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Lobsters, as George Carlin has noted, do look like...


science-fiction monsters. So using a lobster to represent what aliens wanted feeding off our world wasn't a terrible idea. The problem was the filmmakers not having the money to decently depict the grown-to-size-of-giant lobster.

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Maybe the only thing in this film that looks FAKER than the fully grown "Gargon" (nothing more than an enlarged lobster shadow) is the beard of the alien leader!

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I laughed my head off too. I tried not to, because everyone in the movie was so serious. But I just lost it seeing the shadow of the floating lobster come over the hill.

Did anyone notice that the lobster was less lively after it came out of the cage? I guess being held up to the light kinda cooked it.




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Pure, hilarious truth! Also, I could swear the observatory guy at the beginning with the fake beard is the same guy as the doctor later in the movie?!



"Someone has to die Leonard, in order that the rest of us should value life more."

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I must agree, though I liked the part with the lobster a bit less then the first part of the movie (I loved people turning into skeletons), I laughed quite a bit when I saw the monster.

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The lobster was just one of the parts that made this movie so awful, and so much fun to watch.

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Like I posted somewhere else; who can resist the monster from Red Lobster?
Just remember: I was as good as any and better than most-Vincent Freeman in Gattaca

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Seeing that monster made me wish for some drawn butter

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Funniest moment in the movie: the pooch reduced to bones. I laughed so hard I missed all the crucial dialog for the next ten minutes. Then again, maybe I didn't miss all that much.

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The Gargon was the scariest monster I've ever seen in film. It would have Freedy Krueger and Jason Voorhees crying out for mommy, that is for sure, as well as the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. The Gargon kicked ass.

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Oh please the monster was Dr. Zoidberg on a rampage. :D

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They could've called this Lobsters From Space. The skeleton ray gun was the funniest part though, just pure hilarity all around.

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