General: Have we tried shooting them?
Private: Yes
General: More than once?
Private: Many times
General: Keep trying
#Monsterdon

#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!

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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
#Monsterdon

literally copy/paste 50's hero/heroines

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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

They made an infitine foosball device?

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what do i gotta do to get a nightgown with those lacy frills in 2024 #monsterdon

I WANT MORE ROTATING THINGS AND I WANT THEM ROTATING RIGHT NOW!

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Nine (9) days. That's as many as three 3's. #monsterdon

The aliens have weird looking Furbies.

#Monsterdon

tired: Severe Weather
Wired: Atmospheric Violence

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i appreciate that you both wrote and circled the number 9. that helped us all to understand

#monsterdon

so much leaping!

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Was 9 circled enough?
I ask the hard questions
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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers We get the Obligatory International Scene where the aliens threaten people in different countries in various earth languages, so at least this movie remembers that places outside the USA exist.

Then the aliens throw some sunspots at us to harsh our chakra energies and I guess fuck up our weather. We then get another Obligatory Heterosexual Romance Scene.

I like that "Kaplan suit resolved" is still page one news in spite of everything. #Monsterdon

"you taste like beef!"
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The scientist doesn't seem to hold a grudge against her for squealing on him. Carol has quite the array of bedroom wear: cute blue pajamas, pink tulle flowy thing, did I miss anything? what's next? #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

KEEP CIRCLING THAT NINE!
#monsterdon

"PEOPLE OF EARTH - ATTENTION. THIS IS A VOICE SPEAKING FROM THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM YOUR PLANET" - the communications of Earth were frozen? They should consider defederating - or at least limiting - the responsible instances. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe it'd be coffee anyway, wouldn't it? #monsterdon

The French make immediate plans for surrender. #Monsterdon

is galloping gertie going to be in this montage?

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That Spanish sounds more like German, doesn't it?

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fingers crossed the aliens are vulnerable to glasses of water #monsterdon

@msbellows I thought of that moment. 😭 #Monsterdon

I like the CCCP banners TBH
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#Monsterdon Narrator! We missed you!

Ah yes, back when it was pronounced Warshington. #Monsterdon

@trixter Trump: (looks at sun). #Monsterdon

"I'm going to say everything twice. I'm going to say everything twice"

#monsterdon
#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

the warbling probably would not be great for tonal languages. the aliens do not practice #DesignJustice #monsterdon

gargle gargle slurp gargle so i don't see why anyone else should have a good time. message repeats. #monsterdon

So the ray gun scared it away and then the saucer destroyed everything with its death ray? It’s not looking good for Earth. #Monsterdon

"When an armed and hostile power lands in our capitol, we don't meet them with tea and cookies!"

Yeah, this is AMERICA, we SHOOT SOME FUCKERS #Monsterdon

This is a really good plan to get everyone on Earth to blind themselves. #monsterdon

(the subtitles are urging me to look to my son for a warning. don't talk to me or my son ever again.) #monsterdon

It's the Vogons!

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Oh man, they played that short message for TWELVE HOURS? Torture to be aggressively burbled at for that long. #Monsterdon

a tremendous explosion on surface of the sun. but ..nobody knew, cuz they didn't have any way of seeing that... so ...
#Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

Has anyone tried that helmet on?

Uh, sure. Gohead. Put it on.

#Monsterdon

yes, that looks amazing on you, wear it *all the time* #monsterdon

In the 50s, you took alien technology to the Bureau of Standards. You had to request to expedite so they would pause their work on plumbing supplies.

#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
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...but I don't have a son!
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That man is an American in the 1950s, how does he know what a "gram" is? #monsterdon

@coprolite9000 It took a lot of hard work, but Earth's scientists invented good penmanship. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Nelson, get that off your head! You don't know who's been wearing it.

@aburka I give them credit for not mentioning retrograde though

#Monsterdon

saucer vision pro #monsterdon

All these people dropping from the UFO. Was this a Boeing contract?

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"makes me superman" yeah, we see your underpants on the outside, sir. please, take it off. #monsterdon

"...try on the helmet"
"why does it smell like vomit in here?"
<everyone laughs>

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Alien robocall. Block them #monsterdon

@amyfou Right? They were jogging in place on a stage. I loved it. #Monsterdon

"People of Earth, attention!"

This is the Interstellar Vice Principle! Be good or we'll blow up the sun! #Monsterdon

The alien translator flower sounds like it’s mocking her. #Monsterdon

I'm fascinated by the wall of bearings.

#Monsterdon

Superman?! Nah, he’s serving 100% dickhead

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ oh yeah, works for every language we've encountered so far, after all. (T_T)(T_T)(T_T #monsterdon

"People of Earth Attention" Great. Space SPAM. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

that's the issue with every harryhausen movie tho. so many cool visuals and lackluster writing

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It resists everything. Except bullets.
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You: You will be in trouble on May 3rd at 3pm. Big Trouble.
Me: Uh, who knows what that means, far to vague.
#Monsterdon

these aliens are very repetitive...o.O

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As you can see the aliens are communicating with astrology terms, leading us to conclude they're probably millennials #monsterdon

Giant machine with oodles of cams and gears has really nice handwriting... #monsterdon

Put on eclipse glasses first tho #monsterdon

Dr. Marvin wearing the helmet looks like a knob #monsterdon

Better Living through Solid Electricity #Monsterdon

I really need this alien translator effect pedal

#monsterdon

okay now we're into _real_ THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS territory

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The translator looks like a bunch of foosball tables #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Wow! So many foosball tables!

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"...one of the messages was a plan of attack. The rest were some really great sounding gumbo recipes."

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*dude puts on helmet* Hey look at me I’m an alien! Beep boop beep! #Monsterdon