finished watching Invasion: UFO πππππ
Plenty of fun miniatures & music but... no plot???
Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
So we um...had too foes and we instituted Luxury Gay Soace Vommunism ti build a sexy moonbase to defend against them but we were bad at it but then we got good at it and shot them all down...?
THE END
Where does it end?
Where does it begin?
What just happened?
Why was all of...this?
I dunno but this #Monsterdon was out of this world gay which made it better. Thanks @Taweret for invading our evening with Yoo Foes!
Also, I had a typo in my hashtag for half of the movie so that was a thing. :D
Digging the deep space tune
why are they hiding that aliens are killing people?
If anything could be bleak and grey, it is Slough. I think it explains a lot about their acting. Do you know how grueling it is to commute to Slough?
@_m_cubed_ Um something about organ transplants and the world can never know and more explosions.
As expected, it didnβt make any sense. But I love love love the costumes, sountrack and visuals. Who cares if itβs terrible???
Thanks everyone who joined today, this was GROOVY, yβall deserve fishnets and purple hair in your lives! Do not drink colloidal silver. Thanks @Taweret
for organizing!
#monsterdon
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Who am I?
What was this all about?
We have some thinkins to do!
Thanks @Taweret for hosting, and to all the #monsterdon voyagers!
HIGH SCORE: G G G
@fabio pretty sure we need a complex number to fill in that slot
This film was a waste of my sarcasm. #Monsterdon
zzzzZZZZ *snrk* What? it's over? Gerry Anderson has some cool toys, but as per usual wasn't really able to tell a story with them. Thanks again to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants and keep a sharp eye out for You-Foes in your area. #Monsterdon #invasionUFO
So this whole plot was "what happened to my sister?"
I'll tell you in an hour
#Monsterdon
This is a bad movie and you should feel bad about yourselves.
#monsterdon
So, that was technically a movie. Does the TV series make sense?
#Monsterdon #invasionufo
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Invasion: UFO asked the question: can you make a movie without a plot consisting of sets, models, clothing, hair, defiant jazz and explosions?
The answer is no. But I love that they tried.
Thanks @Taweret and all other #monsterdonians for another crime against cinema!
Oh wow we get new music for the end of this sequence... we traded the funk for synths.
Y'know usually I'd appreciate a denouement in a #Monsterdon film, but that was just *inexplicable.*
His sister was taken by aliens. So ... this is X-Files? #Monsterdon
Y'know they did an even worse job of putting together a "movie" plot from all these episodes than I thought they would. I mean, there isn't really a good way to make this work in an episodic series regardless? But this was a _particularly_ weak effort.
What the hell is this ending. OMFG. #monsterdon
Well, that sure was a... series of images that were printed on a reel of film at some point...
Sheβs dead! #monsterdon
I bet some of these characters have names. #monsterdon
so, thats the final battle. A lot of pew-pews, and no thrill at all
#monsterdon
#invasionufo1980
I'm just glad they don't also have fishnet trousers.
We get sick of waiting for Strayker to win his knife fight, so we shoot torpedoes at the base to explode it. I thought they were planting bombs, but oh well.
Also, it looked like the torpedo firing sequence used stock footage, which is only surprising because everything else in this #monsterdon was a custom made something.
Anyway, after blowing up the orb, Strayker returns, or maybe his evil clone returns, who knows. Also, we blow up an island for fun and profit.
Oh great, send the bomb-nosed spaceships out again. Those have worked so well in the past.
Tempted to just play Wily's Castle over the rest of this
Space fire #monsterdon
Yes, these three interceptors will destroy a wave of twenty UFOs, even though we've seen them being completely ineffective twice before. #Monsterdon
The gunner up there sure sits pretty casual for military guy firing the most devastating weapons we have.
Meanwhile the captain is trying to figure out who farted.
#monsterdon
After leaving, the two real earthlings leave to run around corridors and I guess plant bombs to explode the alien base. The submarine sees one diver returning, but it might have an evil clone on it, I'm not sure.
Also, many UFOs are heading toward Earth.
Meanwhile, in the giant bubble, Strayker has a knife fight with a mustache man in the glowing wall warehouse and gets his ass kicked.
