#monsterdon I'm curious how this'll end

so those curb poles are... magnets?

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Maybe Venus could have sent someone with tact? He's half a beat away from "You see! You see! Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"
#Monsterdon

Not this pub and it's 500 clocks! #Monsterdon

"Why are you doing this?"

"I'm not able to discuss that"

"Then I will!!"

😨 The English weakness, openly discussing things!

#Monsterdon

I don't see any reason to alter our plans Arthur

#monsterdon

You have our WHAT on the other line?

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon On Venus, men's shirts have buckles on the cuffs, and turtlenecks are coveted layering wardrobe mainstays.
#StrangerFromVenus

He's still bullshiting with this talk of "Other craft"

It'll be like that Simpsons episode, all cardboard and a bicycle

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Can’t the venusian read the fiancé guy’s mind to figure out the plan??

My goodness, look at all the clocks by the stairs #monsterdon

"I'm as fast as FIVE of your Earth cars!"

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

oh oh the movie is trying to get going now, here it comes. with 12 minutes left. and it's still a bit of a lurch along #Monsterdon

My god, they're being visited by the Department of Opening Cabinets In Fields! #Monsterdon

@allanb Rationing #monsterdon

@Lazarou
It kind of knocked us out of our malaise!

#StrangerFromVenus #TheVenusian
#Monsterdon 🦖

#monsterdon Flash Gordon?

Poorly shot day for night! We have poorly shot day for night! #monsterdon

I love how these old movies tried to make things look like night by filming during the day and doing something that doesn't quite work

#monsterdon

he chased a car and then fell down?

is that what happened?

am i supposed to have followed that?

#monsterdon

Meanwhile, in the US midwest:

#monsterdon

It would be ironic if he got hit by a car.

#monsterdon

Wait, was that a car accident?

Was that supposed to be a dramatic plot event?

#monsterdon

so i guess he's not faster than a speeding car. disappointing

#Monsterdon

Welp, time for the military to fuck everything up, I think #Monsterdon

Venusians - coming to our idyllic villages and putting the moves on our Earth women.

#Monsterdon

"Well forget it! You are not going to be told these things! You are not ready for it!"

- Me next year in department meetings.

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

ceasing to exist is pretty much how death works here too

#monsterdon

the message about the future, the wooden performance... this is the Venusian Al Gore #monsterdon

"There's so many things I wanted to ask you about your world"

Since apparently the reporter doesn't give a shit, I mean #Monsterdon

#monsterdon booooooooorrrring, this is a pretty boring alien guys. Sorry not sorry but he's a boring alien.

Why does this movie even exist? The Day The Earth Stood Still was only 3 years before this one, and had things like....plot...and pacing.

#monsterdon

Susan, I am disappointed in you. Also everyone else in this movie #monsterdon

you couldn't handle my strongest potions, earth people!

#monsterdon

I'd trade space travel for nuclear bombs, but what if the space travel relied on nuclear bombs to work, what then Venusian?

#monsterdon #OrionDrive

This guy has a turtleneck undershirt

#monsterdon

Another early example of a trope: You aren’t ready for evened higher technology when you can’t handle your current level.

#Monsterdon

Venus dude clearly not aware of the prime directive

#Monsterdon

"Now, I confess we Venusians are not strong at what you call 'Physics' but we are quite confident.

#Monsterdon

Atomic explosions will force the Earth out of its orbit, disrupting the solar system.

Witness the moon in 1999.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

...So detonating nuclear weapons will change Earth's gravity?

...??????? what? #Monsterdon

"I understand you theoretically"

I understand the plot of this movie theoretically

#Monsterdon

It explodes downwards and upwards. No promises about the horizontal axis tho #monsterdon #thestrangerfromvenus

#monsterdon Whyyyyy??? What's the point in meeting with representatives from other nations?

aliensplaining
#monsterdon

"We only use atomic energy for defense! There's no way anyone could use them offensively!"

🤔 #Monsterdon

We haven’t changed where technology is out-pacing our maturity to handle them, even 70 years later. Sad to have that reminder.

#Monsterdon

Shit suddenly got real. #Monsterdon

That’s right, just casually discuss interstellar diplomacy over tea. In a pub. Very British of them. #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

#monsterdon The government, suuuucks

@Taweret But the eggs #monsterdon

This scene wasn't blocked, it was obscured. #Monsterdon

There are only 20 minutes left in this movie. The odds of an engaging plot materializing are pretty darned low.

