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Joe Dante says, "It's News To Me.." Re: GREMLINS 3
Well then... What was Rob Lowe talking about? Have over 30 AICN readers gone deaf? And was there no close captioning? Well... Bummer. I received this note from Mr Dante today, clarrifying his involvement in the project. Personally... As much as I love GREMLINS, I'm glad to hear Dante is not involved, because I want to hear and see the other stories that Dante has in him to tell. I think we all get a little too bogged down with sequel-itis. So I guess, we'll keep our eyes open for whatever is coming next from good ol Joe. Hope we hear about it soon! Here's Joe...
Harry---just read your Lowe-down on Gremlins 3!
Needless to say, it's news to me. Never met Rob Lowe. Glad he's working, but
nobody said anything to me about another (God help us!) Gremlins movie.
Maybe they knew better.
Best, Joe Dante
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You know it makes sense, even Joe Dante, the man who brought life to the little nasty buggers, the Gremlins, understands that another sequel might be just too much. I mean how many times do we have to see some a-hole spend two hours figuring out what went wrong, how it was that they got fed after midnight, or how they found water to multiply, it worked in the first, seemed improbable in the second, and would most likely be ridiculous in a third installment. Never the less, that is Hollywood, se la vie.
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First off, why does Uncapie always waste his time griping about Joe Dante? Serious issues...Very serious. Anyways, grumpy, jaded people aside, even though I absolutely ADORE the first two Gremlins movies, I'm relieved to hear that there probably won't be a third. The first two are perfect and that's all we need. And where could you go from the second one anyways? Dante deconstructed the whole premise. You simply couldn't go forward with a straight face, and the filmmakers certainly wouldn't want to backtrack to the seriousness (so to speak) of the first film.
Oh well, just my two cents. And I'm sure Uncappie will add about a whole buck and a quarter by this time tomorrow.
And for the record...I don't want an Evil Dead 4 either. Why disrupt the perfect trilogy? -
...how can anyone forget the worst-tasting cereal of all time (as I remember it being so bad that the thought lingers with me today): C-3POs?!
And for the record, I wouldn't want to see Gremlins 3... the first one was good and the second one ranks among the best sequels of all time... self-parody, people, SELF PARODY!!!! -
I could see a third movie if they instead of showing them in our world, they would show us their world. Didn't they come from China or something? Set it a couple centuries ago in a magical Asian paradise or something...
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...an entire film about that cereal? Now that's entertainment. Uncappie's posts are too funny. "Gimpy?" You kill me.
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Damn you, Gorgar!! Now I have that annoying cereal jingle back in my brain!! Make it stop, MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!
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People, let's be honest... "Gremlins" was a good movie, not great or earth shattering, but certainly diverting. The sequel... self parody or not, sucked farts out of dead cats arses. Let's bury it's stinking carcass along with anymore talk of a third outing.
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Oh, man, i feel good... It's very good know that won't be a third Gremlins. The first two SUCKS, and only retards like it! Joe Dant hinself say that movie sucks... only Rob Lowe to Think in that! Well, anyway, this is lost of time, because Dante says that won't be have a Gremlins movie, and it's sound really good to me. Only a retard like Darth Maul to say that a Shit like that "will ressucite the industry." Camon'man! It's a joke? This shit will kill Hollywood, and i won't talk that anymore. There's no way to have a Gremlins Movie, and a thank God for that. Now, will wait for the X-men and Die Hard 4,movies that really can ressucite the industry, Mr. Maul....
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Joe Dante has proved that his innerspace is filled with sensible matter which sent me howling with joy like a kid in a slumber party. For a second there, I thought I was in the Twilight Zone.
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Gremlins is a shit-hot movie. Any film with Corey Feldman dressed as a christmas tree is a celluloid classic. But who gives a fuck about Rob Lowe and another frikkin' threequel?!! Not me, uh uh, no way. Joe Dante knows the score, though. Does anyone remember Explorers? Jesus H. fucking Christ on a bike, I wanted one of those energy ball things when I was a kid! Crap, I still want one now! I would fly to Heather Graham's house and float above it for hours and hours, until she came out and told me to get down. FUCK, I'm supposed to be talking movies here..Harry you moon-pie! What's ol' Joe doing next??????
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...why does he respond to every post about him? This is a discussion forum for film, how about giving it a try, uncappie?
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piss Karo syrup. That cereal had enough sugar to turn children into Gremlins. Anybody know where I can write to get someone to make another batch?
