And now... The touching love theme, from Invaders from Mars (1986) #Monsterdon

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David's mom.
A Martian and a Conehead.

Lmao the end
With soft flute music! 🤣

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Haunting Reprise for Flute, Harp, and David's Parents Getting Eaten or Something

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@otheorange_tag This is not the time for that in my opinion #monsterdon

where's colonel straker when you need him

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#monsterdon No seriously, if you make it to 1:35:30 you get stuck in a time loop and have to watch it all again

#Monsterdon well shit. Maybe NEXT NEXT timeloop, David

Classic nightmare loop. #monsterdon

Oh no David bad news, you're precognitiont :BrainGoBrrr:

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it's somehow even worse this time around. like, we're in the real world now, there's no way he's gonna be allowed to sneak into a military base with his beloved and utterly useless school nurse. #monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our heartfelt thanks to all the posters and lurkers, and especially @Taweret for hosting. And remember #Monsterdoners: Marines have no qualms about killing Martians.

Laraine Newman was in this movie to do that voice in her final scene. #Monsterdon

WORST GROUNDHOG DAY HOMAGE EVER

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#Monsterdon Also why are you opening your window when it's windy and rainy

"We forgot something, David!"

-- Martians

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Jeez, I forgot about that stupid countdown thing #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial I thought so too until dad had the talk with me #Monsterdon

David Gardner in "The Groundhog Day Invasion".

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#Monsterdon You can prevent it in this Timeloop David. Just make sure no one goes to the hill!

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Linda and David certainly do fall a lot.

no no no NOT AGAIN NOOOOOOOOO damn it

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Again?? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon David there is no shame in having a nightlight especially if you get a nice looking one

Aaaaand UFO #Monsterdon

Lmao okay the scene in the tunnel is pretty funny #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

So, if they remake this movie every 30 years or so, it seems we are overdue.

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No more hitting the LSD after supper, kid. #monsterdon

Maybe this will be like the 1953 version and we'll all traumatically experience these sets repeatedly for the rest of our existence.

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#monsterdon conehead reference!

Again, David's mom is cool.

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@LingLass Yeah. She’s almost useless in this version. #Monsterdon

Does that count as a Conehead cameo?

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I would have loved to see the aliens eat an entire air conditioner condenser.

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#Monsterdon Coffee?! This late at night? For a kid?! Now we know something's wrong.

the coin slot 😅 #monsterdon

So that’s basically the Terrain Manipulator from No Man’s Sky #monsterdon

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Much dippier heroine than last time 🤨#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon it would have been a really great joke if Dad had a hickey on the back of his neck

"You see, the spaceship landed…"

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We're here to help! 😀 #monsterdon

I hate nightmares like those.

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Don't forget to pre-explode your alien spaceship a bit for greater effectiveness

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That ship blowed up. Blowed up real good.

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Wait. Isn’t this guy who’s using the alien ray gun weapon the same dude who “wasn’t trained for this?” #Monsterdon

That alien thing looks like an oversized kitchen tool #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Dammit not again

eyyy it blowed up real good!

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I had no idea Louise Fletcher was so into sci-fi. She also starred in Strange Invaders (1983) along with Nancy Allen and Wallace Shawn.

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Are they going to retract the probe now.

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#Monsterdon they power their technology with bars of copper-pressed latinum

Alien space Tech is powered by disco and raves

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This movie keeps going on about pennies and copper content, so I just looked it up: the conversion of pennies to majority zinc was in 1982! Unless they are mostly older issue pennies none of this copper harvesting via pennies is even effective!

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Mulder and Scully are fine! Thank god #Monsterdon

Oh this is like Gravity, where David actually died minutes ago and this is his final life flashback fantasy, OK.

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Nobody stop and help the kid who saved y'all's asses or anything.

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Director: MORE FLAILING!!!

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"Great Scott, has anybody got a penny?"
the writer must be proud of it.
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This does seem like the kind of film I might have watched as like the Sunday evening movie on WPIX in the early 90s. Weird, but also rated PG. #monsterdon

flail run flail run #monsterdon

David's dad reminds me of Han Solo

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okay, the spaceship looks pretty cool though. #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai using iron would be hilarious

(it fuses fine but it's a net-negative reaction and that's when supernovas happen)

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Did they ever do a joke where Cartman is the Supreme Marshal intelligence for something?

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#Monsterdon I don't have epilepsy as far as I know but my eyes do NOT like some of these light effects

@diazona I don't think they were ever 100% pure copper #monsterdon

#Monsterdon rinaldi noooooooooo

@guyjantic yeah, it started getting pretty dreamy i think starting with david just breaking into the alien base with no consequences and the lead human-alien being the teacher. if you watch it that was then stuff like the kung fu military guys and sudden competent military response starts to make more sense #monsterdon

Never have there been loewr stakes than David running away from 3 7-segment LEDs and stumbling parents.

And he's still running like he's doing the breaststroke underwater...

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Were pennies pure copper in 1986 or had they started using copper-coated zinc?

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@brooke I thought that’s what he said, but I wasn’t sure. #Monsterdon

Not cool mom!

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They totally got Linda, didn’t they? #monsterdon

LOL fucking coward Marines all running past the kid

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#Monsterdon you're lucky David collects pennies because I'm pretty sure even in the 80s you could buy fuck all with one.

And it's not like the aliens would have a Take a Penny Leave a Penny

And that boy who never slept another day in his life grew up to be... Jeff Bezos.

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@floatybirb oh, they're illegal aliens? (I'm sorry that was awful) #Monsterdon

Skipper, Gilligan, you've got FIVE MINUTES

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE

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#Monsterdon he's tapping on the glass like in the graduate

Movie exec: Someone needs to say "Great Scott"

Director: Just like Back to the Future?

Movie exec: Just like Back to the Future, which came out last summer, 1985. #monsterdon

Those coin op martians! What a deal! Back in the 80s you could get so much for just a cent

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@guyjantic Yeah, well, that's something they wanted to carry over from the 1953 version I guess? #monsterdon

And now we reach the true message of the movie. #SaveThePenny

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These marines seem pretty bad at their jobs

#Monsterdon "i'll fix you! you dick brain!" potty mouth kid

You look pensive, sir. Penny for your lazergun? #Monsterdon

"Great Scott doesn't anybody have a penny!?" #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

The alien weapon is coin-op and nothing will ever be better than this fact. #Monsterdon

"We don't carry loose change into combat, sir"

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"Sorry sir, we're all Canadian."

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"Great Scott, does anybody have a penny?"

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I'm kind of surprised this still got a PG rating instead of PG-13, especially with how much swearing is in it. But I guess it isn't too much worse than The Goonies, which also came out well after the PG/PG-13 split.

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Save the day, captain Curtis

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So is this movie telling us that Ea Nassir was a martian?

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#Monsterdon YES COPPER

Seriously? They're doing It Was All Just A Dream? Or even No, It Wasn't (indicated by some key piece of evidence the audience sees)?

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@cheribaker I would have thought they'd just march everywhere? oh I see, nevermind. #Monsterdon

i hope that general got paid in throat lozenges, because he does nothing but shout this entire movie. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Can you really be surprised they sealed off the entrance when you already knew they could move and bury the tunnels?