@Bluedepth I emailed the Tubi support email address once to ask them whether they knew about #monsterdon . Never got a response.

In the end, we can only lament the Creature - who was just trying to live - and hate the Imperialists who invaded and killed.

#monsterdon

like is the canon lore of that movie that it was going to mate with kay? is that how swamp creatures reproduce? are they a subspecies of human, and this was basically a molting event where the one swamp creature creates the egg for the next generation of swamp creature and dies while creating it #monsterdon

@steggy #monsterdon

Nobody puts Gill-man in a corner...

Improvised weapon bingo

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The creature was played by Ricou Browning who also directed the underwater sequences in Thunderball. #monsterdon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricou_Browning

The hardest part in this movie is guy swimming in a rubber suit made in the 1950s. He's lucky he didn't drown. #monsterdon

swamp monsters obey medieval rules of chivalry in combat, not taking the scuba mouthpiece out or fucking with the lines at all #monsterdon

I'll bet this all looked great in 3D!

#Monsterdon

The movie could have done a better job establishing that they can't go *around* this flotsam but it looks like plenty enough to foul the propeller which is at least as much a pain in the ass to resolve than what they're already doing, and could damage their ability to leave at all?

Leaving aside concerns about the hull which there probably aren't any, it seems to be wooden and would itself be okay passing over that I think

#Monsterdon

ah yes, always remember to be humping the winch and putting your hand all up in the spool of line and pet it like a cat while under load #monsterdon

[looking at the number of people on the #Monsterdon feed saying they'd go over this obstruction]

[noting "take care when boating with Monsterdonians" in quest log]

"If he dies what a waste of experience and ability"

"Yes, nobody smoked a pipe and wandered around the background like him."

#monsterdon

The ideal monster chasing loadout consists of...

1. swim trunks (probably a bikini for girls)
2. goofy swim googles
3. a knife (1d4 piercing damage)

#monsterdon

*creature climbs aboard the Rita, grabs Chico, and drags him down to what we must presume is a watery end*

Oh jeez, they're just dumping huge handfuls of soporific into the water now to try to capture the Creature? Worst. Scientists. Evar.

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#monsterdon well, we poisoned the whole lagoon for no reason.

Oh well. Worth a try

Coelacanth!

Evolution!

#Monsterdon

lol, maybe if grabby men got a harpoon in them as a warning society would improve...

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@paco Thank you for your service to the greater #monsterdon memeiverse

Being underwater and in an all body rubber suit sounds VERY claustrophobic to me

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Valuable science fact. Current research and scholarship pegs the Amazon at 9-11 million years old, not 150 million #monsterdon

lol, when you're a Geologist, every problem is a rock

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I am legit surprised we're getting so many full-bodied views of the monster this early in the movie. From the guy-in-the-suit genre of monster, he has sort of a scaly belly and almost a fish shaped head but with eyebrows, and flipper claws.

Anyway, the monster decides to stalk the girl a bit and then hide in the seaweed, then tentatively pokes her feet because he's shy, but the girl doesn't notice because she is busy communing with the river spirits.

#monsterdon

Very nice lagoon, would dive again for science reasons

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"I crack the rocks and they tell me things!"

No no, I get it old man, my uncle had the same thing with bottles. Scotch, mostly. #Monsterdon

"A black lagoon."

AND WE HAVE A TITLE DROP! #Monsterdon

A dialog in this #monsterdon:

Q: Do you know where this tributary ends?
A: It ends in a lagoon!

audience: well, achtually, doesn't a tributary, by definition end up in a river?

"Going into unexplored territory... With a *woman*!"

THERE's that 1950s misogyny. #Monsterdon

We cut to another boat, the RITA, which is sailing with the science masters on it for their expedition.

I am already liking this movie, because it has not one, but two boats!

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We've been doing a lot of swamp movies lately, huh? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Manos! Hand of FATE! LOL. Glorp Glrop Bite Bite.

@forestine "Listen, if we're going to raise children, it'll be with the Martians. They know that they *need* women."

#Monsterdon

Apparently the soundtrack wants us to consider the terror of camping. #Monsterdon

Heh, that, uh, "fossil" looks pretty rubbery there. :P #Monsterdon

@RamenCatholic @_L1vY_ I'm not even sure I'd still be on Mastodon if not for @Taweret

#Monsterdon

@_L1vY_ yup, @Taweret is a fucking treasure. #Monsterdon

The Creature represents all untamed Nature, which the indusrialized West is destroying. We need people like the Skipper to actually use the knife

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At my college, they just woulda wanted to party with it.

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

In a lot of movies, the token female really feels for the monster, which makes her the bridge between White lmperialism and the Other. In this one, Kay never really reached out to the Creature, so she's just another white asshole with boobs

#monsterdon

Big thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's flick. One of the classics!

We had a lot of smoking, and I believe coffee as well (I was looking away for part of that scene).

Physical FX still shines! Great creature suit (and great work from the two actors who brought it to life)!

