Well, that was depressing.

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@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?

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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

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@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!

@moira

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

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So, was the Moon a lost colony, or is there a pissed-off interstellar insect-kobold empire out there waiting for us ...

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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"
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Ah, I was wondering about the propulsion and steering. Turns out it was "one way or another". Very specific.

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@CardboardRobot The Ferengi cut undoubtedly picks up that loose end, it'd have to.

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@moira I was so hoping

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Dumb ol Cavor, trying to befriend and exchange knowledge with others instead of shooting them with a gun! Well he sure learned his lesson

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@CardboardRobot <Ferengi>

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@moira
So that's where CoVID came from!
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@paco Um... I'd love a blend of Launchpad Lemon and Blastin Blueberry! #monsterdon

Nylon! #Monsterdon

@hollie 😂 🤦

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Jeez, what a downer ending #Monsterdon

I had a feeling Cavor was going to stay!

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Thanks @Taweret very enjoyable

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@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 Moon™ collectable mug!
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@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.

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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?

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#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.

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.

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H. G. Wells really had a thing about the human germs killing things.

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well that was a chilling fucking ending

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They never had to go to the facilities? #monsterdon

Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon !

This is how a virus spreads through your bloodstream
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who called it for Chekov's Decontamination Sequence? #Monsterdon

Nice ending: "He had such a terrible cold"

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#FirstMenInTheMoon

well there were a lot of cool effects

ty for joining, everyone!!

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Well my pizza was great so #monsterdon #thefirstmeninthemoon

This had to be an amazing book.

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@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.
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So War of the Worlds but in the moon?
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„Some simple germ brought from earth. A flaming exploding germ, yes“ #monsterdon

@trixter imperialism 101 😔
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Human wrecking balls

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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!

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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.

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Kindly leave the room?

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I've always wanted to see Zanzabar, anyone have any tips?

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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. 🤔

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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

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@hollie ikr, there's so much potential there

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I'll try the one over your porthole, Kate

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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"

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Wait. All the coughing. Oh for fucks sake I see the ending coming now.
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@diazona The Nyah memes are so great! :D

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It'd be fun if the ship bounces around the cave every time they open or close the blinds

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oh yeah, this was in fact a flashback, wasn't it. #monsterdon

Oooh giant tanks of colorful moon liquids! :blobcatscience:

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but how will they get home without CALCULATIONS

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Cavill, I would also prefer eternity on the moon over riding back to earth with those two

And the virus is expelled. #Monsterdon

Worst alien creature noises ever

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@hollie TBH I kind of thought that's what was actually happening before I got distracted by making Nyah memes

#Monsterdon

I refuse to believe that eating this entire box of Junior Mints was a bad idea

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One Brit with a gun is fucking up an entire civilization... This movie is a condemnation of the British. Truly this is a masterpiece.
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Blast off into the depths of Space, never seen from again......

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Yep. That's totally how you use a gun. (I'm a bit behind now, VLC buffered hard)
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I tell ya, they're kobolds!

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Is that a homburg? I'm thinking about getting a new hat. Fedora is out for obvious reasons. I don't think I can pull off a bowler. Homburg is a possibility

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Are the chickens still in the sphere? Or do we get proper moon chickens back in 1964? #monsterdon

you know the controls!*

*advanced calculus

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This needs to be a Busby Berkely with all those stairs and all those creatures waiting in crowds at the verge.

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@CactuarJoe Imperial idea old man. #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

"Mr. Cay-ver"! 😬

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Haha! One day he'll explain.

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@hollie That would be a great twist, it had just never occurred to them before but now that he explains it... 🤔

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Hold the cylinder Cinderellie, get in the module Cinderellie

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they might as well bring home some sleeping selenite chemical engineers, get some good patents out of them when they get home

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they put food coloring in those giant water bubblers didn't they - we had the same colors in our easter egg kit

maybe it's time to bring those Unemployed Reserve Guys to life
?

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Cavor is too British, for his own good.

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And they broke the roof again.

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"Well I was going to refuse to help because you destroyed all hope of communicating with an alien race and fucked First Contact beyond all reason, but since you asked nicely, sure, I'll help." #Monsterdon

I'll bet Jack O'neill would be able to explain earth better than this doc. #monsterdon #stargate

Scientist Meierlink could redeem his entire self by simply leaving The Couple That Scams Together behind to be cocooned by the moon bugs. #monsterdon

kate's one point of affecting the plot so far has been to say "please mr cavill" and him to go "ok" #monsterdon

"Oh, all right. I suppose I'll help you escape, even though you're the absolute worst." —Cavor

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

I really hope Kate married someone else. #monsterdon

Psyche only wishes he had that much psyonic energy

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Arnold and Cavor take turns being the biggest idiot #monsterdon