this movie is really good at making you not care about anyone
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WTF kind of ignorant military robots are these?!?! Let the combatants use up their ammo on each other, and then kill the survivors!!?!!

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Mad Maths: The Recess Warrior

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Why is the robot laughing?!

Weird.

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lol, of course they walked out of the sea, they're robots

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We are finally halfway through this flick, folks! #halfway

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@CactuarJoe it's 1990, *everything* is dripping with this kind of "humorous" delivery

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He doesn't have to use hand signals you frakkin toaster, his bike has turn signals.

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I do like how exited Professor Pipe is about being evil

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Wow, nice little balcony jump stunt. The effect is kinda lost since the other two took the stairs, but still!

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wait, a paper address book? Not some weird, pre-smartphone phone brick with a thousand buttons?

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I don't think the writers have ever met a high school principal. #monsterdon

FUN FACT: the kid waiting in the principal's office (seated, in left of screen) is Rose McGowan.

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don't sit down for a negotiation with a guy who is accompanied by his two killer robots what kind of diplomatic training do they give principals nowadays anyway #monsterdon

The back-lit maps of the school floors in the principal’s office look a little bit like LCARS displays from Star Trek TNG.

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Chekhov's banana

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WHO IS HE SALUTING?
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@wohali I’m loving it. In fact, I am thinking of rounding up my fellow educators for a watch party!

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"That was a level 7 multidimensional decision. The intelligence is evolving."

Oh okay.

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Ad 1 of 7?! WTAF Tubi? #Monsterdon

Why's the robot got an ego? Why's the robot vindictive? #Monsterdon

Malcolm McDowell thinking "I was in 'IF...' and now here I am in this shit"

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Sorry son you can't go into school looking so Aerosmith

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lol, the actual Fashion Police

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Imagine a future america where everyone was addicted to drugs, maybe a legal painkiller or something.....

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"He's making his decision now"

We'll see who's responsible in court

is he spanking a grown man?

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Amazing cyborgs can do their job with this constant onscreen display in their eyes.
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lol, the kids have artillery?

*tuts in Hans Gruber

America.....

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“Edge—it’s the best new high since Skin!” is some incredible fake drug movie writing. #Monsterdon

The department of educational defense

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Impressed malcom mcdowell is impressed.
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Yeah, this just smells like Reaganite fantasy. #Monsterdon

You mean to tell me there’s no violent youth gangs in Boston? #Monsterdon

Remember to run straight forward when being chased by a car #monsterdon

...maybe that needed a Politics CW tho

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thing is, schools in 1999 could have still been using computers that old...

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@CactuarJoe i'm not entirely convinced it was worse than like, Planet Earth, or Communion, but i cannot in good conscience click the "it wasn't that bad" button. it was, in fact, That Bad.

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Backflip into a staircase. I hope that stunt guy was paid well #monsterdon

This movie felt, I dunno, 22 minutes too long?

The final confrontation was good. Multiple points leading up to it were fine. But they seem to have swerved from "total social collapse" to "rough inner-city school that has a gang problem but also clean-cut good kids". Like, you *could* make a movie where gangs have literally taken over because adult civilization has structurally failed them and the school is just the epicenter, or it's the neutral ground between the warring gangs, or something like that. Or you *could* have a movie about robot teachers running amok at Inner City High. The opening narration sets up the first movie, but a lot of the ... "plot" belongs in the second.

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@apLundell
In the 90s, terminator ripoff characters were de rigueur!

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@apLundell See I liked it better when it was that because it could've gone somewhere interesting with inverting that shit, right? i think getting out of the school was a mistake.

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Genuinely awful.
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Well... I hope everyone learned a lesson today. Some of you may be saying "Saucer, you voted for this!", and just let me say:

Big thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting with military-grade technology, and extra special thanks to the #Monsterdon lubrication crew for keeping the WD-40 fully stocked!

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@trixter this is not the Big Beat I was dancing to in 1999 #Monsterdon

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Awesome #monsterdon movie. One of the best ever.

