harryhausen just killing it for this whole sequence

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

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

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

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primo shot of the blown up capitol

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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!!!
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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

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

#Monsterdon Team Alien: World Police

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

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@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

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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!

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#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

She's got a ticket to ride...

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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!

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“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

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@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

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

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#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!

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@trixter Braise them UFOs #Monsterdon

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

@CactuarJoe So gurgly! #Monsterdon

The movie just slowed down, didn't it?

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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.

General: Have we tried shooting them?
Private: Yes
General: More than once?
Private: Many times
General: Keep trying
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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers We get some military stock footage of armaments being readied, and then some air defense violence and the puny earthlings shoot the interstellar frisbees with rockets and somehow kill them. Maybe the aliens went with the lowest bidder.

But anyway, we didn't shoot down all the saucers, so a few get through to menace D.C., cause panic and shoot some buildings. We shoot them back with flak guns and the new obnoxious noise trash can / satellite dish gun.

Carol: "Now I haff a flying saucer. Ho, ho, ho."

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@phoutz Adidas were not available #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Acknowledge Fire!

Whoops, UFO soup #Monsterdon

He pressed the "cancel chess match" button #monsterdon

Solidified electricity? Yeah, ok. We need a plot device.

Stuck your head in it! Do it! Do it for Julia!

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Russ, you've suddenly got a boss leather bomber jacket! #monsterdon

Why are the shelling the saucers when they have an ultrasonic gun weapon to use? #monsterdon

@amyfou they even have holographic projection things they could have used, pathetic accessibility in this so-called "universal translator" #monsterdon

@paco That just makes me think of Turkish Star Wars

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Hey good job, you got the Wobblegun working! #Monsterdon

These saucers flying over the cities shots are the quintessence of 50's sci-fi. A++ #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

This is actually a movie about climate change and the failure of our political class to handle it reasonably
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ooh! lookie! #ClimateCrisis but make it caused by Flying Saucers.

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literally copy/paste 50's hero/heroines

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"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

hey! evacuation footage! <3 #monsterdon

It's always lovely to have an unexpected encounter with an old, dear friend. Hello Mr. Narrator. I've missed your stern pauses. #monsterdon

Oh, did the alien attack interrupt your chess game, guys? #monsterdon

so, i can't go anywhere, and no one can contact me. uh, aliens? over here please? #RaisesHand #monsterdon

@moira Yeeikes. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I always love the little details when we're supposed to be reading a headline.

i am not a nationalist in any sense of the word but for some reason i am getting stirrings of being a solar-systemist rn like "they fucked with our SUN? hell no that's the last straw fire everything we've got" #monsterdon

Why having 9 days is important, a thread (1/431)
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Love the closeup on the stationary. Nice touch. Sells the urgency. #Monsterdon

...Are they using actual combat footage for this film? :/ #Monsterdon

Where are the Kaiju when we really need them?

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We have... [writes 9]... nine days left. [continues to circle the number 9 for the next nine days]

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The earth is menaced by a fire in the sun. I suspect Bob Dylan might have been involved #monsterdon

As per usual there's a lot of stock footage in this one, but it does at least seem to be of a better grade. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

They made an infitine foosball device?

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