The fat blue Jawas are kind of a cool costume. But in a UFO with disco dancing greys it's all utterly ridiculous.
#Monsterdon #Communion
Alien has Modoc vibes.
@Taweret I want to see more of them!
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Omg the little alien and his little alien body #monsterdon #communion1989
I think the cuts here are a bit cowardly. A brave director would have gone 100% Walken in the therapy room, NO cuts the whole time.
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I believe that this is exactly how Chris would behave under actual hypnosis
okay I love the lil blue guys
So this is a Blair Witch Close Encounter? #Monsterdon
βWhat happens after you go to bed?β
βItβs a blank. I hear the word βinadequateβ from somewhere.β
I wonder what Christopher Walken's shirt is up to
...on second thought I kinda don't
"A light. Big. Like a light."
Walken had fuck just saying random words in this movie.
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Did the psychiatristβs windows just randomly open by themselves, while heβs under hypnosis?
@moira "A light. Big, like a light."
love the short silurian
Suddenly there was a childβs painting of Einsteinβ¦
@whiskeysailor Was wondering that too, but if they're sending the kid to private school, they can probably afford it. The vacation home probably would prevent them from qualifying anyway, at least under the modern law.
Uh why does he sleep on his wife like that? Is he her weighted blanket of choice? #Monsterdon
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I don't think anyone could sleep with Chris Walken thwamped over them in these ways
Safe to assume aliens only abduct those who are in cabins and donβt wear hats #monsterdon #communion1989
@diazona Right? Do aliens have an ethical board of approval for probes?
I have questions. I need answers!
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Where did the set designer get the wall art pieces for this?!?! Some disturbing shit on the walls.
I just need "Secret Files" for bingo!
My god this movie has so much ugly over priced interior art from the 80s in it. That explains all the weird monsterous aliens.
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Uh oh I'm hypnotized too β:neocat_dizzy:β
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Why is there Richard Nixon mixed in with the African statues #monsterdon
Isn't it a long finger? #Monsterdon #Communion1989
oops now I'M falling asleep
@flowerpot did they file a research plan and get IRB approval
Now, Pull my finger #Monsterdon
It was just one shotgun blast at close range. Sheesh, women. #Monsterdon
Keep looking at my finger
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there had better be a climactic encounter where we blow up the aliens or they blow something up and they better have made this movie a MOVIE instead of just this guy seeking mental health care, or whatever you can call hypnosis #monsterdon
"Her evidence is accepted in courtβ¦" yeah but they were also accepting polygraphs and recovered memories of the Satanic panic and shit, it was the 80s
I wonder if that apartment is rent stabilized because boy it is a big one
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I think you should pay me for listening to you.
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"Keep looking at my finger."
"Now pull it..."
i'm already falling asleep. at lease this doctor knows how to speak properly in front of a camera.
WTF wooden Spiro Agnew?
Walken is getting the finger, hee hee hee
βYouβre going to that shrink or IβLL stick a probe up your pooper myselfβ #Monsterdon
OR IS IT?!
@Mjack Oh my... look up at my finger. No... #Monsterdon #Communion π½πΈ
Less dialogue more aliens please and thank you.
And while we are at it, what are the aliens doing with the info from the probe?
Did they find the research beneficial?
Did the aliens plant some recording device?
What do they think?
Are they stealing decorating ideas?
What is/are the aliens' motivation(s)?
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We're going to leave the emotionally fragile writer w/ this woman who believes in alien contact. This is fine. #Monsterdon
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this is 100% the wrong art
Her finger is NOT the Eina Plobe
Rectal probe yeah fine whatever but HYPNOSIS?? Absolutely NOT! #Monsterdon
Hypnosis, a simple procedure that will ensure that I can completely empty your bank account.
πΆ Dream a little dream for meβ¦ πΆ
#monsterdon God, the 80s really loved a dramatic vase of those waxy red lilies didn't they
I'm just going to resist going to therapy for no reason. #Monsterdon #Communion1989
"It's best that he be alone his first time" "well yeah that's why it's called masturbation"
"Why should I pay someone to talk to me?"
Well, for starters, because sex work is work. #Monsterdon
Is God real? Is God little dark space dwarfs? This week's new Christian theology!
Hey, the lady shrink is the Doc from Outland, Frances Sternhagen!!! They found a great cast. Script's kind of a mess, between the contact scenes.
Hypnosis! Oh, this is hitting all the crazy stuff. She's claiming it's accepted in court? It sure is not, & was fraud every time it was used.
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oh no is this gonna go the recovered memories route I do not like that route
Randomly, one of my favorite SNL skits:
well, i'm watching it, and i have no idea either. it's like Close Encounters but with zero rizz, it's first contact but mumblecore. is this movie over yet? did it ever begin?
Hey! I'm talkin' here!
Not hypnosis! #monsterdon #communion1989
There's gonna be an extra fee for this level of crazy
βIβm talking about it and I have no ideaβ #Monsterdon
This is some sort of defense mechanism going really badly.
I feel like having the kid see the aliens too is kind of a cheap narrative trick
@paco they call it Puppy Love #Monsterdon
βI have no idea why Iβm hereβ SAME #Monsterdon
"they got so Scared that they LEFT the next day" So very Walken. He's so Chris Walken right now. #Monsterdon #Communion
The sweat on the philtrum was a good touch from the makeup department.
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#Monsterdon His nervous laugh is the worst thing.
Can he please stop doing it?
sweaty walken is sweaty
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If this were my family and I was this kid, my parents would sending ME to the school psychologist. Kind of the way it actually works...
"This happened when?"
"About 30mins after the guy in the bathhouse gave me a tab and said it would help me relax."
a rectal _science_ probe maybe
Walken: this is how people laugh right? #Monsterdon
C U Next Tuesday, lady
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#Communion
#EinaPlobe
"ha ha make stuff up no I'm a writer I don't ha ha no I would never" #Monsterdon
"Do you drink?"
"Sure..."
"Good, because if I make it through this on less than a fifth of whiskey I'll deserve a goddamn medal."
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"you're comfortable being here together?"
no. in fact, from here, it doesn't look like they're comfortable being anywhere together.
Judging by the artwork in her office, this woman is either very very good or very very terrible at her job
Why is the psychiatrist reading a book about First Contact. #Monsterdon
Director to himself > Mental note - no more lines for the kid
Oh no, that book on the shrink's desk is not a good sign.
I'd almost forgotten what a blight unskippable ads are. Thank the gods for Mute
Um... Those artwork in that office is psychotic.
"Let's rip this band-aid off real quick. There is no god, aliens are real, and if they say it's not going to hurt or it's 'just the tip' it's gonna be a lie."
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no they are not comfortable being here together
is that a PLAID SUITJACKET?
There's no way I'd ever sleep in a room with that clown lamp.
@apLundell Puzzles me too, you could make a lucrative and respectable career as a magazine writer in 1989. Cover story writers would get five figure commissions.
@log Was it sonata (or whatever the generic name is now)? I used to get those with that sleep aid, it was sort of wild.
I got news for you kid, all the rest of us are definitely gonna forget you.
Dr. Sam Friedman is the wig salesman in the Seinfeld episode The Scofflaw.
I feel like when someone says they seem to be hallucinating and clearly breaking down my first instinct wouldn't be "nah, you are cheating!"
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"is God real?" no, and this movie is proof.
@peterries I dunno but I think it's gonna go to Mexico and start itself a UFO religion
#Monsterdon "Magazine writing" as a euphamism for "Science Fiction" is a weird choice. Maybe it's a 1980s thing.
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It is time for more gin so the plot makes more sense..
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honestly these set dressers had to have been on hallucinogens