@Lazarou Space: 1999 was originally conceived as UFO Series 2, tentatively titled "UFO: 1999" - so you're not even a little wrong.
✅High heel chrome onesies
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Speaking of hotness, it is 10 years in the future and we now have our secret underground anti-alien base, staffed at least 50% by women with the tight butts and the tight jumpsuits. They also have a silly little car to drive through the corridors.
Is this the same timeline as Space 1999 or was just everyone doing moonbases back then?
The Purple Headed Ladies are the best thing of this show I think...
This is cute
The casual calm of a future in which a man isn't afraid to wear a white onesie with a maroon turtleneck.
You can tell we're in the future because my shirt and pants are the same garment. #monsterdon
#monsterdon And next, the PANCREAS!
Did we need to cut to him blowing some cocaine off his desk? Is this vital to the plot? #Monsterdon
I bet they had pretty good drugs on this set.... #monsterdon
you foe sightings
It’s a groovy swinging moon base baby!
Sylvia Anderson cutting loose with the costumes here. Real Space 1999 feel here.
Things got a lot groovier in 10 years. #Monsterdon
SHADO is not at all a threatening evil organization name.
This music is too jazzy.
#Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
80s from the neck up, 60s all the way down
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Shagadelic
all their budget went into tailoring THAT OUTFIT
All female employees are ready for yoga at all times. #monsterdon
This meeting is adjourned, you'll pay for the whole seat BUT YOULL ONLY NEEED THE EEEEEEEEDGE.
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The UFO Tv series only had one season and it was tanking. So the second season was called off but that lead to Gerry Anderson to develop Space:1999. #Monsterdon
"I understand you have three parakeets. I hope you never have to watch them shoved into a blender beak-first." #Monsterdon
Threaten Duvall's daughters, power move
NO ONE WILL BE SEATED DURING THE RIVETING BUREAUCRACY SCENE
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A base on the moon? Space 1999!!
Actually I think Space 1999 started out as a third season for UFO that got retooled.
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None of these actors seems even a little interested to be there. #monsterdon
He seemed more flabbergasted by satellites than a base on the moon #monsterdon
Submarines on the Moon? #monsterdon #InvasionUFO
Not every day we set up a group like SHADO. We've already cut back enough that we lost the W from the name. Give us the funding.
Why do half of these character sound like they are dubbed? The blonde (lead?) guy sounds like Phil Hartman is dubbing him.
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After an opening that shows us space and a psychedelic typeface, we see some people filming stuff in the woods and then they get machinegunned, I think by aliens.
We then meet some army dudes zooming along in a bus escorted by motorcycles that gets attacked by aliens. I think. Maybe it's land mines, but I think it's aliens.
Oh wait, there's a UFO shooting them, it's definitely aliens. Then the car crashes and explodes, burning a secret file.
This feels like one of those X-COM monthly review screens.
#monsterdon All files get a pleasure rub-down before they can be taken seriously.
Oh no. They're being attacked by rogue flashpots. #monsterdon
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These aliens have awesome vehicle location skills but poor aim..
Hey hey motorcyclist. Where's your hands free device???
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If I was not paying attention I would think this was a sequence out of Top Secret! #monsterdon
This is what it looks like now
Left: Video player with 1080p 4:3 version of film downloaded from Youtube with YtDownloader
#monsterdon they've discovered the Epstein files
General Pert and Popular there. #Monsterdon
Gunfire and drum solo scene, right off the bat. That's the 1970s.
Soundtrack by Buddy Rich
What was Peter going to do with two ladies and video camera in the woods?
We're being fired on by the Birdman soundtrack
#monsterdon I love when the movie title fires its thrusters and runs over the audience
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#InvasionUFO
this music sounds like it's being played back from a 1978 cassette
I'm getting Battlestar: Galactica: TOS from these credits. #Monsterdon
Sweet seventies computer font titles = EXCELLENT MOVIE. #monsterdon #InvasionUFO
Which. Authors!?
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Running behind the group stream, trying to catch up to the disjointed commentary of events I figured I would watch and piece it together
Now having reached the end of the movie I see that the confused collisions of scenes I was hearing about were the accurate representation
So the aliens have build a secret Minecraft lair under a farm?
#Monsterdon #TheyCameFromBeyondSpace
He’s really annoying this base
#Monsterdon. Didn't I see this in a James Bond? Dr. No?
Girl? There's never been a girl here. This gas station is strictly for boys only.
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Why so stingy on the horn arooogas?
