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That telescope is only used for science, the scientists swear it! The fact that a coed college is nearby means nothing!

Aww General Mayberry, too.

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@davesdogmaggie Sometimes I wonder why aliens even want to invade our crummy planet. #monsterdon

I'm a scientist!

Oh, well, ok then, why didn't you say so?

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#monsterdon (bright patriotic music continues)

to think this was all made possible by locking up a small child

... and the kid is suddenly younger and dressed differently. I think I just had one of the British extra scenes.

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Yay, tanks! (and other kinds of vehicles)

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sings "And so we pad, we pad and pad the film, yes we pad and we pad and we pad and we pad and we PAD SOME MORE! and"

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Physicists don't conceive rockets. The Supreme Court doesn't let them any more #monsterdon

Well...

I see the solution.

Explode the nuclear rocket. Problem solved.

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Theydies and gentlethem we have stock footage! #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

ok ya just getting to the observatory opening. i'm so glad that the directors edition just extended the space toy having exposition that was crucial #monsterdon

...So is Bugenhagen gonna tell us about the Huge Materia and the Lifestream now? #Monsterdon

They're rolling out the tanks! #monsterdon

I'm glad the good astronomer came along to help the kid carry the movie little dude's arms were probably getting pretty tired #Monsterdon

ADAMSKI FLYING SAUCER! WE HAVE COSMOS!
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TRAAAAAAAAAINS

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the opening of this telescope is slower than activating chevrons in Stargate #monsterdon

@aprilfollies I love how confident he is about it, too. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon interrupted :( I’ll pick up later

They can see the kid’s house and the sand dunes from the telescope … that IS infinite zoom #Monsterdon

That desk cop is so obviously reading off a queue card
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@apLundell radar secret service agents, you know

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Romantic music for the observatory opening, yeah I can dig it. #Monsterdon

Okay so we only imagine that Mars has mu-tants, we absolutely don’t know that they’re hostile, and we’ve built a matte painting rocket to kill them all. Have I got that right?

#monsterdon #InvasionFromMars

@clayknight
Scrapbook glue doesnt melt steel beams!
#monsterdon #thetruthisoutthere

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It's lucky that the scientist had the exact same prop they used earlier in the movie to show an example to the people.

#Monsterdon Murderous Dad poses for effect. Martians are the source of the recurring melodrama!

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It's a minor annoyance, but I could do with a lot fewer "gosh" and "gee" exclamations.

#Monsterdon  μ tants

skipping ahead a bit as I think I have the longer edition
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He can see Jeff Bezos's place from the observatory #monsterdon

We've seen phone general getting dumped out of a UFO in Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

COLACED?! #monsterdon

It's a double barrel telescope! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon ZOOM ENHANCE ZOOM ENHANCE WE HAVE OUR PERP

oh no not General Neighbor too #monsterdon

Do observatories back then really have an eye-piece you could just put your eye up to and look?

I think they might have, I guess. Before Digital.

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"I'm not alloweed to look though a telescope anymore!"

WTF did I miss? How did he get grounded from sciencing?
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"here's what they saw!"
"Where'd ya get this?"
Why'd you get this??
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Dad just did the Clark Kent pose. #Monsterdon

I'm not sure about the odds in the Tanks Vs. Spaceships March Madness grid

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#monsterdon astronomer surveillance

I love all the "seen by reliable people" and "eyewitness accounts" and "very believable"

Like, I've seen this Stupid UFO Show before :P #Monsterdon

The worlds first zoom telescope with adjustable focus, and negative elevation angle. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

The fancy telescope is just as good as the kid's dirt scope.

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The director's cut has an additional 15 minutes of just telescope footage. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Oh, 1950s interstellar colonial expansionism! You had such high hopes for space travel.

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I can see the atoms in the sand with this, doc! #monsterdon

Mew-tahnts? Surely not!

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it seems like this longer version has many more science props because i started a minute early and we haven't looked at the telescope yet #Monsterdon

The adults in this movie are very handsy with the child aren’t they? #Monsterdon

Such a dreamy observatory dome. I hope this scene never ends #monsterdon

JIMINY CRICKETS! #monsterdon

"What did they want with Kathy Wilson?" That dramatic pause read more like he straight up forgot his line #monsterdon

uh... you could wipe out more than just a nation, you... you know what, nevermind, you'll figure it out. #monsterdon

Mu-tants #Monsterdon

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Let's have a man and a child explain the world of UFOs and space travel to a smart woman who's now playing dumb to their antics.

#monsterdon push button rocket destruction

We could get to Mars that quick ever since they built that bypass #monsterdon

ok i checked it out... the archive.org copy has a few extra scenes in it but it's going slightly faster than the tubi version, so i keep getting ahead of y'all slightly but i guess eventually i'll be watching a totally different movie #monsterdon

That Bob Mantel thing is an actual UFO case.

...But what happened was that he misidentified a weather balloon, tried to follow it up too high, passed out and crashed. :/ #Monsterdon

mu-TANTS

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#monsterdon I was about to say DEVIL'S PROOF but I'm too distracted by the mutants. Are the X-Men Gonna show up?

Are we gonna bring up the Flatwoods Monster next? Plz? I love that goofy alien design.
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"People all over the world have been reported objects in the sky the world over since at least the time of george washington"

Reminds me of that graph about reports of UFO sightings dropping precipitously with the advent of camera phones. Not that I can find it right now (and I just missed the last two or three minutes of the movie trying to find it)

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I love this Scientist™️ guy. #monsterdon

honestly this explanation of L-5 points as adopted for a kid is pretty HOLY SHIT YOU WANT NUKES UP THERE HOLY SHIT

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UFOs that fly into Texas and then fly out. Those aliens knew what was what and got out as fast as they could from there.

Stu's got so many examples prepared #Monsterdon

Myu-tants. #Monsterdon

The telescope is now performing a dance. #monsterdon

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Slow grandeur of the observatory opening… onto a sunny sky 🤦🏽‍♀️

Mu-tants

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Every profession has a giant office with a very tall ceiling, and one desk for one person.

(Another disappointment in real life!)

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#monsterdon mute aunts

Oh ya… let’s look through the telescope… I never thought of that before #Monsterdon

Mu-Tants #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Mew-tants. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

@cmdr_nova Because he gets so little sleep #monsterdon

MU-TANTS! :D

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I love General Neighbor! He lives next door

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So glad to hear that The Andromeda Galaxy has a whole 22 planetary systems

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#Monsterdon "Meteors flying in formation? Geez, lady, how are you a DOCTOR?!"

No one will be seated during the telescope rotation scene. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon “My favorite astronomer” jumps right to

A few *days*!?

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the ballet of the observatory dome by tchaikovsky

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Lets see what the telescope can see... during the daaaayyyyy #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Man. Stu's jumping on Team Kid pretty fast. That's a switch. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

That telescope's so big, it’s less about stargazing and more about finding out what the Martians had for breakfast. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon How many Brillos died to make that suit?

Isn't this just the intro to War of the Worlds?
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Invaders...from Mars? #monsterdon

We really jumped right into the whole mothership thing pretty quick, didn’t we? #Monsterdon

Let's all calm down and talk about something other than the male character David #monsterdon

If an astronomer vouches for your sanity then psychologists have no choice but to believe them.

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Ah, yes, of course the aliens are from Mars, the green planet
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For heaven's sake, clean the screens on your bay window, man. #Monsterdon

yeah the kid's fine, after all he grows up to be Rick Astley. #monsterdon