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

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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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"Marines have no qualms about killing Martians!"

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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?

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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

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?

why wouldn't we just leave town?

just leave town

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Those cops pulled guns on innocent bystanders.

I don't think they've been abducted.

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Oh of course that happened, of course.
Every spaceship has one of those, every one.

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Wait, what?

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Next time. Stay out of the boiler room. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Love the prop callback in the boiler room. #monsterdon

Zuul always shows up at the wrong time.

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#Monsterdon WE'RE HERE TO HELP (gets out guns) It's better than any joke I could make about the police

#Monsterdon she's gonna chase him down like the t-1000

"It's OK, we're the police! We're here to help!"

:facepalm:

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Hah! The original Martian Mind prop makes an appearance.

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Yoink #monsterdon

They've got the alien prop from the first movie in the boiler room! #Monsterdon

@ramsey

Maybe in the next remake they could push the envelope even further

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@diazona @aburka never send men in orange to do a man in black's job #Monsterdon

"We're the police. We're here to help." Immediately draws a gun on you. That tracks.

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Nurse Ratched is still pissed off I see.

I thought the nurse was about to run over the teacher, which would have been amazing. #Monsterdon

Cameo by the OG SMI. #Monsterdon

Seems like a page out of Werewoff of Washington. A giant industrial plant under the ordinary school. #monsterdon

If it's one thing I've learned from horror movies it's NEVER hide in the boiler room. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

@aburka Clearly the men in orange were not sufficient

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again, i have to ask, what exactly are you expecting the local small town cops to do about the aliens?

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And that's why you don't leave kids unnatended on a car.
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@moira They were wearing NASA caps. I guess NASA employs metal detector staff. #Monsterdon

HIT HER WITH THE CAR

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Tension with ominous music to jump scares works too well on me, so I mute it when it starts building up

Nice try, horror movie

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State Police office, Trooper Alien Drone speaking, how can we convert you?

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Ominous school bus.

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Ask not who the school bus comes for

The school bus comes for you

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"state police"
even the kid makes a face. he knows that's not gonna get them anywhere.
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#Monsterdon Um ... they don't just let the teachers drive the bus! LOL!

The… field trip? Didn't the school day *just* end? WTF?

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Submerging Sand Teacup.

Worst fair ride ever.

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Sarlac attacc! #monsterdon

@gnomon Looks like eucalyptus they're standing next to, so maybe? #monsterdon

Your father showed me a place I've never seen before.

It's in his pants.

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@blogdiva mirrored the archive.org version here: https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/krsLK1LZY8xz2TZ4ojDnGv #monsterdon

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It's wonderful what a larger budget can do for a movie.

I can't really decide which one of them is turning in a worse performance. The kid gets an edge because child actors are usually graded on a curve

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I'm just watching to see if the bio teacher appears topless*

*with her entire torso replaced by an alien mini-brain

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They should have had dog instead of the boy and just have somebody voice over in production

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I've given you sunshine
I've given you dirt
You've given me nothing
But heartache and hurt…

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That needed to be a rad kid's mountain bike chase scene.

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Saying his full name like a teacher would, I can feel the entire auditorium look around at me know and judge...ahhh good old nightmares.

This boy is not a good actor

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alien groan techno

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80s practical creature effects give me life

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