#monsterdon Argos is kaput.

Soooo…the kraken is on-loan from the Æsir?

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That one guy getting crunched reminds me of the story about a greek hero who's life would last as long as a certain log would remain unburned.

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Oh my that is quite the short jerkin.

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#Monsterdon of course, genocide might not be the _best_ penalty for two murders

Yeah, I know what you mean, I never liked the tide pool at the water park either. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon The Kraken, I always thought he'd make for an interesting anatomical study, except, not any full frontal. Just well placed ocean. ;)

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why are Roman soldiers guarding the gods?

"It's only a model." "Shhh!"

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This…is…SPARTA MONSTERDON!!!!

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GODZIlll... oh just this guy. Well, he's cool too I _guess_...

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Honestly, these are neat destruction/flooding effects.

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These sets are actually fabulous #Monsterdon

Missed #Monsterdon …and do I really want to stop watching Gillian Anderson in The Fall. Nope. ✌️

okay, like 9 minutes to kaiju, good job!
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IS THAT THE THING FROM THE BLACK LAGOON?

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#monsterdon Someones having terrible Zeus-related Agita. Must be all those beans the king ate.

Fishman-Kraken

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So is Zeus going to paint any of his figurines? Or just leave them that way?

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Let loose my mother-in-law! Er, kraken! #monsterdon

i'm home earlier than i expected but i'll let my scheduled #monsterdon toots keep going

HOLD YOUR BREATH, LAWRENCE

WE GOT THE ALLIGATOR CAGES THIS TIME, NO WORRIES #Monsterdon

Oh this movie _begins_ with unleashing the kraken? I guess this will come to a rapid conclusion then, that kraken always gets the job done and is never ignominiously defeated despite its enormous advantages in combat and in sheer hulking size.

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Zeus is either being a creep or playing with his figurines. No in-between

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And now that I've made my proclamations, I'm off to play with my action figures. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

@MatthewTitus88 lol yUP! i watched a lot of batman as a kid i guess! #monsterdon

Oh now you fucked up Argos. #monsterdon

We have Kraken sign! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon oh wow these gods think murder is bad

my kinda guys

LET LOOSE THE KRAKEN! #monsterdon #scheduledMonsterdon

I put the movie on at 1.25 speed so hopefully I can catch up soon.
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Olympic God role call! #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

TAKE A SHOT

it doesn't have to be spicy
#releasethekraken

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Suddenly wanna go play Hades...

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Or to you, Hera. Or you, Aphrodite. Or you most of all, Scarecrow

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true confession: I eagerly volunteered to take my little brothers to see this film at the theatre because I had a secret crush on Harry Hamlin - that shaggy hair and short toga was really doin’ it for teenage me.
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Toga party! #monsterdon

Hopefully it's after Labor Day, or Olympus is going to get a visit from the gods of style. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

oh damn, they got laser shows on Olympus

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Zeus has lazer shoulders. #Monsterdon

whoa, trippy zoom background, Zeus #monsterdon

Very unconvincing fake acropolis

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Is there a heavy metal soundtrack version?

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#monsterdon Almost can spot the Bifrost bypass…

Apparently the gods disagree on the sacrifice

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Waitaminute....THIS ISN"T A JOURNEY TO THE WEST!

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Very impresses by the seagull portraying an ancient Greek seagull. Compelling performance!

Cameraman, follow that seagull!
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Some rather big names in this one!

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Oooh Dame Maggie Smith! Get hype! #Monsterdon

Argh Jellyfin (or perhaps the gods) are displeased with me #monsterdon

lovely scenery pron #monsterdon

Shot by a seagull who, in lieu of a GoPro, stole an entire cameraman.

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Pander to me...
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Soarin'! Over the Credits™︎

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okay the landscape shots are DISORIENTING but pretty. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Maggie Smith!!

#monsterdon Do-dah-dee-dee! This soundtrack is a part of my soul.

