“That woman of yours is mooning around”

I see what you did there, script writers #Monsterdon

The science master managed to break the greenhouse testing his antigravity material, which causes an understandable neighborhood consternation. This incident, and the scientist gushing over his diving suits that he wants to use as space suits, reveals the moon plot to the fancy lady, who thinks going to the moon is a dumb idea that will kill her husband/fiancee/boytoy, so she is upset.

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It just goes to show much pull of a power the accent is over American ladies because why else would she have put up with this man's bullshit for so long?

"All Brits are eccentrics, it's so whimsical!"

Lady, he's just being a wanker, don't indulge him thinking he's Doctor Who

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He's never getting his damage deposit back on that place. #monsterdon

I don't think diving suits on the moon are a great idea

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Steampunk sickos looking at all those steam gauges: YES… HA HA HA… YES!
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One of the running bits in my WIP is unnecessary info about the pipes that people use. The old guy has a curved stem bulldog, probably brair. Maybe cherry wood.

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#Monsterdon We have to hand it to the doctor. He does not have swamp ass.

#Monsterdon if you do not schedule lab maintenance, your lab will schedule it for you

#Monsterdon here's the difference in how #SplendaDaddy & I think:

Me: "the first thing someone's gonna do with this shit is paint their shoes to cheat at sports."

Him: "This would revolutionize warfare." Infantry could cover their kit with it and barely feel it. And imagine painting a tank with it...

Oh, the cool international (but mostly US/USSR) expedition is a frame story? :|

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I can't take this any more. I'ma start gaming. #monsterdon

This resembles a set from the Flash Gordon movie #monsterdon

The sphere looks like a COVID virus or sea mine, cool!

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But is there oil on the moon?
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Boots!!!
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#Monsterdon The experiments will take two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks!

"A trip to the moon"

And how exactly does he plan to return?

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He couldn't get Oompaloompas so he had to hire Irishmen

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This is like Weird Science and he's just trying to build a woman of his own #monsterdon

Anyway, after drinking some tea, the scientist starts shouting "oh no the furnace the furnace!" and runs screaming into the hills. I think I shall start doing that after drinking tea now.

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Proper 'Science Noises' coming from that lab

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Belatedly tonight on #monsterdon 🥇 👨 🌔

"welcome home dear, i've sold the house, hope you pack light." #monsterdon

what the actual fuck is going on

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Cherry trees aren't that rare. I've got 2 in my yard

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ALL MY MONEY'S IN BOOTS FROM THE BOER WAR
XD XD XD XD

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Wait, men and women living in sin in a rural cottage in 1899 england?

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There is always money in boots
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are we going to descend into another level of flashback financial boondoggle with the god damn boot scam #monsterdon

"I might have to sell the cottage.....unless......"

Lady, take your money and run from this guy

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Ah yes. Laying around drinking at noon. That's how you write a play.

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“All my money’s in boots!”

You know, some people use the bank
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I love the optimism on this movie that by the 60, 70ish we would unite as a world and conquer the cosmos. So star-trekie of they...
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Yo do British people say "Neener Neener!"? Or do they say a different thing to mock their enemies?

Maybe they just say "tut tut"?

Anyway, if you are a UK person, willingly or not, feel free to answer this pressing linguistic and cultural question.

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Love how this guy has only seen the UK flag in the context of his lunar expedition.

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@Zerofactorial @diazona "and the noise the machines will make will go as thus; 'bee bum, bee bum'" - HG Wells

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is this supposed to be some kind of cognition test? i KNOW what the bloody flag looks like, chaps. #monsterdon

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"We don't let him watch television."

Poor guy is gonna miss Monsterdon.

Oh great, the Brits got there first? Now it is going to be only full English breakfast on the moon from now on. #monsterdon

Oh check it out, someone just found the fourth Golden Ticket. #Monsterdon

Oh no the British have done a colonialism here, just like fucking everywhere else

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"Oh, shit! The British already colonized the moon, just like every other place in the blasted galaxy."

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I like the moon set #Monsterdon

great, you made it to on the moon, but that's amateur hour, we were promised in the moon #monsterdon

Bless, back when Space Travel gave us Hope instead of just being a vehicle of Katy Perry's comeback....

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#Monsterdon the Americans are British, and the British are Norwegian. The Chinese guy is Swedish and ahhhhh!!!! Kersmash! :)

(EVERYONE TALKING AT ONCE IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES)

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Wes Anderson's First Men in the Moon

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Drat - another #monsterdon not on Canadian version of Tubi .

Could watch it on my laptop, but not the same experience, and will hinder my ease-of-tooting.

I must plan ahead a bit better than try to join in at the last minute. Next time!

Did not know this thing was a Nigel Kneale joint, which I can only assume means at some point we're going to hear about an absurd government conspiracy. #Monsterdon

Opening credits need to chose a font and stick with it

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"Ray Harryhausen provided the stop-motion animation effects, which include the Selenites, giant caterpillar-like "Moon Cows" and the large-brained Grand Lunar" Good choice for today! #monsterdon

@Lazarou @bstacey @Louisa Wow!

