Turns out the Earth's mantle is made of glitter and the aliens blew us up for being too gay. #Monsterdon

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#monsterdon YES WE DID IT
EARTH 👏 EARTH 👏 EARTH 👏 EARTH 👏

@Taweret ope, there she goes #monsterdon

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

and thank FUCK

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Marvin finally gets his clear view of Venus

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And Carrie Fischer gives everyone a medal!! #monsterdon

Yep, the trailer spoiled it

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Yeah, finally a movie that lives up to the title!

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Glitter Planet Explosion! Finally!
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SO, the story is "idiot scientist helps aliens destroy the Earth?"
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It's sooo noisy in space.

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HA HA HA THE EARTH EXPLODED LIKE A CAKE WITH A GUY JUMPING OUT OF IT XD XD XD #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Be funny if it was all a McGuffin…

Honestly if the world were falling to pieces and I, a naturally inquisitive scientist, was offered the opportunity to travel to another planet with the person who, apparently, is my cherished life partner, I would take it.

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Whispering to date while watching The End of the World when The End of the World appears on screen: “That’s The End of the World.”

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We’re sorry but the gateway can support only one person at a time.

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........MULTIBALLLLLLL

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Plot twist, this is just a prank the aliens are playing on them
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#monsterdon how much generic disaster footage can we afford? Enough to pad out the end of the movie?

@davesdogmaggie
Take me to your leader.

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Before leaving the last priest tells Andrew that he and Sylvia would make good citizens of their planet, because his talents are used for destruction on Earth (note: we never saw this) and his talents would be used to build on their planet.

Then a baking soda volcano goes off and Andrew and Sylvia decide to listlessly amble around the control room as the world dies on TV.

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"Tell me it's not happening Andrew."

It's not, this is a movie. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "As a Professor of signal interception I have a certain set of skills. Skills that make me very dangerous to people like you (bored security guards)"

That was a pretty crappy transportation special effect. Star Trek did that better ten years before this.

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For some reason, all this disaster footage is just making me sleepier....

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That globe spinning the wrong way is making me uncomfortable.

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I mean, it’d be a no-brainer for me. There’s no need to “go down with the ship.” It doesn’t seem these aliens are the ones who caused the destruction.

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Did you folks want to evacuate Earth or #Monsterdon

That seems to have worked. We're back on to the volcano scene. Not sure how that's relevant.

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We get a SINGLE 1 second shot of a bad alien mock up for the monster 👽
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"On our planet, we use them to build. Except when we're on YOUR planet, in which case, fuck yeah, we're blowing shit up."

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Are his talents being used for destruction? He works at NASA, right?

(Though I swear I saw a sign that said Rocketdyne)

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Professor, you might as well join them. Earth is being destroyed, and the gateway is right there in front of you.

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#monsterdon Nun's playing geo tagging now?

@Newpa_Hasai thank you that's consistent with the dude's estimate!

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that lava is from another movie as well...

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

Which is why we're destroying you. #Monsterdon

Cool un-earned ending

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Why isn’t stock footage on my bingo board tonight? #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Edit to fix isn’t

The priest says that the Earth is emitting diseases into outer space that threaten all the other planets, so the aliens have to destroy the earth. He also explains that they were using the earthquakes to destroy the earth, but stopped because they realized that they were also stuck on the earth. Then the priest and the nuns start teleporting away using their triangle while Andrew and Sylvia watch natural disasters unfold on TV.

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Ah the classic explosive tsunami

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Oh hey things happen #monsterdon

And now here's some footage from films that had a budget. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

anyway welcome to the Natural Disasters Stock Footage Festival

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New Nun-B-Gone, leaves behind nothing but the fresh scent of pine! #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Godzilla is coming ashore! #Monsterdon

A million, zillion billion miles per billion

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beam the nuns up, Scotty!
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@CactuarJoe
I have expected this since Catholic elementary school.

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Back a the nunnery, Andrew gives the priest the crystal and is like "okay give me back my wife!" and the priest says "no" so then both Andrew and Sylvia are prisoners again into the control center.

