"whbrrrrrgrrrr"

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@fabio iM jUsT uNuSuAlLy LoOsE, dOcToR! #monsterdon #communion

Time Walken

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"Midlife crisis? No, I think you're batshit crazy."

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"Mommie, is God real?"

"Nah, just us and the Aliens kid"

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@bryanhowell #monsterdon

Those flowers drew First Blood!

Those flowers had it coming.

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Duck Hunt dog cameo would've been great

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"Does it hurt when i press it like this?" poke poke poke poke #monsterdon #communion

At this point I wouldn't be shocked if Bigfoot actually did show up. Just throw a little of everything in there.

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👽👽🕺👽👽

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Oh my goodness, just abduct them already. I don't remember the 80s being this slow. #monsterdon

Flickering lights = aliens, everyone knows that #monsterdon #communion

I feel like I'm watching a movie that people in a movie watch

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The grinding tedium of middle-class life is making me long to be probed by an alien -_- #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe that was worse than the duck

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So this is a movie about how social expectations of masculinity prevent men from sharing or discussing their fears. #Monsterdon

@Uair
I haven't researched _Communion_ since pre-public-Internet, but in the 1990s it was still unclear to me. The book is written in a non-fiction style, yet it's written by a known fiction novelist.

I think for my own mental health, I need to believe that it's fiction. 👽

It really wasn't until I read this article:
https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA135609239&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=10639330&sw=w&u=oregon_oweb&p=AONE&isGeoAuthType=true&aty=geo
that I truly felt the Greys were not real.
Here's a more recent discussion of same:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/my-mother-the-alien-18961

Cc: @Taweret @flowerpot

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"mom, why does dad dress like a mob boss?"

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He's just sitting there, waiting for the Internet to fully develop and THEN he can really waste some time at home!

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Chris, if you have to ASK... #Monsterdon

I care little for the plot, I'm just enjoying Christopher Walken being his best self

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No one will be seated during the 7 minute long pumpkin approach sequence. #monsterdon

Whoops, someone else has been cooking duck. #Monsterdon

110 minutes is plenty long. #monsterdon

I'd like to think NY apartment buildings put that amount of effort into Halloween.

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I'm sure Walken with cowboy boots and a wolf mask is someone's fetish #monsterdon #communion

Fun fact -- that sword fight in the background is them filming Revenge of the Ninja.

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How did they manage to pass on Jim Carrey for this one?

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That six letter word is “esters,” by the way. #Monsterdon

"I'm not angry. I can't explain. Literally, I have no more words in the English."

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"You GUYS.. .when the MOON hits your EYE... like a big PIZZA PIE... that's a dream! A dream moon floodlight!"

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The non-Walken guy has a very Bela Lugosi accent #monsterdon #communion

"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

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@Taweret a) does he talk like that all the time and b) does he talk like that when you're fucking him #monsterdon

Haunted by the ghosts of the trees that died for this cabin

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Things I did not actually need to see on camera: Walken trying to get Lindsay Crouse to say “erection.” #Monsterdon

“Let your wife cook.”

So it is a science fiction film. #monsterdon

Holy crap was the NYFD waiting in the bathroom?

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it's Christopher WALKEN, not COOKEN

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Backup your work! Save frequently!

If you only have it saved in 1 place, it’s the same as saved in 0 places.

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Sir please don't lick your fingers :/ #Monsterdon

ONE FOR THE PHEASANTRY #Monsterdon

@Binder I had a dream the other night with a pack of cats that spoke and understood English. That would be a fun movie. #monsterdon

"you can't rest on your L'Oreals" is quality wordplay

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YES! Makeover montage!

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@culturednyc Haven't had a chance to use this in a while. #Monsterdon #Communion

Travelled 100s of light years to give some ape descendent inspiration for a movie....

...but also fuck him.

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Ohhh that shitty white boy guitar was Eric Clapton was it?

hmmm...

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@randy_s AH. ok, NOW I understand the scene with Walken writing without pants. (The author hates pants.)
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I will do any number of things to stop hearing eric claptop

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Aside from that bizarre "alien dance party" scene that was maybe the worst thing I've ever voluntarily sat through.

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Thanks @Taweret I now have a definitive least favorite Chrisopher Walken movie.
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So.....what? Oh well. Thanks #monsterdon ers. Take care. See ya soon.

Note to self: do not vote for a movie just because it's described as "weird".

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After dancing with the aliens, kissing his wife and looking at giant toothbrushes, writer guy's writer block is cured and he wrote something. Then he sees the light outside of his urban house and the whole family goes on top of the apartment roof to look for spaceships I guess.

