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I love that parents never want to take take responsibility for thier kids. "It's not our fault, it's the rating". It was PG = PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED. Meaning parents needed to review it themselves before showing it to thier kids and the parents decide what thier kids can handle.
Pre watch what you intend your child to watch. There are many reasons for doing so, what scared you as a kid? Does that scare your child. What entertained you as a kid, does that entertain your kid? I had this dilemma very recently , my 7 year wanted to watch Back to the Future after seeing a trailer. I did not have to re watch it, I knew it word for word. But he insisted. I'm sure he'd be bored and not get it and move on. He did not. We watched all three and he broke them down for me. He had an awesome perspective and many questions. I was so impressed I handed over my DVD set (I kept the Blu-Ray 4K) and he keeps watching them... Well, 1&2. He says he'll only watch three again each time he has someone who's never seen them, just to finish the story for them! He's 7! I was not that savvy at 7. But, that said. He also quite likes getting away with saying "when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious s***." So, yeah he's still 7.
A lot of great violent or non violent cult classic franchise trilogy movies etc back in the good old days no cgi was invented those days indiana Jones franchise indiana Jones and the temple of doom great storyline my favourite film Indiana Jones taking on a army of evil indiana cult group gremlins 1 and 2 great films back in the time dreamscape batman franchise batman returns great villians and characters including Danny DeVito playing the great cheesy villian penguin Michelle phifer Catwoman and Michael Keaton batman also jaws films were great back then the meg 2 if it should be rated r or pg13 the meg 2 was a great film also this year with the action scenes the gore scenes from the meg dallon shark the octopus gore scenes the dinosaur scenes also robocop remake was terrible the original was better Jurassic Park franchise was great and violent still is pg13 which it great dreamscape great pg13 fantasy violent horror film a rival which came out the same year as nightmare on elm street 1984 is also a cult classic fantasy horror film great film back in the mid 80s the original polt ie gest franchise back in the day was also a great horror film franchise poltergeist remake was terrible the halftime show was controversial with Justin Timberlake pulling the bra off Janet Jackson
I was 13 years old when both GREMLINS and INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM hit theaters. The 80's were a great time to be a kid and go to these kind of films. E.T., POLTERGEIST, GOONIES, RETURN OF THE JEDI, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, etc etc etc. Being a 13 year old and watching them for the first time on the big screen with no Internet, no social media, and no spoilers (not counting the big news spoilers of 1982 for STAR TREK II THE WRATH OF KHAN), it was an absolute GLORIOUS time to be entertained. Were we scared? Yes. Were we thrilled? Yes? Were we excited? Absolutely!!! Did we want them edited? NOOOOOO. I was fine with PG13 being created. It was the right thing to do. But we weren't permanently scarred or anything and we didn't feel it was inappropriate. I guess the creation of the PG13 rating was the same as them created NC17 as well. Guess they needed an in between as well. Thanks for the video. It was fun.
Gremlins is still a 15 here in the UK when is should have been down graded to 12 by now.jaws is now a 12 since it's blue ray release it used to a Pg and temple of doom didn't get an uncut release until blue ray its release it got 12.
That scene you showed from Jurassic Park when the t rex snatched the lawyer off of the toilet might say it all to me. A friend who had cable tv back in the olden days recorded it for us and my wife, sons and myself sat or lay down in front of the vcr to watch it. My wife and youngest son went to sleep as expected while my eldest, then two years old and I continued to watch the movie. When the movie got to that scene my son, with his eyes remaining glued to the tv, crawled up into bed next to my sleeping wife and got under the covers. I paused the movie and asked him if that had scared him, his answer was, "uh-huh, watch that again!" I rewinded the tape to that scene, and we watched it again.
I attempted to show Gremlins to my 9 year old daughter a few months ago, forgetting how scary it becomes about 30 minutes in. She freaked out when Mom started hearing noises in the house after discovering the empty gooey pods. We shut it off to be revisited in the future. She likes to be a little frightened in movies, but not this much. Great job on this video, Minty!
Having your mom speaking was great for two reasons: 1. It came out of nowhere and was hilarious 2. We had a real reason from a parent who actually made that decision.
That Poltergeist/Pizza Hut/jump cut info absolutely blew my mind. I thought that was an effective filmmaking choice to convey the father disassociating out of fear. It felt like it was on purpose and it’s always caught my attention. I am absolutely stunned. And I could also really go for a stuffed crust pizza and a Dr. Pepper right now, for some reason….
Not sure of how true it is cuz Diane isn't anywhere close to talking about pizza hut plus when Carol Anne says they're here she actually says they're all here but they cut it out so they could have done a better job if the pizza hut rumor is true which could have been a cut line but not why the jump cut is so badly done
Hello Minty's Mum! Thank you for being the mother to one of the most enjoyable RUclipsrs we have had the pleasure of listening to and for participating in this marvelous video. God bless!!!
I am quite glad that the likes of Gremlins, Indiana Jones, Keaton's Batman, Jaws, and other strong PG or 13 films were part of my younger childhood. Being an 80s/90s kid, I was even allowed certain R films. Being able to watch these kinds of things at a younger age not only showed I could be trusted with them (even if my younger self got freaked out at times) but that I could appreciate them for what they were. Many others no doubt can say the same.
I met Billy at a con, he signed the inside of an ear on the flasher/trench coat gremlin. Super nice dude. Also got it signed by Corey Feldman a few months later. Funny story, I was walking inside the venue and literally ran into Corey almost knocking him over. He was coming up an escalator with a hat and sunglasses looking downward, neither of us were paying attention. He was chill about the whole thing. I didn't realize who it was until he looked up at me. Needless to say I was a little shocked. Good times.
@@Tyler45nilbog I sure don't think so. After countless viewings over 4 decades I still find it highly enjoyable. It's the quintessential "kids in a humdrum life go on an amazing adventure" movie.
I have to agree with that cut in Poltergeist, saying you hate Pizza Hut in the early 80’s was maybe sacrilegious, a trip to Pizza Hut back then was the best treat you could get as a kid.
Remember when they had that reading program in conjunction with the public elementary schools? That was probably responsible for more kids mastering reading than any of the in-school programs.
Thank you Mark for continuing to make sure great videos I always look forward to them. Looking forward to more in 2024 Have fantastic Christmas and safe new year to you Mark and your family. Gary from England
I remember watching Jaws at the drive-in in the back of a Chevy Nomad. I never been so scared in all my life. I could close my eyes or put my head in the giant grocery bag of popcorn. We made our own snacks back then and the grocery bag was paper. I couldn't escape the music. Even my older brother was scared. We lived in Socal near the beaches. Was a whole different experience going to be beach from then on out. Cheers from the PNW Seattle WA area 🤘
Your parents must have been real sticklers. My mom let me watch gremlins, and i was like 6 or 7 at the time. To this day, we watch it every year during the Christmas season
@@jorgegodoy6824, lol! X D Friday 13 and Nightmare on Elm St. were off the table for me in the '90s. Porkies, and Cheech 'n Chong, not so much. Damn, I love my dad, I couldn't be much older than 7 too!