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

Drink every time someone says “Devonian”

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@sam
Both better than Wagwami EDIT: Wangmagwi

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@CactuarJoe The cast are all so cute.
Michael Shannon is just there looming.
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Pantsing your friend underwater: totally normal and not homoerotic.

#CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon #Monsterdon

@guyjantic You were too young to realize that you also needed the pipe. Nobody takes you seriously without the pipe.
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All these movies end like a brick wall to the face. Did they not invent the denouement until the 70s or something?

HE DIED. THE END. GO HOME.

#monsterdon

There goes the creature.

Fuck off / never find out

#monsterdon

For a swimming lizard man, with at least two spear holes, a couple of gills full of poison, and several bullet holes, he did pretty well in general.

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I wasn't expecting the inciting incident for the third act to be "caught on a small tree branch"

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He did fuck off into the sea (lagoon) so....

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@strangefour Now THAT's compelling! #Monsterdon

@Taweret surely because there's only 10 minutes left in the movie 😛

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Good thing they brought so much heroin

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Suit looks 100000000000x better than CGI

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"Hurrah, I poisoned the lake, I'll be fine I'm sure"

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The plan is: what if we get the creature really stoned
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why don't you try a nitro boost into the engines to jump over the twigs using all the hair spray the woman lead clearly has on board #monsterdon

I want the disfugured guy to be the only survivor, but that ain't happening

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#monsterdon The RITA was chatered by the Wayland Yutani Corporation. LOL

AQUALUNG!

*Sax solo starts

#Monsterdon

You winch some, you lose some

#Monsterdon

MONSTER JAILBREAK

The creature breaks free and attacks, only to be driven away by oil lanterns engulfing it in flames! It leaps over the side of the Rita and swims off into the dead of night!

#monsterdon

There's no-one to blame

1. He fell asleep at his post
2. He got distracted by a female who showed-up

#monsterdon

Oooh - nice burn!

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

@Taweret There's a *reason* we always end up rooting for the monster :P #Monsterdon

Are they swimming in the heroin water?

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Gill-Man no like fire! You also just blasted his night vision with that spotlight.

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

Bath bombs! We'll try bath bombs next!

(why do they have all these poisons aboard?)

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

Aqua Man is such a specialty super hero. I mean, if there's a crime ring operaating under water, sure, but how often does that happen? #monsterdon That said, he'd be perfect here.

Why would someone not hesitate shooting a humanoid with a spear gun?
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lol, the underwater camera is as big as a child

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Gill-man swimming backwards reminds me of a cat scooting around on its back, pulling itself along by pawing rhe underside of the furniture. #Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

Something rips a big hole in the net ... guess swimming really was a bad idea, huh?

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

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Piranha!

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Gill-Man chases after a swimming Kay. Despite millennia of evolution, she still swims faster than he does.

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

@ramsey @YsengrinWolf The movie has now achieved its quota of real scientific terminology

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"I have arrived." #monsterdon

"I hope you're afraid for me, too, Kay."

Eh, I can take or leave you. #Monsterdon

that's pretty 'bazookary', isn't it?

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@SordidAmok #monsterdon

The Hispanic is a specialist! And digging isn't his specialty!

#monsterdon it's important to keep a lungfish hanging around in case you need to make a point about evolution.

scientists gossiping and bitching at each other is also authentic I hear

ooo, a crocodile!

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Gotta love that swamp boat! Where's Humphrey Bogart when you need him?

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Capitalism has entered the chat.
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Because he's

HOT SHIT

and lungfish really knows it

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

This lagoon looks distinctly middle-gray I feel cheated

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"What are you doing here in Brazil?"

I'm on a world pizza tour. #Monsterdon

MONSTER FLIPPER

...just kind of sunning itself there on the bank of the river, apparently. Or perhaps reaching out in remembrance of its silt-entombed brethren?

#monsterdon

@diazona @moira who would win: swamp thing, or creature from the black lagoon?

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...IN INFINITE VARIETY LIVING THINGS APPEAR...

mostly beetles though, just saying

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@hashtaggames @paul #HashtagGames and #Monsterdon in one night? it's a christmas miracle!

@ohiofi #monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

water flowing underground

See, in movies like The Killer Shrews, the "monsters" - ROUS's in this example - are just mindless attackers. The Creature is sympathetic - humanish, but not uncanny valley - you have to root for the Creature. So the white bros automatically become the bad guys

#monsterdon

@OliviaVespera
#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Their year-two funding finally came through.

Anyway this concludes my #monsterdon thread for Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)!

This movie has inspired me to watch Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, which also has swim scenes, just with more bishonens in them.

Thanks to all creatures who have participated in this fishman-themed monster movie and to @Taweret for hosting this Boat Adventure Movie.

@klu9 @sam That is a muppet. #Monsterdon

@LingLass Not dead. There are two sequels. Can't kill off a great monster in the first go around, you know!

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @ohiofi

"Creature 2: Black Lagoo"

#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 !

#monsterdon