biology class!

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Every week is frog week with the right attitude

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Frog Week!

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@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.

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At least there is some comedy

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#Monsterdon WE HAVE #COFFEE sign! #CoffeeWatch

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are.... are those tic tacs?????

Coffee is Served ✅ ☕️ #Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

An 80s house has to have a breakfast nook

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Shop Smart

Shop FedMart!

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#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

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Definitely a human being not possessed by aliens at all #monsterdon

The fence was the most important part of the original classic. Good to see the director understood that. #Monsterdon

"I know what ball lightning is!"

Do you, kid? Do you really?

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"...ironically, Ball Lightning is the name I used to dance under"

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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

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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

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and suddenly...

it was a dark and stormy night

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I'm sure that coin won't be important later

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Don't spend it all in one place

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#monsterdon HOWEVER I am _not_ actually ready in the sense of "starting the movie at the same time as everyone else", dangit. Like two minutes behind over here, working our way through the hilariously swoopy opening credits.

Hit me with your timed mute (this one is about an hour and a half long?), or join in!!

#monsterdon I feel like they opened up a forgotten storage unit and found all the sets from the original movie covered in plastic and cosmolene, and then decided to redo the movie based on that.

Oh, familial cursing. That's how you know he's the cool dad

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Perihelion does not work that way. But hey, kids can get these things wrong.

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I'm Invaders from Mars, welcome to my powerpoint presentation #monsterdon

They really don't expect anyone to stay for the end credits on this one, do they?

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Oooh loving the soundtrack

This is the perfect mix of proper alien stuff and proper 80's

(all the aliens who decided to invade in other decades, shame on you)

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The insanely long credits....

sooo 80s

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Spare no expense, movie

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Unskippable Cut Scene.... 😩

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This is basically the swoopy Superman intro.

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Put on your 3D glasses now

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@moira Maybe he is taking the heaviest shower this year.

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Does Modern Microsoft Word still have Wordart? I think I need it

It's Sunday night. It's 8pm. It's Monsterdon time. This week's film is Invaders from Mars (1986). You might want to mute this tag for the next few hours.

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super cheesy credit sequence

that's promising

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The credits are coming right at me!!

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snacks from Mars

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#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!

almost forgot because of headache but thanks @Taweret as always for hosting ^_^

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Marines Have No Qualms About Killing Martians!

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my favorite part of the movie was this nasa guy with like one line and so i am shipping him with army guy who grabbed him and spun him around
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@trixter Yeah, those were some good, solid practical FX, for the most part

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Bursts into his parents' room and just starts screaming.

But that ending made no sense with the rest of the movie.

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Ooh and then they all have some cocoa. #monsterdon

Thank goodness something exploding inside my spinal column didn't do any damage! #monsterdon

Thoughts from this week’s #Monsterdon:

Do all schools have a hellmouth under them?

@paco She didn't train for this!

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@allanb Marco!

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#WorstPoolGameEver

Coin operated laser gun. #monsterdon

Trying to figure out a joke that combines #ACAB, copper, and Barsoom, and I got nothing over here. Must be time for dinner.

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#monsterdon we got started late but had a great monsterdon watching Invaders from Mars (1986) thanks to @cheribaker for the cool bingo card keeping us engaged and @Taweret for putting tonight feature together!

Join us next week at 8/cst for some great #mst3k vibes in your timeline ❤️

Also this nurse may be the only person with self-preservation in a horror movie I've ever seen.

'I'm not scared, I'm petrified' and 'What am I even doing here'

@rberlim Don't carry loose change on combat ops!?! What if you have to make a phone call!?!‽

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Poooor little guy! Poor liittle guyy! #monsterdon

Oh, the frog-swallowing was foreshadowing! #monsterdon

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Hey, the NYTimes review says the kid was Karen Black's son in real life...did everyone else know that?

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https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/06/movies/the-screen-invaders-from-mars.html

the one thing that i absolutely love about this remake is that they replicated the hill behind the house; but managed to make it look even creepier even if it has more vegetation

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@moira Also the '53 version had the tender reunion between the General and Renaldi. The '86 version plays their romance tragic, which is kinda cliche. #Monsterdon

@paco Still a better holiday than [hawk tuah] Columbus Day

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Since that dude prolly devoted his life to aliens and died instantly he was probably died elated. #monsterdon

#monsterdon My partner mentioned that this movie had serious 80’s quicksand tropes, but when the 90’s rolled around, quicksand was about less of a threat. It was always a macguffin.

oh dip, it got a novelization #monsterdon

If a child was going to have a nightmare about aliens, it makes so much more sense that it would mostly be set in his school, and the field behind his house.

In the original, a lot of the action happened in places a kid wouldn't really even think about.

If you're going to do the "It's all a dream" twist, it's nice that it's at least a dream he's likely to have had.

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I'm reading through the wikipedia page for the film and what's fascinating is how many of the big publications of the day reviewed it. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post. So different from how they currently approach film. #monsterdon

@moira @apLundell hah 😂 I can get behind that

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@diazona @apLundell oh i liked Martian Organism Designed Only for Copper, but I dunno

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#Monsterdon well that was fun. relatively close to the original in overall story and some details, but with much better effects and mostly worse acting

i remember as a kid the idea of the copper-powered guns & tech really captured my imagination

@apLundell another good point

'86 less memeable

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@trixter It was indeed a beautiful hill! I would have enjoyed more [fence, hill, and path] shots with that spooky lighting & perspective. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

@ramsey lol "Welcome to the 80s kid!" #monsterdon

@fabio he is SUCH a good actor, I wonder what happened to him /s #monsterdon

little cgi wire model of a truck on the screen lol #monsterdon

@jonny That ending was at least credibly about trauma and this ending was just dumb.

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@Newpa_Hasai @randy_s Oh okay, I just kind of assumed it was a movie because everything else mentioned was a movie. My bad!

In any case I do like a good book better than most movies, so I'm in for it either way.

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@apLundell Huh, I didn't get that, but who knows, I miss stuff 🤷

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@Zerofactorial many elements of this movie are so much better than this movie, it's sad #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @randy_s Oh yeah Edge of Tomorrow was good... I don't think I've seen All You Need Is Kill but I will try to check it out!

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@ramsey @brooke I thought maybe the kid said "I'll fix you! you *big* brain!" but I'm not going to re-watch to make sure. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

this concludes my #Monsterdon thread for #InvadersFromMars1986, a movie that probably did not need a remake but was at least weird.

thanks to @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting!

@jovikosterdon I dunno, the teacher was snuggling pretty well with that one Martian drone ... right before it ate her.

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On TubiTV, why does it say "Expires Today" for this film? Is that why it smells a bit off? #monsterdon

@jonny oooh I like that one way better

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And we're done. In a lot of ways I like this remake better, but it seems to be aimed at a younger audience and so pulls some of its punches.

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#Monsterdon the kid got Groundhog Day'd

the US ending is more like this one, for some reason it recaps the entire movie to fade into a dream sequence, but then it does the thing that the 80's version does, which is be 'ambiguously a dream' but that one leans into 'actually the kid learns he's just imagining things' instead of 'fake dream but it was actually real'

around 1:17:15 ish here https://tubitv.com/movies/100019545/invaders-from-mars

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Somehow I think they made this version better for the little boy but worse for all the women characters and that's kind of an impressive level of f*cked-up-edness but

we have made it to the end (?)

Thanks @Taweret for hosting and @cheribaker for the bingo and every single #Monsterdonian for the fun now don't get possessed by martians and I'll look forward to next week!

OK! Another very 80s horror flick in the books for #Monsterdon !
A bit less 80s, a bit more horror than Night of the Comet - but still quite fun!
Apparently, Mars needs not women, but copper. (You'd think that if they can travel to Earth & try to take over, they'd have heard of fiber...)
But anyway, the takeaway here is to be aware of context & schedules; it can be an email, rather than a meeting. It can be a clay tablet, not a movie...

Thanks all, and @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week!

#monsterdon And a very special thanks to you, the audience.

OMFG POOR KID AND HIS NIGHTMARES!

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