The NRA would like to thank everyone for purchasing a gun as shown by this potentially tragic scenario

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I'm just now realizing that we have been given absolutely no motivation for the zombies. Unclear if they're flesh-eaters, gone violent with madness, or what?

Just ghoulies.

#Monsterdon

Should they throw the guns away though? There are other Truckers out there, and projectionists....

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Cheery Sis turns off the lights, allowing Arcade Bellhop to escape. She shows up to rescue the kids and stick up the medical techs. My favorite part of this is when she takes a stuffed bunny that the kids throw her and keeps holding it in her non-gun hand.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Was the whole base in that jeep? Because it seemed busier than that

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Continuing with his theater kid vibes, Chakotay has dressed like a cowboy and drives up to bother a guard at the gateway to the secret base, talking as redneck as possible. He beckons the guard over to look at the girl in his car trunk, who is an alive Cheery Sis!

Apparently Beige Science Lady was Not Evil and just knocked the sister unconscious to fool the other Beige Scientists into thinking she was dead. Surprise attacking the guard, they sneak into the base.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Wait, so cheerleaders are going to repopulate the earth? Decide already.

#monsterdon

Beltran calling himself 'Hank', offering up drugged women as bait.....he's really gone MAGA

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Dressed as Santa Claus because this movie is weird, Chakotay arrives at the radio station, carrying presents. He's looking for Arcade Bellhop, but meets Beige Lady instead, who is pointing a gun at him, because is Lawful Evil.

While loading up a suicide syringe and stabbing herself, Beige Lady explains that some of the evil comet air got into their secret underground base, which will turn the base people to dust. She tells Chakotay that he is cute and then dies.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Have YOU ever had hepatitis

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Beige Lady and the other Beige Guy have a pleasant discussion about possibly taking other people back to the base, and then the Beige Lady shoots him in a scene that reminds me of Tarantino movies, just less long-winded.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

WTF. Also, I guess everyone's doomed

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I also always let anyone who I just met inject me with unknown substances.

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For a zombie movie, we're very low on zombies.

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The whole area is a monument to consumerism! It's like this guy has never been to America before.

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#monsterdon "You don't get it, miss. I can't have you holding one of my people hostage." *shoots his buddy*

"You're crazy!"

"I'm not crazy. I just don't give a fuck!"

omg they're nihilists

You got hand it to Willie, he at least stopped the music

#monsterdon

I think the sunglasses-wearing ruffians were based on a Ric Ocasek album cover.

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I've just realized this movie isn't very serious, is it?

#monsterdon

80's music stops for nothing

Not zombies, not gun battles

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Why do all the men in this timeline wear leather gloves?

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Apocalypse-proof hairstyles #monsterdon

I think its notable that the underground base uses a circular labrynth as a motif. it seems like its in a cave but with some surface components (like a helicopter port and a security fence in the desert).

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I think we're into the part of the screenplay where the screenwriter isn't sure how to stretch the project to a full 90min movie.

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In the very next scene, we found some submachineguns and the girls are testing them by blasting a car. Cheery Sis pretends to be mad at Arcade Bellhop for stealing Chakotay, but it is a joke. Ha ha we say, ha ha.

In the next scene, Chakotay is driving a semi up to his parents' house in San Diego. Their house is playing Feliz Navidad because it is Christmas and they are Mexican, I think that is the background music logic.

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“Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.” #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Meanwhile, Chakotay is doing situps to either stay in shape or show how fit he is, or possibly because he's bored. Arcade Bellhop visits him, and he explains that he has to go to San Diego to see if his family has turned into dust people or not.

Arcade Bellhop explains her backstory that she was raised to be an Action Girl by her weird rich parents. Chakotay asks about her boyfriend, Bootleg Joe, who she is over and now horny for Chakotay.

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@ottaross I feel like a blacklight on the walls and furniture would reveal a horror story in itself #monsterdon

If you are wondering where she got the Uzi, remember, this is America #monsterdon

Apocalypse or not, cheerleaders with be armed with machine guys in America

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Yeah, this audio-mix is trash.