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This is what happens when aliens only watch FOX news. #Monsterdon

radio transmissions are space diseases? 🗼

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wait

did the trailer actually spoil the ending

I mean, not a new thing but still

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Earth is emitting diseases and contaminating the universe

Through space

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"They're contaminating the universe" Okay, that kind of tracks. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

Ruh roh! Network troubles! Remember everything until we get the feed back.

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The globe is pink. Happy pride everyone!
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One guard finds the unconscious guard and wakes him up. He sees the professor but doesn't shoot him because it's professor Andrew and he doesn't want to shoot the professor because he's famous and cool, so he escapes with the crystal.

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If I were to tell someone I watched a movie with Christopher Lee that had evil nuns as the front for an alien invasion I bet they would say, "that sounds really entertaining!"

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@yatsu Oh man, the fact Chris never got to play a Vulcan is *criminal* #Monsterdon

That globe is spinning awfully fast.

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Hey, that's not how this 'agreement' wor.... urk!

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What gets agreed to on Earth stays on Earth

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We get a sneaky-sneaky scene where Andrew climbs up to the ladder tube into the NASA factory, then uses ether to knock out the guard he was friendly toward earlier and steal a key to sneak into some kind of poorly lit safe room.

He then dons a Lord Buckethead costume to take a crystal out of a box. This would make sense if it was a radiation suit and the crystal was radioactive, except he then removes the same costume to leave. Maybe the box was radioactive?

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i can believe Christopher Lee could 'one punch' a guy

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Throbby glowstick obtained.
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I have "Kill it with fire" on my bingo card.

Can that apply to the screenplay, or…

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oh no they really needed failsafe backups on those tanks

@CactuarJoe It's like someone crossed a klaxon with a sad trombone.

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your mission, Monsterdonians, if you choose to accept it…is to create a better movie concept than this using the same basic elements (professor and wife, ominously coordinated natural catastrophes, alien space base convent, "crystal" MacGuffin involved in some way). You don't have to write the whole screenplay, just a plot synopsis.

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Oh oh. That can't be good - Guard

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@Lazarou

Oh heck, yeah we have Scaramanga in this!

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OK now I want a sitar as my alarm noise

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The guard with the gun isn't mad, he's just disappointed #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Yep. There’s his buddy guard from early in the film.

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I'm no radiation expert, but shouldn't he have waited to take off the gear before, you know, leaving the room?
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@klu9 a Bond Villain! #Monsterdon

This is where the first rave was invented

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so he needs all of that shielding...but also tinfoil just works.

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Whoops, wum-wum budget ran out. #Monsterdon

It's Chekhov's Glowstick!!. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

Did they just sell chloroform at the corner drug store in the 70s?

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I won't lie, I had higher hopes for this one
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I feel like whoever is playing the synths here is just randomly testing noises and stuff at this point
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I know I mocked the "sound programmer" earlier but the "music" is the least terrible part of this movie. I'm not saying it's good, but it is noticeably less terrible.
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@Lazarou

Like, who's gonna steal a giant rocket, dude?

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oh no there's a chair in the background like my dad's been asking me to keep an eye out for an antique malls and I want to grab it

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Wandering into a weird tall lab warehouse with weird doorways. Aliens with hyperspace dimensional travel. is this a secret origin story for the Backrooms?
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This is all just a Russian psy-ops operation that is distracting top NASA scientists from doing their job

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"Hey, quick question, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?" #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

I would chloroform way more people if it came with that sound effect

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man we really gotta be taxing churches if they can afford to build their own fully staffed underground intergalactic weapons manufacturing facilities #monsterdon

Pocket chloroform, part of every computer scientist's everyday carry. #Monsterdon

"Excuse me, does this smell like chloroform to you?"

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"Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"

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The father is down!
" WE'VE exhausted all the possibilities.
All except two."

Looks at the two prisoners.
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Sure, that's cool, just... every rung of the ladder. The audience won't know he climbed it if you don't show him climbing it!

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Doesn't he have a pass to this building? Does he have to sneak in?
I confused.