I know everyone is worried about enshitification of the Internet, but I watched a concert from NC in CA tonight and talked about it with a friend from TX in Brazil. Lots of you Fedinerds watched a movie together (again) tonight. Letβs not forget the wins.
i like to think the flying saucers took out Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Barret, Gorsuch and Roberts in one fell swoop
Flying Saucers vs. the Military Industrial Complex, an antifa love story
am so glad i could make it this week to #monsterdon.
thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and to the monsterdonian community that make these Sundays so special.
love you all π
as a GenXer, this is the only St. Elmo's Fire i know of...
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supersonic dildos can't melt steel beams though
i think an acorn fell on the flying saucer cuz the gringos just started shooting at everything.
"well, we're trapped down here....on our honeymoon....what shall we do?"
"More podcasting"
flying saucers or rogue roombas?
General Dad 's brain looks more like the lower intestine or a very long boudin sausage.
forget the internet. ham radio is the superior technology.
since biblical times, we've had to suffer #mansplaining voice overs.
it's great to be back #monsterdon
"Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
The $150,000 production raked in $1,7 million, and made back its budget elevenfold."
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"Infinitely Indexed Memory Bank" will be released on the next update of Samsung AI.
even outer space have #mansplaining aliens
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am loving the scarf blouse with that collarless jacket. very late 1950s.
Colonisers specifically destroying cultural landmarks......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
"people of Earth, attention... look to your sun for warning"
ooh! lookie! #ClimateCrisis but make it caused by Flying Saucers.
Having seen Humanity deal with actual existential threats I severely doubt we would have moved beyond the stage of deciding where to hold the conference about the possibility of Flying Saucers visiting Earth.
Stunning advances in Electro-Gravitism within days....in real life Fusion Power still eludes us.
"The magnetic attraction is enough to counter the force of gravity from below"
Fun #Monsterdon fact: this is literally impossible and there's an entire theorem that says so! (Earnshaw's Theorem)
(of course, never let pesky real physics get in the way of good plot phlebotinum)
"Yeah, I'll rustle up an entirely new weapons system using physics I've just discovered for you and have it ready for use in a month"
This is why the Tech Bros think they can actually do this, isn't it?
Record time to #MonsterdonBingo for me
A ripping good time with this week's #Monsterdon.
Hell of a night for bingo, as expected!
DC's Philadelphia Avenue got saucered
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"thousands of miles from beyond your planet" isn't as impressive as "look to your Sun for a message"
gasoline powered magnets... the only force that can destroy flying saucers
i really love the simplicity of her shirt dresses. i was so born in the wrong fashion era.
i love that all the military uniforms in these movies are made out of khakis fabric. there most have been a shit-ton of army surplus after the war... the Korean war that is.
OMG they have a pressure cooker on the garden/picnic table. say hello to the Instapot's granny.
Harry Harryhausen!
E. T. gone bad
am having an all bald white men look the same moment with those two generals by the window
"hmmm, nice steamed hams.....oh btw we saw an alien spacecraft the other day....ooo, pass the sauce!" #monsterdon
smoking a pipe is a sign of homosocial virility... very apex homosociality
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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Okay, so the aliens fucked up our government buildings, but lost to our ray gun trucks and also conventional weaponry.
I'm not incredibly impressed with these aliens' skills as colonizers.
gotta love that big old 1950s scream the saucers make as they saucer about #monsterdon
I would pay good money for Godzilla vs the Flying Saucers
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Can you believe that there are TWENTY MINUTES left in this movie? It feels like it has time for a final act and everything.
#Monsterdon βWhats the average land speed of an unladen swallow? Should I fake my orgasms?β All this and more, from General Hadleyβs downloaded meat-sack.
how can we even trust the military guy if his mustache is barely some pubic hair glued to his upper lip?!?!
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Oh my goodness these are VERY good VFX. The landing column extension and shimmering force field are wonderful.
lol, making his podcast while on honeymoon....ffs.... #monsterdon
the Hemispheric Command HQ is right up there is the ridiculously named yet true Space Force. so you know dis gonna be so bad is good.
Oh wow, that was an anti-climax
"I'm just reading this paper and it says everything is neatly wrapped up" #monsterdon
" A second, no wait, and a third woman have been spotted in the narrative!" #monsterdon
@WhiskeySailor It would be so much easier if we could just shoot climate change. #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
I did not expect a mention of Aberdeen Proving Grounds in this movie, but it scans!
As it turns out, I'm quite close to APG at the moment, visiting family in the place where I grew up.
Fun fact: Edwin Hubble worked at APG during WW2, on ballistics.
that guy with the walking cane should have used glasses. we know aliens never kill dudes wearing glasses.
MAGNETIC ATTRACTION will be the name of my next pole dancing punk musical saw band
Hell yea, the power of electricity strikes again!
