You've burned out the Chroinal circuit with your big clock? #Monsterdon

If they had taken out the tank footage and just shown what's left 3 times it would've made more sense.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"It was all just a dream"???

Are they really doing this to us?? 😱

#Monsterdon

so the kid saw the future somehow, and is now destined to relive it, apparently endlessly, being ignored by authority figures and nearly kidnapped by his alien-body-snatched parents. which vindictive god did HE piss off??? #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie

So say we all!

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

(and in this version) ... The ship takes off and blows up! Fire everywhere! Trees blown over!

With the ship gone, the kid's parents will be OK!

Put him to bed ... we have like three frames of the sandpit with lightning in the air ... and THE END roll credits.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

the takeaway is there are not enough tanks in the galaxy to successfully invade Earth #monsterdon

The trailer for Invaders From Mars sucked compared to the movie. Glad I saw it.

#monsterdon

IT'S OVER.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

If this kid flashes back to when he was two I'm outta here #monsterdon

Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon

yeah that ending is certainly a decision

(we had the it's a dream LOL NO IT'S NOT which is way better than leaving it as a dream)

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

This has happened before, and it will all happen again. #Monsterdon

Your mother and father are going to be fine... if that was the only alien ship on Earth...
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

@CactuarJoe i saw the dream version before and i think it works better for things like, why did they let the kid shoot the alien heat beam, believe the kid at all, the weird hallways and sets... dreamy right? #Monsterdon

My mom, as the movie ends "TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES."

#monsterdon #invadersfrommars

" You're pushing it sister!" #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

@plaidtron3000
"Of all of the questionable choices in this film, this is the most questionable." - #SplendaDaddy #Monsterdon

I mean that movie was okay, the writing just gets right to the point and ends like they’re in a hurry #Monsterdon

The movie is an ouroboros. Like, I dunno, Donnie Darko or something. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

someone needs to contact dead boy detectives to come in and get all those people released from this circular ufo nightmare forever

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

This dream-sequence life review of the whole film 😂

#Monsterdon

GEE WHIZ!

Gaslit by Martians with turboprop powered flying saucers!

THE END

That's for another delightful #Monsterdon @Taweret !

...Huh. I think I would've prefered the It Was All A Dream ending, the other version just kinda... Stops. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon wait what?

That alien zit is gonna pop.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

he didn't retell the story either, just running interspersed with mystery tank #Monsterdon

Tanks for all the tanks.

#monsterdon #invadersFromMars

It’s pretty clear: this movie’s real monster was the poleaxe 💈🪓

#monsterdon
#InvadersFromMars

And you were in the dream, and so were you, and you, and you!

#monsterdon

i... i don't... i mean... was this just the longest episode of the twilight zone, or what just happened to me? #monsterdon

@jonny

And the people that apparently started watching at 9PM CENTRAL time. WTF

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#Monsterdon There's some serious violations of buddy rules in this film.

okay, weird but fun. that was actually really fun. could've used less tank footage but otherwise fun

ty for joining, everyone!

#monsterdon

So the movie is a closed, timelike curve like 12 Monkeys?
#monsterdon

“It was all a dream,
I used to read Weird Tales magazine”

#monsterdon #InvasionFromMars

NGL, I'm digging the cinematography. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars .

#Monsterdon Oh gawd, not THAT ending. Not again.

We only have ourselves to blame. We voted for this. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Democracy fails once again.

Thanks @Taweret for showcasing the failure of politics in this microcosm.

#monsterdon #invadersfrommars

OH WHAT AN EXPLOSION very good well done :D #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars a radioactive ray that could eat through the earth?

WHAT in the tubi version they made it into a dream!?!?!?!?!? #monsterdon

Yes. Let the child hold the untested alien radiation gun. I'm sure that won't mess with his DNA.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

does this mean we have to watch it on infinite loop and it never ends? Maybe it was a dream but Orb Alien is REAL #monsterdon

Run! Run! Everybody run!

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Good times on #Monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #InvadersFromMars, from 1953, wasn't all about greenie meanies, though there were plenty of those! We also had,
- Dry quicksand!
- Grumpy doppelgängers!
- Mew-tants!
- Exploding brain devices!
- Sufferin' Cats and Holy Mackerels!
- A big kaboom!

