What?????? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

#Monsterdon the kid got Groundhog Day'd

the US ending is more like this one, for some reason it recaps the entire movie to fade into a dream sequence, but then it does the thing that the 80's version does, which is be 'ambiguously a dream' but that one leans into 'actually the kid learns he's just imagining things' instead of 'fake dream but it was actually real'

around 1:17:15 ish here https://tubitv.com/movies/100019545/invaders-from-mars

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Somehow I think they made this version better for the little boy but worse for all the women characters and that's kind of an impressive level of f*cked-up-edness but

we have made it to the end (?)

Thanks @Taweret for hosting and @cheribaker for the bingo and every single #Monsterdonian for the fun now don't get possessed by martians and I'll look forward to next week!

OK! Another very 80s horror flick in the books for #Monsterdon !
A bit less 80s, a bit more horror than Night of the Comet - but still quite fun!
Apparently, Mars needs not women, but copper. (You'd think that if they can travel to Earth & try to take over, they'd have heard of fiber...)
But anyway, the takeaway here is to be aware of context & schedules; it can be an email, rather than a meeting. It can be a clay tablet, not a movie...

Thanks all, and @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week!

I think it's ending for yall but we've got another 20 min lol #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

@yatsu Also he can poison Louise's frog this time. #Monsterdon

Thanks again @Taweret !
See you all next week. :D

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@CactuarJoe he does have the power of foresight tho. he can start by not going into the caves on a whim. bring some weapons with him and stuff. #monsterdon

I guess I can conclude by saying that was whelming.

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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-watching event. This week we watched INVADERS FROM MARS (1986).

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

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

Why do the end credits sound like "Luke & Leia" from the Return of the Jedi soundtrack? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXeOY_Ad4U #monsterdon

@jgamble Oh cool, thanks, I guess I missed that.

I know a bunch of people throughout the movie said that they were Martians, I just didn't notice how they were supposed to know the aliens were Martians

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That is Laraine Newman's conehead voice!

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Classic “it was just a dream” fakeout #monsterdon

This is like the alien movie version of Groundhog Day. #Monsterdon

And what is UP with the closing credits. It's like a lovesong symphony. Where's the team that did the opening credits? I guess the cheesy love song is all the denouement we are going to get. #monsterdon

Really pushed hard into the "it was all a dream ... OR IS IT?" trope.

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@Zerofactorial I had a cat like t... oh nevermind! #Monsterdon

Now that's what I call #Monsterdon

Laraine Newman is doing her Conehead voice from SNL #monsterdon

I guess the first recording sucked?

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he's not repeating the exact same timeline, every end of the film goes into the next remake, then loops back around to the original movie

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I really liked how the supreme martial intelligence says "little guy" the same way as the possessed and non-possessed parents.

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Ooh a nightmare loop so creative #monsterdon

@Configures yeh, that's it

little 1930s raggamuffin making his own way in a hard world

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@randy_s I would have liked a combination alien invasion and time loop movie

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Plot twist: He's been in hell this whole time! Doomed to relive the plot! 😂

Good times. Amazing creatures. Thanks for the fun commentary, Monster people.

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alright so if you weren't here when we watched the 50's (i have been saying 60's this whole time lol) version, there were two endings to that one, the US version ended as a dream, but the UK version just ended and it was actually real

here's the UK ending: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112708859004671145

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And now peaceful flute music. Thanks! again @Taweret for hosting. Save your pennies folks. Especially the ones actually made of copper. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Why is he yelling for his parents, then asking to be left alone? I blame the writers, not the actor #monsterdon

one of these days i'm going to remember to participate in #monsterdon for a second time

@moira Oh, was that blackjack he hit the Big Martian Brain with, his bag of pennies? #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Golan and Globus who brought you such delights as "Ninja III: The domination" #monsterdon

What is with this music, did they accidentally grab the music from a heartwarming drama for the ending credits?

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

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David's mom.
A Martian and a Conehead.

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

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Lmao the end
With soft flute music! 🤣

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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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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

Aaaaand UFO #Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon CONEHEADS VOICE

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

We're here to help! 😀 #monsterdon

"You see, the spaceship landed…"

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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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Alien space Tech is powered by disco and raves

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

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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@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