The fence is electrified, you say? Nothing my implanted silver skull plate can't handle.
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@moira a boring underwater episode you say? *gasp #Monsterdon
Alien getting a loan not on my bingo
It's a groovy jazz space rock #monsterdon
Ifo didfo notfo likefo howfo theyfo saidfo ufo.
RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/116593258071804252
Like, one of the things that's interesting about Straker is that he _is_ a cold fish. He's _terrible_ at human emotions, he can't build a home life to save his ass, and emotionally he's arguably as alien as anyone else in the series. That's what made Confetti Check A-OK an interesting episode, _once you know the characters_. But he _is_ a pretty good military commander, and he's not how he is intentionally - it's just how he is in general. He _wants_ emotional connection but is barely capable of it.
@yatsu that would have been a better ending. just as confusing, but better #Monsterdon
@chris was it though
"THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE"
Ooo dirty
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"invasion UFO" was like "Gozilla: Final Wars" at 5 frames per second. They both have everything happen that can possibly happen, and in random order. But there was so much...nothing in Invasion UFO.
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The underwater episode that they used in this is one of the worst episodes of the original series too, at least, of the ones I remember. Boring and annoying, despite some utterly wasted nice set builds.
@strangefour @GeoffWozniak The UFO series is really great, builds up suspense over time. SHADO is weird, but weird like Heinlein's secret organizations; they're using futuristic skills, now. The toy ships could be better, but they're a step up from Thunderbirds.
The problem is when you cut bits of 6 eps out of 26 into a "movie" you get gibberish. And they didn't even use the series theme, which is banging'.
Go watch the show, I promise it's better.
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I think after watching that whole thing I am beyond space myself
@jonny silly person- this movie made no attempt at emotional weight!
Thanks all, didn't love that movie, but you all rock, as always.
@_m_cubed_ no, in fact I think you have done the opposite of missing anything important
It was made by cutting bits of episodes of the 1970 TV series UFO together.
So made 7 years before Star Wars.
I'm very grateful that is over.
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@gblues don';t we all?
I'm trying to imagine that SkyDiver Captain ironing(?) and putting on his mesh uniform shirt in the morning, checking out how hairy he looks in the mirror, and maybe shaving his chest.
Movies like this are feeded on AI everyday.
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#invasionufo1980
I’m asking myself, was that an abrupt ending? Debatable.
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#monsterdon "keep watching the skies!"
@peterries It is not. The TV series was made in 1970. This edit-together into a fake "movie" was done in 1980.
I'm staying tuned into @miru@social.miyaku.media for a double feature of #theyCameFromBeyondSpace1967 #Monsterdon
@jonny The speech was extra weird because there was no similar prologue and it related to no theme in the movie.
1980?!? This was made after Star Wars and still looked like that? How??!?
OK so "UFO" the series started to autoplay on Tubi after that mess, and the opening credits of the first episode already make more sense and are way cooler than the entirety of what we just watched #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO
@Newpa_Hasai Sometimes we joke about these movies just being, like, scenes that happen to sit next to each other, but Invasion: UFO *really was* #Monsterdon
Thanks, @Cherizilla.
That was super fucking......boring. Thanks for the company #monsterdon ers. Take care. See ya soon.
@dogwelder even though i was 15 minutes late, you aren't allowed to base the emotional weight of a movie around a character that is only seen in the first 15 minutes and never mentioned again #monsterdon
well. there was sort a plot (or three) if you squinted hard enough, but, uh, i guess the miniature work was cool, and the mesh shirts sure were something. there's a credit for Continuity, but i sure couldn't find any. thanks for a great Monsterdon, everybody!
That movie was entirely vibes and I think I'm okay with that. No plot, only vibes. But LOTS of vibes. Intense vibes. ...FUNKY vibes.
Goodnight #monsterdon! See you next week and follow @Taweret to vote for the weekly movie if you don't already!
I love how many models and mini sets we got in this one. Different than the kaiju movies, but neat.
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Those tubes look so fun to jump into
was that a movie? the climax where they just destroyed every UFO without a hint of a challenge had a casualty? but we don't knwo who the hell died anyway, so we get a perfunctory 30 second overlaid speech about uh where does the universe begin??? #monsterdon
Well that ended.
I'd say there was some thinning of interest towards the end there. But were they trying to hint with the closeup on the Commander's eyes that maybe he was the fake? Except the subsequent dialogue does not seem to bear that out. #Monsterdon
Didn’t have the budget for fancy fronted closing credits.