"The show is yours, Wainright."

Get these locusts into dresses, we're gonna give them the best can can line Chicago's EVER SEEN!!!

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ Didn't he say he was 37? Didn't look like it.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

That grasshopper is LYING!!!

#Monsterdon

oh my god they're giving the giant locust a polygraph

incredible stuff

#Monsterdon

i never understood the use of hats in Hollywood movies. in Puerto Rico, using hats indoors was bad manners. what gives? why do women use hata indoors in Hollywood movies?!?!?

(you can tell been #sewing all day)

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

"You can't drop an atom bomb on Chicago!"

Can I? I've got a grudge. #Monsterdon

This was really quite reasonable. Actually well done.

#monsterdon

OMG this movie *is* about green screening LOL

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

"Before every attack, the locust sends a coded signal from a phonebox, like the IRA"

#Monsterdon

"our emergency stocks won't last long."
"Sell all the Monsanto!"

#monsterdon

Ah, yes, the army people. In Washington. Famous for listening to people.

#Monsterdon

"Did you want to say something, General Hanson?"
"mmmmm...bop."

#monsterdon

halfway point, and we've set things up pretty thoroughly. will the movie escalate further, or will we spend 38 minutes farting around aimlessly? it remains to be seen.

#Monsterdon

"They used to blame the atom and grasshoppers for everything. Bad health, bad crops, bad weather. Now it's Trump!"

#Monsterdon

GIANT GULLS, MAN, I'M TELLING YOU, GIANT GULLS :gull_scream:

#Monsterdon

@crowbriarhexe ok steve, just act like you saw a giant grasshopper. "they don't pay me enough for that. but I can do mild confusion."

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe "It's... beyond my comprehension!" *grasshopper crawls across the screen*

#monsterdon

I appreciate that the cop or military dude or whatever he is is equally dismissive of the man AND the woman, this is woke

#Monsterdon

I'm sure this is all rock solid scientific law. #monsterdon

I never really liked the town of Ludlow anyway.

#Monsterdon

@xerozohar I want to bug-lieve #Monsterdon

the radioactivity accelerates their cell division, but they still need to get metabolic energy from eating food

yea alight sure just show me more big bug and I'll let you get away with that one, pal

#Monsterdon

This is the most setup and pre-monster character development we've gotten from a #Monsterdon movie in a long time.

"Captain, there's some things you never get used to."

For example, touchy officers putting their arms behind me >_> #Monsterdon

"they have to be fed constantly"

that's where their last assistant went.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

By the way this part is not science fiction. They really did use radioactive sources to induce mutations in plants. It kinda worked and kinda didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
#monsterdon

"150 people don't just vanish into thin air."

So someone brought a phaser back in time, it happens twice a season these days. #Monsterdon

On the other hand, the soldiers can teleport now, that's pretty impressive. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Hot details in your area

#monsterdon

That's a WHOLE lotta car. #Monsterdon

"Send help! Lotsa help, quick!"

Eh, it's no OH THE HUMANITY!!. :/ #Monsterdon

The car was destroyed by a sweater! #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe HELL IS REAL
AND IT'S BERT GORDON

#monsterdon

"Foul play suspected."

Yeah, no shit sherlock.

#Monsterdon

"Now...the gland"

70s funk music begins

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Seriously though this is a weirder one than I remember. GG Tubi Subs?: #TheUnearthly

How fucking awkward would it be to sit through someone's organ performance for evening entertainment? I'm glad Television destroyed this.

#Monsterdon #TheUnearthly

"But if Senator Gedro is dead, then he'll miss the important vote on the War, unless we just lied to everyone and doctored an old photo with today's paper...."

But that would be ridiculous

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon The subtitles are funny... not Madame Curie, but Madame Courgey.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116989542759943610

and guns, cuz MURRICA

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

That would have led to the sequel featuring giant humans who'd eaten giant grasshopper meat

#Monsterdon

@superball @me the principle that volume grows as the third power ('cube') of the size of something, but the surface area grows as the second power ('square')

At some point you run into problems like being able to do enough gas exchange or physically hold up the mass of a solid body.

Basically, math means you can't have giant ants (or locusts, or spiders, or…)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square–cube_law

#Monsterdon

da locuss on da soudside of Cheecawgo

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

@davesdogmaggie
That's what they get next month after the locust bodies get eaten....

#monsterdon

did we get married in the last scene? i hope we got married #monsterdon

Killing big bugs really puts Ms. Aims in the mood. #Monsterdon

Bert, you can't just film grasshoppers on magazines and call it a movie

Damn it Bert

#Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie "What's your clearance Clarence?" #Monsterdon

Is it just me or is the general sounding kind of pissy? Is he mad he didn't get to nuke something? #Monsterdon

Someone should mod Rampage (1986) to replace the gorilla, lizard, and werewolf with a grasshopper, spider, and umm, puppet person.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

That's a B-36D (or later), not a B-52!

