"Don't throttle the swan, no matter how horrible it is - it's not mine."

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you might laugh at this dude renting a cottage so he can write a play, but let me tell you, I've spent the last week away from home and it's the only time in the last several months I've gotten any writing done #Monsterdon

Lady in an infernal contraption! <3

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Oh shit we've accidentally crossed over into Bedknobs and Broomsticks

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I’m just happy we seem to have a plot, some acting and fitting music ☺️ #monsterdon #laserblasttrauma

Please tell me Dick Van Dyke isn't going to do his bad accent any time soon.

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First Blokes on the moon #Monsterdon

That's a lot of swans for one man to have in his pond. I don't trust him. #Monsterdon #firstmeninthemoon

"We don't let him watch television. It only excites him needlessly."

Same, Matron, same!

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By everyone, I'm leaving you all for this cottage in Dymchurch on the canal

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the bike rage "infernal contraption" we can all identify with #monsterdon

Suddenly this feels like a musical that will cost the studio a fortune and doom the genre along with the roadshow business model

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#Monsterdon this movie is structured like a Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode -- old man tells the story of his youthful adventures to some annoyed younger people who'd rather move on with their days

I don't use the phrase "infernal contraption" enough. #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

Serious Doctor Dolittle movie vibes now.

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There's a moon in this movie, you say?

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@foolishowl When you're at the records office in person, the books are pretty easy to look through.

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@nhgeek ikr

Is it too much to ask for a nice montage

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Oooh! Real posties!
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The land of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

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@bstacey

I wonder if they have remover.

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I was going to be a playwright but all of my money is in boots, too.

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Why is she driving a car down a tow path though....

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Is this old guy about to tell us the story of the time he went to THE MOON to escape debt collectors and also to find a quiet place to write!? Because honestly, relatable.

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Flying Oliver typewriter sighting!

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I’m sorry, did I change the channel to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie? #Monsterdon

I wonder who invented “ripples in the screen equals flashback”. #Monsterdon

I keep expecting someone to start talking about getting a golden ticket

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Hghh. Our movie's prologue is starting its own prologue >_> #Monsterdon

He's gonna throw The Heart of the Titanic into the ocean, right? #monsterdon

That better be a weighted blanket. #monsterdon

Oh come on buddy, skip to chapter 50 on your story. #monsterdon

this guy is giving strong Henry Higgins. #monsterdon

Same framing device as Titanic tbh

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Already missing the moon. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

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swans!

First 14 minutes of the movie is just a framing story. Ok. Cool.

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But it wasn't secluded enough. So I decided I had to go to the moon!

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the makeup on this guy, Whitey really was on the moon #monsterdon

So is the movie now going to take place in the late 1800s? #Monsterdon

Ah, The Limes. Finally a suitable name for my future home!

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#Monsterdon remember when "1899" was a time what you could have a still-living character have lived through?

pepperidge farm remembers

Is he dying of jaundice?!? #Monsterdon

THE MAKEUP! It would have been great for a theatrical production.

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14 minutes in, the movie actually starts.
Time to fuck around on Earth for 15 more minutes.
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I DO know how difficult it is to start.

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@bstacey Bedford's still covered with moon dust, turns out it's really sticky

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@bstacey That's what happens to you when you live without television. #monsterdon

"I wanted to find a secluded place to write a play, and I figured the moon was about as secluded as I could get."

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Sir, your old age makeup looks far worse in closeup ...

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I love this old guy with his prosthetic forehead wrinkles and his corpse makeup.

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#monsterdon Although it's a bit silly how he feels the need to compare the flags to make sure it's the same one.

This "old man" acting is like someone acting like an old man who's never met one. Hah.

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The flashbacks have flashbacks

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"How did you find an old British flag?"

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Golly. This movie has some balls beeing 103 minutes long....#monsterdon

OMG, it's a British flag!!!

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I'm impressed how quick they searched the complete database of birth records.

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The version of this available on (paid) YouTube is a nice transfer with darn good captioning. #Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon

@holly handy for me, i’m on my way home still lol #monsterdon

You see, we keep Mr. Bedford in an escape room to soothe his nerves

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Movie have one person talk at a time challenge

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@overholt oh my word so this guy is period accurate #monsterdon

they made him look old by painting him grey.

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#monsterdon This is a great reveal.

A golden ticket Charlie??

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Naught naughty newspaper men are not allowed in.
How old is this man? How much makeup is on his head?
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that photog is never gonna get his shot

His forehead looks like a yellowing callus and I can’t get over it. #Monsterdon

Nursing home lady has masterful crowd control skills. #monsterdon

So this is "First Men in the Moon". Is it meant to basically erase the fact that a woman went there first, ordered by a queen? So we'll go through the whole film trying to figure out how to give men credit for it.
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I guess Dr. Tok is supposed to be Indian? 😬

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It's a shame we don't routinely checkerboard tile the floor of every public building anymore

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warnings, absurd warnings... ooo consider it foreshadowed!

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this old lady about to wrestle these press goons to the ground. <3 #monsterdon

it's like the opening of titanic but ten times as long lol
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"We don't let him watch television"

He keeps threatening to shoot Barney :/ #Monsterdon

"Don't forget England is a land of eccentrics."

Well, nice to have some representation.

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I love British place names XD

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"I hope you're not wasting your time" - me too movie, me too

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

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Um isn't that... uh... Dame uh.... #monsterdon Anyone?

This is actually more fun so far than I expected! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon watch out for a blue police box.

Oh no, wait, I got it, derp!

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i like how all the characters in this movie are "indeterminate horde" that grow and lose numbers depending on the franticness of the scene, and none of them have any particularity aside from the horde #monsterdon

"We've had troubles about (his) obsessions before ..."

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"We've had trouble before with Mr. Bedford's obsessions."

"Obsessions you say?"

"Yeah, he won't shut up about 'pocket monsters.' We have no idea what he is talking about."

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I for one wish there were a UN space agency. #monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

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I like her string tie

I'm sorry, what you married her and couldn't remember your own wife's name?

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[Me at work shaking with a magnifying glass] "You found this on the moon, didn't you?"

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is there such a thing as like 'mad archivists disease,' like all these old record books are bound with mercury, because what is this guys whole deal #monsterdon

How did Mitch McConnell get in this movie? #monsterdon

If I knew about the UK bit of the plot I would have suggested a "sun doesn't set on the British empire" joke/quip in the dialog for a bingo card square...

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"1899? That's almost a bit before my time."

I thought it was a joke, and then I realized this was shot in 1964, and it's entirely possible he was a young man in 1899 and working there.

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William Shakespeare's First Men + the Moon #Monsterdon