HAHAHAHAHAHA I DID NOT SEE THE WHACKY UNION OF HUMAN AND ALIEN KIND COMING NO WAY #MONSTERDON

And peace reigns through the club as bong smoke wafts through the air. Cue the Cantina Band

#Monsterdon #MonsterMiku #Communion1989

Close Encounters did the music better

#Monsterdon

I wouldn't shake that hand. You don't know who that hand's been probing. #Monsterdon #Communion

... wat

#monsterdon

What the heck is going on? #Monsterdon

yes dog. yes. yes. elaborate respect ritual. yes. this is how you redeem this movie. incredible decisions #monsterdon

It's not so much a ship as it is an alien sauna. #Monsterdon

Okay I recognize that, that's the crossing themselves Catholic thing. #Monsterdon

his makeup is like 50% david bowie in these scenes and i have no idea why

kinda works tho'

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

Nice that they have coat check
#monsterdon  

"i must be awake"

well at least one of us is.

#monsterdon #Communion1989

THE ALIEN ENCOUNTER GUY-LINER IS BACK!!!! #Monsterdon

Are they setting up for a porn shoot?

#monsterdon

the choice to have the aliens always dancing is a choice

#monsterdon sterdon

okay where's the Star Wars Cantina music. this scene has the _wrong_ music.

#monsterdon

I dont understand why eric clapton wrote the worst main theme ever for this it's like three notes and a synth. totally phoned it in

#Monsterdon

No filming during performance, please. #Monsterdon

Oh! It's just a TARDIS. It's bigger on the inside.

#monsterdon

Moon Walken

#Monsterdon #Communion

Didn't know he was such a huge Young Frankenstein fan.

#monsterdon #Communion1989

#monsterdon Alien dance party!

You can dance if you want to, you can leave your kid behind!

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

#Monsterdon 🌌👽 🛸🫣 ⁉️ 👨‍⚕️ 😱

the different aliens' different dancings are at least alien-appropriate

alien dance party huh

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

This is the moment when, in real life, he found out a neighbour had installed new motion sensing very strong floodlights but he decided he wanted to sell his novel anyway #monsterdon #communion1989

Little guys are all "Dance magic dance" #Monsterdon #Communion

and then the big light carried him away to outer space and no one ever saw him again THE END

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

@moira You really need a government conspiracy or some such thing to make a story that works, because otherwise it's just a pile of creepy stuff and lights and flailing

#Monsterdon

@moira Oh, I think he's the one playing the Raccoon hat Alex character with the dubious accent.

#Monsterdon

Is it done? Is he gone? Was he vaporized? Are we free? #Monsterdon

You sign Eric Clapton there's going to be a lot of guitar I guess. #Monsterdon #Communion

I'm Walken at midnight #Monsterdon

must rack up a hell of an electric bill from the aliens fucking with his lighting system so much
#monsterdon

You can tell he is going to commune with the aliens because he is wearing eye liner.
#Monsterdon

It's Mark Knopfler behind the bush! #Monsterdon #Communion1989

If I watched this movie for free, can I get a refund?
#Monsterdon

You're just gonna watch or you're gonna actually record with that camcorder that's right there in your damn hand.

#Monsterdon #MonsterMiku #Communion1989

Lighting & location scouting, making magic out of mouse shit. #Monsterdon

Don't go into the light, don't go into the light!

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

Some filmakers struggle with things like having a “plot” or a “point” but not these filmmakers! #Monsterdon

Can we go back to that part about ghost wolves?

#Monsterdon

Is it just me or did I catch the security system playing "Ring Around the Rosie" on its keypad

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

hell yeah let's go fight these aliens with the power of journalism #monsterdon

I really hate that hat. More than the clock. #monsterdon

"You look like you'e dressed for your first communion!" THAT'S THE NAME OF THE SHOW

#Monsterdon

I wish Sirenhead would show up about now. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

"you are on the fastest available route"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh09uIN6tl0

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

If I showed up to my first Communion looking like that the Priest would tell me I was going straight to Hell #Monsterdon

Wait, the aliens actually go there to check the trap. They don't have a remote sensor?

#Monsterdon #MonsterMiku #Communion1989

Movie could have used that backwards walking alien from Xtro crossing the street on his drive to the cabin.
#Monsterdon #Communion

Sometime you wear the fur hat, and sometimes the fur hat wears you, especially when it jumped on your head in the forest, sucked your brain out, and is now using your body to get around.

#Monsterdon #Communion

He looks directly at the camera when saying he’s going for a pack of cigarettes.

We’ve long passed Twin Peaks territory.

