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 Posted: 25 May 2021 at 2:52pm |
 The first one of these was pretty entertaining black comedy splatter fare. This one just proves the law of diminishing returns, though it's not a complete train wreck either. Considering how it nearly lost me completely early on by using a plot twist I really hate, it's quite watchable. I hope they don't think it's a good idea to make a third one though. I would think twice about watching it if they did.
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Posted: 25 May 2021 at 2:29pm |
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Posted: 25 May 2021 at 12:23pm |
 Wasted potential. This had a great cast, what looked like a big budget, and then wasted it all on a boring space procedural, before fucking it all up near the end in a seemingly desperate attempt to inject a bit of action. And the film title is off too. If you're looking for a good peril-in-near-space movie, Gravity is so much better. Moonraker and Capricorn One, for all their faults, also do space so much better than this.
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Posted: 24 May 2021 at 2:55pm |
 One of the most boring snoozefests I've ever forced myself to stay awake through. An often depressing work that makes it's approx 2 hour runtime seem more like 20. I'm glad to have decided to give this a look on a day I generally feel good because I imagine if someone happened to see this on a really dark day in their life (and there have been a few of those for me during the pandemic) they may just decide to end it all there and then. I saw it through to give it fair chance, but this has ended up a movie I despise so fucking much I'm breaking my rating rules and giving it 0.5, which is usually reserved for crap I can't even finish.
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Posted: 24 May 2021 at 3:06am |
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^I´ve only watched the first two years back, and I remember them being mildy entertaining.
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Posted: 24 May 2021 at 2:48am |
 The law of diminishing returns in action. Really boring. Critters in space, but misses so many opportunities for good gory fun. Nowhere near enough Critters, hardly anyone got munched, and no real comedy at all. Of the entire series, I think Critters 2 is easily the best, followed by 1, and wouldn't bother at all with 3 and 4.
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Posted: 24 May 2021 at 12:35am |
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 4:39pm |
 Found it a bit poor, personally.
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 4:18pm |
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 2:28pm |
 Third Satoshi Kon's movie. Seems like this will be the simplest anime from Kon yet so beautiful and soulful. Love this.
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 12:20pm |
 Actually feels a bit weird to see it in black and white after twice in colour, but the movie loses nothing by the third watch and I've actually started to spy some little details throughout that I missed before: such as the fact that Bong was influenced by Hitchcock for this and put a Hitchcock cameo in the film in the form of a tiny picture.
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 11:59am |
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Incredibly moving. Both sad and funny:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5805752/
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 1:45am |
 Yeah, nah. Not as good as the previous two. Too much time without critters actually onscreen or eating people. A couple of good comedy/gore scenes, and the cliched "little monsters messing up the kitchen" scene is actually pretty good - it includes flatulence, and I always find farts funny. Probably most notable for being Leonardo Di Caprio's first feature film.
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Posted: 23 May 2021 at 12:10am |
 You really shouldn't want Bond films to hurry up and finish, but this just went on and on and on... I saw this when it came out. Dad took me and my brothers to see this and Jaws 3-D on the same day, only the second time ever we'd seen two movies in a day (the first time we saw Battlestar Galactica and The Shaggy DA). I've never seen this again in the nearly 40 years since. I remember the mini-jet at the beginning, and the circular saw yoyo weapon really well, but this really plays like something put to film a bit too late. It may have been a compelling or believable story in the 50s, but the stuff with the circuses and the island populated by only women were a bit of a stretch even for the 1980s. It seemed like the producers had run out of good Ian Fleming stories and were getting toward the bottom of the barrel. And I found Maud Adams to be a bit cold and unlikeable as Octopussy. She really didn't have good onscreen presence.
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 2:01am |
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 1:54am |
 I first saw this years ago. Fun, over-the-top Gremlins rip-off, with the added bonus of gratuitous nudity.
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 1:52am |
Neil DeGrasse Tyson declared this the least scientifically accurate movie he's ever seen. I declared it a steaming great pile of shit.
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Posted: 21 May 2021 at 7:11pm |
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Posted: 21 May 2021 at 5:15pm |
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Posted: 21 May 2021 at 2:32pm |
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