Inspiration for The Big Lebowski #monsterdon

I want to join an alien bowling league now. Matching maroon dusters. Big hair.
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#Monsterdon They were democrats

they're weak to ceiling fans!!

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Normally when somebody is bitten or harpooned by an alien, they go wrong and have to be despatched like a zombie family member.....

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Ho ho ho! It's Crittering time!

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THE CRITTER GETS THE F BOMB OF THE MOVIE
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I don't think dad can take losing many more mouthfuls

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We came to bowl exactly one frame. Our mission is complete. #monsterdon

This is exactly how I want to enter an American bowling alley as.....either that or The Dude.

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"Have another drink charlie...."

Is that wise?

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LMBO!!! #monsterdon

BEST SUBTITLE

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I like how the Critters move by rolling

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“I have come here to do two things: shoot a church organ and kick ass. And I’m all out of church organs”

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#monsterdon (The black levels are a bit crushed in this DVD version. I kind of wish I'd been able to track down a Blu-Ray version.)

Ahhh, you know having guns above the fireplace is not normal, right?

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Critters ate my pickup.

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Wait up Brad, we need to rub your head for good luck. #monsterdon

That's how all sinners aught to arrive at church. #monsterdon

lol, police car into the church, niiiccceeeeee

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Yeah get that organ

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like this is objectively not a good movie but it does have moments that are awesome

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Feds: don't expect help with these aliens if you voted for Walter Mondale. Dem cities can fend for themselves. #monsterdon

OMG,. the rat tail on the sex lad.....

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so no driving into town perhaps to see a doctor?

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#monsterdon MONSTER CHOMP×2

Farmer Brown is attacked by two volleyball sized critters that apparently spit needles and move kind of like possums? Honestly he sounds pretty calm for someone leaking that much blood out of bite wounds that apparent size. Probably in shock.

"Maybe I wanna walk around with my big green head, have you thought about that Joe?"

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I KNEW it would be a glow in the dark head!

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#Monsterdon is... Lilo and Stitch based on this film?

Gotta say the Critters are pretty impressive in figuring how human homes are powered

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Angry tribbles! Now you've done it!! #monsterdon

Just minute, I'll be right up after they eat my face, honey. #Monsterdon

Love his bowling shirt, big "Pen Pals" vibe to it

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I find the Mom's clothing offputting. 😠 #Monsterdon

We don't have those sinks that chew up things over here in the UK, but we are fans of piping flammable gas into our buildings though!

Mad what goes on in the kitchen really...

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Kids making firecrackers, moms shoving food into a running garbage disposal by hand... How did any of use survive the 80s?

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OMG, it's Neelix!

Was he always bald?

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#Monsterdon oh NO do not show me that lady pushing food into the running garbage disposal with her fingers h NO you DO NOT show me that NO

TBF, 'Food' is a pretty standard order of business when travelling to new worlds.

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#monsterdon That Critter foley conversation sounded a lot like sped-up Jawa speech.

*Finally* we get some proper alien action

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Subs not dubs #monsterdon

this guy's like temu David Bowie. #monsterdon

Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious! #monsterdon

Bad hair metal... this is the horror part of the movie, right? #monsterdon

#monsterdon April, you dragged Steve into the barn to maul him. At least drag him out of _earshot_ of the house, for pete's sake.

@brooke And if he answers "coming!" you have to wait a bit longer...

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“here’s your dinner you little shit, your mother should have swallowed.” #Monsterdon

The kid was also in Band Of Brothers, which was a pretty good WWII series.

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while this ten year old boy's life is fascinating, I was slightly more interested in the aliens is all

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#Monsterdon It’s a midwestern WASPy dinner. Nobody talks. All terrified Dad will say something. Mom will cry. Little Sally will grab her D-cells jealously, knowing that she’ll be busy later tonight draining those batteries.

Nancy Reagan sex education: let that sink in #monsterdon

Wrist rocket, the bane of all public works departments

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80s b movie practical effects, my beloved

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@LK_877 Metal amalgam fillings mean we've had two mercury shoutouts already #monsterdon

#Monsterdon i feel like they forgot to greenscreen in their faces

'Keep Crites in Crittermass!'

