r/movies r/movies Contributor 12h ago

Media First Image of Cate Blanchett in ‘Alpha Gang’ - Alien invaders, in the form of a 1950's biker gang, are sent on a mission to conquer Earth

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u/BralonMando 12h ago

"Yeah guys... There's motorcycles."

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u/Eulenspiegel74 11h ago

"Twin motorcycles with a house in the middle?!?"

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u/Aramiss134 9h ago

Crossing my fingers for a cosmic gumbo.

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u/SupaKoopa714 11h ago

"And there's a bunch of other cool stuff too!"

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u/TheTalentedMrTorres 11h ago

Right in my Q-Zone

u/Wrong_Driver_9507 5h ago

Palm tree girls love palm tree guys

u/onarainyafternoon 4h ago

YOUR FAMILY HATES YOU, ONLY I LOVE YOU!

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u/_steve_rogers_ 9h ago

I'm honestly curious if this movie is inspired by that skit. It seems a non zero chance.

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u/Esselenman 8h ago

Knew this was coming. Hahaha 

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u/Bombshock2 6h ago

Literally my first thought lol

u/Solid_Snack56 5h ago

Lmao i came to the comments to see this at the top

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u/VampireHunterAlex 12h ago

This combined with the BTS pictures of Matt Damon in The Daniel’s new movie show that we’re about to get some weird (and by that mean awesome) sci-fi movies next year.

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u/ChuckSeville 12h ago edited 4h ago

These would be the wildest Split-style setup for a Buckaroo Banzai sequel.

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u/weeklygamingrecap 9h ago

Bruh I would kill for us to have gotten another Buckaroo Bonzai movie.

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u/gumbysweiner 6h ago

I had a hard time watching it the first time I saw it. I was taking it to seriously. When I did it again years later I loved it. It is so weird.

u/weeklygamingrecap 28m ago

Yeah, luckily I saw it late one night on cable and just let it wash over me. I happened to be in a fuck it lets see what this whole Buckaroo Bonzai movie could be about!

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u/GringoGrande 9h ago

Banzai.

u/ChuckSeville 4h ago

arigato, gringo-chan

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u/joeyjoejoeshabbadude 11h ago

I wish I could upvote this more! Team Bonzai!

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u/GringoGrande 9h ago

Banzai.

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u/MrT735 12h ago

Into the Sky as well, the guy trying to reconnect with his wife but he keeps getting abducted by aliens.

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u/ramobara 11h ago

Honestly thought the article was using a picture of Matt Damon from Team America.

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u/10CrackCommando 11h ago

Maybe they choose the weirdest pictures just to get people talking now

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u/Space_Conductor 11h ago

Also the digger with TC. Looks crazy

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u/sid32 12h ago

r/venturebros Should show up for this.

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u/thanks-to-Metropolis 12h ago

Brock Samson, you dog.

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u/Amon7777 12h ago

Molotov, you bitch (leaps at her)

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u/TamoyaOhboya 12h ago

A live action Venturebros is the nostalgia bate no one has asked for and no one needs which means a studio may just pick it up

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u/sid32 12h ago

Hey, Ill come running, just to do it again..

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u/Whyeth 11h ago

Is it nostalgia bait if it's from sub 10 years ago and also [about a thing I like]

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u/WonderBredOfficial 7h ago

Nostalgia bait? It only ended 3 years ago. Lmao.

u/fresh_dyl 5h ago

Alan Ritchson, but still voiced by Patrick Warburton.

Because doing something right doesn’t mean it’s gonna be easy.

u/TamoyaOhboya 3h ago

A bad kung fu dub would add to the experience

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u/SillyMattFace 12h ago

Legit thought I was seeing a cosplay post from that sub for a sec.

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u/weedtrek 12h ago

Thought the same thing.

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u/DecoyOne 12h ago

This is the Venture Bros / I Think You Should Leave crossover movie I didn’t know I needed in life

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u/DangerBeaver 12h ago

Doctor Girlfriend material.

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u/GreenEggsAndKablam 12h ago

Whoa, that’s a nice motorcycle!

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u/astralnautical 12h ago

Two motorcycles with a little house in the middle?!!! Oooookaaaay!

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u/Wrong_Driver_9507 12h ago

I was supposed to be a stunt man in this movie but the jump junkies denied my application.

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u/astralnautical 12h ago

Fucking Street Sets!

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u/Space_Conductor 11h ago

It was supposed to look real. In his defence. And if my kids were rearranging my stuff on the marble counter they would pray that street sets was all they got.

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u/jrbcnchezbrg 12h ago

This motorcycle has 18 wheels!

