Take her home Matthew, don't take her to the bed
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@lytta he should keep his gawddamned hands on the gawddamn steering wheel while the car is in motion. #Monsterdon
Jeff Goldblum never changes. π
@plaidtron3000 it's a weird shibboleth for not being a pod person, but it's the only thing that's been set up like that so far #monsterdon
Nimoy!psych is being very unprofessional by trying to treat random people on the street.
...Was it still normal in the 70s for men to hire psychs to 'fix' their wives and daughters? #monsterdon
Whelp, the slug flower is in a glass of water on the nightstand. Goodbye. #monsterdon
"A good night's sleep wouldn't hurt" I see what you did there movie. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers
So Leonard is playing the psychologist version of that one doctor in the original who got the kid assimilated by his aunt. #Monsterdon
maybe i'm not Mirror Nimoy's type, but that situation didn't make me wanna shut off my emotions, it made me wanna punch him and then never have anything to do with him ever again. points to Nimoy for playing such as asshole convincingly. #monsterdon
Time to read the #Monsterdon hashtag and figure out what happend in the first 34 minutes.
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π The Director suggested actors make funny faces when not talking in scenes. He even had Brooke Adams do "the thing with her eyes" as part of that scene.
In the 70s most psychotherapy sessions took place on darkened street corners
Literally ignoring the women and minorities that are sounding the alarm. typical
Hallucinatory flu!
Wall phone slurped that cord like spaghetti and we zoomed in on that for some reason. #monsterdon
I would never want to see Nimoy get slapped, but I would like to see this character get slapped.
@lytta @sundiesel yeah the pod people are definitely like actively mind controlled instead of just being made braindead like zombies, so i guess when a disease can hijack its host to actively spread it then you have more virulence than the transmission vector alone would imply #monsterdon
Wow, Nimoy being a condescending jerk kinda made me feel punchy for a second
My main takeaway so far is this woman needs some friends who aren't men. #monsterdon
#MONSTERDON I got home late and I'm starting 34 minutes into the movie and there's Leonard Nemoy already.
Hamm's hams
Was that a very young Sir Ian McKellen standing on the balcony with the two women?
Send the tweaker author home? Yeah, good call. (Despite me wanting to see more Jeff...)
Itβs so weird to see Leonard Nimoy play a total asshole #monsterdon
Now I'm idly wondering what Jeff Goldblum would be like as Spock
I'm realizing this is like a zombie movie without any decayed bodies #monsterdon
I keep expecting this to Clockwork Orange and I don't know why. The shots, the lighting? Just the 1970s vibe?
@srol Consider ranking the three options:
1. Watching this movie with Jeff Goldblum in it
2. Watching this movie with someone else instead of Jeff Goldblum
3. Not watching this movie at all
#Monsterdon sometimes i wish i'd been young in the 70s, the glamorous time of my parents' generation
weird fashions, divisive politics and social problems, proxy wars with the communists and a certainty of environmental disaster
totally unlike my lived experience today
The lighting in this book party scene! From the floor, making everyone look so creepy.
Sorry, Jack London is in Oakland.
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It feels weird for Nimoy to be the shortest of three men in a scene. How tiny is William Shattner?
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Folks, I know you're all going SPOCK!!! but remember that is Leonard Nimoy. He acted in at least five other things and was also an accomplished photographer of large, nude women.
#monsterdon this is wild and I love everyone's outfits and the cinematography whips
Nimoy playing a alien character with no emotion. There's a stretch. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers
@Lazarou That's an awesome piece of modern statement architecture and I won't hear any disparagement of it.
(full disclosure my mom still uses letter head with it from when they changed their logo while my dad was consulting for them in the early 90s and he couldn't bear to see thousands of envelopes and reams of fancy paper thrown away)
It would have been so much easier if all the pod people suddenly grew goatees.
Leonard Nimoy to his agent in 1978: Just give me a part where I can touch someone somewhere besides where their shoulder meets their neck. #monsterdon
man nimoy's character knows exactly how to ditch goldbloom's
Well obviously the body snatchers got to Spock because Spock doesn't smile
Wow I did not recognize Nimoy at first! #Monsterdon
A very young Jeff Goldblum
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The book store being lit from below. All those dutch angles. So disconcerting. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers
That was Kevin McCarthy reprising his role from the original movie, being hysterical in traffic about "They're coming!"
