@kcarr2015 @yatsu before the intermission..... #monsterdon

Calamity, my copy of the film cut out!
I think I'm back on track with the Tubi version

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@fabio

The way he wawks,
the way he twawks,
now you can tell he was bwawn
in the state of Noo Yawk!

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oh i missed the fact that he fired the gun. i guess that's part of why this lady is so upset. honestly i'm just projecting all over this movie for multiple reasons

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Wooden statue of a blind PeeWee Herman, check.

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we visit the psychiatrist, who has ceremonial masks and a crystal ball as office decor. the writer guy tells his story and mentions a rectal probe. He tries to laugh it off.

The wife says she didn't find any evidence of actual prowlers but tells the story of the other couple who saw lights and were scared and so they left. Writer guy talks about his "sensitive equipment" (lights and burglar detectors).

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#Monsterdon There's a creepy statue in the "Shrinker"'s office!

Is THAT an alien?

Hypnosis, hm

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The alcoholic doctor in "Outland"?

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He got the Boxing Day rectal probe groupon #Monsterdon

That's what-her-name...

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The great Frances Sternhagen! Once saw her at the Satrbucks at Park & 23rd.

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frances sternhagen is *chefs kiss* for this role

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"Oh great now YOU'RE crazy like your father? Son of a bitch!"

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@log the kitchen scene had jazz music in the background #monsterdon

@overholt 😆
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@catzilla [insert Mormonism reference here]

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"Don't worry we'll include you in the next argument"

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Why are you dressed like the clown on my lamp, pop

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His busy day is like my busy day, we are brothers

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oh hey, Hardy Boys books

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Look, movie. Riding silently in an elevator did nothing for this scene!

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@srol the story behind this movie being intended as non-fiction intensifies the "uh oh" factor.

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"this is such bad material"

#monsterdon #TheTruthIsOutThere

I suspect if you asked me whether i wanted a powderpuff pink kitchen, I probably would have said no. But having seen this, I definitely mean no.

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He should be easily able to afford a psychiatrist, he'll just sell two of his seven computers. #monsterdon

WHY ISN'T HE RECORDING THE INCIDENT DESCRIPTION

THIS MAN VIDEOTAPES EVERYTHING ELSE!

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@neia Yes, to the point that I suggested that sort of thing as a bingo square

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#Monsterdon "BrRrRrRooo"

She just did a comedy sound effect like Lou Costello might do.

I’m still waiting to see when in this movie Walken gets recruited by Lumon

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This is the height of the suppressed memories craze, wasn't it?

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Dude you gotta communicate, not communicating kills marriages and people. Stop trying to be a tough guy.

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what the HELL is this movie

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Where do I know the doctor actor from?

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Typical doctors: Yeah I don't see anything, get out, and look for my bill in the mail. #Monsterdon

Oooo, it's Frances Sternhagen

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If the movie hadn't established in that early scene that something external was happening -- the lights, the other couple, his son insisting it was real -- it mostly reads like a guy having a psychotic break and not getting the emotional support he needs.

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Men will actually shoot at imaginary monsters rather than.. oh wait.. he's going to therapy. #Monsterdon #Communion

Writer guy and his wife have an argument because he thinks something is wrong with the house and wants to check it out and she thinks he's getting scared about nothing.

He tells her to "go to hell" and grabs a loaded shotgun (yikes) and starts crawling around the house, encountering one plush toy. He sees spotlights in the basement, then sees a monster moving a pot which he shoots at before it vanishes. He almost shoots his wife, but stops himself.

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I wish my therapist had newts also

She's gonna re-evalaute some shit. #monsterdon

Presumably, Sam Freeman is the talent agent who can spin this shit into a movie deal

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At this point I would also choose the bear

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uh, hm *after that gun shot* Could we get divorce now?

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i'm sorry this dude has family annihilator written all over him

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Popping up from the cellar to preserve the element of surprise.

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Walken is going Omar on them aliens #monsterdon #communion

Who designed that teddy bear, Charles Manson?

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#monsterdon lmao world's least appealing teddy bear

To be fair this whole movie is self-indulgent. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

Doctors love it when you sit on their desks like that

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"Good woman" might be a little strong.

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I can't tell if this thunderstorm scene is at daytime (because it looks like daylight outside) or at night (because the writer was staring at the moon).

Was that ambivalence intentional?

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Oh like he's gonna tell you if he's scared. You're not a safe place for self-expression lady!

