That kid got an attitude and I approve
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Explosives, misogyny, alligators, this movie has it all

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"It's a wild animal, not a submarine"

Both profound and totally accurate.

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M-80 fishing

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@Taweret I had just told my wife that the kids had the survival instincts of a whelk and the cop pulled that, then didn't even think about his sidearm

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Chekhov's "Lake over there!".

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hi #monsterdon which character in this alligator movie is the most grumpy?

OMG that child just ran toward cops with a knife. #monsterdon

Oh great, they brought in a cut-rate Muldoon. Can't wait to see Ramon Clever Girl him. #Monsterdon

Really nice miniature work, honestly.

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#monsterdon "That's the one on the TV!"

Kid knows his alligators.

The scientist is the girl from the first scene? Can she quell its reign of terror with the power of true love? #monsterdon

go alligator go!!

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Old Momwaukee

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@diazona @mrgtwentythree I still want them all printed and in my house somehow

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What's with the sewer drum circle?

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Gator kaiju!

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Can Not listen to the police chief without thinking of him in Godfather (2? 3?) #monsterdon

Oh that is by far the least believable shot ever produced. #Monsterdon

jesus team, it's an alligator, not, like, a UFO or something

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 come to mama, ramón!

You know, I had one once when I was little, an Alligator.

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"Anybody younger than me is a kid" TRUTH #monsterdon

OH MY GOD I CALLED IT

IT'S RAMON

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omg she's the little girl

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So let me see if I've got the plot so far;

Ramon was playing Counterstrike and his opponent called the cops, now he's got a SWAT team outside his home? #Monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai

For the classic #Monsterdon bazooka finish?

Ok, this noise is horrible. I would definitely run the other way #Monsterdon

Garbage pail cops

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Razor wire and sandbags! Shotguns! Fishing nets..?

Oh, bazookes and automatic rifles. OK, yep, American movie from the 80s, confirmed. Anyone taking bets on whether the film ends with Ramon taking a rocket propelled grenade à la Grizzly?

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My guess is 18-20 feet long and around 2 tons. #monsterdon

#monsterdon When fighting an aligator, The first priority is to to set up a bunker with sandbags and barbed wire.

@flowerpot Groan but is the alle*gory about malaise, corruption, impending Reaganism, and the mental health crisis or just about being eaten?

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@wohali sorry, distracted by BAZOOKA

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"You've been looking a bit lonely Dave, I invited her because you need a woman in your life....look at your hair man...ffs..."

The Chief needs to learn Boundaries

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#monsterdon That's how you irritate the CHUD's by the way.

This shopping cart seems to function as human-bait

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Why was Madison doodling on his bed in front of the TV in front of a poster that says RAMÓN SANTIAGO? Is that a name I should recognize, other than because our hero alligator is also named Ramon?

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Wait. There are rats feeding on the carcasses too? I sense a spin off,

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He really wants that license plate posed just right. Okay, now do angry, can you do angry for me? Now do naughty. Yeah, that's it, you're a naughtly license plate. #monsterdon

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So is the Alligator protesting or something

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bless, being about the see the SWAT team's faces....

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Oh no the reporter got hisself Freddy Loundsed #monsterdon #reddragon

When the two cops were driving in the car, mountains in the background

YEESH

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just cannot stop looking at his hairline....

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@MCDuncanLab

I won't test your claim, I'll just accept it

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Wow, I mean they were mostly quite respectful toward the female scientist. Strange. Are we sure this was 1980? #monsterdon

The 'gator's stash of trash, thinking he's some dragon with treasure.....

...cool of the journalist to carry on taking photos while be devoured, professional to end!

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Return of the Bride of Legally Distinct Music

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On the drive back from the science factory, we learn the journalist is writing a hit piece on the detective and the other cops are teasing the detective by putting a toy alligator on his locker, which he takes with what can best be described as annoyed stoicism.

Meanwhile the journalist is interviewing the nurse and learning that the detective was talking about alligators in the sewers, meaning he might join the quest somehow.

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#monsterdon Ring the dinner bell, journalists make the best giant alligator chow! EAT THEM ALL. NO HUMAN IS INNOCENT. THEY ARE ALL MEALS.

