Don't spend it all in one place

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Chekov's mint penny. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

The vibe of this scene is totally "framing story of Princess Bride".

I almost expect the kid to go "Is this a kissing book?!"

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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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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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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

@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

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

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@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

@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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What?????? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

#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!

I think it's ending for yall but we've got another 20 min lol #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

@yatsu Also he can poison Louise's frog this time. #Monsterdon

Thanks again @Taweret !
See you all next week. :D

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@CactuarJoe he does have the power of foresight tho. he can start by not going into the caves on a whim. bring some weapons with him and stuff. #monsterdon

I guess I can conclude by saying that was whelming.

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If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched INVADERS FROM MARS (1986).

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

Why do the end credits sound like "Luke & Leia" from the Return of the Jedi soundtrack? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXeOY_Ad4U #monsterdon

@jgamble Oh cool, thanks, I guess I missed that.

I know a bunch of people throughout the movie said that they were Martians, I just didn't notice how they were supposed to know the aliens were Martians

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That is Laraine Newman's conehead voice!

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Classic “it was just a dream” fakeout #monsterdon

This is like the alien movie version of Groundhog Day. #Monsterdon

And what is UP with the closing credits. It's like a lovesong symphony. Where's the team that did the opening credits? I guess the cheesy love song is all the denouement we are going to get. #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial I had a cat like t... oh nevermind! #Monsterdon

Really pushed hard into the "it was all a dream ... OR IS IT?" trope.

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Now that's what I call #Monsterdon

Laraine Newman is doing her Conehead voice from SNL #monsterdon

I guess the first recording sucked?

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he's not repeating the exact same timeline, every end of the film goes into the next remake, then loops back around to the original movie

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I really liked how the supreme martial intelligence says "little guy" the same way as the possessed and non-possessed parents.

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Ooh a nightmare loop so creative #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe yikes, no wonder they all seemed just on the brink of bursting into a soul searing scream of rage. #monsterdon

@Configures yeh, that's it

little 1930s raggamuffin making his own way in a hard world

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@randy_s I would have liked a combination alien invasion and time loop movie

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Plot twist: He's been in hell this whole time! Doomed to relive the plot! 😂

Good times. Amazing creatures. Thanks for the fun commentary, Monster people.

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@yatsu This is what all the assimilated people heard the whole time. Just constant hold music in your brain. #Monsterdon

And now peaceful flute music. Thanks! again @Taweret for hosting. Save your pennies folks. Especially the ones actually made of copper. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

alright so if you weren't here when we watched the 50's (i have been saying 60's this whole time lol) version, there were two endings to that one, the US version ended as a dream, but the UK version just ended and it was actually real

here's the UK ending: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112708859004671145

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Why is he yelling for his parents, then asking to be left alone? I blame the writers, not the actor #monsterdon

one of these days i'm going to remember to participate in #monsterdon for a second time

so here's some soothing flute music to take your mind off of things, David. #monsterdon

@moira Oh, was that blackjack he hit the Big Martian Brain with, his bag of pennies? #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

Golan and Globus who brought you such delights as "Ninja III: The domination" #monsterdon

What is with this music, did they accidentally grab the music from a heartwarming drama for the ending credits?

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