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)

"we are trapped" "help us"
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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????

@randy_s lol, genuine fear #monsterdon

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 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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#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

Hot for teacher!

Uh, nurse! Hot for nurse!

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Give him a lobotomy! #monsterdon

"First can I see the back of your neck?"
"What the hell, kid?"

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No coffee. Give me sugar. In water.

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Director: “More dramatically. Run more dramatically. Flail your arms or something.”

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Now David has a frog in his throat!

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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

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Frog is better grilled ma'am

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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.

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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.

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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

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@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

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#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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ugh ugh ugh these actors are champs but ugh. #monsterdon

Aliens are worse at cooking than 18 year old boys.

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Burnt bacon and milk. Breakfast of champions!

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I wonder if there will be a twenty-minute military parade in this version.

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#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

#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."

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@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.

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Genre savvy: ACAB stands for All Cops Are Bait. Monster bait.

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fox mulder?!

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@mattgriffin let it be free you monster! 😉 #monsterdon

So the Chief is played by the original David. Cool. #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". 🤦‍♀️ ☎️

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#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

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#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

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Oh, aliens installed automatic doors. Nice. #Monsterdon

"I gave the kids scalpels and SOMEHOW they got cut up I don't know what happened" #Monsterdon