@Zerofactorial @gnomon little sonic booms
Oh, this is the guy she was supposed to marry and then she decided she hated him because a terrible accident deformed him.
Calibos is going beast mode, as it were
I see this week's #Monsterdon is Clash of the Titans. I did not see the movie when it came out, but the hype around it was such that I started getting curious about #mythology. I got into it A LOT--so much so that by the time I did see the movie, my jaw dropped. ("Kraken" is one of my trigger words.) Y'all have fun tonight!
@gnomon And why do his hooves make sound when he does so? #monsterdon
@Newpa_Hasai @trixter ahh gotcha, I didn't know that one
Oh no. We have arrived at the poison swamp. Perseus you are in a Fromsoft game!
#Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans
Why does Perseus always has this "smell the fart" acting on his face?
#monsterdon
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos
Onward Pegasus, to the vulture's swamp of flies!
So, uhm, I assume the shield that was so very important is like... uh... Shrunk down in a pocket?
I'm sure he didn't leave one of the super important artifacts behind again, right?
A lot of helicopter shots of the wonders of the Greek countryside (bare rubble and scrub plants)
So, who *else* had the experience of watching this movie in school with a teacher who forgot about the boobs?
It wasnβt until the late 90s that we discovered what sound a vulture makes.
@jonny it's the astral projection of the man who walks every night into a silver cage where a sparrow files him to wherever is convenient for the plot
@ricci "didn't Perseus like murder all of the other members of the Pegasus family" That was Calibos. We're about to get more of him. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans
I took my shirt off, in solidarity.
Iβve heard of some bad reactions from Ambien before, but this one takes the cake #monsterdon
"pegasus! follow that vulture!" #monsterdon
Good thing Pegasus has radar and infrared tracking #Monsterdon
Bird-propelled TARDIS #monsterdon
Yeah, give the horse some more of the brown water he performatively grazed his nose against. He seemed really into that. #monsterdon
Did they just flashback us to 5 minutes ago?
so after three nights she comes back as a vampire, right?
This GM is going to regret giving this guy so much while he is still level 1.
is it safe for a flying horse to drink invisible water?
#monsterdon Take Pegasus for a joyride and now he's your bestest buddy... like a school bus with a spoiler on the back.
I wanted Nerds Gummy Clusters, but they didn't have any. #monsterdon
@Wynter He's into ponyplay
βWhen the full moon shines on the water, they say Pegasus comes to drinkβ #Monsterdon
5 minutes from now, that pegasus will take off with him sitting on it. Why can it not fly away right now, with him hanging on that rope?
#monsterdon
This is not as Sailor Moon had taught me.
Pegasus is understandably upset at having to carry a lunkhead #monsterdon
#monsterdon Is he going to forget his clothes, too?
Horses don't roar, who wrote these subtitles? -- @WizardOfDocs
@CactuarJoe #monsterdon
it's because Perseus didn't pay for the additional license.
The rotoscoping is pretty good, considering this is 1981. Very ambitious!
They do a lot of interspersing real creatures and people with the stop motion in this one. It's kind of cool. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans
Perceus' clothes and accoutrements turn invisible, but not the rope lasso. Top tier movie logic #Monsterdon
#monsterdon The invisibility helmet is very specifically selective about its function domain. And then, when wrestling with a divine horse, it just pops off your head. At least continuity wasn't tossed outβ¦
I'm confused didn't Perseus like murder all of the other members of the Pegasus family why does he thing think one is gonna be for riding?
Oh, that earlier offhand remark by Zeus was Chechov's Pegasus.
Horf!
(Yes I'm just going to coo over every animal that shows up on screen)
#Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans1981
A winged horse arrives with the leitmotif of the movie.
#Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans
Ah, a Tri-Star movie is about to start.
Ok, one small snark:
"She's in the highest tower of the palace."
Camera cuts to the palace, which has two towers of equal height. π€£
Pegasus animation team takes a bow
#monsterdon Awwww, it's Pegasus! Such a nice horse... whoosh whoosh... talk about pony express!