My parents let me watch pretty much anything. I’m glad for it. Even though Poltergeist scared the hell out of me as a 6 year old it such a well made film! So many of the movies people thought I was too young to watch are great movies and I’m glad they were my movie influences. I watched The Color Purple when I was about 7. So I’m not just talking about horror. I honestly think my film education helped me in school, I understood a lot more subtext in literature classes than kids who were only allowed cartoons and Disney.
Up to PG-13 was my parents rating limit. The first R-rated movie I ever watched was Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, but that's because it really wasn't that bad. Dad said worse words than Steve Martin in that one scene.
My Dad was the same way. I was 4 years old and remember watching everything from Gremlins and Robocop to Terminator and Rambo. He figured the best way to desensitize me to fear and gore was to just get it over with, like ripping off a band-aid. Then I saw the movie Arachnophobia and began a lifelong fear of spiders.....
@@KamenRiderGumo arachnophobia is the one and only movie I remember my parents saying no to me seeing. I did eventually watch it on cable a few years later. But when it was in theaters my parents and older siblings went to see it at a drive in. I’m still not sure if they kept me away because they thought it was too scary or if they just didn’t want to risk me ruining their movie experience in a confined space.
Thanks for the coverage of this issue. I always think when movies are rated, "not for children" but books about fairy tales with witches, ogres, and other scary themes are read to kids 2yo and above. My parents let me watch anything I wanted, and I often stayed up late with my dad watching the twilight zone 😂
The first time I watched Gremlins I was 8 years old, the station that showed it was aimed towards kids and pre-teens (YTV, shout out to all my fellow Canadians who watched that station back then) and they had commercials for it after every tv show, not once showing the Gremlins but the Mogwai. The night it premiered I was so excited to watch it, my dad's gf at the time told me she took her kids to go see it back when it came out and they loved it (again not once telling me it was a little scary) As soon as I saw the eggs I started to get a little uneasy and once they showed the kitchen scene... I was beyond terrified! But also loving the movie. It scared me but I loved it, a week later I found the DVD at Walmart and begged my mom to buy it for me. To this day I still have it and watch it around Christmas every year
I've been watching your channel for a long time and I love it! I listen to episodes on the way to work every day! Thanks for all the great videos and hard work and keep up the great work! Merry Christmas Minty!
You are a national treasure Minty. Your videos always bring back great memories. Have wonderful christmas and a happy new Year brother! Edit: international treasure ! 😄
Minty, you were ADORABLE as a little boy! You didn't look like an old grandma at all. I think that you could have been a great child model. 🥰 Merry Christmas of 2023, happy holidays and a happy and safe new year of 2024 to you and your family members. 🎄🎁🎇🎉🎊
Hello, from Bremerton Wa. Been watching your stuff for a few years, never miss a "ten things" and just thought I would say hello and thanks for the nostalgia
It’s mad how similar aus and Uk are, I had gremlins taped on VHS from TV too (including adverts lol) I even remember the brand was BASF 😂 and didn’t know you had the Bill 😂 my mate was in 2 episodes. In the Uk gremlins was rated 15
Omg thank you thank you! I was always wondering about the Poltergeist jump cut. It was the most obvious cut I’ve ever seen in a movie and it would boggle my mind as to what happened and what was cut.
Excellent video! I've added Gremlins to my holiday movie list & am watching it now. You mentioned that you'd spent a lot of time on this video & it shows. Really well done.
Having a 12 y/o son myself, I have a perception of three-six year periods in a childhood, 0-6y/o (nurturing), 7-12y/o (learning), 13-17/18 (developing). This makes the PG-13 rating make sense to me, in addition to NC-17 on one end, with G on the other, PG taking up the last spot. The downfall of PG or PG ratings is that parents felt the ratings meant it was safe for parents to allow their kids to watch instead of the actual words, PARENTAL GUIDANCE. Seems your parents took the guidance part seriously.
That’s really the key, my parents would go see the movie first before letting/taking us kids to see it. Indiana Jones in particular comes to mind, I really wanted to see it but was stuck with a babysitter while they went first. They ultimately felt it was ok for 11 year old me and a friend to see, but that’s the way they did it. Parents GUIDING what their kids see.
Amazing video, I knew it all along with Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and about The Flamingo Kid and Red Dawn, which is one of my favorites. Good work, I have to learn quality editing ,so I can make my channel better.
My mom took me to go see “Gremlins” at our local multiplex when I was a kid, we were both horrified and yet enjoyed this film. A very unusual experience at the time ! 😮
I always found it weird when my friends wouldn’t know a movie or wouldn’t let them see it because of a pg-13 or R rating. My parents saw films as art (which they really are) and should never deprive me from any form of art. So I was watching anything and everything with or without them. By age 8 I already saw all the hard R and pg-13 classics and epics. Goodfellas, Godfather saga, Die Hard movies, every horror film out there, and of course everything listed on this video. Hell even films like A Clockwork Orange and Interview with the Vampire. Ahhh the 90s hahaha 😂I guess that’s why I was always seen as a mature kid for my age. When kids were watching Pokemon and looney tunes, I was watching Eyes Wide Shut. They literally turned me into a cinephile. To this day, I own and watch anything and everything that’s been created into films from Asian cinema to Euro cinema. Exploitation pics to arthouse. Big blockbusters to shoestring budgets. I need to direct a film one of these days; lord knows I’ve studied the masters 100 times over 😂
Merry Christmas Minty (and Minty's mum!). Your videos are always so interesting, I've been watching for a while now! Loved seeing a bit more of your space, and your cat!! I could be wrong, but I seem to recall growing up NZ we had different "R" ratings - R13, R16, and R18 - in addition to G and PG. Not sure what the NZ guidelines are (or were) between all the ratings though!
My Brother was eleven and I was ten when _Gremlins_ hit American theaters in (strangely enough) Summer of 1984. And although neither of us celebrates Christmas, we’ve traditionally watched it every year since on Christmas Eve. But my favorite story to tell people is how our Mom allowed us to see it on the big screen in the first place! You see, there was a restaurant called Hardee's where, with our food, we were able to get the entire narration of _Gremlins_ on a series of 45 records. Anyone else in the comments old enough to remember this? *“You can read along with me in your book. You will know it’s time to turn the page when you hear the chimes ring like this…”* 🔔 _Cue Chimes!_ 🔔 But I digress. Mom had heard about the movie being violent and was hesitant to take us. We convinced her we’d be okay, because we had already heard the whole story on our records! So she agreed and the rest is history!
