@paco The situation escalated beyond her abilities. Also, the soldiers were dragging her away from David against her will -- the general was saying "He'll be fine, keep running" LOL I don't think he liked the kid much. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986
I just wish they'd given the majestic alien critters a way to eff off into the sea instead of getting blow'd up or whatnot #monsterdon
@Sorl The rumors about how hard it is to swallow a whole frog are greatly exaggerated.
So it explains a lot of details that it was the kid's dream, but they don't make that revelation interesting in any way.
On Letterboxd I saw a review on this film where the person was saying the mind control fear in the remake was not about Communism but Reaganomics. I think that's a charitable interpretation of what they were going for #monsterdon
It's always interesting when someone's #monsterdon posts arrive in my home timeline from beginning to end all in one big clump right at the end of the film.
The moral of the story is you should always bring along a twelve-year old kid to a dangerous first contact situation because how else is he going to learn? #monsterdon
Whew! It was all a dream!
Or...a premonition perhaps?!
THE END
The plot of this #Monsterdon was pretty weak (did the original really deserve a remake?) But #BrainFace and the Martian Minions kinda made up for it. Seriously wicked monstercraft. Thanks for another entertaining one @Taweret !
Davidβs reaction at the end of the movie mirrors my own reaction to the script and the acting. #Monsterdon
@yatsu "Your brain is very important to us. Please remain on the line for the next available martian overlord. Thank you for using UFO Technologies limited." #Monsterdon
That was a much better looking movie than the first one, though I'm still unsold on the dream aspect being a good idea.
As a passing the threshold challenge, the kid is tempted by his zombie parents to come back with them to the spaceship, but he runs away. The explosive timer counts down as the Dnyarri gesticulates and the glowing spaceship decides to rise.
Then it explodes and the parents go back to normal (?) but it was all a dream (?)
and so the brain toad retreated into its sphincter and everything exploded
and something about copper. idk, i didn't really follow that part
and none of it mattered anyway because it was all a dream
OR WAS IT??!
the aliens looked awesome tho. i love them and they are my friends
ty for joining, everyone!!
Somebody seriously needs to get this kid a stuffed animal or something. Hugging a bag of pennies isn't right.
@jonny same #monsterdon
The marines seem to understand the concept of a boss battle, at least.
uurrgh, imagine the tear gas they sprayed on the boy to get those tears
When Krang is out of wifi range the parents will be freed
Leave the boy inside, it's for the best
if i was davids parents and assume i got de-snatched, like you basically have to invite Linda to be part of your family right #monsterdon
I like this point in the 80s where the material fabrication had gotten really good and CGI effects hadn't gotten cheap and convenient.
i want them to like turn the lights up and do a walkthrough of the set and the props during the credits lmao let me get a good look at that shit #monsterdon
How did Louise Fletcher ever accept this part? smh #monsterdon
The alien brain deserves to be in a better version of this movie
i like this set, i adore these creatures. i sure wish they had used these things to make a better movie
How long does it take to probe Linda?
Should have made those minion beasts more bullet proof
The child is giving orders again, it's not right
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 captured by potato goblins, the kid watches as a captured army dude gets a robot control device implanted in his neck by a terrifying needle, and he is afraid that the same thing will happen to the nice nurse lady. The evil biology teacher taunts him by ordering the potato goblins to "don''t let him get away".
So, wait, the Martians are all about the copper? Can't wait to read the cuneiform clay tablets about this one...
blow his mind Krang!
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the biology teacher is cackling from a balcony
LOL
#monsterdon
jeez, no wonder they need a bandaid, that looks rough. #monsterdon
There is straight up no way to infect an entire town if you do it this slowly and with this much drama. #monsterdon
The bazooka didnβt manage to hit either creature, but they both fell down. #Monsterdon
Holy crap. Just bring a giant ass bazoooooooka into the tiny little corridor. It's amazing nobody was injured filming. #monsterdon
David! Gosh darn it, there was just no saving him!
You jarheads didn't bring down a .50 cal? You should always use at least a .50 cal when dealing with man sized menaces. #monsterdon
Did the alien guts include a bit of overcooked bacon?
#monsterdon Taking votes now, are these sandworms..:
[ ] Dune-style?
[ ] Beetlejuice-style?
[ ] Tremors-style?
[ ] Starship Troopers-style?
SETI slim jim now
#monsterdon
are you really bringing a rocket launcher into a tunnel? #monsterdon
Swirly thing alert!
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 Anyway also have a spaceship and we're freezing its launch on account of the alien invasion. The martians hate our spaceship though so the thing they were making a detonator for is a truck bomb that they drive into the spaceship to explode it. Like most exploding spaceships, it opts to deflate in death.
