I feel like a flying saucer trying to run you off the road before your big satellite launch should maybe be taken as a sign to reevaluate what youβre doing. #Monsterdon
Quite a collection of pipes you got there mister
yes.. there's nothing explosive in... the rockets #monsterdon
They just put eleven satellites in orbit and didn't worry when they lost contact with ten of them? Be less chill!
#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers #Monsterdon
"GAMA RAY COUNTER" #monsterdon
Oh hi daddy guess what we got married oh hold on gotta launch a rocket now ket's do dinner 'K bye! #Monsterdon
lol, all that equipment and people in white coats is to help your man maintain his erection during his honeymoon #monsterdon
Woo! Surprise marriage for the bride's father!
did she just call her dad 'darling?'
We can't possibly abort- but what's new with you?
#monsterdon
"It's your Dad! Oh hey General, I was just macking all over your daughter at work" #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers
the false color is making all their skin the same color as the uniforms and that sort of rocks for the subplot that the aliens have already invaded and are in charge of the military #monsterdon
well they're in the bunker, but where's buckaroo banzai?!
"It was the Alien's fault that I couldn't satisfy my wife, yes....." #monsterdon
You forgot to turn it off! You wasted ALL THAT TAPE!
THE TAPE CAN RECORD SOUNDS????
#monsterdon
"MY THIRD GRADE TEACHER MISS HICKEY"??? #monsterdon
βHey there! Just dropping in for a second. As we saucers do.β #monsterdon
those meteors looked like rocks with @Taweret@octodon.social's buttfrog
Do you hear something?
Oh my god that flying saucer is trying to pass us and it didn't even signal!!
love the slide whistle sound as the saucer speeds off #monsterdon
Hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface... So, literally low Earth orbit
I have to remind myself that was a bigger deal in the 60's
They seem awful calm with a giant flying saucer right in front of them.
shoutout to stolen nazi rocket!
#monsterdon
THAT REAR PROJECTION IS AFTER US!
#monsterdon
Typical. Didn't even signal.
Wait wait so this guy dictating his report is basically a whole extra round of narration DAMMIT MOVIE JUST SHOW US--
OH WAIT, there's the flying saucer, never mind! Carry on!
We're currently watching Masters Of Sex, and I have unrealistic expectations of where this newlywed plotline is going #monsterdon
"...once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down, says Werner Van Braun" --Tom Lehrer
:blobsweats:
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Wait, did the military just decide to shoot at any unidentified flying object? That sounds like a very bad idea.
Aside from shooting down the nice aliens who just wanted to say "hi" and bring you space brownies and the cure for cancer, you're probably going to end up pumping lots of bullets into clouds, weather balloons, optical distortions, and possibly innocent ducks.
β¦is he going to fuck the rocket #monsterdon
Yayy for Ray! #monsterdon
"February 18, Diane. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. Whoops, UFO." #Monsterdon
oh well if they're married, that's ok!
#Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers
Fred Sears directed this after his messy professional (and personal?) breakup from Roebuck.
what's this FONT i want to make it my DEFAULT FONT for everything #monsterdon
You can't join Hemispheric Defense Command unless you're a hemisphere. There are only four officers. #monsterdon
Been a while since a spooky font scroll!
Ooo, drippy monster font! Nice! #Monsterdon
Hemispheric Defense Command? Why are you just defending the one, HMMMMM? #monsterdon
Iβm not sure anything especially sensitive is being discussed in an office with that many windows. #Monsterdon
Probing AND digesting? usually you gotta pay extra for that
#monsterdon
Launching my #monsterdon thread for #earthvstheflyingsaucers
I'm not sure who I'm going to root for yet.
