I said barbed wire, not Bob wire! *slap

#Monsterdon

Look mommy, Dad’s not acting weird at all… #Monsterdon

Well this took a turn... Aliens are domestic abusers AND Cops.
Wait that's redundant.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

National Enquirer headline "Aliens replaced my husband with an asshole." #monsterdon

PERIODT

#monsterdon

Did this movie make everyone paranoid of quicksand? or does it pre-date this? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Is George going to ask for a glass of sugar water? #monsterdon

Glad people don't say "Period" like that anymore

#monsterdon
#InvadersFromMars

Daddy's been on a bender #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Coffee #Watch TWO COFFEE SIGNS?! It's an omen!

The sand filling up backwards is kind of a neat effect. Not bad for 1950s. #monsterdon

I hope people who laugh at sinkholes are watching this
#Monsterdon

geez no wonder people used to be so afraid of quicksand

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"Hey Jackson where'd ya go?"
Wow dude doesn't even have time to scream.
All cops are antlion food.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

A sinkhole, those are so trendy right now

#Monsterdon

oh wait... the choral score... was this made during the recording artist strike??? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon You know they really shouldn't build top secret government plants where there's so much quicksand.

#monsterdon Ah yes the white sand beaches of the midwest

This set looks like the last scene of Gone with the Wind #monsterdon

oh fuck you can see where they painted a damaged spot in the sky

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"Oh Mary, you know I can't talk about the thing I was just telling you about" #monsterdon

why does everyone in this movie assume that anyone who tells them anything is just fucking with them?

#monsterdon

The filmography of the twenty years or so before I was born really set me up for disappointment at how un-deceptively prosaic the world would be IRL.

#Monsterdon

Sorry lady, George got eaten by an alien antlion. #Monsterdon

Watching Dear Old Dad come out of the house and walk along that road, all I can think is, _that doesn't look like Earth_, it looks like Oz maybe?

#Monsterdon

they appear to live inside a viewmaster

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Those are some hungry sand crabs.

Mary you know how I feel about cops. fuck 12

#monsterdon

Not gonna hurt ya David... #monsterdon

Oh, Mary, you know I can't talk about that. Now you go back to bed, and I'll go investigate the mysterious light that our son told me about, by myself, in my bathrobe and PJs, as the score swells ominously

#monsterdon

Oh we are sliding right into the Red Scare background early with Dad being a narc.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#Monsterdon Can't talk about it? THEN WHY BRING IT UP?!

#Monsterdon

I have to admit... I like the opening scenes. We're nearly ten minutes in and I have nothing to be sarcastic about..

why is dad being all weirdly coy?

#monsterdon

alright if this movie is gonna keep being about this fuckin kid i am out. when will directors learn that in 95% of cases a child actor cannot carry a movie #monsterdon

#Monsterdon
The phosphorus glow of the flying saucer is just a step beyond firefly bums.

Everybody in the 50s knew a general personally. #monsterdon

Gee Whiz: the new Holy Cats

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

typically in a monsterdon movie, if nothing happens in the first ten minutes, nothing will happen until the last ten minutes

so this is a good sign

#monsterdon

I said out loud "I bet this kid is about to say 'gee willikers'" and then this little Judas Iscariot has the audacity to say "gee whiz!" #Monsterdon

No beatings after a 4am wakeup? What bullshit 50s household is this? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

these things hide better than spectrum pursuit vehicles, that's good hiding

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Somebody get that kid some corrective cranial sinus surgery stat #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Early morning Orion, so this movie is taking place in fall or late summer?

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"Golly gee willikers!" #monsterdon

#monsterdon Mom is clearly not a scientist.

Huh. Self-burying spaceship. #Monsterdon

Setting the alarm for 4AM to witness a celestial event this kid is my kind of supernerd #Monsterdon

#monsterdon

Becoming a scientist is some sort of communicable disease it seems.

"What sort of life, if any still inhabits these planets?"

61 years later, I wish we could properly answer this.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#Monsterdon Gaslighting parents are all the same.

Big 50s invented separate marital beds to sell more marital beds.

#monsterdon

ugggh, women and their incessant domestic smothering of scientific innovation #monsterdon

launching my #monsterdon thread for #InvadersFromMars, when Martians invade to take our jerbs or something. I dunno; I haven't watched the movie yet so I don't know what's in it. Maybe flying saucers, probably?

