Given the post-Watergate mood and Sayles' politics, it was awfully good of him to included a jerk reporter….

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Alligator 1980: Ramon Flushes Florida.

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That's a nice, um, turtleneck.

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This movie has 40ish minutes left. And we're already deploying the military.

#monsterdon #alligator1980

SWAT team hunting gator? Or Argentinians protesting austerity?

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Are those police-issue pots and pans?

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@amyfou I suppose it's not a stretch once you know there's a giant alligator down there

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

It's HER fault!

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The reptile scientist is bringing big Star Trek guest character who's secretly married to a computer energy #monsterdon

Mulder and Scully would be so jealous! #Monsterdon

What city is this supposed to be? Are we gonna end up in the LA river again? #Monsterdon #Alligator

They have a buffet installed on location? Gee
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#alligator1980

Interior crocodile alligator #monsterdon #alligator

Love the palm tree growing in this Midwestern city #Monsterdon

Ah yes, the Alligator's natural predator: bazooka

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you can never find an alligator psychic when you need one #Monsterdon

wader why I

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And that is definitely not how you deploy it
#Monsterdon #Aligator1980

REPORTER TAKES PIX OF HIS OWN KILLER
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before they weren't gonna light a match down there because methane but now they're going in with bazookas?

Ah, they’re sending in the SWAT team. I’m sure this will take care of everything

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More meta-commentary: imagine how long the "but could it REALLY be a giant alligator??" stuff would be drawn out if this were a modern 2-hour movie #monsterdon

@ryan

🤣

#Monsterdon

BA! ZOO! KA!

BA! ZOO! KA!

BA! ZOO! KA!

#monsterdon #alligator1980

Hey, I don't think that barbed wire is OSHA proved caution tape

#Monsterdon #Aligator1980

#monsterdon Craft services sewer.

@ryan We've got to close the BATHROOMS! #Monsterdon

The taunting alligator motifs are starting to get funny
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WOO HOO? 3-0 RAMON!

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Curiosity sure killed that cat.

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@amyfou

Turn that red board black in one fell swoop

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This is so not Chicago. #Monsterdon

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Most of these sewer scenes were made in the tunnels of LA.

#Alligator1980

SWAT #Monsterdon

If they keep feeding him more greasy 70s people he might die from indigestion, problem solved. #monsterdon

Are these sewers? or is this the LA river?

#monsterdon #alligator

What he needs is to find someone with a personal vendetta against alligators. Maybe someone who had all of his shipmates eaten by gators somehow.

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Was that supposed to be the mayor of Chicago in 1980?

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Gator green phone
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Where are you?

I think we've already established that it's in the sewer..

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We're only halfway, folks. #Halfway

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huh.

they couldn't afford a monitor that'd sync to camera but they _could_ afford to do a cut-in insert.

when is _that_ cheaper?

#monsterdon #alligator1980

Interesting how the movie people confirmed the nature of the reptilian threat pretty quickly, thanks to the journalist guy (RIP). I thought they would drag it out even more and try to gaslight the detective into thinking that there's not an alligator there.

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If only the reporter had had a scale bar. That would have shown us how big the gator was!

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

#monsterdon yeah! Good bye blondy 🐷

I don't think a sewer is at all like a natural habitat lady.
#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Gosh, bazookas?
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#alligator1980

Love the size of that TV remote control.

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I'm glad the Mayor Reacts channel is right next to The Reptile Network on the dial. #monsterdon

“Well, he’ll make the front page. That’s all he ever wanted.”

Wow! How callous.

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Did they film a bit of Terminator II there? Looks familiar...

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Huh. It's Dollar General John Candy.

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so who fished the poopy camera and the poopy film out of the sewers

rooting for Ramon again

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Alligator suffered the same problem as Jaws, the effects team was not able to build a monster that looked and functioned well. The rubber shark sank. The rubber gator looked ridiculous when walking with men's legs inside the gator's legs.

Both creature's functional parts were created by the *same effects guy*.

Both directors had to limit shots to certain angles.

#Alligator1980

the herp-a-derp-a-tologist maybe

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I really have to stop trying to eat dinner during 70s horror movies. 🤢

#Monsterdon #Alligator

Gator 3 x 0 humans #monsterdon #alligator

I hope the reporter is next on the menu 🐊 #Monsterdon

Hard to believe that the camera and film survived to the sewers
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#alligator1980

"It's an #Alligator ."

"Couldn't it be a..."

"BITCH DID I STUTTER?!"

#Monsterdon

I can has alle*gory*
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#monsterdon
The death photo bit is also very Jaws coded.

The sanitation people are smart. Be like the sanitation people.

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@starkraving666 receding like the Earth's glaciers...

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I like this guy's apartment. a ton of cool records, art, books. I kinda want to hang out. #monsterdon

Reporter Whats-his-face was the second. Wait, no, the...fourth? The list is long and alligators are bad at counting. Alligator Liberation Party

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

The Herpetologist.

That doctor's got herpes? #monsterdon

I miss those cabinet style floor TVs. Truly the mark of 80s class! #Monsterdon

Yikes! Clicking his own death photos. #Monsterdon

Wow, they off'd the annoying journalist so quick? I thought they'd drag that along a little longer.

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I have trouble believing that this cop went to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (poster on his wall)

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Ugh rats, stop showing the rats

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"holy shit, this model sucks" #Monsterdon

No one who owns that many vinyls doesn't also own crates to put them in. #monsterdon

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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Helluva camera

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So today’s #monsterdon is far better than last weeks. I think I was asleep in the 1st 7 minutes last week.

Question answered..

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"What would it eat?" I dunno it looks like it's getting pretty well fed to me. #Monsterdon #Alligator

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hey those'll be good photos though

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@Lazarou
I love this running joke!

#Monsterdon #Alligator

@Terencio for the 70s I guess he does?
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Yup. It could. #Monsterdon

Is this the yellow journalism I kept hearing about?

Is it because he's pissing himself?

#monsterdon #alligator

yesss yesss sicko.gif

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OM NOM NOM

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#monsterdon 36:00 strobe lights coming up (camera flashes, about 30 seconds)

Wish dot com Carl Sagan! Stay outta that tunnel!

#monsterdon #alligator1980

The youtube cut I fled to after being kicked off Tubi is censoring harsh language like "bitch" and blurred out whatever was just on screen. And yet they leave our main character's hair fully visible. #monsterdon

I get lost enough in my own minecraft mines. You could not pay me enough to wander through random sewer tunnels.

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@jammerb By sobek that was a quick #monsterdon bingo!

#monsterdon Ha, this YouTube version of the movie is censored.

I just saw a blurry box where there must have been a mangled corpse.

I guess the giant alligator is not in favor for free press
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#alligator1980

that reporter has cakes, tasty tasty cakes

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 i love how the reporter is posing shit for his photographs

Alligators in the sewers...
https://youtu.be/Hv7gguEIdJQ?si=xzUBfeq5qCo_Ubft

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they literally have three locations in this sewer system, don't they.

#monsterdon #alligator1980

Store brand Jaws (and v'ger) stinger 3-d #monsterdon