#Monsterdon

He’s thinking “oh yeah, I’ll be a regular on Coast to Coast AM for sure!” #Monsterdon

Walken staring at the camera for too long is scarier than aliens.
#Monsterdon #Communion

"That's not it" When even the characters in the movie reject the opportunity for resolution. "You are not going to let us see you" and at that point, the audience leaves in a huff #monsterdon

It is a Christopher Walken movie. We have to have a dance scene.

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

Well, we got through a scene without one of the abductees telling us about the Holiday Inn, Paramus.

#Monsterdon #Communion

The visitors clearly need to watch 10000 hours of human feature motion pictures so they know when the author they're probing is ever going to write a decent Hollywood screenplay. That isn't plodding and boring or anything. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

This is how Walken became the King of New York AND the Weapon of Choice. #Monsterdon

TITLE DROP! In a weird way that doesn't make sense in or out of context.
#Monsterdon #Communion

She said the movie title!

#Monsterdon #MonsterMiku #Communion1989

SHE SAID THE WORD

#Monsterdon

bap bap bap #monsterdon

Anyway, back to my question of "how would you make a better movie out of this", my answers are

a) give it to David Lynch, let him do whatever the hell he wants

b) first 10 minutes, setup. Then the aliens take him into this parallel dimension and it's a big psychosexual acid trip, heavy on the special effects, some kind of cosmic psychodrama. Last 10 minutes, he comes back and his wife's like "hey you spaced out for a minute. What was that about?" and he's like "I dunno, Anne. I dunno." And then the camera zooms out and out and out. Roll credits.

#monsterdon

you look like a fuckin cocaine pilgrim my friend #monsterdon

They said the title of the thing in the thing

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌌👽 🛸🫣 ⁉️ 👨‍⚕️ 😱

Yes Chris, you look great in that black skinny suit

it's hard to believe a movie this dull inspired things like X Files and in particular Jose Chung's From Outer Space

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

@Taweret Maybe they wrote this script.Only that to explain that excessive anal probe scene.
#monsterdon
#communion1989

This is some really nice location scouting at work. #Monsterdon

just in case you forgot Clapton was around here somewhere, there you go

#monsterdon

Does the psych count as a mad scientist?

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

Shaking everybody's hands so he can give them his business card. On that writer grind. #Monsterdon

@kcarr2015 you will not receive care for preexisting conditions from Alien Medical, sorry!

#monsterdon #communion

@diazona I'm afraid you have to stick around or get an anal probe. #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

Was it big, like a light? #Monsterdon #Communion1989

24 minutes left
#monsterdon

'It's not you we're interested in...
... it's WHITNEY. We want him to ghostwrite our book. "The art of the probe."'

#Monsterdon #Communion

The best thing you can do in a movie is have a group of people tell stories about things we don’t get to see #Monsterdon

Walken's wife seens to be enjoying this group
#monsterdon
#communion1989

THE ONLY THING TO DO

IS DOO ITSELF

- these aliens, apparently

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

so, pool on whether the therapist here is actually blackmailing them all?

#monsterdon

"I DIDN'T WANT A RECTAL PROBE, LAURIE! Nobody wants it, nobody asks for it!"

OMG, I need to sample that. It's the best line ever.

#monsterdon #communion

@diazona 🤭 true #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

little men! hitting each other!

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

@SRLevine oh yeah i assume it's part of the standard earth biological scanning protocol. life on earth seems to be designed around a central tube, so we just go ahead and sample the two ends of that tube whenver we come across an earth lifeform #monsterdon

@faoluin

She’s no fun.

#Monsterdon

"It may sound like a cliche, but" is not the softest way to lampshade your hack cliche but okay. #Monsterdon

"these beings are real"

unlike this movie, which I am increasingly convinced is some sort of psychological experiment.

#monsterdon #Communion1989

I can't believe it's not Rick Astley

#monsterdon

thunderstorms are a lie

#monsterdon

Is this a survivor's group or is this really a longitudinal study, and the aliens have a grant.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌌👽 🛸🫣 ⁉️ 👨‍⚕️ 😱

um this is uncomfortable

I wonder what Christopher Walken's sanity is up to right now

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

Well that was awful on quite a handful of levels. #monsterdon

I'm forced to admit that "guy finally has the courage to share his story and finds like-minded people who have also had the same experiences" is, at least in principle, a good way to end the story

#Monsterdon

Just sing "Paperback Writer" at them or it will never sink in. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

"He's here because he kissed an alien that put a probe up his tush-tush and he didn't like it."

#Monsterdon #Communion

That, uh... that's not your mind they're probing, my man.

#monsterdon