@@lexxko Yeah! I remember the Star Wars ones. Instead of chimes, the reader/ listener knew it was time to turn the page when they heard R2-D2 beep like this: 🔔 _Cue Beep!!_ 🔔 Come to think of it, my Brother and I probably had the E.T. record too!
@@oz_jones My pleasure! Honestly though, Mom was pretty cool. I think she would have ended up taking us anyway. She merely had reservations initially. We all had a blast watching _Gremlins!_ And my Brother and I still love it! 💚😁👍💚
Merry Christmas to you as well Minty! As your useless fact of the day: It has been over 41 years since the release of E.T. (I was 14 then), still haven't seen the movie! Did get to see Temple of Doom in what was Orlando's largest screened cinema I believe. (Miss that little old cinema with the giant auditorium.) I read in the Orlando Sentinel the next day how everyone was freaking about the rating and the heart getting ripped out of the guy's chest. As a teen, I found it a bit amusing back then.
My parents must have been cool. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street Movies, Friday the 13th movies, and all sorts of other ones like those when I was a kid. I thought Gremlins was silly and not at all scary as a kid. Oh well, not everyone has the same type of parents. Merry Christmas to everyone 🎄
I wasn't much for them but as a little kid I really liked Mad Max II. I watched it as an adult for the first time in a long time in the early 2000s and was really quite disturbed by it, still love it though 😂
Thanks, Minty! I grew up in the 80's, and in 1984 was mildly traumatized by Poltergeist and Temple of Doom. What a great time for movies---they really were pushing boundaries. And as you showed in your video, in 2004 the bounds got pushed back! Almost 20 years later, and they haven't stopped censoring. I guess these things run in 20-year cycles.
Strange thing about Temple of Doom: first saw it in the theater, and was freaked out by the heart-ripping scene. Then I saw it at a drive-in (remember those?), and the heart scene seemed to be different.
What’s really strange is that later Steven Spielberg would get actual R rated content shown to kids. Spielberg talked the governors of almost every state in America to get public schools to take kids to see Schindler’s List, despite having sex scenes, full frontal nudity, F words, extreme graphic violence, and people being shot in the head. Then he talked NBC into showing it completely uncensored on network tv.
@@Ac_a You are wrong. That’s my entire point that it hadn’t been done before and they made an exception so that American viewers would sympathize with Jews.
Nice job on how you brought in the Gremlins with having their laughter play in the background. I also like that you still use your original crappy end credit. 😀
I have a few years on you, and the movie I remember being shocked by as a kid was “Planet of the Apes” (1968), which had, and still has, a “G” rating. It contains some brief nudity and some violence (seen and mentioned). People’s heads would explode if that movie were to be released today with a rating stating it is fine for everyone, including the kiddos. Somehow, we powered through it.
@@thomsboys77 Just the fact that it was a Dracula movie from a company called “Hammer Horror” should have started the rating at PG before they even watched it.
It’s got a scene where Charlton Heston finds his friend post lobotomy with a massive scar on the side of his head for gods sake! Like I’m 23 and merely thinking about that scene the other day left me feeling queasy, it’s a disturbing concept
Interesting video, always enjoy your work. I just finished a (God knows how many times around) rewatch of The Bill. If you could find the time to do a 10 things about The Bill I would be amazing.
When i was a kid my father allowed me to watch horror movies such as Fright Night, The Howling or Friday the 13th. I was 7yrs old when i watched The Terminator or Aliens. So Gremlins was not a big deal. It was just a standard but great christmas movie.
The Mad Magazine parody of Gremlins even recognized how over the top it was and called out the microwave scene! I remember jumping in the theater, not at any of the Gremlins, but at a jump scare in the end when the old guy comes up to re-posses Gizmo.
As always, a fantastic trip down memory lane (beginning of the MTV generation here). I think I missed watching most of the 80's movies the first time around. A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the legendary Mark Bishop aka Mindy Comedic Arts.
This Was A Very Insightful Video and I Love To Learn MORE About The Films and All! Great Job Mr. MINTY And Happy Holidays To You and Your Family!! Until Next Time! Peace ✌️ Out!!
I love when you make these retrospective videos, Minty. Go outside of the “top-10” formula and feel fresh and original. Keep up the good work and please make more! Merry Christmas, my internet friend.
I can't believe how long I've been watching you. I never realized how good your gear got until I revisited a few videos and was blown away. The quality has never been bad mind you but over the years you have gotten so much more watchable and remained enjoyable and entertaining. Thanks for the good times
I was 7 when Gremlins came out but no one took me to see it. BUT someone got me my first Mad Magazine from hospital gift store from visiting my grandmother. The Mad mag parodies Gremlins and I was sorta able to know some of the movie thanks to that beautiful issue!
You got the Bill in Australia?! Thats mad! Thought it was only UK. I was raised on it 😂 so cool you know what it is! Your impression was PERFECT! Love ya Minty x
Hi Minty. I really love your videos, and if you ever wanted to make on about the Australian ratings system, it might be interesting if you did one about the creation of the MA15+ rating.
Great video minty love the new feel and hang out on the couch with friends! Right after the Pizza Hut comment A PIZZA HUT AD cake on during this video!! Added comedy and a little Ka-Ching for you! Merry Christmas Minty!
I watch a few movie channels and some have briefly covered the rating system, it was really great to have it covered in depth. We're about the same age so a lot of movies that we grew up with are the same. This was one of the movies that was played so often at Christmas. On rewatching as an adult, the kitchen scene is darker than I remember it from being a child. Perhaps it was my memories or perhaps it was the cut, but I always remember it as more mischief than horror. Although different films, I have a similar memory of Fright Night. Although I haven't watched the movie itself as an adult I have watched many reviews and it does seem genuinely scary at times. Great work as always, have an amazing Christmas and I hope you continue with your channel. Though you have covered so many great movies, you keep finding ones that strike the nostalgia cord. New movies are so bad, and there are many videos that, rightly so, challenge their content and their quality. People need to be reminded how good movies were and you show so much love and respect for them and the actors involved.
Merry Christmas Minty! Thanks for another year of excellent videos. One for the future maybe….the 1st 12 certificate in the UK was Batman (89), but that rating didn’t exist for home video so it was bumped up to a 15! Crazy really.
