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

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

"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

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

@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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lol, oh good...'underwater scenes'

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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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Skipper seems like a guy who would make love with a dead iguana

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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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A paradise? Why not Golden Lagoon? #monsterdon

wait, they've been dating 6 months, and her dad's already pestering them to get married? jesus, dad, back off.

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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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toooooooooooooooot
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@CactuarJoe

So *that's* why he never drained it

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Those footlong caterpillars better not come near my kale...

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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.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

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

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Cigarette, too! And a cigar!

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

Please do not the crocadillians

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

"Someday there will be space ships...." #monsterdon

I swear I have seen that boat in another movie. #Monsterdon

Don't come knocking when the tent's rockin'. #monsterdon

Her: “This one failed at evolution.”

Me: …if I had I dime for every time a date told me that…

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Good thing there were some expendable minorities around

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They found a humaphibian hominid skeletonized hand. #monsterdon

Wilhelm scream coming up

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Now that is a swamp thing!

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Afterward, we are the science factory, which has an aquarium, and multiple science masters have been summoned to gawk at the hand. In the aquarium, the dude talks about the cool lungfish in the aquarium and how its a bridge between Fish and Man. Then he talks about how we'll go to other planets one day and we'll need science for that.

One of the science masters is actually a banker in disguise, and he decides to bankroll their river expedition to look for more web handed friends.

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"Look, over here, this lungfish..."

*lungfish notices it is on camera, swims head-first into the side of the aquarium to try to avoid being perceived*

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Dude, don't GRAB THE FOSSIL with your BARE HANDS :/ #Monsterdon

YES! TRANSHUMANISM!!!

Fish people of aquatic worlds!

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Okay - impressive that they have some decent real fish footage.

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All your smoking is gonna kill that lungfish

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“Colonel Sanders! It isn’t you!”
“What’s left of me, and my top secret blend of eleven herbs and spices.”

#Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

Moe, Larry, and Doctor Curly. #Monsterdon

@JoeWynne That's super dope! #Monsterdon

@Lazarou @ottaross Mmm…friend chicken.

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You should get married. Not because you're sinful, but for tax reasons.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@Taweret Probably, absolutely, yeah. #monsterdon

@ottaross Ah say boah, this here's mah swimmin lake.
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Instituto? #monsterdon

Why are we judging the Creature already, they have every right to exist on this planet. Team Monster!

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Remember when we all thought Invasion of the Star Creatures was racist? That was fun.

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shoulda been The Thing from the Black Lagoon

COME, THING, LEND A HAND

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

you've never seen a hand before?

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#monsterdon gogogogo!

Is important, great white science guy?

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A diverse cast of people with no lines. #monsterdon

Play every bird sound we got!

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ahhh the claw is right in my face!!

#BlackLagoon3D #monsterdon

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, but in this version of Genesis he was happy to sit around for five billion years waiting for the rest of the bible

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"In the beginning, the Earth was without form. Then people showed up and blew it all to hell."

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to make a creature from the black lagoon from scratch, you must first invent the universe #monsterdon

We're starting with Genesis. Wonderful.

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I remember watching this on Hoolihan & Big Chuck back in the day. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11187980/ #monsterdon

Oh so we're starting at the START here.

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Representing Lemmy, Mastodon's fediverse sibling! #monsterdon

https://lemmy.world/post/35812077

For a second, I thought Gillman was gonna tell us about the great features of this year's Pontiacs

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@Terencio

My bad. The quote I was thinking of was actually from 'The Wild Angels'

"We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. And we wanna get loaded."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Angels

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@klu9 #monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

dunno... haven't seen Easy Rider....

If you're the measure of being human, "just missing" is a good thing.

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the brain stops working while you are asleep. top sciencing and mansplaining
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"Fine scientist you are, feeling empathy... having ethics..." -Biff

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@Terencio

Hate the game, not the merman

#Monsterdon

Even Gill-man knows playa doesn't stand a chance.

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@klu9 #monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

dude wants to torture Gill-man, apparently.

#monsterdon just came back to say, they don't electricute the dolphins

I think he's learned a little more than that, genius.

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i bet they never once test gill mans fashion sense out in this intelligence test.
OMFG he inherently knows which skirt length goes best with kitten heels!
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