I guess I'm the fool for watching the whole movie, because these last couple minutes would've told me all I needed to know

#Monsterdon

Final shot is David looking into a snowglobe #monsterdon

ohhh NOT just a dream in this version! he just goes to bed #Monsterdon

#monsterdon maybe it really was a dream? I mean your parents aren't trying to hit you

Running so fast they had to speed up the recording #Monsterdon

Getting a full recap of this child's trauma. #monsterdon

hit em right in the WHAT? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Clear ploy to extend the runtime of this movie. Along with the stock footage. 🎥

@jonny Yeah, I got distracted and it would be sort of helpful to have that so I could figure out what just happened for the last 45 minutes.

#Monsterdon

"And you were there too aunt June" AAAOOOOOUUUUUaaaaaoooooOoooaabhhBbbHHHHHHH #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

oh my god why is it like this #monsterdon

not even sure where the stock footage tank is even supposed to be in relation to everything else #Monsterdon

Kid's stuck in a time loop.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Gee Wizzzz?? I'd have gone with "Oh For Fuck's Sake" #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

ok, so the kid is a prophet instead? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Oh man, the kid gets to use the space ray? I'm super jealous, I want my very own lava gun! #Monsterdon

Geez. how many close-ups of the kid running are we going to get? #Monsterdon

The entire movie just flashed before David’s eyes.

#monsterdon

My eyes are rolling at this cheap cop out ending, but my shoulders are glad they can stop tensing up now #monsterdon

Ohhhhh I was wondering if this was going in the "IT WAS ALL A DREAM" direction--BUT NOOOO WHAT A TWIST

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon I want someone to shout MY APES as the line goes down

The Martians have Krumhorn technology #monsterdon

Wow - just under two minutes is what I have left in my player too

#monsterdon
#InvadersFromMars

This flashback dream vision ending is very surreal

#Monsterdon

so the kid dreamed like 20 minutes of stock footage of tanks?

#monsterdon

Ah yes, the general and Renaldi. A romance the world was not ready for yet. #Monsterdon

FACE, he was using that term in the sense meaning FACE. 😂

#Monsterdon

lmao does the tubi version end with a recap i gotta check that out #monsterdon

We've been Newharted.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#monsterdon oh no, not one of these endings

Oh, fuck you movie. #Monsterdon

i admit i have not been "paying attention" to this film, but even i did not need a solid 5 minute recap of a 119 minute film. #monsterdon

Quick, shine a red light on it!

#monsterdon

This kid's PTSD montage is kinda bumming me out #monsterdon

@ramsey You have any idea how long it takes to get into & out of those costumes?

Fun fact (that I just made up): after this movie, the SAG added a contract clause that any costumes that take more than 15 minutes to take off, have to have a butt flap.

#monsterdon

Ooooowa.... oooooowwaa... Hawaiiii. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

and then David turned into a space fetus #monsterdon

Did he say hit em right in the puss #Monsterdon

The movie is really just rubbing it in by reminding us of all these scenes we already had to sit through. GET ON WITH IT

#Monsterdon

what has happened to the color and the sound are we hallucinating #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
Bacon anyone?

@otheorange_tag #Monsterdon No fire, no electricity, just artillery.

WE JUST WATCHED THIS, WHY ARE YOU SHOWING US AGAIN #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

The boy's running and giving us a whole recap of the film? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Countdown updates and pulsing music … fail to build notable tension, mostly because I have no reason to care about any of these characters.

@aprilfollies Did they try fire?!... they didn't did they? #StillBitter #Monsterdon

lol the sped-up footage of them running away from the site of the ship is very silly

#Monsterdon

"...I do not like Green Martians and Ham! I do not like them Sam I am!"

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

AaaaaooooooaaaaoOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAOOOOOUUUuuuuuuuuaaaaoooo #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Why is the movie flashing before our eyes again? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Okay I guess Orb alien did bring more than two Myu-tents.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Why did the general assume the kid knew how to work the deathray?

#monsterdon