well, they got the U-foe _that_ time at least

#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

I’m so jealous of their eye makeup #monsterdon

Even when he's directing people Anderson has them move like puppets. They're so stiff. #Monsterdon #invasionUFO

That was positively the same explosion sequence!

#Monsterdon

[explosions boom]

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

@floatybirb Also is the TV show better than the movie or the other way around?

#monsterdon

Haven’t we seen this effects sequence already?

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Cool guys don't make visual contact with explosions

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

@Taweret

"Emergency. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."

#Monsterdon

THAT'S what these little fighters look like.

bleach bottles with skis

#monsterdon

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#InvasionUFO

I feel that these you-foes are definitely eye-foes at this point

countdown...
#Monsterdon

@arrjay I've been told it was a British thing in this era.

#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Narrowly avoided 067 and 069 jokes
#Monsterdon

How does that guy *know* all of that about the aliens? #Monsterdon

A-Okay!

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

so we're saying the decimal out loud, but not the dashes? okay.

#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Explosions in space, a classic #monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Is Lt. Green in command of the interceptor flight?

#Monsterdon
#InvasionUFO

didn't we see this footage before?

#monsterdon

@crowbriarhexe

Ed Bishop WAS USian

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

@TerryHancock @klu9 And you were never institutionalized? #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO 🛸👽

Footage recycling complete. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #invasionufo
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R-checks are A-OK.

Well, thank God for that.

the posh English accent makes the dire announcements kind of hard to take seriously

#monsterdon

Were those the same explosions from the last battle? #monsterdon #InvasionUFO

#monsterdon Well, you might want to pose that question to a Hercules...

WOW that ship in a ship is awesome. I should look for that design in the KSP Workshops #Monsterdon

These guys spend all their time seated on interceptors?
#Monsterdon
#invasionufo1980

maybe the you-foe is a British thing

or was trying to be a British thing

#monsterdon

no

no

you shall not continue

(no but seriously this is absurdly hilarious, please do go on)

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

@trixter such subtlety, so winkwinknudgenudge

#monsterdon

yup, there it is, @Louisa typing it out faster than I can because I'm laughing too hard

https://mastodon.xyz/@Louisa/116593033189116355

#monsterdon

Everything good with you? Doing well? Great. Nice weather we’re having

#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

SID's echo means he's in space. #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie

The Yufo version of a scalp is bringing back a purple wig or an orange visor

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

This is getting exciting (more numbers)

#monsterdon

Why did Earth send all of their sexy mojo to the moon WHY?? #Monsterdon

@aburka THE ALIEN IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE PLANET

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

The duck-billed interceptors are gonna have another go. Maybe it'll work this time? The music is much funkier.

#monsterdon

RED ALERT

RED ALERT

VEHICLES IDLING IN EMERGENCY LANE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TOWED

#monsterdon

"But sir - there is no underwear in space."

"Who told you that?"

"Some lady named Leia."

#Monsterdon

@phooky yeah, for Pete’s sake 🙄 #Monsterdon

Doooooomed!
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Rehd Aleht #monsterdon

Interceptor launch sequence count: 2

#monsterdon

Nina turns around like, "Wow, look at the weirdo in the wild outfit! No chrome or spandex ANYWHERE!" #Monsterdon

#monsterdon This spaceship looks like a milkshake blender.

@floatybirb I mean it is sort of explained but also it seems to be a lot of wandering around and making preparations and dramatic statements with music that goes "duh, duh-duh DUH" without much happening?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

This movie is Elons wet dream.

I see strings on that red space craft. 👀

#Monsterdon

Gotta make sure you can pull out while in flight

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Always a left tennant, never a right tennant

#monsterdon

Why!? is this corridor? #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO 🛸👽

Sir, some of us *don’t* look on animals with callousness

#Monsterdon

Bring back purple wigs and silver uniforms you cowards!

#Monsterdon

So their version of the Space Shuttle. #Monsterdon

The guy in the suit does not belong. #monsterdon

no wait

I've seen that spacecraft before

it's from EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY

#monsterdon

Now, back to the REAL point of this movie : cool fantasy airplane models
#Monsterdon

Mostly Gerry Anderson just wanted to make movies about all his cool toys. #Monsterdon #invasionUFO

It's fortunate Earth stamps serial numbers on its transplanted organs. #Monsterdon

is this a lightsaber?

#monsterdon

Oh, I totally had a thing for the eye scene earlier:

"The Great British Gross-Out"

#Monsterdon

Movie, I see where you're going, but I really don't think that line needed a dramatic sting.

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

THESE OUTFITS. SERIOUSLY.

#MONSTerdon

One dude.

Just one dude doing all the thinking and monologue-ing for a whole ass government organizazation.

That’s a lot of pressure.

#Monsterdon

No joke I do dig these semi-realistic craft.

#monsterdon

Young Nic Roeg frantically taking notes...

#Monsterdon #TheManWhoFellToEarth

Did they usually just let any ole' person direct movies back then?

#monsterdon

Oh neat, they're flying a rocket salmon to the moon! #Monsterdon

Lotsa big, ponderous & loud air & spacecraft in anything made by this crew.

#Monsterdon

"Hello, Gay! Shall we start?"

.....

#monsterdon

More novelty aerospace equipment, with the long lingering shots of operational logistics. Love it!

#monsterdon
#gerryanderson

@catzilla Clearly an adhesive allergy 😄 #Monsterdon

straker has a fushigi #Monsterdon

"abundant and fertile, able to satisfy their needs." [funky music plays]

#monsterdon

I missed the entire beginning of this movie, just joined for [OMINOUS MUSIC]

#Monsterdon

Troy McClure is giving another monologue next to a desk.
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

#Monsterdon #invasionufo
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Turtleneck man explains the plot based on one eyeball exam.

LEWD UNDOCKING PROCEDURE

#monsterdon

"Driven on by the greatest force in the universe."

Spandex.

#Monsterdon

You'd think if space travel was so traumatic the Yoo Foe people would've sent Row Butts here instead #Monsterdon

dun dun dun DUN DUN whisshwhirrwhissh

#Monsterdon

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#InvasionUFO

OK Question number 3 is why do they come? but I missed Question 2 somehow I was just listening for the three questions dangit

Captain over-extrapolation

#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Ooh, near-miss on the "they are not so different from us" in Capt. Straker's monologue.

#monsterdon

"Why do they come?"

Because it's fun?

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO1980

They got all that info from messing with the eyeball?
#Monsterdon

He's just gonna wear that sleeveless white jumpsuit the whole time, huh?

#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

You can barely see the string on that one!
#monsterdon #InvasionUFO

This soliloquy is like a Usenet post before Usenet. #monsterdon

Can anyone on earth "satisfy their needs"?

#monsterdon

Have they come... for our fags?

#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

You heard it here first kids, doing drugs might save your life someday
#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe my GOD

#monsterdon

Doomed to extinction. DOOMED! #monsterdon #InvasionUFO

ah, the "aliens are harvesting our organs" plot.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #invasionufo
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A cigarette of pondering..