#Monsterdon absolutely gorgeous establishing shot of the transamerica pyramid shrouded in clouds

"A space flower?"

Well, compare with Dyson trees...

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@RobynGoodfellow It's a good place to shoot things when you want Dutch angles but only for the backgrounds.

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🤘 METAL SHIPS 🤘

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@moira Yeah. It's before Silicon Valley, before personal computers, before biotech, before social media. And BART was brand new then too #monsterdon

@bunnyhero

"Only Pod People In The Building"

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@wohali

That was Nimoy's idea. 🙂

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"Space flower" scare quotes works here

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a space flower? aliens? in new jersey in 1938?

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Sure, I believe in pod people, growing out of plants, but a space flower? LMAO, sure, LOL
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#Monsterdon they never secure the scene before calling in the authorities to see the pod person. tsk tsk

Holy shit, Brooke Adams is also in Shock Waves? The amphibian Nazis movie? #Monsterdon

OH SHIT

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gaslighting space flowers

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I make goofs because it's what I do, but there's a lot of interesting stuff going on in this movie I appreciate. #monsterdon

How is he standing upright with the camera tilted like.. Ohh.. right.. San Francisco. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

The Transamerican Pyramid deserves a credited role in this movie. #Monsterdon

These trash collector guys are cleaning up on screen time amirite #Monsterdon

OH NO HE GOT IN THE CAR AND...!!!

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@Taweret the older we get, the more of it we have. In weird places. #Monsterdon

I mean bodies getting turned into lint and going into a garbage truck is a pretty terrible end result as a human being. #monsterdon

Doooon, you're making the same mistake as the cop in The Wicker Man did! You're telling the antagonists your plaaaaaaaans! #Monsterdon

@steggy yup, Leonard Nimoy just stayed in the same place for 300 years waiting for the right opportunity

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elite panic in action (hampering possibilities of people working together because the people at the top are like 'oh no everyone is going to panic') #monsterdon

We've passed the halfway mark and it sometimes feels like the second act has barely even started. This is a strange pace.

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is this affordable San Francisco? because Seattle was cheap as chips in this era.

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Dun dun DUNNNNNN!!

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These stupid men need to listen to the WOMEN, dagnabit!

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@tuckerm here's a copy if you need one short notice, sorry i didn't offer first: https://archive.org/details/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1978-720p
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It's just you, me, and the skyscraper.

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@CactuarJoe Some spas do change their mud, some spas don't. I read a murder mystery once where spa economics were part of the plot. #Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

#monsterdon The director refers to the TransAmerica Building as "Pod Central" throughout the commentary XD

@starkraving666 You mean like cats? no, that's not right. #MonsterDon

Horns, horns
Horns HORNS
HORNS HORNS
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Instead of cutting from person to person as they speak, just swing the camera around real fast. Very much of a handheld shaky-cam feel in certain scenes, pretty interesting.

I don't have that much to say about this movie overall because it's actually good.

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@benlockwood question: does the calculation of R_0 need to be modified when the disease makes duplicate bodies

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The moral of the story here is that psychiatrists are jerks #monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers1978

late starting, I wasn’t expecting Nimoy to be playing an odious gaslighting pop psychologist #Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

How easier it was to gaslight people when you didn't have phone to take pictures of weird nude duplicates

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Nemoy showing pronouns aren't all that hard in 1978. #Monsterdon

@athena_rising Maybe he's a psychiatrist-slash-proctologist? and no I'm not going to google that #Monsterdon

Isn’t Starfleet HQ around here somewhere?

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What’s the r naught of these body snatchers #Monsterdon

@lytta there is this sort of sweet spot of social species where it can survive - you only gain advantage from body doubles in a species that is social enough that it has status or social differentiation by individual identity, but they can't be socially advanced enough to detect whatever limited mimicry they are able to pull off. so it just miscalibrated this time and humans are just above its mimicry/differentiation ratio threshold

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What’s the deal with that pointless half glove #monsterdon

Rude Psychiatrist is absolutely done with these people. #monsterdon

For some reason the archery glove fashion statement never took off.

