I'm trying to envision what seeing it in a theater would feel like in 2025 and I think I'd mainly get overstimulated from that film score being blasted through a modern theater's sound system. #monsterdon
The most fucking off into the sea of all fuckings off into the sea.
Lizard, mummy and bat, but this movie was short on vampires. Just wanna lodge a complaint about that here before we wrap up.
@jonny That would make it disturbingly like the Bog creature. Maybe it was more like Kong, just fascinated with the pretty woman. #Monsterdon #CreaturefromtheBlackLagoon
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TRIVIA FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
Another edition of "What happened to the suit?"
1. Costume pieces were discarded by the studio after the three films were completed.
2. A janitor snagged the costume out of a dumpster for a Halloween costume for his son.
3. Collectors eventually bought key pieces.
And it's over! That was...not as swampy as I expected and way gayer than I expected
Thanks everyone! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Gill-Man fucks off to the Black Lagoon and passes out ... THE END
If I wanted to I could pose this as a metaphor for small businesses under the current administration. #monsterdon Thanks gang. Take care. See ya soon.
So, this cave has an above-water entrance?
#monsterdon The submerged orchestra survived underwater somehowβ¦
WHO HAS THE SPEAR GUN NOW SURFACE DWELLER!?
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromtheBlackLagoon
I really like how this monster just keeps coming back, who even knows what it wants, or why, just here it comes again
fucking winch it
"Man David sure is shooting huge clouds of white stuff into the water."
"Yeah. Also the poison from that spray gun."
Just a spoon full of poison makes the poison go down. In the most poisony way! #monsterdon
Finally, a dead gringo
all you #monsterdon viewers should watch Waterworld (1995) next, to see what happens to the creatureβs great grandchild in future times
*winces at pollution
Pipe dude just sitting their, in silent horror.....
10 minutes left, time for the humans to inexplicably pull ahead of the monster
Is every speargun shot posed with 3D in mind?
We get a swim trunk fight scene as the boys decide to chase the monster or fix the logs or something and the main boy wants to go with the banker boy.
Next they are both splashing in the water. I think main boy is trying to fix the winch and banker boy is chasing the monster with the spear gun and shoots the monster at least once, but the monster still has HP remaining.
injured guy in the bunk like "could you guys keep it down? i'm trying to rest!"
No one will be seated during the 45 minute winching scene which stars Richard Carlson's crotch. #Monsterdon
After stopping their boat, the monster smashed their dinghy or something and then swam away. The banker still wants to stay to capture it.
Instead, they decide to use their boat winch to move the branches out of the way, which is a nice Boat Operations Scene, even if the winch sounds very Loud and Annoying.
The monster disrupts their plan by detaching the winch from the logs.
Grossly disfigured gringo is cool, but l still want a dead one
The boy who got his head squished is now bandaged and resting in a bunk, if no infection sets in he might be okay.
The main boy wants to go home so more people don't die, but the banker who has paid for this expedition doesn't want to leave because he wants to capture the monster.
It looks like they're leaving, but the monster set a trap for them by putting some branches in the way of their giant boat, which makes them stop.
Steamboat willy knows how to handle capitalists.
#monsterdon
Later that night, the monster is lurking in its cage while one of the boys is bothering the girl about her relationship or something. The conversation is boring but it mostly serves as a distraction so the monster can figure out how to break its bamboo cage so it can attack the boy and squish his head. The boat people counterattack with a thrown lantern, which sets its head on fire, and then then monster escapes into the water.
"We didn't come here to fight monsters."
"Speak for yourself. Coward."
#monsterdon
David loves his shorts
@MylesRyden truly impressive stunt work in this movie! #Monsterdon
It's the Mummy meets the Creature from the black lagoon!
"What do you think is taking them so long?"
"David is very thorough."
*Kay looks over knowingly*
audience: _scandalized gasp_
We swim our way into a cave that leads out to land and might be a monster lair. While we're doing that, the monster appears where the other boat people are hanging out on shore and kills a random boy, then picks up the girl, probably declaring her its waifu. But then the swim trunk boys intercept this attempted kidnap and punch out the monster or something, then trap it in their Bamboo Lagoon Monster Cage.
"They all float down here" - Creature
lol, merman just stands there, judging
#monsterdon Another Kukaburra Bird. LOL. WRONG CONTINENT.
You don't know if there is breathable air in that cave, it could be pure merpeople farts
Since our rowboat plan failed, its now night, and everyone is standing watch on the deck when the monster decides to climb a rope up to the boat and knock over an offensive lantern, like a cat knocking things off of a table.
After swimming away, it decides to stand a bit in the shadows and swat at them, then swims away. The main boy is afraid that it will suffocate because of all the water poison, and so him and banker boy chase it to try to catch it.
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These guys are dumb
#monsterdon
It's bad enough these "scientists" have a Gillman after them, now they've managed to piss off every other creature in the lagoon by poisoning it!
Their new plan involves send the banker boy and the main boy into their rowboat to wait for the monster with a gun. While waiting, banker boy monologues about how they need proof, and main boy monologues about how we don't really know what all is in the water and just like how there might be life on other planets there might be weird guys living in the water.
Let's dump a ton of heroin in this swamp
Those looked like some vintage "Fire King" classics. Quality mid-century mugs.
(Does David quaffing something from a cup while overlooking a lagoon full of rotenone-drugged fish count as "coffee is served" for bingo purposes?)
