Communion
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JoeWynne@mstdn.plus

πŸ¦–#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIA ENCOUNTER πŸ‘½

IMPROVISED! - The scene in which Christopher Walken (as Whitley Strieber) holds up the Alien's face mask over his face.

Walken actually made a 2-minute-long scene trying on multiple masks. All but seconds of the footage ended up on the cutting room floor.

(This was obviously before the Age of Memes)

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the 1998 Sega Saturn RPG, Baroque πŸ”ž
the 1998 Sega Saturn RPG, Baroque πŸ”ž
himbovoorhees@elekk.xyz

IIRC he wrote the script adaptation but it had treatments afterwards and he had no control over any of that. He talked in interviews about how upset he was that they took so much artistic interpretation to his own real life and fabricated events he never wrote.

Hard lesson that studios aren't on the side of the truth, they are on the side of getting money.

#monsterdon

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

This movie feels like it's a New Yorker's exploration of what happens if you are crazy enough to leave the city and go out where there are trees and dark places.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Plot of this so far

characters do something, weird scary thing happens
characters get freaked out and leave
characters are sad

Terencio

little kid oughta get a big-wheel tricycle and ride it all over.

Michael
Michael
MichaelKlamerus@dosgame.club

what a weird film. I don't know what to make of it. Some really weird directing choices and it sets up some very heavy threads that it doesn't pursue at all (Possibility of sexual abuse?) but I thought Walken was fascinating to watch and parts of it worked for me too? Just so many weird choices. And it's based on someone's book who believes this happened to them, which is a wild thing to base a movie on and does that mean it's enabling him? I don't know! #monsterdon

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

That was just exactly what I look for in what @flophousepodcast calls a "Good Bad Movie." There was no plot, the characters were all terrible people and any ideas it managed to communicate were completely incoherent. But I had so much fun along the way.

#monsterdon

saucerlost

Those aliens, they said they were gonna call me

They did terrible, kiss-inducing things and they said they were gonna call me

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

I'm trying to think of good stories that end with one of the characters deciding they're going to write the story of what they just did. The only thing I can think of right now is The Hobbit.

#monsterdon

saucerlost

I'm still very suspicious that the featured artist financed this film

lytta :SpinningCube:
lytta :SpinningCube:
lytta@hachyderm.io

so another commenter pointed out a while ago (which jogged my memory) that their marriage did eventually survive IRL but there was like, a separation period?

just adding this to my thread since earlier i was like 'i think maybe they divorced?'

#monsterdon

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

Every time that kid gets to say more than two sentences uninterrupted it's just a horrible time for everyone.

#monsterdon

Terencio

@jonny

ikr should have ended with him saying "Long Live the New Flesh"

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

Jacket on the floor. Stop the scene, that guy just dropped a jacket on the floor. Jacket! I can't focus until someone picks up the jacket. The jacket! I said JACKET! COULD SOMEONE GET THE JACKET OFF THE FLOOR!

#monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Next scene, G'Kar and Writer guy to dinner to talk about his weird dreams. G'Kar is wearing a coonskin cap. He tells them that where he grew up (Eastern Europe and/or the Narn Homeworld) the little blue dudes were called kobolds.

saucerlost

I had to stop on road and fight RFK for raccoon for hat

Terencio

"Bad dreams" That reminds me of Inception, a far better movie.

lytta :SpinningCube:
lytta :SpinningCube:
lytta@hachyderm.io

i keep feeling bad for this guy because his wife keeps reacting so shittily to him having mental illness and/or trauma and it's like.... oh damn i know what that's like

the "why are you acting weird like this on purpose, you're not being fair to me"

#monsterdon