@ohiofi #monsterdon

So after #Monsterdon was over I started watching a romcom I've never seen before, called The Jane Austen Book Club. It's from 2007 - only 18 years old!

The whole first five minutes is a montage of overwhelming hectic urban daily life, the central focus of which is everyone on their cell phones. Not their smartphones. Their hinged flip phones. Everyone is ACTUALLY TALKING on the phone, it's so quaint!

These poor people have no idea what's coming.

The marine in 5 minutes. #monsterdon

Okay, so these two un-shrunk, perfectly normal-looking people will go to the police.

*Monty Python Holy Grail voice*

People: "He turned us into dolls!"

Police Sergeant, skeptical: "Dolls?"

People: "Well we got better."

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At least this guy won't lose his job to AI.
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I was hoping the cat would just start knocking everything off that table

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Imagine if you shrunk today's teenagers, they'd have no idea what to do with that phone

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They really did a nice job with the giant props, giant props to the props peeps

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dude has a cross-dressing need but it’s sublimating by kidnapping people and developing technology that turns people into dolls. that ain't healthy.

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I'm starting to think that all men in the 50s were super creeps.

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the boss can't be disturbed because he’s already disturbed… nyuck nyuck nyuck

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The abrupt ending, as ALWAYS! 😂😂

@Mallow : "That's IT? No resolution?"
Me: "That's the quintessential #Monsterdon experience."
@Mallow: "I feel cheated!"

😂

oh no how did I get tricked into another American International joint

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hold up. okay so I'm smol. but I don't have to go to work anymore?

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Look I'm just gonna go ahead and get this out of the way right now

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Well, @Mallow, Welcome to the #monsterdon ending. If you're suffering whiplash, that means it was pretty typical. 😃

@L1vY@mstdn.social

It's not easy being weensy

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Remember when they used to repair things instead of just throw them away...

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#monsterdon cops and no warrants, most iconic duo

I'm counting all that climbing-around as "A Feat of Strength" and declaring #MonsterdonBingo

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the director made a movie called COLOSSAL MAN. what awesome product placement.

https://archive.org/details/bert-i-gordon-complete-collection/1957-3.+The+Amazing+Colossal+Man.mp4

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Some tiny person will definitely be strapped down to that machine later, mark my words

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"I'll take it in the back

room"

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Maybe the real puppet people were the real people we made into puppets along the way

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the dude was up to 5:30 in the morning playing with his puppets? No wonder the caretaker was intrigued....

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Dude. Just step out of the box and fucking run.
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For sale: two brain cells, never used

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A child as creepy as the old man, that's an impressive bar to soar over

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hats off to the set designers for absolutely nailing all these scale-adjusted props. great stuff

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They're AWFULLY cheerful for being prisoners of a mad scientist!

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who the hell gets into an elevator filled up to the gills with people?!?!? as a newyorker, that's one of my nightmares.

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i would ask "how come some of the dolls look totally different and extremely realistic and why don't we ever sell those" on probably the second day #monsterdon

Q: Why did the 'Sixties happen?
A: The 'Fifties.

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@aburka #monsterdon

This is going to end abruptly, isn't it

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Heh, the antagonist's greatest opposing force in this film is social awkwardness :P #Monsterdon

These seem like different scales.
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i know the premise is a little silly, but i find the old man pretty creepy
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ACAB includes the missing persons bureau

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"Bob wouldn't treat me this way!"

...Are we talking about the same guy? #Monsterdon

dude was supposedly working with plastic extruders in a suit?!?!?

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* Do two men
* Ever have a conversation
* About anything other than dolls, or people mysteriously disappearing

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Employers begging people to work for them? in this economy?

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Remember when you could just walk into an office and they'd give you a job?

Me neither

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I hope the imagery in this title sequence implies these puppets are going through pneumatic tubes at some point

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Had to go give my cat a treat and some pets because WE'LL NEVER KNOW IF THEY GOT THE CAT OUT OF THE FUCKING MATCHBOX

>:( >:( >:(

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So I guess it's over! That's it, everyone is fine, let's fuck off into the St. Louis I assume!

Goodnight #monsterdon! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and see y'all next week!

@starkraving666 @paco and they roofied his coffee! it was a throwaway bit that didn't work, but they tried! #monsterdon

Monsterdon. Brought to you by the fine people at Abrupt Endings Incorporated.
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They just LEFT HIM THERE WITH THE MACHINE? For crissakes people

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It's a lot more than 6 miles Bob, but okay

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can you imagine if this entire movie was this guy putting on a puppet show

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#monsterdon i don’t know how this movie ends but this fucker needs to be dead by the end.

