oh hey they're talking about infrastructure week! :D

#monsterdon

I'm making progress on the gobstopper, but it's still not *everlasting*

#Monsterdon

More than anything I'm flabbergasted. I restarted and everything. No dice.

I even took a photo to prove it, but although it's only 1.17MB masto won't let me upload it.

Really been having a repeatedly tech-cursed weekend and I guess we're going out on the same note. Already too cranky to go through a whole palaver to find a workaround.

I'll try again next week. I should have checked Tubi beforehand but it's always been uniform and I didn't think to. Have a great night! 👋

#Monsterdon

When you find out you can film somewhere mildly interesting, well just go on and make a whole movie. Get yourself a Christopher Lee! Get TWO Christopher Lees

#Monsterdon

Okay this is cool. This looks like it might have actually been shot at NASA. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

ooooo footage of a rocket factory!

that camera shot was way out of league for this movie!

#Monsterdon

Ahh, the sweet utopian sounds of a Carter Whitehouse. This movie is teasing us.

#Monsterdon

LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION

Oh, thank god, we've just got an average sized Earth!

#monsterdon

"Large Earth Disruption"

My 22nd Century Metal band from Mars

#Monsterdon

wait, did they fuck, then head over to his work afterwards for some vending machine coffee?

Dude knows how to treat a woman

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Don't know if it's seventies porn, Rockford Files, or interpretive miming.

"The Commute Scene"

breath-taking ...art in cinema...

#Monsterdon

show his whole commute journey, why not?

#Monsterdon

"Just a feeling I have."

A guy from the 70s admitting he has feelings? Not believable. #Monsterdon

has anyone made a compendium of Computers in #Monsterdon Movies?

we used to be a country where people made fonts

#Monsterdon

Irwin Yablans sounds like a Scottish insult

#Monsterdon

Tonight's #monsterdon starts with a diner cook playing pinball obsessively, when his customer a priest, comes to bother him asking him to call the police. Then the phone explodes, killing the cook, and the coffee also explodes. Then the priest wanders outside.

I don't know if it will persist, but so far you have my interest.

#EndOfTheWorld1977

that's what you get for helping a priest

#Monsterdon

"yeah lady, I'm really into you and everything...but could you fuck off for a few days while my dude Ludwig is here?"

#Monsterdon

the way his eyes lit up and became completely disinterested in the topless lady when 'Ludwig' was mentioned...

#Monsterdon

OMG! The earth just blows up? That's it?!?!

#monsterdon

awwww, baby Christopher Lee!

#Monsterdon

@bunnyhero yup! I still have 18 minutes to go. I envy those that had the short version.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

gotta say, this movie ad is giving the whole plot away......

#Monsterdon #Miru

#Monsterdon

Hmm. I'm watching a 108 min version of this movie. Somebody said 87 min? No wonder y'all seem ahead.

Even the credits are blurry >_> #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe

In the Year 2889's gonna take some beating

#Monsterdon

I'm probably missing a major plot point, but I'm not sure how nuns with radios cause earthquakes, volcanoes, broken dams and exploding planets.

#Monsterdon

Not even close!

I'm sure I missed somethings. Did I miss somethings?

#Monsterdon #EndofTheWorld1977

and they fucked off into Emergency Speed, good night!

#Monsterdon

Wait, what?

The earth blowed up? How?

#monsterdon

It’s only a flesh wound. Earth will be fine.

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

#Monsterdon

"Is there AIR?! Do you KNOW?!"

#monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

On your planet you use them to destroy other plants, _apparently_

#monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

lol @ alien head Christopher Lee

#Monsterdon

they're destroying Earth before we had a chance to, the bastards!

#Monsterdon

@nev you're just nerd-sniping into doing what I do with all of these movies, aren't you

#Monsterdon

The globe is pink. Happy pride everyone!
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

lol, he actually killed John!

knew they developed his character for a reason

they give you a surname in these movies and you're dead

#Monsterdon

I like how there's just one guard for the whole giant rocket factory

#Monsterdon

@jivens They’re all married to Jesus, right?

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

"Hello we are evil aliens from space. We cannot go back to our home planet but we possess the power to make coffee pots, phones and cars explode at will. Please join us for coffee and orange juice."

