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

welp, i think the school's gonna need a new boiler. #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

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.

why do we have a wireframe truck when we surely have cameras on the runway...? #monsterdon

Please do not bring up Cydonia!

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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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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"

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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

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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

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"shh!"
proceeds to slide open Very Noisy Door
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That is a serious boiler room.

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#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

the first place she thought of to hide was THE SCHOOL?????

:picardfacepalm:

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#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

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i know that this is "the whole point" and "everybody feels this way" but it is such a serious psychological weight off my mind when the protagonist who sees something that nobody else sees gets even one person who believes them. the anxiety of being alone is like 75% of the anxiety of horror movies to me #monsterdon

Just another child abduct in broad daylight, they really did not give a fuck back then, did they?

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Quicksand!

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I think they found something

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Free metal detectors!

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[intense metal detecting continues]

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The nurse's earrings look like those curved traffic mirrors
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@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

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I think I got to this level in Baldur’s Gate 3! #Monsterdon

@diazona at ten times the price

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listen, ain't no giant brain putting anything anywhere near me (unless i can be guaranteed a meeting with Astarion, then we can talk.) #BG3 #monsterdon

lol, loving the Krang thing coming out of the sphincter door, excellent!

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#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

QUAID! START THE REACTOR! #monsterdon

cool sets tho

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Just wander into the alien hive, idiot boy.

What the hell was the robot for?!

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i always go down every arterially-lit tunnel i see, just for funsies, you know. #monsterdon

The red glowing cave seems fine. You should go in.

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Wait teacher gives scalpels and fresh live frogs to 4th graders AND drives a *windowless panel van* around? The space bug probably made her more *normal* than before #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Those 80s bicycles in the school parking lot!! 💖 💖 💖

...that age when kids were still allowed to bike to school... 💔 💔 💔

"i eat litter, feed me"
same.
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This is fine. #monsterdon

Why does she keep calling the nurse Sister? Am I missing some alien thing or is it just, like, late 70s vernacular being used in the 80s?

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Louise keeps calling people "sister." I think she forgot she's not a nun in this one. #Monsterdon

I have boil on my bum
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#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 The parents decide to not zombify the kid yet, and he goes to school, where another child accosts him about the spaceship story he has been telling everyone. He catches one of the spooky cops from earlier talking to his teacher about some evil plan to destroy something that involves George, who I think is the dad's name. The child catches the teacher writing "Field Trip" on the backboard as eerie music plays.

This movie is GREAT
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wait. how does an alien mind control thing in your neck make you able to swallow a whole frog?

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@davesdogmaggie I just open the tag feed instead of the regular feed while I'm doing #Monsterdon so I don't have to care about anything else people are posting

Can't talk. Frog in my throat. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

You seem to have a frog in your throat, Mrs. McKeltch #monsterdon

ah yes, i too keep my pickled specimens in the coat closet. #monsterdon

Stop eating bacon weird you freaks!

*In a Vincent Price voice

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oh. nevermind. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 after not much happening, it becomes a night time and we decide to go outside, where the suited father and another suspicious guy jump out of the goddamn bushes and act like normal earthlings. The other dude is I guess also an alien zombie, and he works for the phone company, so he'll probably wander off to do something evil like invent Comcast.

It's just as well the boy is not a good actor or this movie could be really disturbing

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The fence obscuring everything beyond it is a pretty good device
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genuinely disturbing 'creepy dad in scared boy's bedroom' vibe. He better be a fucking alien puppet....and what's with the pennies?

Ulp, Mom's a gonna now

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#Monsterdon just leaping outta the bushes like that lmfao

Very good synchronized nodding to indicate human consensus 🙂‍↕️

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@Taweret@octodon.social she's not dealing with the affairs at all, it's always wild excuses for him.....

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That entrance was worthy of Kramer.

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#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 after a very normal earthling breakfast, where the zombie alien dad eats a pez dispenser all at once, the kid goes to school and it is frog dissection week, because the 1980s was a cursed time when we killed innocent frogs to teach kids biology facts that they will not remember anyway.

To protest all these rules, we have a frog fight. A girl is tragically frogged and then the kid is taken to the nurse for his part in this amphibian violence.

Tobe Hooper really wants you to know all the other things he's done. Does Leatherface make a surprise guest appearance?

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@wohali@octodon.social Lifeforce (1985), also directed by Tobe Hooper

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@yatsu Snitches, stitches, etc... (and/or alien brain control implants)

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#Monsterdon Has the teacher been possessed by aliens or is she just an asshole?

Tobe Hooper directed Poltergeist which was produced by Spielberg. So, the whole frog thing might be a sort of tribute.

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The next morning they are enjoying an earthling breakfast, and then the dad wakes up, forgets what coffee is and is missing a slipper. He makes some normal earthling conversation, which is a clue to the audience that he is actually an Evil Alien! Also the Bluefin parasite from that one Star Trek TNG episode has infected his neck, which is another clue.

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If I ever go to America a big old yellow school bus would be one of those things I would point at like the tourists do with the buses here.

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Not sure I'd be letting Dad touch me after witnessing that little coffee scene

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Ah yes, every science class has a LIVE frog in a jar. For Frog Week, as you do.

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After the dad leaves, a giant glowing spaceship lands, in the backyard that looks almost exactly like the matte painting from the original movie. The spaceship is like one of those cartoony meteor orbs, only the craters are like weird glowing engines or something.

Anyway, the kid freaks out about this spaceship landing and wakes up his parents, who of course come to inspect and when they look out the window it has vanished without a trace.

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Dad has been wanking al night in the shed and hasn't slept, stumbles into breakfast dazed with shame

But he will do it again tonight...

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Yeah that's why they give him a big personality. So the change in personality is more obvious 🗞️ 💥

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Who drinks a soda first thing in the morning????

the repeat of the hill set is delightful I must admit

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