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I like the chain-of-newspaper-reading across different scenes and characters tho

just embed the reporter with Detective Madison. problem solved either way.

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Even if he doesn't believe it's a gator, you'd think the chief would be a bit more concerned about one of his cops just going missing

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The detective and his boss go to meet the Reptile Science Master to learn about alligators and how big they can get. Reptile Science Master is a pretty girl, which (unfortunately) means she's probably also a love interest for our so far uninteresting detective character (sigh).

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lol, he keeps bringing up that St Louis thing...

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@ohiofi

Not just every movie, but every SCENE?

Bold choice!

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The alligator eats the blonde cop, or at least disappeared him, but then the detective escapes through a manhole and passes out. He wakes up in a hospital and then his nurse, his boss, and a journalist all appear to pester him.

The detective wants him to take some time off, the journalist wants to write a story because the detective's tragic backstory is that he lost a partner before and now it's happened again and now he wants to write a story about it.

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Funny how the nurse just ran out of the room, and returns his boss

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It's pretty disconcerting to have your first words upon achieving consciousness be "There you are!" in an accusatory tone. #monsterdon

Brown Carl Sagan and the Cop are going to end up the best of friends at the end of this, I can feel it.

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That's a wallet-and-two-handkerchiefs-instead-of-an-ass man right there. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Journalists work is never done, pack shotgun with lemon juice and rock salt, fire, reload.

Eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww this water

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He was 20,000 days from retirement.

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"Aw damn, lost another partner. This is going on my permanent record isn't it!?"

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And that hot Culvert chase has scored me a #MonsterdonBingo #Monsterdon!

#monsterdon the jump scare with the cops playing literal grab-ass like

It counts as a retreat even if it has someone in its mouth

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 shoulda gone in for that locker room crap

"You just popped out of a manhole on Campbell street and started screaming the title of the movie!"

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...how do you let a guy sneak up on you in a flooded sewer

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JAWS - the cutting room floor
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@brooke

Just havin’ sewer fun with the boys

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Alligators can actually sprint very quickly if they want to.

#AlligatorFacts

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Tail smash! Whip it! :godzilla_cool:

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"Get you home for dinner…" or maybe you'll BE dinner.

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@floatybirb Will you please continue to keep track of the characters and their moral alignments so we don't get confused.

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Fatberg dead ahead!

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OK, the rule is you can't play the music if Ramon isn't actually there.

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 just some innocent man-to-man grab-ass

That's harassment, Kelley.

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Hey don't drop bricks on Ramon, he was having a nice nap. That's rude.

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@gnomon I mean, I didn't *bellow*, because I had a mouthful of Junior Mints

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Okay, but when Killer Croc gets your ass I don't want to hear shit.

No, I'm NOT talking about Ramon!

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All Cops Are Breakfast

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Clearly the Kool-Aid man has been down there.

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@allanb

I think the family were on a trip to Florida, kid brought baby gator back to Chicago. Once home, they were talking about the Democratic Convention of 68 causing trouble in town

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In an attempt to make this movie interesting that I hope succeeds, we go into Dungeon Mode and the detective and blonde cop go into the sewers to solve the mystery. They encounter a dead end that is bricked up and then press "M" to reveal the sewer map.

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@hollie lol my thoughts exactly

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That's a really big seven segment display. #monsterdon

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The actor who plays Detective David Madison, Robert Forster, improvised a line about his receding hairline and scriptwriter John Sayles thought it was great and wrote in more.

Sayles was looking for humor because test audiences burst out laughing when they saw the gator. He knew it had to be a comedy.

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"Well, y'can't live forever."

Hey, here comes lunch! #Monsterdon

Stop fashion-shaming the detective, you meanies!

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@apLundell #monsterdon #tubi

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

Chekov's Cop's Dead Partner #monsterdon

@apLundell@timeloop.cafe Alligators have the right number of eyelids. Not their fault if you're deficient!

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I have to watch a lot of law enforcement pressers for my jobs and this is actually way more information than you usually get. #monsterdon