"Note to self: breathing valve somewhere more accessible with version 2"

#Monsterdon

“Welcome to Earth!” Say it! #Monsterdon

So they could de-stabilize their own planet in order to swing by a different planet

but they didn't just think, "let's get a little closer to a star to stave off the fact that our planet is turning to ice"? #monsterdon

Did they really only send one solider on this mission?

#Monsterdon

Engage the rotisserie

#Monsterdon

"Scientific de-gravitation!" that old chestnut.

#Monsterdon

Scientific Degravitation :blobwoah: #Monsterdon

Gravity doesn't work like that. Nor does magnitism.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

If they could move their planet, then they could save their planet from the ice, unless it's ICE they are fleeing...

#Monsterdon

As first contact situations go, I'm giving the people in this film a failing grade. They get some credit for trying, but spent most of the time just fucking up and futzing about.

#monsterdon

Mostly I'm impressed the Professor has managed to keep his shawl. #Monsterdon

Don't save Dr Mears, he started it all!

#Monsterdon

fuck will someone please plug that aliens speaker system back in properly already
#monsterdon

Ah now the Army has turned up....but send the American in first...

#Monsterdon

Okay, so Inspector Mustache's plan is to like... get the army to surround the spaceship and shoot it before Planet X gets too close because if the planet gets too close some vague spooky thing might happen, based on zero evidence.

This concerns the journalist because he's trying to find a peaceful solution and rescue the girl and its hard to rescue someone in a spaceship that is being shot at by artillery.

#monsterdon

This accent seems to wander all over the British isles
#monsterdon

Back when 'wireless' referred to one, specific thing. #monsterdon

I'm going to headcanon that this movie is set in 1891 and not 1951.

Except it sounds like there might be a modern military solution?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

We should do a Quatermass some day, it's like a good version of what this is trying to do

#Monsterdon

Oh no, now the English are here. That can't be a good sign #monsterdon

Pouring and not drinking lots of tea in this film.
#monsterdon

Not young Wilkie!? Anyone but him. I mean Bobby Harris, yeah, I had him pegged, but young Wilkie? Never!

#monsterdon

Wow that is an HO scale train sandbox if there ever was one

#monsterdon

The Man from X is building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude.

#Monsterdon

The Jaws theme played backwards sounds like a comical march. #monsterdon

well we've got fifteen minutes left for something to happen

#monsterdon

This is the first time that they've mentioned being on an island, right?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"He's building an army...." #monsterdon

Anyway, even though we didn't find a spaceship, we're still missing one girl, and she's the most likable person in this movie, so the police decide to organize a search party. Unfortunately one guy is like "I saw a thing out there! It wasn't quite human!" and then everyone decides to panic. I would like to see more meeting descend into uniformed panic.

#monsterdon

Wait, this is the same port as 'Bury', which I will remind you, is really in the hills and far away from the Sea

#Monsterdon

Little did the two thugs know he was Lance Armsrtong, and under his jersey was a shirt with the Letter 'S'
#monsterdon

"Well TALK, man!"

Please don't. #Monsterdon

Break out the Heliograph!

#monsterdon

“Let me try the exact thing that you are currently doing.” #Monsterdon

Please movie gods, let there be a werewolf.

#Monsterdon

@ryan #monsterdon

"Hello hello? No it's dead."

"Let me try it. Hello hello? It's failed all the tests."

#monsterdon

Give me that phone, I'll show you how to use a prop phone. #Monsterdon

BATTEN THE HATCHES!

DISCONNECT THE PHONES!

#monsterdon

I "dinna" think there'd be so many accents. #monsterdon

@amyfou
Sheep would likely improve but they should be kept away from Mears.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX "What clapper-claw is this?" <- adding this to the ol' vocabulary

"The boogey"

"That creature from outer Space"

More interplanetary racism I see...

#Monsterdon

"Ach rrrrrriot... Is a terrible thing. AND I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME WE HAD ONE!" #Monsterdon

lol, this minor character with the hat is giving it his all...

#Monsterdon

@diazona FRAUD there's not a trace of finger in these

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon I wish more people would walk to the spacecraft so we could watch them.

@Lazarou #monsterdon

their local equivalent of ICE

Oh hey, we finally found someone with a Scots accent! In Scotland, no less! #Monsterdon

"guys, I'm American, I can't understand a word you're saying..."