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@Bluedepth OH MY GODS IT IS IT'S NEELIX

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I feel safer already #monsterdon

It really is morning in America #monsterdon

That's alot of bacon. Is this a 2000s meme?
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#Monsterdon Brad is hogging the bathroom because he’s playing with the… family… hog. ;) oops could be considered funny or upsetting lewd. Ah well. Toot.

This is why you never leave the keys in your fastest ships #monsterdon

crikey, the crites! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Our DVD version just had _four_ New Line Cinema announcements before the "Shoho Films" intro card.

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I don't,... I don't need a hand made replica Crite off Etsy.
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1450872466/critters-replica-from-the-1986-critters

@Zerofactorial Western Kansas very much is. The eastern areas (especially around KC) don't have much topography, but aren't flat flat.

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@adamthomlison As best I can tell it's a stun thing and only incapacitates a person while the quill is in.

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#monsterdon The poison-quill thing was never really developed, so I think the #Critters ' real monster power was that they were jerks.

This just never came up. #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai Space! Orcs! Space! Orcs! Space! Orcs! Space! Orcs!

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@strangefour @moira @CactuarJoe Are we still paying off having Stepford Wives in the lineup, is that how it works? #monsterdon

@Lazarou @YsengrinWolf No, no, of course he is the mad scientist who makes robots.

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TIL there actually was a sequel to Invasion of the Bee Girls (Beyond The Invasion of the Bee Girls) but it only made it to being a stage play in Seattle in the late 80s #Monsterdon

As @CactuarJoe pointed out, Critters is basically just the Hopkinsville Goblins. Only replace owls with hedgehogs. And there were no bounty hunters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

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This one I'm giving a #letterboxd rating the same as last week's, two and a half stars, for the same reason. It was a middle of the road movie that die a few things okay and nothing really offensive given its vintage https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/critters/ #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @strangefour nah, it's light enough, it'd be okay

i mean, there's less to make fun of than usual so toot count might be down but

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@moira @strangefour It is! It might actually be too good for #Monsterdon.

@hollie
There might be repercussions in the upcoming week.

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@wohali plenty of directors gave had worse things on their resume and gone on to direct more movies. Looking at you James Cameron and Piranha 2 :grimacing_face: #Monsterdon

@Taweret

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched CRITTERS (1986). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

@Taweret It was thus the perfect song for the movie.

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anyway good work as always team, we definitely got into space today, and thanks as always to @Taweret for organising

and don't forget to vote

for YETI!

^_^

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@Taweret I kinda felt they were derivative of Gremlins, but that's not the worst sin here #monsterdon

From the music video:

Worst. Rockstar. Jeans. Ever.

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@Taweret @Cherizilla This "Power of the Night" song really slaps.

h/t @Terencio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmcV0pIKKg

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I fell behind because my headset would pause the movie every time I laughed. And I had to stop laughing before resuming watching ,or it would immediately pause it again. #Monsterdon

obligatory nostalgia brainrot replies #Monsterdon

The moral of the story is that aliens hate Kansas, to the extent that they don't even have them in their March Madness bracket probably #monsterdon

@yatsu same #Monsterdon

That was fun. #Monsterdon

@Cherizilla @Taweret @ramsey Yeah I'm not feeling an afterparty today, I have (relatively) high hopes for the sequels and it seems like it'd be nice to cover them in #Monsterdon proper

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I'm gonna put the Critters 2 on the poll for next week

don't watch it yet

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this toothy trip to Chomptown! Now I need a snack.

and thanks @Cherizilla (the best Cheri) for the Bingo card! Had an alternate interpretation for "They got poked", but couldn't find it in the movie.

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Very entertaining tootstream tonight! You really sunk your teeth into this one.

🚨 Reminder: There is Monsterdon Gear here!:
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[Edit: fixed links to peeps]

they made a whole music video (well, someone did)

"Johnny Steele" - Power of the Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmcV0pIKKg

caption says "Rare awesome song"
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I have to imagine they must have had fun destroying the house to be reversed into the reconstruction shot

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