Much hairier back than I expected.
#monsterdon

So Masers can work?
#Monsterdon

I used to wear the ones you could play basketball in, but that was because I was paid almost enough to tolerate it.

#Monsterdon

Why is he just burying her feet?
#monsterdon

@yatsu We do still have that container of spicy mayo. Might be worth a shot. #Monsterdon

Did not expect this one to end on fucking off into the sea.

Wasn’t the entire rest of the fleet orbiting Earth?

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

Are the colonisers going for the art galleries now?
They'll be banning native Earth languages next, re-educating our children....

#monsterdon

Our protagonist has his first line in 20 minutes to say "keep firing at saucers!" into a radio #monsterdon

"Keep firing at saucers!"

Yeah, thanks professor.

#monsterdon

he got on the radio to say "keep firing"? thanks for the tactical genius dude #monsterdon

that was a genuinely good movie for like 3/4 of it and then i don't really care what happened with the plot in the end because it was just harryhausen blowing up every political landmark in washington DC for some reason #monsterdon

(my subtitles are now telling me to keep firing at the sauces. i think i might, just to see how it works.) #monsterdon

So, our heroes just fucked off into the sea?

#Monsterdon

This, ladies, is why we wear sensible shoes.
#Monsterdon

Did they just destroy the Parthenon? What is happening?!?! #Monsterdon

Well hey, the saucers fucked off into some major landmarks but at least Our Heros fucked off into the sea! #Monsterdon

And that it! They officially fucked off into the sea happily ever after!
#monsterdon

Not sure what's worse, the saucers exploding the buildings, or the military causing the saucers to crash into the buildings (and explode them)
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The ultrasonic thing plays havoc with the alien's alignment, that's gonna cost a lot to fix #monsterdon

Dips. #Monsterdon

That was pretty great.

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

I like how the super advanced aliens just clumsily walk out to get shot.
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we should give out more unnamed gold medals #monsterdon

quick, all the landmarks are being blown up, let’s run into one! #monsterdon

yeah wow. that was..a very underwhelming invading force.

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And that's it, they just ran out of alien

#Monsterdon

So refreshing they're not blowing up Tokyo or New York City like the other, more advanced movies, but little old Washington #monsterdon

Aaaand they walk into the ocean and get killed by a U*S*O. #Monsterdon

And then they fucked off into the ocean. Proper. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

YAAAAAY THEY'RE FUCKING OFF INTO THE SEA YAAAAAY!

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

Yeah, fuck the Supreme court!!
#Monsterdon

#monsterdon You fools! Don't hide in a major DC landmark! Don't you see how this is going?!?

That shot of the two leads in the foreground with the downed saucer and burning capital building: That's the kind of thing I watch these movies for. So great. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

Let's hide in this classical architecture. Maybe it's impervious to death rays! #monsterdon

harryhausen just killing it for this whole sequence

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so wait the deus ex machina was just they only had a couple UFOs #monsterdon

So whaddya think the final line's gonna be? "Fix your vision on the good and the beautiful"? Or "Why is it always so expensive for man to move into the future"? #Monsterdon

primo shot of the blown up capitol

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..the future danger. is on its way...

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White House left unscathed, alas. Although destabilising the saucers' main bearings has resulted in some definite other architectural desecration. The Washington Monument! #monsterdon

Oo, right in the dome #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe the aliens still left more of it intact than John Roberts did #monsterdon

"They blew up Congress!" #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

Not Union Station!!!
#Monsterdon

Do you think it's a holdover from code cracking in WWII, that sci-fi movies in the 50s love the fantasy of saving the world by cracking codes? Feels like a collective working out of issues

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Team Alien: World Police

Bullets and magnets vs wiggle wiggle wiggle rays. Epic. #Monsterdon

I'm really digging the special effects and animation in this #Monsterdon alien invasion, and even the handcrafted pseudocolour job of the version I am watching is impressive!

They get to the Capitol just in time to see Mitch McConnell pull his rubber mask off to reveal his true extraterrestrial identity. #Monsterdon

[sighing] always the alien death ray witness, never the alien death ray victim #monsterdon

#monsterdon OW right in the obelisk!

UFO crashes into downtown ASMR #monsterdon

OKAY NOW EVERYBODY LIE DOWN IN A ROW AND... huh, they didn't die. Okay, this movie still has a few surprises

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

@steggy I mean, I all the old white buildings are like old white men kinda hard to tell apart and does it really even matter

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Oddly empty roads for a capital city that hasn't even come close to evacuating yet, no?
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The army detachment to the White House consists of two rowdy boys who just like to get down in the dirt with their guns #monsterdon

fuck you, the White House! #monsterdon

Those aliens seem to have polished up their solidified electricity

#Monsterdon

yeh you should definitely keep standing there as giant stone pieces fall...

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The troops weren't warned that if the ray shoots when you're firing prone, it doesn't even need to hit you to make you disappear. The message wasn't passed along #monsterdon

YEAH, FUCK THE SUPREME COURT! #Monsterdon

@brooke they thought it was the Diet #monsterdon

Aaand then they rebuild the Washington Monument twice as large. The Clinton Monument. :D #Monsterdon

Saucers at the White House! Landing on the lawn! #monsterdon

the shadow under the saucer as it lands? nice

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Saucers near White House and Capitol! First time the President is even close to being mentioned.
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Ah. Here comes the one shot we've all seen from this film. #monsterdon

It must be Independence day!

#monsterdon
#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

She's got a ticket to ride...

#Monsterdon

Oh the way that silo went kablooey
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Hovering over the Capitol and White House, I would just pretend I didn't hear that. #Monsterdon

was that the washington monmument...made of brick??
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or I guess SUCK IT, WASHINGTON MONUMENT!

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

“fire at the saucer until it crashes” ohhhhhh #monsterdon

It has to be said that humanity is basically beating back the alien invasion with the gun equivalent of a banana peel under a car tire. #Monsterdon

i love the saucers but i need them to stop making that noise

#monsterdon

@apLundell My fave!!

#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
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meanwhile, in the Desilu backlot

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An alien invasion and the evacuation of DC is no reason to not look fabulous. Go on Joan Taylor. #Monsterdon

the ufo is made of alka-seltzer
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DAMN TOURIST DRIVERS #Monsterdon

woman jogs slowly towards towards camera and say "arhrararaar" #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Although this is making me want to watch Independence Day again

As a palate cleanser

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They're skipping the Capitol Building because Speaker Johnson is already welcoming the new alien overlords to Earth :P #Monsterdon

🛸 FLYING TRIVIA
Remember "The Giant Claw"? The best special effect in that movie was the Washington Monument falling on people - footage *stolen* from this movie.

Later Tim Burton put an update to the monument crash scene in "Mars Attacks", basically an homage to #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

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That was one impressively long corridor. #monsterdon

actually showing the saucer crashing in the water. nice

#monsterdon

Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac. The best this guy can do is drop a saucer into the middle.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon She forgot her purse!

OH YEAH, ID4 money shot coming i-- oh, oops. Never mind. #Monsterdon

The crashed saucer is blowing bubbles in the Potomac #monsterdon

SUCK IT, EISENHOWER!

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

Run, extras, run!

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

@trixter Braise them UFOs #Monsterdon

For no logical reason, the Marvins are back together! #monsterdon

The movie just slowed down, didn't it?

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe So gurgly! #Monsterdon

Mix of military stock footage and flying saucers is .. .quite something. #monsterdon

Masterful use of stock footage!

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#monsterdon Good use of stock footage!

Usually this stuff is just used to pad out the run-time.