Okay so I've been slowly watching Space 1999 in a watchalong over the past few months and it's weird fun great scifi space horror.
But this? I have no idea what the fuck is going on here. Who is anyone? What is going on?
UFO = bad
but aside from that wtf?
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
They jumped into launch tubes like they are pilots in a really old Super Robot show.
Omg those space ships look so dumb.
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They have the MST3K moon logo on the moon with the purple ladies?
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maybe their organization would be more secret if they didn't put SHADOAN AIRLINES on the side of their plane
"We may be on a top secret lunar base but we still have time for eye makeup"
βIβm sorry, sir.β
βWell, at least itβs given me the opportunity to give a paragraph of exposition.β #Monsterdon
You called it Sky-diver even though itβs CLEARLY a submarine?
I want to know how this guy escaped the morlocks
Wacky butt leering music. #Monsterdon
Ha! The wheelchair guy is straight from Dr. Strangelove!
The sole survivor of the UFO car crash is Colonel Strayker, whose name I probably spelled wrong, but I think he was the main character of the UFO show that I kind of remember.
Anyway, Strayker is off visiting the UN about the alien attack I guess. The UN has a swanky secret meeting room , which matches the kaiju movie trend of having swanky meeting rooms to discuss the kaiju defense plans. Only this time they're discussing alien defense plans.
Oh, just get the shuttles operational. Surely they'll be able to launch 55 times per year and get you the moon base and satellites.
Is that Ed Straker, distant cousin to Ted Striker, who also had an affinity for airplanes?
Damn, girl died before most Disney parents.
#Monsterdon
Gene Krupa is going off!!!!
Sticking rockets to the title is one way to keep it from going stale.
Or for people to know what theyβre watching. Probably kept some butts in seats.
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For much of the 20th century Outer Space was the same 40 photographs spinning around....
Weird computerish font check. Glad to see they are complying with regulations in effect at this time regarding scifi. #monsterdon
Loving this theme tune, reminds me of Boards Of Canada
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Are they so different from us and our human plans?
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My lasting takeaway from this movie is the fucking ear worm of Cotton Eye Joe...
While tonight's #monsterdon had lots of models, explosions and weird shit that was fun to watch, aside from the infiltration plot, I'm still a little unclear what the aliens' high-level plans were. It seems like they were...
1. blow up random stuff
2. ???
3. steal organs from ppl
@ottaross that was just creepy, like is he always thinking like that? dude needs a break.... #Monsterdon
@paco the best place to deliver harrowing and bizarre news of a loved one's death to someone.
Iβm glad I saw this kludged together mess. It wasnβt a very good narrative in isolation, but oh how mod! Thanks, @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for bringing us this sexy and depressing episode of #Monsterdon
Weβve seen long and boring, but what about long and boring and pointless?
After a sequence where one UFO gets through and shoots the computer satellite then itself gets missiled, we get a surreal debriefing sequence where Strayker is telling the submarine guy that his sister was killed by aliens. This is very meaningful and was set up earlier in this film when... um... uh... um... oh oh... hmmm.
Then Strayker does an ending monologue about space and... credits.
Daft ending, chose the wrong episodes to cut from IMO. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon
Anyway, nothing happened but the movie's still over, so as usual you have one last task before we leave the theater:
Was INVASION: UFO (1980) the WORST #Monsterdon movie of the year?
The universe is a spheroidal region seven hundred meters in radius #Monsterdon
lol, does the dude need to know his sister's heart was stolen by aliens?
Let's talk about our victory in the community college atrium
I have never been less interested in the outcome of a massive space battle #Monsterdon
I wonder if some of that announcer dialogue was recorded to stitch the footage together.
This is kinda like the battle of Yavin, except this time it IS a moon
@GeoffWozniak UFOs obey conservation of ninjiutsu
Dammit this is the garbage CHHUUuuuuteee!
lol, things are come to a head, everyone is jumping down their escape tubes and into action
I wish the real world was run like that....
