“…lemme just brush off this cocaine dust. Stuff gets everywhere.”

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SEXY FUTURE!

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"Any further questions?"

"Yes. Should we consult at least one non-white country?"

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S.H.A.D.O!

Supreme
Headquarters
Alien
Defense
Organization

One of the sillier backronyms in SF. But it does look cool!

Temu Professor X

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Needless to say this meeting is a bit of a sausage fest....

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Now why weren't they asking these questions when the AI hustlers were demanding trillions for their project?

"A Base on the Moon"

Think big or fuck off

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Imagine the World's governments working together via the UN to deal with a global, civilisational crisis....that's the real Science Fiction

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Ok, so the explosives special effect guys had a ton of fun with this one!!!

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"The clincher is in the back."

Wh- Holy mother of god! Can you DO that with a human tongue? #Monsterdon

...Isn't that the How Not To Be Seen forest? #Monsterdon

@ranjit @Binder

Same people. They did Thunderbirds et al earlier.

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Launching my #monsterdon thread for "Invasion UFO", which I think is based on the 60s scifi series with the fancy miniatures that I started watching and then couldn't decide if it was good or not.

My favorite part of the 60s UFO show was that it was set in the 80s, but their version of the 80s looked even more like the 60s than the 60s did.

Anyway, I think this is a movie in the same setting, maybe?

They're firing lasers made from chunks of lead. #monsterdon

I hope Carl Sagan comes out and says smart stuff

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Wow, so we're watching a clip show. That's a new low.
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@rebeld @Taweret Like especially just that there is a lot of attention paid to the mise-en-scène but the narrative is totally incoherent.

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I award this UFO movie 4 out of 5 gratuitous jet miniatures.

This is a compromise. It would get 1 out of 5 for plot and characterization, and 5 out of 5 for costumes and special effects. This would average to a 3, but it also gets +1 for having a toy boat in it.

The best character was the multi-gendered fishnet nipples. The worst characters were the green aliens, who were rather flavorless for what was supposed to be a planetary existential menace.

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@jsadow @Taweret

Actual scenes, nothing new added I could tell.

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@CactuarJoe I don't know! Was it even a movie?

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This was so slow that I inadvertantly fell asleep and woke up to the end credits. Did I miss anything important? #monsterdon

"Where does the universe end" I don't know but as long as this "movie" does I'm good with it #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

Costumes; Sylvia Anderson

Legend

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"Youfo?"

"deez nuts"

THE END

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anyway, this has been a #monsterdon thread for Invasion: UFO

the credits are rolling
the plot is already forgotten
THE MODELS ARE FANTASTIC.

Bye!

Who the fuck is Peter?
Was there a time jump?
WAIT THAT’S THE ENDING???
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I enjoyed the spaceships

and that was it

ty for joining, everyone!!

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Who the fuck is Peter?
Who the fuck is his sister?
WHAT YEAR IS IT??
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And they fucked off into the voiceover, good night!

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#Monsterdon #InvasionUfo what.... did i watch

There's a weird thing in this movie where the Commander is obsessed with horrific deaths for everyone's family members.

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The rate of explosions has crescendoed to a fever pitch. There may be no you-foes left at this rate

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We return to SHADO headquarters and a fuckton of UFOs are after us now. Stryker tells the moonbase to launch interceptors and the submarine to launch its jet.

Some UFOs go "whirrr whirrr whirrr" followed by "pewpewpew" and then get "kaboom" in sequence as missiles hit them.

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@crowbriarhexe Rocky's gonna Donald Duck it. Crushed plum velvet smoking jacket and 5-way chainmail thong

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"Aliens Explode Everywhere"

Movie ends

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so the attempt at a plot is that the aliens sent a spy craft to infiltrate the UFO defense system by making clones of all the officers, but then when that spy vessel was blown up they just go ahead and attack anyway and presumably get blown to smithereens by the defense system they were trying to spy their way around #monsterdon

#monsterdon When you give someone orders, it's considered polite for them to immediately jump in their laundry chute.

I *thought* the Skydiver captain looked familiar. That’s David Warbeck, who later co-starred in Lucio Fulci’s “The Beyond.”

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We can see another way in which this show inspired X-Com, in that the interior of the alien base makes no sense.

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I'm pretty sure that underwater cables (and volcanoes) don't work like that.

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Wait, why is he fighting a Gorn?

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@crowbriarhexe I do feel inspired to find a way to bring Rocky's chainmail thong destiny into being

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I keep wondering whether blond girl is wearing anything under that net shirt
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The aliens have developed moustache technology!

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Ran out of set, had to turn back

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So, deepfakes. The future is doomed despite all the purple hair. #monsterdon

I want them to bump into Logan's Run

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Not sure why the impersonators needed a mockup of the whole room to just imitate the voices.

