#monsterdon Waiting for the US DOD Toxic Waste barrels that would explain the mutant we spotted in the first scene. Agent Scarlet, just nichey enough to not be noticed but enough to give us three eyed Sturgeon.
#monsterdon broke blondie looks like the gringo version of RubΓ©n Blades
#Monsterdon I have a BINGO!
#monsterdon Underwater Hussy Ballet...
Rated B for BUTTS.
#monsterdon Tell the milkman, no more government cheese!!!
I did not think getting crabs would result in this #monsterdon
That's a lot of panic for a few crabs. Get him some tartar sauce and a lemon.
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#monsterdon oy, my grandfather, the ACAB one, used to raise fighting roosters. i hate cockfighting.
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Our feature was supposed to rip-off which of one the following previously-made movies?
so, this was about 45 minutes worth of movie, but they got a free vacation out of it, so why not inflict their vacay photos on all of us. #monsterdon
That was plainly sexist in tone, but I have no idea what that comment about the camera freezing was supposed to mean #Monsterdon
Was that ... innuendo? How? What?
Captain Hat Dude dies first
#monsterdon Notice the old Lolo (grandpa) looking at the explorers. They are SO used for the north Americans to be rude
if you don't speak the language just talk english louder and slower #monsterdon
And the orchestra tries desperately to inject some life into this cold and heartless slab of a movie...
Adventuring music! 70s style!
Wait does she change her shirt twice on the trip to the island?
#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis
"Overheard us rappin' about the pearls" Downright Shakespearean. #Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis
#monsterdon The movie had to start by showing us the bug-eyed islanders or else we'd have given up before now.
It's amazing how a still frame can capture all the motion and emotion in this scene. #monsterdon
oooh, Fuck, Marry, Pearl. #monsterdon
#monsterdon If I have to do something about you, I will... wtf?
"...if I have to say these lines, I will. But my heart won't be in it."
#monsterdon Well hell, we got matching dudes again. One great thing about the '70s though is absolutely no restraint on the shirt designs.
"All right, all right, we can have gross nasty 70's white people sex, but THEN we do science." #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Dialog bad.
baaaaaaaaaarf #Monsterdon
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YES that's DOCTOR Katherine Vernon to you, dude
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No actors were trampled in the making of this film
OUR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, WHO ART IN POLYESTER, HALLO
Hair vs hair #Monsterdon
Dance at the Gym, but worse #monsterdon
This casino is really, really unglamorous, feels more like a bus terminal
These are curly hair helmets, right?
#Monsterdon y'all are gonna think there's something wrong with me, but I want that guy's shirtβ¦
I remember #monsterdon is on in enough time to be able to catch up
Can I root for the monster yet?! #Monsterdon
This film funded by the Manila Tourist Board
lol "more gambling"
Just wash his cock right in front of the other dude, no shame....
"we gotta make it a three-way scene!" #monsterdon
That look of regret when you accepted your agent's pitch of an all expense trip overseas for an acting gig #Monsterdon
@Bluedepth Why is his chest so sore? He doesn't look like he lifts #monsterdon
I know he's thinking about swallowing that pearl #monsterdon
@OldRustBucket #monsterdon
Kind of sad. Itβs not like he set his sights THAT high, right?
Lotsa smoking, just waiting on coffee ... and was the extended cockfighting really needed?
My sympathy for characters who have massive gambling debts that lead them to adventure is low.
A tit rub?! #monsterdon
"Lower, this movie's not grimy enough! Lower! LOWER!"
They left no filler material unused #monsterdon
we can skip the cock fighting anytime now...
I'm of Filipino ancestry and deplore the cock-fighting content, authentic though it may be #monsterdon
Is this guy who Andrew Tate got his look from?
"I wanna look like a pimp in a Phillipines exploitation film." π
East Eddy and a West Eddie in town? They are one Ed short of grown up Ed, Edd, & Eddie. Not surprising those boys went into crime.
