Back when computers had built-in ashtrays.

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For 1977 this is fairly 1981. #monsterdon

Ooo, look at the chunky computers :D #Monsterdon

Shout out to my favorite character in this movie so far, surprising creepy synthwave music.

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Hey, Threed music! Get the Zombie Paper, you're gonna need it. #Monsterdon

It's not coming up on my Tubi! "We couldn't find any results for end of the world"

I'll have to use some tiny screen backup method 😖

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Hey Chris! #Monsterdon

Oo, cold open. Ugh, cold hamburger chef D: #Monsterdon

"For Humanity"

Supervillains these days don't even bother with that pretence, so lazy....

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@strangefour *starts vaping and looking at her phone #Monsterdon

@strangefour Ask your doctor if Zindar is right for you. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

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Okay. I'm not saying that was a great classic movie. But I think some of y'all have maligned it more than it deserved. It was slow, creepy horror, with an alien conspiracy mystery, and had that underlit noir quality, typical of the genre.

I think it was a decent movie-of-the-week, honestly.

Or maybe I was just so traumatized by last weeks..?

He's got an art room as well, lucky bastard....

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thinking the Doctor will be feeding off these characters later....

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@crowbriarhexe it was a bold ending and I respect them for that, if nothing else

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How much those 'Adam and Eve' endings ignore the whole '7 breeding pairs' rule...

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Oh is this gonna be the sculpture of Dorian Grey?
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@Newpa_Hasai perhaps the best bit of the whole movie, aside from the end #Monsterdon

@crowbriarhexe @bunnyhero @pngwen @TerryHancock Director working on director's cut: "There is so much more stock footage I can use."

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@paco that's his legal name, he's one of 'those'...

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@kshernandez @pineheap I think I would have preferred to see the movie that gets all the spots on your bingo card.

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I need to drink like a pint of "liquid that cheats death" to get over that last movie....

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I'm not angry about this like many monsterdons. Sure not like 2889.

★½☆☆☆ sorta worth watching for explosions & Chris Lee. Not really.

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Thanks @Taweret & the gang. I'll now step through the portal & leave you to the fate you all so richly deserve!!!!

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I need a drink!
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This concludes my #monsterdon thread for #EndOfTheWorld1977 in which we learned that you should just say "no" to evil space nuns led by Christopher Lee, even if they threaten to kill your wife, because they might or might not kill your wife anyway and also destroy the earth if you help them.

@CactuarJoe CJ, who had thought up "nun-acceptable" 20 minutes ago...

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luckily now it's time for the #monsterdon after-party on...

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I must have made a lot of bad decisions in my life, to be brought to this movie.

#monsterdon That's all she wrote! Some say it was extraneous and pedantic. Little did anyone know, it was also shabby. LOL

Because we're fucking out of ideas, Andrew and Sylvia decide to follow the priest in the triangle and teleport away. I think in their position I might try to break some of the weird glowy technology that might be causing earthquakes, but whatever, I guess they're going to space now.

Then the Earth explodes. RIP.

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IT'S OVER!
Everyone clapped.
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lol, the Earth actually exploded!

fair play to them ending with that!

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They aliens all went one at a time. maybe yall should do that and not get Brundle Flyed on the other side huh?
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Not sure why the Earth is being destroyed, but our protagonists are bailing out anyway.

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"It had to happen"

ok ecofascist

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Where's Godzilla? Wonder what he's going in all this destruction.
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does all this stock footage of disasters count as something happening?

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did Christopher Lee leave himself logged in to the doomsday machine?

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"On Earth, your talents are used for destruction."

Says the alien who is literally destroying an entire planet.

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One of the screens should be showing this movie because my goodness

Talk about a disaster

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@amyfou ~18.5%

>>> 200e6/3.6/299792458
0.18531338622119556

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I remember that dam break from the movie 'Earthquake'

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@strangefour nun punk #monsterdon

told you Earth was a Galactic level problem.....

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Oh NO! The sitar alarm!

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Ohhhhhh! It's the holy glow stick they're after!! Aliens want to get their rave on. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

@jonny something tells me this table read ajourned for lunch and they just never returned.

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Easy money for the composer.
1. Get synth
2. Let cat walk on keyboard

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Wait a minute how does any of this bullshit connect to the the earthquakes and other natural disasters that were seemingly the plot of this movie?

Was the nunnery just broadcasting about future natural disasters completely incidental to everything else?

