And nobody went to the beach ever again
#monsterdon

#monsterdon oh no, they got they cute guy!

@lorgonumputz On into the 90s as well! Dja ever see that reality show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

#monsterdon

All soldiers listened to Kate Bush and decided to run up that hill #monsterdon

lol, the soldiers just falling around now like clowns #Monsterdon

Well that told him...

I super want them to have the wrong sand pit. I want them to go to all this trouble and expense and then go, "Oh. Wait. The one down the street. Pack it up, boys!" #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Pretend I made a joke about the Spice Melange and the worms okay

Did they see any R.O.U.Ses down there?

#monsterdon
#PrincessBride

Strange that our pennies aren't made out of copper anymore.

Really makes ya think, huh?

#Monsterdon

so much for lt. macguyver

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

the ARMY MAN TIME is actually hitting pretty different in a generation where they had like 20 more years of military industrial complex development and it's just a matter of deploying the right quantity of artillery at the beach #monsterdon

#monsterdon "Is this a stand-up fight, _sir_, or another bug hunt?"

"All we know is there is still no contact with the colonists, and uh a xenomorph may be involved."

"A xeno-what?"

"It's a bug hunt."

He's the test subject
#monsterdon

#monsterdon My bloopy device is better than your ping-pong-ball-scanner!

#monsterdon RINALDI

CHIEF

McCloud

Two slit pupils per eye! #monsterdon

so, David goes to the military for help, rides along as they surround his house with WW2-scale trenches and barbed wire, and then suggests that we should TALK to them? okay, kid. #monsterdon

Sandworm!

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#Monsterdon 🔴 👽 👽 --> 🌎 🧟‍♀️ 😱

OK marines breaking into an elementary school like that is ... something.

Oh Rinaldi, Oh Rinaldi, oh my darlin' Rinaldi..... 🎶

#monsterdon

No! Not Renoldo!

#Monsterdon

Try walking without rhythm, Rinaldi #monsterdon

[whistles MASH theme very loudly with extra 80s]

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

@blogdiva That's Bud Cort. He played Harold in Harold and Maude. Highly recommended. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Science guy has a science thing that is sciencing. #monsterdon

Military only has one tool kid 🔨

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

The cloth with the sand ove rit is a really good effect.

#monsterdon

Main character's dead. Movie over.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🔴 👽 👽 --> 🌎 🧟‍♀️ 😱

I thought that the martians might be vampire-zombie-y but they're really just robo-zombie-y

@allanb :ms_eyes: #Monsterdon

My spouse: "Oh hey, aren't you glad there are only thirty minutes to go?"
Me: "Oh god there's another thirty minutes!"

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Okay the scientist brought their triquarter thingy

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

OMG the guy with the black mustache and glasses looks like the wacky teacher from The Incredibles

#Monsterdon #Alt4Me

points to the prop people for putting some blinky lights on a polaroid and calling it a Scientific Equipment. #monsterdon

of course he knows what he's doing he's got the tricorder with tracer lights can't you tell he's a scientist?

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

One screen reads Launch Time 10:23 and another one reads Launch Time 10:23 but in a different font and then there’s a third one that shows 10:23 with a wireframe graph of a rocket and there’s a fourth one #monsterdon

#Monsterdon "if there is life up there it may not want to be found. it may not want us there"

this is an anti-colonialism preemptive strike

#Monsterdon is that like a magic wand (no I think it's a lamp)

#Monsterdon "marines have no qualms about killing martians"

Wait, who decided to put the guy in the Groucho Marx glasses in charge of this operation?

#monsterdon

the aliens are shaped like weird ticks with their asses in the air #monsterdon

How many medic trucks are needed tor initial response to something?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Platoon Whores! Check your clap cards!

Let us repel Into the schools boiler from hell

#Monsterdon

Man that's a boxy old Tricorder. #Monsterdon

What most people don't remember is that in the 80's it was common for most US elementary schools to have a Doom Pit leading to underground tunnels.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🔴 👽 👽 --> 🌎 🧟‍♀️ 😱

OK that animated wireframe explosion graphic was silly

Welp, no more scientist to harsh our "shoot first" mentality.

#monsterdon

Armed man on a school. Yeap, that's sooo reassuring
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

I have your delivery of steam.

