#monsterdon if you told me I'd be seeing a dance party with Christopher Walken and little aliens, and it would ALSO be incredibly boring, I wouldn't believe you
It was called Communion because the plot was wafer thin. Hiyo!
#monsterdon I'm still watching the credits in case Nick Fury comes to the cabin to recruit him
Ok, what is this wall art? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon For some reason, everyone she hypnotizes in this room reports seeing weird distorted figures.
βI donβt want to be crazyβ
Sir, youβre Christopher Walken. You passed that exit about 60 miles back
I see he found the uptown to Queens at 2am.
Yeah. That pretty much lived up to my recollection. I'm going to have to watch Jose Chung on repeat all week to get that outta my brain. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants and Keep Watching The Skies! #Monsterdon #Communion
This bingo card is funnier than anything in the movie
The problem with this movie is the high Straight People Relationship Bullshit to Cool Monster ratio. #Monsterdon
Yeah, the ridiculousness of the Abductee scenario is part of how easy these people can be funneled into high control groups. When no one believes you, it's really easy to glom onto people who say they do. #Monsterdon
The strife is a weird choice too because according to Strieber, even when their marriage was strained and Anne needed time away, she was still understanding the fact something was wrong with him. At this point he had a history of depressive episodes and she understood he wasn't "failing to be an adult."
Also he never fired a shotgun in a place with his wife and son. He did have a rifle in the cabin but never fired it.
I can see why Strieber hates this movie so much. They should have gone with an "inspired by" if they were gonna make such weird changes.
Ah, so THAT's how you're resolving your crisis of masculinity. A godlike force has chosen you. Well, you're not the first man to wander off into the desert to become a prophet. #Monsterdon
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01:00 in and we are still expositionally analyzing what happened 25 minutes ago for 10 seconds, which was the only substantial event to happen thus far
Maybe this movie was made by the aliens and thatβs why none of the human characters are recognizable as such. #Monsterdon
sex with Christopher Walken must be its own surreal experience
@wohali Say no more. It's why we're watching "Earth Girls Are Easy" later. #monsterdon
If I had Christopher Walken for a dad, I think Iβd self-report to Social Services. #Monsterdon
When you go to MoMa, someone is having this exact conversation in every single room.
I can't be too mad at any movie that has fun practical effects creatures in it tho
Oh man. Itβs hard to sum up how awkward that all was. Many readings can desperately be made, but none of them make that any better. Thanks for sharing the pain, #Monsterdon gang. And thanks @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for pulling us all together.
my partner looked up and saw Walken standing in front of a wall and he said, "is this the part where Walken apologizes for the movie?"
also i've wandered off to make pasta at this point
This is all a bit "I got drunk and teleported to Waffle House/ rather than deal with my problems" isn't it?
Hit the target and win a free divorce. #Monsterdon
See the problem with a lot of horror movies is they stock the cast with assholes and then expect you NOT to cheer when they get eaten by Creatures. #Monsterdon
Grizzly bears can be as big as a Volkswagen, and they can go as fast as 30 miles per hour, also like a Volkswagen. #Monsterdon
And as the UFO sets gently in the west, we say good night to Whitley Strieber and his crisis of masculinity. As always, we have one last thing to do before we leave the theater.
No, not the anal probe.
Was COMMUNION (1989) the WORST #Monsterdon movie of the year?
oh my gods just end already
#Monsterdon He's two-finger typing!
He's a professional writer typing at about one letter per second.
look, i've got a better idea. how about we just make a movie of walken rambling about bullshit as he wanders through MoMA, the Whitney, the Frick...
"I didn't want a rectal probe, LAURIE."
Man don't put the kids in a room with a naked Christopher Walken, that's not right. #Monsterdon
βThis is going to be just a little unpleasant.β No, Iβd say the movie is worse than that. #Monsterdon
Actually there's some evidence that Greys represent, in part, a recapitulation of fairy myths -- changelings, abductions, that sort of thing -- so Russian Coonskin Cap there is actually on to something. #Monsterdon
It's Lappy 486! #monsterdon #communion
The aliens are installing mind chips to try and prevent him from writing The Hunger. #Monsterdon
I wonder what the Greys are doing right now. #Monsterdon
Nobody enjoys Christoper Walken onscreen more than Christopher walken onscreen talking to himself on another screen forcing us to watch BOTH
Nobody buys the accent, G'kar. #Monsterdon
See the thing about Abductees is that most of their experiences can be traced to nightmares and traumatic memories, distorted and enhanced by hypnosis and social groups prey on people cult-style.
Sorry, Chris, this is probably just a nightmare. #Monsterdon
In the category of Writer is allowed to make a self indulgent movie which somehow ends up making it look like he can't begin, tell, or end a story, I give #Communion1989 5 out of 5 stars. No wonder he didn't like this movie. The real Whitley Streiber has written a lot of books, including The Hunger, which was also a
#monsterdon , one that I quite liked. I remember a time when it seemed like he was everywhere.
This movie was a muddled, moody mess with a few embedded gems. The kid really carried the adults along in his scenes. The weirdness was often truly creepy. The movie clearly influenced a lot of people, and I suspect David Lynch is among them.
Considering that it probably popularized abductee stories it's kind of amazing that I didn't check off a single square on my bingo card. Sorry, @cherizilla . After a run of enjoyable movies, we chose a doozy. Sorry, @Taweret .
Hope you're watching Earth Girls Are Easy. Now that's a fun movie!
Wow! When I saw "Walken alien abduction movie" that I'd never heard of, I thought "maybe it'll be like that David Bowie vampire movie!"
It wasn't!
