that is such a glitzy phone booth!!

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@h3net "Right next to the dog faced boy!" #AgainWrongHashtag #MOnsterdon

partner: Oh no is Nimoy Podded
Child: That's just his face

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I'm sorry, was that person tweezing their nose hair on a wall in a public park?? #Monsterdon

Weird to see the pyramid there not surrounded by much larger buildings and whatnot #monsterdon

Who's barely touching his breakfast - half a banana, half drank coffee, not a single bite of the toast, bacon left on the plate, scrambled eggs still there, and then walking away. For that you're going back and eating the whole goddamn lemon. Was the lemon for the coffee or why is there a lemon there? Is it tea? #monsterdon

@Taweret They have to reverse the flower's polarity and rephase the flower's deflector dish. #Monsterdon

Wow we're really making some Leaps and Bounds on scientific understanding with this crew

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Oh crap. So Nimoy is playing a character who can fake having feelings.
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Nobody else knows, please stay there where you are in a known location and are a sitting duck, kthx

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please do some science tests on this flower and be quick about it

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Have you been noticing something unusual for the last few days?
Yes.
Meet at the square. Next to the pile of pods.

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Boy Sauron has really let himself go! #WrongHashtag #MonsterDon

@Taweret Is there any other kind in movies though

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Oh yeah, it's just like that time aliens landed to mate with apes.

Aliens are perverts.

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I feel like this was a common trope in older horror films where you'd need one conspiratorially-minded person in your core group of survivors to be like "i've always been right about everything." #monsterdon

I forgot that Leonard Nimoy's character wears that stupid glove.

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it talks 48 hours to test a flower FOR ???? what are we testing it for? are we just doing general science testing?

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Veronica Cartwright working up to her next role. Too bad she didn't remember.

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Ok, who is going to make the indepenence day reference after the little men in ships (I think that was the term Goldblum used) comment?

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Nooooo Nimoy!!

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LOL the slant on news streets that wasn't just camera angle

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"So, what is the Mean Guy On Your Shoulder telling you about the missing duplicate body?" - Nimoy in this movie but it's my therapist instead #Monsterdon

Oh my god she went full Ancient Aliens #monsterdon

I'm still waiting to see if Elizabeth is a pod person since her speaking parts decreased. Also I don't like the way she and goldblum made eye contact. (the movie is pretty insistent this isn't what's happening but WHY BODY DOUBLES instead of controlling people????) #monsterdon

"...they're growing like parasites on other planets" wow very perceptive

(I think she actually said "plants" but this is more fun)

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Nimoy looks so comfy in that outfit.
And hey that';s not a dutch angle, the street is tilted!
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Why not a space flower indeed! #Monsterdon

#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

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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@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.

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

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