The Venutian has biologically infected everyone in the area

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Magnets. How do they work?
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I am so tired of this bar. I hope the Stranger burns it down when the Humans turn on him

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"Each of our planets as their own magnetic forces"

Venus does not have a magnetic field, but I'm not sure that was known at the time.

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@Taweret@octodon.social Come to think of it, the cops were pretty much the only people showing a reasonable amount of curiosity.

#Monsterdon
#TheStrangerFromVenus

if i met an alien, i would have roughly one million questions for them

no even seems curious about the ACTUAL FUCKING ALIEN walking around

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"I should be sorting out my lines, getting my tackle in order"

Sir, this is a family film

#Monsterdon

Yes! Coffee!

#Monsterdon
#TheStrangerFromVenus

and the authorities are just playing bridge?

It's amazing how casual everyone is being about this historic first contact between Venus and Earth. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus I think my sarcastic interpretation of Venus as an ancap utopia in this novel was misguided... it might be more of a telepathic hive mind thing. Although the Obvious Alien mentioned that Earth's fumbling around with international relations suggests that they at least in the past had some kind of interpolity conflict... maybe their different societies stopped fighting at some point and merged into a sort of consensus?

If this took place in the US, there would be alligators

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Don't let these people know that sending a craft between the gulfs between Earth and Venus is something that humans will accomplish only 8 years in the future of this movie.

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Millions of light years? Where the hell is Venus, anyway? #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

"A craft that has traveled millions of light-years..."

...Millions of light-years... From Venus? #monsterdon

@floatybirb I think he's a chancer, not a Venusian. His story is full of holes! #monsterdon

Millions of light-years from... Venus.

Wow we do not understand distances do we.

Someone get this man a map!

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Speaking all those languages, either he’s really from Venus or he’s from the Netherlands. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh we get some anthropology in #StrangerFromVenus ! The Obvious Alien explains that on his planet everyone has perfect memory and so can learn all human languages easily; I will hypothesize that this ease of learning explains why he has so far landed without much knowledge of human customs... he didn't have to take a class in English 101 where everyone learns how to introduce themselves.

Also, he explains that they all communicate with telepathy most of the time.

for many years we've been watching, listening, from your own radio and television...

so... either humans are exhibitionists or venusians are stalkers. take your pick.

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus characters so far:
Obvious Alien
Car Crash Girl
Bar Maid Girl
Dad
Cops
Government Guy

Except for the Obvious Alien, all the characters are so far fairly indistinguishable, and in mind just blur together into categories of "girl", "government guy" and "other guy".

Oh that's cool. I was expecting the old "oh he had no finger print ridges" but hexagons are a neat twist.
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"Oil refining?!"

Well there's an ominous portent of Humanity's actual depressing future....

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The fast and spurious. #monsterdon

so much beer...

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Mad British 1950s driving scene there, they went on the grass and everything!

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#Monsterdon Hello War dept? Some dude from Venus just entered a local pub and started healing the sick, and trying to work for a living.

HE MUST BE STOPPED!!!
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Yes, Earth women LOVE it when you interrupt them and say what you thought they were thinking. #Monsterdon

the pa looks like Darren from I Love Genie and George W Bush had a baby

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

I bet it's a hoot when all those cuckoo clocks go off at once.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

girl's pa ain't limping anymore? so stranger from venus is a kinesiology enthusiast. i knew that science was out of this world.

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The harp means it's serious. #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

stranger from Venus going to work on her dad like he's a massage parlor worker 🤨

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Now that's room service!

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"don't be afraid, I just like watching you sleep...I'm from Space...."

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*GASP* he's even more white!
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

im reasonably certain you can't just call the ministry of war from a random pub

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Wait, did he just say he's from Venus? I knew those dating profiles were sketchy! #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@CactuarJoe "A million burning hammers, slamming into me, again and again..." #monsterdon

he’s got mime shield powers! #monsterdon

"either he's dead or my watch has stopped" (one of my fave groucho marx lines) #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Finding a pulse or romantically holding hands. Or both. ;)

"...I have never paid taxes"
"Oh, so you're rich!"

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

This pub has like 4 different aesthetics fighting for supremacy. #Monsterdon

@videograndpa yeah this week was not a good introduction xD

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@Taweret Thanks for hosting another #monsterdon, this one had everything: A mysterious colorization AI hellbent on trying to light the film on fire, accents, other accents, cuckoo clocks, T-1000 from the planet Venus, Striped pants, and of course the actress from the movie they were ripping off also in this movie somehow. I suspect this one spawned a few clauses in the standard contract.

