"...sleep? I don't even have my Lorazepam."

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It's a total eclipse of the heeeeeeeeeeeart~~
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He didn't seem too worried about Arnold

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"I'm so worried about Arnold."

Yeah, at this rate I'll never be implicated in a real estate scheme again! #Monsterdon

I'm not worried about Arnold
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So, we have at least two kinds of Selenites - ones with human-like arms, covered in minky, and ones with more spindly arms, covered in chitin.

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Ah yes, moon people sleep during lunar eclipses just like earth people sleep during solar eclipses. This is science.

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This movie needs a Bone Tomahawk scene

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He brought his almanac

So.... the solar powered space bugs turn off at night? #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

From astronauts just _happening_ to land in the _exact same place_ to arriving just before an eclipse there is quite a lot of extreme luck in this flick. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

Okay so the giant worm only looked like a caterpillar. Look at the bones, man!

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You have got to keep a pocket almanac in your wool suit, OBVIOUSLY

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@hollie oooh that comes dangerously close to a plot

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Mmm, London Fog. I do like that drink #Monsterdon

Right, an eclipse. Will last a long time! At least.... 30 minutes!

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...wut

(this time it's about the aliens spontaneously forming cocoons)

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#Monsterdon oh no! the sun is blocked from going into this narrow shaft by the earth

unlike 50% of the time when it's blocked by nighttime and the rest of the time when it's blocked by the rest of the narrow shaft itself

@CactuarJoe I mean he's a guy who uses "Imperial!" as a general positive exclamation so...

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I think I am behind but the shot of the diamond shaped door with the giant columns of multicolored liquid was really beautiful.

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great. invented everything but batteries.

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#Monsterdon can someone build me a "fuck it, I want to take this decade off" moon machine?

Head, thorax, abdomen... abdomen. (to the tune of head shoulders knees and toes) #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

Do you want crystals with that?

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Of course they needed a man in order to communicate 🙄 #Monsterdon #firstmeninthemoon

Don't worry, STRAIGHT WHITE MALE IMPERIALISM WILL SAVE THE DAY #Monsterdon

I sense upcoming swashbuckling

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Why are we mummifying the bugs? Is this to set up Quatermass and the Pit?
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I'm not following too closely but I'm getting a very #HGWells Time Machine but to the moon instead of time travel

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#Monsterdon Should our feckless heroes trust the aliens who sound awfully similar to Daleks? We may have a use for Chekov's elephant gun, and it's not shooting rabbits.

Some Kurosawa level activity in the background there.
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he wants to lick it

lick the rock candy

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Wait so maybe they DID cocoon the humans and maybe they're STILL THERE IN 1964!!

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He goes straight into the enclosure to get locked in with her, instead of letting her out. 😑

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meanwhile, this jackass

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"Entirely reasonable I suppose"

So you're a Tory, then, Prof? :/ #Monsterdon

Pretty sure that the selenites are Jawa without their cloaks. #Monsterdon

Look at her OpSec sensiblities, well done. Handing them the anti-grav tech w/0 question...
c'mon

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woo. an actual Space:1999 sound effect.

Inert gas is part of your element mix to make a composite. Really. Tell me more Mr. Scientist.

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The moon has its own Westworld robot warehouse

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Omg, this X-ray effect, what the hell 🤯

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Selenites almost reverse engineered Cavorite from samples on the skin of the ship.

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I love these aliens so much

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just eat his brain, moon guys. #monsterdon

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Um, they don't need to know what it's called

We should have more zigzag doors on Earth

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Rookie mistake to forget to go to the Moon and forget to bring the title document too #monsterdon

I really like the stop motion effects in this movie #Monsterdon

Seems like Selenites have some legit soda flavors. #monsterdon

@Violinknitter I have to assume some variant of uniting against a (perceived) common enemy

But yeah this is weird

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The Selenites are taking it apart because while you all were taking the tour, deadbeat over there sold the space ship to the Selenites. #monsterdon

They're tazing the harmless vegetarian!! Staaahp!

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parts of this film are mind blowing

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How I feel at a broken drive-thru #monsterdon

why would we go home? this is great

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fries are done!

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"You've no right to do this. It doesn't belong to you," said the Englishman.

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Ah, I see they have a film library in Liquid Kingavision.

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Planet of the Jawas!

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solar FTMFW!
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She’s giving their LLMs a bunch of data #Monsterdon

it wasn't a rock

it was a rock

CANDY

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#monsterdon And this is where they make their Mountain Dew...

They're generating their power by shining sunlight on one of my Christmas ornaments. #Monsterdon

see, the moon guys are using solar power, they're better than you two bumbling fools. #monsterdon

Perpetual motion? That's just spiky vaseline #monsterdon

Okay the glowing starry crystal thing is cool

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wait holy shit it actually is a sphere
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I want one of those big juicy crystals

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Selenites have tools that fir Imperial nuts and bolts!

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They're getting their power from kanpeito!

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Perpetual motion is a lot easier with an outside energy source, yes

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Observes thing for 2 seconds:

🦋 is this perpetual motion?

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That's cool go roundy thing!

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@neia ooze, the great and powerful

so this is where you got off to in your hot air balloon

i should've known, you old fraud

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These mushrooms!! And the caterpillar! "A harmless vegetarian."

And more of these decorative, totally natural stalagmite crystals.

This is a pretty angry vegetarian.

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Of course it's a caterpillar skeleton. This *is* a Harryhausen flick.

Yes the logical second thing to teach an alien who has no concept of human linguistic structure is "hundreds of thousands of miles away" 🤦

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This is a cool movie but nobody but us ever got this far :)

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Dr. Caldor, how do you know that wasn’t their carbon dioxide scrubbers?

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The secret Moon-tain Dew production facilities...

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Their bong technology is SUPER advanced. #monsterdon

mmmm fancy cheese core
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The sets have been absolutely capital the entire time

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@bunnyhero This is the kind of bullshit you usually only see in Halloween decor.

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sure

obviously

...

why

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See, you know it's science if you have colourful liquids bubbling. But these aliens have more ADVANCED science because their containers are so much bigger than ours.
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Why Kate is suddenly all cozy with Caractacus is more than I can understand. He’s been legitimately awful to her until just five seconds ago #Monsterdon

The moon caterpillar is a nice touch. I didn't see that coming. #Monsterdon #firstmeninthemoon

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net or possibly the Great and Powerful Ooze?

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I'm sure the big caterpillar only eats people who eat sardines.

#monsterdon Exoskeleton AND endoskeleton?

Wow, Moon life is advanced!

Please let there be moomaids in the moon aquarium

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I can't wait to see the remake of this film with The Rock

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It's a caterpillar skeleton!

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they've been granted an audience with the great and powerful oz!

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More fizzy lifting drink. A whole cave of it. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon