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. It’s not like he set his sights THAT high, right?

Lotsa smoking, just waiting on coffee ... and was the extended cockfighting really needed?

#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

NOW BRING THE VELCRO

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

My sympathy for characters who have massive gambling debts that lead them to adventure is low.

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A tit rub?! #monsterdon

"Lower, this movie's not grimy enough! Lower! LOWER!"

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

They left no filler material unused #monsterdon

we can skip the cock fighting anytime now...

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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." 😊

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that is not my manuel

this is my manuel

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

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

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I'm getting a headache trying to hear what anyone is saying in this bar…

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Loving this pearl trading scene, just keep it going for a few minutes why not?

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@yatsu lol "priceless!" #Monsterdon

The very rare octagonal ring pop #monsterdon

You don't make a dime sittin on it. #TakesNotesFuriously #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

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

Oh, 70s sleaze. eugh.

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

Mr. Clean's wayward brother.

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Hookers!

Pimps!

Poverty!

#Monsterdon

"He trespassed on our island, so he must die"

*Blonde does an eye-roll* lol

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4 min to first kill, nice!

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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."

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

She's very confused by the opening credits. Which, hey, fair. #Monsterdon

Man - they don't mess around – we're straight into the fish people right off the bat before the credits are done.

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I like water and pretty girls. So far not offensive.

The pot-bellied guy in the shirt tho

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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 we’ve watched on #monsterdon , that was definitely one of them.

@jsadow I’m pretty sure this is how they pitched the film to the producers:

We need to have a theft, but underwater.

Then we’ll 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

They’ll have the MacGuffin and in the final scene they’ll 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

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

@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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3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
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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, here’s 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.

#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

@brooke They were setting up for the obvious sequel. "West Eddie takes on Atlantis!"
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon "and the pearls fucked off into the sea"

@starkraving666 I find #monsterdon most fun if either the movie is good, or so bad there’s 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. 😃
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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."

#monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, lurkers for lurking, and posters for posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: You will mate!

#Monsterdon like I said. Listen to the Owlbear.

Anyway, that was fun! Have a good night guys. Same time next week, yeah?

Okay the horribly out of place music layered on top of the soundtrack did make for a few moments of laughter in confusion. But that doesn't make up for this movie being 40% underwater footage by volume. And just bad.
#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

@paco At about 53 minutes in, the lady speculates that these are descendants of Atlantians, migrating to this island and inbreeding. Maybe. #monsterdon

The hours of my life I waste shitposting with y’all #Monsterdon

So basically the bad guys got away and the slightly less bad fish people (like patriarchy much?) are now doomed and then their pearls go overboard anyways and they laugh at how pointless this all was...

THE END

...?

Did I get this right? I couldn't really follow it with so many terrible similar looking characters and underwater butt focused dancing interludes

Still it was a fun journey with all the #Monsterdon commentary and fashion and music mojo overload thanks for bringing us along @Taweret !

#Monsterdon she feels sorry about both the homicide *and* the genocide

Lovely watching with you fine fedi folks tonight! Thanks again @Taweret #Monsterdon

Not exactly bingo

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

the only pearl i care about

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

I need a shower. :/ #Monsterdon

I'm going to go try to scrub the 70s off my skin. Goodnight #monsterdon, and thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

Does the doctor stay with the Atlantians? This could be the origin story for redheaded mermaids. #Monsterdon

the real pearls are the sea people we destroy along the way #Monsterdon

Oh yes, THATS what this mishmash of a soundtrack lacked. A touch of Bollywood. Glad they slipped that in over the final credits.

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Well wasn't that just worth my time.
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The Moral of the Story is:

NO PLOT?

Just get an UNDERWATER CAMERA!

#monsterdon

Well, that was so great

Thanks @Taweret
and everyone watching & commenting

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And then the pearls fucked off into the sea

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

the ending we deserved: manuel shoots them all, the """cannibal fish""" wreck the boat's engine, the pearls are lost to time, and manuel and his crew are fish sticks. #monsterdon

???

They're just choosing pointless violence instead of money that they have the resources to get?

what?

Yeah, Eddie and friends are the real monsters.

#monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

so they went mad at the end, mirroring the audience. wat #monsterdon

Dad's just mad because she technically followed his order, but now that forced mating is all for naught #monsterdon

wtf does that ending actually mean?!? #monsterdon

sure, that's a way to end a move.

also EAST EDDIE is indeed EAST EDDIE in the credits, nice.

#monsterdon

wut

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #BeyondAtlantis, from 1973, promised to put some motion in the ocean. Instead we got,

Et tu Manuel?
#monsterdon

Over.

It's finally over.

And I guess they all fucked off into the sea.

#Monsterdon

i got a proposition for this movie, actually: fuck off. #monsterdon

Can't wait for the sequel. Beyond Atlantis: The Search for Curly's Pearls!

#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

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honestly Manuel should make all the $$ if anyone should

@Lazarou #Monsterdon

I was expecting the islanders to capture the scientist to propagate the royal line. Ah well.

#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis1973

these folk showing us how to properly fuck off into the sea after a shite movie

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"...okay everyone, you're going to walk into the sea. Yep, that's good. Keep walking. Keep going. You're doing great!"

#Monsterdon #BeyondAtlantis

lol, this film is a 'fun' story of Colonialism though, look at the white folk fighting over pearls after blowing everything up

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not all of those extras were ready to walk into the ocean at that pace I guess

atlanteans going "jesus can you believe these fuckers?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s3gsqGiGTY

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Kathy and Syrene - don't just wrestle - say something! #monsterdon

Crab flesh wounds, broken arm - East Eddie is a walking disaster.

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Well, at least one of the white protagonists gets how bad this whole thing was #Monsterdon