"Scientists laying in bed like sacks of potatoes" #monsterdon

Twin beds, sexy #monsterdon

ooooh the sighs of jupiter #monsterdon

Let’s do this! #Monsterdon

We know we're in for a good time when they spend the first few minutes of the movie giving credits for the resoration team. #monsterdon

forgot to connect my headphones, so i'm a liitle late to party, but i am getting some VERY metroid vibes here, and i am not mad. #monsterdon

Skip slightly ahead past the extra restoration credits

#monsterdon

WE HAVE MOVIE SIGN #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Is this Helena Carter why Helena Bonham Carter uses 3 names? #monsterdon

okay you tubi folks missed this, or did we just get extra framed pictures? either way, the framed pictures on the wall just happened to match exactly with the pertinent science info from Stu. i wasn't paying enough attention to notice a sweatervest appear and David get taller though

"The British release print includes a greatly expanded planetarium office scene: framed pictures can be seen hanging on the set's walls that were not in the U.S. release; they appear to vanish and then reappear at times as the expanded and reedited scenes play out." #Monsterdon

@amyfou #monsterdon Okay from now on when the film pulls one of these on us I'm just going to use this- like 'I'm just going to forget that last 5 minutes and pretend we got "The British Ending"'

Reading back through #monsterdon toots it seems we are not alone in trying to rationalized the ending by making it into a time loop.

... looks like if I edit a post it breaks it free of the existing thread and starts a new thread - so the "trick" of running #monsterdon replies in a thread started by another user ( @ysengrin in this case) stops working.

@Atreyu I mentioned to @moira earlier that I'm pretty sure that there's a college football team that uses that exact font in their branding

So far, I've ruled out UMich, UWisc, UTEP & while Texas A&M is close, it's not quite the same

The search continues!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon We've decided the kid is in a time loop and will be able to communicate more effectively to the silly unbelieving adults the next time.

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Invaders from Mars (1953).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

That is totally Bud Cort! <3 #InvadersFromMars #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh my goodness this ending is really strange.

Not thrilled with the ending but since there were two, guess you can choose which version is your head cannon. Otherwise, thought that one was a hoot!

Thanks everyone for fun commentary during #InvadersFromMars and thanks @Taweret for hosting as always!

#Monsterdon

BTW if you have made any #monsterdon art, link me to it, i want to add more to our wiki page :)

#Monsterdon Hopefully bingo card has using the alien's technology to solve a problem on it.

@ramsey Welcome! Glad you had fun! I've found it to be a welcome distraction from my typical "Sunday Evening existential dread"

#monsterdon

Okay, campers, rise and shine and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cold out there today!

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON SCIENCE🦖

#InvadersFromMars

https://futurism.com/harvard-scientists-unknown-civilization-cryptoterrestrials

whelp that was almost great but still pretty good, so good job voting and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Yeah, just going to go ahead and cancel that now before I forget #Monsterdon

This #monsterdon film actually had a reasonable depiction of a child psychologist.

Usually 1950s films are just when people are starting to realize that psychologists are real doctors, but the writers have no idea what they do.

Well, reasonable except for the part where she assumed the kid was telling the truth once a completely insane astronomer vouched for him.

another fun #monsterdon is done! thanks to everyone for all the laughs, and especially thank you @Taweret for hosting!

@r343l Sounds like birdsite #monsterdon

@Taweret i hope somebody gets him some visine #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon The mutant (sp?) that they shot seems to have like a can shoved up his butt??

all glory to Orb Alien

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I would like this movie better if they hadn't mentioned exploding parental heads without showing exploding parental heads #monsterdon

A big thank you to @Taweret (in an orb?) for that big slab of 1950s sci-fi horror.

Wonder if the remake is as easily available, just to compare?

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

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

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

#Monsterdon So is there just the one alien head controlling everyone?? Amazing.

@yatsu Apparently it depends on where you streamed the film from #monsterdon

Oh Crap, Evil Field Trip Lady! #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

@JoeWynne @Taweret @cheribaker Good luck trying to make that film for distribution in US theaters nowadays #monsterdon

@jonny what? You mean your archive version had a different ending? How did it end?

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Wow. I was not expecting the kid and the psychologist to get captured or to see the aliens!

I mean for reals Robot Monster is basically this with an ape suit

(and no set design and no sense of actual style)

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

well i guess _robot monster_ makes more sense now in this context

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

@Taweret @cheribaker

They used ballons first, but they looked like balloons stuck to the wall, so they went with condoms instead. They had to have bought out 3-4 states' condoms for this movie!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars that font!!

@jonny A list sounds better than actual following given the scale #monsterdon