The tofu readings are off the charts

#monsterdon

Few #monsterdon films have such a perfect final frame.

It's just missing the WTF.

I will support any candidate who makes it a federal crime to end a movie with
THE END
?
#Monsterdon

Honestly, though, Linda was pretty great. Refuses to be emotionally beholden to a man who has decided they have a relationship, feels no remorse about pursuing a partner she's actually attracted to, not afraid to smoke a villain when given the opportunity. Good job, Linda. #Monsterdon

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RE: https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/116078165259088599

I apologize to Linda for badly underestimating her #Monsterdon

Back, had to take a sec to get ready for bed.

#Monsterdon

wow two brothers, one who is the world expert on making impenetrable metals and the other is the world expert in penetrating things. their mom has to be so proud #monsterdon

#monsterdon ADAM ARKIN I WAS THINKING OF ADAM ARKIN!!!!!

Lol what a relief... listen I know Adam Arkin doesn't deserve this comparison, it just came to mind

You know how I found him? I googled "actors who look like George Clooney"

"I've just sucked one year of your life away. Some day I might go as high as ten...."

#Monsterdon #4DMan

the moral of the story is pay and credit your workers equitably so they feel comfortable coming forward with their life force draining brainwave reactor without fear of being scooped #monsterdon

We made it! And now we're all a little older

Thanks for the laughs everyone! :D

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Let's all go have root beers and enjoy our solidity

#Monsterdon #4DMan

OH LINDA KILLED HIS ASS, GOOD JOB! :D

Legit good creative decision movie, I heartily approve! :D :D :D #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Guy's got a completely blank award on his wall.

Okay actually I can say two nice things about this movie: the soundtrack *is* good. It's not a good choice for this movie, but the music is good.

#Monsterdon

Oh wait, yes Linda, do that

#Monsterdon #4DMan

say what you will about this movie they funded an entire year of LA bongo guys twisted 1959 lifestyles #monsterdon

"i'm sorry. i guess it's just something i'm going through"

#monsterdon

Another four dimensions, and we'll be all ready for Buckaroo Banzai

#Monsterdon

Oh no, the BONGOS are starting.....

shit's about to get real

#Monsterdon #4DMan

Imagining my criminal life if I could walk through walls, first image I get is picturing myself tip-toeing out through the back of the art store at 2am, tubes of watercolor paint spilling out of my arms

#Monsterdon #4DMan

is the movie suggesting that his power to make pencils and steel blocks merge is the same power to make women fall in love with him by like merging their love atoms #monsterdon

This reminds of that movie with Christoper Reeve where he could go back in time by just thinking about it really hard

#Monsterdon #4DMan

#monsterdon Holy crap, I retained consciousness to the end. Go me!

4-D Man (1959): 3/5

Every bongo hit went straight to my brain

#monsterdon #monsterdonReviews

And that's a wreck! 'Twas not the planes but beauty killed the beast, etc etc. Scott's increasing detachment from reality is cut short by a bullet from his would-be fiancée intent on ending his murderous rampage, his last words ringing in the air: "I feel fine!" Tony watches his brother die horrifically with nary an emotion on his wax-smooth face. Someone in lab admin is going to have to file a horrid amount of paperwork. The jazz, mercifully, ends.

Thank you, @Taweret !

#monsterdon

A note about commercials - I watch Tubi on Firefox on my laptop, and I have the uBlock Origin ad blocker extension and I see no commercials, the movie just plays through.

#Monsterdon

Seriously, though, I can't believe The Incredibles got away with ripping off this soundtrack wholesale like that 😂✨

#Monsterdon #4DMan1959

the sequel to this movie is focused on the insurance company fighting the police force trying to file all those deaths as natural causes deaths and not pay out line of duty life insurance rates, and we get a pure fanservice battle royale scene where the cops and the insurance agents take turns sucking the life out of each other #monsterdon

moral of the story is basically you can get whatever you want in life by draining the life energy out of everyone in your way #monsterdon

Side effects include rapid aging and a black outline around your body, #Monsterdon

waiting for the dimensions… #monsterdon

OOhh - is that a #Bechdel test pass? Linda and Marjorie talked about root beer and peanut butter sandwiches.

