#Monsterdon #Coffee #Watch wonders: do the mu-tants like coffee? Should we send them coffee supplies? Could this be the way to peace?

Pole axed maybe? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Did they make an Orion drive?

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👽 TRIVIA FROM MARS 🔴

One morning, a woman told her husband about a dream she had where Martians invaded Earth.

He got as much detail from her as possible, because he was writer John Tucker Battle. He then wrote the story for Invasion from Mars.

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Really work in that stock footage

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Get me somebody, anybody! And get me someone while I'm waiting!
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the stock military footage does not the match the film's aesthetic

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And now for something completely different...a man driving a tank up a ramp

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General Neighbor? Ok

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And now a 20 minute military deployment montage. #Monsterdon

this kid sure knows a lot about space for someone who probably drinks milkshakes everyday and says gee wilikers batman #monsterdon

#Monsterdon OMG, the science lesson info-dump is painful.

fuck i want to make a custom vape that's shaped like a pipe so i can gesticulate with the mouthpiece of my pipe like a 1950's scientist #monsterdon

While it's refreshing that the movie doesn't waste time spinning its wheels on a no one believes me plot, this astronomer jumped from "a child is scared" to "synthetic mutants bred in underground Martian cities are replacing humans working on nuclear rockets" really fast. #monsterdon

Two companies of troops at the magnesium works. You have no idea the strategic importance of the magnesium works in this tacically fluid situation! #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Perfectly normal for an observatory to be able to aim the telescope low enough to point at someone's back yard. #monsterdon

Our astronomer suddenly has a lot of UFO background info. So does the kid. A book full of clippings, photos on the wall, and now we're talking about Type 1 and Type 2 UFOs ... now the doc is bringing out UFO models to descripe Type 3 UFO ... and bingo! Doc has a model of *our* saucer.

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is this what you astronomers use telescopes for? #monsterdon

I love the series of adults frowning at a sand pit #monsterdon

The grandeur of the US military supersedes the grandeur of the heavens.

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#Monsterdon "It has a P451 Fusion engine with real-time injections and nitrous oxide exhaust filter. It also comes with racing stripes. Now, the Type 3 is a little different. it's more of the luxury model...."

Enhance!

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Mew-t-ants

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Oh hey, the doc's got neat toys. #Monsterdon

Mieuuuuuu tahnts #Monsterdon

@athena_rising And she has a favorite astronomer!

My willing suspension of disbelief is shook.

D'ah well. Exposition gotta exposit.

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the husband is back now and acting like a total asshole. he even hit the kid. this is totally about the 1950s brain washing Robert Jay Clifton's career on the psychology of crowds.

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And now we explain orbits for the non-technical audience.

I mean, it's not great exposition, but I've had explain things I mistakenly thought were basic before.

"The theory calls them mute-tants"

Does it, though?

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I thought you was the Mu-Tant. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

That hankerchief make her look like she's been shot & bleeding

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#monsterdon this observatory dialog is almost a TMBG song. Also was that telescope pointed directly at the sun for a moment? That'd be one way to heat up lunch...

Myu-taantz #Monsterdon

Is that anchor in space like a sea anchor? #monsterdon

Mew-tants

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No - those were just Starlink satellites

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Type 2 UFO? Oh no this scientist is a conspiracy theorist.
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I love these scenes in movies. All these B sci-fi movies have one.

A scientist explains the dumbest part of the story and to move the plot along everyone just has to take his word for it.

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Man the director had some serious hots for telescopes didn't he. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

this kid keeps looking like he's 30 years old but tiny #monsterdon

#monsterdon I like how the astronomer asked a gotcha, either to exposit or show how much smarter he is than like a 10 year old

Kid knows his parents have been taken by aliens and he's still following their orders. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Obviously, motherships are from the closest planet to Earth. #monsterdon

That's enough questions out of you, David. Time for some ice cream

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"People have been reporting UFOs for 200 years!"

*tries desperately hard not to Well Actually the living fuck out of that statement* :P #Monsterdon

"If we ever left orbit, we could reach Mars in a few days"

Ah, he's *that* kind of space guy, then

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state doctors always have a UFO scientist on speed dial but for some reason they have never talked about UFOs before and so this is all new to them #monsterdon

Ah the old "He can't leave, he has Polio!" defense.