#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis
oh good he's describing the difference between east and west
I'm getting a headache trying to hear what anyone is saying in this barβ¦
Loving this pearl trading scene, just keep it going for a few minutes why not?
@yatsu lol "priceless!" #Monsterdon
The very rare octagonal ring pop #monsterdon
The piano player was in full Vince Guaraldi mode at the start there for a bit I dig it #Monsterdon
y'know i'd turn this up to hear more of the dialogue but then i'd hear more of the dialogue
Mr. Clean's wayward brother.
4 min to first kill, nice!
It starts off pretty and relaxing, and then suddenly it becomes #MONSTERDON! #monsterdon
#monsterdon Pastoral, mutant, windswept, culturally obtuse. This movie has almost everything!
"Oh right, Creepy Guy. Here's your bag of wet socks."
Man - they don't mess around β we're straight into the fish people right off the bat before the credits are done.
her necklace no doubt made of the teeth of previous audiences who didn't make it through this film. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon WHAT IS THAT LITTLE FACE
This doesn't look anything at all like Atlanta.
#monsterdon #beyondatlantis
Say your prayers, we are GO for #Monsterdon
And we're away with a #Monsterdon evening!
@stragu Of all the movies weβve watched on #monsterdon , that was definitely one of them.
@jsadow Iβm pretty sure this is how they pitched the film to the producers:
We need to have a theft, but underwater.
Then weβll have an investigation, but underwater.
Along the way we will have two people fall in love, but underwater.
Then there will be a few big fights between main characters, but underwater
Theyβll have the MacGuffin and in the final scene theyβll lose it forever, but underwater.
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@Violinknitter
well i think we've all wrapped up for the night so good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting
@Zerofactorial @blogdiva Atlantians Nurturable #monsterdon #severance
@combatwombat @blogdiva I think that's right. It made me think of #severance #monsterdon
See, in Sierra Madre, they had a good laugh because the only people that had suffered was the heros.
They'd tortured themselves, and it turned out to be for nothing.
Cuts differently when you just slaughtered a native village and are still in the middle of an armed showdown with someone you don't like and can easily blame for the loss of your treasure.
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Sorry, this one gets one and a half stars from me for its boringness mixed with animal abuse https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/beyond-atlantis/ #monsterdon #letterboxd
Ok, never voting for another ocean based #Monsterdon movie again
Toots are still trickling in until an hour after the movie, but if someone missed #monsterdon, hereβs the replay: http://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/beyond-atlantis
We did have both smoking and coffee, so at least it ticked both of those boxes.
The American scientist didn't have a gun, so a miss on that trope.
@brooke They were setting up for the obvious sequel. "West Eddie takes on Atlantis!"
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#Monsterdon "and the pearls fucked off into the sea"
@starkraving666 I find #monsterdon most fun if either the movie is good, or so bad thereβs lots to rant and despair about. This was close to the latter, just a bit too boring and stretched out.
@starkraving666 This one was not very high crap per second. Like, there were whole 2 and 3-minute sequences of scuba diving. All you can do is say "wow, boring scuba diving... AGAIN." and then wait 2 minutes for something to happen. I kinda don't mind Frogs or Slugs where like every 10 seconds there's something hysterical to write about. But the slow-paced ones are less fun for me. You wait through 3 minutes of scuba just to get a bunch of wooden actors staring at each other and delivering lines like a badly paced AI bot.
The epic Godmonster of Indian Flats was brisk pacing by comparison. π
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#Monsterdon ... o_O ok that ending was creepy
#monsterdon So, it was implied that the fish-people were going extinct because Syrene was killed.
But why? She was not their only female? Can only the non-fish-eyed islanders mate?
@Violinknitter It is pretty mysterious that this movie exists not so much because someone thought "small time mobsters steal pearls from Atlantians" so much as "we'll do it with 50% underwater swimming sequences."
So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, lurkers for lurking, and posters for posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: You will mate!