βItβs okay. Weβre the police. Weβre here to help.β And then they draw their guns and point them at the people theyβre purporting to help. Checks out.
Pretty good blinkenlights
#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.
They're doing the rock lobster! I was in the #80s. I know this.
@bunnyhero If I had a dim... nuthin! #Monsterdon
MORE COPPER - this means something.
ooo, speaking of Terminator 2 as I was earlier, big old tanker of liquid nitrogen!
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
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
Oh look, more #satisfactory props with all that copper wire.
Must be a copper node nearby.
#monsterdon Suddenly we figured out how they finished The Big Dig in Boston, that's how... ;)
Wow she at least sort of believes him and is actively helping him. #monsterdon
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!"
just find a prepper with lots of guns youll be fine
displays by atari 400
one of 'em's playing pac man
didn't think we'd notice
...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
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
"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
A+ creepy cops.
Wait are they not wormed? Theyβre just like that?
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.
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.
Advancing the plot saves the day again
At first she was afraid, she was petrified #monsterdon
Those Martians do love their spotlights!
Martian fleshlight?
"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
@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
Saved by the... wait, that's not a graboid?
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
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. π
oh no they found us. we probably shouldve made any attempt to hide
um... news flash lady, petrified is a kind of afraid
Unless you meant the kind where you turn to stone but I'm assuming this is not that movie
In particular, the Dnyarri are a race of psychic brain-frog things that use their powers to take over entire planets. By the time of SC2 they've been effectively neutralized by the Ur-Quan and turned into their "talking pet" mouthpieces, but part of SC2's endgame plot is that you befriend (or at least, form an alliance with) a Dnyarri that has managed to escape their suppression field and use it to get past the Ur-Quan defenses.
#monsterdon And this is where Freddy Kreuger set up shop. It's all connectedβ¦ πΆ New York Telephone πΆ
ACAB
why is there a murder bed in this boiler room
Why does she think the school would be a good place to hide? That seems like one of the worst places to hide. #Monsterdon
Ooo a little easter egg, that was
ugh. why is there a tatty bed down there....is this normal in US schools, for some kind of boiler man to live in there?
@brooke good thing those old buses had a 350cc V-8 and no seatbelts
Lol they were hiding from the cops just out in the open?!?!?!?! What the hell
#Monsterdon This is a movie about Children being forced to grow up too early the parentification of 10-year-old boys in this essay I will....
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These women are very good at always carrying their purses I see
Kudos to the movie, this scene is properly tense.
I love how the police are always the first to become pod people independent of the movie #monsterdon
#Monsterdon oh no, too late nvm
In the 80's everybody just had to have a hideout ready to go
Supreme Martian Intelligence. #Monsterdon
1) Why is there a cot in the basement of the school?
2) What happened to the owner of those crutches?
i appreciate how they are willing to share power and respect each other but i think this woman needs to take a little bit of control when the kid is leading you into the dead end boiler room and just sitting on a bench as the hiding spot #monsterdon
#Monsterdon time to fast and furious the schoolbus and save the kids
#Monsterdon this is JUST like when Dr. Seward got his doubts about Lucy being a vampi--
Do you want Freddy Krueger Cause that's how you get Freddy Kruegers. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986
Mad Dog, save us from these characters, please
Better go hide in Freddy Krueger's house!
lol STOP TRYING TO ACT AND JUST LEAVE, PLEASE
Did you... Did you just drop a baseball bat on that poor kid and give away your position?!
Teacher-mom to the rescue #monsterdon
We'll be safe in this serial killer's living room #monsterdon
#Monsterdon now *that's* a ssh tunnel. shut them right up
Roll in the tanks already
@bangskij On this episode of Detectorists...
#monsterdon wait, is this Nightmare on Elm Street?
Lol do they really think the FBI is going to help??? #monsterdon
And because I've also seen Fallout 3 being played recently, I'm also totes going "WATCH OUT FOR RADROACHES" as David and the nurse go down into the boiler room!
wtf is this a set from nightmare on elm street???
Whoops, failed the Move Silently check. I think the DM screwed them on that one. #Monsterdon
I joked about it earlier, but it really seems like across the board every actor is super aware of their arms while they move in this film #monsterdon
Wow, they really are determined to check all the 80s horror movie boxes, aren't they?
I really do not care if they survive this alien takeover, to be honest.
As much as this movie is doing to make the antagonists more threatening and uncanny than the original, it has totally sapped any likeability out of the protagonists
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convertable Chrysler Seabring?
@himbovoorhees Should we tell them to try fire? It wouldn't do any good, would it?! #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon "what about you, you guys found anything?" "we ain't found shit"
"Come on, this way! Let's hide by.... sitting on this comfy bench."
Follow the kid, your hiding place was immediately discovered by the cops