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I'm not sure I could hang out for that long in the Beetlejuice-themed radio station.

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@JoeWynne "chekovs underwear scene" #monsterdon

Our heroes talk about going to an army base to get some automatic weapons, because Arcade Bellhop is also a gun nut and wants a submachinegun.

While discussing this plan, they get a call that they're not sure where its from. Turns out its from a secret research facility where we meet new characters, the Beige Science Masters, who debate rescuing them. They leave the phone off the hook so the audience and the Beige Science Masters can listen to them bicker.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Scientists bickering over experimental results, peak realism

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"Wouldn't it be cool if I had my own radio station?"

Every man with a podcast

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Exploring the radio station we are ambushed by an Ethnic Tough, who is also Chakotay, captain of the USS Protostar. His name is "Hector" and I haven't thought of a better name for him that's not a voyager reference. Fuck it, I'm calling him Chakotay.

I think he intends to rob them, but then decides that they are hot so he'll be friendly instead and preaches the path of cooperation (after telling them a story about a zombie eating someone).

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Can zombies use telephones?

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They're eating the cats!

Too soon

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Deciding that it is bad to be alone in the world, the sisters go on a roadtrip to the radio station that is still broadcasting live, hoping to find a DJ who I am hoping is a ghostly mysterious figure.

Anyway, because everything is weird, the radio station is like this... giant empty garage but with some swanky furniture and then a small island of recording equipment automatically playing the voice of the DJ.

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Discount Eric Estrada!!

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#monsterdon "Look!" *pours red dust out of a white sneaker* "Here's Chuck!"

Chuck... Taylor..?

Ahh - the small-suitcase-sized radio to carry your tunes around. Those were the days.

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Another random encounter as Arcade Bellhop finds an abandoned car idling on a major urban street, playing Christmas music from its radio. After she leaves, in a functional but adgetated... ajutated, adjugatated... um... "distressed" state... some rock music plays to remind the audience that she's on a cool motorcycle. She zooms past some people who were turned to dust.

#monsterdon #nightofthecomet

@floatybirb "Arcade Bellhop" did a John Peel session in 1994 #monsterdon

Motorcycle starts on the first try. Trope: averted. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Funnily enough that red sky is how Sydney looked when Australia burned down, remember that?

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What? No freaking out about AIDS?

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I will also point out that the projector booth room is covered in steel, and so Arcade Bellhop and Bootleg Joe have a silly argument about whether superman can see through lead or steel (Arcade Bellhop is right).

In the morning both of them have not been turned to dust, probably because comet dustification beams can't penetrate steel fuel. Bootleg Joe is mad that no one showed up to buy his bootleg video, so he leaves in a huff to find his buyer.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Too much negotiation with the zombie

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That big red wrench is giving me Half Life:Opposing Force vibes.

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This movie better not end up in a shopping mall

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Zombie even politely removed the body

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"Yeah, everyone just got naked and left their clothes on the ground, normal day"

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Anyway, the comet comes and we get a spooky light show, followed by some even spookier music, and even even spookier footage of empty streets, boring empty modern architecture, empty swimming pools and also empty houses.

Finally, the camera pans to a table with refreshments and we see empty clothes covered in reddish dust! Somehow this comet has transmuted its observers into dust! Oh no, comets aren't supposed to do that!

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The world will be repopulated by animatronic clowns.

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I guess there's a comet coming tonight so everyone is partying because stuff happening in space is cool, but maybe Arcade Bellhop will miss this due to making out with Bootleg Joe in the projector room.

Also, Arcade Bellhop has a rich milf mom (Madaam Megaperm) and a sister (Lil Perma), whom she gets to make up an excuse for her about not being outside at the party tonight.

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Nice touch with the 'works of Man' carrying on without us. Always enjoyed that idea

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OMG the sky effects are.......well there're there!

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#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet After the Helpful Narration, we see a montage of 1980s shenanigans and then are introduced to a character, a hot movie theater worker who is good at arcade games. For once I heard her name, which is "Regina", but I will also call her Arcade Bellhop. We meet her slacking off at work by playing video games, which suggests that she's already living in 2024.

