lol Pipe Dude is next then...

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This poor creature has been pursued in its own lagoon, speargunned in the kidney, drugged, chased through the middle of the night... I'm not saying it was right to attack Zee just then, but it's understandable.

And now the poor thing is clubbed and caged, like an unruly and damp adolescent velociraptor!?

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Just don't say ...

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tbh the boss is right, go put the swamp creature in a good enclosure first and come back to finish the other stuff later. basic animal care #monsterdon

Research experiments gone wild
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Sorry I jumpscared you but it made for a good jumpscare. #monsterdon

Excellent, the underwater cave is well lit.

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Wow! Who knew that underwater at the Black Lagoon at night would be so well lit?

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"I'll chase him, and then I'LL get drugged too!"

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You guys came to Gillman's house, and this is the way you repay his hospitality. You're awful guests.

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"Bring a net!"

Yeah, bring that thing that DEFINITELY didn't work last time! #Monsterdon

@saucerlost The resemblance to Gary Sinise is uncanny at times.

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@OliviaVespera
Except for that one time she got to go swimming, it's the only thing she has to do.
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#monsterdon We lost a bit player! Shucks!

Great, now the creature is all giggly and high like the captain.

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I hate how these humans have just gone "let's destroy this lagoon", they were actually saying interesting things before.

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"We must have the proof" says Mr Scientist holding his gun...

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Mark is going full Ahab #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌊 🔦🐸🐊🧜‍♂️ 😱

BINGO!

In order, try:

1. Harpoon
2. Fish cocaine
3. Depth charges

If monster persists, call a professional.

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Where's Gilligan? #monsterdon

Another creature asking for attention #monsterdon #creaturefromtheblacklagoon

"Let's pollute the lagoon to teach them a lesson!"

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Hey, maybe try lighting the Amazon on fire! Works in Detroit! #Monsterdon

Fish: It's what's for dinner tonight.

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Gilman's like "SEND MORE DRUGS" #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Gillman sees you throwing your cigarette butts everywhere.

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dynamite fishing? not good enough. we need POISON fishion

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After a lot of Orchestral Swimming, the monster appears in a plant explosion, and then the banker boy harpoons it even though it really hasn't done anything that they're aware of (other than be a weird stalker monster). Despite harpooning it, it gets away, and the main boy is mad at the banker boy for shooting a possibly innocent river monster.

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Imagine swimming in the Creature suit

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Devonian Age .... DRINK!

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so we shot it. Very American
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The creature taking a hit and swimming off with the visible harpoon is pretty impressive looking actually.

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#monsterdon get kelp'd idiot

The danger horns keep blowing and all I hear is "look at THAAAAAT! look at THAAAT! #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

music so much more exciting than movie

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I'm forced to assume that 1954 audiences were very impressed by underwater scenes. #monsterdon

black lagoon underwater asmr 24 hours no talking #monsterdon

Wow! Something ripped a hole in the net and they immediately grabbed the Oxygen Destroyer

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This drags a bit without 3D
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Hey we get to see some neat underwater flora and fauna so that's cool

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the swimming and underwater cinematography in this is pretty amazing tbh

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Heh, "I PAY YOUR SALARY, MISTER! Now let's go *cocks gun* research marine life." #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Miss Lawrence has officially gone tits up. She's buoyant! Oh buoy!

I rescind my previous requests for male shirtlessness in #monsterdon movies if this is what I have to look forward too. I forgot the male standard of fitness used to be so... achievable.

Steven Spielberg just stole like the whole first act of this movie and called it JAWS.

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Baron von Terror is a great monster too -much uglier - but not iconic

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"Hey, that wasn't a very smart thing to do!"

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Like many guys, he's attracted to females but is afraid to approach them #monsterdon

Hey, something just touched me down there, let's go look. #monsterdon

You have to admit, that suit moves so much better than the Swamp Thing rubber suit #Monsterdon

@kshernandez It's all fun and games on Gilligan's Island, but IRL after about 2 months Lovie Howell would have sliced Gilligan up like a ripe melon. #monsterdon

Synchronized sea monstering

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Back on the boat, we get a Swimsuit Reveal, as the one girl decides to go swimming, for fun, to romantic music! She just had the swimsuit on under her regular clothes, which is a thing you can do.

