I give Alligator 2 out of 5 giant growth hormone alligators. I was bored, but not as bored as I could have been, considering that the movie was two hours long.

The best character was the alligator puppet, which looked cool. At least I think it was a puppet and not a real mutant alligator. The worst character was a tie between half of all of the other characters. Most inhabitants of this movie could be described as "grumpy and also mildly and/or majorly a jerk".

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@Taweret Thanks for hosting as usual! fun film...

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 good times everybody. catch ya next week

big thanks to our host @Taweret for organizing <3 <3 <3

Okay, that's just silly

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Look if you won't eat the rich at least let the gator do it. #monsterdon

That superfluous boat explosion 😂

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Surprisingly short credits, thank you oh merciful one #Monsterdon

Casios save lives (one hopes)

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And the movie ends as it began

Imprisoned in the sewer. #Monsterdon

Are you sure that isn't a radio? Flick the button

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The world was just a little bit better when the guys with the guns were portrayed as silly and ineffective

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HA!

okay the car stopping on the manhole cover was legitimately funny #Monsterdon

Can’t Monsterdon right now… movie is too good

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Fun fact, the concept of the evil eye goes back at least 5000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye #monsterdon

It was the 70s, everyone carried ketchup packets in their pockets all the time -_-; #Monsterdon

XD XD XD

THE FILM

LITERALLY

JUST JUMPED THE GATOR #Monsterdon

Yeah, the scene's not any more legible in red slow-mo. #Monsterdon

That's just a shadow finger puppet, don't worry

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She didn't realize he needed to trauma dump and it shows

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a better worse movie would've had the alligator leap out and munch the kid outta mid air

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Movie, you CANNOT make me feel anything for these people, you have spent the last HOUR showing me how AWFUL they are.

Just get EATEN already, WOULD YOU PLEASE? #Monsterdon

Okay "my number one boy," in this case seems very, very creepy

(you know, versus all the other times when that comes off charming)

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The number of #Monsterdon villains that cite "food shortages" is remarkable

Is this a Resident Evil game

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Just because your camera has a zoom doesn't mean you have to use it

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He's gonna make the love call and the herpetologist lady is gonna perk up.

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This really does capture the zeitgeist of 1980 specifically

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Dude that was not a bread knife, it was not serrated

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That gator is just trying to sleep, look at these cops disturbing the tranquility of the sewers AGAIN

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Yeah, I gotta say, it's really hard to hate Ramon. He only seems to eat cops and obnoxious reporters, I'd argue he's actually making the streets SAFER. #Monsterdon

Ramon is actually enjoying the band

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The infrequently seen SWAT marching band

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Deploying the military is less dramatic in these more recent films than it is in the 50s-era ones.

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This SWAT team is comically underarmed compared to 2025

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It was the 80’s… we drank from the hose… our televisions were made of wood… we hung out in the sewers

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I want a giant map I can mark up with a big pen

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Emergency Correction! It was not a Maverick Cop going into the sewer, but rather the Maverick Reporter from before! I confused the two because I don't care about either character that much.

Anyway, after he takes pictures of the dead dog an alligator eats him. The cops find the camera and confirm that it has pictures of a giant alligator on it. Then the TV news starts talking about the alligator murders and interviewing the Reptile Science Master

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"We'll flush him out"

Writing the jokes themselves

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Ah, the Female Scientist. Now taking all bets, designated love interest or not? #Monsterdon

Shouldn't the blond rookie guy have a red uniform?

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Ok so cop is gonna encounter the growth hormone and grow his hair back.

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I really hope the alligator enjoys larynxes because I know one he can have

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When you want to write the Jaws music but you can't, so you just musically point to it

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Dennis Nedry vibes

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The alligator movie for people who secretly hate dogs

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Was it just a feature of the 70's/early 80s that movies depicted everyone as a monster? Like, nobody in any of these movies are likeable. #Monsterdon

"Make some friends!"

"But I'm introverted!"

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lol, men really appreciate being told they're going bald by store clerks

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Road sign saying essentially ABANDON ALL HOPE

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Oh no, the alligator won't only be angry, it'll be dizzy too!

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Ah, it's the Velour Letters You Iron On to a T-shirt font

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Go gators!🐊

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@strangefour @combatwombat @starkraving666

Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde 1971

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@ohiofi @plaidtron3000 #Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

yah looks like it came back. THANKS RYAN!

@ohiofi @cavyherd agreed, sometimes I swear it's even weirder if you *do* know what the movie is

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@cavyherd

Monsterdon is always “a very experience weird”

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*sighs* later gators, thanks #monsterdon

Anyway, it kind of felt like Alligator had all the potential aspects of a better movie, just kind of... instead was done in a sort of joyless and rote manner?

I think the best scenes were the sewer chase scenes and also the alligator-causing-chaos-at-a-garden party scene, the later which broke the monotony.

