I wonder if I just turned up to the Vatican and told them I was looking for space signals that came from there they would just let me roam around
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Quick, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!
Whatcha mecallit meter: Boop, boop, boopety boop.
I often bring a random tricorder into a convent. Seems legit.
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Lapels: wide
Bottoms: bell
No, not a transistor....a trans sister.
"So, you're a windmill, then. Any words for our listeners at home?"
Coffee is shown but not commented on (in front of the nuns)
Because we didn't find any clues at the space bunker we're going back to the convent to see if we missed anything. We find a nun in glasses and ask her who is in charge and she answers "father pegado" and takes them through the kitchen to her leader, because he always welcomes strangers.
Investigating the nunnery for science
Robert Picardo is in charge of the convent?? #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977
I'd just like to note: 40 minutes in and barely a drop of Lee. Disappoint.
I literally have NO idea what these two are looking for around the nunnery/zoo
Also, Iβm way less interested in their love life than the movie wants me to be
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70s interior design: I miss it
70s car design: omg fucking god my eyes burn
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Nun:" Ah, you've come back for more of my bush!" #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977
There's a good science/space/mystery movie hiding in here, or would be with better writing.
Ugh, get a room you too.
Oh, you already have one? Ah yes, a quality motel room, well, carry on I guess.
well, at least we're in daylight again, so there's that....
LESS LIGHT, LESS LIGHT
Oh thank god, actual lighting #Monsterdon
We're trying to film The Price is Right in here
well THAT was an escalation out of nowhere
feels like they've accidentally broken into a White Nationalism compound
Let's turn that Foley up just a little more, shall we?
@CactuarJoe is that what the kids call it
I was expecting a quality Wilhelm scream
@R0s3th0rnz We watch movies of questionable quality and livetoot them. This week's is End of the World (1977).
See also #monsterdonalert for voting on which one is which
#monsterdon Would like a word with the "movies are so dark nowadays" crowd
@bstacey At least his terminal seems to be a Singer Model 82, perhaps attached to a Singer System Ten, with some unknown machines in the background (Singer being the sewing machine company, which briefly made computers until 1976). Maybe someone can identify the rest. #monsterdon #retrocomputing #EndOfTheWorld1977
No screams in the movie yet. This seems like a prime opportunity.
Breaking into the zoo at night for science
I knew the 70s were poorly lit but this is taking the piss...what is even happening?!
Its a zoo! A zoo for what! And whats this "to serve man" book?
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a zoo for nuns??
Catherine, the patron saint of nun bush #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977
@xerozohar :O :O :O :D #Monsterdon
Tying our weird plots together, we learned one of the signals was coming from what I guess is Saint Catherine's, which I guess is a hacienda looking convent on top of a mountain.
Sylvia disembarks and greets a gardening nun, who gives her a flower.
@CactuarJoe listen here you little
I'm so glad we are being told about everything that is happening, instead of being shown. Pretty sure that's how the saying goes. #monsterdon
What this movie really needs about now is some real estate negotiations. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld
Is Christopher Lee done? That would be hilarious! Just like Grizzly 2: Revenge!
The end of the world, wholly via ADR
Andrew goes home and the news is talking about President Carter trying to get Congress to buy an aircraft carrier. It seems strange to me that they used a real president for the news.
Sylvia (the wife) says that we're going on a tour and she's annoyed he's obsessed with the space messages instead of about making out.
all these locations which they failed to illuminate properly for film...
oh no, he's discovered the Wub-232!
The Andromeda Stain. #Monsterdon
@RobynGoodfellow it's a crash helmet #Monsterdon
Yeah, explain it all to the security guard, I'm sure he cares.
Space Shuttle cameo.
That was actually a pretty cool shot, but it owes a lot to the fact that for some reason NASA let them film in one of their buildings.
...is that a literal shuttle test article?
Look at that smooth crane shot. #monsterdon
They need to take the mic off whatever that power tool is and put it on the actors. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld
#monsterdon thatβs a mighty nice space shuttle you got there. Would be a shame if the world ended.
On the way to the banquet, the news radio tells us that there's an earthquake in China. Andrew thinks this is related to his space message. Wife seems skeptical. Andrew wants to find where the messages came from.
is that the framework for the Space Shuttle behind that gigantic bouffant?
Sex, computers, and banquets. The life of a true scientist.
President Carter? The solar panels guy?
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After presumably shagging on the carpet, Andrew goes back to work so he can study the space signals. He takes his wife too so she can enjoy the Nasa vending machine snacks. Then the space computer sends the repeat message "Large Earth Disruption" and Andrew is like "woah this is in English and it came from space!", which is a refreshingly logical response for getting space messages in English. Then the wife character convinces him to go to the banquet.
the announcer seems to be gloated at the Chinese dead...
@Lazarou "Large Earth Disruption" is a grave digger's euphemism for burying a fatty.
LARGE EARTH DISTRUPTION is my cover band
LOL, I'm having flashbacks to my Dad's workplace in the 1970's. He worked at the IMF. He used to take me to see the mainframe room.
@CactuarJoe oh gawd you're right
Earth too big
Meanwhile, at Fort Boring.
No radios, cameras, recording devices or firearms? What do you people do for fun?
So far the vintage computers are the best thing about this movie.
That's definitely Star Trek TOS background noise
His computer makes Star Trek noises.
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Because this movie likes to beguile us with random scene changes, when then see some cars driving on the highway, followed by a suburb with backyard pools, and we see Andrew apparently at home in his very carpeted house, meeting a blonde lady who I guess is his wife so they can go to some banquet... maybe a party for computer touchers who decipher outer space messages.
She brings him alcohol and he responds by trying to tempt her into sex instead.
I wonder what Christopher Lee is doing.
"Here you go, dearest, bourbon and vodka, just the way you like it"
A bit early in the evening for that leer, isn't it? #Monsterdon
Dodge the sprinklers terror!
California before water shortages became a thing
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"We paid for this synthesizer score and we're going to play the entire thing in this unnecessarily lengthy establishing shot!"
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"Watch Your Ass, Charlie Brown"
Pools....
@paco Dude's mad that his cat walked across his terminal's keyboard.
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Of these actors in tonight's feature, which won an Academy Award?
(For another movie)
Thank god the aliens use ASCII or this would be hopeless.
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Love that IMDb headshot on the desk
The priest then walks outside and sees another priest in the dark who says "Welcome to St Catherines"... or maybe it was a different Saint, I'm not sure.
@_L1vY_ I had to type'1977' for it to come up. Looks like we're watching the 'remastered' one. 87 mins. #monsterdon
Nice font
Caution. Contents may be hot and explosive.
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Sorry pal, the last guy took our telephones. And our boom mics
Please let this movie not be told in one enormous flashback.
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heh heh heh, the machine said "ball in play"