the one thing that i absolutely love about this remake is that they replicated the hill behind the house; but managed to make it look even creepier even if it has more vegetation
OMG the aliens are basically from the creepy plant of Little Shop of Horrors but with legs
OMG the guy with the black mustache and glasses looks like the wacky teacher from The Incredibles
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!
no wonder more than half of us GenXers grew up to trust no one. that kid's American Dream is a fucking nightmare.
I feel slighting violated having seen that and I don't know why
That ending felt like a slap in the face and not in a good way, like in a "how do we end this with no Sea in sight?"
isn't that creepy teacher the same woman who played the nurse in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?!?! that movie effed me up.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WHY ARE THEY DOING THE IT WAS ALL A DREAM THING?!?!
OH C'MON!!!! those are the worse parents in the planet!
LOL, are you fucking kidding me?
That's the ending?
Kid walks in on his parents having wild alien sex?
but why was this?
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It was all a dream and they fucked off into the sky
It's Krang!
@paco "collects own specimens" was probably on her resume. They were fine with it
#monsterdon All mockery aside, this film is doing a really good job of centering the perspective of the kid and using the cinematographic conventions of horror films to really illustrate his paranoia. It would work even without the heavy-handed soundtrack.
#monsterdon Ah yes, Mrs. Gardner has clearly become a pod person because she burned an entire plate of bacon, something no normal human breakfast-preparer ever does or has ever done *guilty cough*
accounting in the age before Excel
AH! the american automatic weapons with endless ammunition
that scientist was a liberal, wasn't he: ooooh, let's just talk to the creepy shit that want to kill us all
#monsterdon "Marines have no qualms about killing martians!"
*single crystalline tear of appreciation for this perfect moment*
"Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges!"
#monsterdon Wild applause for these creature designs
Nurse Ratched/Kai Winn would absolutely have a creepy van
There is not a single man in this movie I trust, is this what being a Woman is like?
Anyway, I would like to say that I think cinema needs more neutral aliens. Like we got the good aliens, like the venus dudes who want to stop nuclear war, and we get the evil aliens, who send zombies to take over earth, but #monsterdon doesn't have too many *neutral* aliens.
This seems strange to me, as most people are kind of neutral, so maybe most aliens should be neutral too? They can have neutral goals like stamp collecting or winning a bake-off.
@Configures @ramsey @brooke I bet it is a Vonnegut reference. I'm pretty sure the "we don't carry change in combat" is a Dr. Strangelove reference
I really, really hate the narrative device of "It was all a dream" as much as I hate nonsensical "oh here we go again" endings.
This one has given me indigestion
Stupid Martians, the Belt is full of copper, but you really came here for the weird alien sex, didn't you?
#monsterdon And that's a wreck! David Gardner appears to be having some kind of mental break and/or aliens did actually land, then attempt to flee and were exploded in mid-air, then landed again? Or something? But the aliens-or-not-aliens definitely did not fuck off into space _or_ the sea.
I don't know y'all, I think I preferred the original! This one was fun though, and definitely more slag-worthy.
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There's an Ea Nasir joke about this copper thing but it's late over here in Sumeria
Oh do not give me "IT "WAS ALL A DREAM"
"i wasn't trained for this" is the old, "this s above my pay grade"
LOL
Always with the PROBE, like every alien....
BTW the copper wire theft hasn't stopped
"Metal Thieves Are Stripping America’s Cities - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/us/copper-theft-heavy-metal.html
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 We learn that the alien zombies are stealing copper wire, which matches the father stealing the kid's pennies. My guess is that they need copper to make their little zombie control devices, but that might be wrong.
they even managed to make the military base look extra creepy
WTF that looks like blades on my food processor
USMC + NASA base? I have additional questions
Do all US Generals get cigars?
I like how they wear their camouflage in the office, really standing out
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 following the biology teacher, we reach the space dance floor, where a Dnyarri overlord is lowered onto a throne so the biology teacher can teach them vowels. Fortunately, this Dnyarri has lost both its telepathy and its aristocratic southern accent, so it just kind of grunts and makes the neck-back lights glow. He is attended by two spherical potato goblins.
All of them figure out that they're being watched by the kid and chase him away with some spotlights.
#monsterdon "We'll take a walk, after you do the dishes."
"After _I_ do the dishes?? .... George, you're acting very strange."
Stab him! Stab him stab him stab him stab him
I am ready for tonight's #monsterdon!
@jonny this new family unit is going straight to Jerry Springer I think.... #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial many elements of this movie are so much better than this movie, it's sad #monsterdon
OMFG POOR KID AND HIS NIGHTMARES!
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 anyway the movie is closing down and they might fake us out with some thing where it was not actually a dream or it was a dream within a dream or the aliens are going to invade anyway or the mom is a zombie, but I kind of... um... just don't care that much?
@paco we're all assuming that was it's mouth and not some kind of toothed cloaca arrangement #monsterdon
Apparently, the biology teacher has taught the martian supreme leader to talk, who taunts the kid by saying "poor little guy" in a weird voice. Then the goblins eat the biology teacher for no reason I can discern; I guess they get bored with their pets and eat them sometime. The kid runs off to try to rescue the nice nurse lady from the zombie machine.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 Back on the surface, the kid has decided to be both brave and dumb and try to find his mom and dad, so he runs into the sandpit, followed by the nurse; the evil merry go round promptly eats them.