... I kind of assumed that the spaceships were only bothering him in the country because fewer people would see them there and the movie seems to agree with me because we don't see a spaceship in city.

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19 people? What he was giving guided tours to being abducted?
Imagine being credited as Praying Mantis Girl on your resume.
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"No, wiggle the alien mask more. Okay. Now, more light. More light! Okay, Chris, fondle. Fondle more."

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That's how you wanna end your movie, huh? Okay, get bent. I'm outta here. #Monsterdon

OH THANK FUCK THE CREDITS ARE HERE TO SAVE US

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Respect for the days when monitors were so heavy you could use them as ballast for a gravity bomb charged with C4

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Brought to you by the fine folks at Zenith Computers!

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I've started watching Twin Peaks, and I think it would be cool if the surreal sequences in this movie maybe worked like the dream in that show and reflected things that happened in the world outside of them?

Or at least pointed to... something or made any kind of internal sense.

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How do I get Christopher Walken to appear in a movie about me writing a movie? Who do I need compromising video of?

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C'mon, gimme one last rubber alien. One last one. #Monsterdon

It was a huge light. Huge. Like a light.

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tell me they fucked off into Space?
The End

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@bunnyhero does this movie take place in an alternate universe where divorce is impossible

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@lytta It might have a little something to do with our grabbing shotguns every time they try to talk to us.

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That is exactly how I feel when I figure out what I want to write.

At least, I assume it’s how I feel when that happens, because it hasn’t happened yet. #Monsterdon

The kid is Strieber's son because he also sleeps in a weird position

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END ALREADY!!

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Writer dude goes home and he's in a good mood and kisses his wife. He says "he was chosen" whatever that means. They kiss and laugh and are happy.

Then they go to an art gallery to wander by the sculptures of giant toothbrushes and abstract paintings of butts. The wife is like "maybe it doesn't matter if we were abducted by aliens" causing the writer guy to monologue about how there might be aliens and then the wife is like "huh maybe you saw God."

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and yeah ultimately they did come to believe that the aliens had positive intentions, i think, but were just reeeal bad at conveying those intentions or communicating with humans

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Actually said out loud "Fuck me" as the movie ends with him deciding he's going to write a book about the events that just transpired, the worst ending ever

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"I'm going to write about THIS"

Actual LOLS from me

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When does this film end though? What is the drama?

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oh my god this movie KEEPS GOING

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more oily 80s music and more exposition plus other people's art
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This movie could have been a TikTok.

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now *I* feel like i'm losing my mind

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His brain is in a jar right

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It's Miller Tiiiiiiiiiiii👽

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that box reminds me of Hellraiser, a far better movie

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A computer game on the computer? you don't say!

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Crunchy on the outside, creamy on the inside!

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The aliens don't seem surprised to see him but he eagerly hands them his camera. He then does some bowing motions toward the little robed guys which they reciprocate and he says "I must be awake, is that what you mean?"

Then he shakes hands with one of the aliens and triumphant music plays and they high-five each other. wut.

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lol, they look silly with their masks off

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elephant nose call-back?

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⁉️ TRIVIA ENCOUNTER 👽

You're just supposed to know that, when Anne Strieber mentions "Masks of God", she is referring to Joseph Campbell's works. By the late 80s, Joseph Campbell's writings were a cultural touchstone.

Later the writings' popularity was superseded by “Ice Ice Baby” sung by Vanilla Ice.

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This is going a bit Twin Peaks

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Party on!

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These aliens are failing to cross themselves properly. #Monsterdon

lol, is that the end?
They shake hands and the drugs kick in?

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"May I take your hat, sir?"

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Of course, if we take the abductions at face value then we also have to ask what the hell the aliens are abducting this grumpy guy for anyway and why they have a playroom for human children on the floor of their spaceship and why must they do wavy dances.

And also, were all of the weird things he saw in his vision real or were some hallucinations or metaphorical (like when he saw himself saying cryptic things).

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I'm sure that 1980s camcorder will have no problem handing the overexposure from 90000 candelas of white light

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@floatybirb so i looked it up because a lot of these blur together for me / i'm never sure of the timeline:

a lot of it goes back to here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident

and from there it's a rich tapestry of things abductee culture/ufology came to believe were true, and tropes that showed up in fiction, and the way those continually fed back into each other

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Were the aliens just... parked? Are they making out?

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If I take the alien abductions at face value, it seems the psychiatrist lady is really the hero for trying to get the survivors of these alien attacks to come together and share knowledge.

And a lot of the movie is just writer guy refusing the call repeatedly.

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