School's out. I loved every second of this totally unhinged bullshit.

Thanks @Taweret and all you crazy #monsterdonians.

@cd0 Temu Kilpatrick Terminator #Monsterdon

And as our heroes wander off having changed absolutely nothing, we salute them for weakly ripping off the Terminator. As usual, there's just one last thing to do before you leave the theater:

Was CLASS OF 1999 (1990) the WORST #Monsterdon movie of the year?

@goinfawr #monsterdon

Clearly, you have not been there when the hammer starts to fall....

That one sure had Pam Grier in it. Can't say much else for it. Thanks as always to @Taweret For hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! Only one thing left to know:

Who blew up better?

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and roll credits. for this #monsterdon , "Class of 1999"

you ever watch a movie that had cool things, but was deeply uncool?

this could be that movie.

"Midge Ure, who wrote, produced and recorded "Come The Day (Theme From Class of 1999)", actually stated in a 2020 podcast that he didn't like either the movie or the song." Did he actually state that IMDB Trivia? Wow

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well that's fine but you still have to pass those exams, so....

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@apLundell You are supposed to notice...in current fandom, it is recognized as an "homage"
(Hollywood stealing)

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And they fucked off into the power ballad of urban decay?

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<Howard Dean scream>

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this is both Terminator and Aliens

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I have questions about the highly-variable mobility of the last standing killbot

it doesn't matter though

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this is exactly how the board of education talks

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this guy's norman coordinate of this team of robots right?

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to school…

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ripoooooooff #Monsterdon

Good thing they got the explosive school bus and not one of the normal ones

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AND THE MONSTER STANDS UP

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do they have the budget for full, skin off 'terminator' after an explosion?

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this is literally what every kid in the US would like to do to their HS
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hey it's my favorite character - the armored schoolbus!

Stacey Keach is a robot, and the final boss, calling it...

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I was watching Saving Private Ryan last night and that is the general problem with a flamethrower unit...

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"Guess I blew that course!"

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [ends robotic laughing]

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"Hey Pam, have you got a light?"

face is burned off

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See, because he was a 'history' teacher...

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Okay, so one good shot

Monkeys, typewriters, Monsterdons, etc

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@arrjay #Monsterdon

@apLundell Take it off, baby!

Wait! Wait! Not *that* much! Put some back on!

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okay they exploded a motorcycle out a window, I take back my joke about the special effects budget

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lol, dude gets blown out the window by Kilpatrick's rocket hand

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USE YOUR MACHINE GUN ARM

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New updates just installed

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Oo, gooey :D #Monsterdon

GO PAM!

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Ah, gang love <3

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I love shoulder mounted rocket launchers

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so the arms dealer guy must also be a cyborg, of course, but you'd also think that the killer robot cyborg uprising would find "integrating in every school before going on a killing rampage" to be a better strategy than just going hogwild on one kid. #monsterdon

Robot imitates another person's voice ✅️

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RIP IT guys.
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truly have no idea what the robot arms dealer or the killer robots plan is aside from killing this one kid because he broke into their house #monsterdon

This is how the Tech Bros work with Government though, it's accurate....

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I mean he's not wrong about the difference in budgets allowed in federal grants for military nonsense vs. education

that is NOT what all teachers do

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"For the 10 year war"

If only it lasted 10 years...

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The screenplay just says "various gunplay and violence" for several pages.
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LOOK AT WHAT HE IS WEARING HOW can i focus on what he is saying #monsterdon

@arrjay #monsterdon

I believe what happened was, the robots made it look like the rival gang killed their brother.

I love these recoilless guns from the past. We should have kept this tech. #Monsterdon

Someone kinda saw Blade Runner

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[Engage Adult Spanking Mode]

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They didn't even have the budget for Willhelm screams.

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It’s a shootout at the old spool factory

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tbf though, the humans let themselves get flanked and totally wiped out so....Robot Victory!

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