@bunnyhero https://youtu.be/OcEi2o8g2L0 #Monsterdon

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Of course I'm a general!
I have a cigar and everything.

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Yep pretty sure NASA has liquid oxygen trucks stored outside their secret development bases

this version of this kid has strong Gamera Kenny energies

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#Monsterdon COPPER HILL
COPPER WIRING
COPPER(s) VIOLENCE

IT ALL CONNECTS ON MY RED STRING BOARD

This may be a bit late, but that kid needs to articulate his lines better
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Glancing at my watch waiting for them to roll in the tanks to Copper Hill

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KID RADIO ENGINEER MOMENT #monsterdon

WTF that looks like blades on my food processor

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Man, these instances dumping a ton of posts from 50 minutes ago is really annoying.

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Me at work this year: "Let's just get the hell out of this crazy place."

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#Monsterdon why did the martian drill bit come interrupt them if the cops were working for the martians already? just wanted to get in directly and they were collateral damage?

@diazona SpaceX does better explosions, tho'

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Fun* idea:
- Some way to easily tag posts with the timestamp of the movie they are based on

- Embed the comments as hyperlinks in a streaming online version of the movie

*probably very technically challenging and I'm not volunteering because I am not smart about that stuff

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Doggo!

@SnoopJ I missed that! Chekhov’s General #monsterdon

All the best bombs are made with kitchen timers. #monsterdon

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This general's office is very weird who is that supposed to be a portrait of?

people being sucked above the sand too, this whole town is a sexpit

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#monsterdon Mars needs cheap stolen copper. Attack the houses! We need Coax! Power lines! We landed in Copper Hill, but the entire area is a MISNOMER!

I mean even from the very beginning I was thinking, man, this is the exact same plot, and it took me way too long to remember the name of the first film

sometimes I'm kind of slow

I blame the weed

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NASA always has the best fog machines

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Huh, I think we had a kitchen timer like the one his dad put on that bombe.

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Adults giving this kid so many liberties he might as well be Little Orphan Annie #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Did the alien just make a joke????

"I don't have much time" he says as he starts a cigar that will take a good 20-30 minutes to smoke. #monsterdon

I wonder what the big alien brain is doing right now

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#Monsterdon "it's okay we're the police. we're here to help" *both draw their guns and advance*

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Srsly Karen Black is worse than useless at least in the original the child psychologist was smart and cool

because every NASA administrator carried around a briefcase full of explosives in the 1980s. #monsterdon

And some day we'll find it

The Pendleton - Vandenberg connection

The jarheads, the space nerds, and me

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#Monsterdon ahhhhh they have a thing that looks like the old movie's martian brain

#Monsterdon Wouldn't it suck if the aliens had gotten smarter since the first possessed people and just placed their mind control chip somewhere covered up by most people's clothing? Like it's on your chest or something.

Why does that 11 year old boy have a varsity jacket? #Monsterdon

Looks rather wireless to me actually #monsterdon

@Lazarou #InnerChildsHandShootUp #Monsterdon

@Crazypedia Because he’s certainly not been compromised at this point. #Monsterdon

I have to see the back of your neck! If you're an Anglican bishop, that's the only way to know which diocese you represent!

#IYKYK
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you sure could put a lot of Stuff into those NASA tankers

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General Wilson! You know, the character nobody mentioned at all until now! #monsterdon

Ah yes let's talk to the general of this NASA facility. #monsterdon

Of course, General Wilson my bff #monsterdon

This whirling practical effect, on the other hand, looks dopey #monsterdon

spill it david

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“It’s okay. We’re the police. We’re here to help.” And then they draw their guns and point them at the people they’re purporting to help. Checks out.

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Pretty good blinkenlights

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#monsterdon My god they combined a Sam Watterston and an R. Lee Ermey

#Monsterdon You know if I saw the sand eaten people here I would assume it's too late for the Marine Corps (and then I would make a joke about Marine CORPSE)

Yup! There's Chesty Puller's portrait on the wall. Nice touch.

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They're doing the rock lobster! I was in the #80s. I know this.

#b52s
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@bunnyhero If I had a dim... nuthin! #Monsterdon

MORE COPPER - this means something.

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the dialogue makes me think this was written for a high school boy and his nurse, but then the execs made them change it to elementary school. #monsterdon

ooo, speaking of Terminator 2 as I was earlier, big old tanker of liquid nitrogen!

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One of my favorite things about these movies is the unfettered access everyone has to high ranking military officials. #Monsterdon

i would've been thirty miles out of town by this point

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tbh other than working at the base I'm not even sure what George Gardner does. It might have said and I missed it

I mean it probably doesn't matter but he must have some position if you can get the General's attention and he will presumably take your shit about aliens in quicksand seriously

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Fake earthquake effect!

tell him the commies have a mole machine

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Oh look, more #satisfactory props with all that copper wire.

Must be a copper node nearby.

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#monsterdon Suddenly we figured out how they finished The Big Dig in Boston, that's how... ;)

@Lazarou Yeah, that's messed up no mater what you feel about gender relations #monsterdon

Wow she at least sort of believes him and is actively helping him. #monsterdon

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It's uncomfortably icky watching them cuddle in fear.

"...General Wilson, I have one question..."
"No, I did not move the headstones without moving the bodies!"

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just find a prepper with lots of guns youll be fine

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displays by atari 400

one of 'em's playing pac man

didn't think we'd notice

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...This is gonna be like the Militia scenes in The Stuff, isn't it #Monsterdon

You know, General wilson, the name that's not been spoken till this point in the movie

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He is a child and she is a full grown teacher. But you get into this crisis situation and he's in this like protector role.

And then they're in the car and suddenly she has no plans and the kid is in charge. #monsterdon

a lot of these actors are too good to be in this

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"This is the key to my back door" famous last words #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars86

... at the local US Marines / NASA joint base ...

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Luckily there's also a spare set of crutches in the boiler room murder bed @himbovoorhees

@himbovoorhees we're making soup?! #Monsterdon

yeah but mister wilson always hated that kid

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A+ creepy cops.
Wait are they not wormed? They’re just like that?

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that thing is veiny #monsterdon

Man, they really didn't check the Earth invasion Trello to make sure they weren't doubling up on "catch David Gardner." #monsterdon

i know those frogs come from vacuum packs not from the hill. not believable!!!! #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars86

I wonder if that USMC camp is named after Chesty Puller.

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Ah, yeah. The quintessential 1980s school boiler room! #Monsterdon

Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side #monsterdon

Also throughout this whole movie I was thinking "man isn't this the same plot as another movie we saw on #monsterdon already" and then it took me too long to figure out that

yes, it is

Invaders from Mars (1953)

which Invaders from Mars (1986) is a remake of

Ok. I totally had this movie confused with Mars Attacks! (1996) - a campy comedy that parodied movies like this.

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Advancing the plot saves the day again

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"We're the police, we're here to help!"

Quote of the century, lmao

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At first she was afraid, she was petrified #monsterdon

Those Martians do love their spotlights!

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Martian fleshlight?

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"We're the police we're here to help"

Has a more terrifying thing than this ever been uttered? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Check it out, it's the krang from the first movie in the background:

THROW THE COPS IN THE BOILER

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@yatsu that or it's a fable about not trusting the police #monsterdon

An old model of the alien master from the original film. #monsterdon

OMG somebody please make a meme of those two pulling their guns

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Saved by the... wait, that's not a graboid?

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This is some great physical acting. A master class. #Monsterdon

Saved by the giant alien diving bell erupting from the floor #monsterdon

Yep. Perfectly normal police. 🙃

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