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The vibe I got from Alligator is that it ran through all the motions of a movie but was unhappy about doing so.

Like "here we're moving this police plot along! here we're moving this romance plot along! and here we're moving this unethical science comeuppance plot along!" but none of those plots really ever got very engaging.

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The manhole will NOT be clear, I guarantee it 😬

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@apLundell Right? A real waste of a plot point. She could have had just as much guilt as him! #Monsterdon

That was awesome! Thanks again @Taweret and #Monsterdon for another zany Sunday night! I'm gonna finish my beer and play some El Dorado.

"The pinball table?"

nO tHe reFrigErAtoR 🙄

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*dynamite goes off, model of Ramon kind of awkwardly tears in half*

*two or three explosions aboveground that are _clearly_ gasoline / petroleum incendiary effects flip a couple of cars sans engine blocks*

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That's the problem with sewer bombing plans, the escape lid always goes down
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If only he had a partner to sacrifice again

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That wasn't a *good* movie, but it's definitely on the more fun side of what we've seen.

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 curious how some people are a few minutes ahead of me with no commercials. different cuts? some people are getting 25fps transfers?

#monsterdon Ramon will always be a legend in my book! He ate so many awful people and also was a toothy dispos-all for the fucking rich. We will miss you Ramon... our sweet buddy.

@_L1vY_ walk without rhythm, you won't attract Ramon 🎶 #monsterdon

The kinda speedy credits you get when no one is too proud

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Okay, I'm gonna start asking this at the end of every film: Was THIS the worst #Monsterdon movie ever?

But alas, our manhole escape is ruined as somebody has parked on the manhole. Reptile Science Master shows up to save the day by bullying the driver into leaving, but fails her intimidation check, so she just shoves her aside (passing her strength check) and drives the car away.

Then the dynamite explodes the murder alligator. RIP.

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All these side shots of an alligator "walking towards Madison" in the sewer are just a regular sized alligator more or less happily walking around, eh? Doesn't seem aggressive or even excited, just kind of happily going for a waddle

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#monsterdon Now let us lovingly pan the camera over to a clutch of eggs.

@paco Yeah, stunt coordinator showed up for this flick #monsterdon

GREAT JOB KID now let's blow this gator and go home

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You just knew someone would park on a manhole....

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The gator is going to the wedding? I mean I'm all for comeuppance but this seems a stretch. #monsterdon

Ramon, channelling in this scene the righteous vengeance due to all the characters previously established to be villainous, CHOMPS and CHOMPS AGAIN

...and demolishes a car by whacking it with his tail, Godzilla-style..? Well OK, points for honouring tradition I suppose

(eight minutes left, we can get through this. Dig deep, folks.)

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Okay again, I'm not sure what's going on because this scene is being lit through a pinhole, but I'm sure it's very tension-filled. #Monsterdon

Methane explosion incoming?

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Well generally speaking there's an even HEAVIER penalty in life for NOT having fear, that's why we have it 💁🏻‍♀️

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why is this scene even happening

Oh, is the dad dead? That's good.

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Why thank you! You have beautiful tits too.

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"a doctorate degree and beautiful tits..."

I mean it's not a bad package

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"I don't know what I did but I'm sorry"

Oh yeah, he's a keeper -_- #Monsterdon

The confusing and dark forested path of male intimacy, she has no light for such a thing

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I feel like I've been on a date with this boring-ass dude for too long and I'm not even the one on the date with him

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Back in olden times, the early 80's, the cable company would have these free 'preview' weekends for HBO or Showtime or Cinemax. 80% of the shit they showed on thise weekends was this stuff. And we all still watched it. Because it was free movies at home. #monsterdon

ARTOO! SHUT DOWN ALL THE ALLIGATORS ON THE REACTOR LEVEL!

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Meanwhile, we get our first black people in this #monsterdon who are not background cops, as alligator hunter recruits three black male teens to serve as cannon fodder in his alligator hunt.

Most of them soon realize this is a suicide mission and leave, except for one guy in a flat hat with the word "zombies" on his shirt. Then he finds the alligator and shoots it but it eats him anyway. Flat hat guy tries to grab the rifle and shoot the gator, but it's out of ammo, so he runs away.

Okay… the walk the plank scene is great! If only one of the bullies had fallen in the pool instead.

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OH SHIT THEY KILLED A KID

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@bunnyhero The very first thing you do if you're in a strange environment that may be hostile is seperate. Horror Movie 101. #monsterdon

Nice titty poster above the bed dude, chicks dig that...

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Why is her flashlight red? Is she worried the gator might be in the middle of developing photos?

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Her class of all guys and one lone women, accurately portraying science

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Dude you can NOT turn your relationship with the herpetologist into a romance with twenty minutes left in the film, seriously fuck *off* #Monsterdon

@hollie We need more time, to flesh out the alligator's story. #Monsterdon