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#monsterdon At one point, I had one of those Toshiba laptops with the trackball that clips on the side. (Long after it was out-of-date)

Really, movie? Really?

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Nice vintage lappy #monsterdon #communion

Movie is teasing us with mentions of Bigfoot and Santa
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Turns out Santa is just ancient aliens

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"Does it hurt when I press it? What if I press it while calling you a sissy?"

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Spider aliens, bit him, maybe

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Since we are asleep in the cabin again, once more the keypad lights up and there are spotlights outside the and writer guy sees some cloaked figures grab him out of bed and carry him off, trapping him in a hot tub so they can drill into his face under the direction of their sectoid master.

It looked like the wife also saw this but the next morning they don't seem to remember anything and writer guy suspects an owl flew in the window. huh.

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Did you hear that? The aliens are changing his tires. #monsterdon

Should reprogram those damn floodlights to not make a dramatic sting when they come on. #monsterdon

lol, he just casually reaches for his shotgun in the middle of a domestic argument, what a wacky land!

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I would have expected more things to have happened in this 30 minutes of movie.

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@yatsu #monsterdon

I've read a rumor that the clock is made by "Clever Clocks" out of Oakland CA, but idk if they made this and the movie used it, or if they made it after the movie.

We are back at our log cabin for Christmas and the boy got a bike and is happy. Later we are playing with our Christmas toys and then the lights flicker.

When they go to bed the child is like "i feel like a got a new dad, ur like the dad i had before you were sad." then they go to sleep and we see the weird clock again.

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Different aliens? #monsterdon #communion

Christopher Walken might be the only non-Latine man to habitually point with his lips. #Monsterdon

is the movie about like adult depression and professional failure and whatnot and there aren't even any aliens come on i can't handle that i want some goddamn abductions and inverted cattle #monsterdon

Oh. This isn't about aliens. This is a movie about depression. The greatest monster of all.
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If you're taking notes: The recently unemployed writer has a car (in manhattan) a vacation home, a camcorder, a computer, a polaroid camera and two ostensibly expensive security systems.
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*Scowls at the Moon like it's a personal enemy

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"take off your clothes"

i think i'm counting that as TMI for bingo purposes.

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@overholt It’s called “fashion”, duh.

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Being horny on Christmas with your kid right in front of you is totally hilarious!

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Can the aliens come and deliver the actual script, please

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is this movie just about this man's life slowly falling apart or?

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#monsterdon it's amazing to me this source material/screenplay was written (autobiographically??) by an actual writer, it's every hack cliche about an immature eccentric writer

Next scene is Easter. It's a slightly less racist remake of Holiday Inn. With aliens.

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I think Santa knew he should stay far away from this whole thing

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"Andy stop feeling your feelings! You're a man dammit!"

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I have an idea! Let's get a bunch of kids to... hear me out... stand still and then sing Lord of the Dance. Hysterical, right?

right?

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30m in and glimpsed one Alien eyeball
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This plot is doing a holiday speedrun.
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Getting stuck in your own head is finally evidence that Walken can be relatable.

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Well at least this time this is a culturally appropriate moment for a camcorder. #monsterdon

OOOOO, I had Starcom toys as a child! They were the best!

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Oh yeah, that telescope is terrible. No diagonal, and no finder. (Okay, it's a background prop)

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"It looked like the alien I hallucinated the other night when that bright light was shining, okay? No biggie." #monsterdon

"I've got one child, I don't need another."

See? See? See how hard it is to have FEELINGS in this world? I'm sorry I'm not MY DAD OKAY?

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Is he sleeping on top of his wife? Walken are you part cat?
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"If you wont say anything, I wont."

Because repression is SO HEALTHY.

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No.
No.
No.
Enough shirtless Walken for one movie. More than enough.
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yeah fear be like that sometimes?

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The Halloween party is in a fancy hotel. The writer and his kid decide to go down the spookiest corridor they can find with a camera, because it has a pumpkin in it. The writer goes "ooo wooo oooo" and waves his hands around like a ghost.

The kid points a camera at the pumpkin and says "trick or treat!" and then they are surprised by an insect monster that is actually a girl in a halloween costume. This freaks them out, making everyone mad and so they leave.

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This is why I don't like jump scares lol. No one has never liked jump scares
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I hope Eric Clapton wrote this too

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can the alien come back please we are over expositioned

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