Launching my #monsterdon thread for #TheManFromPlanetX, a movie from 1951 that I think takes place in Scotland and has aliens in it.
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Okay, so the journalist decided that the alien is using his mind control flashlight to take over everyone in the village. I'm not sure what the evidence was... whatever it was if you blink enough you'll miss it.
My guess is that the greedy scientist has gotten a hold of the space flashlight and is using it for evil (mind control and greed).
I'm extremely confused at what's going on. The spaceship landed and some villagers are digging a ditch around it. Maybe a fortification, but probably a shrubbery as has been previously noted.
Also, Scotland Yard is here and sends an inspector. The journalist has a mustache, and the Inspector also has a mustache, so I think the "mustache" in this movie implies "Man Of Action!"
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I'm extremely confused at what's going on. The spaceship landed and some villagers are digging a ditch around it. Maybe a fortification, but probably a shrubbery as has been previously noted.
Also, Scotland Yard is here and sends an inspector. The journalist has a mustache, and the Inspector also has a mustache, so I think the "mustache" in this movie implies "Man Of Action!"
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
We catch up to the beginning of the movie and the journalist is writing a report to hand to Inspector Mustache before he goes to try to rescue the girl from the spaceship.
He finds Science Dad digging the ditch and orders him to walk straight away so he's no longer by the enslavement ray. He talks to the greedy scientist, also enslaved, somehow figured out that the bad guy could talk to the aliens, and asks him about the aliens secrets.
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We catch up to the beginning of the movie and the journalist is writing a report to hand to Inspector Mustache before he goes to try to rescue the girl from the spaceship.
He finds Science Dad digging the ditch and orders him to walk straight away so he's no longer by the enslavement ray. He talks to the greedy scientist, also enslaved, somehow figured out that the bad guy could talk to the aliens, and asks him about the aliens secrets.
So Planet X is dying because its getting too cold, but the aliens moved their planet using gravitons or something. When their planet gets close the aliens plans to signal their planet to tell his people to invade earth so they don't die. Also, the alien is enslaving them by periodically using the flashlight ray on them.
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So Planet X is dying because its getting too cold, but the aliens moved their planet using gravitons or something. When their planet gets close the aliens plans to signal their planet to tell his people to invade earth so they don't die. Also, the alien is enslaving them by periodically using the flashlight ray on them.
The journalist tells the greedy scientist and the other workers to stop working on leave, which was so easy I wonder why no one else tried it yet. Perhaps no one had a sufficient mustache to try that yet.
Afterward, the alien comes out and starts punching the journalist, but the journalist subdues him by turning off his air and then runs away, the girl with him.
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So Planet X is dying because its getting too cold, but the aliens moved their planet using gravitons or something. When their planet gets close the aliens plans to signal their planet to tell his people to invade earth so they don't die. Also, the alien is enslaving them by periodically using the flashlight ray on them.
@floatybirb But all that is Mears' explanation, which could be all lies. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX
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The journalist tells the greedy scientist and the other workers to stop working on leave, which was so easy I wonder why no one else tried it yet. Perhaps no one had a sufficient mustache to try that yet.
Afterward, the alien comes out and starts punching the journalist, but the journalist subdues him by turning off his air and then runs away, the girl with him.
The alien fixes his air and gets up, then tries turning on his space radio. Then the army starts shooting the spaceship and it explodes. By "explode" I mean "it disappears completely when a bazooka shoots it".
Then, Out of Fucking Nowhere, Planet X flies overhead like a seagull and they're all like "OMG the Planet!" and then it flies away.
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The alien fixes his air and gets up, then tries turning on his space radio. Then the army starts shooting the spaceship and it explodes. By "explode" I mean "it disappears completely when a bazooka shoots it".
Then, Out of Fucking Nowhere, Planet X flies overhead like a seagull and they're all like "OMG the Planet!" and then it flies away.
Afterward, the journalist and the girl character are standing by the sea and the girl is like "hmm I think the alien was friendly, I wonder what would have happened if we weren't dicks to him!?" and the journalist is like "perhaps the greatest curse, perhaps the greatest blessing!" and then the movie stops.
I guess instead of fucking off into the sea, we had a planet fuck off into the sky this movie.
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Afterward, the journalist and the girl character are standing by the sea and the girl is like "hmm I think the alien was friendly, I wonder what would have happened if we weren't dicks to him!?" and the journalist is like "perhaps the greatest curse, perhaps the greatest blessing!" and then the movie stops.
I guess instead of fucking off into the sea, we had a planet fuck off into the sky this movie.
I'm bummed out all the plaster-faced aliens on Planet X are gonna freeze to death, but I'm not sure why they can't just use their planet orbit changing powers to just move their world to a nicer orbit. Maybe it takes a lot of energy or something.