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#monsterdon The synth jazz is far too interpretive for my tastes. LOL. Kill them all, let god sort out the ADR and score :)

So what do you aliens do for exercise? Nunchucks?

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We don't have any wars, that's why we're so prone to violence.
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Now Mr. Lee, I need to you walk more slowly, really pad out the film.
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"What you're about to do is impossible to do without getting someone killed. What about John and the other guards?"

"Yeah, let's get them killed."

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@skatem Hope it's not from concentrate, or the crystal deal is off!

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"We have no deaths, no diseases, no wars......so that's why we come here to watch you lot."

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At least they have quality coffee mugs. I'd stay for a couple of days anyway.

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So this is a comedy

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There goes the effects budget

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since we don't like it when catholic aliens threaten to kill our wives, andrew and sylvia escape the nunnery and run into the woods, menaced by... the static face of the priests and also my favorite character, the haunting synthwave score.

We run for a while but we can't escape the boundaries of the nunnery because... um... fuck if I know.

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I'm enjoying the wandering around on the synth far more than the wandering around of the characters

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"we have to find someone they had no contact with"

what even are words and logic

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@CactuarJoe They're on a Mission from Xenu

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Dramatic-Lee

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"What if what he says is true?"
"We're fucked. Royally."
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Andrew has a chat with the priest, who explains that they are aliens who killed the priests and nuns here and used cloning to take on their appearance. They don't have a spaceship but instead use a big triangle to travel in time and are trying to go back to their planet.

Also Andrew reveals that the humans in this world have invented a warp drive and the priest sends Andrew to steal it or else the priest will kill his wife.

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200 million km/h is ~0.185 c

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Lets DO THE TIME WAAARP AGAAAAAAAAAIN.
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"Velocity-time relationships"? So, distance, then?

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After ushering the main couple to a bench in their secret command center, one priest talks about repairing their warp drive. Another priest and two nuns take a break to pray and then go into the Nun Command Center. The second priest steps under a triangle and starts to glow red then collapses to the floor.

The first priest is like "We've exhausted all the possibilities" and a nun is like "All except two." and the priest says "I know we need them now." huh.

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it's one of those nunnery's where they cut out their tongues upon joining, clearly...

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@rebeld "conclave" means "curved inward", so "convent" is "outward" 😜

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@CactuarJoe they seem rather nun-plussed

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Undeterred by prior failures, we decide to go back to the convent at night to snoop around further, but are accosted by a nun with a skeletal arm and then imprisoned by a convoy of nuns and escorted downstairs to the convent's secret parking garage, which is full of loud beeping noises and glowing futuristic hardware.

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This is what it's like to see Kraftwerk live.

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lol, fucking nuns...

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I like how Andrew's boss is only mildly upset that he keeps running around barging into secret listening posts and checking convents for space signals.

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Just one more thing....

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"Fuck you, lungs. And fuck you too, liver."

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Here we compute new shades of brown, that not even the Tech Connection's guy has heard of yet!

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It’s been ages since Discount David Baxter-Birney had a cigarette, I hope he’s doing OK. #Monsterdon

I can't remember does convent mean curved outward or inward?

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"We do not have powerful space signals or werewolves here, this is a nunnery."
"Can I wander around with my beeping tricorder then?"
"Sure."

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They've got a nun tailing them! Quick, peel rubber! #Monsterdon

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"I know what you are thinking"

"Bazongas?"

@Binder no, no leave it off please...

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After being ejected from the secret space bunker we are having a toweled couple scene which I think is supposed to be fan service. Andrew kind of apologizes for being more grumpy than horny earlier and then they kiss.

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It's the End of the World as we know it

and this music kinda sucks

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@huronbikes IIRC the space shuttle had a long lead time in development with a lot of variant concepts.

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"just don't leave me again"'
immediately walks off.

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@overholt

See... Comments like this make me wish I'd participate in #monsterdon

yeah Andrew, where were you?

Being cloned no doubt...

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It’s a haunted zoo

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I'm kind of appreciating how the interactions in this movie are both terse and weird but not unfriendly.

It very much has JRPG dialogue vibes where you press "A" and then a nun gives you a flower or the boss tells you about your quest.

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is there even a monster in all this darkness? Or a Clone Andrew?

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Filmed in severely-underexposed-for-night.
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Oh what a great shot of... I'm gonna say a single-stripe candy cane? #Monsterdon

will you all stop with the puns about Catholic women religious? The lowest form of humour, bar nun

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Don't worry I'll just tell the cops I'm Carl Sagan

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