@klu9 more urine content in what I'm reminded of #Monsterdon
These people seem way too calm - even bored - in face of an impending alien invasion #monsterdon
The clones start woodenly rehearsing lines telling the interceptors to not intercept some approaching UFOs. So I guess they built a big set and made clones and hacked SHADO's communications in order to cosplay as SHADO. Strayker concludes that their plan is to take over the real SHADO headquarters and they were watching a dress rehearsal.
"Any sign of the Commander"
was that not your job dude?
You can see Commander Riker's point
"Commander gets lost in modernist interior design"
"They've replicated everything! SHADO screen, SHADO mic, SHADO fax!"
There are easier ways to fool tv screens than creating physical clones of people, surely?
there are easier ways of copying a human's voice.....
We send Strayker to the submarine via a seaplane, because more models, why not, so he can go swim up to the orb that the aliens built underwater. Why that's his job, I'm not sure, but oh well.
Anyway, we get an underwater scene where him and another diver are using little bullet-shaped propeller things to slowly amble around the alien orb. It's odd how slow this scene moves since the rest of the movie was filled with stuff happening every five seconds.
@paco That's the moment where the Commander sends her to get him a coffee. Ugh.
Film Editor: βAnd then we show them slowly move from here to there. Itβll be awesomeβ
@ottaross
Accomplish? Itβs all about doing it with style.
Probably.
#monsterdon
'A stunning documentary on the dangers of medical tourism.'
Unfun fact: there is both legal and illegal medical tourism from the U.S. and Europe to India to get kidney-transplants.
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, and learn the lesson of Thunderball: just because you *can* film underwater doesn't mean that you *should*
"There's a big alien tit at the bottom of the sea!"
I hope Pauly Shore is inside that dome
Just for those keeping track, wigs were not just de rigueur for women.
Ed Straker and "Paul" are both wearing them at this point.
Oh wait we get another space ship, because the model budget for this thing was basically infinity. It looks like a flying toilet plunger with some satellite dishes. It spots some aliens and then the aliens laser it so it explodes. RIP.
oh wow, ticker tape...what was that!!
Iβve heard of laser sharksβ¦ but laser torpedoes?! Wild!
I haven't had this much fun watching models fight each other since Project Runway
Well at least a kaiju isn't attacking the model ship. #Monsterdon
After capturing the alien, Strayker asks him questions but he just blinks back, which is kind of what I'd expect an alien from another planet to do in that situation, because why the fuck would he understand English?
Because our decisions don't make sense, we to use drugs to "break down his resistance", which is probably a crime, but the UFO pilot didn't think to call a lawyer. Instead, he starts screaming and dies. RIP.
oh is the kaiju going to emerge now
Of course they're just going to kill him, aren't they
It's no use... use the torture procedure...
alright...
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:: SCREAMING ::
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his organs realized he was not Original Equipment and he died!
Okay, so in the stuff happening department, submarine guy shot another UFO down, it crashes in canada, we deploy our tracked boxes to capture it. After a goofy submarchinegun fight in the woods, we capture the pilot, but the UFO explodes because the pilot left the coffee machine on.
Put Rocky from Project: Hail Mary in a slutty little chainmail thong send toot
Casually suggests drug torture for interrogation
"We have to remove the hair product from him or he'll die"
What the men lack in wigs they make up for in great boots
This would be easier if you'd already unlocked stun weapons.
Of course, with that helmet on the alien can't hear the guy behind him...
Invasion:Yukon
...it took how many headshots to down that alien?
Black Park near Pinewood! #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Good thing the aliens are stupid.
@ohiofi Same director in many cases β¦ the dude was just not used to directing humans! #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon
More like, ShaDβoh!
SM-3? #Monsterdon
"SHADO Control, Iβd like a double-double and a box of Timbits. Over."
Send in more cannon fodder. #monsterdon
His office only got the brunette assistant, he should have paid extra to get the purple hair premium model. #Monsterdon
@GeoffWozniak my group has a grant in but we won't be able to start work until 2036 due to budgetary reasons #monsterdon
@aburka "Moon Means Purple"
When does Thunderbird 1 land?
ME?? You're saying *I* look tired?? -- was that look
@moira @nev could you have SEXY puppets though? #Monsterdon
@Binder He's very low energy. #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO πΈπ½