#Monsterdon

Thanks @miru for the stream, and thanks everyone for a lovely hang! I miss y'all but just about 6 weeks left until I can join in each week again.

#Monsterdon #4DMan1959

And like most #Monsterdon movies, we end without actually ending. #Monsterdon

Linda is about to lose yet another boyfriend to the fourth dimension

#Monsterdon #4DMan

oh, I see. he *can't* be loved in a way that involves physical contact. he's gone Rogue.

#Monsterdon

That's cool daddy-o.

#Monsterdon

great work done by the make-up department, too, lightening up the far side of his hand

this turned into like, a movie… all of a sudden

#Monsterdon

Linda: You know what happens when you drink too much

Tiny girl: It was just that one time, why do you have to keep bringing that up?

#Monsterdon #4DMan

"Where would your cargonite be, if I could penetrate it with just a small piece of wood"

Jokes just writing themselves

#Monsterdon #4DMan

"That chick who is trying to jump you? Yea, I'm gonna propose to her."

#Monsterdon

Men used to have labs. Now they have podcasts.

#Monsterdon #4DMan1959

i have such mixed feelings about this one hahaha!!

but thank you @Taweret for hosting this 4-dimensional movie and thanks everyone for the laughs, y'all had me cracking up!

#monsterdon

we have like 30 seconds left and the music is still going like "dah, dit dit dah dit dit DO DAAAAH" #monsterdon

Yes, lock the door Linda, that'll work

#Monsterdon #4DMan

lordy lordy
look who's 4-D

#monsterdon

"We've found that guns don't work, so we brought in more of them."

????

#Monsterdon

Barkeep, make me one with everything

Oh wait no, I can already do that

#Monsterdon #4DMan

I swear to god if he does the Monster Princess Carry while looking like Cary Grant The Later Years I'm gonna plotz. #Monsterdon

dog no matter how 50's instant love you are in, i would do nothing to cross my brother who can phase through any matter with his freakazoid brain waves right now #monsterdon

@dogwelder imagine how empty Monsterdon would be without 'Science Arrogance!'

#Monsterdon

oh thank god that something is finally happening in this movie

#Monsterdon

wonder what the fourth dimension is up to

#monsterdon

love in the 50's was basically "there is only one woman that exists and she falls in love with everyone around her in series on sight until one of them takes her away to a new scenario where she is the only woman that exists" #monsterdon

the credits are telling us that this will be a very sexy and debonair life force extraction murder spree #monsterdon

Well, a big thanks to @Taweret for that jazzy 4D film. It certainly captured the essence of 4D.

Smoking, no coffee, many deaths from life suckage, likely including a little girl we were introduced to earlier in the film, most happening offscreen. A narrator that thankfully did not return after opening the film. A mad scientist love triangle. While filmed in color, most of the sets had grey walls. An interesting assortment of late 1950s motivational posters.

And 4D. Did I mention the 4D?

#Monsterdon #4DMan1959

The message from tonight's #Monsterdon is don't look to the knobs to give you what you need.

The knobs never deliver. It's within yourself that you'll find your powers, not the knobs. Not the knobs.

#Monsterdon

Oh whoops, I almost forgot:

Nobody at all fucks off into the sea but Scott definitely fucks off terminally into THE FOURRRRRTH DIMENNNNNNSIONNNNNNN

OK g'night

#monsterdon

@jonny p. sure that's the university's research reactor

which is now hopelessly contaminated with 4-dimensional body goo

#monsterdon #4Dman1959

fuck off into the [indeterminate] #monsterdon

Look, Scott, it's embarrassing to have to spell it out like this but going on a murderous rampage is like the opposite of holding up a fish in a Tinder profile photo.

#monsterdon

I think Scott’s going to be remembered as a killer pretty much however it goes from this point. #Monsterdon

Don't kiss him, Linda! Not while the music is playing! #Monsterdon

Linda is wearing phase-reistant lipstick.

#monsterdon #4dman1959

I thought time was the 4th dimension, but I looked it up and apparantly there's a theoretical 4th spacial dimension, suppsoedly explained in these images. My head hurts. #monsterdon

conventional weapons ineffective against 4-dimensional kaiju man, bring in the masers #monsterdon

dumbass scott hasn't even figured out how to get a stable of blood boys to ensure his longevity like a normal tech billionaire #monsterdon

Guys, I'm gonna say it. Between the soundtrack and Scott's villain origin story, I'm unironically enjoying this movie.

