#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

2hrs

this better be good, but will likely not be

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had a lot of fillings back in ancient greece, did they?
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#Monsterdon human sacrifice? gauche

Let the clashing commence! #monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans

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

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For the record I will not be posting a Nyah meme today because this nailed it

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@Newpa_Hasai aw so close

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#Monsterdon well that was good fun. the effect hold up better than i expected :)

omg. are the cats back?? #monsterdon

Spain, Italy, and Malta.
I guess no actual Greek locations were harmed in the making of this film.

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Owl recovers from zonking out, Perseus and Andromeda literally tie the knot, and the stars will never fade, THE END.
Nor will the image of that damn good looking Lawrence Olivier.

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Persons did the Kraken like Sersi did baby Titan!

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@paco Poor little guy, someone help him. lol #monsterdon

@apLundell They'd seen the monster before though

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Now that Kraken is taken care of, how 'bout you and I...get to know each other...if ya know what I mean? :bloblewd:

THE END

Thanks for the epic #Monsterdon selection @Taweret I miss watching this legendary work of stop motion art!

Bubo gives great head #Monsterdon

Not exactly bingo

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Effing awesome as ever!! #monsterdon

@fabio Pun intended? 😛

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The people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats….

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@CactuarJoe spun glass + resin = fiberglass, another of hephaestus's inventions

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Burn forever until the end of time... or until their hydrogen all fuses and they exit the main sequence. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

Sorry - I didn't find any of the dialog "soothing" #NoBingo

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@Taweret thank you for hosting (=

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And that’s Clash of the Titans. Thanks everybody who watched along! #monsterdon

That was great! It's sort of a big budget B-movie #Monsterdon

Ty hosts and posts

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@jivens truth

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@sean @Taweret and cats #monsterdon

"The Mythologicals, (as themselves)"

Nice touch, movie.

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That was a ton of fun.

Thanks @Taweret et al. for hosting!

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@Taweret and medusa's head maybe?

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even if we can't see 90% of them right now and have to wait for the Arabs to give names to the rest of them

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So apparently the end of time is coming in a few billion years

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Oh no... Zeus no. Thanks for the accidental downer ending monologue.
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yup, sure, we remember that Perseus was that other guy who wasn't Hercules #monsterdon

The gratuitous bath scene is there so we can see what all the fuss is about.

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Hera and the girls need to stab Zeus in the balls. #monsterdon

was Purseus really that courageous tho? He had a lot of help from divine gifts.... #monsterdon

Wow!

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You keep Cassiopeia's name out of your mouth, Narrator

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@brooke yup we know what matters

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Fine *sons* - oh fie #monsterdon

#monsterdon Every time one of her souls floats back, it's like an inverted fart. Talk about agita…

@RobynGoodfellow@mastodon.murkworks.net Playwright x Bubo is canon, I tell you! It's canon!

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"We could make a movie out of this!"

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courage and imagination? you mean the part where he picked on some old ladies and then went into a lonely lady's home and brutally murdered her? #monsterdon

Pegasus flew out of that water and now we can call him a sea horse.

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Mendacity? Mendacity you say?

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Aw yeah. Sex is ON. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

Oh no! Helpful exposition dumping guard is dead! #monsterdon

Filtered: #monsterdon.

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

💥 CLASH OF THE TRIVIA 💥

Ray Harryhausen, producer and animator, may have taken on too much responsibility in this movie. He did not like the results of the stop-action animation.

Many disagree.

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Don't be a mendiCANT be a mendiCAN

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Laser halo! #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

MEIDCANTS

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Robot owl hijinks

Everyone laughs!

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R.I.P. Bubo #monsterdon

Pegasus is such a show-off. #Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans1981

Medusa so fugly, she turned the Kracken into stone and broken it. #Monsterdon

I wonder if I will ever watch this will the sound turned on again *_*

I have this expanding list of "stuff that is just for no sound with music or whatever"

idk maybe i'm just glad that not everything is a fetish movie now. I mean, through much difficult and ongoing labor.

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