Discount Michael J. Fox!!

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#NightOfTheComet opens with a starfield and a narrator explaining that since "before recorded time" a comet has been zooming through space; it visited earth 65 million years ago and made the dinosaurs go away, which is suspicious behavior for a comet.

Also, the comet looks like a flying glowing ball instead of what a comet normally looks like. Someone report this astronomical offense to the ghost of Carl Sagan.

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Comets are not a one night thing!

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The Projectionists attempt to act with a phone is making me uncomfortable for him

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Ohhh, the old dude played the horror movie guy in Gremlins 2, the one dressed as Bela Lugosi

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Video game addiction is real, kids #monsterdon

lol, all these people will be dust shortly

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It holds up well for an every 40 year viewing. For the first viewing, of course, was not "retro" hair and music 😀 Wonder how it will look in 2064. #Monsterdon

Uncomfortable clothing and obeying walk signals, these are the bedrock upon which the new civilization will be built. #Monsterdon

If Samantha wore an oversized Mexican hat......

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best line is still "Daddy would've got us Uzis."

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@plaidtron3000 @Infoseepage This all happened before cottagecore had been invented #monsterdon

So hey, if the dog got turned into dust, that means almost all animals are either dust or animal zombies now, right? #monsterdon

@Infoseepage My mom saw this and said "Your tradwife family!" #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

"The whole burden of civilization has fallen upon us."
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@ramsey He better be credited as Danny Mason Keener - As Himself when I look him up on IMDB.

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Some interesting sponsors in the end credits. Western Bagel *and* Trader Joe's? Craft services must have been great. #monsterdon

@Infoseepage feeling it 😞 #monsterdon

@moira @simrob Yeah although when you consider the commentary from people posting here, the overall amount of nonsense is pretty constant

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Well, that was quite fun. Characters that were actually enjoyable, writing that was atrocious, motivations that were unclear, an apocalypse that doesn't make any sense, perfect #Monsterdon movie

Surely most of the #monsterdon does not go this hard, right? Are we totally spoiled that this was our first monstordon?

@Ayyyydrew pfft 'america' 🤷‍♂️ #monsterdon

OK, I liked that ending. Samantha got to fuck off into fucking. And they all lived happily ever after.

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OK, the crane shot and the swelling music means we're done -another #monsterdon in the can.

Thanks to @Taweret and the entire crew for a great time!

See you next week...

What was this film? What happened? This is the beginning of the Walking Dead, and all we get is horny teenagers shopping? #monsterdon

amazing. this movie was absolutely 10 out of 10, would watch again. (may in fact just watch it again right now.)
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well that was a movie where nothing happened but there sure were a lot of vibes. 10/10 #monsterdon

So wait rich kids got his own car and vanity plate and hasn't stolen another car yet. Those 23 other cars are probably also his family's cars?

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HAHA THAT LAST SHOT WAS PERFECT, IT WAS EVERYTHING I WANTED FROM THIS MOVIE

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fucking car culture survives the fucking apocalypse WHOSE STREETS OUR STREETS

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I'm liking this absurdist ending, good job #Monsterdon

"We do not cross against the light!:

"Are you nuts, Auntie Regina?"

"The whole burden of civilization has fallen to us."

Yup, so now it's time to completely WASP up. 😩

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"Fucking off with some random cock because Sister is playing Family" ending

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"The whole burden of civilization has fallen onto us." We're in pretty big trouble. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

So we still don't have confirmation anyone else's survived this other than these five people?

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The NRA disavows the throwing away of guns as show by this foolish man's actions

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@plaidtron3000 Really it's almost certainly straight-to-the-river storm drains so it's _almost_ the same as fucking off into the sea directly.

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#monsterdon I think the biggest budget item was paprika.

G'BYE EVERYBODY! Fucking off into the sewers!

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

have we established a reason why our protagonists will survive and all the scientists are going to zombify yet or are we still in everyone going to die territory. like is it as simple as the protagonists did not leave the window open because i'll take that i want them to live #monsterdon