wait these 2 were married this entire time?
don't get me wrong
i got romance vibes from the alcohol conversation
but married? huh?
#Monsterdon #DevilGirlFromMars
I think you could make a pretty good supercut of just them walking back and forth in the forest. What do people do for video editing on Linux? #monsterdon
So, I've finished #Monsterdon, despite the weird audio/video mismatch I had (don't know how that happened).
This movie had quite good FX/models, sound effects, music, and even the costumes.
But yet again we see how a bad script can just ruin it all. This was the most boring movie. Even some clever dialog writing could've made it better. But this was just dull.
We should cut a music video out of it -- it'd be more watchable. "Planet Claire" maybe..?
@diazona @SordidAmok Honestly it's sunscreen! It's just so ubiquitous now and it wasn't at all then, and sun is the biggest driver of aging skin (two other big drivers common in the 50's were alcohol and smoking).
@YsengrinWolf @Taweret@octodon.social "Silence! Puny Earthmen!"
Love it!
Next week let’s watch a movie that doesn’t need a safe word.
Big thanks to @Taweret for tonight's film; it was certainly entertaining! Once Devil Girl loosened up, you could tell she was having a ball playing the campy space villain.
@sean more women, more mars! #monsterdon
Thanks @Taweret@octodon.social for herding the giant robots every week for #Monsterdon 🤖 and for tonight's ultra-scornful #DevilGirlFromMars https://mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/113779250725663912
I look forward to the sequel, Devil Girl From Mars 2: Electric Boogaloo!
honestly you actually could stage this thing
there's a better play than this to be made about a bunch of characters forced into a bizarre situation like this
(see also five characters in search of an exit, which I was on crew for _as a stage play_, a one-act. it worked great.)
Good #Monsterdon start to the New Year. Thanks, @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, and everyone for the laughs!
@paco Plot? What plot?
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That had to be one of the most boring sci-fi thrillers I have seen
Thanks to @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting this oddity!
Snark aside, the ending wasn't *that* bad. Just how we got there.
Lmao a happy light comedy ending after Doris's boyfriend fucking dies! Great work everyone
Yeah, Naia was literally the only compelling character in that entire cast, and they killed her off. Bleh. #Monsterdon
Oh no they died on their way back to their home planet (Mars)
The first #Monsterdon of 2025 is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight we watched #DevilGirlFromMars, from 1954, where a leather-clad alien, armed with a ray gun and a robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock. This attempt at interplanetary Tinder provided all manner of fun, including:
Fallen meteors!Smokey spaceship!Invisible Wall!Dominatrix space alien lady!Johnny Robot! Not to be confused with Johnny Cab!Martian Blur-O-Vision!
I wonder if guys in the 60's reminisced about adolescent fantasies involving Devil Girl the same way guys in the 80's did about Princess Leia's bikini
Nice effect! #devilgirlfrommars #monsterdon
That was a far, far better explosion that this movie had any right to contain
AND THE BEYBLADES ARE AWAY WHO WILL IN THIS MATCH?!
Oh, there's a fight scene for no reason.
Dear movie: these characters are not interesting enough for us to give a flying Raisinette about all this self-introspection-in-the-face-of-immenent-death
We. Don’t. Care.
I do like the UFO's stubby little legs. Cute. #Monsterdon
Wish they'd killed the Journalist instead of the Working Class Dude but it's kinda accurate how things are in Britain, seeing as everyone in this film is White.
What the hell were they doing in the below stairs storage area?
Gotta warm up the belt sander before liftoff. #Monsterdon
People have to have a reason to kill someone? Did you see her no-scope Torgo?!?! #monsterdon
All these tepid romance scenes could have been better spent showing the leather-clad Martian babe punching the asshole reporter in the dick. #Monsterdon
urrrghhhh, 'Terran drama'
I grow weary of this world and the slightly aggressive way they kiss...
when you get into the spaceship, you have to _punch the nuclear reactor_. do you understand? _punch_ the _reactor_.
All these men want to go be the Martian lady's sex slave so bad. 😂
Honestly, all the human characters could die and I would not give a fuck, whatever this talk of logic and 'bargains'
“Molecules can reproduce themselves” #Monsterdon
I have a theory about why Ellen has had so much trouble with men.
#Monsterdon
Octavia butler was astounded by this? like it's bad and all but' on the monsterdon scale it's pretty mid
Nobody kisses like that anymore. #Monsterdon
@Violinknitter yoink #monsterdon
There is absolutely no way the Professor knows any part of London besides his office and the closest pub #Monsterdon
This would be so great adapted for the stage with some more comedy added lmao #Monsterdon #devilgirlfrommars
"When you get to London, you will need a guide."
Dude knows that tourists will never figure out how to use the Tube or the loos.