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This BETTER end with a “but which one do I shoot?” scene

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‘Reflections in the Water’ is not one of the better episodes to have cut from. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

Oh shit they were mimics the whole time
Truly this is an incredible twist and a profound commentary on the duplicity of man and not at all an economic use of like 187 total minutes of raw footage
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Maybe play the message back on something that didn't just load Oil's Well on your C64

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Sea sleighs!! Oh please have sea-reindeer! 🙏

Rats. No luck. Just motorized.

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I'm a little drunk, is this a Daft Punk video

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To avenge our dead toy boat, we send the nipple submarine to chase down the UFO that shot it. They spot it, then avoid it, then use their periscope, and then decide that the UFO is tapping some underwater volcano to do something.

Also the aliens built a bubble house under the ocean for probably nefarious reasons.

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Every time this movie cuts to an exterior shot I forget it's not puppets, with commensurate shock when a human pops back onscreen.

"No butts captain" he's clearly watching a different film than us

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@CactuarJoe Yep, they’re grabbing from one of the later episodes … and half the original cast is gone because of the break they had in between! #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

Today's #monsterdon is very strange because the plot and characterization is extremely skeletal, but the special effects sequences are constant and all-consuming.

Most of the dialogue is professional chatter, which is realistic for the characters in their situations but also very different from the kind of decision-focused dialog you'd expect from a normal film.

Wait… underwater POWER cable?! Why?

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clearly the island is an evil base, it has that look about it...

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@Taweret fed to you by mom as a kid if you were constipated. Fish oil.

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If the Aliens were smart they'd take out that snooty space computer in orbit

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"My job is to look at the lights lighting up on this board. I am helping"

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Apparently the Aliens just.. die, if they miss 'Wheel'.

"And Jeopardy, sir."

Oh yes and Jeopardy

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Ah, your prisoner is dead after you injected him with experimental drugs....are you the baddies?

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@crowbriarhexe it's for the high g forces.....

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Now HOW can they tell this unconscious alien is "highly intelligent" by viewing him?

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Eddie, this isn’t Star Trek. He doesn’t speak English. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

lol, the alien spacecraft was made out of cocaine

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No, the elerium supply!

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@ohiofi And apparently state-funded, whereas old Jeff T. was a mega-wealthy dude. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

@moira @bunnyhero @nev "sexy puppets....."

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@strangefour

Sometimes you just want to resist the syren song of moon fashion and make your own statement.

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They're not really dressed for forest warfare....

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#monsterdon hahaha that look on Alex Sideburns' face at being told he looks tired. I wasn't paying attention enough to know how their relationship was going before but there's murder in his eyes now

Those things are done bait mate...

"Proceed on foot"

That is what usually happens...

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"Run away!"

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"Fuck that one tree!"

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Characters in this #monsterdon, so far...

aliens (green)
Colonel Strayker (bossman)
"Alec" (Strayker's conversational foil)
Peter (submarine-jet hunk)
Moonbase ladies (enwiggened)
Other SHADO people (generally not enwiggened)

So this is the part of the movie that is focused on selling toys.
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wait, what happened to the purple hair?

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While I was shitposting, more shit happened. A UFO hid under the ocean and then surfaced, to show the audience how skilled the special effects team was.

Most of this show is dedicated to showing the audience how skilled the special effects team is.

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Into Canada again? Looks like all douglas fir and mountains.

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WAIT THEY SAID IT RIGHT THIS TIME
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@jsadow @Rozzychan The purple hair organization crews the moon base and directs the fighters that shoot down the incoming aliens.

They are like relays between the long range detector on the robot satellite and the individual shoe-shaped fighters.

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@bunnyhero if the audience doesn't care, why should the producers

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Alien backstory: the aliens learned how to stop aging but doing so made them sterile and a dying race, so they need to harvest our organs to stay alive.

The aliens must have had a meeting we didn't see where their boss said "We must steal organs from people on other planets to survive!". Shout out to the one alien in that meeting who was like "what, this plan is dumb and bad!" but was overruled.

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Canada mention! This is not a drill, it's the mid 1900s and CANADA HAS BEEN MENTIONED

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Hmm, maybe rather than requesting a new course, you should just like, turn the steering wheel.

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@bunnyhero it was too expensive a special effect to do twice?

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Striker making wild assumptions from very little data

"The aliens clearly like Jazz...."

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The alien UFO pilot wakes up and starts panting and hallucinating and then dies. RIP.

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"It was our inferior band-aid technology that killed him, Commander."

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Please don’t have the alien speak English

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@jsadow here is a wiki for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)

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How do they shrink all the actors down to fit inside the scale model ships?

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eww eww eww eye stuff
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#Monsterdon #InvasionUfo "this isn't an alien, it's just a person in makeup and contact lenses. you know, cause it's a movie."

"Movie Pilots Never Wear Masks"

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