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Jokes on you, Kibner, because my life is *sad* #Monsterdon

Oh man, Nimoy's driving glove. Love it.

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Anyone know what Nimoy is wearing in his hand? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon This guy's a psychiatrist. You'd think he'd be able to afford the whole glove, and the other one, too. So sad.

@Sorl One that likes to invite the other diseases to parties

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to be fair, some humans have white hair on them

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What on earth it that on David's hand? #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

What is that thing on his hand #monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers1978

I feel like you can't ignore garbage trucks any more after seeing this movie

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Also, odd hours for trash collection

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...Is that a miniature? #Monsterdon

all cops are POD PEOPLE
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I just can't wrap my head around a Vulcan as the King of Gaslighting #Monsterdon

@tuckerm this happens every time there are multiple versions of the same movie and 1 hour in has got to be a #MonsterdonDesync record #monsterdon

To keep using that filler for trash, it had really better be a plot point later.

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what is a social disease? #monsterdon

Push in hard for no clear reason. Ok. #Monsterdon

@jonny I'm trying to figure out why else they would need body doubles #monsterdon

@tuckerm YOU ARE THIS WEEKS #MONSTERDON WINNER!!!!!!

"whether he'd become gay" yeah like being gay is just like being a pod person, y'know, just the same sort of thing. #monsterdon

Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

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A late-light pod fluff pickup!

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is anybody gonna ask elizabeth driscoll where she'd like to be? #monsterdon

Watching #Monsterdon on the laptop out of the corner of my eye with the sound off and totally tense because the #Phillies are going into extra innings.

Hey big shock, there's no body! #Monsterdon

@lytta it's super slow and super discoverable if that's what they're doing. must have very robust spores that can go dormant to be able to spread through the galaxy like this because i can't see it taking over planets and having a stable host #monsterdon

Oh no, Elizabeth turned into a woman in a 90s hentai! #Monsterdon

@tuckerm I'm pretty sure you just won the award for "not synchronized with the rest of us" today, even over the person who was watching it 3 hours before the rest of us started.

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"Let him through officers, he's with the health department!"

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@tuckerm oh lol, well, that happens

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mom: "i'm growing pea pods in the garden"

donald sutherland: "growing *what*?"

#Monsterdon I really hope she knows where he lives. Maybe the car knows, and it will guide her?

Leonard Nimoy forgot that he isn't playing Spock I think

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Geoffrey and Elizabeth's apartment has good bones #monsterdon

I hate how much they trust Nemoy's character. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

Ask about our Aqua-surge whirpool dip! So, that's what they're calling it these days.

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@strangefour hee hee, good reference #Monsterdon #TheFly86 #BodySnatchers78

What wack TV is that pod dude watching? Steam valves? with headphones on?

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why is she backwards in the passenger seat?

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@allanb Plants are green... 🤔

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oh NOW we're calling the police. #monsterdon

Oh, that was *excellent* cinematic timing there.

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I’ll have fresh mud, thank you very much. #Monsterdon

We should watch Don't Look Now, there's a Donald Sutherland nude sex scene in that one. Also it's a horror movie about grief that pre-dates A24, if you can believe it #monsterdon

@moira Thanks to Jeff Goldblum we know his books will be no good

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Jeff, i would not be sticking my hands in there under the best of circumstances, nevermind during whatever the hell this is that's going on. #monsterdon

@moira I, Podius? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon is he chilling out to whalesong records?

She's become a zucchini! A hairy nudish veeatable.
And taking up a whole tiny atrium garden. That sure isn't what happened to Geoffrey.
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#Monsterdon the dutch called they want their angles back

Stick your hand in the mud bath Jeff

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@Zerofactorial Rigor mortis only applies during during a certain length of time that is based on both the time of death and environmental conditions. Before it's more like just dead weight. Afterwards a body starts getting kind of goopy.

I know this because *mumble mumble*

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Goldblum not overacting at all. #Monsterdon