the classic t-shaped laboratory #monsterdon

#monsterdon 40 years from now someone I know will probably die of a Cerebral Hemorrhage or something similar and it will take all my self-control not to reference them as Pole-axed.

Look at that lab shot!!
brb...I need to change my underwear.

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Meanwhile, Dr. Bubbles is busy in his lab.

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"Halt! Stand as you are!"

But I wasn't standing, I was running. #Monsterdon

wait a minute. why is the lab in the police station?

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Another hilarious 3D shot #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

These 2D 3D shots lol #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

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We get it. Tanks can go everywhere!! Thanks for showing us.

That scientist has all the colors on hand #monsterdon

They deployed about 50 tanks, but they only brought three shovels. #Monsterdon

I'm just glad the US Army was able to find a use for the hours of footage they recorded of tanks crashing into and getting trapped by shrubs. #Monsterdon

The tanks are driving around in bright blue sky daytime, and the army base is shining spotlights in the middle of the night. #monsterdon

#monsterdon this lab set is amazing!

Really getting a lot of mileage out of this library footage

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what are you doing with these tanks, conventional weapons are not effective against quicksand!!! #monsterdon

(fr tho, MASH has utterly ruined that song for me, i cannot hear it without Drunk Margaret running through my head.) #monsterdon

okay, we're going in. is the choir ready?

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Finally! Tanks have a mention in the dialogue! #monsterdon

Oh no, they've given up on the resolute music. Now there's no hope #monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 particularly in this era, everything - seriously all of this - looks _so fake_ in person on set. _So_ fake.

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They're all going to attack the hell out of that sky painted back drop. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#monsterdon "Tanks." "You're welcome buddy."

Let’s roll like 10 minutes of tank footage. #Monsterdon

Insert Yakety Sax #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Keep calm and carry on.#Monsterdon

@moira What kind of trauma and drug problems did he come out of this movie with? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Tanks, really? Why not start by dropping a hand grenade into the sand pit, *then* escalating from there? #monsterdon

Just imagining Yakkity Sax as these men run away. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh no. Now mom is going to look. The music is very intense and she runs away.

They recovered a stick pin from the brain of the little girl.

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everybody's picking on the kid actor but honestly in this context I think he's doing pretty well, particularly by comparison to typical

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Damn, I wonder if they have anything left to Korea with all those tanks!
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Bi frequency oscillation? Ugh, my grades in waves was *almost* as bad as my grades in Newtonian Mechanics.

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Dragged under the sand and have your brains pierced by aliens from mars

"VA regrets to inform you your injury is not service related"
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Looks like the army’s ready for a showdown—or a really intense game of Martian laser tag. #monsterdon

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Hey Kid. Your deity of choice is probably not hearing your poor acting. You're acting at a 4 and need to bring it up to an 8.

They didn’t know it was possible to stick a piece of metal into someone’s neck? Haha #Monsterdon

@Taweret if the martians controlled cats instead of humans, they could've got away with everything! cats are already assholes who break things! #monsterdon

Yeah, sure, they're aliens who traveled from another planet, melted a hole in the planet and brainjacked a town. They're terrified of tanks. #monsterdon

Kiddo is not the best actor, which is unsurprising because he's like 10 years old. He's doing his best.

edit: and he's actually very good with most of it! He's solid on the "run and find someone trustworthy" portion. He's good on the "excited student" infodump portion. It's just the initial "anxious and afraid" bit where his performance isn't landing as well.

So, good, not the best.

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#Monsterdon the ship looks like a hood ornament.

#Monsterdon Oh dear. Dad is going out to investigate the ship the kiddo said he saw but dad told his kiddo it couldn't be. But dad is apparently part of some secret project so has to investigate!

Are the tanks in the same movie? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Nice shoot soldier, you blown up a car while your pal was just talking nonsense
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#Monsterdon “I don’t want them to die too.” Sounds like he’s referring to some gerbils rather than his own parents!

tanks for all the stock footage, chief!

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dance, Mayberry! #monsterdon

Oh good. The stock footage has finally arrived. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

I am pretty sure that second MP used to live next to Jerry Seinfeld. #Monsterdon

Haha soldiers gesturing and waving to the camera, this is definitely a serious defense being mounted against martians and not stock footage

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the fucik is Ted Cruz doin there... #monsterdon

Sufferin' cats! Those guys just blew up after being shot!

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suitcase, nitro-glycerin okey dokey

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If you shoot them in the implant they explode maybe. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

I always wanted to shoot me a General!

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This movie sure went from psychological horror of a kid who isn't believed about a horrific truth into a flick about the army being eaten by sand dune aliens real fast.
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He died as he lived.

Sandbagged. #Monsterdon

So that’s what killed the Wilson girl? A Neuralink…?

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Ooh a harp! Time to up the stakes!

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@YsengrinWolf Somehow no glass is involved, too. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Also love the wall paper.

#Monsterdon Oh, god go back to the experimental and classical music. I don't need the militray theme songs. Done so badly.

Is there a sound we're supposed to hear over the glorious score of the movie?

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This movie is prophetic of Elon Musk and his attempts to colonize mars AND human brains. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

@Taweret it's like a poleaxe pandemic! #monsterdon

I think this stock footage is in black and white and they very crudely colored it to try to match the rest of the film!

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Same thing happens to me when I hear dark brandon open his face hole #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Here come the tanks! Yay! #monsterdon

Your bullets are of no use against sucking sand! #monsterdon

AND DEFINITELY NOT FOUR.

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#Monsterdon Rinaldi did not fight Nazis all over Europe just to come home and put up some alien invasion shit.

#Monsterdon Making the kid go to bed after he got up early to hone his astronomy skills seems kind of bad parenting.

#Monsterdon “It’s a good thing we saved both these tanks and this music from WW II.”

You bury your UFO in sand by using infrared rays. Gotcha.

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the self-destruct mechanism is a nice touch, I actively like it

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@MyWoolyMastadon or maybe it's literally singing sand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_sand #monsterdon

Do you all REALLY need to discuss this in front of the kid?

WAIT....is this CHEKHOV'S kid?

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#monsterdon Oh pst I'm sure you can install these mind control chips with like a Claire's piercing gun. It's just a lobotomy we've known how to do that for a while

Suffering cats.

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Hey, whoa, who sent Sergeant Brickface out by himself?? #Monsterdon

the time of day changed a couple times there

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'Murica!! Look at our big mobilized army.

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Wow they really want semi truck drivers to honk #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

I hope the aliens will help Mayberry with his foot injuries sustained by shooting his foot. #monsterdon

"No butts Major!" oh la la #monsterdon

"Please don't let my entire family die," and the response he gets is a *pat on the head* #monsterdon

That is ALSO not how X-Rays work. Dipshit. #Monsterdon

so rinaldi just got entranced by the sand? see i told you that only people who don't think quicksand is cool are safe #monsterdon

Somebody should be checking the back of everybody's necks

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infrared guns? you mean like my remote control? aw shit #monsterdon

There is no God, David. Only Zuul

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Ah ahhhhhhh ah ahhh AHHHHH #Monsterdon

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The kid says, "that sound!" My god they're actually singing. Those Martians are singing when the sand moves?

Oy. I get there was a lot of new scientific discoveries in the day, but....

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!

As an aside, I guess that's the end of Renaldi.

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They sure forgot about Rinaldi awfully quickly. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon “If it’s a fight they want…” Dear gods the cliche’.

I think I’m lost on why they needed to board a train to go over to this kids house #Monsterdon

It was quite kind of the logistics people to arrange for some passenger cars rather than forcing everyone to stay inside their vehicles.

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