Iβm 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
Shai Hulud from Mars #monsterdon
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bazooka kill, nice
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Not Rinaldi! #monsterdon
#Monsterdon that'll teach you to be part of SETI
Now, I'm no entrail physics expert or anything, but ...
nooo Rinaldi!!! π¨ #monsterdon
Eh, it would've been cooler if he got vored #monsterdon
Yeah, you earned that one, dumbass. #Monsterdon
"They do understand me! Now let me turn my back to them so they can destroy me! :D" #Monsterdon
"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
General sure likes Rinaldi. Nice to see a movie that has no trouble with bromance
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oh yeah, they do understand you, they just don't like you. #monsterdon
You should have given the alien a freak'n zagnut, dude
That echoing effect is helping make this scene. #monsterdon
Eat him already!!! #monsterdon
#Monsterdon many tanks, boys
The sand pit trap looks kind of fun if there weren't evil aliens at the bottom of it
#monsterdon Not Rinaldi! Who will make hot plates of pasta! Oh the humanity!
I want that guy's comfy-looking forehead gel thing.
hollywood thinks cgi is better than this. hollywood is wrong
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Bud Cort with a receding hairline and a stache. π
Oh good we're going to try talking
I thought the Marines were going to kill Martians??? Who let the egghead into the line of fire?
#monsterdon My neck hurts just watching that dad drink coffee.
Why did he bring a rocket launcher into the tunnel if he's going to pull out his .45 first time he sees something? Dang, dumb enough to be a Marine.
Moustache guy getting vored, right? #monsterdon
#Monsterdon How DOES he know they're boys?
"How does he know they're boys?"
eugh. wow, those creatures are A+++ #monsterdon
Oh no Jim Henson's on one of their bad Trips Again
You've seen aliens for the first time - it's amazing!
Now, the Marines are going to kill them.
Welp, time for the scientist to get eaten. #Monsterdon
PURE EVIL FROM ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION
It feels like the General and Rinaldi were⦠close. #Monsterdon
βThe PKE meter shows a class 4 specter approaching.β #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon I would LOVE to wear one of those alien costumes. I wouldn't have to make eye contact, it'd be great
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 Check that those marines are secure! Reach around if you have to! Make them happy! We must beat Ed at his own game! ;)
loving that the horror section was all detuned synthesizers but now we're in the action part and the symphony is engaged #monsterdon
What I find fascinating about this movie is that the director seems to think that kid is a really good actor, and I couldnβt disagree more. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon "marines have no qualms about killing martians!" π¬
@akamran no kidding, the tank must be able to fly or something
ITS THE BATTLE WHEEL FROM BATTLEDOME
The sand pit reminds me of the cavern in The Stuff. Now that was a good movie #monsterdon
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
This kid is trying to play it cool but he's so psyched to see the military blow up his neighborhood #monsterdon
Oh Ronaldi!
#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?
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
Did they see any R.O.U.Ses down there?
so much for lt. macguyver
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
He's the test subject
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#monsterdon My bloopy device is better than your ping-pong-ball-scanner!
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!
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OK marines breaking into an elementary school like that is ... something.
Oh Rinaldi, Oh Rinaldi, oh my darlin' Rinaldi..... πΆ
No! Not Renoldo!
Try walking without rhythm, Rinaldi #monsterdon
[whistles MASH theme very loudly with extra 80s]
@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 π¨
The cloth with the sand ove rit is a really good effect.
Main character's dead. Movie over.
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I thought that the martians might be vampire-zombie-y but they're really just robo-zombie-y
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
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?
One screen reads Launch Time 10:23 and another one reads Launch Time 10:23 but in a different font and then thereβs a third one that shows 10:23 with a wireframe graph of a rocket and thereβs 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)
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#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?
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 Platoon Whores! Check your clap cards!
Let us repel Into the schools boiler from hell
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.
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OK that animated wireframe explosion graphic was silly
Welp, no more scientist to harsh our "shoot first" mentality.
Armed man on a school. Yeap, that's sooo reassuring
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I have your delivery of steam.
I like the one NASA scientist's combo Polaroid camera and Ghostbuster-style P.K.E. meter.
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 lΓ€mp
@diazona oooh, the same actor played Kai Winn in DS9, where she had basically the same personality #monsterdon