Thanks so much for all the great content Minty, you're one of my favorite RUclipsrs :) Adding that phone bit with your mother was a really nice touch. I have the same twisted sense of humor as my parents, so they didn't have any problems with Gremlins. Though my dad turned off IT, which wasn't scary at all :P Have a wonderful Christmas!
This is my first video of yours in a long time that I've watched, and I must say you are 100% comprehensive and accurate and even taught me a couple of things I didn't previously 100% know, particularly the fact that *The Flamingo Kid* was the first film to be rated PG-13, while *Red Dawn* was actually the second one but the first to be released. (I always thought it was *Red Dawn* all the way.) You even included the evolution (or, de-evolution) of the PG-13 rating whereby in the 2000s it began to be watered-down, and even threw-in the Janet Jackson boob incident for good measure. (It's really true about the fallout from all of that: At that time, George W Bush was President, and his FCC really used the infamous incident as a pathetic excuse to really turn-on the censorship crank, in regards to not only dirty words but even drug references in songs played on the radio. It really was that redonkulous, to use a David Spade term.) So, wonderful job, and I am now resubscribing.
You'll get a kick out of this little short story. Back when you could order movies thru the mail, particularly Columbia house, in this case, my parents mistakingly ordered the movie Child's play, thinking it was a kid movie! 😂 regardless to say I ended up not being able to sleep for like, 2 weeks!!! Anyways, keep up the great content! I love learning all those little known facts, which some might call useless trivia. Lol.
Gremlins was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I don’t remember the marketing shying away from the monsters at all. I had a poster of a Gremlin on my wall and my mom bought me a life size Stripe action figure for Christmas. Then again, I was a reader of magazines like Famous Monsters and Starlog, so I may have been more “clued in” than a lot of parents.
I really appreciate your feedback on the whole childhood aspect of things. Me, as a father trying to figure out what to let my daughter watch, while growing up in the early 80s and my older sister ( who was 6 years older than me and could kick my ass) held my eyes open during movies that I should never have watched in todays standards. lol. Its funny, I'm not scared of the dark, stand up to adverse situations and push forward when most people wont, so who knows if its bad or good.... I love this angle. Keep it up buddy!
Batman 89 was the first movie here in the UK to receive a theatrical 12 certificate, to get more bums on seats because when it released on VHS it was upgraded to a 15 certificate. I saw it at the cinema, best part was I wasn't actually 12 at the time. Holy cheeky result Batman! 🦇
This was a good one. Thank you for sharing that with us. And your mom's phone call was an extra bonus good job on that.😂❤ Love in your channel brother. I hope you're doing well and Merry Christmas to ya From way out here in the heart of Texas.
9:56 some guy called Chris! LOL. You're welcome!! My source is the 2001 New Yorker article "The Personal Touch", an examination of MPAA chief Jack Valenti. They interviewed Richard Heffner, the chairman of the ratings board between 1974 and 1994, who revealed the secret meeting in which PG-13 was born.
I noticed you have the Terminator 2 Judgment Day Arcade1up arcade machine. Very cool! I own 15 Arcade1up machines, including Terminator 2 Judgment Day. Time Crisis is my favorite out of the Arcade1up machines I own.
The most interesting fact of that SuperBowl incident ie nipplegate, was that TEVO had come out and was a huge success. TEVO announced that 14 million people stopped and rewound live TV. How did they know that? People missed that part of the story.
I love that parents never want to take take responsibility for thier kids. "It's not our fault, it's the rating". It was PG = PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED. Meaning parents needed to review it themselves before showing it to thier kids and the parents decide what thier kids can handle.
Pre watch what you intend your child to watch. There are many reasons for doing so, what scared you as a kid? Does that scare your child. What entertained you as a kid, does that entertain your kid?
I had this dilemma very recently , my 7 year wanted to watch Back to the Future after seeing a trailer. I did not have to re watch it, I knew it word for word. But he insisted. I'm sure he'd be bored and not get it and move on.
He did not. We watched all three and he broke them down for me. He had an awesome perspective and many questions. I was so impressed I handed over my DVD set (I kept the Blu-Ray 4K) and he keeps watching them...
Well, 1&2. He says he'll only watch three again each time he has someone who's never seen them, just to finish the story for them! He's 7!
I was not that savvy at 7. But, that said. He also quite likes getting away with saying "when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious s***." So, yeah he's still 7.
I agree.
Great video minty ....make sure RUclips doesn't tape over the section of the gremsters😅
A lot of great violent or non violent cult classic franchise trilogy movies etc back in the good old days no cgi was invented those days indiana Jones franchise indiana Jones and the temple of doom great storyline my favourite film Indiana Jones taking on a army of evil indiana cult group gremlins 1 and 2 great films back in the time dreamscape batman franchise batman returns great villians and characters including Danny DeVito playing the great cheesy villian penguin Michelle phifer Catwoman and Michael Keaton batman also jaws films were great back then the meg 2 if it should be rated r or pg13 the meg 2 was a great film also this year with the action scenes the gore scenes from the meg dallon shark the octopus gore scenes the dinosaur scenes also robocop remake was terrible the original was better Jurassic Park franchise was great and violent still is pg13 which it great dreamscape great pg13 fantasy violent horror film a rival which came out the same year as nightmare on elm street 1984 is also a cult classic fantasy horror film great film back in the mid 80s the original polt ie gest franchise back in the day was also a great horror film franchise poltergeist remake was terrible the halftime show was controversial with Justin Timberlake pulling the bra off Janet Jackson
@@tyler_rake88 Wasn't Temple of doom the first prequel movie in a franchise. Im not sure but I think I'm right if not please let me know
I was 13 years old when both GREMLINS and INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM hit theaters. The 80's were a great time to be a kid and go to these kind of films. E.T., POLTERGEIST, GOONIES, RETURN OF THE JEDI, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, etc etc etc. Being a 13 year old and watching them for the first time on the big screen with no Internet, no social media, and no spoilers (not counting the big news spoilers of 1982 for STAR TREK II THE WRATH OF KHAN), it was an absolute GLORIOUS time to be entertained. Were we scared? Yes. Were we thrilled? Yes? Were we excited? Absolutely!!! Did we want them edited? NOOOOOO. I was fine with PG13 being created. It was the right thing to do. But we weren't permanently scarred or anything and we didn't feel it was inappropriate. I guess the creation of the PG13 rating was the same as them created NC17 as well. Guess they needed an in between as well. Thanks for the video. It was fun.
It was the golden age of films. They are still great movies I’d watch tomorrow
Gremlins is still a 15 here in the UK when is should have been down graded to 12 by now.jaws is now a 12 since it's blue ray release it used to a Pg and temple of doom didn't get an uncut release until blue ray its release it got 12.
