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βοΈ TRIVIA ENCOUNTER π½
IMPROVISED! - The scene in which Christopher Walken (as Whitley Strieber) holds up the Alien's face mask over his face.
Walken actually made a 2-minute-long scene trying on multiple masks. All but seconds of the footage ended up on the cutting room floor.
(This was obviously before the Age of Memes)
Oh at least put some lube on that thing.
It's awful what they did to me, they gave me a rubbery table dance. #Monsterdon
OK that weird doll thing is pretty freaky
Oh, he's fighting his Shadow! He's trying to get a Persona, good luck dude! #Monsterdon
I'm going to load one of your autosaves
Is the rest of this movie a hypnosis flashback? #Monsterdon
Freddy Krueger would clean this movie right up
THAT'S the test for Epilepsy? Causing a seizure?
IIRC he wrote the script adaptation but it had treatments afterwards and he had no control over any of that. He talked in interviews about how upset he was that they took so much artistic interpretation to his own real life and fabricated events he never wrote.
Hard lesson that studios aren't on the side of the truth, they are on the side of getting money.
"We called them Smurfs. Village elder, man named Gargamel, he try to capture. Make into gold. Had very ugly cat."
@allanb You are entirely too sober for this, if you can do that kind of math this deep into #Monsterdon
I had to stop and think that through like 3 times. π
G'Kar warning Walken about going Za Ha Doom...
What Iβm beginning to realize is that my problem as a #Monsterdon poster is that I usually get too into the movies to keep cracking jokes.
They sent him to momma Clavin. #monsterdon
This movie feels like it's a New Yorker's exploration of what happens if you are crazy enough to leave the city and go out where there are trees and dark places.
If you're sending Walken to a psychiatrist, you better pick a REALLY good one. Confident. #monsterdon
Realistic doctor in a movie bonus points
None of this wouldβve happened if he had just backed up his files!
Oh I've seen this one. He freezes to death in the hedge maze. #monsterdon
Okay. It's Decaf for you from now on mister. #Monsterdon #Communion
Gotta say, as far as counterarguments for what you think is your husband becoming mentally ill, βIβm a good womanβ is a new one on me. #Monsterdon
Obviously this guy shouldn't have a shotgun but on the other hand I'm a sucker for that "chkCHK" sound effect so I'm torn.
I thought I saw an owl. It yelled at me about some sort of lollipop! #Monsterdon
He has a writing hat, doesn't he? #monsterdon #communion
Plot of this #monsterdon so far
characters do something, weird scary thing happens
characters get freaked out and leave
characters are sad
@CactuarJoe please, mulder
Yes, dress all in grey, that'll relax your Abductee child. #Monsterdon
That's so Walken, just recording himself at his desk for hours, being wacky
I bet there were days of footage on that thing
@f800gecko where's Jeff Goldblum? lol
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I don't like any of these people
#monsterdon
Itβs possible the alien mistook Whitley for his cousin. #monsterdon
little kid oughta get a big-wheel tricycle and ride it all over.
The thing is what Chris really needs is a swirly. #Monsterdon
Check the PSU, it's the PSU I bet
Christopher Walken Christopher Walkin' it up. #Monsterdon
Those towers, to be clear, are NOT the #EinaPlobes
This part in particular was the most fun I've had on #monsterdon in a while.
christ, i have to go take a shower.
what a weird film. I don't know what to make of it. Some really weird directing choices and it sets up some very heavy threads that it doesn't pursue at all (Possibility of sexual abuse?) but I thought Walken was fascinating to watch and parts of it worked for me too? Just so many weird choices. And it's based on someone's book who believes this happened to them, which is a wild thing to base a movie on and does that mean it's enabling him? I don't know! #monsterdon
@moira I'm the one who sent that to @cherizilla ! And it was the only one you got! Hysterical.
The monster was the film editor.
Oh, uh, you should go read the wikipedia writeup on the movie and Strieber's experiences. It makes why the movie is Like That clear (usually for reasons related to his actual experiences)
That was just exactly what I look for in what @flophousepodcast calls a "Good Bad Movie." There was no plot, the characters were all terrible people and any ideas it managed to communicate were completely incoherent. But I had so much fun along the way.
I hope Whitley Steiber has to pay triple taxes on his NYC apartment and his up state cabin.
