@alexis There's always a downside, isn't there

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Gremlins with BLOW DARTS?

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Neelix is about to get Tribbled which is great.

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"Not tonight, Jim. Not ever." Lol 😂

I guess she knows about the 40%.

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Run off the road by a rolling fuzzball. Who can't relate to that?

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Yeah, that's a total Neelix move right there. #Monsterdon

"And the deputy sheriffs car explodes?" I ask, hopefully

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The evil, hungry muppet beachballs have arrived!

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omg it's Neelix! #monsterdon

the minions chit-chat is more believable
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They look like evil tribbles. #monsterdon

The mist and the score are trying to be ET... just be yourself, Critters, we believe in you. #monsterdon

oh dang, is Neelix the first to go?

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It's like he was already rehearsing for Neelix

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@ricci They make these but you look like a douchebag and get addicted to nicotine if you use one #monsterdon

yes

SEE SOMETHING

SAY NOTHING

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Town drunk delusions verified. #Monsterdon

TRAPDOORS

FROM

SPAAAAAAACE #Monsterdon

Wait, is the plot really that the prisoners escape from the asteroid penal colony and they come to earth to eat people from underneath cars or am I confused?

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come on movie! you could have done this kind of setup in 5 minutes!!!!! i don't care about any of the things that have happened so far the movie might as well have started right now #monsterdon

I want a portable smoke machine so that I can make my life more dramatic

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@diazona Quality character development takes time #monsterdon

Aliens again! They're probably gonna wanna probe us

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#Monsterdon Remember when "cattle mutilations" were a big conspiracy theory?

"Without my gun I don't wanna find out" Dad's got his head on straight. #Monsterdon #Critters

"Without my gun I don't wanna find out" honestly good with that, Dad's not stupid

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THEY GOT ONE! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon the entrance beckons ye

@alexis I agree. He kinda reminds me a little like a cross between Alan Thicke and David Lynch (mainly in looks).

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maybe the fastest, but uglyest ship too
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#monsterdon Yeah, mom will NEVER find out about 3 dead cattle!

The town drunk dropped his whiskey! We have checked off a big cliche.
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Imagine if the Critters had the same philosophy as Klingons.

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Smells like oil burning

Smells like cow crap to me dad

Speak truth to power!

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Holy Shit! That's swear number 2!

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#monsterdon Spot poll!
Cut the-

@diazona Maybe they're neighboring states in this world #monsterdon

OK, on the list of Chekhov's implements, so far I've got the firecrackers and the slingshot

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when they [inevitably] remake this movie, they'll get Real Linguists to conlang them up an actual Critters language…

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vZibILvNSl5HyQaGc1aOQ?si=_Q8orLwqSdughQ5AdiCLFA&pi=8WzePgcUQl2d3 #monsterdon

They're EATING THE PETS! AND THE CATTLE! #monsterdon

“Where we goin’?”

“Out to the field. The killing field.”

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TIL Alvin and the Chipmunks were actually interstellar bounty hunters.

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@ohiofi I read that wrong the first time.

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I definitely don't want to have doughnuts and coffee with that guy either.

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So the mom character's name is Helen Brown. Don't suppose her middle name is Gurley #monsterdon

I mean he's probably gonna go out so everybody else gets a chance to get away, or something, because that's supremely Dad Shit. Still. I hope he makes it. #monsterdon

Funny how quips about "Russian spy probes" have aged kinda well, but not that well.

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@diazona filmed in idek xD

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Oh, subtitles for the Critter Jabbering.

Nice!

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My library's streaming service has Critters, and is therefore forgiven for being worse than Kanopy. But not for having self-published terfy JK Rowling RPF.

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@diazona kid drives that far then lets a little hayfever stand in the way of gettin it on smh

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@moira Wait California? I thought it was Kansas

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I know it can't be, but…is that ghostbusters logo on the dad's bowling-shirt?

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"Maybe it's a Russian spy probe"

What was old is new again

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threw me clear out of my room! #monsterdon

25 minutes in and the Critters are just now getting to Earth
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Ah, kids and their unbelievable lies.

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One thing I do remember is that the cheesey rock-n-roll bands that were in these films weren't good in the 1980s, either. They were no more exciting then than they are now. #monsterdon

"What the hell are you doing up there" Jump scare Dad. They're typical now. #Monsterdon #Critters

@srol I think it’s a Gremlins #monsterdon 😄

#Monsterdon kid failed Ninja school but dad's proud he got this far.

I hope this kid's dad makes it. #monsterdon

@JoeWynne @Taweret Maybe. Blockbuster only got started in 1985. Probably a locally video store.

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ma'am, i think the bowling tournament is about to be the least of your worries... #monsterdon

okay, "the earth moved" is a pretty good line there. #monsterdon

@ricci what a trip lol

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@bstacey want to see that crossover

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Which'll run out first? The film, or the rest of this two pounds of mandarins? #monsterdon

LOL what was that ashtray made of? #monsterdon

"We're experiencing technical difficulties... And crap like I've never seen" #Monsterdon

"My dad never comes up here."

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This Power of the Night song is getting a lot of air time.

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@diazona Excuse me Steve is the Dork From New York, keep up, man!

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Oh these guys are totally gonna steal the car right?

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The earth moved
Oh, already?

OK, that made me laugh

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Turns out this is a completely different set of aliens who are looking for the last Starfighter.

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C'mon, it's California, you're used to earthquakes.

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"The Earth moved" snarf.

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Must be a Goldstar. 📺

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New York license plate on the car but we're in Kansas apparently?

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that spaceship is all 😬

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Chewie's gonna love that corn on the cob if there's butter on it #monsterdon

Fracking

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The film really, really wants us to know this kid's clever and bold. That's okay, I respect it. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon bang the TV that'll fix it! look at that kid assassin's creeding here

If he gets allergic to baled hay, I'd think that New York were where he'd rather stay, and wouldn't you?

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Good stock spaceship sounds.
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I bought one of those TVs for like $5 in grad school xD

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#Monsterdon Did 80s moms watch a lot of MTV?

Poor Charlie. He has to drink to shut out the signals he picks up from outer space, and no one believes him.

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#monsterdon oh my God how many times are we going to hear this song?

Seriously y'all, we get to hear ♫ Power of the Night ♫ a lot in this movie

It never really gets old, though, they did a good job spreading it around. And it's a catchy tune!

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"And now, our one licensed song, for the eighth time in the last fifteen minutes." #Monsterdon

Trying soo soo hard to not think of Jordan Peterson every time I see this town drunk guy

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Brave kid. I'm scaried to walk on my roof.
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or did Charlie just bike all the way the fuck to kansas while drunk off his ass???

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I was _really_ waiting for the spaceship to boop him in the back of the head

'cause it's a scaling issue

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*bicycle clatters* #monsterdon

For the folks getting het up over him shooting his sister in the butt with a slingshot, yeah, that's bad. But a) it is a younger sibling's bounden duty to make the elder's life hell every now and again, and b) lots of kids enjoyed BB gun fights where I grew up, honestly this was nothing #monsterdon