Anyway, she does some non-synchronized swimming. Then a monster sees her and the music Suddenly Turns Into Less Romantic and More Ominous Music. Anyway, now the monster is chasing her, oh no!

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If she goes in the water, her make up will make a cloud around her face

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It's the latest synchro-swim duo. They'll clean up at the next olympics.

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Blondie is angry because he doesn't have a girl along for the trip

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Is this trying to show that the creature is a better/faster swimmer than humans?

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"What was it like down there?"

"…I'd like to see it"

monkey's paw time

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This is why almost every one uses a dive computer now
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"David. About Mark..."

Who's Mark? ...Actually, which one's David, too :/ #Monsterdon

Sent down for rocks, he gets a plant

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"Hey, did that guy just steal the plants out of my front yard? They'll pay for this!"

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Diving sequences are the drum solos of movies. #Monsterdon

We filmed a guy swimming

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A brief but full reveal of the Gill-Man

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@kshernandez Yeah. When they get back one of them is going to ask another one to move and It's going to be awkward....#monsterdon

I do have a soft spot for under water stuff like this
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@jadebees #monsterdon

I was expected Colonel Kurtz' tribal allies to start appearing on the riverbank.

Clearly underwater scuba footage was a big draw in 1954

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It might the 1950s vibes, but I think this movie would pass the Angela Collier test of being a pro-science movie, even if the science is maybe not always right.

It generally shows the scientists in a positive light and overcoming failures as they try to investigate stuff. But I think that might be the 1950s vibes, where scientists were maybe better regarded in movies.

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Now I'm getting AFRICAN QUEEN vibes from these boat scenes.

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filmed in marvelous SCUB-A-VISION

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#monsterdon Oh David, your hands are cold, please remove them from my pants!

Pretty clear water for a RIVER, dang

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who likes short shorts

these guys!

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the rocks """tell him things"""

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This movie hits the ground swimming

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We decide to boat more and I guess go to the Lagoon. One of the characters shows off his spear... gun... by shooting a spear into the ship's mast. We will call this Chekhov's speargun.

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doing the "aim and squeeze" demo after walking in on the lovebirds making out. but sometimes a speargun is just a speargun?

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obligatory dialog about going into the unknown with a girl, because there is a girl here and this is the 1950s.

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Scientist: the chances of finding anything are REMOTE

Creature, raising hand from the shore of the lagoon: GUYS...I'M RIGHT HERE GUYS

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Mark grew up to be Crocodile Dundee

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I like that guy's sense of humor
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The boat's captain is my favourite character so far.

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When, yes, the limestone and fossils would have been transported via "this tributary" to the Black Lagoon, where the river ... ends? Isn't that backwards?

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The creature from the black lagoon is actually a claw from the black lagoon. #Monsterdon

@floatybirb my college had a lung fish. They can bite off a human finger. #Monsterdon

Okay, the Creature reaching for her ankle only for her to walk away at the last minute was a great fake-out.

Things are already zipping along at a great pace compared to many movies we've watched.

#Monsterdon

HOT ARCHEOLOGY ACTION!
Digging! Sifting rocks! Pith helmets!
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@Lazarou #monsterdon

you should hear him play electric guitar!

"Never get out of the boat, maaan!"

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lol, the slow hand is a bit comical

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I'm definitely getting an Apocalypse Now vibe from this boat ride

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@CactuarJoe

So *that's* why he never drained it

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toooooooooooooooot
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"I didn't mean that as a criticism. Loser." #monsterdon

#monsterdon The good ship RITA. Everyones drunk, empty bottles of Tequila EVERYWHERE! Leaving little squeezed out limes behind like a trail of drunken excess.

Wait, 150 million years ago was the Jurassic, not the Devonian.

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The boat has a shallow draft, just like your last research paper

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