Back in the home, we see writer guy trying to write a book and watching a live TV of himself while monolog-ing about metaphorical wolves.

Also it is halloween and the son is at school dressed as a pirate, but is sad. The other kids are having a ninja versus prisoner scythe battle; the teacher checks on him because he is sad.

Back home writer guy's wife drags him off to a Halloween party and gives him an elephant costume.

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When did Eric Cartman’s voice show up? #monsterdon

Christopher Walken stars in The Elephant man.
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how much is the supposed writer in the film spending in videocassettes

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...wait, not put on gray pants, but pants at all?

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And they drive off into the sunset and live happily ever after.

Great. That's a wrap everybody.

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AS I'm sure you know, the book this was based on claimed to be the non-fictional account of author Whitley Strieber's encounters with aliens. Christopher Walken is playing the author. It's just a coincidence that Strieber's preferred writing technique is to mimic Christopher Walken.

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Grunting guy, who I will probably just start calling "G'Kar" like everyone else, is freaked out by the bright lights and wants to go home, so they all go home.

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I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription… is more cow abductions!

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loving the way this character lives, just strutting around pantless in his cowboy boots

winning

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There is no bus & there's ALSO no bus station? That's doubly cruel. #Monsterdon

I would bet anything that is not an actual Indian hunting song

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

#Monsterdon Unbelievable. Seconds after I posted a toot about their pie burning, I noticed that my OWN house was filling with smoke because I had burned my (pizza) pie.

I don't know what this movie is about, but I hope the rest of it doesn't come true.

both couples eventually go to bed, and then Spooky Music commences. We see the door keypad thing light up and blink. Some lights turn on outside.

Writer Dude gets up and sneaks around, then sees a Sectoid-like peek at him from behind a cabinet. Or did he? maybe it was an illusion. Then a spotlight shines in the window and wakes up the grunting guy and also the child.

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Walken is unimpressed with the bright lights?

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Genuinely creepy. #monsterdon

12 minutes in and we gots aliens!

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIA ENCOUNTER 👽

😵‍💫 Director Philippe Mora reported in a commentary that he granted Christopher Walken more or less complete creative freedom for his portrayal of Whitley Strieber. He allowed Walken to improvise his idiosyncratic quirks and lines of dialogue freely.

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See honey I told you we needed dual 1000 watt floodlights so we could see absolutely nothing. #monsterdon

The disarm code is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE. #monsterdon

So on a scale of one to Xtro...

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Okay they know we can tell these are different actors, right?

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#Communion1989

G'kar gonna eat up his wife in the guest bedroom

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Chekov's Spider

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#Communion1989

all's fun and games with THE SPIDER

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@allanb so i'm totally valid in tuning the chatter out as background noise, gotcha lol

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Mr. FireFIGHTer... is THIS a SHAKEdown?

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@davesdogmaggie #monsterdon

"Da fuck they cooking?"

"It's NEW!" - Eraserhead

this is a very cozy oven fire

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@trixter Why does my computer turn off every time I type "git commit"?

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an alarming situation.

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The movie may suck (it probably will) but this is Walken at his most Walken so far #monsterdon #communion

Consolation? In front of the kid? Weird.

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#Communion1989

In the 80s, all little kids in movies looked like that.

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Why is their smoke alarm a touch tone???

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is Walken a novelist or a videographer?

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He's hacking the mainframe

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Guys I'm not sure I can make fun of a movie with Walken in it. By law.

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This is Walken at his Walkenest.

Also… HATS!

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“I’m Walken here!”

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also, Eric Clapton? really?

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I can believe this is how Walken spends his days...

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What if you woke up one day and you were Christopher Walken?

Whats' your plan?

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this is very "I am a dad and no one understands me" music

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they got Eric Clapton to do the score?

NO EXPENSES SPARED

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@SocialCommentaryBot @RobynGoodfellow #monsterdon

Throw Videodrome in the mix, and you got a deal.

Farm-to-table entertainment

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That 80s city lights vibe. It’s the best.

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The twin towers! i have flown that exact route in a Cessna 172. I'm sure I never will again...

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Did this stop being a musical?
Oh no Jeff's taking over.
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"Give them enough rope, they'll dig their own grave." Mixed metaphor best metaphor!

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ehh... if they were really lucky they'da crashed in Santa Monica....

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my best friend had a total crush on Jeff Goldblum.....