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@SordidAmok

No unnecessary rubbish, no #Monsterdon

I liked the hope from the 1960s, and got really annoyed by the dolts from the 1890s. Particularly their casual approach to destruction and extinction. But it was a great series of sets and aliens. Visually stunning. Just what I needed on a Sunday night. Thanks, @Taweret and co. #Monsterdon

@YsengrinWolf @Taweret I was surprised by how much from this got riffed on in Flash Gordon (1980)

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To appreciate H. G. Wells, you have to remember all of semifamiliar technology had not been invented yet. In some ways, it disturbing to see how of the fiction became actual science.

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Thanks to Shepperton Studios for production values that were higher than I expected. Some of the visual design reminds me of The Land That Time Forgot, which is also connected to Shepperton.

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@ohiofi What happened with the lawsuit and the real estate scam and all that? And how did Kate Calendar die? Is it just that the movie didn't care, or was it Wells? #monsterdon

@_L1vY_ _huh_

that hits differently after the ending

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I admit, I did enjoy the bloomers.

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@blogdiva It is an allegory, but as I've said, we know what Wells wanted us to believe (in my opinion), and it's not good.

https://don.monster/@ramsey/114373656123788753

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RIP Green Moon people. Sorry we wiped out your civilization, it seemed pretty nice.
- this movie, probably

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@bk1e Thanks, now I don't have to watch that tedious section again to satisfy my curiosity #monsterdon

Killed by germs... #monsterdon

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Thank you @Taweret and @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne and all you #monsterdonians! That was a weird one and you made it fun !

I was hoping they'd all have cannabis infused punch together and just let bygones be bygones. #monsterdon

Movies like that are among the best arguments for voluntary human extinction.

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Oh huh. Technically the humans in this movie fucked off into the sea after leaving the moon didn't they?
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So they tacked on the ending of War of the Worlds. Okay. And Arnold thought Cavor had a bad cold, but it was actually Covid. Look at the Sphere!

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@rdm @Taweret I dunno if #Monsterdon is really about palate cleansers 😂

Wells may have been on to something about a relationship between colonialism and spreading disease.

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That ending was uh... #monsterdon Abrupt.

So, can anyone enlighten me who the heck was "Gibbs?" #monsterdon

I'd like to think that the Selenites listened to the radio broadcasts of The War of the Worlds and thought, hey we can pretend we all died, they'll totally buy it, and we'll just go off to another planet.
The scientist guy agrees and helps them with Cavorite.

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Lots of Victorian-era fiction was man vs. nature / the wild / the unknown, with strong focus on man being the overcomer and victorious, destroying the other in the process.

Wells is no exception.

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It would've been nice not to hate _everybody_ in this movie, honestly.

Other than that it was pretty good!

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@Lazarou @Zerofactorial Funnily I just watched the Futurama episode about the common cold yesterday

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It took its sweet time getting started this week but once it did it was firing on all cylinders. I would still like to lodge a complaint about the caterpillar skeleton. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and see y'all next week!

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Thank you #Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon actually failed to disappoint, with all those awesome models and scenery.

@trixter So many things in this film were driven by simple randomness. Someone falling, someone bumps a lever, someone forgets a burning furnace. And then the accidental genocide of an entire civilization. Which no one feels the tiniest bit of remorse about.
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And if anyone is curious, all of H.G. Wells is in the public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1013

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And the violent British man who killed dozens of lunar natives now has a smile on his face knowing his neighbor accidentally killed the rest of their civilization with a virus...
Twas man that was the real monster tonight!
THE END
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@Lazarou Nah, it was avian flu from those damn chickens #monsterdon

Good night, #monsterdon, this one was a pleasure to watch with you. If only we might dwell a while longer together beneath the surface of the moon. Ah but reality beckons.

I will smile in memory of the vertebrate caterpillar.

@ohiofi I was hoping the two females in the last scene with Bedford would salvage Bechdel hopes, but no #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial for their curiosity they were wiped out by the Common Cold, the Universe is harsh

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"And so one asshole Victorian expedition murdered an entire uncontacted civilization. We now close our film on the most violent member of the expedition, giggling as he watches the last remains of the lost civilization he helped exterminate crumble into dust. Hip hip hooray!"

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So, I think Wells would have us side with Bedford on this, but I'm siding with Cavor.

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@helianthropy they did #Monsterdon

*The British once again bring plague to a new world without catching one in turn*

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT.GIF #Monsterdon

Giant colored bongs again

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@Lazarou Seriously - what did they do to deserve being overrun by invaders from another planet? #monsterdon

HG Wells had one massive f-ing cold one time, and it went on to launch his writing career. good for him. #monsterdon

...Y'know, the "one tiny virus kills the mighty alien species" doesn't really land when WE were the invaders. Like, I was joking earlier about the pox blankets but that's KIND OF EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED HERE

:/ :/ :/

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And that kids is why you WEAR A MASK. The End. Thanks for another great watch. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

Lol what!! Is the comedy ending that Cavor killed an entire civilization and himself!!!!!!

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight we watched #FirstMenInTheMoon from 1964, which despite its awkward title was all kinds of fun, having some of the best miniatures and set design that we've seen in quite a while. We also had,