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Horse tricks. SICKNASTY. #monsterdon

Now there's some horsemanship!

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Maybe this film won't be so bad after all

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*ten minutes of torrential water destroying a city, laying it low and driving off all its inhabitants, very excitedly composited together in post* Roland Emmerich could never

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I'll still take obvious miniature work over middling CGI any time #monsterdon

zeus has no excuse for this kind of collective punishment when he can just send a guided smart lightning bolt straight into the king's heart and stage a miracle so they appoint his new, favored king in his place that thinks murder is bad to do #monsterdon

Just minding my own business WATER going down the stairs WATER running for your life SPLASH IN THE FACE YO #monsterdon

GILL-MAN!!

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IT'S RAY HARRYHAUSEN TIME, BITCHES

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Wow special fx underwater #monsterdon #clashofthetitans

A+ matte paintings, C- composition #monsterdon

If there is one Titan left how will there be a clash of them?

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zeus needs go to like a transformative justice workshop or something #monsterdon

the OG release the Kraken

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#monsterdon I'm sorry, Zeus cares about murder???

With a cast of old semi famous actors even us old folks can't remember. And Rocky's trainer.
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Love that Athena has an owl. As it should be.

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Definitely going to play Hades again after this #monsterdon

"OK let's circle up and do introductions..."

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There's an entire disco going on in his fifth vertebrae.

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#Monsterdon meanwhile, on Mount Olympus, a totally climbable mountain that the Greeks never _checked_ for gods

Respect the Harryhausen!

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ohhh i forgot burgess meredith was in this (the penguin from the adam west batman tv show!) #monsterdon #scheduledMonsterdon

Some big names for #monsterdon

rear projection seagull is ONLY 90% THERE

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zomg Maggie Smith! #monsterdon

*gasp* IT WAS THE SEAGULL! #monsterdon

A little shmeer of Schneer #Monsterdon

It’s nice that the box was lined with padding and had pillows in it.

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these guys all had brain worms

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Worst cruise ever.

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dun dun dun dunnnnn

DRAMATIC HELMET REMOVAL!

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The 70s-80s sure loved some barren rocks and a smoke machine as shorthand for fantasy/scifi huh

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#Monsterdon this is how they put the cat in schroedinger's box too

The gull has opinions

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#Monsterdon And it begins! Get your bingo cards ready!

#monsterdon Bring out yer dead! What? I'm not dead yet! He looks it... better take him anyways…

Prepare for burial at sea. Proceed!

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ROMANI ITE DOMUM

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@jadebees It was slow, except when it was fast.
"What is your riddle?"
"Stuff about circles and shit"
"You mean this ring, on this dead hand?"
"Yes"
"Let's get married!"
'Ok"

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Poseidon, picking up the phone: What's up, Z?
Zeus: Poseidon! What's Crack-a-lackin?
Poseidon: {long sigh}

Oh look. A drone. (Bubo the metal owl) #Monsterdon #ClashoftheTitans1981

Saw all the best parts (the creature animation) in Starlog, back in the day. Turns out the actual acting was either under-represented (Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith) or pretty bad (Harry Hamlin). But still, it was fun to see the plot all laid out linearly. #Monsterdon

For anyone looking for more Greek Myth: I recommend Theia Mania by A Gnosis https://theiamania.thecomicseries.com/

(Tumblr at https://a-gnosis.tumblr.com/ )

Note: LOTS of content warnings for sex, sexual assault, incest, kidnapping, etc, pretty much anything you'd find in Greek myth.

It is a much more accurate take on the myths, but also HEAVILY adapted for 2020s storytelling; it is a Hades/Persephone love story, and both are VERY autistic.

Also: FOOTNOTES ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP!

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@Newpa_Hasai Indeed, this movie was definitely not the kind of story many of us (including me) guessed it was

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Dramatically slow untying of the gorgon bag resulting in being knocked off the pegasus. Perseus is really quite bad at keeping his weapons. #monsterdon

Is this a kissing movie?

No. No, it isn't. It definitely isn't.

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Hey, #Monsterdon gang, a thought: Medusa's head - even dead - can turn anything living into stone. And Perseus just tossed it into the sea ... where there are LIVING THINGS! The fish there ... stone. Anyone who goes diving/swimming ... stone. I mean, WTF, Perseus? He could have at least put it back in the makeshift bag. Talk about an environmental hazard.

Thanks for a lovely hang! Have a good night and happy Pride to those who are celebrating! :progresspride_i_flag: #Monsterdon

Scorpions were in this? Why didn’t they play Winds Of Change?? #Monsterdon

a LOT of you are picking "something else we forgot" but only one of you is suggesting what that is

c'mon team don't leave the rest of us hangin'

unless we all forgot including you, that's fair

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@Louisa And Toby Stephens played Poseidon in a Percy Jackson film!