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"If I thought I was being watched, I would find life quite intolerable." -a man who has no idea what the future is like.

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Kind of weird how the tone of this movie went from "creepy af" to "hijinks"

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"Awful to think there people all around us and no way to get through to them"

So deep for one so smol

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this movie explains why white people are their worse enemies.

the kidnapped “little people” have literally accepted their precariousness and normalized their oppression.

this movie was about #MAGA before American fascists found a successful marketing strategy.

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WHY does he need to torture them by giving them a big long lecture as well as shrinking them?? 😂

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What this film is really missing: Billy Barty. #monsterdon

MAKE A SHETLAND PONY NEXT

<claps excitedly>

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Oh. Great. Bob's back. :/ #Monsterdon

"He'd been neglecting his business lately."

One blonde, one brunette. #Monsterdon

To think, Franz coulda been Bones!

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Oh, the days when a guy could say "wait 'till you meet my little puppets" to another guy without irony

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lol, there's an international brotherhood of creepy old doll makers...of course

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Title song: "You're my Living Doll"

Might be an early sign of a horny #Monsterdon entrant.

That paint can is maybe 1.5x the size of a normal one paint can. But the matchbox is like 10x the size of a normal match box.
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in the sequel, after he dolls the entire town, he then gives them a dolled doll ray and forces them to face what such a terrifying weapon means for their doll society, and sets up a gradient of doll worlds down to the atomic level so we can have an inception-like ending where the multiple layers of doll world all are forced to collapse back into the regular size #monsterdon

#monsterdon the fascist fuck didn't get the Mussolini treatment? they just walk away expecting Law & Order to take care of things? no wonder this fucking country is being ran by sociopaths with a god-complex. that fucking guy was Trump & the whole MAGA crew.

be more like the Brits and kill the fascists with scytes or baseball bats.

sheesh.

...Didn't even hit him? He turned you into a tiny person an you're not even gonna -- HEY YOU CAN'T END THE FILM THERE WHAT THE FUCK #Monsterdon

HE'S BACK WELL THAT WAS POINTLESS #Monsterdon

Yes dear, get in the package and get jumbled around into a nice pudding consistency. #Monsterdon

Pro tip: If you're in the right time zone, the #Monsterdon commentary is the perfect remedy for the Sunday Scaries.

"we should all meet death together", well that escalated quickly

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#Monsterdon tip: need to make a quick getaway? Pack only the essential dolls.

OMG KITTY IN THE MATCHBOX, KITTY IN THE MATCHBOX

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Phones really were that big in the 50s.

You could kill a person with one.

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So when does Rick Moranis befriend a giant tiny ant? #Monsterdon

OMFG this song. they literally wrote the song hoping to make money out of it. am wondering if did they made actual dolls as a tie-in.

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Yes! She is

Singing!

Definitely!

...Absolutely!

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The tiniest peer pressure ever

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So Hoyt is basically:

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I don't think there's a size restriction on being able to officiate a wedding.

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That cop should not have left her alone with a man she just accused of...sorcery 🤨

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He was turned into a doll? This is a prequel!
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Bob is looking very FLAT as well as tiny!

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Puppets and dolls are 2 totally different things. The Twilight Zone does a pretty good job of explaining it.....#monsterdon

I'm sure there have been creepier marriage proposals, but I can't think of any of them offhand

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"She left me while I was playing my marionettes in Luxemburg"

I don't rate this Eurovision entry...

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Who is creepier, the doll maker or the doll *clothes* salesman. The jury will decide. #Monsterdon

See, that's how you can tell he's a real villain, interfering with the mail. #Monsterdon

"what line of work are you in?"

"oh, you know, I work in the sexual harrassment and browbeating factory"

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@bstacey Could be worse. A couple of weeks ago my hashtag got spellchecked while I wasn't noticing half way through and I made mundane toots all evening tagged Mastodon instead of #Monsterdon. lol

@nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret I guess you had to be there? We didn't have any control over our emotional reactions as 5 year olds, and my parents were concerned, so they just blocked us from watching it, considering we were terrified.

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ok I'm back at keyboard. anyone else watching this vampire movie on miru.miyaku ?!

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#monsterdon A classic 1950's ending. Yup, we're done. You can't stay here, you don't have to go home, just get out. YAAY! Thanks @Taweret for a cute little movie. LITTLE. ;)

"Come on, Sally, we'll call the police!"

"Don't leave me... please don't leave me... I'll be alone!"

That's the end?! Two escapees, but the rest of the puppet crew is just left offsccreen? Presumably the mad scientist offs himself per his plan as soon as he's left alone?? And nobody but nobody fucks off into the sea!

AND THAT'S A WRECK

Man, that was a weird one.

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