Leaving Earth a one star review:
"Hostile, Belligerent, Racist. Avoid."

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#monsterdon This movie is such a good antidote to Project Moonbase from last week. The same cold war era paranoia, but turned to starry-eyed idealism instead of cloak and dagger spy plots.

Plus the rubber monster suits in this one were so much better.

"Welcome to Earth!"
*angry posse of white people

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If anyone is wondering why George looks familiar it’s cause he was in Attack of the Crab Monsters. #monsterdon

there go the queens, out like a disco ball, leaving us a trail of glitter #Monsterdon

"Will will not take your minds, bodies and souls"
Already better than Capitalism

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#monsterdon MONSTER PSEUDOPOD

(I'm really enjoying, of all things, the _pacing_ of this. They're really letting the characters and setting breathe a little, giving us a chance to get to know a bit about each person so that the growing tension of the story actually matters. This is a treat!)

the alien leaving a trail of glitter... so the alien woke up and chose to be gay and do crimes? #Monsterdon

"when are you gonna stop being a badge and start being a human being?!?", a message for all the ACAB out there? #Monsterdon

the aliens stealing parts from the local Radio Shack, like a couple of brokeass dweebs #Monsterdon

#monsterdon AND THAT'S A WRECK

Except not actually, that was silly and sincere and enjoyable! Nobody got walloped by octopus tentacles and nothing fucked off into the sea but @k8eb and I both clapped at that goofy closing monologue.

Thank you, @Taweret@octodon.social! Thank you, everyone! Great choice!!

Ellen in that cocktail dress but with sensible shoes. how is this movie even #Monsterdon

ELLEN GOT EYEANUSED! *50s scream queen screech* #Monsterdon

THE EYEANUS WENT FOR GEORGE, THE UNMARRIED QUESTIONABLY BACHELOR GEORGE!!!! #Monsterdon

a thousand ways a desert kill... does that make you horny?!?!
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@brooke Maybe she screamed because it reminded her of when U2 tried to make her download their album. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon OMG the Blu-Ray has a 3D version, and there is a commentary _subtitle track_

OK OK OK focus, watch the movie Ben

(this one is gonna be good, I can feel it in my appendix!!)

did he say to keep the posse or the pussy? i'll probably never know... #Monsterdon

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I don't watch the movies or follow this tag, but I absolutely love the unhinged snark from all of you.
Thank you.

#monsterdon 92°F ~= 33.3°C, for those following along at home. The sheriff is right, at that temperature I _do_ get mighty irritable. Probably not irritable enough to commit murder though. Also I probably would not choose to wear a tweed jacket at that temperature.

"i toldya you would freak out if you saw me without my makeup on", the EYEANUS, probably #Monsterdon

"Wayne Observatory"

Pfft, who wants to stare at wayne all day?

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#monsterdon Man, that flying tracking shot of the car, the up-looking shot at the belly of the autocopter as it landed - these are some surprisingly adventurous camera angles, and some surprisingly high production values!

(OK, that little flashlight/searchlight in the rear-view mirror is actually really nifty!)

MONSTER JOSHUA TREE

She's got a good scream on her, I'll give her that.

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#monsterdon Perfect monster movie scream, textbook, Platonic ideal. No notes.

lol, that's not how you hail a ride buddy

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BTW this shot with Frank and George in the dark at the hallway, looked like out of a Stanley Kubrick movie #Monsterdon

*theremin intensifies*
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and there's our cockblocking meteor, totally ruining the mood.
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@paco THAT's WHO HE IS!!! i knew i knew that face but didn't know from where. wow. he was young in this, i guess. #Monsterdon

Awwww, that was fun. And ended coherently!

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I MEAN JOHN! alien John even has a gay snap; and disappeared in a cloud of ballroom smoke. this movie totally about the queerfolks. #Monsterdon

Think Humanity utterly deserves this lecture tbh

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#monsterdon Something about that cordon of gun-wielding townsfolk assembled by the sheriff as Frank the Alien drove straight towards their levelled guns really reminded me of E.T. the Extraterrestrial for a second.

If Aliens were holding my girlfriend hostage I wouldn't be on their side John, just saying that....

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Well I'm sure humans look pretty fucked up to them John, you bigot

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am expecting to see Stinky Pete come out of that mine #Monsterdon

uh-oh... girlfriend is gonna get the EYEANUS.... i know cuz the theremine is intensifying. #Monsterdon

"Something's happened to Frank"
"He's dead"
*drives off

Very Pulp Fiction

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Straight white guy in the 50s suddenly finding out nobody believes his word.....oh my....the dystopia....

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so many purple cars.....

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Ah, classic small town behaviour; "you're not from round here, are you John?"

Nor were your great grandparents lad, and yet here you all are now....

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There are a lot of purple and lilac cars in this colourised version, and the roads have massive cycle lanes that you'd only see in Europe, ....and sometimes half a man's face will disappear...

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Pete is being way too sensible for this genre.

