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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They're stealing copper. I consider this desperate.
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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
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
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?
Quicksand!
I think they found something
Free metal detectors!
[intense metal detecting continues]
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
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
QUAID! START THE REACTOR! #monsterdon
cool sets tho
The red glowing cave seems fine. You should go in.
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!! π π π
...that age when kids were still allowed to bike to school... π π π
@randy_s lol, genuine fear #monsterdon
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?
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?
@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
#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
The fence obscuring everything beyond it is a pretty good device
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#Monsterdon just leaping outta the bushes like that lmfao
Very good synchronized nodding to indicate human consensus πββοΈ
@Taweret@octodon.social she's not dealing with the affairs at all, it's always wild excuses for him.....
That entrance was worthy of Kramer.
#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?
@wohali@octodon.social Lifeforce (1985), also directed by Tobe Hooper
#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.
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.
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.
Not sure I'd be letting Dad touch me after witnessing that little coffee scene
Ah yes, every science class has a LIVE frog in a jar. For Frog Week, as you do.
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.
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...
Yeah that's why they give him a big personality. So the change in personality is more obvious ποΈ π₯
Who drinks a soda first thing in the morning????
the repeat of the hill set is delightful I must admit
The telescope next to the open window during a storm makes me uncomfortable.
Hey, we had that solar system poster when I was a kid!
(And that orrery is in a lot of schools)
AAGH! A martian with a hairy red helmet!
#Monsterdon Hey, know what would help us stay awake through all these credits? Some coffee. This message brought to you by the #Monsterdon #CoffeeWatch.
Special effect are awesome so far.
Golan & Globus, my fam!
@Lazarou Leave the boy; take the cannoli
@bk1e And if you've nae a haypenny, Martians will eat you!
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@jsadow What! Well that spins that rather differntly! #Monsterdon
I'm so curious if this also goes with the "it was all a dream ending." But not curious enough to spend $9 #monsterdon
@jchaven In the 2024 version the invading Martians are eating our household pets #monsterdon
In talking it over, this version works much better as a kid's dream version of the whole film. Whereas the original seemed like he'd really seen an invasion. #Monsterdon
@Taweret Agreed re: Martians look awesome, but they need a better union; clearly their dental plan sucks.
I thought they were going to copper hill. Why did they go to the school? #monsterdon
@ramsey lol "Welcome to the 80s kid!" #monsterdon
@CactuarJoe @yatsu See, this is what they get for running copper between all their data centers, instead of fiber...
I like how dreamlike the original was shot throughout, which makes the whole ending dream thing properly foreshadowed and here it's just not and that does matter
i think i liked a lot of the '53 better _particularly_ the school nurse but otoh Kai Ratched was pretty amazing and I do prefer the remake's monsters and alien sets
Marking bombs as dangerous to make sure nobody gets hurt.
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@Sorl Mostly Pathetic #monsterdon
@Newpa_Hasai @randy_s Oh okay, I just kind of assumed it was a movie because everything else mentioned was a movie. My bad!
In any case I do like a good book better than most movies, so I'm in for it either way.
@LibertyBet tsk, it's Ceres all over again...#Monsterdon
A big thanks to @Taweret for this week's creature feature. It was great to have an original and its remake fairly close together and compare them!
@jonny Alienception?
Oh no, the metal detector guys are about to blow our position! Better kill them remotely and have probes spin out of the backs of their necks. Then they'll assume everything is just hunky dory and won't suspect a thing. #monsterdon
The one notable change is this version doesn't include the astronomer. IIRC, He kind of served as a romantic interest for the lady doctor.
In this version it kind of seems like David had a crush on the school nurse, and dreamed her as a damsel in distress who needed to be comforted in times of trouble. #monsterdon
I really hope the writers and directors got therapy for their family trauma. That they in turn shared with us, the audience
Thatβs it for this weekβs #Monsterdon. Loads of fun. It was great to compare this version of #InvadersFromMars to the original. There were aspects I liked from both, but I definitely liked the Martian creature effects in this one.
Thanks, @Taweret, for hosting and, @cheribaker, for the bingo card, and everyone else for the lulz!
This movie is really struggling in the "make it make sense" department.