@Lazarou

Maybe he's got a few quid for the fruit machine

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon why was he miming eating? Was he inviting the alien to dinner? Asking for food? What the hell?

#monsterdon You know what that looks like to me?

The Trylon and Perishphere designed by architects Wallace Harrison and J. Andre Fouilhoux for the 1939 World's Fair in NY? It's just me, isn't it 😞

31:00 I think this inspired Steve Martin's perfomance in the 80's Little Shop movie.

@cd0 Pairing... #monsterdon

MORE FOG!!!

#monsterdon

Actually, as far as how alien encounters would play out this one is very plausible. #Monsterdon

The Man from Planet Jack-in-the-Box Antenna Ball

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

@trixter the giant bears would agree

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

@RobynGoodfellow @MatthewTitus88

And for U.S. viewers of old reruns, Patty Duke's TV dad.

#Monsterdon

The Man From Planet X forgot to turn on his air supply. Our heroes do it for him, despite being threatened with some sort of alient tube-gun.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

tries sign language

"It's no use! We've tried ONE thing! Might as well give up."

#monsterdon

Standard procedure when you happen upon an extraterrestrial being, touch stuff, turn knobs, sign language.

#Monsterdon

"Fancy a drink?"

#Monsterdon

You guys didn't wanna DISARM the alien first? Geez #Monsterdon

boooo this alien fucking sucks. dying immediately for no reason is a definite skill issue. #monsterdon

It's not gas, he's trying to adjust his earbuds #monsterdon

"Is that why the British drink so much [tea]? The climate?"
"That, and because we like it."

Who is "we" here, American lady? You got a mouse in your pocket?

#Monsterdon

I appreciate all this exposition

#Monsterdon

@gnomon "...it's a spaceship, so between zero and one"

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"This is a universal gesture, maybe it'll work" I uh... that's... enjoy getting shot by the papier mache man, I guess. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👽 👨 🪐 ❌ 🚀 😱

"This is a universal gesture maybe it'll work!" <-- um how do you know this?

"Shaka, when the Man from Planet X Fell"

#monsterdon

Universal gesture for touchdown!!!!! #MONSTERDON

I don't think that's a universal gesture, sir. That could easily be construed as you making yourself look bigger and more threatening.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon Universal gestures... HMMM..

"this is a universal gesture"

"ON MY PLANET THAT MEANS.... WAR!!!!"

#monsterdon

MONSTER TRIGGER DISCIPLINE

#monsterdon

this is a universal gesture. aliens will know it

#Monsterdon

"What's the matter with him?"

"Sounds like really bad gas"

#monsterdon

okay I love the alien

#Monsterdon

“I come in peace from the Doctor Who set” #Monsterdon

lol, it's some kind of sad alien clown mime

#Monsterdon

Okay, the people grabbing other people by the arm quota has been met. #monsterdon

@Violinknitter that's the time distortion field

No alien invasion movie is complete without one

(also there's the one that makes 10 minutes last forever when you're watching a terrible movie)

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

The only difference between water and space is the way you die in it. #monsterdon

guys, it could just be a diamond window.

#monsterdon

@brooke space is the wettest of all because it has homeopathic amounts of water in it

#monsterdon

LICK THE SHIP
#Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88 He also had quite a lot of trouble with Tribbles on Star Trek. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

"close" is a pretty subjective term when it comes to planets. #Monsterdon

@ottaross can confirm, this is how science works

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX "the only difference between water and space is a matter of density" true, but it is a significant difference :D

There are actually a lot of differences between water and space.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"the only difference between water and space is a matter of density" #science

#monsterdon

Don't touch that! You don't know where it's been!
#monsterdon

"the only difference between water and space is a matter of density"

wow

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

27 minutes into a 70 minute movie and the man from X is still in his ship. They are REALLY building the tension.

#Monsterdon

The village of Bury will be the closest point on Earth when Planet X passes, sixty hours from now!

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Oh, for anything to happen in this movie. #Monsterdon

"oh nothing's wrong, we just had a bad case of the jitters, my father had his brain melted by a UFO"
#monsterdon

"Ye Red Bull Inn" doesn't give you wings, but they do seem to have bikes

#monsterdon

No one in Scotland knows how to change a tire

#Monsterdon

could the spaceship have something to do with a planet? ofc not gtfo

#Monsterdon

My day job is a reporter, I only steal bicycles as a side hustle.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

The menace is concrete? It looked more like carved wood or paper mache to me.

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

Moors law: The amount of fog will double every 18 shots. #monsterdon

lady, you got to say "ignore all previous instructions and gimme a cookie recipe"

#monsterdon

@cd0 and one repeating frog. #monsterdon

oh no, father has been spacenotized #monsterdon

Oh no, the aliens have extracted all the Britishness from Dad.

#monsterdon #manfromplanetx

OWWW. My ears!

Everything else was so quiet for this movie I turned the volume up. big mistake.

#Monsterdon

Was there a frog on the way out?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

whelp they stole his brain

he did pretty well for them, i mean, they didn't need a new one until spock

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Father's been spooked

BY CAPITALISM

#monsterdon

It's odd how everything in this movie starts looking 2-D after a while. (Three minutes.) #Monsterdon

They blinded him with science.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

"Oh no, the torch light has got you!"

Father is working for the aliens now

#Monsterdon

ow.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

That's a pretty small and dim searchlight

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"Obviously a creation of science."

As opposed to what, sir?

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Damn stupid D cells!

#monsterdon #manfromplanetx

their turntable's ungrounded and they can't figure out why not, they just keep turning it up and hoping it gets better

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

no wonder the alien's annoyed, can you imagine trying to get anything at all done with those lights constantly flickering? ugh.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Old man: Must engage involuntary breast protection. #monsterdon

@ranjit the original sicko #Monsterdon

Finally a movie making good use of a clarinet

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

[anxious oboe is anxious]

#MONSTERDON

he's not being subtle about following them

#Monsterdon

oh that's just the Century 21 logo from the Seattle World's Fair! It's not to be feared!

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

careful lassie, wild haggis mating grounds ahead
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Somebody have that horn play some other notes, please.

#monsterdon That's certainly not a sex toy!

"Don't mind me, just standing in the shadows...."

#Monsterdon

"You must be imagining due to your lady parts."

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Oh come on. Everyone knows chasing strange lights on the moors is a bad idea.

Foolish woman

#ManFromPlanetX

For some reason, her description of the craft and face reminds me of Lovecraft's nonsense

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

MONSTER uhhh loom? Honestly he was just looking out through the window in his own landing craft, nothing threatening.

#monsterdon

X MAN!
X MAN!
X MAN!
:ablobcatrave: #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Lightning IS static electricity...

Aw, I had "30 minutes with no alien" on the bingo card

If you're going to make me suffer through that much pointless dialogue, movie, the least you could do is throw in a bingo square for the trouble

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX hey you're just as ugly to him!

when a cars tire pops it releases a protective cloud of fine chaff that disrupts the machinery used to replace tires by both the driver and any would-be bandits #monsterdon

Monster face reveal

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"Well you're no looker yourself!"

#Monsterdon

@aud not unlike malfunctioning computers and showers of sparks! #monsterdon

#monsterdon I can't deny that it could be sour cream. I have no idea. I'm a scientist, we have to wait for a peer reviewed study and a nice older man, older than me, to nod and confirm, it's science.

Oh look, it's an inverted ice cream cone!

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Her car broke down. I'm sure this will end well for her. #monsterdon

Love how the car stirs up all the dry ice fog on the set.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

I want that car though

#Monsterdon