"The United States of America wishes to announce it has found life outside of Earth, brought it back to Earth, tortured it, then killed it. Thank you"
LOL hearing "Venus" as a bad American pronunciation of "Venice" is an incredible bit 🤌
Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained?! Is that not why you are here?!
#monsterdon
What do you mean theres something wrong with my cars extended warranty?
#monsterdon
Finishing at the Colosseum is the perfect end to a movie that is partially an excuse for Ray Harryhausen to take a vacation to Italy
This phenomenal stop-motion deserves to be a in a better movie
Dude there smoking a cigarette with his arm in a sling "yeah buddy I was hit by a meteorite in Space, so what?"
Dipping into my emergency supply of 🤌 for this #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe I think I wanted every human in that film to die. Even more so after that ending.
come on writers, you could have space gorgo riding an elephant here. Dont fuck it up
#monsterdon
Truly delightful stop motion, I hope it's stop-motion the whole movie
You know you're in for it when the opening narration mentions THE ATOMIC AGE
Delightful stop-motion, and plenty of uhhhhhh for the rest. A classic #Monsterdon, thank you @Taweret and all for another fine Sunday evening
[watching the #Monsterdon monster destroy pretty much any kind of infrastructure]
YES… HA HA… *YES!*
To think there is more memory in a pornographic gif today than all those banks of science machines combined
#monsterdon "Don't fight a kaiju. Use your brain. Use drugs."
The highly trained USAF officers plan is to...poke it with a stick?!
#monsterdon
I wonder how many times we will be reminded in this movie that these Sicilian characters do not know what a mobile home is?
That kid opening the container of weird alien goo has some big Nostromo energy.
Where's a Ripley when you need it, these are all silly males with no idea!
When Venus finds out what happened to one of its children the Earth is gonna 'find out'
Excellent effects, terrible humans, and the monster couldn't even fuck off to Venus #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth
"Just killed an Alien, gonna bang some lady now!!"
I think we should just stop listening to the Patriarchy Room, they've been horribly wrong so far, oh here come the depth charges....
"What kind of service do you call this? A sack on the ground? Not even a table? A plate?!"
Really feel sorry for the Venusian, a fucking flamethrower now?!
Humanity is the true monster (again)
Wait, that scientist guy can also fly a helicopter? Is he Dr Venture?
that alien has every right to be annoyed
Holy shit, this animation is *Way* too nice for #monsterdon. We need to slum it more next time guys
All that steam?
Radioactive as fuck
These guys are as doomed as those Chernobyl fireman
I think it's good of kaiju to always head towards the nearest landmark for a showdown, such an appreciation for theatre
The ancient Romans built their stadiums to hide 40ft lizard people from Venus....
One of the extras in the artillery crew dropped his helmet. That's what the straps are for, pal!
"You can get a better look at the 1.8 kV connection over here."
No thanks, bud, I'm good right where I am.
Those are some cat eye glasses, I'm counting it!
Oh, cazzo! Who would have forseen that telling the commissario about your "capture the monster" plans in detail would tell him where to go in order to enact his "kill the monster" plans
Electricity to defeat the monster, a #Monsterdon staple
Back to the Patriarchy Room
"GOING TO BE NAILING HER BOYS......in other news, First Contact, yada yada...."
Idiot dog, now we have an Interplanetary war!
Imagine you've never been to Earth before and then you see fields of charismatic megafauna, you'd lose it too
Is this the first seaplane we've had on #Monsterdon? It's quite a fine seaplane sequence, short though it was.
In the fine tradition of Humanity Grandpa there is going to find a way to fuck the new object.
Kinky fucking bastard...
THERE ARE TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS! PREPARE FOR CAT FIGHT!
Are they going to electrocute it now?
I hope every one of the humans die now, lay waste to Sicily, fuck it!
Fighting alien monsters in a suit.
Tell me you are in Sicily without telling me you are in Sicily
@kcarp "It yelled at us, so we had to beat it with sticks, pitchforks and shoot at it, perfectly justified....self defence....*cough*"
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Pitchforks now? Just ripping off Frankenstein now, aren't we?
