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Cassiopeia:

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Please charge the owl.
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LOOK EVERYONE, I HAVE HER HEAD!

[petrifies entire city]

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According to imdb trivia, As the destruction of Argos begins, heavy winds blow the tunic of a man pulling a donkey on a rope to reveal a pair of modern-day gym shorts underneath.

Yup.
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He has to solve a RIDDLE to get the babe? Oh Perseus, my dude, this does not bode well

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Had to run to the kitchen to help clean up a big shattered glass jug that decided to practically atomize and spread itself across three rooms, but we're all okay thanks to my flashlight and vacuum trick.

But I missed the end of the movie, so I'm going to guess that Perseus got the girl, and she didn't have to perish virginally and krakenally. I'll guess the gods were annoyed. I hope the pegasus was set free and the mechanical owl poops little pellets on everyone.

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THIS MOVIE COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #ClashOfTheTitans , from 1981, is a Harryhausen classic, and also his final work before retiring. This version of the Greek myth of Perseus included

Fun fact, night was not invented until 1992, that's why all these movies have to fake it with day-for-night shots

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#monsterdon Wow, maybe don't admit that you fell in love while you were sneaking into her bedroom.

That might not be as romantic as you think it is.

Hahah okay I just realized how that sounded and I am talking about actual swordplay

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i was one of the Weird Sisters in Macbeth.

true story.

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HEADS WILL ROLL

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#Monsterdon fun tidbit from the DVD extras that came with my AppleTV version: for the two-headed wolf which is furry, earlier animations tended to have a problem where the fur would get messed with as the animator manipulated the model for each frame -- they mostly avoided this for this instance by being careful to touch the model as much as possible on the _back side_ that's not facing the camera, so it doesn't muss the fur on the visible side!

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These men wear very short shorts, I'm just kind of amazed this is practical with all the swordplay

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#monsterdon "The sands of time are running like quicksilver."

Huh. I wonder if quicksilver would even run through an hourglass. It's got a lot of surface tension.

I love the little bit of traditional animation thrown in with the stop motion work.
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Starting to understand why the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey is so bitter, look at all the crap she had to put up with

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#monsterdon Turns out anybody can catch Pegasus. No wonder the flying horses are extinct.

BTW y’all noticed how Andromeda had to break the gold and emerald necklace to become free?

marriage, to the greeks, was an arrangement of reproductive slavery at worse, indentured servitude at best.

la familia was was the name of the breeding house slave.

in Spanish esposo and esposa means handcuffed and handcuffs.

just saying.

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"Guard well this shield for one day it will guard your life."

Yes, I know how shields work

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Athena: I just started bringing an owl with me to court and NO ONE has asked about it yet. #monsterdon

the Kraken looks like, if King Kong and Gojira had a baby

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Perseus has exactly the level of competence and entitlement I expect for the son of a CEO - I mean, god. #monsterdon #clashofthetitans

Let's be real, Perseus, everything astonishes you

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@jmjm @ohiofi I don't think we had an official mascot but if we did it would probably be baby Godzilla

Devil Girl might be the closest thing to an "official" meme of #Monsterdon though

It'd be better if her boobs turned guys to stone so the only ones who would survive would be the ones interested in her sparkling intellect

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#monsterdon "Even lovelier than the goddess"

You think people would have learned not to say stuff like this back then.

AAAAAAACK AM LATE FOR #Monsterdon! good thing i watched this movie recently.

It's always so hard to get old boyfriends to stop calling you. She's got my sympathies :/ #Monsterdon

I really thought the back of the shield was gonna have a face in it. Not like just a chroma key, but an actual face embedded in it like the Betazoid gift box from Star Trek #monsterdon

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Not the IDEAL #Monsterdon movie, but I enjoyed this and being able to rejoin chat. I'd like more non-scary movies like this ^^

Kraken AND Medusa? Y’all had a good one, didn’t you #monsterdon

@hollie hmm you know I think Pegasus just flew off

fucked out of the sea, you might say (and some people did)

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Learn how to make YOUR man rock hard with this one little trick. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

Harry Hamlin has the best lips in cinema. Angelina Jolie could never.

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this fucking owl. allegedly a precursor (moviewise) to R2D2.

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Noooo, do not give this knucklehead a winged horse, he does not deserve such finery

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Geez! How many cats are IN that chest?

Oh good, now he has a beautiful cloak. Covered in ancient Greek cat hair.

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And that's it! Oh, this was DELIGHTFUL - it's as terrible as I remembered but also charming and fun. The stop motion DELIVERS and the Kraken sequence is still what I remembered!

Thank you all who joined tonight, thanks @Taweret for hosting, I had a mythological time!

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Surprise, the Nepo baby succeeded #monsterdon

HE SAID THE THING!

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Checking out to see if The Isle of the Dead has any Yelp reviews. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

"Medusa... I wrote a play about her once..."

Yeah, we've watched The Gorgon (1964) already. #Monsterdon

In the next scene, Perseus steals an old man's walker. #Monsterdon

A golden owlbot that says "cuckoo."