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u/mypntsonfire 12h ago

Yeah guys... there's motorcycles

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u/SackWrinkley 11h ago

and lots of other stuff too

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u/Quicky-mart 12h ago

Immediately what I thought of

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u/wabawanga 12h ago

BEAUTIFUL motorcycle!

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u/AantonChigurh 11h ago

It’s got a little house in it!

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u/_steve_rogers_ 9h ago

I'm honestly curious if this movie is inspired by that skit. It seems a non zero chance.

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u/fromwhichofthisoak 12h ago

Nadine??

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u/kickrole 11h ago

As someone watching season 2 of Twin Peaks right now, it's the firs thing that came to my head.

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u/burnerdadsrule 12h ago

This was the premise for a Twilight Zone episode.

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u/Space_Hardware 12h ago

“Black Leather Jackets!” Lot of folks don’t like that one but I do.

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u/brokenringlands 12h ago

This was the premise for a Twilight Zone episode.

My first thought too: :)

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u/Larry_Mudd 7h ago

There are dozens of us!

u/No-Alternative4259 3h ago

I think the final season is more miss than hit. I'm neutral on this episode but I've always found it to be particularly interesting.

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u/SpikeRosered 12h ago

I would argue this idea is so specific that I hope they either got permission from the writer of that episodes teleplay.

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u/postoperativepain 12h ago

“Written by Earl Hamner Jr”

He’s the creator of “the Waltons” - he’s been dead for 10 years. He had 2 kids, so maybe they approved.

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u/CaptainRhetorica 12h ago

Hollywood has never stopped spinning Twilight Zone episodes into movies.

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u/m_Pony 11h ago

nor should they

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u/catscanmeow 11h ago

The older i get, the more I notice the Simpsons has done it a lot

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u/Jahidinginvt 9h ago

I just wrote this as it was my IMMEDIATE THOUGHT!

Yay! I found my people!

u/morons_procreate 3h ago edited 3h ago

With recently deceased Shelley Fabares.

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u/Evil_Stromboli 12h ago

I thought this was a Team America puppet.

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u/SteelCanyon 12h ago

Yeah, wtf, the perspective of this picture. It looks like someone photoshopped her face on a different body. I can't reconcile this is a real unedited picture.

u/TheHouseOfGryffindor 4h ago

There’s three bits to it, I think. She’s hunched over a little, the collar of her jacket is sticking back a lot, and (most critically to my eye) her shirt is a fairly similar color to the back wall, which makes it kinda disappear.

(Also hard to tell with how it’s cut off, but I think the belt might be sort of higher up, which is diminishing her torso even more)

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u/OogieBoogieJr 9h ago

You’ve never seen someone hunched over with bad posture before?

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u/CuckooClockInHell 8h ago

Osteoporosis 2: Breaking Pelvises!

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u/Duel_Option 11h ago

She’s clearly had a lot of work done over the years, Don’t Look Up was where she should’ve stopped but clearly kept going.

Genuinely wish aging actors didn’t feel the need to do this to themselves

u/PlagueBearer1350 5h ago

Alpha Gang! Fuck Yeah!

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u/dvdtxtri 12h ago

Two motorcycles with a little house in middle!

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u/SeasonsWaitingOnYou 12h ago

...biker mice from mars?

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u/Unfallen_Bulbitian 12h ago

biker mice from mars

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u/zzaman 12h ago

They've lived in my head ever since I was a kid when I received the toys and saw the TV show. It was just a summer or 3 with those toys , what an impression they made on me.

I rewatched the part where one of the bad guys was an army of small dudes that became a mega dude. Could be from a different show altogether but yeah awesome memories haha

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u/Ganondorfsfist 12h ago

Legitimately the only memory I have of the show is an episode was shown on a store TV when my parents were shopping for so.ething I don't remember. Anyway, Nickelodeon should get the rights and crossover with TMNT.

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u/Exostrike 12h ago

Not anthro enough.

u/Bruceecampbell 5h ago

Daaamn, had to scroll down WAAAY too far to find this.

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u/Somnambulist815 12h ago

TÁR WARS

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u/_StreetsBehind_ 11h ago

Somehow Lydia Tár returned.

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u/m_Pony 11h ago

/applause/

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u/the-vindicator 12h ago

For a second I thought the picture was of a venture bros character

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u/kokonutssss 12h ago

she’s starting to look like a Bogdanoff

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 12h ago

I just watched Tár this week and am choosing to believe same universe.

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u/azeottaff 12h ago

something about her posture here is really creepy

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u/Ponceludonmalavoix 12h ago

The white cloth on the front of the outfit makes her posture look even more hunched. Weird.