"Don't ever give your name to the cops" even better.
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Jeff Goldblum's character in this movie is really challenging one of my core beliefs which is "I'm always glad to see Jeff Goldblum." #monsterdon
@jonny @sundiesel i bet they can pick up the eggies and put them on or near people at the least #monsterdon
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Notice the humor? The filmmakers were originally playing more for laughs, but studio execs did not think that would work, so it was toned down and a more "horror" mood was created.
After all those times of saying "Could I just say something PLEASE" Elizabeth probably could have just said the thing
All men in this movie are awful #monsterdon
Creepy
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Trying to remember whether the "They're coming" guy was in the original from the 50s too (I don't mean the actor, the scene) #monsterdon
#Monsterdon (missed some cause our food delivery ran late, cutting back in)
Where is cousin Zuckus? From Star Wars? What are you on about Jeff?
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She's right to distrust her husband, with that combover....sheesh!
Yeah, this is exactly what therapy in the 70s looked like #monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers1978
"I'm not saying it about a man like Kibner, I'm saying it about Kibner" not bad Young Goldblum
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I feel like I say this #OnHere a lot on #Monsterdon Sundays, but: wow, the sound design on these 70s movies is so much better than so much that Hollywood extrudes lately...
omg this is so 1970s pop psych left coast, he's doing a fantastic impersonation
homer's in springfield, you're in san francisco you're looking in the wrong place
The cameo from the protagonist of the original movie freaking out at drivers like he does in the last scene of the original #monsterdon
took me like five minutes to recognize Nimoy #monsterdon
@sundiesel @lytta huh, no person to person transmission, only transmitted through rain, like it it just constitutively in the environment or needs to be replenished by the pod people? seems like either a not infectious enough to be a pandemic or we're all already fucked situation
sorry, Jack London is not in this movie. #monsterdon
Now *that* sounds like a conspiracy!
Hey, you using that tin foil there in the garbage can? It would make for a great hat.
#Monsterdon (not actually watching, just enjoying the comments)
Nimoy is here to comfort us! <3
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Leonard Nemoy!
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i love the funhouse mirror shot!!
Nimoy is being very creepy. #Monsterdon
I do not believe a Beetle can get up to speeds sufficient to cause injury, sorry.
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and Not Spock! amazing. this movie is absolutely amazing. #monsterdon
@jonny I guess they might have to like breed or produce more lil jellies before being able to spread them #monsterdon
Pod people are splash dash with record keeping! Truly a food health inspector nightmare
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There are enough leather jackets in that crowd to make another Cow
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Ok, Jeff Goldblum is much taller than I realized?
Heβs really upset about U62.
Jeff Goldblum is sooo young!
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Tuba menace #monsterdon
Oh god Jeff Goldblume has hair
Pod People Are Easy #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978
Oh great. Now a fly human hybrid has wandered into the movie. Things just keep getting worse for our protagonists.
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@amyfou Oh right, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I #monsterdon
Well, young Jeff Goldblum is here. That's something at least
Is anyone else being sort of weirded out by them driving around with the giant cracking in the windshield? Was this before or after the invention/mandate to usesafety glass?
damned Kibner #monsterdon #BodySnatchers78
Holy cow! They're all so young but Goldblum.. What a puppy! #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers
"...oh, hi there. Is that a fly on your cheek?"
How Jeff repeated the line and added a little more each time.... it's so very him. A+. Just a little more coke than usual.
Early Jeff Goldblum was a cross between Freddie Mercury and a Romulan. #Monsterdon
OMG Leonard Nimoy! This film has it all! #monsterdon
Geoffrey has been sucked into a multi-level marketing scam #monsterdon
this was before he met dr. banzai
THERE'S JEFF FINALLY OMG WHAT A PUPPY HE IS
THERE HE IS! baby jeff goldblum! (^___^)
Eeeeeey, Jeff! #Monsterdon
@paco either you're fairly far ahead of me or he's an actually baby #monsterdon