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Reuse that special effect, don't be ashamed, you put a lot of effort into that

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"we leave this planet and never fucking look back"

That's the Zoo Hypothesis right there

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@SnoopJ I feel like peaceful aliens are more common in written SF than TV/movies.

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that is the gayest of Johns (not Franks) with that silk scarf. this is totally about the gays. #Monsterdon

did he just kill Ellen with just a gun while she could have halved him with her Harry Potter wand?!?! #Monsterdon

NOOOOOOOO, NOT CREEPY FRANK!
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Matt is totally ACAB isn't he? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon (I swear I did not time my laundry cycle to coincide with Putnam's clothing disappearing! That was sheer coincidence!)

Brakes were almost non-existent back then

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@CactuarJoe "Just repair the ship and get the hell off this mad planet before......oh no..."

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Does the aliens move thru telephone wires with theremim sounds?
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THE EYEANUS STRIKES AGAIN! poor Toby. #Monsterdon

WHAAAAAAAT THERE'S TWO GEORGES!!! #Monsterdon

don't let them ride you hard *wink wink nudge nudge* #Monsterdon

"There was a time that people thought the earth was flat..."
Oh, poor Johnny, he future would really disappoint him.
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The Doctor with some classic gaslighting, bet he does that on his wife all the time

"You might have thought you saw me with the maid Darling, but you are wrong, wrong wrong."

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IT'S THE EYEANUS!!!! #Monsterdon

🗣️ THIS CITY IS MADE OF ROCK & ROLL
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"Urggghh, HU-mans'!" then closes the door and brings down a landslide.

Wise being.

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#monsterdon Monster eyeball & point of view shot..?

Hexagons _are_ the most extraterrestrial of all the polygons, of course.

Ooh is that an autocopter?? I haven't seen one of those since Annie (1982)!

#monsterdon MONSTER BOMB

Goodness, that was quite the gasoline explosion. Wait a dang minute, this movie had a budget!! Did we accidentally pick a good movie? What in hades is going on here??

DO NOT LEAVE A TELESCOPE POINTED AT THE SUN

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This that actually the Discordian "Bob" right there?

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I love #Monsterdon nights. I don't watch the movies but the thread of commentary is plenty entertaining! 🍿 🍿

@Taweret@octodon.social #monsterdon. I thought he detonated the cave entrance to keep the town posse out long enough for the aliens to get their ship fixed and take off.

@blogdiva "Earth is too straight for this fabulous Galaxy!"

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One gray hand, one colorized hand

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"time for another 'thinking cigarette'"

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lol, aliens shat glitter all over John's house

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I can see the string on the Spider!

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#monsterdon You know what? I have a lot of sympathy for a creature that generally expects people to be horrified by the sight of it, but doesn't blame people for that reaction.

Genuinely good bit of dialog there between Putnam and the creature. Some of the subtext wasn't delightful, but that scene was good!

John wants to see the eye-dick
Show john the eye-dick

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well, at least the EYEANUS has splendid fashion taste but not sense. that Dior-esque cocktail dress is too skimpy for that desert cold weather #Monsterdon

Temptress as she is, that dress is not ideal for the desert

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#monsterdon "Wayne Observatory, Private Property"

Egads, is this a Batman movie??

I really hope it turns out the aliens are just trying to repair their ship and actually DON'T mean any harm. That'd be a nice switch for this kinda movie. #Monsterdon

Frankengeorge broke into the hardware store, got it

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Okay, this plot is turning into something extremely classic SF. Aliens have interplanetary (if not interstellar) travel and are doing... something... with humans to get around. But also need/can use present day (well 1950s) Earth tech.

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Frank run off with George, get over it Herero's

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feel like they're going to find the delorean from Back to The Future III in there.....

Oh, they're dead too. Eye-dick conquers all

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oh wow, are these 'old timey prospectin' types?
Were they still a thing by then?

Oh, eye-dick took one out already!

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their hair suffers not one tussle with driving without a roof. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh jeez the monster is dropping a trail of glitter?

Body snatching drag queens from outer space??

"Soon as I find a wife like yours"

he's doing your wife mate.

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"Do me up against the tree John, so the Alien can watch...."

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! #Monsterdon

Helluva Bechdel Test failure there "I don't know, what does John think?"

oofff, there's going to be a lot of this, isn't there?

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Martians died out 3 billion years ago lads, ......the planet is ours now 😈

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#monsterdon Oh no! A mysterious earthquake, a pit, and rocks falling in! The crab people are on the move, run!

white man doing stupid white man things. btw, isn't this dude in another outerspace movie we saw recently? #Monsterdon

Men will rush off into a meteor crater than propose....

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HA! they totally used helicopters for that opening scene. there's one in the movie. and OMGit has no hatch; it's totally open. those things are so loud and they had no ear protection. yikes!
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oooh, you know they mean serious business cuz the meteor is an aliencraft and it's portal is a pentagon and inside is some nuclear thingamajig
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Hexagons are the bestagons
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Classic 50s Patriarchal scene, even smoking a pipe

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theremin sounds. rotating planet. exploding meterorite. we're on! #Monsterdon