I hope the Army dude gets it
"looks like my patient has finally recovered" she said in a very sinister way...
just arrest that child
As I picture The Patriarchy it's very much like that room of men there, sitting around doing nothing until somebody comes in
Dr Shaman hit a bowl of a cereal at 5 gees, messy
"I'm not a Nurse, I'm a DOCTOR"
You tell him sister! ✊
Welp, the kid just popped the cork on this week's monster, I reckon.
#monsterdon some of the other illustrations from the book- I was going to try posting them timed with the scenes but you know how that goes XD- which yeah it looks like whoever adapted it was paid by the page- double columns is like a "get out of ~100 characters free" card I bet.
#monsterdon screaming woman GIF at 1h10m37s into the Archive.org version, gimme a second here...
uuurgghhhhh, romantic subplot that was not earned....
I'll have the biggest gun for I am the biggest man. I never smile. I just smoke
ROLL IN THE TANKS
Ah you fuck up those humans pal, who knew you had telekinesis in you
They're going to experiment on the poor creature, chained to a table and barely alive....."Welcome To Earth!"
"Okay, you there, you need to act like you're driving in this stake, but the prop is extremely fragile, so you mustn't actually touch it with your hammer"
hoping for a Space Gorgo and German Shepard alliance against the humans
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I'm going to count that gunplay as pointless
"Could you stop smoking for one fucking second?"
Lol, this whole escalation is Western foreign policy all over....
RIP Carlo
he squeeze Dr Charmain to death.
"Those American Movies" all I can think of is how many westerns were made by Italians >.> #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth
"Roll up the red tape and put it in a drawer until this is all over"
Yeah, have the kid paddling while you just watch it all you big hero....
The bubbles from the craft are a pretty nice touch, ship effects are on point
I am so sad for Italian Space Godzilla that ending was way too Final :blobcry:
That said the animation and compositing was FANTASTIC and Harryhausen genuinely earned his Italian vacation!
Thanks for another great #Monsterdon @Taweret !
So! Good monster, great stop motion, nice vacation in Italy, _terrible_ story I mean honestly there was no trying happening you do not get the "you tried" puce star for that.
what the fuck was that about? "Why is it always so costly for man to move from the present to the future." What. What does that even mean here. What, man. What.
so many awesome visuals in that one. it really deserved a better script
ty for joining, everyone!!
I thought for sure the kid with the cowboy hat would have played a role in the big climax. I guess he's out fishing now #monsterdon
'twas bazooka killed the beast #monsterdon
Wilhelm scream?
Here we go, a big monster with abs and biceps going HAM in some Greco-Roman ruins, this is Harryhausen's wheelhouse
Those look like top notch army boys there, the elite of the elite....
Drove a car into them, dropped grenades on them, now the Venusian is bigger....maybe take something from that lads?
I don't think driving the car into the Venusian really did much buddy
The Venusian feels remorse for having beaten the Elephant, but they were left with no choice.
Best to just let them work it out, don't get involved. You saw what happened to the zookeeper....
"It's fighting an Elephant now is it Bob, ok......"
Humans goading the Elephant and Venusian into a fight, damn right you crush your human oppressors!
the visuals in the this movie are so great. if only the writing was
@Newpa_Hasai They gotta pay for this whole "space travel" shit somehow. Zoo it is! #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth
They literally put it in a zoo? #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth
If you dont have fresh sulfur, store bought is fine
Pretty good chewing foley for a scene that's covered up by helicopter noise anyway!
The animation is supurb especially the TAIL more tail wagging please! #Monsterdon
I'm not used to these military guys so upset at the idea of killing the monster #monsterdon
@moira he was literally alien abducted #monsterdon
@lysdexic I was also expecting it to start a fire #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth
If you hadn’t kidnapped him, he could be living out a happy life on Venus right now. #monsterdon
This is another movie I saw as a kid that made me feel really bad for the monster. #Monsterdon