#monsterdon I figured out you can make the fonts look however you want in vlc subs, have a free memecap:
as I'm typing, she apparently really likes calling other women sister
Trivia: David Gardner is played by a young Pamela Adlon. #Monsterdon
Karen Black as the school nurse who seems to think she's on a first date #monsterdon
Give him a lobotomy! #monsterdon
"First can I see the back of your neck?"
"What the hell, kid?"
No coffee. Give me sugar. In water.
Director: “More dramatically. Run more dramatically. Flail your arms or something.”
Now David has a frog in his throat!
Kai Winn's alien is catching up on playing humans WAY faster than the rest of the Martians
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nasty teacher
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Excellent chalkmanship #monsterdon
That is a lot of pickled dead things to have in a middle school classroom
Frog is better grilled ma'am
wow. wowowow. i really should not be trying to eat dinner right now. #monsterdon
I wish people who aren’t posting to the #Monsterdon tag would just be quiet for like 90 minutes each Sunday.
#monsterdon Tonight, on the X-Files:
Killer monkeybars in the playground, such 80s. They probably used ground up razor blades and broken glass for the ground underneath, as was the style at the time.
The teacher hasn't been taken over by an alien, she's just French. #monsterdon
It's like these Martians have some Vampire weakness. They can't force you to go over the hill. You must be invited.
I feel like it's never explained why the Martians so gradually and creepily invade. Or why the people taken over still do their ordinary day jobs, only crappier.
FUckin' a, the metal bat on the metal jungle gym made me spit out my drink. #monsterdon
i had no idea rubics cubes started as playground equippment
@Newpa_Hasai That’s why they landed at Copper Hill. #Monsterdon
This movie is doing a great job with the unnerving co-opted humans. Much more unsettling than the original
#Monsterdon I'm glad I wasn't eating during this movie because I think all the weird shit the possessed people eat would have spoiled my appetite
@RamenCatholic we need to go back to Mars and teach them a thing or two about bacon
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Unpopular opinion: At least the pod people know how to cook bacon.
eeeew
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Aliens are worse at cooking than 18 year old boys.
Burnt bacon and milk. Breakfast of champions!
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
I wonder if there will be a twenty-minute military parade in this version.
#monsterdon (hmm, there are some weird phasing problems with the multichannel audio track on this DVD edition. The dialogue keeps waffling between the center dialogue channel and the two rear channels. It could be poor encoding but it could also be a deliberate effect to make things seem weird and disorienting? Didn't happen in previous scenes.)
@Newpa_Hasai it's expensive, you know #monsterdon
Mars needs copper #monsterdon
maybe he's gonna use all the pennies to call Mars. there are still pay phones around back then. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Not the pennies he has like 2 dollars in there!!!!
Called his wife mom. Mike Pence alert #monsterdon
#monsterdon "Well his car is here but he isn't here."
"Do you have any idea where he might be, Mrs. Gardner?"
I do actually! That's why I called the police, to confirm that I know his exact whereabouts
All Cops are Aliens #monsterdon
"we had a special meeting. The new hook-up at the base."
um, phrasing, dad?
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#Monsterdon Rotary hookup 👀 ????
What natural small talk! "We had a ... special meeting."
@floatybirb They can just be eco-tourists or medical tourists #monsterdon
That is totally the original set. #monsterdon
Can't trust suits. #monsterdon
Ed seems delightful.
Genre savvy: ACAB stands for All Cops Are Bait. Monster bait.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars
fox mulder?!
So the Chief is played by the original David. Cool. #Monsterdon
@mattgriffin let it be free you monster! 😉 #monsterdon
Moment of "Yep, I sure am old" when I see Mom pick up the phone receiver and I'm all "OH YEAH I'm old enough to remember having to do that with a phone". 🤦♀️ ☎️
#Monsterdon Look David it could be a plane. You just didn't identify it, and it was flying. UFO QED
Another one of those plot points that most likely makes zero sense if you grew up with cell phones #monsterdon
"oh honey you know your dad" yeah he's always wandering around outside in a muddy dressing gown with one shoe on. #Monsterdon
Hey that's how most family still dismissed bipolar disorder
#monsterdon Anyone else getting E.T. classroom vibes from that science class frog-hucking sequences? Just me?
#Monsterdon Also, as a Biology teacher, I am disappointed in that whole scene at the school.
I’m going to start using that 1-2-3-4-5 trick on everyone. #Monsterdon
I have this robot in the basement! #monsterdon
It's funny how the alien managed to *almost* perfectly match human mannerisms but missed just enough to be clearly identifiable as not right
like, you'd think they might have practiced a bit more
Oh, aliens installed automatic doors. Nice. #Monsterdon
@yatsu Snitches, stitches, etc... (and/or alien brain control implants)
"I gave the kids scalpels and SOMEHOW they got cut up I don't know what happened" #Monsterdon
Is that Kai Winn?
Was she always that tall?
i would not give fourth graders scalpels but what do i know
Did he just shake Tic-Tacs into his coffee? #Monsterdon
That school marm is giving me terrible flashbacks to who the let onto us in the 80s at school.
As do the children tbh, little shits.
#Monsterdon Wow this teacher sure sucks
biology class!
Every week is frog week with the right attitude
Poor Frog
Frog Week!
@Crazypedia it would be a TikTok sensation by morning #monsterdon
"we've secretly replaced your dad's coffee with folger's crystals" #monsterdon
(also, that actor really committed to that drink, good for him.) #monsterdon
Unpleasant coffee drinking scene.
At least there is some comedy
#Monsterdon WE HAVE #COFFEE sign! #CoffeeWatch
are.... are those tic tacs?????
Coffee is Served ✅ ☕️ #Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo
An 80s house has to have a breakfast nook
#Monsterdon Hold up -- she's wearing white pants, and it has to be after Labor Day. *gasp*
hang on but dad didn't even go out to the sand pit! how could he be bodysnatched!? are we not going to get any scenes of dads being led out to the sand pit???? what's the point of the movie then!?!?! #monsterdon
It almost looks like they used the same set as the original version. The hill with the path and fence looks identical. #Monsterdon
yes, i am a normal human, as you know and i enjoy normal human things such as coffee
Definitely a human being not possessed by aliens at all #monsterdon
Ubiquitous pocket surveillance systems sure have changed the world, he just could have snapped a pic
I literally had that b&w poster the kid has
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The fence was the most important part of the original classic. Good to see the director understood that. #Monsterdon
"...ironically, Ball Lightning is the name I used to dance under"
The kids 'shocked expression' is not selling it to me, did that spaceship have an eye?
closing his windows for him, those aliens are safety first. #monsterdon
Also, a 1958 penny would be what ... 28 years old when this movie was made? His parents are both older than the coin. #monsterdon
80s special effects, hell yeah
So when does the poltergeist comes out of the closet and take the kid? #monsterdon
for a moment I thought he pulled out a condom wrapper and this movie was about a different sort of monster, but phew, it's a collectable penny
I'm sure that coin won't be important later