@allanb back when i was a musician, my personal band did a song for that movie's fandom

https://crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com/track/kaiju-meat

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Almost forgot - #monsterdon

anyway good job surviving tonight's experience in the void and thanks to @Taweret for hosting

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@moira @RobynGoodfellow The real monster. #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @Lazarou @srol our left. stage right. or, uh, field right. abandoned football pitch right. but our left.

i mean, we all left, didn't we? spiritually if nothing else. i know my spirit left my body for a while there

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mellified dot men tonight sending out all my #Monsterdon toots and faves

@moira @Lazarou @srol Their left or our left? #monsterdon #istilldontknowwhichonewasleftshark

@Zerofactorial @Lazarou @srol yeah but left scaffolding tower really carries it

right's okay but it's left getting the work done

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Thinking back, I have no idea what Susan's deal was

She kissed the Venusian of course, but she was engaged or something to that other guy? And they were locals, but they were both staying at the pub? But not in the same room, so I guess they weren't married?

Some of these are wrong I'm sure, but which ones :thinking_fidget:

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@Lazarou @moira @srol Underrated by many #monsterdon

@steter much better, THINGS happen! #monsterdon

they travel with ebikes and fight with jazz

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I might watch a real movie to get the taste of that #Monsterdon out of my brain

@Taweret Yeah like it's not the worst movie we have seen. But it has to be the most forgettable. Even the shockingly dumb bits like the Stranger just vanishing to death at the end aren't weird enough to stick in your head.
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@Lazarou I wish there had been some marauding spiders but that's just me #monsterdon

They should’ve just titled this “Space Helmut”. It would have been funny at least. #Monsterdon

I was a little confused about Gretchen praying to the wall sconce.

I assume she was with one of the anti-magnetic lighting cults all along?

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i fell asleep sorry fellas #Monsterdon

@blogdiva at least that would be an event. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe I'd like to think of it as "pre-spoiled"

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@moira there are some movies that i don't like, and there are movies that don't make sense, but this was a movie that contained so little anything that i have no emotion about it at all #monsterdon

The downside of watching a version with ads, while some others are not, is that I had it spoiled for me that nothing continued to happen

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@Taweret pins "yes we watched stranger form venus" to profile

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Genuinely awestruck at the bravery of them to make the spaceship literally just an overhead light fixture. That was... well, I think it was a movie. Goodnight, #monsterdon!

I want Britain to sink into the sea now.
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@CactuarJoe what characters, even. #monsterdon

@yatsu Events? What events? #Monsterdon

Bleh. That film tasted like sawdust and smelled like your grandma's sitting room. #Monsterdon

Release the trebuchet dogs! #monsterdon

REMEMBER, IF YOU DIED OF FRIGHT DURING THE VIEWING OF THIS FILM YOU ARE ENTITLTED TO A FREE COFFIN! #Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to all the posters and lurkers. And remember #Monsterdoners: They'll probably blow us to bits.

uhm, okay

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MOVIE OVER NO REFUNDS #Monsterdon

Is that... Did he swipe Susan's panties, or...? #Monsterdon

one…last…pond scene…… #monsterdon

British sci-fi can be such a wet blanket. #monsterdon

At no point was I on the edge of my seat #monsterdon

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"...Gretchen I think your prayers were heard."
"Glory be to light fixture!"

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

If the army are stationed right below where a Spaceship will land then they're going to get fried.

Luckily it was shooed away by some scaffolding so...

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Thank god they didn't show any of the high-tension mission to recover the alien artifact, that could've been interesting. #Monsterdon

They can SEE that there's two ships and they're still going to trap the smaller one?

Why would they do that?

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Cute little alien saucer. #Monsterdon

You'd think, wouldn't you, that if there was a remarkably strong magnetic field right here on the village green (maybe the strongest on the entire planet?) that the local humans might have noticed it in any point of history or prehistory

#Monsterdon

Oo, saucer separation #Monsterdon

i hope the aliens have a 'the sun never sets on the british empire' zinger ready for when they use their solar weapon

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Getting kinda confidence we weren't gonna see it but there we are

2x quality hubcaps

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#monsterdon I'm yawning so hard lmao

"the mothership"

and he runs out the back door

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I see that now the pub is under mortal threat the policemen have gone

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@ottaross Rule number one in the alien takeover manual is to get with the local progeny bearing segment of the species. It’s on page 10 right after the introduction to planetary exploration. #Monsterdon

The film's decided to blow its special effects budget, hooray #monsterdon

Of course the British guy can call stealing from and kidnapping of someone from a different civilization "peaceful" with a straight face #monsterdon

Is this movie going to end with Venusians making all of Britain fuck off into the sea?
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