@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?

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! Alien overmind from the first film with the cameo. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

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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ugh! am streaming directly from archive.org and the stream crapped out.

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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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The brain alien has unsettlingly sensuous lips

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the LALELULILO??

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These aliens have carved themselves out a *lot* of space

If they invaded today they'd be lucky to get a little hovel under a bridge

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So all the conspiracies about 5G is true!!! #monsterdon

I sure liked that they only showed the martians on the end on the 50s. version
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#Monsterdon is it that she knows he's there or does she just hate him that much

#monsterdon "No I get that a lot, I'm Krang's cousin, braing"

Sometimes Y!

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Ooooo I'm here for the Big Giant Head :ameowbongo: #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon And sometimes Y

truly fuck me up with these aliens, 10/10 #monsterdon

the brain tongue alpha leader

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Oh I love those aliens! They're adorable :D #Monsterdon

why did the aliens set up colored stage lights?

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This is only the third weirdest cover band I've seen this year

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#Monsterdon I hope the devoured frog gets revenge. And the dissected ones do too (I was lucky, I never had to dissect anything beyond an owl pellet in 4th grade, which was cool. A+ would love to dissect Owl pellets again I'm not a vegetarian but I would have been uncomfortable with dissecting any animals)

Half an hour in and we're already in Giger land. We're moving right along here. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

@randy_s Was that the multiple universe show? That one was WEIRD

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#Monsterdon I need a dong window for my pet brain now.

Dang, VERY nice looking Metroid.

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Is the music in these tunnels diegetic? It feels like it might be.

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@mattgriffin Fortunately for us, they don't make movies about people with survival instincts

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Some Farscape vibes here.

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#monsterdon Okay I think the creepy van scene in the film is throwing back to some movie they made us all watch in second grade in the 70's. Some kid sneaks into some kind of warehouse or factory or something and there are like (animal)trophies or mink stoles. They kept doing closeups of the animal faces and it was super gross and frightening, anyone remember/know what that was?

Hey I take it back, this is the Illithid cave from BG3! They're tadpoling people! #Monsterdon

The lisan-al-gaib shall know your ways as if born to them #monsterdon

Like, wasn't the whole point of running away so that he could avoid his parents dragging him to the place he is sneaking into right at this exact moment? Maybe this was the Martians' whole plan!! #monsterdon

Zero survival instincts in this kid #monsterdon

yeah, definitely follow frog-eating bone lady into a mysterious tunnel

no problems there

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So biology teacher lady has been driving a portable taxidermy horror show to school every day, and leaving the side-panel door open when she goes to work, and nobody has ever noticed that was strange? #monsterdon

I want to know was Kai Winn carrying stuffed animals in her van, before or after the aliens. #monsterdon

The 'boil' conversation gives us a Bechdel pass #monsterdon

Oh yeah, grade school biology teachers always drive a van full of bones. #monsterdon

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I'll just hide in this murder van.
I'm sure it will be fine.

"...my other van is a mobile taxidermy station"

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#Monsterdon Does she not have a rearview mirror????

All that weird shit in her van is from *before* the invasion.

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omg it's Kai Winn #monsterdon

Huh, I was not expecting an extended dolly zoom in this movie

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@jsadow well yes but i don't know of any Althusserian lecturers that are as charming as zizek so naturally we have to default to a lacanian reading #monsterdon

It's a mark of how much things have changed that they would just send a kid to walk off to someone's house

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Wrong truck to get stuck in
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That's a switch. Avoiding abduction by jumping INTO an unmarked van. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

They're starting to tag the children now but not the blond boy because he's such a poor actor, it's like Homer Simpson with the zombies looking for brains...poor lad.

His mum made him do this movie

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"i eat litter, feed me"
same.
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I think if a teacher threatens the school nurse and says, “I’ll be back for him in 5 minutes,” it’s time to call the police.

Except, well, the police are also compromised.

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"You have a lot of nerve, sister!"

And you have a pretty good grasp of idiomatic American English... for a Martian.

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Yay somebody finally believes him

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