#monsterdon The lighting was always bonkers in this movie. Bright and dark, at the same time.
#Monsterdon *slaps the roof of this movie* "this bad boy can hold SO MUCH day for night"
#Monsterdon βοΈβ‘π±πΏπ‘οΈπ±
"An-DRO-mida??
"girlfriend in a coma, i know, I know, it's serious...." #monsterdon
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Wait - how did we get back here again?
a lot of myths don't really fit into movies because as parables they are both pretty short and to the point and also take place in a continuous narrative that makes up the entire culture of mythology, so when you narrativize them to 2 hours they either are like 80% padding or a random walk around related myths. getting the feeling this is the padding kind, and that is only ok if all the padding is various claymation animals doing things #monsterdon
perseus please stop being creepy. go fight a monster or something
#monsterdon Young sweet Andromeda has uh... slipped into a coma. But you're still horny for her huh? Coma hot chick huh?
Wait! If each suitor is asked a riddle, and none who've been asked have lived to tell it, how do we _know_ that the riddle changes for each suitor?
On one hand, airlines back then were giant claymation buzzards.
On the other, you flight would actually wait for you to board.
That bird would smell terrible.
#Monsterdon astral projection? hells yes ssh right in girl
bird IS the word #monsterdon
I'm over here trying to screencap his doofy face, and somehow he went from wandering in the street to creeping in this girl's bedroom? You can't look down for a minute.
#monsterdon
Confirmed: Perseus is super creepy. If this werenβt the 1980s β¦ ooh, birdie! #monsterdon
I want the story behind the blood-gutted marsh-flies.
giant birb interlude
curled up sexy, waiting for my vulture
How did Perseus gain access to a sleeping princessβs chamber? WTF?! This is uber creeper level.
What did I miss?
took this creeper about 3 seconds to start using the invisibility cloak to sneak into girls' rooms #monsterdon
#monsterdon Perseus is a creeper. Now all this has a much more kinky bent to it.
That guard totally was checking Perseus out #Monsterdon
The guard scoping out Perseus' cheeks was pretty great
All he can think of is bbq now #monsterdon
roast suitor, my favourite #monsterdon #scheduledMonsterdon
Andromeda has a whole galaxy to herself so what does she really need a man for anyway
The loyal guard, Expositionous Maximus #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon i feel like he's an NPC giving Perseus the next story quest as he enters town
#monsterdon An incredibly helpful guard is rare..
Perceus is making the face I make when I want my boss to see I'm hard at work π #Monsterdon
I want to put that as a meme on my next syllabus. "The young! Why do they never listen? Why will they never learn?" :)
We're getting quite a lot of dull surprise from perseus #monsterdon
@davesdogmaggie so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk π₯
(this is a dumb inside joke that will make no sense but I couldn't resist)
#Monsterdon βοΈβ‘π±πΏπ‘οΈπ±
pretty white mule, cute donkey keister
Cajun-blackened suitor #Monsterdon
@diazona βHi. Iβm an adventurer. You look trustworthy. Join my party.β
@strangefour You don't say.
#monsterdon
#Monsterdon for a rando guard this guy sure talks a lot
"These are strange times, my friend."
*swats at strange times foreshadowing fly*
Do these griffons? Winged Lions? Sphinxes? Count as mixed pantheons? They feel more Mesopotamian than Greek.
This guard is better spoken than Perseus.
These guard-types are awfully open to strangers, aren't they?
Behold the wonders of the East! Crispy compositing around our statuesβ¦lepersβ¦a Brazilian parrotβ¦
WELCOME TO BURNING MAN #monsterdon
Yep, right to the nearest lady's boudoir, I'm sure. Teenaged demigod, inheriting all that god-horniness. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans
not sure about the Assyrian Lammasu statue in Joppa #monsterdon
His constantly exposed nipple is bugging me
A Llamasu! And one for you :D #Monsterdon
26 minutes of movie just to explain how Perseus got his kit.
By kit I mean gear.
By gear I donβt mean anything sexual.