That's standard paleontology, a couple of whacks then rip the thing out of the ground.

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IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID

*gasoline explosions*

THIS IS THE PLANET EARTH - NEWLY BORN AND COOLING RAPIDLY

so extremely cool

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"Here, life begins"

...Hot. #Monsterdon

wait... isn't he a fresh-water Gill-man?

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Awww.... I was thinking the Critter was gonna cut off its foot but it'd be OK bc it would just grow back.

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Wiggle, Clete! Wiggle like the WIND!

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@diazona same, actually. The highlights of my week are:

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#SethMeyersCorrections
New #VLDL videos

@_L1vY_ @Taweret

@ancient_catbus tagging this toot with #monsterdon because we're supposed to drink now every time we see the word "Devonian".

More winching.

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@paco @klu9 I did briefly notice them being rather pointy for a real person, but that poster is on another level IMO

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@gnomon @Bluedepth #monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

thank goodness. they might decide to close up shop and just go out of business.

@klu9 I stand corrected. So do her boobs.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon has always been one of my favorites. It's been made all the better by poking fun at it along with everyone here. Thank you so much #Monsterdon. These watch parties really keep me going. I look forward to next week!

anyway good job team, another movie successfully launched into space

and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

Typical end to a #monsterdon film.

It kinda works as a statement about Western Imperialism
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Okay, I'll admit it: when I was a kid I felt bad for the Gill-man at the end.

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If only Kay had brought more clothes....

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Now over to @miru for the sequel, already in progress

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As a guy with a coffee-mug avatar, I give tonight's feature four mugs out of a possible five for the big "Fire King" coffee mugs scene.

☕ ☕ ☕ ☕

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@LingLass just because he's an Amazon steam boat captain doesn't mean he can't be FABULOUS #Monsterdon

So.... that's it. They killed it. Good job, white people

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And that’s a wrap!

Another #monsterdon comes to an end. This one was full of danger horns, homoerotic fisticuffs, an amazing rubber suit that works underwater, AQUA-LUNG, and an infinite number of outfit changes for the immaculately clean and quaffed leading lady. This was a hoot.

Thank you everyone for your tootledge, and thank you to @Taweret for organizing.

That's a much better movie than I was expecting, though.

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All he ever wanted was a nice blouse

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And my internet had a bit of a fit so I couldn't keep summarizing, but some events happened. They involved an underwater wrestling match, a water poisoning squirt gun, a Girl Kidnapping, and also a Conveniently placed Mating Rock in the monster's secret cavern lair.

In the end, the monster fucks off into the river and the humans decline to shoot it, but it is sad anyway, because it didn't get the girl.

Also, the monster had a roommate who was a bat, which was cool.

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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.

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Lizard, mummy and bat, but this movie was short on vampires. Just wanna lodge a complaint about that here before we wrap up.

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@jonny That would make it disturbingly like the Bog creature. Maybe it was more like Kong, just fascinated with the pretty woman. #Monsterdon #CreaturefromtheBlackLagoon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

  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.

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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!

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Gill-Man fucks off to the Black Lagoon and passes out ... THE END

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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.

He doesn't have to adjust to the change in pressure now

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So, this cave has an above-water entrance?

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#monsterdon The submerged orchestra survived underwater somehow…

WHO HAS THE SPEAR GUN NOW SURFACE DWELLER!?
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I really like how this monster just keeps coming back, who even knows what it wants, or why, just here it comes again

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ahh, deffo a '3D' bit

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fucking winch it

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"Man David sure is shooting huge clouds of white stuff into the water."

"Yeah. Also the poison from that spray gun."

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Just a spoon full of poison makes the poison go down. In the most poisony way! #monsterdon

Finally, a dead gringo

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all you #monsterdon viewers should watch Waterworld (1995) next, to see what happens to the creature’s great grandchild in future times

*winces at pollution

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Pipe dude just sitting their, in silent horror.....

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10 minutes left, time for the humans to inexplicably pull ahead of the monster

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Is every speargun shot posed with 3D in mind?

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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.

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What is the monster's motivation in this? I think its supposed to be "horniness" because it likes the girl and the boat people have decided that the monster is a "he".

I guess it could also be "fuck these boat people they harpooned me and I'm gonna fuck them up now!"

But I'm thinking its a King Kong situation and the monster just likes the girl and so doesn't want the boat to leave.

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injured guy in the bunk like "could you guys keep it down? i'm trying to rest!"

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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.

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Grossly disfigured gringo is cool, but l still want a dead one

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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.

#monsterdon

Steamboat willy knows how to handle capitalists.
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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.

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"We didn't come here to fight monsters."
"Speak for yourself. Coward."
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He finally lit that pipe

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David loves his shorts

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@MylesRyden truly impressive stunt work in this movie! #Monsterdon

It's the Mummy meets the Creature from the black lagoon!

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"What do you think is taking them so long?"

"David is very thorough."

*Kay looks over knowingly*

audience: _scandalized gasp_

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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.

#monsterdon

"They all float down here" - Creature

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lol, merman just stands there, judging

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#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

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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.

#monsterdon

These guys are dumb
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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!

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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.

#monsterdon

Let's dump a ton of heroin in this swamp

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Those looked like some vintage "Fire King" classics. Quality mid-century mugs.

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(Does David quaffing something from a cup while overlooking a lagoon full of rotenone-drugged fish count as "coffee is served" for bingo purposes?)

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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.

#monsterdon

Well, dinner should be no problem, if you like poison
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The irony was that Chef didn't get out of the boat, but he still got killed

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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).

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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.

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These two always look like Gary Sinise and Robert Picardo having an argument

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@allanb They didn't invent hesitation until the 70's

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Comango... Coelacanth? Something else?

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"yeah, but why would we listen to the locals about what's going on, we're White?"

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Oh! That was a big-ass underwater camera. I must have missed when they first mentioned it.

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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.

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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

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I'm glad they're calling out the "shoot the creature" guy

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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.

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50s audiences going blind at the bikini...it's all they had back then

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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.
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Yup, wimmin looove random crap you pick off the bottom of a lagoon

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erotic short tugging...

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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

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

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?

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