@blue gross. Even #Monsterdon has *standards*

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i prefer the creatures from original Invaders From Mars

@north No one wants to see what he saw. #Monsterdon

Everything was better than the 1953 version except the ending.

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On to the next remake! I assume it will be a romance movie

That was weird but also kind of unexpectedly good... thanks for hosting @Taweret and thanks everyone for the commentary as always!

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But is it as hard to swallow as a whole frog? #monsterdon

So you think the kid did any better going through the invasion a second time? New Game+ is often kind of broken, but I feel like the kid didn't actually level up very much. #Monsterdon

And then Amazon Prime queued up Howard the Duck *shudder* #monsterdon

And another #Monsterdon ends as David fucks off into Mom & Dad's bedroom

Some improvements over the first one, particularly where the mind-controlled humans were concerned and the bizarre "it was all for copper" plotline, but overall I think I liked the original better.

See you all next week!

No movie should end with a kid walking in on his parents, screaming.

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No alien meatball dance party at the end? C'mon man.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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Pro tip: you can look out a window without opening it

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #InvadersFromMars is from 1986, and is a remake of the original 1953 film. We not only had full color, and big hair, but also:
- Coffee with Tic Tacs!
- Frog week!
- Original movie fence, hill, and path! You know the one.
- Mobile taxidermy van!
- A brain alien that looks like a mash up of ET and a toad, but in a good way!
- Brain stem implants!
- Great puppetry and practical effects!
- Penny powered ray gun!

Well ... we all know what "mom and dad" were doing ...

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Yeah, at that point I'm just gonna steal the car and leave town. Like, that shit was bad enough the first time, I'm out of here. #Monsterdon

OK, well, that was a movie. Thanks everyone! Have a great night.

ty @Taweret and the entire #monsterdon crew.

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David is going to be psychologically traumatized and unable to trust anyone for the rest of his life. #Monsterdon

David only runs flailing his arms, as it was the style at the time #monsterdon

Oh no, the film is Groundhog Invaders from Mars Day. #monsterdon

I'm falling behind because I keep pausing to read comments. #monsterdon

@allanb slightly exploded on the way

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See, they had this great plot twist on Dallas, and we thought ... why not end our movie that way?

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#Monsterdon Anyway Was it just a dream (like it was in the earlier version) or is it a timeloop?

Gee David that nightmare was so cool, I think I'll make a movie about it
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@moira Admittedly, I think it's just some undefined nuclear reaction (that given the capabilities shown has way more energy than implied by direct matter-energy conversion). But it's been a while since I read any EE Smith

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"all sorts of things that happened to you today"
like the US military letting you tag along on this Top Secret Alien Invasion maneuvers? rad. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Once AGAIN. Pennies (even probably in the 80s) were mostly Zinc! The Aliens could do better

"I liked the part about the martians coming to steal the copper" does sound like a #monsterdon post.

#monsterdon Okay that's it, the end. The movie ended at 1:32:00 Just stop it there, trust me, nothing good lay beyond

That's a weapon? I thought it was a testicle #monsterdon

So, the penny was the Chekhov’s gun. #Monsterdon

Haaaaaaaang on. If you're going to go the "it's all a dream" route like the original (LAME) why have the parents survive? Make it a real nightmare and kill the parents! #monsterdon

I swear to fuck if this was a dream

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Don't you hate it when your 5th vertebrae explode?

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Oh hey my favorite character from the original, that hill!

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this is like a respectful shot-for-shot-ish with the ending of the original, down to the bewildering "what the fuck am i looking at" light effects #monsterdon

The school nurse turned from super competent and in charge to screaming hysterical. #monsterdon

"Mom, Dad, I love you, but I love Linda more"

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That rocket launcher looks like it's made mostly out of acoustic foam #monsterdon

hmmmm

didn't ... R. E. "Doc" Smith's books' spaceships use copper in some kind of nuclear power reaction?

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a coin-operated plasma gun? #monsterdon

@SRLevine @Newpa_Hasai This movie could have been a clay tablet

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PLEASE DEPOSIT ADDITIONAL CHANGE.