The general is like "oh well, we still gotta blow this evil spaceship up even if there's a kid inside it" and sends a demo team to plant some explosive charges. The merry go round almost eats them but they get winched out before the charges go boom.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO THEY GOT RINOLDI!!!
NOW, THAT'S WHAT I CALL AN UTILITY VEHICLE! fuck yeah for old school Jeeps
I'm glad the General is doing what the 10 year old boy tells him, that will sound good in the following Inquiry #Monsterdon
CHECK HER NECK!!!!
Facts. I once got in trouble for asking why the Chief Engineer could smoke cigars on the main deck of the ship, and I was getting in trouble for smoking in a non-designated area.
"Because he's the CHENG!!" was the answer
WTAF the school have a whole damn nuclear reactor for a boiler room.
Why is an adult woman letting a 10 year old boy call the shots?
#monsterdon Was this actually shot in California? This running-through-the-forest scene does not look like the Vancouver-ish deciduous forest currently conventional in all sci-fi productions.
Invaders from Mars, or How An Entire Race Of Aliens Came To Earth To Gaslight A Little Boy #monsterdon
I would expect any bio teacher who was that woodsy to have better footwear
#monsterdon "You know that whatever you tell me stays in this room. I'm the nurse, David."
Oof, does that line ever land harder now than back in 1986. Remember when kids actually had that kind of expectation of privacy? When it was _not_ normal for public institutions and private enterprises to insinuate a thin film of surveillance and betrayal into every interaction kids have with authority?
"DON'T TOUCH ME, I'M BAJOR'S MOST POWERFUL RELIGIOUS FIGURE!"
@north "but you can leave your hat on"
WHY IS HE GOING IN THERE?!?!?!
this movie is legit creeping me out
#Monsterdon
@SnoopJ I mean let's not start on the two guys strolling casually out of the bushes who seem to know a LOT about each other... 🤣
I immediately don't trust those two policemen, alien invasion or not.
#monsterdon I think we're supposed to infer from his wooden stumbling around, single missing slipper, surgical wound in the back of his neck, and inability to handle a cup of coffee that the kid's father has been taken over by martians.
However the verisimilitude of this scene is its undoing since this is precisely how I perambulate and masticate before coffee too
lol, if that's the film I think it is that kid should NOT be watching it, it has TITS!
#monsterdon Whoops, I accidentally toggled on the French subtitles there for a second and they are... way, way off?
Fortunately I can just turn those off and I'm sure the film will immediately return to being completely coherent.
Goofs
Real titles in outer space would not make whooshing sounds or leave perfect trails behind them.
OMG this has Karen Black?!?! and these flying titles... it's so 1980s video arcade, Space Invaders shit
@gnomon big 'Space Force' energy with how they hold all the weapons #monsterdon
this concludes my #Monsterdon thread for #InvadersFromMars1986, a movie that probably did not need a remake but was at least weird.
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FUCK YOUR PARENTS DUDE!!!
#monsterdon They are trying to Dallas us all. LOL
Okay, so anyway, we machinegunned the Dnyarri and he ran away. Then we saved the nice nurse by using an anti-tank rocket against the scary needle machine. The aliens are trying to escape and locked us in, but the kid uses his lucky penny to reload an alien egg phaser, digging the soldiers out of the underground prison.
#monsterdon "Mom, Dad, please understand: I love you, but I just can't come with you."
"It was the coffee thing, right? Or was it the bacon thing?"
@amyfou what are those things for, they aren't for grabbing! #monsterdon
An M47 Dragon! (Which means they technically managed to escalate over a bazooka!)
In the tunnel, the general (who is leading from the front, because why not), encounters his former sidekick, who is now an evil zombie and tries to shoot him, but they are forced to kill him.
Snooping around the kid finds two aliens who load their phasers with copper strips; the kids the general of this, saving some soldiers from dying, allowing them to machinegun some potato goblins. he tells them that they need to rescue the nice nurse lady.
the kid started like a liberal and got radicalized real quick.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
This general really loves Renaldi in a don't ask don't tell kinda way, doesn't he?
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 I have to say that I really like the alien designs in this movie for the potato goblins. They're sort of like quadrupedal pac-men, only green, and with goofy little arms on the sides of their head? Very neat.
yeah, bring civilians to the Sarlaac pit, excellent move
@whknott Yeah you sorta would have expected him being eaten whole
OMG, I just realized where I've seen the scientist guy before. It's Harold from Harold and Maude!
the white picket fences, though
#monsterdon "Is this a stand-up fight, _sir_, or another bug hunt?"
"All we know is there is still no contact with the colonists, and uh a xenomorph may be involved."
"A xeno-what?"
"It's a bug hunt."
You'd think the military would be more interested in this brain control technology
"you better hurry, or you just might blow it"
even American dad's body snatched by aliens can't help themselves with a #dadjoke
I mean, if you're into conductors... have you met gold yet?
They should have gone for a nice round bomb which said 'Bomb' on it.
They're here for our copper. First it was the pennies, now big spools of wire.
Alien copper thieves, I guess. Now upgrading to entire spools.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 we go to the school to hide fro the aliens and call the FBI, but the phones are dead and we make too much noise hiding in the boiler room, alerting the now space zombie cops. The nurse is like "what the fuck am i doing why am i doing this." and the kid is like "its okay to be scared lady" and the cops run around waving flashlights.