"Since biblical times"
oh boy here we go #Monsterdon
Ah, always love a biblical overtones opening narration. #monsterdon
Actual Earth vs flying saucers requires a committee
Wondering whose side I should be on this time #monsterdon
@SnoopJ Ooh! Ooh! Also, "birds that are not birds"! #monsterdon
@sean Uncles. Duh. It's what we do. #monsterdon
@jonny Oh! Interesting, so that was a workaround. I guess IA streaming player is one thing my MX Linux laptop handles better than my Windows laptop, compared to, say, Discord vid chats that are always a pain to get working here. #Monsterdon
@Configures yes! this was that version - peertube has a way of importing videos using youtube-dl directly in the client, so i just mirror the archive.org version each week. the archive.org streaming player doesn't work for a lot of people (me included, i always have to keep refreshing every few minutes) so this was just a way to make ad-free versions available to ppl who couldn't download the movie for whatever reason (and peertube can be accessed on some smart tvs which some ppl use, although i don't know anything about that bc i have never used one) #monsterdon
@lysdexic @Taweret She didn't even need a cig to steady her nerves afterwards #monsterdon
Great movie choice! Goodnight all. #Monsterdon
Big thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's #Monsterdon! Another classic flick,
Not real tough judging the film for the Bechdel test this time around #monsterdon
i dug out my copy of 'the art of ray harryhausen' book to see what he said about this movie. apparently the aliens were originally going to be seen without their suits inside the saucers, all stop-motion animated, but they ran out of time and budget #monsterdon
The guy who wrote this IMDb review of the movie believes the filmmakers named the lead character after him after picking his name from the NICAP membership list: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0057608/
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon ! Good fun
Sorry/you're welcome to the local, reminder to mute #monsterdon if you don't want to see my gibberish on occasional sundays
@Taweret Thank you for hosting #monsterdon, and thanks to all the little monsters like me!
The #SupremeCourt after the aliens crashed into it. #monsterdon
@aburka @monsterdon I am actually not really sure how peertube federation works. basically the way it looks to me is that there is channel "monsterdon" on my peertube instance https://tube.me.jon-e.net/c/monsterdon/
and for some reason I had to make another "user" account @monsterdonne , which implies that other accounts could upload to this channel, which would be cool and i would be totally into that if anyone else wanted to link up peertube instances to upload different copies of movies or whatever #monsterdon
Good times with #Monsterdon tonight!
@RobynGoodfellow I forgot which one I saw, so I played it safe #monsterdon
Wait. Is the trick here to just have more than 2 rifles to take down aliens? Call the NRA!
I gotta say, I love all the (unintentional?) Futurama references sprinkled throughout today's #Monsterdon commentary.
@SeanAloysiusOBrien I wonder who got the silver and bronze medals. #Monsterdon
imagine if harryhausen has worked on movies with better scripts tho
@rwhe He's been in SO MANY #monsterdon movies. He was actually an on screen actor in "The Thing".
only the best movies end with fucking off into the sea, i'm so glad this was one of them
And, off into the sea they go, classic Monsterdon ending.
@Taweret Maybe their inheritance is paying for the beach vacation #monsterdon
Thank you @Taweret for hosting a very Presidentβs Day appropriate #Monsterdon .
(Iβm NOT sorry) #monsterdon
So instead of fucking off into the sea weβreβ¦gonna fuck by the sea then? #monsterdon
Ack! The Washington Monument is down! #Monsterdon
That was quite the turnout and lots of fun, and thanks again to @Taweret for hosting!
@brooke Just heading straight for them, like kaiju intuition. #Monsterdon
"Haha finally we can enjoy our beach honeymoon after a bunch of the world was destroyed and also my dad was turned into a living husk and then dropped at terminal velocity! It's so nice and sunny today!!"
@Taweret Aw, that's nice, Mrs. Marvin isn't even that unhappy her dad died after being thrown out of an alien craft by the end #monsterdon
Russ, man, shave that shit. #Monsterdon
"Do you think they'll come back?"
No. Because they said they were the last of their kind. The final survivors of a dying race. #monsterdon
Thanks, all- that was fun!
#monsterdon
THAT'S the ending? #monsterdon
So ends another #Monsterdon: as always, big thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to all our lurkers and posters. And remember #Monsterdoners: Shakespeare wouldn't like it!
Good news! Dr Marvin's rocket programme shall continue! Also the flying saucers were defeated. #monsterdon
Not any particular medal, just "A gold medal". Like at the Olympics.
How do they get from Malibu to DC and back to Malibu so fastβ¦seeing that the shot down all the saucers?
Sexy scientist talk. #Monsterdon
Top Ten Beaches to Bury Your New Wife's Feet After Foiling a UFO attack on The White House But Not Really Addressing the Larger Threat #monsterdon
As expected, the best part of the whole film was the stop motion UFOs. I can see why 1950s kids had a bunch of those hanging from the ceiling. I kind of want a couple myself. #Monsterdon
A++ Harryhausen #monsterdon
Is that god on the sky PA? #Monsterdon
Well at least the one human woman capable of speech survived the onslaught #monsterdon