A deck boy is like "that was my brother who was yeeted off of the ship. i saw a demon did it!" and is sad.
Then the most boat-captain looking boy is like "hey I have an idea lets use this poison water we use when fishing to get the fish drunk!" which I guess is the Brazilian equivalent of fishing with hand grenades.
Everyone thinks this is a great idea, so they try it and it doesn't work. The monster just secretly waves at them as the girl tosses a cigarette in the water.
Well, dinner should be no problem, if you like poison
#monsterdon
The irony was that Chef didn't get out of the boat, but he still got killed
First, we must lay a magic circle of salt in the water of the Black Lagoon (yes, I know it's supposed to be poison).
We go below decks for a science conference, learning that we didn't take a good photo of the monster with our diving camera, and also that the fossil we found was from the Devonian, and there was some fish from the Devonian that they found in the Amazon, and so maybe this lagoon monster lived in the Devonian too.
While they're doing this, the monster sneaks onto the deck and yeets a guy into the river, then fucks off into the river.
These two always look like Gary Sinise and Robert Picardo having an argument
@allanb They didn't invent hesitation until the 70's
Comango... Coelacanth? Something else?
"yeah, but why would we listen to the locals about what's going on, we're White?"
Oh! That was a big-ass underwater camera. I must have missed when they first mentioned it.
The harpoon gun toting character of Mark feels like he inspired the Jurassic Park movie characterization of Muldoon, and some of the recklessness of Hammond as well, though none of the geniality.
Where does the creature go poo poo. OMG!! That's what's floating around them! #monsterdon
It's been a long time since l saw this. l hope some gringos get killed
I'm glad they're calling out the "shoot the creature" guy
Gill-man: I wanna touch ... but no. But I wanna touch ... but no. But I wanna touch ... but *oops* grazed her! Gotta run away now.
50s audiences going blind at the bikini...it's all they had back then
The underwater stuff, though not a thrill a minute, is at least pretty well shot. #monsterdon
We've now had two very conspicuous mentions of waiting to acclimate to the pressure difference while surfacing.
So clearly this is going to be a plot point.
Chekhov's surfacing restriction.
#Monsterdon
Yup, wimmin looove random crap you pick off the bottom of a lagoon
erotic short tugging...
No one will be seated (or awake) during the 45 minute underwater sequence. #monsterdon
#monsterdon Technically my loves, table salt is a rock you eat.
put your hands on his airtank like you just don't care
I don't know enough about current or historical SCUBA gear to know offhand: is there any significance to Mark wearing a single-tank breathing apparatus while David is wearing a two-tank system? Is there meaning to those differences or was it just the choice of the props department?
@whiskeysailor 100% my spirit yearns for the sea. and also the rivers. and also the lakes. and the lagoons. #monsterdon
There are lions in the Amazon Jungle? That was a lion we just heard.
Checkov's speargun? (Also I'm calling it a harpoon)
The captain enjoying some of the halflings' weed.
Are they going to bury those guys or just leave it to the Jungle to take care of it....
So uh I guess it's just fine that a guy died horribly? We're just movin' on?
REMINDER: Yes, the creature has a foot fetish. No, we donβt kink shame.
#monsterdon
We decide to check out the shore, and use a smaller boat to get to it. While the boys are farting around, the girl is standing by the water. She doesn't notice the hand that comes out and looks tempted to grab her, but then she walks away because the boys call her, and the dramatic music deflates.
In the next scene, we're digging another rock wall, looking for more samples, but not having any luck.
Bullet bra
What people don't know is that this monster is made entirely out of hands.
"...Amazonian rats are the size of a sheep!"
"That's incredible."
(pfft, sounds like Toronto rats. You can hear them cantering around at night.)
it's nice seeing a 3D movie that was actually shot that way, rather than post-converted. converted 3D movies very often get reflections wrong, which i find distracting. makes a difference when there are a lot of water scenes #monsterdon
Initial panty raid foiled, poor guy :/ #Monsterdon
Those footlong caterpillars better not come near my kale...
Back at the dig site, two digger dudes are chilling in their tent at night, when a Swamp Thing crawls out of the water and walks toward them while rumbling.
The shirted guy sees it and is super scared, then he backs away and throws a lantern at it. It's not very effective. He gets slapped by a webbed claw, probably dying. This wakes up the shirtless guy. He also gets slapped by the webbed claw, probably dying.
monster kill ten minutes in
Oh no! Not Emo Phillips!
In the next scene, we're on a boat trip, meeting a girl and her husband, who is doing a scuba diving. The boat is one of those little motorboat things. He shows them the cool hand he found in a rock wall and they're like "woah cool hand, nice flippers!"
Research has value?
I like that the lady is driving the boat and the men don't feel threatened by that, like some would today
#monsterdon I've never actually seen this in 3D I got this just for Christmas and I haven't watched it yet.
"What's he waiting for?"
We get paid by the minute on-film. #Monsterdon
To surprise me, this #monsterdon goes way back and starts with the formation of the Earth and tells us that an evolution happened. Then we go to the Amazon, where there's some evolution.
We go to a village where an archaeology guy is hanging out with some villagers, some of whom have shirts. He rushes to a rock wall (not a thing that the Amazon has lots of), to find a big spooky hand hanging out of it. He takes a picture of it and cuts it off, to take it to a science factory somewhere.
Wooo! I'm watching monsterdon in 3D!
#monsterdon A Kookaburra Bird in the Amazon. Sure. Okay.
@Taweret All signs point to βyes.β
