{"id":501,"date":"2009-12-30T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-12-31T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:08:18","slug":"ghostbusters-and-gremlins-at-the-dryden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/12\/30\/ghostbusters-and-gremlins-at-the-dryden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters and Gremlins at the Dryden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ali, Christina, and I headed to Dryden Theatre<\/strong> at George Eastman House<\/a><\/strong> (900 East Ave.<\/a> to see the double-feature. Well, Christina and I committed to the long-haul while Ali only wanted to see Ghostbusters<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The first feature, as such, was just as good as I remember from the last time I saw it as well as times past.\u00a0 The movie tends to hold together as a comedy and as a thriller … for instance, the apperarance of the final enemy was as disturbing and humorous as it was when I saw it in 1984.\u00a0 Of course, the film is also pretty seriously flawed with continuity and special-effects problems (not so much the datedness of optical effects, but more the problem of concrete bouncing gently off wooden police barriers).<\/p>\n

Ali smartly left because Gremlins<\/a><\/strong> was awful.\u00a0 \"Awful\" like \"one of the worst movies I've ever seen\".\u00a0 I remember seeing bits and pieces of the film in the past, and I apparently always turned away from it as it got boring.\u00a0 I never did see it when I was young, and, admittedly, I probably would have been extremely entertained as a teenager.\u00a0 But as an adult, it's just excruciating.\u00a0 Christina noted that it was like an episode of Amazing Stories<\/a><\/strong> — something that could have been a clever tale at 20 minutes.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the film was padded an additional 86 minutes (of which, the only redeeming moment was Phoebe Cates<\/a><\/strong> hilariously deadpan delivery explaining why her character hates Christmas).\u00a0 The lesson is to have extremely low expectations if you're going to make an attempt — or better yet, if you liked it as a kid, don't even bother revisiting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ali, Christina, and I headed to Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave. to see the double-feature. Well, Christina and I committed to the long-haul while Ali only wanted to see Ghostbusters.\u00a0 The first feature, as such, was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611,21],"tags":[58,1350,779,1353,13,1347,1348,1351,1352,1349],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-movies","tag-ali","tag-awful","tag-christina","tag-continuity","tag-dryden","tag-ghostbusters","tag-gremlins","tag-phoebe-cates","tag-special-effects","tag-worst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}