That scene you showed from Jurassic Park when the t rex snatched the lawyer off of the toilet might say it all to me. A friend who had cable tv back in the olden days recorded it for us and my wife, sons and myself sat or lay down in front of the vcr to watch it. My wife and youngest son went to sleep as expected while my eldest, then two years old and I continued to watch the movie. When the movie got to that scene my son, with his eyes remaining glued to the tv, crawled up into bed next to my sleeping wife and got under the covers. I paused the movie and asked him if that had scared him, his answer was, "uh-huh, watch that again!" I rewinded the tape to that scene, and we watched it again.
By the way that Lawyer totally had it coming he left the kids alone in the truck like the coward that he was!
I attempted to show Gremlins to my 9 year old daughter a few months ago, forgetting how scary it becomes about 30 minutes in. She freaked out when Mom started hearing noises in the house after discovering the empty gooey pods. We shut it off to be revisited in the future. She likes to be a little frightened in movies, but not this much. Great job on this video, Minty!
Ha!!! Show her Return to Oz!!!
That's funny. I've been contemplating this with my 10 year old.
@@freeheeler00 I’m sure it didn’t help that we’re watching on a 115” projection screen with 5.2 audio.
I always remembered that
Red Dawn was the first PG13 movie because I knew it would be a trivia question someday.
Minty calling his mom...😂 absolutely epic! 💯 made my Christmas season 🎄
Having your mom speaking was great for two reasons:
1. It came out of nowhere and was hilarious
2. We had a real reason from a parent who actually made that decision.
That Poltergeist/Pizza Hut/jump cut info absolutely blew my mind. I thought that was an effective filmmaking choice to convey the father disassociating out of fear. It felt like it was on purpose and it’s always caught my attention. I am absolutely stunned. And I could also really go for a stuffed crust pizza and a Dr. Pepper right now, for some reason….
It was cut because it was too unbelievable that a kid in the early 80s wouldn't like Pizza Hut.
Not sure of how true it is cuz Diane isn't anywhere close to talking about pizza hut plus when Carol Anne says they're here she actually says they're all here but they cut it out so they could have done a better job if the pizza hut rumor is true which could have been a cut line but not why the jump cut is so badly done
Pizza Hut was huge back in those days; also the company didn’t want a Spielberg film to feature their restaurants being called on negatively, lol.
Hello Minty's Mum! Thank you for being the mother to one of the most enjoyable RUclipsrs we have had the pleasure of listening to and for participating in this marvelous video. God bless!!!
I am quite glad that the likes of Gremlins, Indiana Jones, Keaton's Batman, Jaws, and other strong PG or 13 films were part of my younger childhood. Being an 80s/90s kid, I was even allowed certain R films.
Being able to watch these kinds of things at a younger age not only showed I could be trusted with them (even if my younger self got freaked out at times) but that I could appreciate them for what they were. Many others no doubt can say the same.
Jaws scared me out of the water for my entire life.
Me too, what about Ghostbusters, Short Circuit 1 & 2 and Beetlejuice, very hard core PG rated movies, even Wargames, as well.
Yep, all of them and more. :)
@@davsny5 Good point. Gremlims, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice... the 80s was a great decade for the Horror-Comedy genre-combo.
I met Billy at a con, he signed the inside of an ear on the flasher/trench coat gremlin. Super nice dude. Also got it signed by Corey Feldman a few months later. Funny story, I was walking inside the venue and literally ran into Corey almost knocking him over. He was coming up an escalator with a hat and sunglasses looking downward, neither of us were paying attention. He was chill about the whole thing. I didn't realize who it was until he looked up at me. Needless to say I was a little shocked. Good times.
The goonies is highly overrated though huh
Not at all, actually I asked him what his fav movie was and out of grems/standbyme/lostboys/goonies - goonies was his favorite.
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@@Tyler45nilbog I sure don't think so. After countless viewings over 4 decades I still find it highly enjoyable. It's the quintessential "kids in a humdrum life go on an amazing adventure" movie.
I have to agree with that cut in Poltergeist, saying you hate Pizza Hut in the early 80’s was maybe sacrilegious, a trip to Pizza Hut back then was the best treat you could get as a kid.
I think saying you hated pizza in general was horrifying. I don't think I ever met a kid back then that hated pizza. Just the veggie toppings lol.
Remember when they had that reading program in conjunction with the public elementary schools? That was probably responsible for more kids mastering reading than any of the in-school programs.
Thank you Mark for continuing to make sure great videos I always look forward to them.
Looking forward to more in 2024
Have fantastic Christmas and safe new year to you Mark and your family. Gary from England
I remember watching Jaws at the drive-in in the back of a Chevy Nomad.
I never been so scared in all my life. I could close my eyes or put my head in the giant grocery bag of popcorn. We made our own snacks back then and the grocery bag was paper.
I couldn't escape the music. Even my older brother was scared.
We lived in Socal near the beaches. Was a whole different experience going to be beach from then on out.
Cheers from the PNW Seattle WA area 🤘
Your parents must have been real sticklers. My mom let me watch gremlins, and i was like 6 or 7 at the time. To this day, we watch it every year during the Christmas season
My mom would let me watch even American Psycho on TV because she was sleeping on drugs, a curse and a blessing 😅
Saw it in theater I was 6.
Of course I also watched Poltergeist and Porkies
@@PimpDaddyDisco Porkies?! :0
I was 5 when Gremlins came out, and my mom and I watched it together in the movie theater.
@@jorgegodoy6824, lol!
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Friday 13 and Nightmare on Elm St. were off the table for me in the '90s. Porkies, and Cheech 'n Chong, not so much. Damn, I love my dad, I couldn't be much older than 7 too!
Love your phone's "wallpaper"! You could even say, I'm "MAD" about it! 😆
My parents let me watch pretty much anything. I’m glad for it. Even though Poltergeist scared the hell out of me as a 6 year old it such a well made film! So many of the movies people thought I was too young to watch are great movies and I’m glad they were my movie influences. I watched The Color Purple when I was about 7. So I’m not just talking about horror. I honestly think my film education helped me in school, I understood a lot more subtext in literature classes than kids who were only allowed cartoons and Disney.
I couldn't agree more and the most important thing was I learnt at a young age what was shown on TV was not real and just a story and special effects.
Up to PG-13 was my parents rating limit. The first R-rated movie I ever watched was Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, but that's because it really wasn't that bad. Dad said worse words than Steve Martin in that one scene.
@@krs4976 Exactly.
My Dad was the same way. I was 4 years old and remember watching everything from Gremlins and Robocop to Terminator and Rambo. He figured the best way to desensitize me to fear and gore was to just get it over with, like ripping off a band-aid. Then I saw the movie Arachnophobia and began a lifelong fear of spiders.....
