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This movie predicted the events that San Francisco would see in later decades

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walk like an alien and they will not notice.
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Banjo fans get ready....

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@Zerofactorial they look a lot like okra

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You're telling me a potted plant is flying that helicopter?

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so did the Nimoy character get confirmed as a pod person and I missed it? #monsterdon

Must go faster, Jeff Goldblum. #Monsterdon

There's part of this sequence which is reminding me of Capricorn One of all things...

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"i'll come back with help"
i don't think you will, sir.
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Ah, the miracle of . . . birth?

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"Hey, wait a minute. We're decades away from caller ID!"
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Good thing these folks are all in such good shape.
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Would you bash your own clone's brains in in a horror movie?
It might save your life.
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@wohali I think at this point in the original the two main characters are running through tunnels freaking out about falling asleep, but they've got uppers #monsterdon

♫ what if pod was one of us?
just a slob like one of us? ♫

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love that hideous shrieking of theirs

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Somebody just called this a "solid Bechdel pass" and the only way I can make it make sense is if you don't count the pod people as actual people #monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers1978

They're shrieking! Just like a pod would! #monsterdon

podpeople has a alarm system.
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#Monsterdon 3d printer, human edition

@Infoseepage Schroedinger's biography

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This is about where a 50s B movie would have a sped-up ending. But we still have another 35 mins!!

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#Monsterdon 🎵 pod through the arm
and you're to blame
baby you give pods
a bad name
(bad name) 🎵

@ottaross Probably whatever was in the bottom of the mudbaths? #MonsterDon

Such a White guy thing, "wait, you telling me the Police AND Government would conspire against me?"

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"...they're coming for you, Barbara!"
"No, that's the other one."

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“Hello, generic police and not a pod person at all. How can I help you.” #Monsterdon

@ottaross
Rat turds?

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@ottaross Soylent Green

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The zucchini is crowning.
I am not screen shotting that gross goopey fetus plant thing.
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Doppelpodders

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ah, and some *immediate* footage re-use. I guess production really felt like they needed to justify the VFX budget or something

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HOW DID YOU NOT SEE THE GIANT YARD ZUCCHINIS!?
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is it a hate crime to kick those things to death? #monsterdon

Cool effects on the unraveling pod. A year before ALIEN, too!

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oh oh ugh ugh ugh
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Yeah, this was the scene that creeeped me the f out as a kid.

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ewww
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@LK_877 If it were New York that would just be business as usual

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oh great now I'm going to be too creeped out to touch grass #monsterdon

dont fall asleep guys, lol!

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The pod is fully dilated and crowning!!

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Spacemen mating with monkeys and apes to create the human race. Oh wow I forgot what the 1970s were like.

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...it's quiet enough I'm waiting for an explosion #Monsterdon

@ottaross we have 50 more minutes for that to happen #Monsterdon

We must be getting close to the meme moment - with Sutherland doing the gaping mouth and pointing?

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Nimoy is good at being creepy, dang #monsterdon

"This is how you get Xenomorphs. Do you want Xenomorphs?" #monsterdon

"I'll see you soon, I hope."

That's not foreshadowing at all.
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@lytta i am thinking lifecycle phases, they have to molt their way through a species to start reproducing person-to-person, so these are the initial colonial spores that are molting into transmissible pod people
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My question here is, why the fuck do these characters care what a psychiatrist thinks?

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"I'll see you soon, I hope." Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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the pods learned how to smile at least... they're clearly learning and improving their acting bit by bit #monsterdon

later the guy in the lab is gonna be like 'well i tested the flower for absestos and autism and it doesn't seem to have either of those so'

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I used to eat the lemon off my plate in restaurants when I was a kid. These days I don't go to restaurants much so I don't get the chance to. #monsterdon

Invasion of the gaslighting.

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The moral of this movie is "Don't trust condescending men who tell you everything is going to be okay". #Monsterdon

Oh right. Once you buy into one crazy conspiracy theory, buying into the second crazy one is easier. And the third and forth and...
But sometimes that crazy idea is right... in movies anyway.
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Oh man that camera pass past Alan while Elizabeth talks to him TOTALLY made me want to see something sticking out of the back of his neck.

Especially given that he totally sounded like he'd been podded.

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Yep. Spock's been podded.

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I like that all these theories are made to sound insane but we know they are basically right

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"I'm going to ask you to stay by your phone" Also, are there any flowers nearby. You should find a flower to inhale. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

@fabio To be fair she's not so far off in the film's universe

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"I'm gonna ask you to stay by your phone for a while."

It'll help the sniper to target you, y'see. #Monsterdon

SPACE FLOWER!
Earth flowers are easy?
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Hold the fucking phone! Aliens mated with monkeys and apes and what? #Monsterdon

i'm sorry, aliens mated with monkeys to make humans? i'm not up on my 1970s conspiracy theories, is that was was in those books she was talking to Rasputin about? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Who knew Nancy would be the not-that-crazy one, huh?

Wait, are you saying we are the pod people?
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The women are WAY ahead of everyone else. Typical that no one is listening to them. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

This is a solid Bechdel pass. Yay. #monsterdon

were these the first podcasters #monsterdon

"how did you know that?"
i have a trench coat, i'm in a 1970s movie, i Know Things. #monsterdon

"you think we've all gone crazy?"
well, you did call This Asshole like he was gonna actually help you, so you've definitely not been making Good Choices, but... #monsterdon

You can't out-logic a character played by Ninoy.

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Doppelganger reveal after half the film has passed

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In Russia, psychologist lays on the couch and YOU treat him! #monsterdon

I just can't wrap my head around a Vulcan as the King of Gaslighting #Monsterdon

Damnit Spock, I'm a health inspector, not a doctor

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(I'm like 45 minutes late with that joke)

Again, exquisite sound design & soundtrack work

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Oh we're in the era of front bench car seating #Monsterdon

All Cops Are Pod People

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Jeff again: Who is it?!

IT'S THE PLUMBERS WE'VE COME TO FIX THE SINK

YOU SHOULD TAKE A NICE NAP WHILE WE'RE WORKING IT WILL BE GOOD FOR YOU

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@allanb Plants are green... 🤔

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FINALLY the police! Not that it'll help. #Monsterdon

@tuckerm Baby Jeff Goldblum for real

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He's gonna reach into the mud and pull out an old paperback.

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No body, no crime

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Just wait 'til his blockbuster books, "I am not Pod" and "I, Pod."

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Not the first time he hides from a girls boyfriend/husband I guess.
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ok wait so... maybe it starts with them turning into the jelly reproduction body covered in dryer lint, and they simultaneously produce a body double? Is this elizabeth the pod person? #monsterdon

I've always found not quite finished clones in shows and movies, 'icky'

It's that foetal thing

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Doesn't this technically make him the body snatcher?

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Destroy the double, don! Destroy the double! #Monsterdon

Donald Sutherland showing lack of skill and survival instincts again, don't reach in past shattered glass you dolt!

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It's a 70s movie, so it's Titties Time!

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#Monsterdon your pod person is installing software updates and will be ready in a few moments

That peaking door angle was phenomenal #monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

Oh, the old trick of leaving the phone off the hook to avoid receiving calls!

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I had a friend once whose apartment entrance was at the end of a basement corridor like this. The actual apartment was fine, but going to it made you feel like you were in a noir detective film #monsterdon