Devil Girl from Mars
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

THIS MOVIE silently engages with the problem of gender throughout, where the motivation for the devil girl from mars is having killed all men in a "war of the sexes" which is NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. the men then display a range of behaviors that provide the SILENT backstory to the war of the sexes - criminality, sealion scientist, being hella annoying, etc. THE ENDING is a very literal tragedy for women, where through sheer bluster and dumb luck men overpower even the hyperintelligent, hyperadvanced women from mars, and then proceed to ignore the deep trauma experienced by the woman standing not feet away from them #monsterdon

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

wait actually she says this in her opening expository dialogue so fast you probably missed it. she is here for two reasons, to get a man, and also to test the metal that her ship is made of, and explicitly says that it being too unstable is an option and if so they will just send more spaceships. so in the text of the movie the sacrificed man actually didn't destroy the thing at all, it just self destructed. so the movie is actually entirely about the relationship between the escaped from prison guy and the paired woman character, about how even if you overcome overwhelming odds, the forces of the universe will come and rip the thing you love away from you for no purpose #monsterdon

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

i love how she is just fucking stunting on them for no reason, she could have just mind controlled all of them immediately and taken one and just chilled while the spaceship healed but she wanted to show this collection of like 5 scottish guys in particular how cool she is #monsterdon

Backup Cherizilla
Backup Cherizilla
Cherizilla

Alas, no bingo for me, but I loved the robot and the stern latex martian lady. Fun pick!

Goodnight, monster people. Thanks for the laughs!

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

@Taweret@octodon.social I think the tension was that the movie was an obvious fetish but could not show us anything that 1950s audiences would deem too prurient, so the premise that made the author horny was relegated to a framing device.

Sordid Amok!
Sordid Amok!
SordidAmok

That was a wonderful example of 1950s B-movie scifi. Small cast, forced relationships, a dumb kid. some pretentious babbling about people's hubris, no actual understanding of science, and a sudden ending. Classic.

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

i was warned that the music in this punches way above the weight class and like, wow. perfectly situationally responsive with that bassoon or oboe slinky thing for the wood carrying guy #monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Also, a possible winner of the Worst Alien Strategists Ever award is the martians in , for only sending one dominatrix to conquer earth, somehow having their spaceship destroyed by an unarmed guy and only taking one prisoner on their mission to repopulate their home planet.

On the other hand, they probably also win some kind of award for being snappy dressers.

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

the devil girl from mars has done absolutely zero reaching out to the earth women. like if you just killed all men presumably you would have some tips and tricks or dire warnings or idk maybe ANYTHING AT ALL to say to the earth women #monsterdon

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allanb

You wouldn't believe how hard it was for that guy to collect firewood on moors since there are no trees

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

man adapt your freaking tactics. she is a superhuman alien from a planet and she just finished wiping out all men in a battle of the sexes. maybe read the room a little and don't try and do hero man stuff #monsterdon

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"Nothing like this has ever happened to me before."

"Nothing like this has ever happened to anyone before!"

"Why did it have to happen to us?"

"Well, it had to happen, sometime, somewhere."

DID IT THOUGH

Bluedepth

Shit, you went through all five bullets. They work, so that's good, but now you're out of ammo and now, maybe just throw the metal gun at her? Or, perhaps, just take off your pants. She seems a bit unprepared for twig-and-berries.

Paco Hope
Paco Hope
paco@infosec.exchange

I think this film may have been a dig at feminism of its day (ya think?). But as far as I can tell, at the end of the film, the Martians still have better tech, more powerful weapons, and interplanetary travel. The only thing that the Earth has that Mars lacks is... dicks?

#monsterdon

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

and that's a wreck! The spaceship exploded in low earth orbit, presumably because Albert sabotaged it somehow. We have to expect that some of that explosion debris fucked off into the sea. None of the characters spend more than a moment lamenting Albert's demise, nor worrying about the entire planet of aggressors all exactly in the same situation as Naya. Oh well!

Thank you @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting! This one was really bad. Fun times!

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Canonical powers of the
1. appearing dramatically in doors and shouting "you fools!"
2. controls the ray gun
3. controls the rectangle robot
4. immune to bullets and electricity
5. mind controls people, but only sometimes
6. rocking an ominous cape

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The child boy decides to climb out the window to look at the flying saucer and befriends the murder-convict. Meanwhile, the is giving the other bar patrons a demonstration of her planet's mighty power by pointing a complicated hand rake at her spaceship, which glows at her until her extremely rectangular robot awkwardly walks out.

It doesn't seem all that intimidating, but the Pub Goers Reactions and the Dramatic Orchestra lets us know that this is Terrifying.

Sordid Amok!
Sordid Amok!
SordidAmok

The invisible wall puts us firmly in No Exit territory. We're dealing with existentialism here, my friends.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Hang on a dang second, the movie brief promised a crash landing. That was a controlled, soft landing, completely level, with fully functional retrorockets! We've been had!

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

decides to grace us with some boring but dramatic backstory, the convict guy married some girl other than the barmaid, and then killed her, and then escaped prison because he wanted to see the barmaid (according to him anyway). In the midst of this story, a small balding guy delivers some wood to the fire to save us from the rest of the story. The barmaid, who is dating a murderer, says that the balding guy gives her the creeps, making me doubt her judgement.

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blogdiva

❝ With costumes by Herschel McCoy, hairstyles by Sydney Guilaroff, jewellery by Joseff of Hollywood, and two pet cheetahs on golden leashes she was the most fabulous-looking character on the screen. Her performance as Poppaea has drawn considerable praise over the years. ❞

it’s so rare to see this kind of enthusiasm on a wikipedia page. lovit!

@Lazarou @Terencio

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allanb

And, thankfully the movie slowly fucked-off into its welcome end and ...

Nope, still going

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Having kidnapped its payload of (1) Earth Boy, the flying saucer starts glowing and spinning and takes off in a cloud of steam, awkwardly floating into the sky.

Hot Take: if you're going to kidnap some sex slaves to repopulate your planet, you might want a few more seats on your flying saucer.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

After our heartfelt smooching scene, the professor guy says that he wants to go with the because he's really a horny sub after all; no one believes him so they boys pretend to play cards for the honor of being kidnapped. Later, the Martian Dom lady comes and takes the convict guy, who before was talking to his barmaid girlfriend how big space is.

My guess is that he will kamikaze himself somehow to save the sad inn (and London).