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Cool shots of 1950s Chicago

#monsterdon

So are they pretending they can evacuate a whole city like Chicago in a day? Because they're going to kill a lot of people with this bomb plan

#Monsterdon

We need a Low Frequency filter, a Wah-wah pedal, and a Big Muff distortion pedal! Fast!

#monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

this movie came out in 1957, 3 years after Godzilla.

am sure the pitch was very #techbros #broligarchy: “we can make a bigger and better atomic movie without the need of an actor in a suit.”

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

The polygraph will tell us if this bug is a LIAR!!

#Monsterdon

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#Monsterdon

🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
In the building climbing scenes, when the monster grasshoppers are supposed to be wounded or killed by gunfire, Gordon merely tipped the photograph and the grasshoppers slid down it.

The effect using the photographs was pretty good, but sometimes the grasshoppers slide out to the "sky" accidently and stay there, unattached to anything.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

"To defeat the giant insects, I will need your strongest MIDI player and a sailboat."

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

Albert Glasser like, "You know what this scene needs? Romantic strings." #Monsterdon

Tech Bros today

"But is there a way we can harness the giant locust swarm with Technology and use them to clear away poor people's neighbourhoods for golf courses?"

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe shoot, a fella could have a good time in Vegas with all that stuff

#Monsterdon

It's my understanding that the audience's primary responsibility at this stage would have been to "neck" by this point in the film.

So everyone turn to the monsterdonian on your right and...

#Monsterdon

"do NOT panic. do NOT panic"

[cut to shots of people panicking]

#Monsterdon

THE CUBS WON THE SERIES, THE-- oh, no, grasshoppers :/ #Monsterdon

I have a tip for you man, that's not their attack warning sound, that's their horny sound

#Monsterdon

You know the USSR is just sitting off-camera chuckling at all this. #Monsterdon

And now, some stock footage for your perusal. #Monsterdon

"chicago Next?" Depends on the Bears defensive line. HEYOOOO

#monsterdon

Those are very sneaky incredibly loud giant locusts. An entire platoon didn’t notice them until the locusts were literally on top of them.

#Monsterdon #beginningoftheend

"The locusts have broken out defense lines! quick, summon mothra!"

#monsterdon

"Locusts follow a leader."

His name's Larry. #Monsterdon

"Who gave the entomologist a machine gun?
"He brought his own Captain!"

#Monsterdon

OH LAWD HE GRASSIN'

#monsterdon

[ green screen superimposed footage, playing to loud trumpets, to signal the height of media technology ]

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

sure, send in a squad, that always helps in movies like this

#monsterdon

Poor whatsisname whom I've already forgotten

#Monsterdon

behold, the budget plague of egypt

#monsterdon

"I'd like to get some shots of this."

I've got a rifle in the car. #Monsterdon

OMFG THE TOMATOES

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

"Does this strike you as strange?"

Yeah it's not common for movies from the '50s to have female protagonists. #Monsterdon

USDA experimenting with nuculear energy on what? popcorn?

yes… nuculear

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

"Lady, do you like movies about Gladiators?"

That keeps running through my head every time Rupert is putting on the charm

#Monsterdon

Nice tornado damage photos. yeesh.

#monsterdon

"Springfield is on the line."

THE WHOLE THING??? #Monsterdon

"Tonight on #Monsterdon we've re-packaged a documentary made years ago. Tonight on A&E. I'm Peter Graves." #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I love when 50's movies do the whole "interviewing witnesses" segments it's like let's just play the central casting test reels one after another for 5 minutes straight

bless their barely connected world...

#Monsterdon

"In the future....cameras will be so small you can wear them on your head....and film strangers..."

#Monsterdon

He's got a DETAIL IN HIS AREA??? #Monsterdon

While watching Beginning of the End, whispering when the Beginning of the End comes on the screen: "That's the Beginning of the End"

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Car got squished. There's doo-wop everywhere. #Monsterdon

These credits are designed to make watchers clean their spectacles

#Monsterdon

Credits scrawled on a chalkboard :D #Monsterdon

scandalous!!!

#Monsterdon

That's your parents, Joel. #Monsterdon

How do we know RFK JR isn't doing this right now in a bunker? He'd insert a gland into himself for immortality..

#monsterdon

"guinea pig for a mad scientist" or "The electric chair", such is the US Justice system

#Monsterdon #TheUnearthly

Can't you see, man! It's all about the glands!

#monsterdon

"They're climbing the building!"

#monsterdon #BestOfMonsterdon #GiantInsectsOfMonsterdon #GrasshoppersOfMonsterdon #MatteBackgroundsOfMonsterdon #CompositesOfMonsterdon