#Monsterdon #Communion
AND THAT ONE IS A REAL STRETCH
it's medical equipment not a supercomputer BUT I'M CLAIMING IT
#monsterdon /looks up Whitley Streiber Oh, that's the guy who wrote the hunger no wonder nothing happened in this film either
That was BRUTAL. I think I was probed. I feel probeded.
What happened to G'Kar though, did he make it back to Narn? Did the Centauri get him? CLOSURE?!
Those aliens, they said they were gonna call me
They did terrible, kiss-inducing things and they said they were gonna call me
NO! Stop. Be over.
I'm trying to think of good stories that end with one of the characters deciding they're going to write the story of what they just did. The only thing I can think of right now is The Hobbit.
Now we watch him type his book for 90 minutes straight.
I'm still very suspicious that the featured artist financed this film
"It's just god"
Like at the risk of annoying people, whatever people are experiencing when they have abduction experiences are probably the same as how they saw angels, demons, etc in previous eras. (Though I'm leaning towards some flavor of hallucinations)
This movie is violently allergic to shooting anyone below the mid-torso.
So this movie is trying to be abstract art in it's scripting? Chaos that you can read anything into. It's up to the viewer? Is that why we are in an art agllery?
#Monsterdon #Communion
so another commenter pointed out a while ago (which jogged my memory) that their marriage did eventually survive IRL but there was like, a separation period?
just adding this to my thread since earlier i was like 'i think maybe they divorced?'
...Yes, Chris, but there's a gap between "aliens exist" and "aliens are grabbing me out of my bed." #Monsterdon
Walken with the look of married man who slept last night in a car while having fever dreams of an alien sex club
Every time that kid gets to say more than two sentences uninterrupted it's just a horrible time for everyone.
ikr should have ended with him saying "Long Live the New Flesh"
That child impact ruptured Walken's spleen, he never forgave the boy
This movie needs to turn up the David Lynch up to 11 #monsterdon #communion
i was kind of hoping it would end on the dancing-with-little-aliens-to-funky-music scene. that would have been pretty epic.
I wonder if Walken got paid twice
Consensual probing ensues #monsterdon #communion
It'd be funny if no one else in the group believed Whitley.
"i've tried this i've tried that I've tried this I've tried that"
must... resist... another... weapon of choice joke
Jacket on the floor. Stop the scene, that guy just dropped a jacket on the floor. Jacket! I can't focus until someone picks up the jacket. The jacket! I said JACKET! COULD SOMEONE GET THE JACKET OFF THE FLOOR!
Remember, this is a true story.
Yeah, yeah, we get it, you are the walrus. #Monsterdon
"Why do you have a gun?" "Because of the bears. It was an AirBNB & Bears."
Where other Monsterdon movies have Underwater Scenes, this has "Therapy Sessions"
my dream is to do an edit of Devil Girl with metal in it. #MaximumDevilGirl
not making a secret that i'm here for this one less for expecting-monsters reasons and more for latent special interest relevance reasons
Why is the soundtrack to The Room playing?
Next scene, G'Kar and Writer guy to dinner to talk about his weird dreams. G'Kar is wearing a coonskin cap. He tells them that where he grew up (Eastern Europe and/or the Narn Homeworld) the little blue dudes were called kobolds.
@nsmckinnon "Have you tried just snapping out of it?" #Monsterdon
Wearking a Paul Bunyan hat non-ironically like that requires CONFIDENCE #monsterdon #communion
I had to stop on road and fight RFK for raccoon for hat
heck, my file is corrupt about halfway through. apologies for oddly timed comments as I switch to a different source
"Bad dreams" That reminds me of Inception, a far better movie.
Look he's absolutely shouting at that statue of the little man.
βA light. Big, like a light.β Compelling writing! #Monsterdon
same artist as the comforting breakfast masterpiece?
"Her evidence is accepted in court" Yeah, along with nine other kinds of pseudoscience. #Monsterdon
What is this artwork? And why did they need to focus in on it at all?
i keep feeling bad for this guy because his wife keeps reacting so shittily to him having mental illness and/or trauma and it's like.... oh damn i know what that's like
the "why are you acting weird like this on purpose, you're not being fair to me"
"I'm not saying you're crazy. I'm saying you're crazy AND a bad writer."
You're right, I am falling asleep. hiyooo.
I.. think... I'm...
...hallOOcinating! #monsterdon #communion
The line "they did not appear to be human" just recedes into the background noise that is this movie's use of the English language
"whbrrrrrgrrrr"
@fabio iM jUsT uNuSuAlLy LoOsE, dOcToR! #monsterdon #communion