I have Donald Sutherland in my head as "old" these days, in no small part because the last thing I remember him in was the Hunger Games movies, where he was President Snow.
Definitely gonna be weird seeing him _young_.
Likewise Jeff Goldblum, since last I had him in my head was his appearances in the MCU!
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#monsterdon Also I choose to believe Nimoy's character really was a jerk who doesn't really listen to people in the first scene in the bookstore and was only podified after.
Backlit running through a huge tunnel! #monsterdon
The use of shadows in this movie is excellent #monsterdon
#monsterdon we started late and so I didn't toot real time but there was so much amazing and disorienting camera angles and scene composition. Unsettling stuff in nearly every scene even before the main characters are realizing what's going on.
This moaning pulsing pod people sequence is so gross and well done #monsterdon
David shows up at the mud place due to Matthew calling him but we just see him standing there for a moment so no idea if he's been podded yet at this point... just staring creepily like everyone does at some point in this movie #monsterdon
that texture is so revolting #monsterdon
aaaa the flower is crowning! #monsterdon
@moira @jonny If they'd made that single brief cut had been any longer it would've been less disturbing. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978
San Francisco seems like a place one could really…put down roots. #monsterdon
@lytta Oh, Goldblum's wife bonked his face with hers when she ran into him! It's easy to miss because you just get a couple muffled lines of Jeff going "ow my nose" offscreen. #Monsterdon
"Tomorrow she'll be good as new." Brand new her, even. #monsterdon
@paco Get rid of classism? Evolve away from capitalism? #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978
For anyone who enjoyed #monsterdon tonight, I recommend this short story by one of my favorite sci-fi authors on a similar topic https://reactormag.com/the-nearest-greg-egan/
Now I'm trying to figure out if the book guy in the mud bath is also the banjo and dog guy, because beard and I'm short term face blind...he has a hat though hmmm #monsterdon
+ either I missed it again or there's no explanation for goldblum's character having a nosebleed
@diazona @apLundell INVASION OF THE BELL BOTTOM SNATCHERS #Monsterdon
Not even a comment on the orange garbage truck working around the clock. #monsterdon
"I think the horizon looks bright." Now even without pod people I can tell you that is not the case. #monsterdon
There's that sound like hearing your pulse in your ears again for a soundtrack. I like that. #monsterdon
basically in my notifications there is a before #monsterdon and an after #monsterdon and if i was talking about something before then unless you remind me there's no way for me to know that.
this is a beneficial UX flaw.
The whole vibe of not being believed about normal looking humans being monsters in human skin, incapable of empathy or human connection, solely bent on destroying everyone around them and replacing them with imposter facsimiles is... Too relatable
Now we'll never learn what was so totally special about those coeds!
@srol Dont fall asleep in the tub… dunh dun duuuuunnnnh! #monsterdon
Dude just sitting there snorting something. #monsterdon
oh yeah good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^
@Sorl Yeah that part was like "goddammit why does the smartest person in this movie also have _this_ shit going on"
"This is just the same way those rocket ships landed thousands of years ago so the aliens could mate with the apes and create the human race!" Well now, I just don't think that happened. And also, this is not like that. At all. #monsterdon
@lytta It's not in your face, but it has to be intentional, just because anything like that in a good movie usually is.
@strangefour @Taweret Yep, bleak like the #kingdomofthespiders #Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78
And now it's time to enjoy some giant zucchini throw pillows in a Giant Spider Invasion of savings!
It is pleasant and quality.
#Monsterdon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMm0kLeogwQ
Gosh now I guess if we all only ever ate all natural things we wouldn't be susceptible to the alien flower /s #monsterdon
Also the actual moral of this story is 'don't dismiss and gaslight women' #monsterdon
@lytta He's leaning against a dumpster of some kind and there's podded human remnants in it so I think by that time they're signalling he's already converted.
"I've never expected metal ships!" #monsterdon
I'm trying to determine whether David was podded the whole time or when he gets replaced... he gives a small laugh when he first appears so I don't think he *starts* as a pod person #monsterdon
It covers the accessory nipple on the back of his hand #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978
@apLundell also for a second I misread that as "pants are the enemy" which is a very different but equally interesting premise
@CactuarJoe @jwisser Was the guy watching TV on headphones and off-duty pod person? #Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78
Here is a page from the first issue of the "My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic" comic book.
@ColesStreetPothole @flowerpot @jonny Over here @RobynGoodfellow was all "Okay Monsterdon what the fuck" and I thought it was in reply from bleptember and couldn't breathe for 5 minutes xD
I will say this for tonight's #Monsterdon: I can't remember being this reluctant to go back to real life afterwards
They glossed over it but how *does* he know the mayor is his friend's patient? #monsterdon
@Sorl EXACTLY! UNANSWERED QUESTIONS! C'mon movie you gave us 20 minutes of running around randomly in San Francisco and you can't answer the burning questions?!