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@starkraving666

No no no its only Communism when the other guy does it, When we do it's "Promoting democracy" and "nation building" and "our fruit company needs your land more than you do"
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she's got it

yeah baby she's got it

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#Monsterdon Doc Blaine has my respect for getting the boy away from clearly abusive parents. Quick thinking on the polio too - a real threat when my Mom was growing up.

This doctor is amazing! She just basically pulled ranked. #monsterdon

the weird sets and oversaturated colors give this movie a weird aesthetic. i kinda like it

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"He's my favorite astronomer" is Hayes Code talk for "we're fucking," I assume? #monsterdon

@ottaross yes! i was thinking the same thing #monsterdon

Wolf 359! So it IS the Borg! #Monsterdon

Sorry kiddo, your mom is evil now. #monsterdon

@starkraving666
Am minister. Am also mandated reporter.
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This is like Night of the Hunter if Robert Mitchum was aliens #monsterdon

How did the police chief get outer-spaced? #Monsterdon

my FAVORITE ASTRONOMER bitch you lie

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@SRLevine
Yes, they got coffee for the male doctors.

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@Taweret i think it's because he showed up to the police station and asked them to do something #monsterdon

Putting kids in a jail cell cuz they are scared of something progressive times #Monsterdon

why are we keeping a child in jail?

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I am also the cold scientific type who is not given to flights of fancy.

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Can I see the back of your neck?

Where’s this going?

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There's something about the way this film is lit, like every set is a dollhouse. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon The police station is a metaphor for heaven

Is this what it's like to be a zoomer? #monsterdon

👽 TRIVIA FROM MARS 🔴

Unlike many of our features. Heavyweights were involved in this film.

➡️ Production designer
and Director William Cameron Menzies

➡️ Special effects director Jack Cosgrove.

Both won Academy Awards for their work on "Gone with the Wind" (1939). You may have heard of that one.

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plot twist, nobody is actually mind controlled this kid is just really that annoying #monsterdon

It's bad enough in Invasion of the Body Snatchers trying to convince anyone in authority what's going on. But a kid? No one listens to kids. WAY scarier. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

gosh, i hope the martians aren't communist. they'd give us healthcare and make sure no one was homeless. that's unAmerican!

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Mrs. Wilson: Cathy were you playing in the cellar?

Cathy:

All Cops Are Martians

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i mean, okay, he trusts authority figures, but after all his only about 7, he'll learn in time. #monsterdon

Kid jail! Wait wasn't this on a recent Defunktland?
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All Cops Are Beneath the sand

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I love the way the sets in the police station are ... oddly off.

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If this kid was smarter, he wouldn't say "aliens", he'd say "communists". That'd make them investigate.

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#Monsterdon Oh wow, not even my grandma had that phone.

Stalin's comintern doesn't mess around, straight to the chief of police

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Unlike the blob, our 'kid' is actually a kid, so people not believing him works.

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"911, what is your emergency? a house fire? yeah, sure. nice try" (click)

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Before fire detectors were invented you had to depend on annoying local kids to tell you if your house was on fire.

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Is that George Bailey‘s little brother? #Monsterdon

resourceful, adaptable, keeps cool under pressure?

this kid is more competent than 99% of #monsterdon humans to date

Wow, this escalated quickly. These Martians don't joke around when it comes to invadin'

A creature feature that lives up to the posters! Huzzah!

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#Monsterdon How many times can we gaslight this same kid?

Oh by the way, your house is on fire….

Too busy learning nerd shit to be at all useful in an emergency #monsterdon

"Werte you playing in the cellar?"
"No mama" 🙂
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No mama.. the early version of the meme

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things are developing pretty quickly for a #monsterdon movie!

The score is interesting, I like how they have a chorus where a theremin might have otherwise been used #monsterdon

Mrs. Wilson?

Every 50s film has one

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David watching people going down the path.

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cmon baby let me show you some freaking sand holes #monsterdon

i am already tired of this hill tho ngl

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A SHOE! The alien is using shoes as bait. Excellent strategy.
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