"newlywed man starts up secret relationship over radio with another man, possibly that guy from the B52s"
The constrictions that the 1950s placed on my queer ancestors π
Oh man, that guy really does not want to fuck his wife, again with the podcasting?!
subtitles misheard and said "sausage sounds" instead of "saucer sounds" and I'm going with it #monsterdon
No choice but to love a movie that has opening narration that concludes naturally with the movie's title
gogogogogogogogogogogogogo
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"they're going for the White House"
Yes, colonisers will do that. Go for the leaders, trash the capital, burn everything.....these lads will do SO well on Earth
#monsterdon Nice shot right here.
to be fair to humanity they're giving a fair account of themselves, not like today's GOP would....they'd be the first to "Hail the new overlords" #monsterdon
"they're evacuating Washington"
I'm sure that'll go smoothly and without conflict, a whole city like that.
Some nice high stakes though, reminds me of the 1950s War of the Worlds #monsterdon
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
1950s movie: "Although the authorities and the military worked wonders..."
2020s people: "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA hahahahaha. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
"Make sure the people in the other countries look poorer and sadder than the Americans when you do the montage" #monsterdon
@Taweret@octodon.social hey, they've got ONE female character, what more do you want?! #monsterdon
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers "We have combined our finest foosball tables with our finest etch-a-sketch to write the aliens secret plan. It does this in calligraphy because that is classy."
Oh, they uploaded his mind to run basic internet searches, so that's where the Tech Bros got the idea.....
"they were only primitive observation posts...." big 'Vulcan' energy there #monsterdon
Grand Theft Alien
"Where am I?"
Sir, you are in the popcorn translator room. There will be no barbeque here.
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Having failed to conquer the earth by buzzing cars with their spaceships and whirling menacingly, the alien menace resorts to its secret weapon... flying flashlights.
"hi dad....."
Ahhh, now I get the anxiety....he just married his bosses daughter.
Spicy!
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Your third grade teacher DID WHAT?!
btw here is something cool - the 3 of us watching on @monsterdon were making the #p2p thing of peertube happen. i was a little behind because i kept going back to watch scenes again, so i mostly downloaded from whoever was ahead rather than uploaded, but like this is so sick to me because if it had to serve the whole movie to everyone it probably wouldn't be able to handle many more than this, but with p2p we can basically have as many people watching as we want.
first pic is from like 2/3 of the way through the movie, second is from the end, so most of that server download happened at the beginning when i was the only peer.
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...this was my first #Monsterdon , how often do these old monster movies actually end with someone fucking off into the sea??
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Combatants in descending order of cuteness:
Sonic-Dish Technicals
Flying Flashlight Bois
Flying Saucers with itty bitty retractable death rays
Proto-Sontarrans
All the normal military shit
Congress destroyed......efficiency skyrockets.
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that flying saucer is a little wobbly for being such a superior technology, nawmean?
kissing is so much better before the end of the world
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I get that they wanted to bring the energy down a bit after that last action sequence, butβ¦
This is dull, bring back the saucers!
that military guy has a big forehead. he must be one of the wise ones.
there is so much cool stuff in this movie. i just wish i cared about the characters. that would take it to the next level
harsh, they dumped General's body out the saucer like a sack of meat......
They'll fit right in on Earth, won't they? π¬
pubic hair general killed the Tin Man from Oz.
My dude, were you hoping to challenge the alien soldier to a game of chess? What was the plan there? #monsterdon
If those Aliens are proper colonisers they'd make sure to steal anything of cultural value from that hanger and display it in one of their museums.....then get all pissy about returning it, generations later #monsterdon
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
DM: Your weapons testing has Upset the Orb.
PC: I shoot it with my pistol. Pew pew pew!
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers We have gone straight to the XCom Research and Development phase and are now testing a satellite dish ray gun that can blow up bricks. I guess they copied it from the flying saucers.
I thought this was perhaps an ancestor of those satellite dish guns the Rebels used unsuccessfully in the Battle of Hoth, only to discover that it's not a laser but instead blows stuff up by being really noisy.
I wish the stock footage aspects of that sunk destroyer were consistent. (The distant ones seemed to be of a Fletcher class, but the closeups showed dual 5" guns) #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
"They did to my father what the Kennedys did to their daughter! Oh....you don't know about that yet....whoops!" #monsterdon
lol, called it
"Red Shirt gets his mind raped"
"We will do to you what you did to half of your own species for many centuries.....do you appreciate the irony there White folk?" #monsterdon
This window⦠thing? in the UFO is giving me strong Iconian Gateway vibes from TNG "Contagion"
#Monsterdon Russ is settling in with his magic radio box. 225.6Mhz. I love when they use specific numbers, and when those numbers are plausible.
Isn't that the voice of the guy from the B52s?
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when they opened fire on the clearly technologically superior aliens, im really not sure what they were expecting to happen
Yep, looks like we started it......fucking Humans...