can happy at any time, including during the day.
- euroderf 2y agoSounds like a nifty way to introduce gradeschoolers to astronomic concepts.
- dundarious 2y agoThe person who makes this remark in Gremlins 2 is immediately violently sliced open in a comedic but also horrific way. Probably the best response.
- hprotagonist 2y agoIf someone said that Mogwai are the stars I would not object. If the stars had a sound it would sound like this
- Sardtok 2y agoMogwai literally means devil in Cantonese.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]