@Zerofactorial @ohiofi apparently they were made to add Kate by Columbia Pictures so that women could relate to the film, so def the movie's fault #Monsterdon
π¦#MONSTERDON Goodbye!
Thank you @Taweret for hosting this laudable lunacy!
and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! I loved the moon stamp! And the prescient 'aliens speak english'.
And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: We survived the adventure despite the weird science. See reply for caterpillar explanation β¬οΈ
May we all remember...
Orb-centric travel is the best kind of travel.
@diazona I would take her invasion any day over the moon creatures.
I put up my review on #letterboxd and gave the film three and a half stars mostly for the effects and sets. The over the top score worked for me too especially the tuba parts https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/first-men-in-the-moon/ #monsterdon
s'funny I always feel like I've got less to say after an actually pretty good movie
anyway good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting
Original book is over at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52501 for those interested
And so our movie ends as all stories do where two men land on a planet full of bug people.
#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon
@diazona It's cool. I had, like, 5 bingoes last week.
@strangefour Technically, yes. And then, they swam to shore.
@ramsey aw that's unfortunate! Hopefully next week....
I will say, I felt like there were more squares than usual that I wasn't quite 100% sure about, or might have been mistaken about, so I could be wrong on a few of these
@Louisa I was wondering this, too. It looked very much like a Grey, which Wells wouldn't have had any knowledge of, so I suppose that was artistic license of the film producers/director.
@diazona I missed having a lot of the squares you have, or they weren't arranged well, when I did have them, so I didn't get a bingo this week.
@SordidAmok I would have liked it if it worked as satire & I appreciated the idea but it was kind of like three or four different movie ideas mushed together.
@diazona Wow, well done
Why was that one Selenite in a crystal? Or was that crystal a screen to project them from somewhere else? And were they even a Selenite at all? They looked more like a Grey
I know HG Wells loved scifi civilizations where mindless creatures answer to superior creatures, so I wonder π¬
It wound up being a good week for bingo once they actually made it to the moon
Well, it's a good thing the Earth's moon doesn't have gravity to repel against. π
Cool movie about Moon-thra and some space ants, but these two annoying guys kept getting in the way
That was kind of classic though. Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! See you next time...
#Monsterdon
"Violent offworlders land on peaceful moon, slaughter their way around the hive before infecting everyone with STDs and destroying their civilisation"
Humanity truly is the Galaxy's greatest monster.
@ramsey good point well made
every (individually) named character, then.
Keeping score ... no coffee (though morning brandies were common), and no smoking (that I noticed).
Thank you @Taweret and the #Monsterdon crew!
It has been decades since I saw this one, and it was a very fun session. Some great riffing.
I propose Mouse on the Moon as a palate cleanser for next week!
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
@PastaThief "The trial never ends, Jean-Luc!" #Monsterdon
@moira I didn't hate the moon creatures.
Lovely to be able to join in #Monsterdon again. Have a good night, lovelies π β¨
Not that he spread his illness. He escaped the prison that the Selenites put him in and just started murdering them. Found he was rather good at it. Just had the knack, you see.
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
@_L1vY_ When he's on the surface it's the first one, when he's down in the cave it's the second #monsterdon
Well, that was depressing.
@miru I like the geopolitical commentary by Ray Harryhausen, FX artist Randy Cook, and film historian Tony Dalton in your encore presentation of #FirstMenInTheMoon #Monsterdon Sweet how Harryhausen says he'd wanted to do an H.G. Wells movie for years.
@Louisa i do feel like he should have thought of that before they shoved a bunch of them off a cliff at the beginning. bad first impression #Monsterdon
CAV - or, or CAVE - or?
That eh-hole carried covid and killed everyone on the moon! #monsterdon
First men in the moon (1964)
Split review:
All the harryhausen parts (2% of movie): 5/5
The entire rest of it: 0/5
Weighted score: 0.1/5
@carrideen I think you are probably the only one who knows what I am talking about & also you can definitely ignore my annoying flood of #Monsterdon posts!
yeah, everybody is everybody else's biohazard.
PZMyers did a post about this.
So did I (and I link to his)
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/65272.html
So, was the Moon a lost colony, or is there a pissed-off interstellar insect-kobold empire out there waiting for us ...
The moral of the story is that if we earthlings don't learn from previous gilded ages we're gonna keep having them until we finally do #monsterdon
*civilization destroyed by a virus*
"Well, he did have a nasty cold haha"
#Monsterdon
Ah, I was wondering about the propulsion and steering. Turns out it was "one way or another". Very specific.