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

play("generic_explosion_01.wav")

#monsterdon

If we can't have fucking off into the sea, at least we can have coffee.
#monsterdon

The lighting budget was two Everready lantern batteries and timmys flashlight bulbs from his science project.
#Monsterdon

YES! Blow up the ugly 70s car! More! MOAR!!
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

"OK, I'll help you"

*Car explodes

FAFO

#Monsterdon

Baby's first synth soundtrack is sometimes interesting. But then it goes back to making digital fart noises.
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

All roads lead to the nunnery

#Monsterdon

So this dude has to help the Sex Tourists get home before the Earth explodes or they kill his wife?

And all in the dark, of course.

#Monsterdon

Prepare Earth for Ludicrous Speed

#Monsterdon

A movie more frightening than Prince of Darkness! (if you fear nuns)
A movie with a more shocking soundtrack than any John Carpenter film! (if your ears are sensitive to repetitive noise)
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

My god, they're turning him into a pyramid! You bastards! #monsterdon

The pacing is a bit slow. Is this movie available in a brochure?

#Monsterdon

i want to like this movie? i mean, what a cool plot point. space convent?? but
#monsterdon

See? the twist is religion is actually aliens all along.

#monsterdon

I appreciate they're getting their money's worth from the location they rented out for this movie but do we have to see......oh wow, the Nuns have technology!

#Monsterdon

yay back to the computers <3

#monsterdon

Gay-dar readings are low… damn

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

@me I think a "power impulse meter" is a tricorder that goes "beep beep beep" at all times.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

He's dowsing for boredom. Oh yeah, found a BIG ol' pocket. #Monsterdon

Holy shit, Christopher Lee is in this

#Monsterdon

oh thank fuck, it's Christopher Lee!

#Monsterdon

ENOUGH OF THE MARITAL BOREDOM

#monsterdon

As a man I always have a good laugh after threatening the lives of my other male friends

It's alright, we talk on the telephone

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon

We wander deeper into the zoo dungeon and then are accosted by a flashlight that makes laser noises and threatened by men with guns who push us against the wall and yell at us for trespassing.

Then we learn that the lead guy is the Commander who Andrew talks to on the phone, so he decides to give them a tour of their secret bunker, where they are spying on the Russian space stations, which were a big thing in the 70s.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

Did you all hear the little Close Encounters theme snippet?

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

Questing through the empty zoo dungeon, Sylvia hears a weird noise and freaks out, grappling a chain link fence until Andrew appears to cast "cure" and heal her "confused" status effect.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

What in the John Carpenter plonking at Aphex Twin is this soundtrack even

#Monsterdon

“Just don’t leave me again”

[He immediately wanders off]

#endoftheworld1977 #monsterdon

I wonder if the pinball machine survived. I'd like to see more pinball

#Monsterdon

booooo fakeout

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe No sound track, no dialog, no plot, and not even anything on the screen for much of the time!

#monsterdon

They're doing some quality real night scenes here. No messing around with filters.

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe FINE IT'S NUNYA BUSINESS ANYWAY

#monsterdon

Convent: The Final Frontier

#monsterdon

I have inherited my Irish Ma's wariness of Nuns...

#Monsterdon

Considering closed captions weren't invented until long after this movie came out, I feel sorry for the poor bastard who had to watch this and actually pay attention in order to write them.
#monsterdon

Well you usually lecture me throughout the day, Andrew

#Monsterdon

sudo stop endofworld.py

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

loving these retro computer screens..

#Monsterdon

It's the End of the World as we know it
and these sound effects are copywrited

#monsterdon

More #StarTrek sound effects.

#Monsterdon

@_L1vY_ Miru stream? (https://miru.miyaku.media)

I was having a bit of poor performance with it but it may work for you

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

@CactuarJoe 1976 NASA would probably let you

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

behold, all the movie budget for NASA on-location footage.

#monsterdon

Interestingly, the laboratory scenes in this movie are filmed in the Santa Susana Lab, California, where there was an early nuclear reactor, and the first ever meltdown of a nuclear reactor core occurred in 1959.

#Monsterdon

Large Earth Disruption is my favorite band

#Monsterdon

"See, the message from space was 'A/S/L', and..."

#Monsterdon

STRAIGHT PEOPLE! OF THE END OF THE WORLD!

#Monsterdon

this movie is as greasy, poor lit and vividly furnished as the 1970s were...

#Monsterdon

Man, remember when movies made smoking look sexy?

#Monsterdon

This is John Overholt, code word “incunable.” #Monsterdon

"640K of RAM? You could go to the Moon and back a dozen times with that!"

#Monsterdon

Back when computers had built-in ashtrays.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

For 1977 this is fairly 1981. #monsterdon

Ooo, look at the chunky computers :D #Monsterdon