@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
I put up my customary review on #letterboxd. There were a few annoying features, but the Creature himself was a real winner in my opinion https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/creature-from-the-black-lagoon/ #monsterdon
FINALLY. Some dynamite fishing
#monsterdon like my wife, she's not much but she's all I have
#monsterdon on the plus side that thing's helmet is built like a tank
#Monsterdon I think they should have stuck with the water lung
anyway good job team, another movie successfully launched into space
and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^
@OliviaVespera Most likely the reason why there was only one gill creature. #monsterdon
Thank you @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for bingo and @JoeWynne
#monsterdon Man 1 / Creature 0... Huzzah!
#monsterdon i think there was a quality drop between this suit and the first film's suit
This looks like the creature is getting tear-gassed. #acab #Monsterdon #creaturefromtheblacklagoon
#monsterdon Rita 2 seems to be a smaller boat
@Taweret I don't know which movies from Universal Monsters may already be on your #Monsterdon list, but this got me thinking about what it'd be like if we watched one of the ones with Abbott and Costello and it turns out that ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN is streaming on Tubi :blobfoxowonotice:
https://tubitv.com/movies/100044506/abbott-and-costello-meet-frankenstein
@moira I mean, it doesn't give you a bingo, but I think we got plenty of heavy eye contact from the creature.
"Let's ignore the local Subject Matter Expert!"
i bet the captain is infinitely smarter that the fish murdering goons
#Monsterdon
You tell em, Cap'n!!
#monsterdon someone fucked a fish.
@moira π’
Look at his little face :~)
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon
#monsterdon is that the guy from man in black?
2457 toots and counting. For anyone who missed #monsterdon tonight: https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/creature-from-the-black-lagoon
Once again, the Captain is the wisest person on the boat.
@MardraS This is the world we occupy #monsterdon
WELP, that's a solid 10/10 classic monster movie. Great job to all involved, except the winch and the wench, neither of whom really helped very much.
@miru is streaming the sequel to this #Monsterdon which opens with reused footage from the first one which is PERFECT
@moira I swear, you give a man a PhD and he gets to thinking he knows everything about everything. (I should know, I have one too) #monsterdon
@RamenCatholic absolutely this lol
#monsterdon oh now there are crocodiles in these rivers
Welp, I did it.
Was this the first movie that #Monsterdon has watched from the Universal Monsters franchise, or am I forgetting something?
#monsterdon not sure about using the same music for any other movies but I'm pretty certain Universal-International-TriCounty-Area used a loophole of some sort to screw old Mancini on royalties for "Revenge of the Creature."
Rita II off to a good start, but lets hope she is not made from spit and cardboard this time
#Monsterdon
Oh my gods, they still haven't learned to have someone keep watch?!
Actually, The Creature costume looks *way* better than Star Trek's original Gorn costume (a vaguely similar creature, minus the webbing and gills) which was over 10 years later (1967). I had forgotten how bad TV budgets used to be even compared to the low movie budgets of the time.
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS
Man, Iβm not gay. Youβre gay. I need a shower. #Monsterdon
The crew lets the mortally wounded Creature pass, to dive into the waters of its lagoon one last time before sinking lifeless into the seaweed of its murky depths. The waters of the Amazon welcome back the Creature where it lived for thousands of years... and perhaps others live for thousands more..?
And that's a wreck! A watery grave and a scientific expedition gone horrifyingly awry.
Thank you for hosting, @Taweret ! Thank you for the bingo card, @cherizilla !
@JoeWynne whaaaaaaaat
OMG end credits? I can hardly believe my eyes
(even if they do last literally three seconds)
Whoa, that was really sad... #monsterdon π£
Spotless white bathing suit and matching spotless white sun jacket, after multiple days in the jungle. Exactly as realistic as that guy's hair.
He's very carefully and awkwardly shuffling sideways through the stone passage trying not to klonk her dangling head on the rocks, terrifying action scene π
#monsterdon creature of the black lagoon is a good film
Revenge of the Creature starting on https://miru.miyaku.media
@apLundell So it didn't give you headaches? #monsterdon
shout outs to the real heroine of the story, Rita the barge
thanks for carrying all this stupid shit
#monsterdon
Don't shoot it in the back, you asshat! #monsterdon
#monsterdon so is the sequel any good?
Ok, how many fuckin spears does this dude have? #Monsterdon #creaturefromtheblacklagoon
I should watch The Shape of Water. #Monsterdon
qnd it's over! A classic! and for a reason, not bad at all, even ground breaking in its time. Another great monsterdon y'all
#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon
Thank you again for a fun night, all! #Monsterdon
and well done Millicent Patrick, the costume is the best part of the movie
thanks y'all π βοΈ
#monsterdon anyway that was fun. First time i've ever watched that classic. thanks ya'll
And, because who needs denouement, we end abruptly in true #monsterdon style.
They were gonna let it live? Wtf kinda BS is that?
#Monsterdon
Trying to prepare myself for a very sudden and unsatisfying ending, which is usual for these movies
@annathepiper he has a type, apparently
Drown her
The lair of the Creature is protected by what seemed to be a seagull on a wire. Truly horrifying. Worse than most Dracula bats on fishing poles.
The Creature attacks David, destroying his speargun, and lifts David as if it smash him to a paste against the rocky wall of the cave! The crew arrives and opens fire with rifles, apparently more worried about perforating Kay than David. The Creature drops David and staggers towards a hail of deadly rifle fire.
Uhm ok
Thanks @Taweret and all the #monsterdon heroes who helped us all get through it again
#monsterdon oh so she's a scream cream
I wasn't expecting the inciting incident for the third act to be "caught on a small tree branch"
Wait a minuteβ¦is he really the phantom of the opera?!?
Good times at the old #monsterdon
@JoeWynne I think I would have watched this movie 10x in the theater for the original release -- the effects and those underwater and cave shots had a lot going for them. #Monsterdon #CreaturefromtheBlackLagoon Oh hey, the crew had no issue with shooting at the creature when it was hand-to-hand fighting with David in the cave! Lucky they didn't shoot David, or maybe they were just really good shots.
And the Creature fucked off into the Lagoon, the end.
and then they got stuck in the Amazon forever, their winch having burnt out and their food supplies having been accidentally poisoned. the Creature gets his revenge from beyond the grave.
#monsterdon What an iconic film
Meanwhile they never do get past that brush snag and die of starvation #monsterdon
@xerozohar I dunno, does it count as fucking off into the sea if he kinda STARTED in the sea? #Monsterdon
So he's been denied meaningful conversation, romance, fresh water
No wonder he's pissed
murderers! #monsterdon
BRAVO!
Wait, why a bat? Seems an odd thing to introduce at this stage. #monsterdon
I say that Lucas is the most beliveable character ins thos whole flix
#monsterdon
NOOOO, NOT GILLMAN HE WAS THE BEST OF US #Monsterdon
buh byeee #monsterdon
#monsterdon wait does this count as fuck off into the sea