@CardboardRobot The Ferengi cut undoubtedly picks up that loose end, it'd have to.
@moira I was so hoping
Dumb ol Cavor, trying to befriend and exchange knowledge with others instead of shooting them with a gun! Well he sure learned his lesson
@CardboardRobot <Ferengi>
@moira
So that's where CoVID came from!
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
@paco Um... I'd love a blend of Launchpad Lemon and Blastin Blueberry! #monsterdon
Nylon! #Monsterdon
@hollie π π€¦
one of the things I've spent a bunch of time thinking about is fundamental incompatibility between biosystems
so arguably the realistic version of this involves the two humans bringing back Some Damn Thing that destroys Earth's biosphere too
Jeez, what a downer ending #Monsterdon
I had a feeling Cavor was going to stay!
Thanks @Taweret very enjoyable
@kshernandez Their advanced moon science has invented Blastin' Blueberry, Wacky Watermelon, Launchpad Lemon, and Spaceberry flavours! Try them all with our First Men in the Moonβ’ collectable mug!
#monsterdon
@CardboardRobot Well you gotta account for the completely warped definition of "terrible" in the context of #Monsterdon
I hope that old fuck has the WORST care nurse. Fuck that guy. It is true tho, humans are plague rats.
Night all.
That's IT? We introduced microorganisms to moon people 60 years ago, now they're gone, BUMMER DELUXE, the end?
Are we sure this entire movie wasn't a college student project between a drama major and an anthropology major?
i would love to stay for the encore with commentary but there's no way I'll stay awake long enough!
thanks @ryan for the stream, @joewynne for the trivia, @Cherizilla for the bingo, all of you for the running commentary, and as ever @Taweret for hosting!
#monsterdon Haha! This was a great movie.
I don't know how I've never seen it before.
They stole the War of the Worlds ending, but that's fine, that's also Wells.
Well, sometimes we watch something really interesting, sometimes we watch "first men in the moon"
Well, thanks everyone, your #monsterdon posts make it all worth it!
good night everyone.
Jump back to the present, where we find all the Selenites have died. (cough, cough)
Just than one city on the Moon, apparently. Since they had to manufacture oxygen, one might suppose that they didn't start out there - a colony hive, sent out from the homeworld?
That ended quick. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon Dang. And the Martians didn't learn about epidemiology from the Selenites.
Good night, and thanks @Taweret for a film on par with some fine Godzilla movies.
fingers crossed more rich twits will die in privately funded space exploration projects, happy #monsterdon everyone
I think H.G. Wells stole the whole "what is war" bit from Gulliver's Travels.
H. G. Wells really had a thing about the human germs killing things.
I probably saw a lot of movies like this on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid. It made me misanthropic
well that was a chilling fucking ending
They never had to go to the facilities? #monsterdon
Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon !
This is how a virus spreads through your bloodstream
#Monsterdon
who called it for Chekov's Decontamination Sequence? #Monsterdon
Nice ending: "He had such a terrible cold"
Well my pizza was great so #monsterdon #thefirstmeninthemoon
This had to be an amazing book.
@goinfawr Are you open to stopping by the moon on the way
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"He did have such a terrible cold" is a pretty good closing line I guess
So War of the Worlds in reverse.
Poor Selenites.
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
So War of the Worlds but in the moon?
#monsterdon
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *holds down h key, fucks off into the sea*
βSome simple germ brought from earth. A flaming exploding germ, yesβ #monsterdon
@trixter imperialism 101 π
#monsterdon
Human wrecking balls
AND SO WE DIDN'T NEED TO LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT IMPERIALISM #Monsterdon
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they flew in a film crew on the first moon mission?
Massive containers of punch! #monsterdon They are ready to party!!
It's a TRAP!
Yeah, those Ken dolls better get out of there fast. #Monsterdon
"They're being hauled up on nylon ropes!"
I'm so glad they were nylon. If they were hemp, I would have been worried.
Kindly leave the room?
I've always wanted to see Zanzabar, anyone have any tips?
Oh geez, don't tell this creature all our foibles. It's going to decide we should be exterminated. And it may not be wrong. π€
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Um, Mr Bedford is the biggest jerk on earth tho
wait so how did he not get ripped to shreds from all the fraud and stuff lmao
@hollie ikr, there's so much potential there
I'll try the one over your porthole, Kate
Cavor telling the Selenites "sorry about my friends, they're not usually like this, I think they're under a lot of pressure at work"
Wait. All the coughing. Oh for fucks sake I see the ending coming now.
#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon
@diazona The Nyah memes are so great! :D
It'd be fun if the ship bounces around the cave every time they open or close the blinds