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

#monsterdon
#Communion1989

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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A bunch of little men and a tall man… hmmm…

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You look like a pilgrim Maître d'

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@srol yeah i think it's all thanks to walken

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"I have to do something for myself"

Apparently involving writing a novel. #Monsterdon

Isn't it a little *convenient* that the hypnotist happens to host an alien abduction support group??? #monsterdon

Whitley is deeply regretting his life choices right now.

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#Communion1989

“He’s not here because he’s a writer, he’s here for the same reasons you are”

Writes a book/movie about it

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Oh hey, we got a Contactee throwback in the group! #Monsterdon

Aaaand I'm out

#Monsterdon

These are fake aliens. It's gonna be a big Scooby-Doo reveal, just you wait.

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#Communion1989

Walken: "You've broken my mind"

Aliens: "Sir we were just testing your prostate"

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that's... that's not your mind, buddy

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They made him do interpretive dance?! The horror. #Monsterdon

OMG he snogged the troll!

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I think we're supposed to take the events of this movie at face value and assume that the family is being kidnapped and jostled by various types of aliens for reasons that are less than clear.

We can also take it as "they're imagining the stuff happening to them".

#monsterdon

Those troll things worked for the Shadows in Babylon 5,

Oh finally some weird alien shit!

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What in the Freddy Fazbear hell is this thing now?

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#Communion1989

Sorry, Mrs. Strieber, I think you're resting your elbow on my synthesizer. Could you take it off?

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@davesdogmaggie that does provide some context although in the film it still seems to come out of the blue.

I now wonder if they included the amount of happy family scenes that they did to try to balance out his overall grouchiness.

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They're having this conversation IN THE KID'S ROOM???

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#Communion1989

gawd i'm bored. that's rare.

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Lotta clock perverts in this movie

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this is not fucking top gun you can't have the wailing single note guitar solo ellipsize the interstitial action #monsterdon

I swear to Pharasma, I'm just voting for whatever movie is shortest next time… #Monsterdon

wtf is this Eric Clapton BS. movie woulda been hella better with a soundrack by METALLICA

#monsterdon #MaximumOverCommunion

That's called heavy metal, son

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now you see kids, back in the olden times we had phones in booths everywhere

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They generally don't put you out for brain-related tests, and it's just wires and blinky lights
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*Pulls hand out of brain

"Well he definitely doesn't have epilepsy"

#Monsterdon

okay that's a third type of alien that i don't think is supposed to be here at all, this movie is apparently going the full 'whitley strieber is hallucinating'

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"We had many extraterrestrial biological entity in old country"

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under hypnosis we get an anime recap episode where we see the stuff we saw before but with narration. writer guy starts yelling in his hypnosis chair, since yelling is the main way he interacts with the world.

On the plus side, the psychiatrist has cool African sculptures on her fireplace. I don't know enough about African art to identify them in detail.

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Thank you Zorak

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@Terencio lol, a far far better movie

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Busy day. Writing. Wearing my hat. Wearing my hat some more.

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#Communion1989

Previously, on Qualuudes and Touch-tones

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"I'd stick pins in my EYEBWALLS" #monsterdon #communion

Later the mother is talking to the child and the child reports a similar dream about "blue doctors" kidnapping him and how "god didn't make them go away." this is because aliens are immune to god's powers.

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"They got so scared they left the next day. I remember clearly because my wife here made fun of them relentlessly."

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#Communion1989

God vs Aliens vs Predator

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@trixter #monsterdon

"head shrinker's" gonna tell him the aliens are a kind of isekai to escape from his hellish marriage

I'm trying to figure out where I recognize #LindsayCrouse from, and after looking up her filmography it looks like she's sorta there in EVERYTHING. 👀

Working actress.

#Monsterdon #Communion

00:47 min in and they are now acknowledging and post-expositioning the 10s second abduction scene at 00:35

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They were... Smurfs?

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#Communion1989

I hate the plate on the wall

I hate it

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Late 70's and early 80s was definitely the era of wood panelling wasn't it? #monsterdon #communion

I didn't know it was you. I thought it might be an alien, or the kid.

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#Communion1989

ACTING 💧

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"I'm sorry... what?" Me too, lady, me too.

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#monsterdon Better late than never... hello everyone, I've seen this one so mamy times I don't even need an on-ramp. LOL.

someone take the choral setting on the casio keyboard away from the sound team #monsterdon

PLUSHIE SCARE

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Is this movie an allegory for how mental health problems are treated by society or am I giving it too much credit?

