#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?

#monsterdon

@whiskeysailor 100% my spirit yearns for the sea. and also the rivers. and also the lakes. and the lagoons. #monsterdon

Checkovs speargun
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There are lions in the Amazon Jungle? That was a lion we just heard.

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

Checkov's speargun? (Also I'm calling it a harpoon)

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

The captain enjoying some of the halflings' weed.

#Monsterdon

Are they going to bury those guys or just leave it to the Jungle to take care of it....

#Monsterdon

So uh I guess it's just fine that a guy died horribly? We're just movin' on?

#monsterdon

REMINDER: Yes, the creature has a foot fetish. No, we don’t 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.

#monsterdon

Bullet bra

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What people don't know is that this monster is made entirely out of hands.

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"...Amazonian rats are the size of a sheep!"

"That's incredible."

(pfft, sounds like Toronto rats. You can hear them cantering around at night.)

#monsterdon

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...

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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.

#monsterdon

"how do we make them look Native?"

"I dunno make them take off their shirts maybe"

#Monsterdon

monster kill ten minutes in

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Oh no! Not Emo Phillips!

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YES! TRANSHUMANISM!!!

Fish people of aquatic worlds!

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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!"

#monsterdon

Research has value?

#monsterdon

I like that the lady is driving the boat and the men don't feel threatened by that, like some would today

#Monsterdon

#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

After cutting the hand out of the wall, we get dramatic music and see another similarly spooky hand furtively come out of the water to paw at the land a bit.

Oh no its a premonition.

#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

#monsterdon A Kookaburra Bird in the Amazon. Sure. Okay.

@Taweret All signs point to “yes.”

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By Grabthar's Hammer, but the Suns of Warvan, I am launching my #monsterdon thread for "The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)"!

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and praise and or condemn it, depending on the movie.

If you do not want to see lots of posts about this, consider muting the hash tag for the next couple hours (you might have to use the web app to do that).

"I can't believe he just snapped like that... just because we tortured him for a couple weeks!"

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

I'm a scientist, and my mission in life is to relax and have a good time...

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

I can think of a couple people in this movie whose brains aren't working.

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

no need to put Flippy's credentials in quotation marks. Rude
#Monsterdon

@paco

🤣

#Monsterdon

@Configures oh ty! I looked at the link bf but somehow mistook it for a replay of the last movie. #monsterdon

Really a lot darker than the filmmakers intended - from a modern perspective

#monsterdon

"Don't let him out! He'll want to move into our neighborhood!"

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@bunnyhero @emma omg seriously

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YES! More of the winching that made the last movie so good!

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Skipper, following the advice of the swamp hag, should've cut up the gringos and left 'em for Creature food

#monsterdon

They couldn't even afford an actress this time?

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

And as the Creature sinks into the Blackness of the Lagoon, the movie takes his viewpoint, as if asking us to hope he finds healing.

Thank you #Monsterdon for sharing this classic, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

@ottaross he's a smart fella, he'll fake his death for a sequel hook...

#Monsterdon

lol, that movie was surprisingly gay, a wonderful tribute to someone resting in piss...

🎵 "Who likes shorts shorts?"🎵
🩳
#Monsterdon

shit turn back now. there's a large bird and we cannot sail around it
credits roll
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Wood stork!
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@ottaross he put up a brave fight and won the crowd

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@SordidAmok Oh, it was her CLOTHES he wanted! She did have a lot of outfits. #Monsterdon #CreaturefromtheBlackLagoon

@ohiofi 2 Creature 2 Lagoon #Monsterdon

The real monster was those two testosterone boys #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

Well, I was disappointed the lagoon wasn't as black as all that #monsterdon

The creature should've been the highest paid on this project. It's had more screen time than anyone else. #monsterdon

Normally when I hate the humans in one of these it's because they're 70s style sleazeballs. These ones are just evil.

(And for maximum annoyance, when they're not being evil, the dialogue works great for establishing them as Scientists(tm))

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@pngwen "But sir, we're not done filming the scene, there's another five pages of di-"

"I SAID THAT'S A WRAP"

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well that certainly was a movie

not nearly weird enough for me ngl, i mean, sure, there's some psycho-sexual bullshit but not nearly enough and also

underwater is boring omg

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

Never any denouement in these things. Sort of like the budget runs out and, “Whelp, let’s end it here!” #Monsterdon

@ricci @paco #Monsterdon

They saved so much money on wardrobe. Cuz this dude's been naked the whole film. #monsterdon

@Taweret Canonically, the Creature is just resting. He has to survive until the next year, when they capture him and bring him to SeaWorld

#Monsterdon

That was a fun one! Thanks, @Taweret and everyone who joined in. Excellent trivia, @JoeWynne. 🏆

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#Monsterdon sad story.. although the creature comes back for a sequel, which is also good, and then Guillermo del Toro gets him laid, so that's fun.

Anyway guys, thanks for tonight. I love that movie and it's been ages since I saw it, let alone in such charming company!

Have a good night!

I can see how seeing that on a film screen in 1954 would have rocked your world. #monsterdon

Creature is higher than a jazz musician

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Aaand like most #Monsterdon movies, it doesn't end so much as just stop. #Monsterdon

Meanwhile they never do get past that brush snag and die of starvation #monsterdon

The climax wasn't anything special, but as a by-the-numbers creature future, there's a reason this one is held in such high regard!

Have a nice night y'all

#Monsterdon

with Esther Williams as THE CREATURE

thanks all for another thrilling #monsterdon

Now there's bats? hell yes

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Blood on the suit.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

i

ate

too

many

bullets

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

Let 'em go. Let 'em suffer...

#Monsterdon

BAT! #monsterdon

he might lay eggs on her
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#monsterdon Underwater Parkour! by ballsack! Parkour!

What a pretty swamp expedition dress

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Bat on a wire!

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

The log is the real final boss of this film

#monsterdon

When the thing you're hunting sneaks up on you, you should quit hunting. #monsterdon

Meanwhile, it's wet shirt night at Gill-Man's place.

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

seems like a lot of work to move a few floating branches

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The music's OK, but would be better if it was AC/DC

#monsterdon #MaximumBlackLagoon

#Monsterdon The Winch is actually the main antagonist of the film

@CactuarJoe there's so much of it too #Monsterdon

Gimme another hit of the good sh🐸t

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the monster shows up at the funniest time tho

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what in the diy poison blaster is this #monsterdon

Being super precise on the ingredients for the whatithingy with a soup ladel. #monsterdon

Shouldn't someone get the mummy his pipe?

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Creature getting handsy

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lol get him

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lol, I think he shot his mate....

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Underwater MMA is pretty cool actually #Monsterdon

Snot is running down his nose

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