"The natives keep their distance."

Nice to hear someone use "natives" about white people for once.

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Okay, those are legit binoculars but... 6x30s? 8x30s?

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Ah, yes, the Scottish and their famous aversion to moors. #monsterdon

yes, the ONLY difference between water and space, yes...

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Sixty-hour layover in Bury, Scotland for the alien :/ #Monsterdon

The car has gotten pinker... is it because it's a woman's car that it's colorized pink?
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"The planet will be at its closest in 60 hours."

Okay.

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It wasn't the professor's theory, it was his daughters

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@springdiesel They could only afford one frog to ribbit. #monsterdon

Concrete menace.

No, the menace is that new metal.

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Gave the poor ol' guy a dose of the Domme Ray #Monsterdon

Father stop
Father turn left
Father in double time

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@sean they had trouble adapting their power systems to 60Hz AC so they could blend in and use the electricity from the humans and that was what caused the crash in the first place #monsterdon

The beam detects people using headphones

#Monsterdon

calling all dogs, come in dogs
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#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX it's a tinnitus ray!

@ranjit saving this as a meme template

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Are these actors really Americans? Neither one appears to be carrying a handgun #monsterdon

well yeah the rocket's got power issues, the APU didn't even deploy!

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so the assistant is a creeper, isn’t he?

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@ranjit WE CAME FROM PLANET SICKOS

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@jonny With the low poly count and fog everywhere, this movie directly inspired the Nintendo 64. #monsterdon

You can tell this is an American made film that supposed to be in England. Not a single scene in a pub. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

HEY LADY YOURE NO PRIZE YOURSELF
#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🪐❌ TRIVIA FROM PLANET X 👽🌌🌫️

The scene of the woman walking up to the ship was shown in a theater in the TV Series Fargo, Season 2, episode 4, in the first minute.

#TheManFromPlanetX

@Violinknitter Perhaps they came to earth looking for a new moisturizing mask?

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"A ghastly caricature"

how many fingers did he have?

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IF this were actually a small town in Scotland, someone would have already found out the alien's name and darkest secret
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Things it didn't look like: A glass ball.

It looked nothing like a glass ball.

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

#monsterdon Cinematographer's poorly veiled fetish for giant collars. Let me pet it, touch it, fonnnnndle your... mmmnnnnn collar… <flap flap> unnnnh…

"The man who controls this formula controls the industry of the world."

The man who says such a thing cannot be trusted, shoot him now.

"I was speaking metaphorically, of course."

Sure you were.

#Monsterdon

why's she screaming? she's the one peeping into IT'S home...

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Once more we find ourselves watching a film that surely was Oscar nominated for the set design 🤪🤣
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Someone left the damn freezer open.

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"Can't have you getting upset, can we."

And THAT's why I'm pawing you in the darkness right now! #Monsterdon

"no need to inflict myself on him"

my headcanon is, he already has.

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This was the plot of Transformers 4

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…and we're back into a Casablanca.

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"The man who controls this metal controls industry" Great. We're in an Ayn Rand book. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Back at the castle, the one girl serves the journalist tea and we meet the other scientists assembled for our space-themed watch party. We learn the castle has the observatory in it, and we look through a telescope and see a planet in it getting bigger... this must be the famous approaching "X" planet.

Next, the journalist and the one girl go for a walk in the moors and find an alien space probe lying around, as you do.

#monsterdon

The bomb. It takes an airplne to haul/drop it and he picks it up like a 6" sub. #monsterdon

THE RACE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE

#monsterdon

Yes. They're SPACE lawn darts!

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

It's a lawn dart of sorts, used to injure children. Very interesting.

#Monsterdon

will you two stop flirting and get jump-scared by an alien monster already?
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Obviously the man had to take over counting once it got past four. #monsterdon

Oh, it is Scotland. Hoping the man from planet x is.....#monsterdon

Idiot. He should be monetizing the apocalypse, not patiently waiting for it. #monsterdon

It's tripled in size!

