Gremlins is racist?

Progressive white gay men have too much time on their hands.

FFS OP...get a fucking life.

Who told you that? Did you see someone complaining about the movie on TV, read it online or a magazine? A little corroborating evidence to the theory that you were presented with would be helpful.

On the wiki page for the movie, under controversies, there's a section about how some critics felt it was demeaning to black people. Especially since the first person killed in the movie is a black teacher and how he was killed off for daring to enter the white world.

I think this was a joke in a movie or TV show but I can't remember which one.

At the climax of 'Close Encounters' we learn that there are no aliens of color.

To draw that analogy in itself is racist.

don't forget the Gremlins also freak out if you throw water on them

[quote]found out that African Americans

So you found out millions of black people think the Gremlins are racist or you read a thread or a tweet with a few people and decided that was the entire black community?

I love all you weirdos.

Something that has become increasingly obvious in recent years is that those who screech the most about being oppressed are usually the most over indulged..

Sorry R11 but you're full of crap for even thinking that.

R9 I read a wiki page if that counts but also on the IMDB page for this movie, there are threads where lots of people are baffled as to why some black critics felt the Gremlins were racist to black people. Especially since there aren't many black people in the movie in the first place to draw comparisons to.

Fuck policitcl correctness. It's killing comedy. If black people can't take a joke about their shit, and they certainly have it., as every group does, they can fuck off.

Zach Galligan is packing?

[quote]R13: I read a wiki page if that counts but also on the IMDB page for this movie, there are threads where lots of people are baffled as to why some black critics felt the Gremlins were racist to black people.

Are there, R13? The IMDb message boards ended on Feb 20, 2017. They no longer exist, save as a facsimile. And the reason they were eliminated is because they had become overrun with trolls spreading harmful disinformation about films (the claims put forth by OP count as an example of such).

If such a claim is made on a 'wiki page,' you could link it. Right?

[quote] On the wiki page for the movie, under controversies, there's a section about how some critics felt it was demeaning to black people.

SJW edit Wiki pages adding this shit from some nobody who writes a blog post 40 years later. People were not saying this.

That section was added back in July of this year and is already tagged as being irrelevant.

[quote]R17: SJW edit Wiki pages adding this shit from some nobody who writes a blog post 40 years later. People were not saying this.

"SJW"s didn't add this. This would be from an alt-righter pushing a bullshit parody of a 'social justice' concern, hoping to inculcate a stampede of support for the claim - or at least a storm of scorn for the supposed "liberal" who claimed it.

Continued from R119:

That would be consistent with the way most of these brushfires get started, originating in right wing circles - like the myth that schoolchildren who identify as cats are demanding that litterboxes be made available to them in schools.

But in the case of the Wiki article for 'Gremlins' (1984), the suggestion that the behavior of the gremlins is a mockery of blacks is the reading of a single individual - one Patricia Turner, a folklorist (see link), and the criticism she levels is quite recent, from a book she wrote in 2002. It is not the widespread impression OP is trying to pretend that it is ("African Americans think").

The REAL question is-

“Exactly who is either making money or polishing their reputation- by blatantly and maliciously revising the past and inventing these racist claims out of whole cloth?”

Hint- it’s the wealthy that hired these SJWs-, trying to pull the spotlight off themselves so they can continue to rape and pillage society.

I think the movie promotes ageism in the way it portrays poor Polly Holiday.

This is not a new theory that's only just been invented by the "wealthy who support SJWs" or what have you.

Critics said AT THE TIME that the gremlin characters were similar to 1980s stereotypes of urban black street criminals. The movie very obviously borrowed the aesthetic of young black male hooligans that was popular in 1980s movies and TV shows. The first scholarly article written about it was “Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies" back in 1994.

I have actually found that many Black people love this film, as well as The Childs Play movies.

No. Just ableist.

R16: “If such a claim is made on a 'wiki page,' you could link it. Right?”

Right. It’s on the Wiki page, and you can link it.

It wasn’t so much the chx, loud music and aversion to water, for me it was the scene when Stripe and his gang of hood rats devour the watermelons which really bothered me. I mean I love a good natured trope but that was a little derivative.

[quote]R26: Right. It’s on the Wiki page, and you can link it.

At R20, I chose instead to link the wiki page on the folklorist, Patricia Turner, who made the claim. It's here on the thread, and you can read it.

I don’t care about that, r28. You made a bitchy comment about Wikipedia and you were wrong.

[quote]R29: You made a bitchy comment about Wikipedia and you were wrong.

No, babe. At R16, I didn't make a comment about Wikipedia; I made a comment about 𝑦𝑜𝑢. And it was true; you could have linked what you were talking about.

Lol at anyone defending that shit movie. It probably was subconsciously racially motivated.

I'm as white as one can be and I love fried chicken and dancing to loud music.

I definitely remember reading an article about this a few years ago. The author said the caps the Gremlins wore were popular among black American at the time, and argued that Gizmo, the only good Mogwai, was coded as white because he had larger white patches of fur than the others.

They wore caps?

I've seen this movie many times over the years and don't remember ever noticing how many white patches any of them had or the caps. Maybe the folks focusing on this are the racists since they appear to read so much into white patches.

You can see some of the gremlins wearing caps in this clip:

Didn't Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd wear those same caps?

The Gremlins were satirizing 80s cultural tropes. The gremlin with leggings and torn tshirt, the lonely barfly sitting in the corner, the flasher, etc. Had nothing to do with race.

So, they remake Gremilins- with none of these supposed Black or other racial tropes, or suggestive characterizations… and then people call them out for censorship, marginalization, or erasure anyways…

Being politically correct can be exhausting!

No one needs to remake Gremlins.