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HOW DOES EVERYONE READ THE NEWS SO QUICKLY BEFORE I DO??? Joe Dante, you can fry in hell. Aside from The Howling and Gremlins what the fuck else have you done well? ARGH! I promised myself when I made this talkback name I would be nice but "God help us"... WTF is that supposed to mean? YOUR ONLY GOOD WORK EVER AND YOU FUCK ALL YOUR FANS LIKE THAT! Yeah, whatever. And all you people who say that "Gremlins 3 will suck" WHO MADE YOU PSYCHIC BUDDY OF THE MONTH??? Maybe the script rocks! The first 2 kicked ass why won't this one? And if you didn't like the first 2 then why are you complaining about a third one? It doesn't affect you! ARGH ARGH ARGH!!! THIS MOVIE WILL HAPPEN! WITH THE POWER BESTOWED IN ME I WILL SEE A GREMLINS 3!!!
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You know, it occurred to me, how do you know when you've really received an email from Joe Dante? Is it just the fact that it's signed Joe Dante? Is there an email bullshit meter that I'm unaware of? Couldn't anyone pretend to be anyone else? How do you seperate the wheat from the chaff, Harry?
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how about a gremlins prequel set in, say, 19th century china or something. Maybe center the story on the mythical disappearance of everyone living in a certain city or villiage. maybe have some kid in the 1990's doing research on gremlins and he traces gizmo back to the old chinese guy from the first film, then from there he traces the magui back to china and somehow discovers that this legendary dissappearance was due to gremlins... and then set most of the story in that villiage. OR maybe have the origin of the gremlins told. Like maybe some crazy chinese sorcerer places a curse on an ancient family. make it dark and violent and tragic. -- meaner
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I am alwayz amazed at how easily the lot of you call any director mentioned in here "a hack". Usually it requires about 3 postings for one of you coffee-shop snobs to attack ANY director EVER mentioned here. I have read that Cameron, Dante, Carpenter, Friedkin, Tarantino, Spielberg, etc (basically evryone over 30) is a "hack". And yet I suspect that most of you would kiss ass the second you personally met any one in that list. Dante IS a really good director and he has created really good movies, HOWLING, GREMLINS, INNERSPACE -laugh you morons- that little gem in the TWILIGHT ZONE, PIRANHA... How can a handful of bitter wannabes judge anyone with a career that spans decades? What's next? Sam Fuller is a hack? On top of everything else, Dante is an SUPERGEEK, he is a truly knowledgeable film lover, a scholar of sorts, he knows more about film than Uncapie -whomever the fuck he is- will ever aspire to know. If Dante is a hack, well, what does Uncapie have to show for himself??? A body of work in TALKBACK??? Oh, I'm impressed.
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You wanna know what gives people the right to call Mr. El Dante a hack Charles? SMALL SOLDIERS. That pretty much give anybody (and that includes Brian De Palma) the right to call Little Man Joe what ever the fuck they want...
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Well, he probably started by noticing that "Dante" was spelled correctly.
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*DOH!*
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i wouldn't call anyone who's made it as a director in hollywood a hack. i might call them a shitty director if they were a shitty director. but a hack? face it, directing a film is a big accomplishment. just like having a screenplay produced is quite an accomplishment. hell, the person who wrote "The Net" accomplished something that i'm envious of. they had their screenplay produced. it was a baaaad screenplay BUT, they had it produced... and that's something. Anyone in this talkback calling a director a hack is a fool. the whole idea is laughable. If Dante is a hack, then what the hell are you?
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Wanna know why I like Dante? It's the little things in his movies... The Chuck Jones cameo in Gremlins...that awesome bugs bunny scene in Gremlins 2, the whole of Matinee (Come on, couldn't you see the love in that movie?). It just feels to me that Dante puts a certain something into his movies (Besides Dick Miller, of course) that deserves some praise. Sure, Small Soldiers wasn't his greatest film, but haven't you noticed that sort of thing about a LOT of directors recently? It's not them, you see. It's the STOODIOs exerting their lack of sense and not letting the storytellers run free like they used to. But that's just the way I see things.
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Zathras can hardly wait for Joe vs. The Volcano 2. Or was that Chris Columbus? Zathras confused....can't tell them apart....not good.
