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In 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 T
by surprisetalk 2y ago
In 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.