#Monsterdon

The Venutian feels put off that only the locals showed up

#monsterdon

Love the call out that he wanted all leaders, not just one nation.

Setting expectations is a touch too soft.

#Monsterdon

so I'm joining #monsterdon 50 minutes in

however i can still say:

What the fuck?

"He's able to read our thoughts."
"I can't see the harm in that."

Wow, that's a bit too accepting.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

I stepped away for 5 minutes and I see that still nothing has happened. Something about eggs,

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

why didn't we position the camera so everyone was in the shot?

#monsterdon

Dude is so boring and annoying, his girl is thirsty for a space German. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Okay not gonna lie, This is kinda plain. I wanna see cool alien stuff.

the giant cars are the most interesting thing so far

#monsterdon

there's a lot of overlap between stories of encounters w/ aliens and w/ fairies, I like the idea that nobody is terribly shocked about a Venusian coming to visit because this is rural England and they're all passingly familiar with local stories about the People under the Hill #monsterdon

@Taweret Seinfeld From Venus #Monsterdon

C O F F E EEEEEEEEEE

#monsterdon #coffee #StrangerFromVenus

"The thing about politics is everyone thinks they know better than the people doing the job."

"The horrible thing is, they often do."

OHHHHHHHHHHH #topical

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👽 🪐 🚀 !

"The arrival of this man from other worlds might be the most important opportunity we've had in a thousand years"

What was the one back then?

what if we made a movie where nothing happened?

#monsterdon

This is like a Doctor Who lite episode. But it's also light on plot. We should have had a chase scene and a good jump scare by now. And the episode would be wrapping up.
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

This movie came out five years after THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

Coffee doctor is in the wrong movie.

#Monsterdon

...Y'know, nobody's had any tea yet, have they? Are we sure these people are British? #Monsterdon

BUTTERED TOAST AND MARMALADE! This just got a lot more interesting....

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou
It's like a goofy, boring one-room play.
#Monsterdon

She's afraid she is falling in love with him
#monsterdon

these people BARELY seem to care that there's an alien walking around who said his people were coming back in a couple days

I WOULD HAVE QUESTIONS

#monsterdon

"Aren't you being a little dramatic?"

Yeah! It's only First Contact, who cares, lighten up! #Monsterdon

oh god from the front she has Cat and Girl hair

https://catandgirl.com/archive/

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

this movie is FORTY FIVE MINUTES into it, and there's still no indication of what "it" will actually be!!! #monsterdon

Wait, WAIT

Magnets work based on *Earth's* magnetic poles, don't they?? How does a magnet powered spaceship work?!?

#Monsterdon

Even Venusians don’t know how magnets really work. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon

a mechanical space ship

#monsterdon

Fucking magnets, how do they work #monsterdon #thestrangerfromvenus

Anybody want some coffee? :blobfoxcofecute:

#Monsterdon

@Taweret Well the War Ministry isn't very troubled #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

I take it that there's a law against making interspecies flirting interesting in any way.

#Monsterdon Y'all better watch out, that Venusian might meet your representatives just to plant a flag in the ground and claim themselves the "discoverers" of Earth!

#StrangerFromVenus

"Gretchen are you my friend"
"I dunno, you're kinda creeping me out doc"

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #CoffeeWatch - Wait ... is that coffee or tea? WE HAVE COFFEE!

I bet he fishes in a suit. #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Are they homeless cops? #Monsterdon

@allanb Can't help but feel there aren't enough mushrooms in this scene #monsterdon

#monsterdon "He makes you feel like a moron, but I like it" LOL
#StrangerFromVenus

Hard working British bobby on the beat there, sitting all day in a pub playing cards and drinking tea

#monsterdon

old man sorting or snorting out his lines? that's card party is gonna get turnt

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

no one will be admitted during the

uh

scene

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@Louisa nobody ever stops smoking, no wonder the walls look like that

#monsterdon

Now a picnic? Idyllic music?
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Always a romantic lakeside scene. THAT should be on the bingo card. #Monsterdon

I'm here on a very important, time-critical mission to make all the leaders of the world cooperate.

Anyway, time to flirt with Earth girls.

#monsterdon