Tuba solo. You don't hear many of those anymore

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Why does he have to sell a place he's renting?

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Okay, so after Terf Island is excited that its on the map again for a doing a moon landing in 1899, they find an old mustached guy in an attic and he's like "yeah i was in the moon, it was 1899... I was involved in a failed business venture let me tell you about it." and then we flashback to 1899 where a lady in a gigantic hat is driving an infernal contraption, which most boomers would call a "car", to meet her fancy fiancee who is writing a play in a fancy house I think.

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I know, he could sell his surplus boots to drag queens! That would make a great play/movie/musical!

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uh -oh, comedy brass music...

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This needs more Peter Cushing
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Aight so we get a mystery as our modern astronauts are wandering the moon and then they find a British flag, a glove and a plaque from 1899 claiming the moon for Queen Victoria or something.

Realistically, the modern cosmonaut is like "bro the kremlin aint gonna believe this bro", but back on the earth orb, the British people are very excited because it means they did a thing they can say "neener neener we did a moon landing first!" at the rest of the world.

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Director: “Now that you’ve had 2 minutes of moon activity… strap in for 10 minutes of British office paperwork action!”

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Landed in just the right spot to find that flag. It's uncanny. #monsterdon

I wish there were a "UN Space Agency", that wild 60s Star Trek idealism....

Instead we've got some supervillain filling our skies with crap....btw, has anything happened in this movie since the Moon?

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Enough talking to British people, we know nothing....

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The moon's surface is covered with microplastics now

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See that spaceship around the Moon with people on it?

The next one to the Moon will be Chinese....

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First moon in the men

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Recursive moon in the moon #monsterdon

This one is a movie I saw countless times on TV, and had the comic adaptation memorized growing up.

So, It's good to see it again through everybody's comments here.

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Regarding the Killer Katerpillar with bones. There is not really a problem here. On Earth, it has no bones. On the moon, another species, with bones, developed the same morphology via Parallel Evolution.

Look it up if it will help you sleep.

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This concludes my #monsterdon thread. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! Check her profile later for the forthcoming poll for the next monsterdon movie experience!"

@floatybirb Ignoring the fact that he had no idea how he was going to eat, or sleep, or go to the bathroom, we can be sure he died an agonizing death. As his head cold infected the bugs and they all died bit by bit, he had a choice: eat dead bug people, or starve to death. Either way, the Professor's end was pretty gruesome. Maybe a few bug people figured out who gave them the plague and managed to kill him as thanks before they died. #monsterdon

I still theorize that the chickens were dismembered and strewn about the cabin during that violent landing.

At best, the Selenites took 'em when they were dismantling the space dodecahedron.

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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...

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Thanks for the fun, @Taweret!

This was my favorite Monsterdon so far! It's so good we collectively invest our Sunday nights in these...uh....cultural gems...or something....anyway it's good is the thing

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@Zerofactorial Narrator: "They are humans, and therefore, they never learn."

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@CardboardRobot I'm convinced that the reason the Selenites were taking the sphere apart was because deadbeat dude sold it to them like they were Jawas. So he came back with a lot of moon dollars and paid his debts. And the professor's place wasn't gonne get used any more. So he could just live there. #monsterdon

What?

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But what about the financial situation with the cottage??!

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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

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THE COMMON COLD

Imagine, a virus wiping out an entire . . . Oh

"He did have such a terrible cold."

That one has some bite to it.

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I probably saw a lot of movies like this on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid. It made me misanthropic

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Well that was dumb.

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Well. Nice job, everyone, the moon is ruined now

Thanks for a good #Monsterdon !

so it's just like "they went to the moon, there were flies there, and then we killed them all with a disease. the end" #monsterdon

"... completely without immunity"

never thought HG was a one-trick pony

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30 Minute Poll Correct Answer...

Selenites were played by

COCKNEY STREET KIDS

Earth people gotta ruin everything, yep #monsterdon

Did they War of the Worlds this movie?

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lol, they've somehow destroyed the Lunar civilisation with flares.....

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The visual beauty of the second half of this movie is at odds with the banality of the plot & dialogue.

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I'm sorry, the aliens just died of a virus? I was sort of hoping that they learned about war and killed eachother off for the twist.

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#Monsterdon ah i see it's the *shades* that are painted with cavorite, so when the shade is open it has the smallest cross-sectional area of cavorite against the gravitational field and when opened it has the largest cross-sectional area.

cavorite-on-cavorite doesn't remove _more_ gravity than one layer of cavorite, hence the differential between the two modes

The leader wishes to detain Cavor so that no one else comes to the moon using the secret of Cavorite, fearing an Earthling invasion.

Validating his fears, Bedford appears, shouting "This isn't an audience, you're on trial!" and then starts shooting things with an elephant gun, causing enough damage to random objects and maybe the leader that the two boys can escape and make it back to the orb, which Bedford and Kate reassembled while the Leader and Cavor were having a nice chat.

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The subtitles keep saying "[TWITTERING]" but c'mon isn't it supposed to be "[XING]" now?