Is that a tank that they brought to invade a suburban house
lol @ America's absurd arsenal just lying around the neighbourhood
Okay that's the phrase that pays: Marines have no qualms about killing Martians #monsterdon
the proximity of these chaotic infantry maneuvers near fast-moving armor :blobfoxsweating:
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 Anyway, we send some bespectacled scientist dudes into the general's gamer room, and the kid tells them about the photos he saw of Mars that looked like pyramids. Because in this world the History Channel is right about things, the scientists explain that there are other photos that were "too sensational" to be revealed, I guess showing the evil martian empire.
You gotta love whoever was working on the launch monitoring computer and had the foresight to program in a wireframe rendition of a tanker truck
Hut hut hut hut hut hut
Why is he yelling into the radio?
Shoutout to the guy with the bazooka pointing his weapon at the central column there, you cover that architecture man. #Monsterdon
2/3 of the way through and we get tanks
SpaceX approves this RUD
What? Why? Who?
I think this boy is causing all this mayhem, he has powers.....but those powers do not include acting
#Monsterdon I keep typing #InvadersFromMars when I mean to type #InvadersFromMars1986 . I deeply deplore this mistake but will not correct it.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 because everyone is gangsta in this movie, the sandpit guys brought in for the interview immediately draw guns and try to kill the general, before they are neutralized by kung fu. The general tries to inverview/interrogate them, but then they start spazzing out and the zombie control things on their necks self destruct and kill them.
Please do not bring up Cydonia!
hey, the general actually seems to have a brain. sealed the base, started rounding people up to demand some answers. A+ #monsterdon
Figures. Those brain implants' warranties expired 3 days ago.
#FuckPlannedObsolescence
#monsterdon
#monsterdon That beep-beep-beep-beep sound the "detonator" in the suitcase is making is exactly the sound that my kitchen timer makes when my eggs are perfectly boiled with a slightly jammy yolk texture
This is probably not pertinent to anyone else watching the movie but it is very pertinent to the personal experience *I* am having while watching this film.
That is an egg suitcase and I shan't hear any different from anyone.
Shoot it!
#monsterdon
Some actual action!
ooo, a lady soldier, it IS the 80s (she ain't in charge though)
Wait, what is #monsterdon
Invaders from Mars using 1 pound bars of Land O Lakes to blow shit up is not on the bingo card. #Monsterdon
What kind of Army base lets a child with an adult woman under his command storm the base and get all the way to the top general? Does any body do security there at all?!
told from ze child's point of fview, invaders from mars is ze fantasy of ze inversion of parental order, ze fallibility of mommies and daddies in ze home, ze police station, and military base all become subordinate to the relationship between ze child and hees psychoanalyst, de expulsion of ze child into the Real #monsterdon
"Those spools of raw copper wire are terrifying"
They're stealing copper. I consider this desperate.
#monsterdon
Looks like the guy from Return of the Living Dead's been promoted to General. Good for him. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986
"We're the police, we're here to help" AAAAAHHHH!!!! #monsterdon
yes dear god please bring in a third character who has any likeable traits
Deus ex Tremors? #Monsterdon
#monsterdon David just opened that locker with one motion!
None of those lockers have locks on them!!
I don't think that's even a set dressing miss, I think it was just normal for lockers to not have locks on them!!!
o_O'
lol, I was on the side of the pole that fell on the boy, great character
That is a serious boiler room.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
#Monsterdon Would the FBI actually help? I mean maybe if you told them Mrs. McKletcher was converting the 4th graders to gay communism or something
#monsterdon I don't know about you, but when I am being dragged down into a weird sandy whirlpool slash quicksand trap, I definitely jam my hands ramrod-straight into the air rather than trying to grasp for something to pull myself out or pulling ineffectively but reflexively at the sand itself
@Taweret@octodon.social "Both our species have a love of Theatre...." #monsterdon
@catzilla would go to that #monsterdon
Clearly he min/maxed on Evasion/Acting
Just another child abduct in broad daylight, they really did not give a fuck back then, did they?
Quicksand!
I think they found something
Free metal detectors!
[intense metal detecting continues]
The nurse's earrings look like those curved traffic mirrors
#monsterdon
@RamenCatholic you're just saying what we are all thinking.... #Monsterdon
dear hollywood,
cgi is boring to look at. please bring back 80s style practical creature effects
I think I got to this level in Baldurβs Gate 3! #Monsterdon
@diazona at ten times the price
lol, loving the Krang thing coming out of the sphincter door, excellent!
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 protip kid, if you raise your head in the back of a van the driver should be able to see you, because vans have rear view mirrors.
remember this the next time you are hiding in a van from space zombies who can drive.
Just hanging out in the Barrens #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986