@Ranjit I just do not understand why the Terrans are resisting?! #monsterdon
So the #DevilGirlFromMars decides its time to kidnap the professor; the fancy lady objects that she is in love with the professor. He goes with her, then tries to double cross her by stealing the fork of robot control, but then she uses her otherwise useless hypnosis power to steal it back from her.
Mad at this rebellion, she announces that she will blow up the inn and kill everyone in it as soon as her spaceship is repaired. #monsterdon
if Devil Lady is smart, she'll take the bar lady. she has terrible taste in men and needs to get the hell out of this podunk town anyway #monsterdon
I'm sorry, all of this for... one man?
I feel like this would be better if it were some sort of demon hassling a medieval village
i, for one, welcome our new devil girl overlords
You can tell by my raised eyebrow that I tell the truth!
#Monsterdon "have you tried punching the reactor? it sounds plausible in theory"
Failed Dildo-snatch!
#monsterdon
This movie is a self-propagating atomic pile
#monsterdon YOINK
The time has come, the Devil Girl said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes, and ships, and bikini wax,
Of cabbages, and kings
And why she's so smoking hot
And whether pigs have wings
good-bye, Bargain Bin Newsman. #monsterdon
Devil Girl vs. the Wrestling Men
Okay, so in this movie the #DevilGirlFromMars has this hypnosis power that lets her lock up people or mind control them, but it seems extremely finicky and unreliable. Anyway, now she uses it to make the murderer say creepy things and then fistfight... the professor? who I thought was her slave already? I'm not sure why they're doing this? Maybe all will be revealed? #monsterdon
look movie, no one cares about these guys
Kinda proving the Martian Lady's point about the violence inherent in Terran culture....
This fight scene belongs in a better movie. Or at least one where we care about the stakes more
Tommy grew up to be a squadie. He was killed by an IRA bomb in 1971
@paco @srol It's not like they haven't seen the Earth before, it's the blue one close to the Sun.... #monsterdon
Again, Albert is not hypnotized or under any kind of psychic power. He is in full possession of his faculties and voluntarily submitting
Oh no she's an actual groomer. 😬
While we were learning Basic Flying Saucer Science 101, the other pub goers were preparing a trap where they would electrocute the #DevilGirlFromMars on her return. It doesn't work and she just throws the wires down and calls them fools. Then she threatens to kill the child hostage if they keep messing with her, and turns all blurry to demonstrate her power and glory. #monsterdon
This is like Home Alone if Kevin was a bunch of adults and Joe Pesci was a leggy dame who has no time for this trap shit
I hope everyone is having a fun #Monsterdon while I'm at THE PLAZA! Almost time for my super special secret spa treatment - I hear it is to die for!
"Look, she's going all blurry!"
"How much have we been drinking? Was anyone keeping track?"
#Monsterdon this is the second time she's commanded them to "Come!"
:neocat_blush:
wow they still had those stalk phones in the 1950s or are they tryna say Scotland is underdeveloped and technologically backwards?
You fools! You foolish fools!
To put some science sounding words in this film, the #DevilGirlFromMars tells the professor how her spaceship works and what its made out of... I guess its powered by a perpetual motion machine, which the professor says is nonsense, leading the martian lady to scoff at him.
"radio and television being considered impossible 100 years ago" in a 1950s movie is an interesting choice.
(see eg: Maxwell's equations being worked out in 1865, and photography to an extent that made movies conceivable around then)
shit-splaining shop talk about the engines and power systems, very British sci-fi
this is the best dull low-plot, high-exposition #monsterdon movie yet because we can all just stare at Naia
2024 and we still don't have 'organic metal' spaceships, once again the Martian Lady is right!
Puny Earthers!
Right, "organic metal" gives you arbitrarily high heat capacity. And technobabble about nuclear power.
OVER 6,000 SEMANTICS? My god, your debates must be INSANE!
After terrifying the pubgoers with her awkward robot, the #DevilGirlFromMars meets the boy and the murderer... because she's a weirdo she decides to kidnap the child and hypnotize the adult to crawl back into the inn. Beware of martians with candy in their flying saucer, kids, beware.
"Come. I will show you wonders you have never seen before.
"This is my XBox, and this is my Switch, and this is my PS5."
A thing I like about #DevilGirlFromMars is the villain's goofy evil smirk whenever anything mildly threatening happens. #monsterdon
Seriously this movie is way too sexually charged for this kid.
This death ray is tedious #Monsterdon
@allanb Chekhov would be so disappointed...
Did the robot just blow up the barn? RUDE. Robot is a dick.
#Monsterdon
#monsterdon Thank goodness. That tree was hideous.
I want to give this robot a hug, it's adorable. #Monsterdon
what is the sound effect of the robot's face gun? was that like a seal call????? #monsterdon
how cute, her martian wardrobe can walk around!
#monsterdon