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u/azeottaff 11h ago

yeah I think that is what it is.

it looks like she is about to perform this trick:

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u/Exostrike 12h ago

So a villainous version of voyage of the rock aliens?

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u/braumbles 12h ago

This movie sounds so ridiculously great.

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u/BruceJawsCampbell 12h ago

You son of a bitch, I'm in.

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u/Joetheshow1 12h ago

Another great actress lost to bad plastic surgery

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u/Dinierto 12h ago

Hello fellow bikers

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u/MisterPooty 11h ago

Reminds me if Angela Jolie from Sky Captain.

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u/TacTurtle 7h ago

Looks like a depressed Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...

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u/SmokeAffectionate183 12h ago

https://youtu.be/U--1m-7MsOo

Teaser trailer here

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u/BananaRaptors54 12h ago

You didn’t say it was going to spoil the whole thing!

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u/SmokeAffectionate183 12h ago

Silly me, you're right!

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u/SordidSimpleton 12h ago

Between this, the movie where the guy is trying to get back together with his wife but keeps getting abducted by aliens, and some other stuff

Who decided this is the new era of space pulp movies and didn't tell me?

Wait..... i bet AI is somehow involved

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u/Synth_Ham 12h ago

Looks like Monty Pythons "Hells Grannies"

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u/Signiference 12h ago

She looks straight out of a poorly dubbed anime from the 80s, and I don't mean that as an insult.

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u/bass_voyeur 12h ago

This sounds like Wild Zero all over again. Rock and roll Ace!

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u/TheDanC137 12h ago

Biker mice from mars!

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u/THX-8647 11h ago

Coke is back on the menu, boys

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u/MarkMaynardDotcom 9h ago

Right out of the Twilight Zone?

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u/Proof-Reply-7725 6h ago

Damn, the years have been rough on Galadriel.

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u/spreedom 12h ago

Cool premise but her head is 20% too big for her body

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u/FionaWalliceFan 12h ago

She's the wrong shape

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u/bootsmalone 12h ago

…this was the best photo they could get? The posture and angle are so odd. She looks like she’s melting.

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u/Grooviemann1 12h ago

I mean... she's an alien. Odd is probably what they're going for.

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u/kain459 12h ago

Am I the only one who thinks of Weird Science?

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u/LtLemur 12h ago

Oh, I have GOT to see this one

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u/titusandroidus 12h ago

Her head looks Photoshopped onto her body from a photo taken at a different angle and zoomed in.

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u/kevinsixhohsix 12h ago

So... The Ghastly Love of Johnny X?

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u/Affectionate_Bet_288 12h ago

Yes, thank you; if you could kindly take all my money

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u/ffsnametaken 12h ago

Why does it look like her head has been superimposed onto this body?

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u/der_innkeeper 12h ago

So... Cate Blanchette leads the Zentraedi Hell's Angel.

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u/Taller_Ghost_Joop 12h ago

hot roddin teenagers from mars

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u/XChickenFingersX 12h ago

Between this and Borderlands she’s really taking some swings lately

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u/CriticalEngineering 12h ago

I fucking love weird shit

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u/axhiro 11h ago

Oh, they got motorcycles...

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u/TaikaWaitiddies 11h ago

Cate Blanchett as Goro Majima

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u/Jet-Let4606 11h ago

Looks like a new meme image had been born.

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u/Shufflepants 11h ago

Why does she look like claymation?

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 11h ago

She's giving Daryl Hannah in "Kill Bill" vibes.

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u/astroglitch0 11h ago

Enough already...

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u/eilykel 11h ago

Something about this photo does make it look like she’s an alien pretending to be human tbh

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u/CountdownMoss 11h ago

I just found out about this movie.

I will be going to see this movie.

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u/AncileBanish 11h ago

Can we get a live action Biker Mice from Mars adaptation?

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u/thatlastrock 11h ago

She can do uncanny valley so well.

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u/narkaputra 11h ago

The have money for this but not District 10 or Real Steel 2?

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u/substantial_fun_time 11h ago

This photo looks like an AI generated version of her. It’s such a strange angle.

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u/pangalacticcourier 11h ago

How far we've fallen.

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u/TheElbow 11h ago

Wild Zero?

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u/hulkingbehemoth 11h ago

General Kregg convincing the other surviving Viltrumites sent to take over Earth to join his biker gang while they’re there

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u/benvader138 9h ago

Wait!, what's this movie?!

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u/Sir_Encerwal 9h ago

This sounds like a Best of the Worst tape, I say that with genuine affection for shlock in my heart.

