Invaders from Mars
Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

I just remembered how there were multiple versions of the original film with different endings. I wonder which way this version will go. #monsterdon

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

I would think those marines would put a little more pep in their step considering how many explosives they just dropped off

#Monsterdon

Randy_underscore_S
Randy_underscore_S
randy_s@mefi.social

#monsterdon Guessing they didn't re-use the "hit 'em in the puss" line in this one because it's more of a kids film and the connotations had changed in the intervening decades...

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

Like the original film, I find myself asking why was this child involved in this phase of the operation? #monsterdon

Pumpkin Spice Cat
Pumpkin Spice Cat
catzilla@toot.cat

I’m not sure about this entire operation. Do they even know what the enemy looks like? What type of weaponry they use? Or are they just like, winging it? #monsterdon

jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
jonny@neuromatch.social

"we must study and befriend them" being introduced a little too late by both the kid and the scientist guy. at the point when we are one military casualty down and have like a whole division deployed #monsterdon

Wyatt H Knott
Wyatt H Knott
whknott

I thought the Marines were going to kill Martians??? Who let the egghead into the line of fire?

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

You might think it's weird that a General is giving instructions to individual members of the infantry

but there *is* a joke that the smallest maneuver element of the Marines is a battalion, so

#Monsterdon

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

One of my favorite things about the Michael Chricton novel Sphere is the idea that the US military has a million contingency plans for all these wild outlandish situations. But because you can't plan for a situation you don't understand, those plans suck and are mostly based on fiction. I'd love to see a sequence of the US military putting their "in case of Martian body snatchers" plan into action sequence. #monsterdon