@@KamenRiderGumo arachnophobia is the one and only movie I remember my parents saying no to me seeing. I did eventually watch it on cable a few years later. But when it was in theaters my parents and older siblings went to see it at a drive in. I’m still not sure if they kept me away because they thought it was too scary or if they just didn’t want to risk me ruining their movie experience in a confined space.
Thanks for the coverage of this issue. I always think when movies are rated, "not for children" but books about fairy tales with witches, ogres, and other scary themes are read to kids 2yo and above. My parents let me watch anything I wanted, and I often stayed up late with my dad watching the twilight zone 😂
Thank you for another wonderful video Minty! It’s also nice seeing your take on films and film history. 😊
The first time I watched Gremlins I was 8 years old, the station that showed it was aimed towards kids and pre-teens (YTV, shout out to all my fellow Canadians who watched that station back then) and they had commercials for it after every tv show, not once showing the Gremlins but the Mogwai. The night it premiered I was so excited to watch it, my dad's gf at the time told me she took her kids to go see it back when it came out and they loved it (again not once telling me it was a little scary) As soon as I saw the eggs I started to get a little uneasy and once they showed the kitchen scene... I was beyond terrified! But also loving the movie. It scared me but I loved it, a week later I found the DVD at Walmart and begged my mom to buy it for me. To this day I still have it and watch it around Christmas every year
I've been watching your channel for a long time and I love it! I listen to episodes on the way to work every day! Thanks for all the great videos and hard work and keep up the great work! Merry Christmas Minty!
Me and my family saw Gremlins at a drive-in theater back when it came out. We loved that movie!
You are a national treasure Minty. Your videos always bring back great memories. Have wonderful christmas and a happy new Year brother! Edit: international treasure ! 😄
He's Australian with a primarily American audience so international treasure makes more sense grammar wise
An international treasure
International treasure.
The "Did I look like someone's Grandma" monologue was the funniest thing I've heard Minty say lmfao
Minty, you were ADORABLE as a little boy! You didn't look like an old grandma at all. I think that you could have been a great child model. 🥰
Merry Christmas of 2023, happy holidays and a happy and safe new year of 2024 to you and your family members. 🎄🎁🎇🎉🎊
His description of himself has me chuckling though 😂
Hello, from Bremerton Wa. Been watching your stuff for a few years, never miss a "ten things" and just thought I would say hello and thanks for the nostalgia
It’s mad how similar aus and Uk are, I had gremlins taped on VHS from TV too (including adverts lol) I even remember the brand was BASF 😂 and didn’t know you had the Bill 😂 my mate was in 2 episodes. In the Uk gremlins was rated 15
Omg thank you thank you! I was always wondering about the Poltergeist jump cut. It was the most obvious cut I’ve ever seen in a movie and it would boggle my mind as to what happened and what was cut.
Always a pleasure. Thank you Minty.❤
Excellent video! I've added Gremlins to my holiday movie list & am watching it now.
You mentioned that you'd spent a lot of time on this video & it shows. Really well done.
Having a 12 y/o son myself, I have a perception of three-six year periods in a childhood, 0-6y/o (nurturing), 7-12y/o (learning), 13-17/18 (developing). This makes the PG-13 rating make sense to me, in addition to NC-17 on one end, with G on the other, PG taking up the last spot. The downfall of PG or PG ratings is that parents felt the ratings meant it was safe for parents to allow their kids to watch instead of the actual words, PARENTAL GUIDANCE. Seems your parents took the guidance part seriously.
That’s really the key, my parents would go see the movie first before letting/taking us kids to see it. Indiana Jones in particular comes to mind, I really wanted to see it but was stuck with a babysitter while they went first. They ultimately felt it was ok for 11 year old me and a friend to see, but that’s the way they did it. Parents GUIDING what their kids see.
and NC-17 exists mostly because a different part of filmmaking had become inseparable from the X rating.
Amazing video, I knew it all along with Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and about The Flamingo Kid and Red Dawn, which is one of my favorites. Good work, I have to learn quality editing ,so I can make my channel better.
I think it was Danny Davito in his Cobblepot underwear was the most disturbing thing about Batman Returns. Merry Christmas !
My mom took me to go see “Gremlins” at our local multiplex when I was a kid, we were both horrified and yet enjoyed this film. A very unusual experience at the time ! 😮
I always found it weird when my friends wouldn’t know a movie or wouldn’t let them see it because of a pg-13 or R rating. My parents saw films as art (which they really are) and should never deprive me from any form of art. So I was watching anything and everything with or without them. By age 8 I already saw all the hard R and pg-13 classics and epics. Goodfellas, Godfather saga, Die Hard movies, every horror film out there, and of course everything listed on this video. Hell even films like A Clockwork Orange and Interview with the Vampire. Ahhh the 90s hahaha 😂I guess that’s why I was always seen as a mature kid for my age. When kids were watching Pokemon and looney tunes, I was watching Eyes Wide Shut. They literally turned me into a cinephile. To this day, I own and watch anything and everything that’s been created into films from Asian cinema to Euro cinema. Exploitation pics to arthouse. Big blockbusters to shoestring budgets. I need to direct a film one of these days; lord knows I’ve studied the masters 100 times over 😂
Merry Christmas Minty (and Minty's mum!). Your videos are always so interesting, I've been watching for a while now! Loved seeing a bit more of your space, and your cat!! I could be wrong, but I seem to recall growing up NZ we had different "R" ratings - R13, R16, and R18 - in addition to G and PG. Not sure what the NZ guidelines are (or were) between all the ratings though!
funny thing is growing up in the 90's my dad knew what gremlins was and showed it to us kids
Hey Minty, Fan from America and just wanted to say how much I love you're content. It's very insightful.
Is it me, or is your voice matching up like Superman's mustache?
Thank you Minty..... Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year !!!!🎄🎄🎄🎄
My Brother was eleven and I was ten when _Gremlins_ hit American theaters in (strangely enough) Summer of 1984. And although neither of us celebrates Christmas, we’ve traditionally watched it every year since on Christmas Eve. But my favorite story to tell people is how our Mom allowed us to see it on the big screen in the first place!
You see, there was a restaurant called Hardee's where, with our food, we were able to get the entire narration of _Gremlins_ on a series of 45 records.
Anyone else in the comments old enough to remember this? *“You can read along with me in your book. You will know it’s time to turn the page when you hear the chimes ring like this…”*
🔔 _Cue Chimes!_ 🔔 But I digress.