I like the one NASA scientist's combo Polaroid camera and Ghostbuster-style P.K.E. meter.

#monsterdon

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS #Monsterdon

No way they would survive a rocket explosion like that. It would have wiped out the entire base #monsterdon

oooh big lämp

#Monsterdon

@diazona oooh, the same actor played Kai Winn in DS9, where she had basically the same personality #monsterdon

@whknott Still not over the failure of MKUltra in 1986 maybe?

#Monsterdon

nice boiler room floor but does it run doom?

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

So when does the Brain Bug show up? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon David will come to have strange inexplicable sexual hangups over weapons, camo, and big beefy men named Cleetus.

#Monsterdon at what point did pennies become mostly zinc? Because if those aliens DO eat copper, they'd fucking hate modern pennies

#Monsterdon 🔴 👽 👽 --> 🌎 🧟‍♀️ 😱

They really are using that table lamp as the only light source in the general's office

Wonder if they'll stock footage it up like the original :D #Monsterdon

"...damn it, tank attack isn't covered by our house insurance."

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Cue egghead scientist getting eaten as he tries to make peace? Stupid scientist. Peace never works.

#monsterdon

@RufusJCooter can confirm, my pa was a jarhead. #Monsterdon

ok so while the plot might have been shifted around a bit, we do get the entire final 1/3 of the movie being ARMY MAN TIME as it was in the 60's version #monsterdon

People on here and in the movie keep saying "L O X" and I always figured it was pronounced lox (like the smoked fish). That's what I get for reading to expand my vocabulary as a kid and not trying to figure out how words actually sound.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon You know I know it would have made the scene less cool but they didn't even CHECK if the front door was locked they just busted the window open and broke in

#Monsterdon 🔴 👽 👽 --> 🌎 🧟‍♀️ 😱

Hahaha the blocks of explosive have a 'dangerous' label on them!

yaaaash HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT times :D

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Marines have no qualms about killing Martians!
(That was their original motto, by the way - they ended up deciding something in latin would look punchier on their logo...)

#monsterdon

So these aliens are like those guys that break into abandoned homes and buildings and steal the pipes. Is that the plot? #Monsterdon

Just because they're illegal aliens, right General?

#Monsterdon

David's getting like twice as many lines as he's entitled to in this remake #monsterdon

@yatsu must be a perspective movie #sideeye #Monsterdon

Soooo are adults gonna be able to see any of the alien infrastructure this time? #monsterdon

@wohali You know more things than me.

#Monsterdon

Yay! Monster!

#monsterdon

does this version have masers? this version should have masers.

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Tobias Menzies Memorial School

#Monsterdon

Oh boy that's the signal the start of the action part of the movie!

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

#Monsterdon Marines have no qualms about killing martians

is that like part of boot camp?

#Monsterdon 🔴 👽 👽 --> 🌎 🧟‍♀️ 😱

"And this is Linda Magnusson, a friend of David's" <-- how you introduce the grown woman who is accompanying a 10yo boy.

Bold move showing a NASA spaceship exploding in 1986...

#Monsterdon

BOOOOOM

One of Elon's bug new rockets or something I guess #Monsterdon

"...Marines have no qualms about killing Martians!"
"That's ... an odd thing to say?"

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Don't worry kid, we're totally gonna murder your parents. #monsterdon

The tunnels, of course, that’s why we get the Martian Rave Tunnel here #monsterdon

#Monsterdon nice! some action

#Monsterdon

"Ok, research team guys, we're just going to do 40 more takes of the death throws...action!"

FINALLY ...

TANKS!
#monsterdon

marines have no qualms about killing anybody, i mean, it's kind of the job

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Great line read general XD #Monsterdon

She doesn't just fail to check her review mirror, she has no peripheral vision either. #monsterdon

@aburka You're watching that Fawlty Towers episode where the car gets a damned good thrashing?! #Monsterdon

this older scientist military guy with the prosthetics on to make him look older is stealing every scene that he's in the background of #monsterdon

And you are down one rocket 🚀 :kaboom:

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Andy Warhol shows up as a consultant to NASA. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon “Lets get screwed, by aliens, in our necks…”

#Monsterdon we're gonna find out this movie is sponsored by someone who believes all electronics should use gold instead of copper