I saw this in the theater. It came out right at the start of summer. I had just finished 8th grade and I was SO excited. We didn't have any public buses yet where I lived so I rode my bike to the theater. Fond memory of a guilty pleasure of a film. #monsterdon

This movie doesn't mess around! Straight into the darker parts of Ancient Greece we go!

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#Monsterdon where kraken?

KRAKEN KRAKEN KRAKEN

Excellent workmanship on the floating coffin #monsterdon

It's time!! #monsterdon First act is to brutally discard a woman and her newborn to the sea... damn.

fuck this movie is 2 hours long, this is why i never have clean laundry #monsterdon

Rare case of opening by fucking off into the sea #monsterdon

it's been forever since i've seen this #monsterdon #scheduledMonsterdon

that's a hell of a way to start. nice that the coffin(?) floats? #monsterdon

#monsterdon It's a unique way of capital punishment. Just yeeting your problem into the sea. Buhbye babycakes…

Taunting the Greek gods is never a bad idea as they're so easygoing and open to criticism #Monsterdon

had a lot of fillings back in ancient greece, did they?
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Let the clashing commence! #monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans

#Monsterdon human sacrifice? gauche

Winnebago's really sucked in roman times.

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#Monsterdon this looks like the start of a Monty Python film…

ah yes, """""""""the greeks""""""""""
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"...This is not Sparta!"

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Yay Clash of the Titans! #monsterdon

(One of the soldiers gives us a _very_ desultory and dispirited 'This…is…Sparta.')

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Release the Kraken and let's go! #Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!!

@jgamble Almost certainly the other way around: the only way this film got made was the author being related to Maggie Smith. 😃
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Oh fuck the dudes for leaving the woman behind. #Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans1981 #fuckthepatriarchy

@jmjm So true! 😆 #Monsterdon

@LingLass The director forgot to explain to Hamlin that Perseus was the only one NOT turned to stone.
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It’s pretty wild how so many of the catastrophes associated with the gods of Olympus can simply be attributed to earthquakes. #Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans1981

@Louisa yeah, that prow can't fooll me, Argo got that from a three stooges short

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Who else played Wrath of the Gods #Monsterdon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Gods

The magical talking prow of the Argo taught me such terrible jokes as

"Euripides trousers?"
"Yeah, Eumenides trousers?"

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Okay, we know that the Kraken wasn't part of Greek mythology. The Isle of the Dead wasn't either, according to Wikipedia (I had only known it as a Roger Zelazny novel). Anything else?

@hollie Wow, that sounds more dramatic than anything that this movie had to offer #monsterdon

@ramsey @diazona @hollie I get the feeling he never would have agreed to be involved in this if he were asked beforehand #monsterdon

In my #letterboxd review I say something about how it was harmless fun pure and simple, imo, but not the kind of film that would be made today. Three and a half stars out of five https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/clash-of-the-titans/ #monsterdon

I like being reminded how many of these characters became constellations. Way too many visible stars in the versions they showed.

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Thank you @Taweret and @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne and all you great #monsterdonians! See you next week, I hope!

well the effects were amazing but it was a LOT of incredibly boring story to sit through. i kept baffling at why this was shown in schools but let's be real - it would fit perfectly in an american 'world history' middle/high school class because it reinforces white western values and portrays white mythology as literal fact lol

thanks again to @Taweret and see yall next time!!! #monsterdon

I seriously only remember bits and pieces of this and for good reason apparently. #monsterdon

Anyway, great job team, another movie launched into space, and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting!

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@diazona One of the things that surprised me was, that there wasn't any sword-vs-sword fighting. It was all vs monsters, bows, and whips.

(Also, huh, the spears never actually got used)

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@Newpa_Hasai To be fair it is very easy to miss things... although I can't think of anything in the movie that would check off any of the squares that'd give you bingo

Fake-out death is covered by the owl in the river, I think, but it's not in the right spot

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@hollie This one was not bad, it might be worth catching up on! You will be a teeny bit disappointed though

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@SnoopJ @jmjm @ohiofi ooooh yes good point, I forgot

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