Mom had heard about the movie being violent and was hesitant to take us. We convinced her we’d be okay, because we had already heard the whole story on our records! So she agreed and the rest is history!
I wish I could get my hands on those 45's. I still have E.T. on vinyl narrated by Michael Jackson
I love when kids get one over their parents.
Thanks for sharing.
@@oz_jonesmy step brother talked my grandma into renting "Showgirls", we were 13, lol.
@@lexxko Yeah! I remember the Star Wars ones. Instead of chimes, the reader/ listener knew it was time to turn the page when they heard R2-D2 beep like this:
🔔 _Cue Beep!!_ 🔔
Come to think of it, my Brother and I probably had the E.T. record too!
@@oz_jones My pleasure! Honestly though, Mom was pretty cool. I think she would have ended up taking us anyway. She merely had reservations initially.
We all had a blast watching _Gremlins!_ And my Brother and I still love it!
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Thank you for this video content. You really did your homework. Have a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!!
I really enjoyed this video, Mark! Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
Merry Christmas to you as well Minty!
As your useless fact of the day: It has been over 41 years since the release of E.T. (I was 14 then), still haven't seen the movie!
Did get to see Temple of Doom in what was Orlando's largest screened cinema I believe. (Miss that little old cinema with the giant auditorium.) I read in the Orlando Sentinel the next day how everyone was freaking about the rating and the heart getting ripped out of the guy's chest. As a teen, I found it a bit amusing back then.
My parents must have been cool. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street Movies, Friday the 13th movies, and all sorts of other ones like those when I was a kid. I thought Gremlins was silly and not at all scary as a kid. Oh well, not everyone has the same type of parents. Merry Christmas to everyone 🎄
I wasn't much for them but as a little kid I really liked Mad Max II. I watched it as an adult for the first time in a long time in the early 2000s and was really quite disturbed by it, still love it though 😂
We watched Friday the 13th as a family one night, I was 11 or 12. My mom completely freaked out but my stepdad and I loved it.
Thanks, Minty! I grew up in the 80's, and in 1984 was mildly traumatized by Poltergeist and Temple of Doom. What a great time for movies---they really were pushing boundaries. And as you showed in your video, in 2004 the bounds got pushed back!
Almost 20 years later, and they haven't stopped censoring. I guess these things run in 20-year cycles.
🤔.....Did U view Poltergeist at home in '84, or was it re-released in the cinemas that year (at least in your area)?
Saw Poltergeist in the theater in 1982, I just got the year wrong. @@bonghunezhou5051
Strange thing about Temple of Doom: first saw it in the theater, and was freaked out by the heart-ripping scene. Then I saw it at a drive-in (remember those?), and the heart scene seemed to be different.
Great video, Minty! I hope you enjoy your holiday season!!!
hearing your Mom on here might be one of the best things this holiday season merry Christmas Minty fam!!!
What’s really strange is that later Steven Spielberg would get actual R rated content shown to kids. Spielberg talked the governors of almost every state in America to get public schools to take kids to see Schindler’s List, despite having sex scenes, full frontal nudity, F words, extreme graphic violence, and people being shot in the head. Then he talked NBC into showing it completely uncensored on network tv.
No way network tv would show it uncensored. Hell only certain cable channels don’t edit or cut movies.
@@Ac_a You are wrong. That’s my entire point that it hadn’t been done before and they made an exception so that American viewers would sympathize with Jews.
Nice job on how you brought in the Gremlins with having their laughter play in the background. I also like that you still use your original crappy end credit. 😀
I have a few years on you, and the movie I remember being shocked by as a kid was “Planet of the Apes” (1968), which had, and still has, a “G” rating. It contains some brief nudity and some violence (seen and mentioned). People’s heads would explode if that movie were to be released today with a rating stating it is fine for everyone, including the kiddos. Somehow, we powered through it.
"Soylent Green" got a PG rating. I guess that world is more believable... 😉
@@mbryson2899 I forgot about that one. Good catch.
Hammer Horror movie Dracula Has Risen from the Grave was given a G rating, yet its sequel Taste the Blood of Dracula was given an R rating
@@thomsboys77 Just the fact that it was a Dracula movie from a company called “Hammer Horror” should have started the rating at PG before they even watched it.
It’s got a scene where Charlton Heston finds his friend post lobotomy with a massive scar on the side of his head for gods sake! Like I’m 23 and merely thinking about that scene the other day left me feeling queasy, it’s a disturbing concept
Interesting video, always enjoy your work. I just finished a (God knows how many times around) rewatch of The Bill. If you could find the time to do a 10 things about The Bill I would be amazing.
You can’t insult Pizza Hut. They were the victors in the Franchise Wars.
Well, depending on which version of Demolition Man you grew up with.
LOL so there's a timeline where Taco Bell didn't win the Franchise Wars?!
When i was a kid my father allowed me to watch horror movies such as Fright Night, The Howling or Friday the 13th. I was 7yrs old when i watched The Terminator or Aliens. So Gremlins was not a big deal. It was just a standard but great christmas movie.
Excellent, Minty. I almost didn't watch this one, but I'm sure glad I did. Merry Christmas to you (and your mom).
The Mad Magazine parody of Gremlins even recognized how over the top it was and called out the microwave scene! I remember jumping in the theater, not at any of the Gremlins, but at a jump scare in the end when the old guy comes up to re-posses Gizmo.
As always, a fantastic trip down memory lane (beginning of the MTV generation here). I think I missed watching most of the 80's movies the first time around. A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the legendary Mark Bishop aka Mindy Comedic Arts.
This Was A Very Insightful Video and I Love To Learn MORE About The Films and All!
Great Job Mr. MINTY And Happy Holidays To You and Your Family!! Until Next Time! Peace ✌️ Out!!
Minty, thank you for years of great movie facts. You are a national treasure. Have a merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.
I love when you make these retrospective videos, Minty. Go outside of the “top-10” formula and feel fresh and original. Keep up the good work and please make more! Merry Christmas, my internet friend.
Thank you, Minty, for all you give us the entire year long! Merry Christmas to you and your family!❤️🎄❄️⛄️
I can't believe how long I've been watching you. I never realized how good your gear got until I revisited a few videos and was blown away. The quality has never been bad mind you but over the years you have gotten so much more watchable and remained enjoyable and entertaining. Thanks for the good times
Merry Xmas, Minty! And thank you for all you do!
I was 7 when Gremlins came out but no one took me to see it. BUT someone got me my first Mad Magazine from hospital gift store from visiting my grandmother. The Mad mag parodies Gremlins and I was sorta able to know some of the movie thanks to that beautiful issue!
As always, great, thank you.