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Kraken from the Black Lagoon!

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I _knew_ a bunch of you were going with a song during the ferryman scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEMfLjxq8M

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If they cut all the scenes saying "Release the Krackin!" then the movie's only 40 minutes long... #monsterdon

@arrjay to be fair everything is more recent than sharks

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Thank you @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon

@Louisa toby was a man
he was a monster man
uh - he was just a monster
but he was still CALIBOOOOOS

mesmerizing the princess
terrorizing the countryside
terrorizing the polis
in their THATCH ROOF COTTAGES

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I dare #monsterdon to get any better than this!! #ClashOftheTitans

that reminded me i've been meaning to see Making Love (1982) which was featured in The Celluloid Closet. It stars Harry Hamlin as a man who comes out as gay, leaves his wife, and has an apparently happy ending. rare for that era and honestly rare now for queer rep (honestly i don't care that people say it's boring. come on. we need this) #Monsterdon

@moira they could've cut like 30 minutes by walking faster and skipping the "repeat names in a significant whisper" lines though just saying #monsterdon

So many innocent fish were turned to stone that day #Monsterdon

Thanks for a fun one #Monsterdon I thought this one wouldn't be fun to pick at, but come on, they put a literal robot owl in there and I'm not sure if I've actually seen a dumber main character, rofl.

Thanks for a fine #monsterdon @Taweret

Now to dream of The Penguin telling Batman the tale.

The Mythologicals as Themselves :3

That was really fun! thanks everyone!

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@jammerb I feel like you could've checked off Skeletons and God Power Activated! #monsterdon

@blogdiva Yeah, I missed some of them too #monsterdon

Zeus you're next, dude. Step aside.

Good night Monsterdonation! You are the best... at what we do. Peace of the plucky Owltoo Detoo, and injectable donuts, for all.

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@moira Pegasus but in reverse #monsterdon

Classic! #monsterdon

Yay! Wow that was fun. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

#monsterdon Well, not really Zeus. You see, none of them will actually get there. See, there's something called a supernova explosion you see... the biggest ones make the best party favor bangs like that. Anyhow, kinda big words for a man with a prune problem huh…

one of those critters was called Dos Kilos. #monsterdon

"the mythologicals as themselves"

credits just casually telling us all the monsters are real #monsterdon

And that was a great film, thanks for coming to #monsterdon everyone!

Special thanks to @Taweret and all of y'all for your great fun and cheering-on . Sometimes we deserve a great film, and tonight was one of those nights.

See you next week!

"the vain Cassiopeia"? She's only vain by proxy

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#Monsterdon and I paid no attention to my Bingo card, because I legit still love this dumbass movie.

That was long, though. And I gotta get some sleep.

That was lots of fun, folks. I never regret Monsterdon. Love all y'all.

Owlbear out!

Great, now Bubo’s screen is cracked, this is why you should always use an owl case #Monsterdon

@msh Gorgon blood is one of those forever chemicals like PFOA. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

You heard Zeus. The ruling class is there because we allow it. Rise the fuck up. Love you Monsterdon. Good night! ✊

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actually stars do fade tho #monsterdon

Is the playwright now narrating an epilogue?

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Oh, don't worry, I won't leave you out.

Editor: He did, in fact, leave it out.

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Bubo has a broken leg and crutches #monsterdon

Just me or did they applaud more for the horse? #monsterdon

You just gonna toss the snakey head with the poison blood into the sea? Pretty environmentally irresponsible of you Perseus #Monsterdon

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Ok I haven't seen this movie since I was twelve but I still love every cheesy inch of it.

Unless this movie is saying the Kraken is a Titan, which it is no where else. But the that is still a Clash Against One Titan.
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Slōth #Monsterdon

Neither of these actors has ever actually hugged another human being. And the director wasn't able to explain it well enough.

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#monsterdon Bubo is gonna nap. He's all bomb!

@Bluedepth Just like Aldi's #monsterdon

So we are at the Clashing part. But this movie doesn't have ant Titans. In Greek myths Titans are the parents of Zeus and the other gods. So long dead or imprisoned at this point.
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Who was the real Titan in this movie?

Bubo, that's who.

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Also, convenient that the Kraken disintegrated, a giant stone monster overlooking your sacrificial stone would be awkward to explain.

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@ohiofi throwing perseus into the sea worked so well for keeping him gone forever

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I think Harryhausen recycled the monster from 20 Million Miles to Earth #Monsterdon

Everyone’s cheering, even though, moments earlier, they were all, like, “The gods demand this, so okay.”

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