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!"

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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

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More stock footage of tanks! More, more, MORE!!!!

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....3 days later... #monsterdon

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.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

INFRARED RAYS ARE DIFFICULT TO CREATE!

/lights lighter

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this lady puts the emfassis on the wrong syllabbul

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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

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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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#Monsterdon captioning:

(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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#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?

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

👽 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.

#Monsterdon 🦖

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.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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...."

When a “scientist” responds with “it can’t be disproven either,” they’re probably not doing science. #monsterdon

Enhance!

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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.

#monsterdon

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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#Monsterdon “It can’t be disproved, either,”. NOT HOW SCIENCE WORKS!

The Truth is out there. Fox Mulder would be so proud #monsterdon

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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They'll anchor, you know, in space. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

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

#monsterdon

"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

#Monsterdon

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

There's some research, but orbital mechanics does not work like that

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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

#Monsterdon

@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"
#monsterdon

she's got it

yeah baby she's got it

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#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