the creatures look so good. im bummed they're being wasted on this film

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@Newpa_Hasai lol

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#Monsterdon See this is why you spend your childhood assuming you will have to deal with quicksand at some point.

@Infoseepage god, that's a good movie. I still want his little car. #Monsterdon

Oh now he wants to find his parents. #monsterdon

wait, why does fly guts if the martians are still in one piece?
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Feed the martian some burnt bacon, he'll love you long time #monsterdon

I was kind of hoping the alien was going to through the mind control device into the back of SETI guy's neck and possess him

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David! 🏋🏻‍♂️

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Double-tap, Marine!

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That's some Shatner shouting "Khan"-style leadership from the general, there
10/10, no notes
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Impulsive little shit, isn't he

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The sand turntable trapdoors are so good, a million times better than perfect CGI sand would look

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David no! Get off of the giant spinning '45!

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That Rinaldi’s such a klutz! He's always tripping over things.LOL #Monsterdon

Convential Weapons Worked ✅
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The MARINES used CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS! It's... super effective? #monsterdon

I was never in the military, but I don't think this is how military missions are supposed to be organized #monsterdon

Oh they understood all right #Monsterdon

"I'm from SETI… we're working on an idea for an absolutely badass screensaver"

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I mean, those mouths are big enough to fit a whole person. It's a Checkov's maw.

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is this one of those "that'll teach you for trying to bring friendship and reason to this" scenes?

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How eaten is this scientist going to be?

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bye scientist!

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I love these monsters
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The sand pit dragging that guy down is a great effect. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Damn that is a sweet effect.

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#Monsterdon Pretend I made a joke about the Spice Melange and the worms okay

my god... there's sand and stuff

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@jonny I guess the bit with the neighbor girl in the old version (who had to die) was just turned into the girl with the bandage at David's school #monsterdon

"General Wilson I have an idea! I'm a ten year old in a sci fi movie, the military should take my suggestions very seriously!" #Monsterdon

It's a bit late for diplomacy at this stage, kid #monsterdon

#monsterdon This plot seems very familiar so far.

@allanb :ms_eyes: #Monsterdon

“Marines have no qualms about killing Martians.”

I thought they were Army this whole time.

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"My god. It's full of brain butts." #Monsterdon

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

Those army dudes don't look very professional....

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I've said it before and I'll say it again

the practical FX in these films are just fantastic.

MOAR PRACTICAL FX!!!

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"Is this gonna be a straight up fire fight or just another bug hunt?" #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

I made a lot of jokes in the original film about all the stock footage of tanks, but now I'm not sure having the real deal brings much to the table #monsterdon

Also serious mode, NASA did not launch any planetary science missions between 1979 and 1988.

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@RufusJCooter can confirm, my pa was a jarhead. #Monsterdon

MILITARY 1, PICKET FENCE 0 - EAT THAT, MARTIANS!

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Trash the school!
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The thrilling graphics showing us what is happening. So realistic. It's almost like being there. LIke virtual reality, man. #monsterdon

Yeah nobody like that white picket fence anyway

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SPACE RADAR
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2/3 of the way through and we get tanks

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hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut

FINALLY

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"LAUNCH AREA

Lethal force will be used"

like, say, the lethal force that explodes out of the bottom of a rocket?

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Using a crewed Saturn V for the model hurts my soul. Nice effects, though.

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w…why does the launch countdown screen have the ability to animate the explosive destruction of the launch scaffold?

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we had a rocket explosion animation programmed in, in care the real one exploded?

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So that's a no go on launch then? #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

This scene clearly inspired Terminator 2.

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i would be checking into a hotel like three states away at this point

good luck, people in my old town. enjoy your new lives under alien mind control

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Finally, the Bud Cort ex machina #monsterdon

Ahhh, they did address the fact we knew Mars was dead....they went for the old 'conspiracy' excuse.

I'm not sure why the tanker is wired to explode or if I care if it does

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also just as before I wonder how much this movie inspired Star Trek: TNG "Conspiracy"

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@Bluedepth It's more of a hillock.
It's like Monster Island, all over again!

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ah. serious putty.

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This kid clearly belongs in some AP classes

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VIKING PROGRAM MENTIONED

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This movie has missed a real opportunity to have the military blame things on communists at every turn.

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This woman hugged this door the whole scene. #monsterdon

This feels a lot like a long form Are You Afraid Of The Dark episode.

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80s military commanders' Overwhelming Military Response to pretty much anything feels influenced by Dr. Strangelove, maybe.

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With all due respect General maybe you could just leave the nurse and kid out of it.

I think I'd much rather you and your staff take it from here, your part of the movie has been much more enjoyable so far

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still laughing at the surprise attack

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#Monsterdon Thank you, General! Some common sense.

Second movie I've watched in as many days where the implanted mind control device has a fatal self-destruct sequence... #monsterdon

whoa, where did all this gun play come from?!

and again, who does security here?

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@mattgriffin I wasn't expecting meatball logos in 1986

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His name is "Climet Wilson"?

that's... a choice

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Obsessed with seeing the random shit on those screens

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"Those are the two guys who got sucked under the sand"

PHRASING
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this version of this kid has strong Gamera Kenny energies

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Playing the sounds of live animals while looking at skeletons and taxidermied animals doesn't make sense but it sounded like they played some kind of donkey for the cat. #monsterdon

Kid just invented "stealth tech".

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This detonator sounds exactly like my mom's kitchen timer

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True dad material, totally mind-controlled and still making puns

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"You Just Might Blow It" Martian humor. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

A BOMB

Also man these guys have no sense of humor

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I will say the bomb makes more sense than the original where the dad suddenly turned into a sniper. #Monsterdon

"You'd better hurry. Or you just might blow it. Haha, just a little normal workplace Earth humor."

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@Lazarou #InnerChildsHandShootUp #Monsterdon

"Well I guess I'm neck -- NEXT, NEXT, I'M NEXT" #Monsterdon

General Wilson! You know, the character nobody mentioned at all until now! #monsterdon

so the alien feeds on copper?

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The aliens must be wiring for their own internet. #monsterdon

@Lazarou Once they run out of space to put stars on your shoulders they start using cigars as rank markers

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They're stealing copper. I consider this desperate.
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I DON'T KNOW BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD

MARTIAN BRAINS ARE PRETTY BOLD #Monsterdon

NASA on a Marine Corps base, is that a thing?

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Marching at night, without PT belts? Oh yea, it's an 80s flick.

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I think there's a small leak in the LOX tank #monsterdon

@Lazarou Yeah, that's messed up no mater what you feel about gender relations #monsterdon

Hey, it's the head of the better version of this movie
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#monsterdon Is that large circular steel door hatch thingy in the sub-basement here with the fire under a water boiler? An incinerator? A kiln? Was it normal for public schools to have things like that in them? Is it still? Is this supposed to communicate to us viewers that this is a very old school?