56 minutes in and we've got some Martians!

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Why do these indoor buildings show exactly zero things on the walls?

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everyone making this movie: man, tanks are so fucking cool

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"Holy mackerel I always knew Gen Mayberry would go up if you took a pot shot at him."

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Suffering Cats!

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Everybody's having aneurysms

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That's it, a radioactive ray. When a regular ray won't do. #monsterdon

DOOM CHOIR

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Nothing says alien invasion like the train-full-of-tanks scene.

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Priority 814 sounds pretty far down the priority scale…

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mute ants

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oh-uh George got abducted?!? the giant sand anus ate him up?!?

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but I'm a MAN and I'm wearing a HAT

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#monsterdon #invadersfrommars okay kid, don't lead with "I saw a spaceship; you gotta believe me!" if you don't want people to think you're crazy.

#monsterdon #invadersFromMars the kid decides to snoop around and take pictures outside, so the evil dad tells him to bugger off and go to some other kid's house, then takes the mom to the flying saucer sandobx so she can be evil too.

the kid visits other mom's house to find that she had an evil kid and also there is a gasoline fire in her basement! that might be the fault of other mom's child, who is now evil?

that IMPACT font!

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#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars after consulting his wife about the mysterious sky thing, where he mentions some kind of secret scientist rumors that are not explained, he rushes out to in the morning to investigate, accompanied by Extremely Dramatically Eerie Space Music.

I guess he vanishes, and the next morning the mother figure is concerned and starts shouting "George" into the distance. After she walks out Equally Dramatic Eerie Space Music Plays, oh no!

#Monsterdon #Coffee #Watch: WE HAVE COFFEE SIGN!

#monsterdon We all know just how terrifying matte paintings can be.

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars The kid thinks the weird glowing thing last night meteor or maybe an airplane or a spaceship. You know, one of those flying things.

His science master father thinks he was imagining it, but promises that they'll look at it tomorrow and call "General Mayberry" if it turns out there is a flying saucer there, because I guess all 1950s scientists are friends with generals for some reason.

The only family member without graying hair is the dad

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#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars the mom is less impressed by this and urges them both to bed, but in actually kind of a nice way, so we get the impression this family doesn't completely suck.

We then get a Loud Glowing Thunderstorm and a Flying Saucer zooms into view outside the kids window, landing behind a conveniently matte painted hill and then submerges into a sandpit, where it can hide.

"Gee Whizz!" the kid says, because he's a 1950s white kid and I guess they all say that.

It's not bad enough I'm married to a scientist, but my son has to turn into one too! Ok, that's all the exposition for today, goodnight now

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4am and she still has her lipstick on

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#monsterdon Someone hasn’t bothered with the three body problem… tut tut.

Quite the view of the cosmos - lots of planets in a small area lol
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Costumes by Norma - in case you were wondering. #monsterdon

@RufusJCooter @ramsey

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"Hello Trojan? We're gonna need 5,000 condoms"

"Mr. Hefner your usual order already shipped." #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars The climax of this movie is a lot of explosions an flashbacks and also the timer ticking, and I guess the spaceship blows up.

Then the kids wakes up the night before the space ship appears. Oh no. They did the thing where the whole story was a dream?

... sigh... there's gonna be a reveal where the people end up having the scars on their back, right?

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars unable to dig very fast, the kid gets to save the day by using the martian ray gun to dig a tunnel out faster, which we escape through and then scramble out of the hole.

As we retreat across our matte painting, the spaceship starts baking... I mean levitating through the sand. The kid gets images of the martian leader in his head, along with a flashback sequence that shows us parts of the movie we just watched.

So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our heartfelt thanks to @Taweret and all the lurkers and posters, and remember #Monsterdoners: You gotta hit 'em right in the puss...

so the kid is in an alien invasion groundhog day?

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RIght in the what sir?
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Last time on Invaders from Mars

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Flashbacks in case you forgot what you just watched.

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Yeah. We remember all this stuff too movie. We were WATCHING! #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

oh THERE'S the ooo-oooo-oooo-ooo-ooo-OOO-ooo chorus, that's another one down

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good thing lava just kind of evaporates

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The prop designer has NEVER seen a timer before. #monsterdon

give the kid an alien bazooka

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OK detonator user interface design rocks, UX designers take note. all we want are block color ticking dials and rotating pinwheels #monsterdon

"Let's blow up their dance pole. They'll hate that"

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"Okay, time to go. Pick me up. Use the POTHOLDERS, you MORONS. It took forever to get the fingerprints off last time." #Monsterdon

#monsterdon what if orb alien is a snowglobe

Did they pay orb alien actor by the word?

