@brooke This was all well before tri-mix I think, and there were a lot of people who took silly risks.
(it takes place in a later period, but the book Shadow Divers goes into a lot of the issues with risks divers take "just because they want to be first")
The DEVOnian age. One of my favorite ages. #Monsterdon #creaturefromtheblacklagoon_1954
@diazona #monsterdon
That is how you gain the respect of your peers
I'm pretty crispy right now and I'd damn near kill for a famous bowl and a mountain dew....#monsterdon
if i'd been extremely motivated, i might have tried writing someting that floated the #monsterdon tootstream over the video in 3D
Look at these fish
It would be extremely funny to show a hand with 8 fingers. (If it's so ancient)
It's a Devonian fossil!
Ah, when the Col. Sanders tie was popular.
I love the quiet casual conversation while screaming along in the open speedboat.
Notice the middle finger is longer, indicating a signaling apparatus evolved early. #monsterdon
#monsterdon little known fact: James Cameron went back in time to film this
Ah yes those webbed fingers are OBVIOUSLY for land use ๐ค
#monsterdon oh she caught a man
throw him back
#monsterdon This is the first time I've seen this movie. That's probably more a confession than something to be proud of.
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon these movies when they depict diving are always sure to tell you about the dangers of the bends
Oh, strange creatures in the Amazon - so we're in #MadamWeb territory.
You're not a real paleontologist until you discover a fossilized body part of some creature while a living one of the same creature is climbing out of a lake behind you
Ooh it's time for #Monsterdon
#monsterdon the music is giving very star trek vibes
Is this set at a lagoon or the Amazon? I am confused. ๐ค #Monsterdon
having webbed fingers would be a pretty big disadvantage for a lot of dextrous hand things humans like to do. probably can't use guns, so humans +1 lagoon creature 0 #monsterdon
I'm shocked that they used the right flag and words in Portuguese for the institute.
Colonel Sanders is branching out from chicken to the chicken of the sea apparently. #Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954
Science guy dresses like Colonel Sanders
This moving has so much ACTINGโข
Iโm here for my hand, I guess.
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon "Trust me. I'm a marine biologist."
Okay, #monsterdon be honest, how many of you want to date the creature already?
the institute for maritime baloney.
I have not properly sat down and watched this movie but I do have the Resurrection of Monsteress gill-lady figure, which is a thing I bought when I was apparently not pretending *that* hard to be straight.
@moira Thing decided he liked the swamp better I guess
"this will make a great foot pic for my Onlyfans!"
Okay, legit gonna give this scene credit for the assistants on this dig speaking coherent English.
Yeah, just yank it out with your hands. Like a scientist! #monsterdon
"the rest of the skeleton"
That was not a skeletal hand. Mummified maybe.
In the greyscale era, before color period in the universe. #monsterdon
It's the prehistoric ancestor of Thing!
Opening views of an early Earth, and emerging life.
15 million years later? Like after emergence of life? That's a bit of a revision.
#monsterdon I glanced at the IMDB on this one, and a fun bit of trivia is that Ingmar Bergman would watch this movie on his birthday, every birthday. Neat, eh?
This view of evolution is really progressive for the 50s. #Monsterdon
And then God killed some towns for being gay
OK, Science checks out...
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@Taweret You're posting to #monsteerdon not #monsterdon :)
this one starts with bible AND science
...Give or take. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Universal International, with the matte ocean! That's how you know it's a classic!
Shut it bible boy!
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And motion pictures!
...Or maybe This Island Earth? I think I remember the tinkly bit. #Monsterdon
oh god this really is going to be hard reading everyone else's posts while wearing these glasses
These credits don't deserve the drama this music is pushing
Universal International is the studio name? Don't you have to be either universal OR international?
...I think this is the same music they used for Earth Vs. The UFO? I could be wrong #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon is about to begin, you know the drill! :)
All my posts will be under this one.
https://tubitv.com/movies/683697/creature-from-the-black-lagoon
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon it begins
guess that scuppered our plans of making dollar from the creature then?
#Monsterdon
poor gill man is trying to tell them they have the wrong salination for his pool.
#Monsterdon
I left to get a glass of water and came back to some sort of watery orgy?
#Monsterdon
The bull prod sees a *lot* more use in the porn mockbuster version, just sayin'
Her swimsuit also has "corrective" underwiring
Now we're back in the lab, are we gonna see Clint again?
The water is *less* clear in the aquarium than it was in the Black Lagoon
THE DEVONIAN AGE?!? #Monsterdon
Did I miss the purpose of them going into the water with him? Or are they literally just doing it to fuck with him???
More winching.
no need to put Flippy's credentials in quotation marks. Rude
#Monsterdon
"cut into my cake"?!?
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OK, Black Lagoon time. #Monsterdon
Went back to check, and the scene I thought had coffee ... does not. A quick scrub through the movie didn't seem to have any other possibilities, so I'll change that to NO COFFEE
They should try winching him again.
"Gill-man, Prisoner of Sea World"
So Joe's gonna be Seaworld's equivalent of a rodeo clown?
I'm going through IMDB's Trivia section for the movie. There are many interesting notes about the costume and the actors in their costumes, but my inner child liked this one:
"The Creature, using the name "Uncle Gilbert", appeared in Love Comes to Mockingbird Heights (1965) of The Munsters (1964)."
I AM CORRECTED! I forgot the mention of the uranium-lead dating, which actually is real and therefore
BINGO! ^_^
@gnomon Excellent quote! #Monsterdon
#monsterdon @Taweret thank you Tawaret as always!
#monsterdon are they using a dolphine harness?
@diazona It's whenever someone invented Devon cream - yum #monsterdon
Clint pulling a rat out of his pocket
#monsterdon The sequel specifically mentions Brazil (Rio De Janeiro) so I'm going to go ahead and guess the creature's name is Gilberto Gill
#CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon1954 #RevengeOfTheCreature
(p.s. if you're wondering whether the sequel is of any quality it introduces a monkey and an absent-minded rockabilly scientist)
Me on Monday morning after #monsterdon
#monsterdon be careful of the bay harbour butcher
@diazona This is the world Project 2025 wants #monsterdon
Holy shit, Clint Eastwood!
#monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon
Thank you for organizing this Tawaret
and thanks to all the Tootlers of the Evening!
@apLundell The ones with colored lenses don't always work well for me. The ones with polarizers they give out at IMAX theaters are better #monsterdon
#monsterdon oh! this is like predator 2
@liferstate I didn't hear any, it was some pretty severe science wtfery at all points