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"Tell me... of War."
Now the British are teaching them how to be violent. A perfectly fine civilization being polluted by British thought.
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Lets be real here, the queen alien's deductions are 100% on the mark here and preventing Victorian Englishmen from returning to Earth with the knowledge of a civilization they could overrun and devour was ABSOLUTELY THE CORRECT THING TO DO. #Monsterdon

Brain Alien was deffo on a holoscreen and not in the room because of exactly this kind of Human shit...

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Nobody elected Queen Victoria y'know....

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"I expect you'll be wanting to see my Earth penis, so here it comes...."

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So Bedford finally catches up with the more interesting Earthlings, only as the sun goes down, freezing the giant oxygen creating glowing rock cactus and also freezing all the Selenites in place. I'm guessing that they also expected that the Earthlings would freeze, since they didn't take any precautions to detain the humans or otherwise stop them from potentially messing with stuff in their city.

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Aliens always like hexagon doors with zigzag openings I think we should have more hexagon doors with zigzag openings here on earth!

i would watch an adaptation of the phone book if harryhausen did the sfx

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So, about the plot... ? What, er... where ? #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

yes MOON RAVE

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So they just left Kate AGAIN? #Monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow This plot is totally driven by luck and accidents. how many plot points were things like somebody falling down, dropping something, or accidentally doing stuff.
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At least they were fast about fixing the roof.

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@Violinknitter It would be an improvement because "It's absolutely imperial" would be complex irony and "skibidi toilet" is not.

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Power from sunlight? Ridiculous

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Disco's done for the evening. Y'don't have to go home but y'can't stay here. #Monsterdon

The moon people have apparently stripped the dead caterpillar of meat, leaving a giant caterpillar skeleton behind. While caterpillars don't have skeletons, this is a space caterpillar so I guess its fine.

Kate and the Professor are given a self-guided tour of the Selenite city, where they discover a huge solar powered goo machine that generates oxygen... I guess its like a tree with extra steps. They also find the Selenites are taking their spaceship apart, which upsets them.

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That's an awfully convenient eclipse

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ooo, they're pupating....

One way to end a conversation I guess

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And suddenly the effects get interesting

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correction... only the professor guy was captured, we don't know where the playwright is. Anyway, the girl was captured offscreen, and the selenites are analyzing her in their erratically lit laboratory. Their scientific equipment includes:

1) an xray screen which lets them observe Kate's skeleton
2) some a glowing crystals that I guess are a universal translator that is studying English
3) a pointy control crystal, which is an interesting choice of user interface.

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#Monsterdon so if the moon people are creating oxygen to live there where the fuck do they come from

"The space indigenous people are showing us their water treatment plant" #monsterdon

They're setting the stage for Starship Troopers, which was also a better movie

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HAPPY 420!

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Action sequence:

giant caterpillar chases puny humans, breaking some rocks in the process.
this leads puny humans to wander into a force of moon people armed with sticks, who capture them.
the moon people use their green lightning guns to subdue the giant caterpillar.

I guess the selenite arsenal consists of A) sticks and B) lighting guns. Maybe the sticks shoot lightning sometimes and I just missed that detail?

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Moon Guy is like, "Yes, tell me more about this... imperialism. :3"

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Bugs got bones!

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That's a caterpiller with a skeleton? And its pincers are bone? They're as bad with biology as they are with physics.
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They used Kate's voice to train their Large Language Model! #monsterdon

Shout slowly for best communication.

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Lunar DJ using samples to mock the Human zoo animal....

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ooo, so that's where Total Recal got that from!

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White people kinda suck

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zap! zap!

this is great so far.

it really helps we're starting with an H.G. Wells book I think.

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Have we discussed in enough depth that this Arnold guy sucks? #monsterdon

Personally, I trust Mothra's children to be judge jury and executioner. #Monsterdon

Some cracking Harryhausen animating there!

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Also extremely British: Giving the natives a name based entirely on your own cultural contexts and insisting on only using that name.

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Lunar Mushrooms!

Big alien Caterpillars!

The dream that is the Moon will be realised!

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Kate obviously DIDN’T go this way… she would have left the door open!
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Wandering out of the moon tunnel, the boys discover that the sphere is gone, and conclude that the girl probably touched the controls. Then they are like... "wait no... there's some skid marks here, so the Selenites probably dragged it back to the moon." They follow the tracks and find a giant door, that the moon people dragged their spaceship to. Somehow it opens easily and there's more air inside.

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"I wish Kate was here so I could insult her intelligence"

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what would the Sodomites want with a space ship? #monsterdon

Kate took off without them. Good for her!

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"I don't know what came over me....I just saw some people different from me and thought.......DESTROY...."

Colonialism

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Lol Arnold is just throwing Selenites to their deaths like it's nothing, why did this guy get to be the last one alive

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"No, don't kill them! I have poxy blankets we could use instead!" #Monsterdon

okay I love the moon creatures

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The British have committed mass murder two minutes after meeting the natives.
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A Selunite!? We're worshippers of Shar, kill them all! #Monsterdon

Is that a Mind Flayer?Mayve I've been playing too much BG

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MOON CREATURE! WE HAVE MOON CREATURE!

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"It's a Moon Creature, obvs"

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@Bluedepth As far as I can tell their helmets have no protective qualities anyway.

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