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
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.
kinda cool seeing the Amazon back in the day, I guess that's all cattle fields now or something....
Humanity threw the first punch, remember that
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 also picked up on IMDB, that you can tell the actors apart by counting their air-tanks. There's one guy with two tanks, and one guy with just one tank.
#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.
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
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!"
I'm a scientist, and my mission in life is to relax and have a good time...
I can think of a couple people in this movie whose brains aren't working.
no need to put Flippy's credentials in quotation marks. Rude
#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
"Don't let him out! He'll want to move into our neighborhood!"
@bunnyhero @emma omg seriously
YES! More of the winching that made the last movie so good!
Skipper, following the advice of the swamp hag, should've cut up the gringos and left 'em for Creature food
They couldn't even afford an actress this time?
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...
lol, that movie was surprisingly gay, a wonderful tribute to someone resting in piss...
π΅ "Who likes shorts shorts?"π΅
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#Monsterdon
shit turn back now. there's a large bird and we cannot sail around it
credits roll
#Monsterdon
Wood stork!
#monsterdon
Okay, I'll admit it: when I was a kid I felt bad for the Gill-man at the end.
@LingLass@vmst.io just because he's an Amazon steam boat captain doesn't mean he can't be FABULOUS #Monsterdon
@ottaross he put up a brave fight and won the crowd
So.... that's it. They killed it. Good job, white people
@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))
@pngwen "But sir, we're not done filming the scene, there's another five pages of di-"
"I SAID THAT'S A WRAP"
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
Never any denouement in these things. Sort of like the budget runs out and, βWhelp, letβs end it here!β #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 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
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
with Esther Williams as THE CREATURE
thanks all for another thrilling #monsterdon
Now there's bats? hell yes
Blood on the suit.
Let 'em go. Let 'em suffer...
BAT! #monsterdon
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he might lay eggs on her
#monsterdon
#monsterdon Underwater Parkour! by ballsack! Parkour!
What a pretty swamp expedition dress
Bat on a wire!
The log is the real final boss of this film
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.
seems like a lot of work to move a few floating branches
fucking winch it
The music's OK, but would be better if it was AC/DC
#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 shπΈt
the monster shows up at the funniest time tho
*winces at pollution
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?
Creature getting handsy
lol get him
lol, I think he shot his mate....
Underwater MMA is pretty cool actually #Monsterdon
Snot is running down his nose
Donβt just drop the harpoon! Throw it back and say something cool like βHey human! Go βpoon yourself!β
He reloaded while swimming? #monsterdon
#monsterdon "oh now that I think of it, it would be handy to have someone else working the spear gun."
what motivates monster? #monsterdon