DID THEY ACTUALLY PAY THE KID i am now in this for "kid gets stupendously rich through hustling alien intel" subplot #monsterdon

Go, Ferengi kid, take the United States Government for all it's worth. #Monsterdon

Kid's going to end up owning half of Texas by the end of this. #monsterdon

from the great country of texas!

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

#monsterdon "We need divers!" Perhaps the U.S. Air Force should have brought some personnel instead of just hoping a small Sicilian village had salvage divers on call.

Fuck the moon. We went straight to Venus." #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

I can't bring myself to check off the cute child box because that boy is annoying.

But the kaiju child.... 🤔

#Monsterdon

"Feels fine, sir, except I lost my entire crew."

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

huge props to harryhausen for abusing his job for travel #monsterdon

SINISTER SEAPLANE! #Monsterdon

*bursts from tent in tennis outfit and scarf* she wakes up like that. #monsterdon

"It's unbelievable! Particularly given we didn't feed him anything!"

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

"So very ugly!"

Alright, little lizard person - you have my complete permission to go on a murderous rampage. How DARE they call you that!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon AWWW Lookit the cute little dude.

#Monsterdon Let's leave it unsupervised for a while and see what happens.

Is it just me or does the baby kaiju have an old wise man's mustache

#Monsterdon

Oh wow, she's dressed for play!

#monsterdon

Give the poor thing some water at least

#monsterdon
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@Lazarou If we have learned nothing else we have learned this

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those are damn nice special effects for the time

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Tiny stop-motion lizard person! Excellent. #monsterdon

No masks, no gloves, not even an unfiltered cigarette to filter the space disease through.

#monsterdon

Hooray monster time!

#Monsterdon

"That's some quality aspic animation" is not a common sentence but here we go

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Aw, he's just a little kaiju! #monsterdon

Dr. Charmin, inventor of very soft toilet paper, died tragically in a small fishing village in Italy this afternoon. The First Lady and I send our condolences to his friends and family. #Monsterdon

dog you should probably isolate the guy with face barnacles until you understand the vector of transmission #monsterdon

According to wiki in 1957 200 lira is like nothing.

Probably not enough to buy a hat anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_lira

#Monsterdon

"We've replaced these patients blood products with Folgers Crystals. Lets see if they notice!" #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

Kid sold a jellybean at the market rate, he wouldn't last a day on Ferenginar. #Monsterdon

Ah shit, they dont teach treating weird space goo injuries until residency dont they?
#monsterdon

#monsterdon Senhor Crappy? Also kudos to the kid opening the USAF canister that was probably labeled "Drop and Run" on the other side.

this kid is just singlehandedly in charge of advancing the plot huh #monsterdon

In most Kaiju movies, the kid is important in providing comic relief and saving us from the monster. In this one, the kid is clearly the cause of all the chaos about to begin. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

is that the radioactive waste from last week? careful kid. #monsterdon

is it too early to declare BINGO?! #Monsterdon

Ah, Rod Tungsten reclines on the beach. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon 20,000 leagues is distance covered while undersea. not depth.

a genuine 1950s fidget spinner at the Pentagon #monsterdon

"Well that's it Ted, lost another one 🚀 .....fancy a pint?"

#monsterdon

USAF, huh? Maybe this is an ultra-secret X-plane

#Monsterdon

a-why d'ya think they a-called it "Nostromo," you know what that means in a-English?

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

@Lazarou Nah, that one guy's wearing a hat, he'll be fine

#monsterdon

a lot of damage to these pipes. wonder if they need an italian plumber #monsterdon

#monsterdon I love this shot.

All the other fishermen are dicks though. You can't sail away from a crashed space-ship! You gotta check for survivors!

I wonder if this mighty spaceship is powered by THE ATOM?

(In which case stay away from the engine)

#monsterdon

"They're all made of meat!" - The alien, probably. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

Oh I love that ship, I can only hope we are treated to more like that

#Monsterdon

MILLION MILES OF TRIVIA

#20MillionMilesToEarth filmed in Italy? Why Italy??!!

Because Ray Harryhausen had always wanted to vacation there but could not afford it. He had the filming location changed from Chicago, where the rocket would have crashed into Lake Michigan.

#Monsterdon

Big spaceship just crashed but write them all off as dead and carry on with your fishing....tsk tsk

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#monsterdon cant get away from these fishing boat opening plots. #gorgodidnothingwrong

Mama mia, that's a spicy stereotype!

#monsterdon

We got movie sign #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

The traditional "1 minute to go and I don't remember what the #Monsterdon movie title is" scramble

#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!

@paco That lamp post knows what it did. #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Wait! I just realized. We're all a series of small tubes. Maybe... maybe the internet was inside us all along #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth *chews sulfur*

@SnoopJ The book either came out after the movie, or at least concurrently with it, there are actor biographies in the back, it's here if you're interested https://archive.org/details/amazing-stories-sf-novel-01-twenty-million-miles-to-earth-henry-slesar-1957/mode/2up #monsterdon

Correct answer to poll...

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@RufusJCooter @Taweret @cheribaker I think it was on screen during the opening monologue! #monsterdon

Fun fact: I was chatting with a friend earlier today and we noted that there is not, in fact, anything interesting within 20 million miles of Earth. The closest Venus ever gets is about 25 million miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

(I previously linked to a NASA page that said 38 million miles but it seems likely that was an error and it's supposed to be 38 million km)

#Monsterdon

Thanks again @Taweret for another great #monsterdon !

