35 years later still a classic

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2019)

When this movie came out, it competed against not only Ghostbusters, but Top Secret, a box office farce that was more of a failure during the second weekend of June 1984, a few months before the 1984 Summer Olympics brought box office down a bit in the states. It was also the first movie to feature the return of the WB Shield, which would remain in that form for 14 years until a CGI version debuted to celebrate Warner Bros' 75th anniversary and has remained unchanged ever since. As for the movie, it was this movie, as well as temple of doom, that forced the MPAA to create a new rating: PG-13, which nowadays kids can go see anyways unlike the R rating. The first movie to be released with the rating was Red Dawn, which became a cult hit and spawned a bad remake, but the first movie made was The Flamingo Kid, which failed at the box office. six years later, gremlins would make a comeback in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, which didn't do well at first but has become a cult classic on its own and makes fun of pop culture.