#monsterdon

The smooth pull of a fine American cigarette will surely help me think of how to save Enid, a woman we haven't even really looked for. #monsterdon

I do kind of like the occasional telescope views of planet X we get in this movie. It looks like an interesting place... sort of Mars like with visible clouds above it.

#monsterdon

@allanb
"I'm a professor!"
"Yeah. You're a man aren't you?"
#monsterdon

Going to skip forward a bit to try to find the median timestamp of other people in the monsterdonaverse. #TubiAds #monsterdon

@strangefour The Dover Boys, right? Lovely reference. #monsterdon

"what were you doing to him back in the dungeon?"

#monsterdon

How do they light the candles in that chandelier? #monsterdon

"Maybe if we ask the crew to turn off the fog machines."

#monsterdon

All professors carry guns, it's natural

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@Lazarou always #TeamMonster

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"This is a universal gesture"?
sez who?
#monsterdon

NARRATOR, PLEASE

#monsterdon

DUN DUN DUN *DUN DUNNNNN* it's so serious the dramatic music sting got an extra bar :D #Monsterdon

MONSTER WRESTLING MATCH

Ah what the hell, man, what are you hoping to gain by attacking the alien? Even if your plan all along was to overpower him and monetize the methods of his mechanisms, aren't you doing that several weeks or months too early?

#monsterdon

@cs "plot" you say

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

On our planet, we call this "Tango."
#monsterdon

"I tried murder and that didn't work either!"

#monsterdon #manfromplanetx

Welcome to Earth, humans are shitty.

#Monsterdon

I'm not a scientist, but I think there's more difference between water and space than just density.
#monsterdon

Just for the record Humanity attacked first

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I'm gonna take the alien to Starbucks and get him a slice of lemon cake

#Monsterdon

Fantastic Gnome

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Rich dudes always hating on aliens.

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OMFG a SCOTTISH PERSON! It took a Scottish person longer to get to Scotland than a SPACEMAN from PLANET FRIGGIN X! #Monsterdon

Is this the first person to appear with some semblance of a Scottish accent?

#monsterdon

The alien isn't that bad. I've seen way worse. At least they're trying. #monsterdon

I mean he left his spacecraft and followed you idiots so I don't think he's all that intelligent. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

No composites, but they have "transparent aluminum". Gotcha.

@yatsu Absolutely, *HE* wants to be the one to crush Miers's skull in with a brick :D #Monsterdon

Clearly the alien speaks sine wave.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Stop calling them a creature you human chauvinist

#Monsterdon

how many universal languages have they tried already

#monsterdon

This #monsterdon plays a scary dramatic leifmotif whenever the alien appears, even though the alien hasn't really done anything yet.

Did you have to drug the lady?

WTF is going on here tonight?

#Monsterdon

The earth men try to surrender by raising their arms but then the alien falls down, they deduce because the air hose on his space suit is not aligned and so he ran out of air. Helpfully, they reattach his air hose and he stands back up.

We have a brief discussion about how to communicate with the alien, which is a realistic touch for a movie where you meet aliens, and then they just decide to back up and run away.

#monsterdon

"...we found him on the moors. Father, can we keep him?"

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

This movie really is absurd and damned if I don’t love it.

#Monsterdon

"When the lads bring someone home from the pub"

#Monsterdon

Reminder that here *on earth* there are a bunch of mutually unintelligible sign languages

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"Lead the alien mime back to the pub and we'll get them drunk"

#Monsterdon

The houseguest secretly following them is far creepier than the being in the ship.
#monsterdon

Saved by the knob! A peace treaty negotiated with one simple twist.

#monsterdon

He's getting the bends. #Monsterdon

Very poorly designed spacesuits

#Monsterdon

it's not a universal gesture, it's a threat gesture in red panda

#Monsterdon

Uh guys, it's obviously transparent aluminum!

#Monsterdon

This is some 19th century (or earlier?) testing of this ship. (Also, uh, high hardness isn't that useful)

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

its gonna make the noise again, isn't it?

#Monsterdon

no you old fuck there are more differences between water and space than density everyone needs to stop listening to this guy #monsterdon

Space ship or Christmas tree topper? #monsterdon