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While GREMLINS, GREMLINS 2, THE HOWLING, and MATINEE are rightly called Joe Dante classics, there are two that I find actually BETTER than those listed above. Call me sick (you're sick!) call me crazy (you're crazy!) but I prefer INNERSPACE (one of the first movies to be letterboxed on home video--not an option, as I recall, but a requirement), and (drumroll, please) THE 'BURBS. Yes, I said it. THE 'BURBS. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I can't help laughing every time I see this one on TV. What really makes it work though is the cast: Tom Hanks before he became TOM HANKS. Who would have guessed from this (or almost anything he did at the time--DRAGNET, TURNER & HOOCH) that he would win two Academy Awards and become one of Hollywood's power actors? Henry Gibson, who's good in anything from LAUGH-IN to NASHVILLE to THE BLUES BROTHERS. Gale Gordon (the second Mr. Wilson on the old DENNIS THE MENACE TV series and Mr. Mooney on the Lucy show) as the supposedly dead neighbor. Bruce Dern of all people as a freaked-out Vietnam vet. Corey Feldman. Carrie Fisher. And of course Dick Miller. Dante's Twilight Zone-ish take on suburbia with its manicured lawns and white picket fences is dead on, and the mysterious Klopick family looks as if they stepped out of the pages of one of those old E.C. horror comics. As for INNERSPACE, what can I say? Great comedy. Great sci-fi (even though the basic idea was taken from FANTASTIC VOYAGE). Great actors: Martin Short (I still don't think he ever topped himself after this role), Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, William Schallert, Henry Gibson, and Dick Miller. These two films make a great Friday or Saturday night double feature, although many people consider them "lesser" Dante works.
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I liked Small Soldiers.
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What stale news. There's already been a Gremlins 3. It was called Small Soldiers.
Dante's not so bad. Personally, I'll save my vitrol for people who do far worse with more money. Besides, where else am I gonna see Dick Miller? -
HEY,
Dont get me wrong Gremlin's was a great movie but gremlins 2 "The new batch" was pretty lame sure it was flashy had better FX and more Gremlin's, but it lost its luster it was fun to watch but geard towards a younger auidence. Which is fine you have to make money some how, But its only ok if you handle it right the "new" gremlins like the spider one the one made out of fruits and vegtables were intresting to look at but In my opinion did not fit in whith what the frist gremlins was all about the first gremlins went for a bit more of a serious approach which was cool as where gremlins 2 went to get your attetion and get laugff's out of physical humor(not that gremlin's didenthave its moments. If there is a Gremlin's 3 I thought it would be neat if they made it a prequel in the frist movie they hinted that the gremlin's were used in w.w.2. and that the Japenese would try to smuggle them in. I was hoping thats when the movie would take place it would show how they were used and how gizmo got to America, kind of his own adventure. You can see the possibility's becouse you know theres nothing cuter then a Mogwai In a Dive Bomber's Helmet! -
Joe Dante gives Todd Sheets a bad name! Bye, now!
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I can't believe some of you people, "Dante sucks"? I mean really, he's one of the greatest directors of the eighties. His direction on both Gremlins was phenomenal, though he's had his share of bad movies "Cat and Mouse" for example, but even the best directors (ie: Spielberg) have had their shares of failures (remember 1941 and Always?). Although I really would love to see the gremlins movies as a complete trilogy, it doesn't look like he's up to it. Anyways, my point is that you shouldn't judge someone by just a few bad movies. Although i'm practically in tears over hearing what Lowe said wasn't true, i'm kinda glad to see that's Dante's not the kind of director who will just live of one piece of work.
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I agree with those who love "Innerspace", a great movie with a clever as hell script that failed only due to bad promotion -or lack of- hey, even I thought at first: "this looks awful". Without any doubt one of Dante's finest. Beyond any childish refusal to admit they're wrong I believe that those who debase Joe dante as a "hack" do so either out of ignorance, stupidity or plain arrogance of youth. This guy broke many a mold and became on of the pillars of the geek-cinema to come. Without him is impossible to imagine "Scream" or any other self-referential post-modern romp. He, along with the much maligned Landis was the original movie brat. Uncapie has the right to voice his opinion and others have the right to bash him in disagreement, I simply want to point that, in a genre truly plagued by "hacks", Dante is a classic filmmaker.
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is armaggedom@altavista.com. Armaggedom. ARMAGGEDOM!! Also, is "Camon'man" a new slang word I haven't picked up yet? Camon'man, learn to speak English!!!!
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... so shut the fuck up. It's no big deal. Rob Lowe is a has-been; do you think someone offered him a REAL role in a REAL big-screen movie? Doubt it. And Darth Maul... besides the good Dante films already mentioned, we mustn't forget the delightful TV show "Eerie, Indiana", from the early 90s.
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I don`t see your problem. Another Gremlins might be cool... or what ?
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Gremlins 3 could work. At the end of G2, Daniel Clamp begins plans for "Clamp Corners - where life slows down to a crawl." where Billy and his girlfriend (I always forget her name!!) along with Gizmo, where about to go to Jersey and begin the project. So why not have the opening night of Clamp Corners (lots of big stars, news media the whole chibang!) where almost nothing goes wrong, until Gizmo gets wet in Billy's new house. The original batch (Stripe, Goofy, Gangster and the other ones) go and cause havoc among themselves then eat after midnight and get into their cacoons.
It could work, I've already began working on a script for it.
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