"As much cover as a g-string on a belly dancer." Certainly a descriptive script.

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If you're really bad at identifying stuff, anything can be a UFO

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Yoo-foe

All the look-a-like ladies staffing the Moon Base put me in mind of The Barbie Murders, by John Varley. Takes place in a city on the Moon where members of a cult have modified themselves to look like Barbie.

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#monsterdon the skydiver music is funky

Legally Distinct From Bond Theme

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“…we missed the G-String. Repeat. We missed the G-String.”

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UFO is too toyetic to take seriously.
Not that the SHADO forces jets are much better. But they have some Ultraman science patrol charm.
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I love how stubby this little plane is ​:floofHeart:​

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@paco on anyone else a g-string provides tremendous cover. But on a belly dancer? NOTHING.
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#monsterdon Let's hear it for that one henchman with the visualization equipment, having to remember to pronounce it "YOOFO" but only for his absolute freak of a boss. Everyone onboard has to humor him or they get airlocked.

Just so everyone knows, I'm kinda loving this. This is like a US/UK attempt at a serious version of tokusatsu, and I'm kinda here for it.

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The tension is... nowhere.

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And I think there's was only one Skydiver, only one freaking UFO interceptor for the whole planet. #Monsterdon

This film threads the needle between the commercialization of flight and the era where every plane looked like a 747. Anything is possible but we also have real aircraft!

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Hmmm, the one brown guy in this so far. Are they going to let him live for a while?

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"UFO? Or spinning top from the 1967 Montgomery Ward catalog?"

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"Come in low out of the rising sun. Scares the hell out of the brits." #Monsterdon

also I love all the people here equipped with Crystal Audio.

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"...than a g-string on a belly dancer" ??? Have you ever seen a belly dancer?

stubmuffin one to SHADO control

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What in the name of R Buckminster Fuller are these coordinate systems in #Monsterdon

Shane Rimmer, another "Rent-a-Yank" actor in the UK, even tho he was Canadian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Rimmer

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This music is making me feel like they’re going to burst into a Broadway show tune anytime now #Monsterdon

That was a completely inappropriate comparison, Commander. I'm telling HR

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look out! the giant spinning top is on a collision course!

quick, launch the pogs!

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Oh a little cutie patootie UFO #monsterdon

Script editor: Make the dialogue more colorful! Suggestion: "These clouds give as much cover as a g-string on a bellydancer"

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don't think i've cognized one line of dialogue in this whole movie, but that's fine it can just keep going like this for awhile with all different shapes of planes and boats and whatnot #monsterdon

"This is giving us as much cover as a G string on a bellydancer."

Did this win an Academy Award for best writing?

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"I don't like it"

Oh you don't either?

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Leather jackets and mesh shirts.

Watch Skydiver fly!
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"These clouds give as much cover as a g-string on a belly dancer" this script is downright Shakespearean. #Monsterdon #invasionUFO

#monsterdon someone was so proud of writing that g-string line

it's too bad the fourth doctor didn't to finish SHADAIR, it would've been a great episode

(tho' the animated completion is actually pretty good)

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the wee baby jet

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"--as much cover as a G-string on a belly dancer!"

Joel, Crow, and Servo in unison: "MMM-HEY!"

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Is there a good reason to store your flying machines under water?

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is the interface in Gill Sans? could you GET more British

P. S. I only watched the first few episodes of Mad Men but, like others, the anachronistic use of Gill in an American ad agency (plus freaking Lucida Handwriting in the credits?!) broke the ol' suspension of disbelief for me.

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...a WHAT on a WHO

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wow, it was legal to say "G-string on a belly dancer"

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Oh and I bet they think they're soooo clever because the sky and diver parts separate between the plane and the sub.

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Fishnet shirts…hmmmm. That woman didn’t have any top underneath her top. Interesting.

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It's nice that they have time to play Space Team while they do w/e that work was. #Monsterdon

I think I want to install chutes around my house. No more walking from room to room like a chump for me!

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*grooving a little bit in my seat against my will*

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Why is the moon SO DAMN SEXY dammit! #Monsterdon

Ooof ouchie my bends.

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CRT screens. It’s the future! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon ACTION is when everyone's confirming various operations out loud over one another so no one can catch any errors

If this were a #tokusatsu the budget would be microscopic in comparison, and we'd have already have had like three or four fights with aliens already
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Holy smokes, those are moon uniforms, all right.

More slides! Wheeee!

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SHINJIIIII!

GET IN THE EVA!

AND SWING JAZZ!

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I still really don't know anything about what is going on, but if you want stoic, wooden dialogue we've found a winner.

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The world isn't orange enough- engaging visor
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#Monsterdon basically every animator from Studio Gainax watched this growing up

Random nouns, check!

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We do have a pretty awesome atmosphere. No arguments here.

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This dude is totally giving me Weatherman vibes #Monsterdon

"Thank god for the atmosphere, it's the greatest protection we have." Now now. That's nearly political

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How come the aliens don't get motion sickness with all that spinning? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Metallic hair and clothing accents, turtlenecks with jumpsuits, this is the future the Tomorrow People promised us- we really dodge a bullet, didn't we?

dynatherms connected
megathrusters are go

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@strangefour@retro.pizza Best I can do is Gordon Frohman

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Blondie runs a pretty toxic work environment, he puffin sherm in those joints?

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What test is it that measures whether the movie has two named characters that share an artificial hair color

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Enjoying the diversity on the cast.
And the mesh shirts.

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“…the you-foe is moving at mack five."

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Why are we firing on the UFO without trying any kind of contact??

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Waiit, the atmosphere is your best shield?

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Look, say what you will about the acting, but when you get bored you can look at the spinny green thing and the flashing lights!

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only the man in charge gets a Superscience Speedsuit #Monsterdon

@ramsey LMBO!! Unforgettable. #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO 🛸👽

DId he say warn SkyWalker #Monsterdon

Maybe all the interceptors shouldn't have had the same vantage and basically the same shot? Just spit balling here.

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"Get me Alec Freeman!"

We need a soulful folk ballad, stat! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon those pilots could have used some socks to match the female uniforms

Computers are always better when they are clattery we should've kept that #Monsterdon

Are the moon doods wearing blue corduroy?

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virtually all actors have voices higher and tinnier than you would have expected based on their appearances

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*the forbidden snoot boop*

1.5 million mile per second. Still not even 1% the speed of light.

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🎵 70 million miles away & we must have been out of our minds #Monsterdon

Is it just the Miru feed that has all the emotionally charged subtitles for the music?

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CO2 canisters launched!

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Ed Straker is a dick.

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@kshernandez Ah, yes. The camel nuts outfit! #Monsterdon

See thrilling bureaucracy in action! Exhilarating forms and protocols! Elaborate uniforms including snazzy lunar lady wigs! Sophisticated vehicles and gadgets (well, models)! #Monsterdon

Well I'm spent. Back to base I guess. #Monsterdon #invasionUFO

Lt. Uhura is that you #monsterdon

these are great models, honestly.

I MEAN THE SHIPS

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If that UFO puts up an AT field I'm gonna plotz. #Monsterdon

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How do you measure faster than light speed? With the shagadelic barometer?

@That_Damn_Frank I'm gonna call that hope. We are NOT cooked.

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Is that Lt. Green from Thunderbirds?

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Aren't you thankful Glen Larson *didn't* direct this?

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I'm loving the funky music
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[thrilling funky music]

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