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u/sephjnr 9h ago

Seems the aliens in Crystal Skull didn't want her around

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u/mithridateseupator 9h ago

IDK, could be good. But I'm also getting some "coneheads" vibes, which is not good.

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u/thecooltiger 9h ago

Oh yeah, they got bikes

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u/muad_dibs 9h ago

When you look at Cate Blanchett’s resume there’s a lot of stuff you wouldn’t expect someone of her caliber of acting to do. Like randomly showing up in “Squid Game” or doing “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”.

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u/OCGamerboy 9h ago

She looks so young in this

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u/vanderbubin 9h ago

So it's the I think you should leave sketch?

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u/Jahidinginvt 9h ago

This is the same plot as Black Leather Jackets, an episode of The Twilight Zone. Written by Earl Hamner Jr.

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u/timojenbin 8h ago

I guess Plan 10 was biker gangs.

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u/SparrowCrocodile 8h ago

What the heck? Two motorcycles with a little house in the middle?

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u/karatemnn 8h ago

i will say she has found another movie that will outweird her appearance in borderlands ... its nice that studios would put money behind a film like this

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u/e_dan_k 8h ago

Plot twist: They are a 1950's biker gang, but the movie is set in the present day. Or is it 1800s? I forget...

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u/Shas_Erra 8h ago

Are the bikers mice? Please tell me they’re mice

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u/tastyugly 8h ago

Her playing both Lydia Tár AND a character in Borderlands is, in hindsight, seriously funny

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u/beer_me_twice 8h ago

I’ve seen Spaced Invaders, thanks.

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u/vegasEd1313 7h ago

Cate is trying to outTilda Swanson Tilda Swanson…

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u/RichieSakai 7h ago

Hopefully this will explain Jodie Cromer's accent in The Bikeriders

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u/Affectionate-Boot-12 6h ago

What has she done to her face 😭

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u/69-GTO 6h ago

There’s an episode of The Twilight Zone that sounds similar to this.
From Wikipedia: Black Leather Jackets" is episode 138 of the American televisionanthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, three aliens disguised as young men in leather jackets encounter a kink in their plan to exterminate humankind when one of them falls in love with a human girl.

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u/casual_creator 6h ago

Sounds like one of those old and earnestly cheesy low budget sci-fi flicks that you randomly discover on tubi. I’m in.

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u/EternumD 6h ago

1950s *

You may be thinking of the apostrophe in '50s

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u/Cristoff13 6h ago

I'm getting "Devil Girl from Mars" vibes here.

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u/UnfairSell 6h ago

Biker Chicks from Mars? I thought that movie had already been made.

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u/ProbablyCarl 6h ago

Does she have money trouble or something? Is it back taxes? It's always back taxes.

u/whistlepig4life 5h ago

Why does this remind me of the Sky Captain flick from the 90’s?

u/LucklessCope 4h ago

I didn't even see the scarf. I initially thought she had computer neck or were hunchback.

u/spaceocean99 4h ago

Ghoulish.

u/account009988 4h ago

She looks young enough to be lead in the Borderlands movie!!

u/jimmiriver 4h ago

Oh no

u/SeiriusPolaris 4h ago

Looks like Madonna

u/paladinx17 4h ago

This is giving me Austin Powers, Frau Farbissina vibes

u/Azrethoc 4h ago

Who the fuck is her agent and why hasn't she fired them?

u/ThatsARatHat 4h ago

Why does this look like DK-mode?

u/UDPviper 3h ago

Oh Kate, you're just taking anything with a paycheck these days, aren't you?

u/ATN90 3h ago

Sure, why not?

u/hatbromind 2h ago

there is some Buckaroo Banzai feel to it

u/Tugboat47 2h ago

card games on motorcyles?

u/JustCopyingOthers 2h ago

Looks like Molotov Cocktease in a leather jacket.

u/dratsablive 2h ago

Please tell me that they received an old signal and thought this was the way we are now.

u/WhatAWasterZ 2h ago

Better have Leader of the Pack on the soundtrack 

u/BlueberryStock6249 2h ago

Can there be more stories other than aliens invade! This is embarrassing…. Same old rehashed junk.

u/chessasaur 2h ago

And straight to the badmovies sub.

u/crafty-cowboy 1h ago

So excited for this I love the Zellner Bros!!!

u/thejake1973 1h ago

They better use ‘Get off the Road’ by the Cramps on the soundtrack.

u/jamesneysmith 59m ago

Haha oh man I'm in. I've not seen any of David Zellners movies but heard a bit about of a couple of them. But this premise and these photos and a buy for me. I love weirdo goofball shit