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Aliens arrive with human ambassadors, who struggle with a decision to return or stay.

This movie has a poor tone and struggles with abandonment and mortality; it’s generally depressing. Not recommended, especially if you liked the first movie.

• Trailer

• Inappropriately rated: PG-13 but with suicide.

1. Cocoon – (1985 movie)

2. Cocoon꞉ The Return – (1988 movie)

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• 2023-08-09
• ~2005-11-29

• I might have watched this before; no notes were taken.

2023-08-09 ∞

• 0:45 —

  • Needlework
  • Rug making

• 2:30 —

  • Various references I’m not going to look up.
  • Moby-Dick – (1851 book), by Herman Melville
• 3:30 — Wow, it’s just three years later..
• 6:30 — Five years?
• 7:00 — Inappropriately rated: PG-13 but with suicide.

• 10:30 —

  • Maxwell House
  • Quaker Instant Oatmeal
  • And various other products.
• 12:30 — Kodak

• 18:15 —

  • Zinc oxide
  • Sunscreen
• 18:30 — Rambo is from First Blood – (1982 movie)
• 20:45 — Isn’t he baking alive in that getup?
• 24:15 — Wow that pan was incredibly jerky. Was that an attempt at slow motion?
• 26:00 — MRI, which is an impressive piece of equipment to have in a place like that.
• 31:00 — Why would they wait to mount a rescue?
• 33:30 — Laurel and Hardy
• 38:45 — Yes, 80s children were perfectly comfortable with mortality.
• 39:15 — Guinness World Records
• 40:00 — Basketball
• 44:00 — It’s strange that the movie would cut away from the guy who is immediately in danger..
• 47:15 — They saw a live creature in there; why would they open it?

• 50:30 —

  • Aerosmith
  • Space Shuttle Challenger
  • Florida Gators
• 52:30 — I’m still annoyed this movie hasn’t addressed the fact that they reappeared, and now apparently they have health care.
• 52:45 — Leukemia

• 59:00 —

  • MIT
  • Smithsonian
  • United States Air Force
• 60:00 — Friendzooooned

• 1:01:45 — Cuban punch – Punch (drink)

  • Rum
• 1:05:15 — I hope he didn’t reserve the place, so they can track him down, capture, and dissect his girlfriend.
• 1:07:45 — He should interpret it as Rose smiling at him finding happiness in life.
• 1:25:00 — String bikini (Dental floss)
• 1:35:45 — Where did they get the uniforms from?
• 1:41:15 — How could they make it out?
• 1:45:15 — Connection
• 1:46:00 — Why doesn’t he go with them?

• 1:48:45 — Oh god, the ending just drags on..

~2005-11-29 ∞

• 20:00 — Funny how easy it is to dive to the “bottom of the ocean”. Riight.