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"lol, remember that Christmas I was hunting demons/aliens and I almost shot you? We laugh now...."

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Imagine getting abducted by Jawas

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To be fair the aliens were able to easily guess that his alarm code was 867-5309

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#Communion1989

When does Devil Girl From Mars show up?

#monsterdon #communion1989

lol, abducted by Jawas...

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i really hate that clock

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I get the feeling this movie is mostly ad libbed

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This is a Monsterdon film folks… please stop showing things happening! Only talking! thanks.

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Dudes if someone scared my kid that bad I'd have strong words too.

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#Communion1989

@combatwombat
The aliens tried to head probe Walken, and HE freaked THEM out!

#Monsterdon #Communion

I mean that was a hell of a costume.

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#Communion1989

"Hey Dana is that you? I was just doing my workout tape."

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lol, "What are you WHAT ARE YOU!?"

classic Walken

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I also like to call other people’s weirdo kids “warthogs.” #Monsterdon

No one will be seated during the AWKWARD VACATION CONVERSATION #Monsterdon

does anyone's bingo card have 'giant fly' on it?

just a feeling...

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Andreas Katsulas is from Missouri, incidentally

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

While preparing our pancakes or whatever these people eat for breakfast, we discuss the screaming incident earlier. The kid is like "it wasn't a dream!" and everyone else thinks it's a dream.

The other couple say that she saw a lot of lights outside and are amazed no one else saw it. The writer says "it was the moon" and also "we were all having the same dream." suspicious.

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Writer guy decided to sit in a chair and wait this out and then an alien arm holding a glowing wand stabs him in the face and turns his face into glow. Then we see a thing in the spotlight grab the child, who starts screaming.

In the next scenes, the spotlights are gone, and the writer guy is responding to his son's screams, reassuring him that it was a nightmare. Laughter and joy commences.

#monsterdon

Clapton's cat sat on the keyboard again.

#Monsterdon

Someone's really getting their money's worth out of that Casio keyboard.

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#Communion1989

Half the budget went to the electrical bill for those lights #monsterdon #communion

"Hold a child upside down until they stop screaming" - Walken Parenting Tips

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Chris looks a little Grey-ish himself, honestly. #Monsterdon

They probed Walken's head, their first mistake...

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Are the aliens taking G'Kar back to Narn?

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G'Kar did have a thing for human women....

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Thank you Yakov Smirnoff #Monsterdon

I bet every single numerical code in this movie adds up to 666. Someone get on that.

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#Communion1989

Everybody's talking over each other and the dialogue is meaningless atmospheric blathering

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This #monsterdon starts with a pan over a big city and then we the main character (played by Mr. Walken) having a day.

He is some kind of fedora wearing writer, but unlike modern fedoras he has a family. He has a bad dream and wakes up. He has a fancy wolf painting on the wall then it falls down and his computer breaks. He complains about this to his wife and child. He then burns his food and triggers a smoke alarm, summoning the fire department, who berate his cooking skills.

This dude is living some ideal life....

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In which planet the fire dept arrives 30 sec after the fire alarm? Especially in a big city? ALIENS! #monsterdon #communion1989

This is what living in Manhattan does to you. It turns you into Christopher Walken.

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One of the most miserable pieces of music Eric Clapton (for it was he) ever wrote #monsterdon

Let#s gooooo!

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🛸 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 🛸

(where applicable)

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"Ted is like a trained doctor! One look at you guys and he's gonna know you're not local!"

damn this is a quality movie

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it's LA, folks will just assume someone's filming.

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@klu9 #monsterdon

"Goldblum, Carrey & Wayans" - wait, is THAT who this is?!?? WIN!!

@lytta @Lazarou I was mostly in the "the aliens are real in the movie but the IRL story is probably not" camp while watching, but I definitely felt the tension between "oh a guy thinks this happened" and "wait it's a movie" more than usual.

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@floatybirb I think it's all in his head, angrily I wish he HAD be anally probed! #Monsterdon

this is already far, far better than Communion.

#monsterdon #WrongCommunion

@Lazarou I think the weird aliens and their robot sidekick count as monsters. or maybe Writer's Block was the real monster after all.

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RE: https://mefi.social/@randy_s/116434750072237856

I mean what did we think was going to happen? Really?

#Monsterdon