Underwater fire #monsterdon
UNDERWATER FIRE #monsterdon #InvasionUFO
All undersea cables must have fuses in them from now on, I'm declaring it
There goes Cornwall's transatlantic internet connection #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
#monsterdon travel a million miles with beam weapons and still use magnetic recording tape?
you almost could do something with how the aliens have made identical copies of you and the entire crew if you maybe didn't spend 45 minutes flying jets around #monsterdon
Judo chop, the universal language
I can watch guys that look like my racist neighbors beat on each other all day
@ohiofi reminds me of that episode of The Orville
@nev I'm certain I saw the floors from Dr Who and the Daleks at one point
Did I hear only another eight minutes?
i feel like i'm watching an episode of blake's 7
I donβt see how this goes on for another 10 minutes
Eventually we break into the alien orb and discover its top is mostly empty inside, like a big circus tent. Which seems odd for an underwater base.
I think the earthlings descend offscreen, because now we see them in a hallway where the walls are made of glowing and the doors are dagger operated. And then we find... um... a copy of the SHADO base headquarters inside because... what?
We go hide, only to watch SHADO crew and a clone of Strayker step into the room.
@nev The long-weekend work-from-home overtime B-plot is holding this whole thing together, if we're being honest
@cargot_robbie Pretty sure #Monsterdon chat is of one mind with you here
it's a dr. who set!
#Monsterdon
You guys are gonna shit your wetsuits when that thing opens its one eye #Monsterdon
am I supposed to know what's going on tho
@nev
Have you checked out their chests? That low moon gravity is working wonders. π
Good to see the COMMANDER OF THE ENTIRE MISSION is suiting up to go out in the water and investigate this giant orb. #monsterdon
Blonde lady is making the exact same stoned faces I've been making
Don't make fun of me, 1974
skydiver coffee? get me some too while you're at it
#Monsterdon
@rebeld oh fascinating I didn't notice... probably because of the more normal coloration. #monsterdon
please no scuba diving action scene....
βI wonder what SkyDiver will find at the end of that cableβ¦β
"the UFO has been using a volcano as a gateway to the atlantic" dog what do you mean it is an OCEAN they can go into it from EVERYWHERE #monsterdon
You foe?
No, me friend.
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
...Wait, I looked away for a minute, the aliens are stealing cable now? #Monsterdon
this movie just keeps going huh
@arrjay yes, please #Monsterdon
Another mesh sub woman is flashing us her 70s boobs.
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
@ohiofi it looks like a stamina blade but not - and it's not even tournament legal, not with those explosives inside
Because the aliens hate it when we have nice things they attack our toy boat.
For some reason they decided the most logical way to do that was to launch a missile from their underwater space ship and have that missile shoot lasers at the boat.
The crew of the boat is like "oh fuck we're under attack aaaah!" and then their boat sinks. RIP.
#monsterdon Why can't the submarine captain get a real shirt?
Was that the @miru stream lagging or did that thunder I heard before mess with my internet?
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
"Sir, they report being under attack by flying fish"
Well that's obviously a prank distress call, ignore it.
#Monsterdon
@arrjay
We can only hope it does
Technically this isnβt a UFO but an USO
They still have oceangoing ships in THE FUTURE (which was, what 1992?) #monsterdon
Meanwhile on Monster Island
they're just going to use the jamie XX antecedent track for 15 seconds in a throwaway scene? unforgivable waste #monsterdon
are they in the Strait of Hormuz or something?
#monsterdon the wounded alien looks like an East German techno artist.
Well the drug definitely lowered his resistance... to dying.
#monsterdon
Well, we've killed two aliens now. Pretty sure this one was a Geneva Convention violation, so that's neat. #Monsterdon
Donβt give the alien drugs
Glad we had this assortment of... truth serums? Torture drugs? Wtf? #monsterdon
Not sure if I'd rather work on the submarine or the moonbase. #monsterdon
Now HOW can they tell this unconscious alien is "highly intelligent" by viewing him?
you've been hired by a secret anti-alien organization. pick your workplace.
How are you judging intelligence on an unconscious alien?!
The yoofo was fulla cocaine sir
You travel 10 light years, you get to dress however you damn well please!
Every moment of this silently sneaking through the forest is plot-critical
#monsterdon In retrospect, we really should have sent more than three guys to arrest the alien.
men wandering around in the woods. Now we're talking! This is the classic Doctor Who style action I was expecting.
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
inventory of SHADO hardware in this #monsterdon
supersonic transport plane
silly corridor car
tracked APC
computer satellite
moonbase fighter
moonbase shuttle
moonbase shuttle launcher airplane
submarine
jet launched from submarine
...probably other things I forgot about.
"There it is!" on the same Hornby train set scenery baseboard as us #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
SHADO-2 it's your time to shine
#Monsterdon
So there is a regulation about women's hairdos in certain postions? I guess the means purple is required for the moon.