(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.
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.
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)
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."
" You're pushing it sister!" #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
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@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 theyβre 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
This dream-sequence life review of the whole film π
...Huh. I think I would've prefered the It Was All A Dream ending, the other version just kinda... Stops. #Monsterdon
GEE WHIZ!
Gaslit by Martians with turboprop powered flying saucers!
THE END
That's for another delightful #Monsterdon @Taweret !
That alien zit is gonna pop.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
#monsterdon wait what?
he didn't retell the story either, just running interspersed with mystery tank #Monsterdon
Tanks for all the tanks.
Itβs pretty clear: this movieβs real monster was the poleaxe ππͺ
And you were in the dream, and so were you, and you, and you!
i... i don't... i mean... was this just the longest episode of the twilight zone, or what just happened to me? #monsterdon
And the people that apparently started watching at 9PM CENTRAL time. WTF
#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!
So the movie is a closed, timelike curve like 12 Monkeys?
#monsterdon
βIt was all a dream,
I used to read Weird Tales magazineβ
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.
OH WHAT AN EXPLOSION very good well done :D #Monsterdon
WHAT in the tubi version they made it into a dream!?!?!?!?!? #monsterdon
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars a radioactive ray that could eat through the earth?
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!
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 doppelgΓ€ngers!
- 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
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
hit em right in the WHAT? #monsterdon
Getting a full recap of this child's trauma. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Clear ploy to extend the runtime of this movie. Along with the stock footage. π₯
@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.
"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
Gee Wizzzz?? I'd have gone with "Oh For Fuck's Sake" #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
Kid's stuck in a time loop.
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 Davidβs eyes.
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 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
This flashback dream vision ending is very surreal
so the kid dreamed like 20 minutes of stock footage of tanks?
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. π
lmao does the tubi version end with a recap i gotta check that out #monsterdon
We've been Newharted.
#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!
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.
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
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 β¦ 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
"...I do not like Green Martians and Ham! I do not like them Sam I am!"
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?
@amyfou These are trained actors who learned stuff like that in school #monsterdon
They keep using these shots of Mew Tants in the tunnels but none of them ever seem to get anywhere. Are they lost? #Monsterdon
Remember me fondly, kid #Monsterdon
@lapis @Taweret From your mouth to Rule 34's ear. #monsterdon #invadersfrommars