Thanks to @Taweret for being the dreamer, and thanks to the #Monsterdon greys for getting jiggy with it!
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#Monsterdon over? Thank goodness.
I really did not like that film.
Except the ridiculous hats. They were fine.
"I'm back baby!"
This literally is a movie about writers block, isn't it?
How did this get made? Why?
It was suddenly a David Lynch movie and then suddenly not again
The scariest thing in this movie? Two Christopher Walkens. #Monsterdon
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What the, and I cannot stress this enough, fuck?
A group of men in my bedroom
Yeah, the thing is Abductees fully believe they've had these experiences, and it can be really traumatic...
But also they build up a whole social circle around the idea with its own conventions and things and it bounces back down into various levels of cultlike behavior :/
"When I came too....I was in a Waffle House"
Yeah, again, this is a middle-aged writer having a crisis of masculinity because he can't write The Great American Novel. #Monsterdon
We're getting a BIG slice of Christopher Walken here #Monsterdon
So, in other words, you have very powerful lights with touchy triggers around the house, which is surrounded by woods which we've already established have bears in them, you're having an emotional breakdown because your Art isn't Arting
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What are the usual drugs to do as a kid? #Monsterdon
in 1989 you weren't allowed to have a mental illness or any kind of episode. i know this from how my parents responded to these things for years
@ohiofi Nyah isn't touching this with a decapodic pole
OH FUCK IT'S MERLIN #Monsterdon
The biggest fiction is a writer being able to afford an apartment in New York and a forest cabin retreat
If Eric Clapton financed this POS film then I can take comfort from the fact he lost that money. A happy ending!
I give Communion (1989) 2 out of 5 space goblins. Parts of it are spooky or emotionally engaging, but rather more parts of it are either boring or irritating. I liked the surreal alien scenes.
The movie forces the audience to either think that the alien scenes actually happened (in which case, why do they seem to make no sense?) or that were hallucinations (in which case, why did multiple people have them?)
The best characters are the aliens, because they do silly dances.
lol, seriously though, how do I get my dream journal made into a Hollywood movie like that guy did?
What was the point of all that?!
And so Walken Weapon-of-Choice's to his next paycheck and the aliens land a show in Vegas. Thanks @Taweret for hosting and have a lovely evening.
AND MORE COWBELL
OOOHHHHH HE'S GONNA WRITE THE BOOK THAT'S THE BOOK THAT'S THE MOVIE
so clever y'all
....AAAAAND Aliens As God is ALSO an extremely old idea. #Monsterdon
this is just a fever dream of a movie lmao
...what the fuck is happening right now #Monsterdon
The last shot of this film should be a lonely alien dude wailing on his space guitar.
You look like if Pharrell was serious
If you voted for this film... please do not tell me. I don't want to think so much less of you.
Is the resolution of this movie "so I finally met others like me, realised how stupid I looked and got over myself"
In New York, this kind of traditional community gathering is called a "book club."
this group of deluded losers in a room together, egging each other on is the Internet.
Not to make light of the situation, but I do think "Can we talk this over" is the funniest possible thing you could say before you are probed by aliens.
Just remember, when the Greys open a door, they close a window. #Monsterdon
Oho! It turns out that modern health care is a lot like being probed by aliens. What a cool parallel to draw. #Monsterdon
Kobolds? Whitley just needs to take a couple levels in fighter and heβll be fine. #Monsterdon
Man, they *really* didnβt know how to treat mental illness in the eighties, did they? #Monsterdon
Well, look, you're gonna be fine the aliens won't come back until, what, Valentines Day? #Monsterdon
He's sending me to a shrinker. Bert I. Gordon. #Monsterdon
Maybe he's just having trouble admitting he was attracted to Andreas Katsulas. He's kind of in the closet. Larger than most. Sort of a... Walken closet. #Monsterdon
What is it wrong for a grown man to be scared? Jeez see, THIS is why we men keep our feelings INSIDE.
This is boring. I want to watch a movie about Avery Schreiber instead.
"Guys we're just gonna record nine hours of Walken riffing and stitch something together in post."
Some... Animal... Set it off. Made me... Speak. Ominously. #Monsterdon
If my wife so much as pretended to throw a spider at me we would be divorced before it hit the ground. #Monsterdon
Additional score composed by Allan Zavod Beeblebrox. #Monsterdon
This is Alpha Control saying
FROM SPACE IT CAME
AND TO SPACE IT CAN GO
Good job team at struggling through this one, that's another movie successfully launched where it belongs, into space.
Hoo boy that was (mostly) a stinker.
But thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting!
Anyway, if you think you may have been abducted by aliens, do not under any circumstances get hypnotised or become part of an Abductee group <3 #Monsterdon
FINALLY, we have fucked off into the something-or-other. That was way more boring than anything with Christopher Walken should ever be. Goodnight #monsterdon, see y'all next week, follow the hashtag or our host @Taweret to vote every Monday!
@xerozohar Yeah, the thing about Communion is that it's really a Relationship Problems movie that HAPPENS to have occasional aliens in it. #Monsterdon
Well that was traumatizing, and we'll never watch Dune or that Fatboy Slim video the same way again.
Thank you @Taweret, as always, and this lovely community of bad cinema appreciators.
Interesting fact: The more benevolent an alien, the more likely it is to be depicted with a nose.
So on a scale of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to Communion, how resilient is your relationship vis-a-vis alien abduction? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon Wow this is a bad ending.
@firefly_lightning You could say that
I mean to be fair, if you expect to see a good or logically coherent movie, #Monsterdon is not the place for that, but this one is extra off the rails
And then, for no reason, everything was fine! #Monsterdon
what cantina-dancing nonsense is this