I AM OZ

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Proto Doctor Who aliens. With zippers up their backs

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Not you. The hot one.

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Finally we're getting somewhere! ALIENS.

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Prototype teletubbies #monsterdon

THE CHOIR! THE CHOIR! #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Pro tip - the fused silica cave walls as the mute ants run past…

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Ground zero can be chilly, David #monsterdon

#monsterdon Balloons? We're gonna see the Killer Klowns soon?

A full 40% of this film is telephone calls #monsterdon

I can jump down but you wimps can cone down by rope.

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Balloons? Are the Martians demonic clowns? #Monsterdon

Me, sweating over a disabled Hitachi Magic Wand: "If it hasn't been damaged, it should give off some kind of a vibration!"

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They brought explosives. They even brought stock footage. They mean business. #Monsterdon

Sargent Funston?

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I'm an amateur explosive expert but I'd say they were a little too close to that explosion.

Looking at those walls and thinking "I wonder how much they paid the guy who inflated all those condoms." #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Well, we know Dad wasn’t on the grassy knoll that day in November

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Ohhh, bubbles! #monsterdon

(explosion)

... hundreds of body parts buried beneath the sand fall from the sky ...

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@floatybirb the tanks are driving a lot, but don’t seem to be getting anywhere. #Monsterdon

This is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers if there were like five minutes of body snatchers and then someone said, "let's have an hour of random military maneuvers."

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ohh I hope we get to see some ridiculous puppetry in this cave..... #monsterdon

The tanks make sense if this were a movie named Invaders from Russia, so that's why there's called in now #monsterdon

I left to go pee, and now we appear to be going to war against a hill.
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@DroidZOR you ever worked in a underfunded lab? i have. hallway lab is _very real_ xD

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OMG Those bongs! #Monsterdon

"Both of 'em blown to bits. Yes sir. Little chunks mostly. No sir, we didn't- No sir. Sorry sir. We'll get the barbecue sauce ready at once, sir." #Monsterdon

#monsterdon See this is why you never help anyone. Where did Chivalry get anyone?

well honestly i think he would've hit that shot so martians are apparently not terrible snipers - that's not a great angle

but you'd think they'd know the concept of "high ground" what with the whole "having a flying saucer" thing

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Right through the front door, just pretend to be out of gas

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All the tanks arrive, and then everyone promptly jumps out and runs to the sand pit. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon You couldn't get a backhoe? Did they spend it all on tanks?

#Monsterdon I think I had that chemistry set in middle school.

I wonder if that area is restricted in any way. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Ha! The tanks from the stock footage don't match the ones parked on-set at all.

I'm sure a military hardware nerd could explain the difference, but they obviously aren't the same. #monsterdon

"I don't want them to die too. Kathy, well I don't care about her dying." #monsterdon

"I vill make this vorld's most effective bong! One of these four final designs will be the one, I know it!"

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I love how they couldn't be assed to get military lights, and just used whatever studio lightning they had on hand. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

"...sir, the tanks have the matte screen surrounded"

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Gotta say, the balance between sciencey-sounding gobbledygook, stock footage, and the annoying precocious kid being annoying is spot-on

Couldn't hope for more from a 50s alien invasion flick

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Ok, we get it. You have tanks.

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There's always room for more stock footage #monsterdon

ah yes, Threatening Caissons, the remix. #monsterdon

"They'd be meaningless impulses to us"

Like a sudden desire to picnic, or shop at TJ Maxx. #Monsterdon

They haven't got to C-4 yet. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Remember kids, always pack your nitroglycerin on your trip out.

Have you tried nuking the sand pit choir? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

The young scientist boy is now praying. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon someone put that kid to bed with some sedatives.

these two gomer pyle motherfuckers #monsterdon

sufferin' cats

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The kid can hear the chorus in the soundtrack!?
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Damn Martians poleaxing everyone :blobglare: #Monsterdon

@bunnyhero @Taweret I suspect Poland is involved #monsterdon

And he PUNCHES THE SAND with his riflebutt, good job Brickface. #Monsterdon

he fell down as if he'd been poleaxed

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That kid needs some acting lessons. I don't believe he does care about the fate of parents.

Look how melted that sand is!

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really got our money out of the Patriotic Music and the stock footage, didn't we... #monsterdon

I guess cars were more explodey back then

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Oh, the aliens give you some new kind of body piercing. #monsterdon

@allanb Hey, sticking a bit of metal in someone’s brain isn’t brain surgery…. Oh.

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Time to pad the movie again. Get the patriotic padding music and roll tanks! #monsterdon

The brave men of stock footage, the pride of America #monsterdon

"...I think we can reproduce this brain exploder"
"But why?"
"Why not?"
"Huh, makes sense. Carry on!"

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when the martians

go rolling

along

i guess

old ironsides shows up piloted by martin mind-control victims

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Pole axed? Teh fuck does that even mean? That is some 50s slang that has vanished to the mists of time.
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Well whatever we decide to do, let's make sure this child stays right here on the front lines or he might miss seeing his parents' brains exploding. #monsterdon

"She keeled over like she'd been poleaxed ... cerebral hemorrhage" Nice way to describe the girl dying.

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Let's go up to the roof! For some reason!

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Lotta the military believing a child (second hand) as if this was a Gamera movie. Also a ton of fearmongering of the space commies coming to town.
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#Monsterdon *chokes*. “Infrared rays, but we haven’t been able to handle them.” I guess humans can’t take the heat.

The original foot gun.

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There is a surprising lack of the goings-on of the aliens in this movie

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I'm gonna aim my radio at the floor so I can melt though it. "Invaders from Mars" says it works.

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"That sound"

What sound? Eerie chorus?

Sucking sound?

What?

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yes. yes. that's the spot...

That's what he tells his masseuse in the red light district too.

Nobody on this planet has harnessed the power of infrared rays.

*glares at toaster

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AND NOW, AMERICAN MUSIC! FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE, BUILDING THINGS AND MOVING TANKS! FOR A BETTER, WHITER FUTURE! #Monsterdon

Wait they can use the astronomical observatory to spy on their neighbors? Wow.
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INFRARED RAYS ARE DIFFICULT TO CREATE!

/lights lighter

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That M1 will fix the problem

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@th0tleader Is the sandpit like vagina dentata?

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infra-red rays

nobody has been able to harvest them

at least not on this planet

what the actual fuck

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Some sort of "radio active ray" that could eat through the earth. That's silly, but appropriate for this movie.

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Whaaaat??? Everyone on the roof. #Monsterdon

First noncivilian casualty coming right up
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Crazy that their telescope has the same view as their back porch

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There is a trap door out there! Like a trap-door spider! #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Are they playing a fancy riff on The Army Goes Rolling Along, wtf

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Can we just drop a 500kg on the sand pit? DELIVERING LIBERTY #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

We're all just casually hanging-out on the roof.

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Synthetic humans? Mutants? Wtf nonsense are you talking now conspiracy man?
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They sure are using this giant telescope for a lot of terrestrial observations, aren't they?

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(Bright patriotic music continues)

Is that Mike Dukakis directing tanks, there?

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@neia They're *probably* more along the lines of NERVA or some other NTR. *Probably*

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Okay I have to eat dinner and hurry to do some tasks while watching this. You all keep posting!

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