No, that's just called it's getting closer. Some scientist you are.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

My son made this telescope in shop class. Whatta ya think?

#Monsterdon

is that a bazooka?
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Hey, they've dressed up for a Casablanca cosplay session.

#monsterdon

Any snacks going with your #monsterdon session?

We've got some carrot cake in hand, courtesy of @skatem

#monsterdon We're going to have a strutting moustache-ride off next. I can sense it.

"They call these towers 'rocks'"

🤦

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#monsterdon There's a newspaper man in you? Explains the walk, my sweet fruit assortment.

who painted this picture of a tower out here?

#Monsterdon

two cheap draculas are filming on the other side of that arch right now

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Well, we've got a woman in the story at least. They've already discussed her legs though, so the #Bechdel test seems unlikely of a pass.

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Wow, six years ago she was a little girl? #monsterdon

#monsterdon Ya crazy dame! Stop driving and bring me a coffee! You almost ran over me! Now PERCOLATE Woman! PERCOLATE!

...are they flying?!

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this looks like a stage production

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"Makes cold fingers run down my spine. How about you?"

"Keep your fingers to yourself!"

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"Do you think something will happen?"

After all this tedious exposition, I should certainly hope so.
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I think they're taking this all rather casually...there is a PLANET heading towards Earth

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1951."Trained observers." We were at the beginning of the UFO era, weren't we?

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lol, Bury is town in NE England, not that remote but 'distant' in other ways

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#monsterdon When did brackets go out of style in movie credits?

The sequel is called "The Man From Planet XYZ--You're Flying Low!"

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This was also from the "film everybody from behind" era of Hollywood. #monsterdon

They are saving budget by going into a darkroom and turning the lights off...

Yup, @strangefour got it before I could type it out 😂

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@jadebees Surprisingly early for our first death. #monsterdon

ah yes, the famous mid-century flashback.

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This Man from planet X better not be a let down, the reporter is talking it up a bit

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He forgot to start with "Captain's Log, Stardate blah de blah"

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Echoey voiceover sez what? #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe no.

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Here to learn more about planet X. Howdy #monsterdon pals....

Wow, I'd forgotten that in olden times they had to physically attach the credits to the film. #monsterdon

Mid Century Films? If it was another studio, would it be like 10th century fox?
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Can’t get much more mid-century than 1951. #Monsterdon

"Mid..."? Yeah sometimes it's good to keep your goals realistic

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I'm calling this the quote of the movie....from the "scientist."

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

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#Monsterdon This is the snooziest set of "rock and roll" I've heard in forever.

His dancing is even more laughter-inducing than his singing

🤣

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#Monsterdon The band name is People Eaters? :revblobfoxcrylaugh:

The mullets on the rhythm section!

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Any time I think of noping out of this movie, he starts singing and I piss myself laughing!

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#Monsterdon "Did I bring my clean underwear" is the greatest lyric of this film. Don't destroy my fantasy.

they can't even sweeten him in post. This one makes Bob Dylan sound like an angel in comparison
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#Monsterdon Somebody go back in time and do some auto tune. And I hate auto tune.

we have one line so far in the new song

that's a wrap baby, we has a single!

#Monsterdon

he can't even carry a tune in a bucket
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she is not reading her lines from the opposite wall
never
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@diazona @lysdexic

The Phantom of the Rock Opera?

#Monsterdon

A couple of times @ryan put together like a re-cut musical #Monsterdon montage like some trippy parallel universe MTV thing it was fantastic!

@diazona @combatwombat @SRLevine @JoeWynne

#Monsterdon It's either Dr Manhattan or Optimus Prime.

whoa i totally didn't recognize William Schallert as the bearded bad guy!

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@oli The trained reporter was was distracted by the pretty girl. No exposition. Just the chat by the seashore. #Monsterdon.