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can you really have split ends on fur?

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You know what I like about this movie? The woman is ABSOLUTELY dumping her fiancée

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wait, do they really yodel in Finland?

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So what I’m learning is that Communion was mostly missing the musical numbers

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Ah. Ye olde California smog joke.
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I love this space ship, it looks like it's sponsored by a hot dog brand

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No! Not the computer!

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@floatybirb @Lazarou i guess they remain as schrodinger's monster since they're all 'maybe it's real or maybe it's all in his head'. the little blue guys WERE pretty good. the grey alien with half its mask-face removed was creepy as hell.

since this is based on the true story of things a guy says he experienced, though, i think it's harder to suspend your disbelief if you don't believe in aliens-are-real-and-here. for me it puts the movie aliens firmly in the 'not real within the movie' category.

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ok that's it. I'm finally gonna use that hydrating eye cream I got last month.

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Is this High School Musical or ...?

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@Newpa_Hasai We did have blinky lights on the cabin security system

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I forgot this was a musical? Oh no.
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@strangefour that's a good take if you are trying to make sense out of the movie and view it metaphorically. which maybe you're supposed to?

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dude... she was talking bout some pyramids! that sounded interesting!

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saved by the gall bladder.

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i thought i was going to watch the double feature but i think #communion1989 sapped all my energy 😂 despite my nerdy rambling

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Is this an allegory? Am I missing something?

@bstacey "Battlestar Galactica Ending"

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Kinda funny that it’s about anal probing and the title is Communion.

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An alien spacecraft straight out of Homeboys From Outer Space.
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This motion picture is based on a true story. For certain liberally defined values of “true”.

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Folks, we've had some hidden gems here on #Monsterdon, and I think it is safe to say that this was not one of them

WORST #monsterdon EVAR

Mine rolled into a Richard Gere one I'm sure I watched but don't remember at all. The Mothman Prophecies #monsterdon

@bryanhowell …or best thing?

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Needs moar reverb.

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Need something to cleanse your palate? Earth Girls Are Easy is coming up on https://miru.miyaku.media/

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Enough. Enough. Why won't this movie end. #monsterdon

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somehow they made Walken boring.

Oh well.

Thanks for hosting, @Taweret; and for bingo, @cherizilla; and for trivia, @JoeWynne

but most importantly, thank all you #Monsterdonians for making it fun

@Louisa Ah, to be yuppies in the 80s.

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I did not get clarity on anything that occurred in that movie, including the ending.
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Alright, Monsterdonners, that was a movie. My life is 110% weirder because of y’all

See you next week

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ugh, what an absolute waste of every single person's time. when aliens actually do come to earth, i'm gonna show them this movie, and the entire galaxy is gonna treat us like our planet has the plague. this movie is so bad it had tainted humanity.

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Fuckin' A. I forgot how long this ending was and how you pray for death before the end. The aliens fucked off into space and we ended up in 35 random locations at the end.

Thank you, @Taweret, @Cherizilla , @JoeWynne , and everyone else involved in the probing.

but i think the overall story where his and then both his and his wife's beliefs about what happened and what's true change over time as they like... learn to keep living and cope, spend some time possibly getting false memories from hypnosis, and figure out how to repair their relationship; it's just very INTERESTING the way they come to think the aliens are maybe positive after all. making peace with it all etc.

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@catzilla@toot.cat Because he took the alien "gods" into his body (in the form of a rectal probe)

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#monsterdon FUN FACT: the Flock of Seagulls song "I Ran" is about an alien abduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU

I don't know what I just watched, but it was somewhere between really good and really bad. I am going to feel creeped out for at least a week, if not more.

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One could cut this movie down to 90 minutes without losing anything EASY #monsterdon #communion

#monsterdon Knock knock, almond eyed guitar riff… twoing…

Shout out to Praying Mantis girl.

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Basically Eyes Wide Shut but the rich guys are aliens. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

well, i'm glad for the striebers, because i certainly am not living anywhere after this movie. i have died. ⚰️

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FUCKING FINALLY THERE ARE END CREDITS

or are there?

WE GONNA GET AN ALIEN HEAD IN THESE TOO? HUH?

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This movie has been about a man writing a book about bullshit sleep paralysis buttstuff parties that you don't get invited to. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

FINALLY #monsterdon #communion

Let me pitch you a movie idea: Ghost, but with aliens.

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