And to @cheribaker for the bingo card! (By my count, the only squares that didn't get ticked were "newspaper" and "Venus on screen")

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Love that movie!

Thank You
@Taweret - for the big job of hosting.

@cheribaker - for the Bingo card. My favorite this week was "Cat eye glasses"!

...and our crack team of Real Time Commentators, excellent analysis! Next time, though, let's do it remote from Italy! Aperol Spritz anyone?

@moira You cast an appealing kid, you want to get as much bang for your buck, right? #monsterdon

I'm spoiled by modern monster movies and expected the helicopter to electrify the net, not a team of troops with a charging...thing...#monsterdon

@diazona _absolutely_!

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Epilogue: cowboy hat kid, professor and the city of Rome successfully sue the US Military for ELEVENTY TRILLION LIRE for needlessly antagonising and murdering one creature (Venusian) and carelessly damaging large amounts of ancient architecture (Roman).

Kid buys whole of Texas; professor buys new microscope; Rome buys jumbo-sized new coliseum. And they all live happily ever after. Except for the monster. Poor thing.

#monsterdon

@ramsey Not really. Follow the #Monsterdon hash tag here.

@davesdogmaggie Where it reeked of sulfur and you couldn't get the smell out for CENTURIES.

"It may not have had lungs or heart, but it sure had bowels. Did you know when you die you lose control of your sphincters? Jesus christ, get a mop."

#monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

@ramsey Makes sense. Well maybe one day our #Monsterdon event will take over the top search result spot 😂 (probably not but one can dream)

This is a bizarre and ultimately disappointing movie but the visual effects were great. Everything I have come to expect from #Monsterdon. Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting!

anyway, nice work as always team, thanks @Taweret for hosting!

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

@CactuarJoe i will back that kickstarter! #monsterdon

Dear fedis new and olde, if you can see this post, you will soon enter a part of your TL that is festooned with out of context #monsterdon posts. See here for what is going on and how to filter them out: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

"Why is it so costly for man to move from the present to the future?"

“Entropy.”

#Monsterdon

@jonny Will meaningless platitudes solve the alignment problem? In this thesis I will

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@ramsey no, it's a weekly monster moving watch event where we comment along. Watch #MonsterdonAlert for updates and polls for the next film!

#monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

now we're going to riff on the dvd extras #monsterdon

@yatsu So did he go work for Perry before or after this? I'm gonna go with after. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

A+ Sunday evening. You people are a bunch of classics nerds apparently (no shame, I took 6+ years of latin many years ago and am a former National Junior Classical League* member)

*a bunch of tween nerds who do things like answer trivia questions about ancient Greece and Rome and run around in bed sheet togas at conventions

#Monsterdon

Last line "Why is it always, always so costly for man to move from the present to the future?"
Hey baby, "Move fast and break things": ya get what ya pay for. #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

One o' these days we gotta get a movie that's just a vast collection of these monsters WHO DID NO WRONG getting revenge on humanity. #Monsterdon

Good lord I was four away from a blackout bingo #Monsterdon

Is this what everyone is posting about? https://monsterdon.com

#monsterdon

@jonny Yet, this meaningless content has been consumed by countless AI scrapers now, and is part of the LLM corpus that will uphold or consume humanity. #monsterdon #20millionmilestoearth

And so ends another #Monsterdon when we all might reflect on this: "What in Dorkin's Circus just happened?" Thanks, crew! That was awesome. And as always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting.

Such a sad story. 😭 Awesome special effects though! And I liked the battle chickens. Goodnight, monster people.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Very nearly got a blackout tonight but not quite.

Fantastic effects. If I’d have hatched that alien egg I would have fed him sulphur and bonded with him. He was just a baby!

Thanks @Taweret and the rest of the #Monsterdon gang.

okay, pointless romance subplot, not much of a body count, and a """"moral"""" that had nothing to do with anything, but i got to see like an hour of solid Paul Drake, so New Headcannon Unlocked. #approved #monsterdon

I think the Colonel owes the village official an apology for having shut down his idea of terminating the creature with extreme prejudice #monsterdon

Annnnd THE END! Another story telling brick wall of a conclusion. Hope Ray enjoyed his Italian vacation. Thanks everyone! and thanks @Taweret for hosting! #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

"Why is it always, ALWAYS so costly for man to move from the present to the future?"

That's a fucking weird thing to say, Bob, I don't have an answer

#Monsterdon

"why is it so costly for man to move from the present to the future" is the kind of contentless moral of the story you don't pay writers for. #monsterdon

The monster was moved to St. Peter’s to lie in repose. #Monsterdon

That dude looking over at the other dude like, “…What?” #Monsterdon

@yatsu Half a million lousy lire #monsterdon

"Why is it always so costly for man to move from the present to the future?"

Bitch you spent half an hour ANTAGONIZING the thing, I think that's a PRETTY DAMN GOOD RESPONSE TO YOUR QUESTION #Monsterdon

"Why is it so costly for man to move from the present to the future?" What the ever loving FUCK are you on about? #Monsterdon #20MillionMilesToEarth

Hmm, random guy, I'm pretty sure I have an idea about just why it's so hard for man to move from the present to the future

#Monsterdon