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KISS MY GOLDEN ALIEN ASS #futurama
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PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE MARTIAN HEAD, PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE MARTIAN HEAD

Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Fall into a sinkhole

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The alien's eyes are so bloodshot, I imagine that gold paint is the same stuff as what poisoned Buddy Ebsen

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Ah yes, mankind developed to its ultimate form. A disembodied head with tentacles. I know we all aspire to tentacles.

Well, some of us do, anyway. #Monsterdon

nothing better happen to Orb Alien

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I'm loving every one of these looking down from the ceiling shots. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

ah yes, the golden brain orb who will become the starbucks logo in another life. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon They color coded everything green so we’d know it’s Martians. Venusian tech is purple.

#Monsterdon "Doctors are sort of like ministers. You can tell them anything."

Woah what a thing to just be said.

mute ant shoes

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don't promise the kid they'll be all right. you don't know that

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Oh no. It's a Horta chamber!

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are we gonna blow up the choir? that seems a little mean. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars The Biggest Cop and the Second Biggest Cop (who was kind of nice) both got killed, I guess by their mind control devices. This makes the kid worried that his parents will also be killed by the martians, which would be sad.

The general and another guy try to sneak in to destroy the atomic rocket with a suitcase of doom, but the security guards try to stop them, so they run away then get shot at and probably explode.

He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
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Does red and blue make purple?

One day science may find the answer.

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This infamous hill is pretty clearly forced perspective and I love it, I bet it touches the backdrop just over the crest

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aaaand THAT's how to break into a guarded military base during a national emergency!

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synthetic humans... so what Apartheid Clyde and Tiny Lex Luthor are paying for?

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Movie, why so much US military stock footage?

Did you have a punchcard you wanted to fill out?

Buy six stock footages and get the seventh free?

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This MP has always wanted to shoot a general, you can tell

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we paid for this tank footage. we're using all of it

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some spotlight foo, tanks taking-up position

that's two minutes

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@strangefour The military arrived and took over the movie. #monsterdon

Director: Really sell it. Really sell that your brain was just exploded. Spin around or something. #Monsterdon

THE CHOIR IS DIEGETIC???? WHY???? #monsterdon

It's OK son, just hang out with me at the front line #monsterdon

I know there’s no effective counter-weapon but I’m taking this M-1 into that doodlebug hole, dammit

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or it could be an earring #monsterdon

Twenty years of service and the sargeant died by shooting his own foot! #monsterdon

How many tanks can you fit in an alien quicksand sinkhole? Let's find out!

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This hillside path only exists from one angle. It's impossible to view it from any other angle. #monsterdon

The Atomic Rockets Extended warranty you say?
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And now rays as a weapon. Referencing H G Wells?

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okay i like this litlle viewmaster fence path they keep going back to

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I'm Colonel Pepsi. I'm here to help. #monsterdon

poleaxed??? what has THAT man seen? #yikes #monsterdon

'as if she'd been poleaxed' is a very sensitive way to describe the death of a child. thank you

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Oh, Ghu. Atomic spaceships. Yay, 1950s.

Ok, doc, these moo-tants can create their own oxygen? Then WTF do they need to come landside?

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Man they got to the pentagon quickly #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Professor Exposition somehow infers half the movie plot from zero evidence.

That's some Von Braun inspired rocket shapes.

Also *very* early 50s atomic rocket and space station considerations.

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love shots of this observatory. i'll allow it. #monsterdon

oh mars is cold that's why all the martians are such cold fish

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Is that a telescope or a gun? #monsterdon

Is that a space map? Or just the map of the Thames in London? #monsterdon

Please be careful about opening the dome during the day

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some hot observatory action

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Ooh polio, good lie, now he's a public health risk

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SPACESHIP SPACESHIP SPACESHIP

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Parents are not....supposed to be cold and distant?

Oh.

Ohhh.

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ahhh polio

and dad's like "don't be talking idiotic stories"

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Looks like Mom's been hitting the 'space juice' a little too hard. #monsterdon

and the rules say, lock him up #monsterdon