An all-knowing, all-seeing creature that landed on a broken branch anyway. 🤨

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*Calibos lifts a twisted hunting horn to his lips*

*every single person on mastodon* Do not TOOT it!!

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ONE DAY

ONE DAY people are gonna learn not to be like, "surely the gods won't mind me saying I'm better than them" #Monsterdon

Calibos… jfc he is the perfect example of how europeans have, for centuries, used the trope of the semitic looking black man as the bad guy. who is the actor?

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...Krambo... Krapos... Krimble? No. Kris...?

OH

KRISPY KREMES

THE ANSWER IS KRISPY KREMES #Monsterdon

Eight year old me LOVES the flying horse. 🥹

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VUlture waiting for a 20% tip for bringing your baggae up

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See, this kind of backstabbing and politicking is why it's important to have democratically elected gods. #Monsterdon

Okay how long into this movie before it's safe to make a Kraken dez nuts joke?
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yall’s #Monsterdon posts are fun to see even if we didn’t partake.

@diazona @hollie Pegasus fucked off into the sky, as he is wont to do.

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And that's a wreck! Perseus and Anne get married, Pegasus gallop-flies off somewhere, myth lives on in legend and in the shape of the stars, and petrified chunks of the kraken fuck off into the sea even though previously petrified characters showed no propensity for shattering into chunks.

That was fun! Thank you, @Taweret! Thanks for the bingo card, @Cherizilla!

And thank you all for watching along, #monsterdon !

europens and their weird virgin fetish

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This qualifies as a home invasion and murder. Poor Medusa, again, just minding her how snake and stone business #monsterdon #clashofthetitans

Every scene Perseus looks more like Handsome Squidward.

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Okay I love this owl, first character in the movie that I actually like

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"She must be unknown to man..."

"Quick, everyone forget her!"

"A virgin!"

"Oh, oh yeah, right, sorry."

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There's a helluva lot of ego-driven revenge in this story.

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#monsterdon So is this how marriage works? You just answer a riddle and then you get married?

I appreciate how the characters continually announce their own names so I don't have to remember them. #Monsterdon

Remember me how I was! Before I got... this BAD PERM

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Okay what is HAPPENING, so first her soul was taken off by a buzzard in a gilded cage, and now it's happening a second time? How many souls does she have? How many gilded cages does this buzzard have access too? Is this some feminist allegory I don't know about?

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Dude had quite an extensive dialogue tree. #Monsterdon

"These are strange times..."

Hoo boy, be glad you don't live in 2025, guard.

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Zeus knows that a real collector never keeps his toys mint in box. They must be taken out and enjoyed. Played with. Men are toys to be held and cherished.
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Telling you from experience: riding horseback semi-naked is NOT comfy, and I bet it's even less comfy for HIM

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Zeus is a toy collector. One of us! One of us!
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Wow I had completely forgotten,
MAGGIE SMITH AND URSULA ANDRESS?? #monsterdon #clashofthetitans

@moira I kept thinking "he needs to properly dispose of that Medusa's head. It's a pretty unsafe environmental hazard."

Well, I guess they'll figure it out as the pile of stone statues slowly piles up underwater, lol.

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Thanks for the movie, @Taweret! Thanks everyone for the laughs! :)

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So like is Devil Girl from Mars now like the official mascot of #Monsterdon?

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event.

This week we watched CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981). It has fantastic Ray Harryhausen effects, a plot that oscillates between pretty good myth retelling and muddled nonsense, and only one Titan (and even that is generous).

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

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I don't actually need this denoument. We should've ended with Pegasus getting his standing O while posing on the pointy rocks

Zeus: "Release the kraken."

Poseidon: *goes and does some stuff underwater*

Kraken: coming out of my cage and I'm feeling just fine

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Wrapping someone ceremoniously on a piece of cloth has to be the least effective way of drying them after a glamorous bath #monsterdon #clashofthetitans

Most of the problems in this movie would be solved if Perseus just attached that sword to his wrist with a bungee cord

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“The eye is all-powerful. Now, give us back the eye!”

You just told him it was all-powerful. Why would he even consider giving it back.

OMG! He gave it back! Idiot.

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You would think that the shrine of 3 women who like to eat human flesh would be easier for humans to find.

Yanno, so they can be dinner.

Right next to a highway. With blinking signs that say "FREE GOLD HERE!" and an arrow or twelve.

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Queen Cassiopea: "My daughter Andromeda, the most beautiful thing in the world, more beautiful than anything in heaven, more beautiful than the goddess Thetis herself..."

If I found myself in ancient Greece I would simply not let my hubris get so away from me that I would insult the gods. It would be easy for me

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I love the projected face effect too, it's effective without having to be CG.

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Cutest stop-motion horsie ever!

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#monsterdon Old theater guys sure are trusting.

You can just show up, tell him you're the son of god and he just rolls with it?

#monsterdon The princess doesn't come out because she's a ginger, and will burn in the sun.

Ah, the hero's journey: Picking up shiny things left to him by his rich, absent father.

Friggin nepo babies.

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It was nice of Zeus to introduce us to all the gods one at a time.
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The motives of the gods are STILL mysterious and erratic.

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KITTY!

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Kitty! I knew this was a great movie. #Monsterdon