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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"Mom, Dad, I love you, but I love Linda more"

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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

FUCKING CHEKOV'S PENNY

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"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?

oh no im being menaced by papier mache!

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Somebody explain to me the point of having two keys that have to be turned simultaneously when one person can reach them both

...or maybe I don't want to know?

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I wonder ELon Musk uses something like that for his Boring company? #monsterdon

I have no idea what is going on #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

The general's whole role is shouting MOVE MOVE MOVE at people. #Monsterdon

@trixter I would also accept Vincent Price #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai Ea-nāṣir reference? That's how I know I'm on mastodon while watching this movie.

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That one guy with the pseudo comic relief line, “I wasn’t trained for this.”

You most certainly were, dude.

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Always fun leaving a "fuck you" parting gift 💣

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In the tunnel, the general (who is leading from the front, because why not), encounters his former sidekick, who is now an evil zombie and tries to shoot him, but they are forced to kill him.

Snooping around the kid finds two aliens who load their phasers with copper strips; the kids the general of this, saving some soldiers from dying, allowing them to machinegun some potato goblins. he tells them that they need to rescue the nice nurse lady.

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@SnoopJ that's two-factor authentication, baby #monsterdon

IT'S THE SWEEPER RUN

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@Zerofactorial I say this about most movies.

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AAAAAAAH!! We need to avoid the slowly rotating orange light thing!

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maybe we could leave Linda behind? just as a little treat? #monsterdon

The return of tongue toad.

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@Zerofactorial And a bit like his navigators, too!

Hell, even SciFi royalty is a bunch of inbred fucks, too

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#Monsterdon But tell me more about the copper even though I know this movie is Anti-copper propaganda!!!!

What this movie needs is Gamera #monsterdon

The bomb uses metric time?! #monsterdon

Is there a way to bring back someone who has been Martianified? #monsterdon

brain toad's dancers sacrificed themselves for the party

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Man, these Martians do love their spotlights!

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swooped right on out like the credits #monsterdon

Did Hammer industries make that rocket launcher?

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RIP Rinaldi. We barely knew you. #monsterdon

@akamran It's just a kink they have #monsterdon

Oh no. Someone's Saturn V rocket model caught fire.

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See, it's really teachers who want to control people.

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I wonder how the aliens managed to build spaceships and mind control devices and beam weapons with those tiny little fingers tucked away on top of their bodies

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There shoot the weak spot. I you gotta get the timing right

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#Monsterdon oh watching them insert a neck control thingy is properly *horrifying* i love it

Oh look it’s Rinaldi! #monsterdon

These guys were NOT prepped for the final battle. They should back up and grind in the tunnels a bit. #Monsterdon

I love some good 80s lightning #monsterdon

Do the marines have skippers? Is his last name Skipper? #Monsterdon

@trixter
they were condoms

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@wohali "Fuh fuh FIVE HUNDRED?!" #WrongFranchise #IYKYK #Monsterdon

The Poke a Needle Into a Prisoner's Neck machine sure moves _slow_, don't it?

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DON'T LOOK MARIAN! #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

here stand behind the bazooka with me
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hand drawn lightning!!

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David, go back up there and smack that brain in the face again. That seemed to be very effective. #Monsterdon

i wonder how much of the aliens set was reused in this movie much like the original pumpkinhead suit was partially repurposed suits parts from aliens

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Now, that's what I call some ball lightning.

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Something tells me they only had two Martian costumes and one ray gun prop that they kept reusing for each shot

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Martians indulging in sounding play, in a pro pri ate! #monsterdon

The most menacing of photocopying

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Does mustering the troops involve doing something different than they're already doing #monsterdon

This General spends a lot of time shouting encouraging slogans to people. #monsterdon

Love me some hand-drawn lightning effects.

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yeah julliard doesn't really train you for movies like this

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They're going to have a hell of a time talking over the world if it takes 15-20 minutes to lower the spine jabber for every person

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They have Big Maser Breath yet they are still taken down by little earth bullets pretty weak man #Monsterdon

Was it eastabished how a 5th grader has a letterman jacket? I wasn't paying attention earlier.

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What? #monsterdon

Surprise!

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YOU DICK BRAIN!!!! #monsterdon

Oh! It took me a while to realize that I recognize James Karen (General Wilson) from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (where he played Frank)

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