This kid has so many cool toys, no wonder the Soviet Union was jealous.

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#monsterdon I've dislocated his shoulder, and I'm about to break his wrist. I won't stop until he screams wildly. For I am NURSE RATCHED!

@CactuarJoe This is literally why they don't dissect frogs in jr high anymore, so, I guess it's reasonably realistic?

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Kid, don't sneak up to your dad when he's having a mental breakdown, you don't need to see this

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Become uncontrollable

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Frog Baseball!!!!!

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#monsterdon The coffee was sweetened with valium. He's gonna be having a sluggish day soon.

#monsterdon He was wearing an Edgar-suit! LOL.

"I'm so glad we got the kid a telescope" is a great #Monsterdon line for this scenario. #InvadersFromMars1986

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 we start the movie with a happy white suburban family that looks exactly like you would expect, except the kid is doing an astronomy and was probably into Carl Sagan's cosmos. He is rewarded for taking a nap with a vintage penny.

Anyway, there was a scary flash outside that might be evil aliens.

"I know what ball lighting is"

This child knows a lot, maybe too much...

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Gee the set is almost identical to the 1950s version

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launching my #monsterdon thread for #InvadersFromMars1986! Monsterdon is the thing where we watch a monster movie every week and make fun of it; please mute the hash tag if this sounds not fun to you.

We watched the original before; if I recall it was mostly bad, but it had lots of tanks (or rather, M10 tank destroyers) in it, and that was mildly redeeming. So far this one has lots of words flying by, and that is also kind of neat.

I'm pretty sure I had that exact same solar system poster as a kid.

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The opening score reminds me of Predator, a better movie about alien bastards

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I remember Cannon group, they owned the cinema in my town

lol "Timothy's bottom"

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Tonight, we get to find out if the aliens can do better with 30 years more experience.

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@Zerofactorial You are so right! I TOTALLY FORGOT about those opening credits by the end of the movie! Did not live up to the hype promised by that scroll!

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#monsterdon "Marines have no qualms about killing martians."

Most of the dialog has been pretty mid but that's fantastic cheese.

Quite surprising that a 1986 film of this caliber had no gratuitous boobs at all. #monsterdon

Well that was something. Thanks @Taweret for hosting another #monsterdon, have a good week everyone, sleep well with your pennies and see you next time ❤️

@moira The doctor (because that’s what she was in the ’53 version) was a much better character than the nurse. She started out okay this version, but as the story progressed, she got weaker and weaker as a character. #Monsterdon

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They stuck with the ending I didn't like in the original movie. They did add the "Nooooo" at the end, which I guess indicated the parents were gotten immediately?

I guess they were using the whole "the monster never dies" trope that I seem to recall was a seventies/eighties thing.

Martian invasion movies just make me want to watch Mars Attacks again.

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@diazona @randy_s Well, sort of. All You Need Is Kill is the book that Edge of Tomorrow is loosely based on.

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@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.

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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.

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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.

Well, at least it didn't have any kissing and stuff.

As you wish.

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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 !

David’s 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.

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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 (?)

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"Ah, shit. Here we go again" #monsterdon

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!!

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Somebody seriously needs to get this kid a stuffed animal or something. Hugging a bag of pennies isn't right.

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@jonny same #monsterdon

The marines seem to understand the concept of a boss battle, at least.

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uurrgh, imagine the tear gas they sprayed on the boy to get those tears

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When Krang is out of wifi range the parents will be freed

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Leave the boy inside, it's for the best

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"Spend a penny?"

Do they really not carry loose change?

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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.

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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

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i like this set, i adore these creatures. i sure wish they had used these things to make a better movie

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How long does it take to probe Linda?

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Should have made those minion beasts more bullet proof

The child is giving orders again, it's not right

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oh wow, long usb sticks

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#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...

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blow his mind Krang!

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the biology teacher is cackling from a balcony

LOL
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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 didn’t 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!

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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?

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#monsterdon Taking votes now, are these sandworms..:

[ ] Dune-style?

[ ] Beetlejuice-style?

[ ] Tremors-style?

[ ] Starship Troopers-style?

SETI slim jim now
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are you really bringing a rocket launcher into a tunnel? #monsterdon

And nobody went to the beach ever again
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Swirly thing alert!

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"If we could just talk to them..."

If only, kid, if only

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#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

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lol @ America's absurd arsenal just lying around the neighbourhood

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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:

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#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

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Hut hut hut hut hut hut

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Why is he yelling into the radio?

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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

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SpaceX approves this RUD

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What? Why? Who?

I think this boy is causing all this mayhem, he has powers.....but those powers do not include acting

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#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!

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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
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#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!
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Some actual action!

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ooo, a lady soldier, it IS the 80s (she ain't in charge though)

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Wait, what is #monsterdon

This may be a bit late, but that kid needs to articulate his lines better
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"General, what if the ship absorbed energy"

Why is the child asking these questions?

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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?!

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