1. Prior to 1966, the Hayes Code was in effect. 😊
You got the Bill in Australia?! Thats mad! Thought it was only UK. I was raised on it 😂 so cool you know what it is! Your impression was PERFECT! Love ya Minty x
2:07 nice cameo by a favorite Creepshow character "ohhhh Jordy Verril, you lunkhead!"
Hi Minty. I really love your videos, and if you ever wanted to make on about the Australian ratings system, it might be interesting if you did one about the creation of the MA15+ rating.
Minty this was a great video brother thank you 🙏 & hearing your mom was awesome Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
At the time of release, I was under the impression that Dreamscape was the first PG-13, but you have set the record straight! Great work, as always.
Great video minty love the new feel and hang out on the couch with friends! Right after the Pizza Hut comment A PIZZA HUT AD cake on during this video!! Added comedy and a little Ka-Ching for you! Merry Christmas Minty!
Merry Christmas Minty. Thank you for all of the awesome videos!
I watch a few movie channels and some have briefly covered the rating system, it was really great to have it covered in depth. We're about the same age so a lot of movies that we grew up with are the same. This was one of the movies that was played so often at Christmas. On rewatching as an adult, the kitchen scene is darker than I remember it from being a child. Perhaps it was my memories or perhaps it was the cut, but I always remember it as more mischief than horror. Although different films, I have a similar memory of Fright Night. Although I haven't watched the movie itself as an adult I have watched many reviews and it does seem genuinely scary at times. Great work as always, have an amazing Christmas and I hope you continue with your channel. Though you have covered so many great movies, you keep finding ones that strike the nostalgia cord. New movies are so bad, and there are many videos that, rightly so, challenge their content and their quality. People need to be reminded how good movies were and you show so much love and respect for them and the actors involved.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Thank you for all you information. Learned a lot from you. Keep up the great work!!! Thank you. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!
Great video as always, but how cool is that. You have a T2 arcade in your home. Wow. Merry christmas from Belgium
Merry Christmas Minty! Thanks for another year of excellent videos. One for the future maybe….the 1st 12 certificate in the UK was Batman (89), but that rating didn’t exist for home video so it was bumped up to a 15! Crazy really.
One of the best lines from The Flamingo Kid...LOL A sorely under rated movie.
Thanks so much for all the great content Minty, you're one of my favorite RUclipsrs :) Adding that phone bit with your mother was a really nice touch. I have the same twisted sense of humor as my parents, so they didn't have any problems with Gremlins. Though my dad turned off IT, which wasn't scary at all :P Have a wonderful Christmas!
I love your vids Minty but I think this was your best work. Nice pacing, interesting content, well told story and I loved hearing the call with Mom. 😊
This is my first video of yours in a long time that I've watched, and I must say you are 100% comprehensive and accurate and even taught me a couple of things I didn't previously 100% know, particularly the fact that *The Flamingo Kid* was the first film to be rated PG-13, while *Red Dawn* was actually the second one but the first to be released. (I always thought it was *Red Dawn* all the way.)
You even included the evolution (or, de-evolution) of the PG-13 rating whereby in the 2000s it began to be watered-down, and even threw-in the Janet Jackson boob incident for good measure. (It's really true about the fallout from all of that: At that time, George W Bush was President, and his FCC really used the infamous incident as a pathetic excuse to really turn-on the censorship crank, in regards to not only dirty words but even drug references in songs played on the radio. It really was that redonkulous, to use a David Spade term.) So, wonderful job, and I am now resubscribing.
God Bless you bro. Have a Merry Christmas 🎄✝️🙏❤️
Merry Christmas Minty. I hope you have a great holiday. You are the best.
Great episode Mark! Really loved this topic. Also loved your audio set up when you were talking on the couch. Gave some cool 80's vibes!
🎀Merry Christmas Minty!! Thanks loads for all the super content!!! 🎀💚!
You'll get a kick out of this little short story. Back when you could order movies thru the mail, particularly Columbia house, in this case, my parents mistakingly ordered the movie Child's play, thinking it was a kid movie! 😂 regardless to say I ended up not being able to sleep for like, 2 weeks!!! Anyways, keep up the great content! I love learning all those little known facts, which some might call useless trivia. Lol.
Gremlins was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I don’t remember the marketing shying away from the monsters at all. I had a poster of a Gremlin on my wall and my mom bought me a life size Stripe action figure for Christmas. Then again, I was a reader of magazines like Famous Monsters and Starlog, so I may have been more “clued in” than a lot of parents.
Gotta respect that Alfred E Neuman phone background. Good to know MAD made it to Australia; totally fits with the type of humor y'all have.
I really appreciate your feedback on the whole childhood aspect of things. Me, as a father trying to figure out what to let my daughter watch, while growing up in the early 80s and my older sister ( who was 6 years older than me and could kick my ass) held my eyes open during movies that I should never have watched in todays standards. lol. Its funny, I'm not scared of the dark, stand up to adverse situations and push forward when most people wont, so who knows if its bad or good.... I love this angle. Keep it up buddy!
Minty This was a great Video Thank you for putting it together for us.
Batman 89 was the first movie here in the UK to receive a theatrical 12 certificate, to get more bums on seats because when it released on VHS it was upgraded to a 15 certificate. I saw it at the cinema, best part was I wasn't actually 12 at the time.
Holy cheeky result Batman! 🦇
Happy holidays ⛄ Die Hard and Gremlins is definitely on the watch list this weekend 😂
Probably your best video yet, Minty! Merry Christmas.
This was a good one. Thank you for sharing that with us. And your mom's phone call was an extra bonus good job on that.😂❤ Love in your channel brother. I hope you're doing well and Merry Christmas to ya From way out here in the heart of Texas.
Watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in theaters. It was terrific. Mom and Dad were ok, with it.
Great video. Nice to see your background too. I used to own the Simpson's arcade machine. Took up way too much space though 🙄
9:56 some guy called Chris! LOL. You're welcome!! My source is the 2001 New Yorker article "The Personal Touch", an examination of MPAA chief Jack Valenti. They interviewed Richard Heffner, the chairman of the ratings board between 1974 and 1994, who revealed the secret meeting in which PG-13 was born.
Thank you for all of your content ..and merry Xmas to all!
I noticed you have the Terminator 2 Judgment Day Arcade1up arcade machine. Very cool! I own 15 Arcade1up machines, including Terminator 2 Judgment Day. Time Crisis is my favorite out of the Arcade1up machines I own.
26:50 That's the cameo I was waiting for.
The most interesting fact of that SuperBowl incident ie nipplegate, was that TEVO had come out and was a huge success.
TEVO announced that 14 million people stopped and rewound live TV.
How did they know that?
People missed that part of the story.