"Why don't WE do the research"

"You're right, that way they don't have to cast more actors and pay them scale!"

#monsterdon

I admire their optimism about near future space travel. Very 1950s.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

I don't get what the big deal is. That hand is what reaches out from under my bed every night. Don't you have one like that? #monsterdon

@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")

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what we need is to raise cash selling chicken in a bucket

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"Exactly as I found it" - you found it mounted for display?

#monsterdon
#CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

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

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It would be extremely funny to show a hand with 8 fingers. (If it's so ancient)

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

It's a Devonian fossil!

Ah, when the Col. Sanders tie was popular.

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

I love the quiet casual conversation while screaming along in the open speedboat.

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Notice the middle finger is longer, indicating a signaling apparatus evolved early. #monsterdon

He stole that robe from a Hilton.

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#monsterdon little known fact: James Cameron went back in time to film this

Ah yes those webbed fingers are OBVIOUSLY for land use 🤔

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#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.

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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

#Monsterdon

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. 🤔 #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.

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Colonel Sanders is branching out from chicken to the chicken of the sea apparently. #Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

Science guy dresses like Colonel Sanders

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DO A STUNT WITH ONE OF THE BOATS #monsterdon

This moving has so much ACTING™

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I’m here for my hand, I guess.
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#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.

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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.

#monsterdon

"That guy just stole my papa's forearm. This means war."

#Monsterdon

@moira Thing decided he liked the swamp better I guess

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"this will make a great foot pic for my Onlyfans!"

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Wow the musical stings in this movie go hard. #monsterdon

Okay, legit gonna give this scene credit for the assistants on this dig speaking coherent English.

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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.

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In the greyscale era, before color period in the universe. #monsterdon

It's the prehistoric ancestor of Thing!

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

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.

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#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?

"LIFE FINDS A WAY"

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The gaint claw!

Sort of.

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This view of evolution is really progressive for the 50s. #Monsterdon

And then God killed some towns for being gay

#monsterdon

OK, Science checks out...

#Monsterdon

@Taweret You're posting to #monsteerdon not #monsterdon :)

this one starts with bible AND science

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"rain falls on the hardening surface for countless centuries, welcome to Forks, Washington"

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

...Give or take. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Universal International, with the matte ocean! That's how you know it's a classic!

Shut it bible boy!

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We’re starting with freaking Genesis 1:1??

And then asplodey???

#Monsterdon

"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." The ultimate intro

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In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And motion pictures!

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...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

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These credits don't deserve the drama this music is pushing

#monsterdon

Universal International is the studio name? Don't you have to be either universal OR international?

#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

...I think this is the same music they used for Earth Vs. The UFO? I could be wrong #Monsterdon

🐟 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 🐟

(where applicable)

#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

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#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon it begins

guess that scuppered our plans of making dollar from the creature then?
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poor gill man is trying to tell them they have the wrong salination for his pool.
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I left to get a glass of water and came back to some sort of watery orgy?
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The bull prod sees a *lot* more use in the porn mockbuster version, just sayin'

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@Terencio

Scientist from Revenge of the Creature, or hippie biker from Easy Rider?

#Monsterdon

Her swimsuit also has "corrective" underwiring

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Now we're back in the lab, are we gonna see Clint again?

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The water is *less* clear in the aquarium than it was in the Black Lagoon

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THE DEVONIAN AGE?!? #Monsterdon

@OliviaVespera

If Thomas Edison had lived just a *little* longer, they would!

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Did I miss the purpose of them going into the water with him? Or are they literally just doing it to fuck with him???

#Monsterdon

@Terencio

I think lowering Miss Dobson into the water qualifies as "wenching"

#Monsterdon

@LuluHelle

Yeah, but his doctorate is from one of Florida theology diploma mills

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"cut into my cake"?!?

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

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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

#Monsterdon

"I'm not taking any chances."

Mate, that's *all* you're doing.

#Monsterdon

They should try winching him again.

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

"Gill-man, Prisoner of Sea World"

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@paco

Actually, her boobs *did* look that ridiculous in the movie

#Monsterdon

So Joe's gonna be Seaworld's equivalent of a rodeo clown?

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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! ^_^

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

@gnomon Excellent quote! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon @Taweret thank you Tawaret as always!

@diazona It's whenever someone invented Devon cream - yum #monsterdon

#monsterdon are they using a dolphine harness?

Clint pulling a rat out of his pocket

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#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)