The pod people pass a city ordinance declaring “vegetative state” to be hate speech. #monsterdon
@apLundell I will remember that next time I find myself staring down a salad bar
What is this leather non-glove that only covers the back of Nimoy's hand? #monsterdon
Jeffrey was passing those larger egg pod things off to people early on in the movie while Elizabeth follows him #monsterdon
None of this would have gotten out of hand if there were hares around to eat all the pods #monsterdon #WickerMan
Kinda sloppy sudden zoom there, like the cameraman just stepped closer to the pod guy's face. #monsterdon
Okay we see banjo guy again! I think we know a bit of time has passed because he has more of a beard now. Matthew greets him; his name is Harry. I think he might be the same as the unhoused guy near the end, and Matthew kicking the pod is what causes the dog thing? #monsterdon
Now, don't call the police when you find a waxy fluffy adult fetus in the sauna, but do call the police when you break into somebody's house and find something there while you're trespassing. #monsterdon
@commodore @RobynGoodfellow I dunno, most films we watch for #Monsterdon are somewhat comical, although whether they intended to be so is a different question 😂
Anyway, I would say it never hurts to make the suggestion at least. We wouldn't wind up actually watching the movie without it first passing muster with @Taweret and then winning a poll, so by that point if it's not what people expect there would be very little blame left for you.
@lytta how is that supposed to read an hour and 30 minutes later, he was onscreen for like 3 seconds #monsterdon
A great creeping horror peice, very much in the existential horror category, with a backdrop of creepy space horror.
I still think the loony tunes tribute to the movie freaked me out more :PanicIntensifies:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104527/
and it all ends in vore
Have they changed the mud in the time since the guy died in it at least? #monsterdon
I intend to vote for the candidate that seems least like a quality movie when it's time for the next #monsterdonalert poll. I'm tired now #monsterdon
:flan_guitar: All we are saying :flan_drummer:
:flan_garden: Is give peas a chance :flan_alien:
@lytta as always they actually do reveal basically the entirety of the plot in the first 5 minutes i always miss #monsterdon
There's that scream again! I've heard it two other times so far. #monsterdon
@hannah @moira I tend to do that too when the movie is good (not tonight but mostly because I don't like horror movies) but it definitely does spoil the #Monsterdon experience a bit. IMO it's best when I can barely be paying attention to the movie and still follow along.
@ColesStreetPothole @jonny oh gods
that'd be so real SMOOCHIES FROM MONSTERDON tag bombing xD xD xD
Great anticipation sneaky music. #monsterdon
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#monsterdon 5/5 pods
@apLundell this is me not judging how awesome your #Monsterdon routine is
Elizabeth goes to sleep holding Jeffrey and wakes up with no Jeffrey in bed... and Pod!Jeffrey cleaning up glass.
Which means it's very likely that human Jeffrey dissolved in her arms as she slept
Underlit Sutherland face looking out of the closet. #monsterdon
I really like that woven rope wall hanging. Would that be tacky decoration by modern standards? #monsterdon
I think the scene in the bookstore where Elizabeth talks with the women who was brushed off by Dr. David makes for a Bechdel pass #monsterdon
When Matthew calls Elizabeth, he is cutting out a headline from a newspaper that reads "Webs Shroud Bay Area", so I think the idea that the invasion was already very much in effect at the beginning is true #monsterdon
@jonny Haha yeah for me that's probably the most classically #Monsterdon thing about this whole movie
I had assumed at the time it'd make the main characters scream and thus give them away as non-pod people, but I honestly couldn't tell if anyone noticed
You think that actor dog had fun running around with a people mask on? #Monsterdon
Time to put on headphones and watch clocks. #monsterdon
The pod version of director Wes Craven films horrifying films to scare the pod people. It's just hours of humans being happy and expressing emotions. #monsterdon
The moral of the story is that those who want to snatch other people's bodies ought to mind their own damn business #monsterdon
@diazona i like the way it had nothing to do with anything and had no impact on anything either #monsterdon
You know my post-#monsterdon plan was to take my first bath with bath bombs in like three years but a bath bomb is technically a kind of pod ...
Soundtrack groaning like a door hinge. Not in a bad way, it's atmospheric. #monsterdon
So I am in fact rewatching (I probably won't go all the way through) and I DID in fact miss the priest swinging on the swingset at the beginning #monsterdon
@jonny yisssss
@trixter It was the scene that stuck in my head over ten years #monsterdon
The wall looked a little wet.
See you'd think bars on the windows and a plank of wood blocking the door would be decent security but you'd be wrong. #monsterdon
Have no fear. The body snatchers will return in Invasion 2: Oh Pod You Devil. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers
@CactuarJoe it was a cautionary tale about the dangers of whatever the f that dog thing was. #monsterdon
I had fun for the most part, but it does feel like at some point the writers got bored with the movie and just decided to pod everyone. #monsterdon
🦖 #MONSTERDON Goodbye 🎞️
From the pod placed down by host @Taweret grew a awesome creature based on references to Safety posters, Homer, half-gloves, still not listening to women, shoe in pants, hoes, Woman On the Run, porn show barker job loss, GooGuys, Man-dog, Warriors, that shrieking, Canadian get your gun, Kill your clone and so much more!
and to @cheribaker for Bingo (romantic moment = inappropriate kissing)
and for @randy_s who did the cocktail recommendation for this week!
@diazona @gnomon You're not wrong #monsterdon
#monsterdon One other little tidbit since I got to that point in the timeline- the floor buffer dude was director of photography Michael Chapman doing a little self portrait there.
okay I'm JUST realizing that the little pod aliens actually started off by imitating earth plants and going up from there #monsterdon
So... Was that still a cautionary tale about the dangers of Communism? #Monsterdon
@gnomon TBH I think this was a reasonable one to miss... the movie was too much of a proper horror movie, not cheesy enough to give the top-tier #Monsterdon experience
@strangefour If they don't have any emotions, then there's no embarrassment. I guess dress codes can relax a LOT. #monsterdon
It's bleeding tomato soup or ink or something. #monsterdon