#MONSTERDON I got home late and I'm starting 34 minutes into the movie and there's Leonard Nemoy already.

Hamm's hams

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Was that a very young Sir Ian McKellen standing on the balcony with the two women?

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Send the tweaker author home? Yeah, good call. (Despite me wanting to see more Jeff...)

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It’s so weird to see Leonard Nimoy play a total asshole #monsterdon

Now I'm idly wondering what Jeff Goldblum would be like as Spock

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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?

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@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

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#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.

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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.

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#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)

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It would have been so much easier if all the pod people suddenly grew goatees.

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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

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Well obviously the body snatchers got to Spock because Spock doesn't smile

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Wow I did not recognize Nimoy at first! #Monsterdon

The book store being lit from below. All those dutch angles. So disconcerting. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

A very young Jeff Goldblum
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That was Kevin McCarthy reprising his role from the original movie, being hysterical in traffic about "They're coming!"

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"Don't ever give your name to the cops" even better.
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<Elizabeth breaking down>

It's Geoffrey. He's become a Scientologist!

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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.

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After all those times of saying "Could I just say something PLEASE" Elizabeth probably could have just said the thing

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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

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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!

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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

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homer's in springfield, you're in san francisco you're looking in the wrong place

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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

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sorry, Jack London is not in this movie. #monsterdon

and Leonard Nimoy!

All we need now are some events

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@ColesStreetPothole

Now *that* sounds like a conspiracy!

Hey, you using that tin foil there in the garbage can? It would make for a great hat.

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"The policemen will help"?

Surely you jest.

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Nimoy is here to comfort us! <3
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Leonard Nemoy!
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i love the funhouse mirror shot!!

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Nimoy is being very creepy. #Monsterdon

Aaaaaaaand there's Leonard!

Wow, it's weird seeing him exude some _schmooze_.

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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?

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He’s really upset about U62.

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Jeff Goldblum is sooo young!
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Tuba menace #monsterdon

Oh god Jeff Goldblume has hair

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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

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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?

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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?"

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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.

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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

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THERE'S JEFF FINALLY OMG WHAT A PUPPY HE IS

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THERE HE IS! baby jeff goldblum! (^___^)

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Eeeeeey, Jeff! #Monsterdon

@paco either you're fairly far ahead of me or he's an actually baby #monsterdon

Throbbing horror music. It's got a nice beat. I can dance to it. I give it a 76. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978

so would the regular policemen or the pod people policemen help LESS? because they definitely won't help #monsterdon

The police will help.. Yeah.. help which side. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

Goldblum's character is the same as jurassic park.

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Well, clearly they've got chemistry #monsterdon

Man got hit so hard his fingers bled. #Monsterdon

"the policeman'lll help."
oh yeah, sure, sure he will.
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Jeff! ❤️❤️

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OMG the dude on the windshield, from the original movie! I love it. :D

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this is the most amazing cameo i have ever seen

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Mccarthy! The villain from Inner Space! #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978

HAH! Man he's been running around for a LONG time. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

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@SnoopJ excuse me are you disrespecting this camel story? #monsterdon

Baby Jeff Goldblum! #monsterdon

I remember being really freaked out when I saw Body Snatchers as a kid

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i love this part. great way to reference the OG movie

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I can't help but read "it was like the whole city had changed overnight" through a NIMBY lens.

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@ColesStreetPothole Actual conspiracies unfortunately turned out to be much more mundane and less exciting

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