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they seem to have a bond and you can't like just shove someone out of your life after an experience like that, like a thruple or co-parenting situation for david's sake #monsterdon

FUCKING CHEKOV'S PENNY

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Chekov's Copper Penny

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If you set a timer for "five minutes" it does not count down through 498.
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@jonny Led by the aliens of course

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@Lazarou I think it's more about the journey? #ConsultsNotes #Monsterdon

lol the demolition charges require two keys to be turned, but they're easily within reach for a single person

that's gotta be someone's compliance checklist at work

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Truth emerging from her sphincter to shame mankind #monsterdon

lol, called it, not his final form

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The kid definitely is the intuitive all-knowing authority

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"the spaceship's leaving"
unfortunately, WE still have 10 minutes left in this movie. #monsterdon

Somebody in this battle had better have psychic powers

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Man. Alien tech was always so goopy in the '80s. #Monsterdon

ok, at least they're not hugging the bazooka while it's firing this time. #monsterdon

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Pex tubing was invented to keep the copper martians at bay.

lol, end of game boss is very end of game boss, expect him to reform into something else

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The mom/dad alien thing is actually a subtle subversion of the 80s sitcom genre.

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These guys were NOT prepped for the final battle. They should back up and grind in the tunnels a bit. #Monsterdon

Oh, you fired the Javelin indoors? Everyone's deaf now.

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#Monsterdon "I wasn't trained for this" contradicts with "Marines have no qualms about killing martians"

PLOT HOLE

here stand behind the bazooka with me
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Brain Bug looks a bit like Pilot from Farscape

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Man. World's slowest surgical device. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "I wasn't trained for this." is equivalent to "I'm getting too old for this shit."

I didn't sign up for this
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Did the teacher just fall into the thing’s mouth by accident? #Monsterdon

The Martian boss looks related to the David Lynch Baron Harkonnen #monsterdon

Aw, the tunnels aren't all made of balloons this time.

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#Monsterdon Dammit you know who we need in this movie? Ea-Nasir to serve supposedly subpar copper ingots. Too bad he's LONG LONG LONG dead

Huh, aliens got a little 56k cache memory stick there. #Monsterdon

Oh no, they're Xeroxing Linda!

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So the only things the giant martian dogs managed to actually eat was someone literally pushed into their mouth. They ate for no reason at all and to no plot point whatsoever. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Rinaldi!

No Rinaldi, Christ, no

I like how Rinaldi is in this movie too, but only people who've seen the other one will know or give a shit about this guy.

Popped into #monsterdon late and oh hey that sure is a freaky monster huh

Lol Death By Cop it is.
Should the General be this close to the front line, he's not looking mentally well....

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#monsterdon Powie, punched him right in the brain!

I'm so glad they kept the low-key romance between the General and Renaldi in this version. I hope they kiss in the denoument. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon It'll be a great twist if I like look up frogs on wikipedia and find some way they too relate to copper

At any point in this movie was it actually established that the aliens are from Mars?

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all glory to the brain toad

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Very satisfying

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This suddenly feels like a GWAR video. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

the 80s version also has WAY better insults in it, like "dickbrain"

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lol, did that thing just accidentally eat Kai Winn?!

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I'll fix you, you dick brain!

Calling it, that's the line to remember from this film.

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WHY DID THEY GO INTO THE SAND?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THAT KID?!?!?!

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basically i'm just out here waiting for the right cult or body snatching species with the right offer #monsterdon

#monsterdon Just for the record, about an hour ago when I was saying "stab him stab him stab him" I did not _specifically_ mean "in the back of the neck with a drilling alien horse-needle", just so we're clear.

This must be Kuato's dad.

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these creatures are works of art

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If that guy had actually fired a rocket launcher like that, everyone behind him would be toast.

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#monsterdon It's Kubric Oxide, they're smelting good movies

They're smelting copper, but is it inferior? Inquiring minds want to know

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It's cupric oxide! They're smelting copper!

Keep moving!

That was actually a really good scene and delivery.

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OMG! Cervical drill goes in deep! That's gonna give me nightmares!

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that spinal drill was a really cool effect

Stan Winston and Co. really did bring their game for this one, didn't they?

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This whole time, David hasn’t exhibited any care about what’s happened to his mom and dad, and suddenly, he goes running off to the sarlac pit, screaming about this. #Monsterdon