#Monsterdon Dr. Tok met his match in Dr. Tik

TELL THEM TO GET OFF THE MOO!N
MOON'S HAUNTED!
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Goofy Brit librarian in bad toupee will be the best character in this movie

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[heart attacks] [dies]

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Oh damn, where do I go to get THIS nursing home room? This is awesome. #Monsterdon

@diazona @Lazarou Was it in the H. G. Wells story? #monsterdon

Can't you see this is the land of eccentrics?

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Weird thing happens on the moon -> police sirens

Yeah that makes sense

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That one dusty book is better than Google. Like flip to one page and you have definitive information about everyone who lived in that town in 1899.
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that poster

"Where NOT to park or wait"

i want it

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@Lazarou Or just the invention of the USB noise

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Apparently 1899-vintage Union Jacks, paper and ink are immune to the unfiltered UV and solar irradiation of the sun.

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@diazona I think it's the copy, unless this 1964 movie anticipated the invention of the USB protocol.... #Monsterdon

"To take the frosting off the UN cake."

Wait, there is cake? Why don't I have a piece? Is it chocolate? With a blue frosting?

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British librarians. All the same, am I right? #Monsterdon

press shows up. *rolls up window* so real. #monsterdon

England! City in the go!

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Love that there is a scanner to send documents back to earth, but you need to run them to Whitehall via taxi.

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English Imperials: the moon is ours!
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"If the British colonized this place, they must have also taken any artifacts of value!" #monsterdon

If this were star trek, this would just be some people inexplicably sans-pressure suit doing day-for-night in the rocks near Hollywood.

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@Lazarou lol

Maybe only in the Internet Archive version? Unless this is what passes for a soundtrack in this movie... who can tell, honestly

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"Hey guys, if I zip back up real quick, do you think I could whizz on this moon rock?"

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Man those 60s shoulder pads were something. What is it, 1985? #monsterdon.

"Touched by the finger of fate".

Ick.

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The Finger Of Fate is what its called when your finger breaks through the toilet paper.

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@diazona you too, huh? #Monsterdon

First human to walk on the moon and they're lowering him down by a coat hanger #Monsterdon

Real non-English languages? You're spoiling us, movie

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"Touched by the finger of fate"

Yeah he's really got both hands in that man's moon now. #Monsterdon

Die Yankee dogs(*rough translation) #monsterdon

The safest place to land that rocket was definitely in a section of the Moon covered in big pointy rocks #Monsterdon

is it just me or is the spaceship making USB connection/disconnection noises

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@overholt Loved that "landing".
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An international effort. Nice. Wish we could focus on this today.

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@floatybirb your threads are my favorites 💚 #Monsterdon

Correction, he's apparently Czech, which is why he's named, uh, Nevsky. #Monsterdon

First Trapeze Artists in the Moon #Monsterdon

@ottaross You could try the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/first-men-in-the-moon_202501 or https://miru.miyaku.media/ which is streaming it

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"Decontaminate."

I took a shower, sir. #Monsterdon

Is it an escape hatch or an egress hatch or an emergency hatch? There appears to be disagreement.

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is the Russian guy actually speaking Russian!? this movie is already a 10 out of 10 for me, the rest of it could be purest rubbish. #monsterdon

I'm actually very confused, this looks like an actual movie about the moon, did I do a #WrongFrogs

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"...let's have a look at the environment telemetry"
"Don't threaten me with a good time!"

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So far, I gotta say, these are pretty amazing special effects.

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Why doesn’t the United Nations go to the moon anymore? 🤔

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The obvious water they were using for the landing effect was fun too

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amazing moon landing, i am already into this movie so much. #monsterdon

this is just like kerbal space program

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Nice model work. Is that allowed?
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Music is ecellent. I think I'm being set up for disappointment #monsterdon

Are they licensed to dump their trash like that? #monsterdon

Allow me to join in everyone's amazement at these credits. Gonna have to remember those for the next Mascot Bowl. #Monsterdon

How very nice, they thanked NASA in the credits, I wish we still had a NASA in 2025

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NASA helped? #monsterdon

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I suspect Wells knew exactly what he meant when he titled his work "in" instead of "on." Get past the preposition and enjoy the movie.

Awesome how NASA was in on this #monsterdon

"the miracle of the screen" #monsterdon

"the miracle of the screen"

not bothering with modesty, are we

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#Monsterdon Orchestra is wild and feral! They will not be tamed!

Ooh very 60s credit design

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amazing credits tho. #monsterdon

HAVE A SCHMEER WITH SCHNEER #Monsterdon

Let's gooooooo!

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Bang! Zoom! Right in the Moon. We got movie sign! #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

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"War of the Worlds" was published five years before "First Men in the Moon."

Just noting that.

@ramsey @Louisa Wells had Greys in War of the Worlds! They were snacks for Martians.

"Their undeniable preference for men as their source of nourishment is partly explained by the nature of the remains of the victims they had brought with them as provisions from Mars. These creatures, to judge from the shrivelled remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious skeletons (almost like those of the silicious sponges) and feeble musculature, standing about six feet high and having round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets. Two or three of these seem to have been brought in each cylinder, and all were killed before earth was reached. It was just as well for them, for the mere attempt to stand upright upon our planet would have broken every bone in their bodies."

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36/pg36.txt

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@moira @Taweret There's a stop-motion Selenite look-alike in Flesh Gordon as well.

A lotta folks involved in later movies saw and remembered this one.

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@miru There it is, in the commentary by Harryhausen, Cook, and Dalton, one of them referred directly to the "genocide" in the movie. #FirstMenInTheMoon #Monsterdon

@combatwombat hahaha nice one

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@diazona 😂

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They found Mothra's baby pictures - yay!

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@hollie tyty

Halfway through it was, like, the inverse of this

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Thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's stop-motion taste of the 60s. Cavorite, exploding greenhouses, attack geese, a con man and the woman he abuses, a mad-but-not-violent scientist, Se;lenites and Mooncows.

And the space faring Cavorite-adorned proto-steampunk dodecahedron. (I know it's not a dodecahedron, I just like saying that)

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@forestine @ohiofi I guess that's why she didn't get to do anything #monsterdon

Explosive decompression life hack: shoot a shotgun at the opened hatch in order to counter the effects 👍

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@diazona I would take her invasion any day over the moon creatures.

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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

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Original book is over at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52501 for those interested

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And so our movie ends as all stories do where two men land on a planet full of bug people.
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@diazona It's cool. I had, like, 5 bingoes last week.

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@strangefour Technically, yes. And then, they swam to shore.

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@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

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@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.

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@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.

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@rdm @Taweret Ah okay that sounds about right

I do have to question how low your standards for "palate cleanser" have fallen 😂 (j/k)

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@diazona Wow, well done

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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 😬

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It wound up being a good week for bingo once they actually made it to the moon

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Well, it's a good thing the Earth's moon doesn't have gravity to repel against. 🌊

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@ramsey good point well made

every (individually) named character, then.

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Keeping score ... no coffee (though morning brandies were common), and no smoking (that I noticed).

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@PastaThief "The trial never ends, Jean-Luc!" #Monsterdon

@moira I didn't hate the moon creatures.

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Lovely to be able to join in #Monsterdon again. Have a good night, lovelies 🌚 ✨

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.

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@_L1vY_ When he's on the surface it's the first one, when he's down in the cave it's the second #monsterdon