#monsterdon #4dman1959

"I'm worried about him"

okay please do not go back to the characters announcing their interiority. that was the bad part of the movie. please stay in this good part. just let him do more 4-D Guy hijinks. we like the hijinks. get that band back in here, too.

#Monsterdon

When does he just start sinking into the floor is what I wanna know

#Monsterdon #4DMan

It is simply impossible to take any emotional beats seriously in this movie with that soundtrack carrying on like it is.

*Scott reaches through a mailbox to pull out a letter; a silly little jazz ditty plays him on*

See, that's a straight-up federal crime he's committing, but it's coming across like a Looney Tunes segment or something from Sesame Street. No gravity whatsoever.

#monsterdon

He finally pulls his hand out of it and the first thing he does? Touch it. Dude. #monsterdon

Movie tip: if you're going to put your force field in a locker, you need a really good lock

#Monsterdon #4DMan

“Surprised to see me working the night shift, I bet.”
“No, I’ve never thought about you for one second in my life.” #Monsterdon

( @Taweret voice): "I wonder what the fourth dimension is up to"
#monsterdon

Scott actually being gay would explain a lot of what goes on here...

#Monsterdon

how do you prove something is impenetrable

#Monsterdon

Guessing that the "Bechdel pass" square on my card is going unmarked tonight based on these first 17 minutes.

#Monsterdon

The Belchdel Meter is reading extremely low volumes of named female characters

#monsterdon #4dman1959

and this is why you don't build your 4-D machine out of disposable vapes and ebike batteries! #monsterdon

@diazona I dunno, given how shocked she was at Scott's proposal, I'm not convinced she was actually aware he thought they were A Thing™. #Monsterdon

This movie had about 60 minutes of plot and 45 minutes of a different movie's music, squeezed into a bare hour and a half

#Monsterdon

4D Man was a little cheesy at points, but in all, the story and acting weren’t terrible. I’d call it one of the better films we’ve seen so far in 2026.

As always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, @JoeWynne for #MonsterdonDrink, @ryan for #MonsterdonStream, and all of you for making it awesome!

#Monsterdon

@Violinknitter Honestly, props to Linda for knowing when to cut bait. #Monsterdon

No #MonsterdonBingo for me as the movie fucks off into the Cargonite with its most interesting character.

Is 4D MAN good? I think it verges on good. The effects are wonderful and the music is fun. The writing… it comes and goes.

#Monsterdon

THE END?

Yea, I think so, you… kinda wrapped everything up, actually?

#Monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow he needs 4 bullets, one for each D

#Monsterdon

Linda gets the kill, how about that

#Monsterdon

NO LINDA, DON'T DO IT

#Monsterdon #4DMan

They killed the sub-antagonist offscreen, that's usually a bad sign. #Monsterdon

*Scott hoovers up the life force of Dr. Carson, doing a murder except this time on purpose, ranting about how Carson kept stealing all the credit for Scott's work*

Is the implication that Scott has been driven mad by having his marriage proposal to Linda be rebuffed? Is his weakening grip on reality being corroded by the same misbehaving electrical brain impulses revealed earlier in the film? Has his sudden acquisition of superpowers cleaved him from reality?

OR IS IT THE JAZZ

#monsterdon

Ah, and now the traditional Invisible Man creepshot :/ #Monsterdon

@flowerpot Yeah Scott penetrated a friend to death, by somehow making him age to 90 in a couple of seconds
#Monsterdon

The lab signage is very silly

#Monsterdon #4DMan

Honestly the only reason to wear a suit is so you can just walk up to any bouquet of flowers anywhere, pluck one out, and stick it in the button hole

#Monsterdon #4DMan

I really like the greasy prof and the mobbed-up lab manager guy who wants his own lab

that's legitimately well-done stuff IMO

#Monsterdon

don't get caught in the lab with your hand merged into a block of steel you'll get fired for sure #monsterdon

“I hope we don’t end up hating each other.”

Good luck with that. You’re both getting on my nerves pretty quickly. #monsterdon

No one can withstand Linda

#Monsterdon #4DMan