#Monsterdon Lost their helmets. Aaaand it doesn’t matter. That’s fine.

SFX definitely doing all the heavy lifting here.

Thank you, Harryhausen!

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They are now... in the moon
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Lithobraking without the airbags, huh

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"Do you hear that?"

Sigh....

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lol, he just launches off into Space and dies.....

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I can see the headlines now...

Area men blow up house, somehow end up on moon
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At this point I'm just watching for more bloomer shots

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No problem with exposed hands #monsterdon

One small step? no.

"Hello Moon! a-haw-haw-haw!"

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And she died from lack of oxygen. #Monsterdon

Charlie is really good at manipulation. That's why he doesn't have to resort to slapping her

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Okay, so because we suck at navigation, we're headed toward the sun instead of the moon which is bad, but then I guess we get on course because a chicken flaps around the space orb.

Cavor reveals that he loves geese and hates chickens, and is mad at the chicken because he's a bird racist.

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@paco I hope it's prison style, and he just sits on it, staring at everyone else while squeezing on out on the voyage...

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"Hold on tight, Kate! Dr. Cavor got metric and imperial measurements mixed up!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

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"Does your Cybertruck have live chickens? No? I rest my case"

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As they are getting ready to launch their moon orb, Kate decides to yell at Bedford (the playwright, see I can learn names sometimes!) because of the financial ruin they are in. Unfortunately, the moon orb takes out so they have to drag her inside as the orb accelerates into space.

Cavor finds out they aren't married and says "Well then kindly leave the room!" which everyone thinks is funny and then they have a laugh.

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I have air, thermal, and navigation concerns.

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If they don't turn fast they'll fly into the sun in about 2 years #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

What's keeping that very unappetising fish from flying off the plate?

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They’ve got SPACE MADNESS!
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HA HA HA WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIE

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Nobody lost consciousness. What are the G-forces of a bullet being fired?

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"Ahahahaha! Kindly leave the room! Hahahaha. Leave the room and die of decompression. Ohohohoh."
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Also, the whole time this relationship / logistics drama is happening, Cavor is running back and forth freaking out because Kate keeps opening doors and threatening to upset the Cavorite furnace temperature and being vaguely misogynistic about it, in what I guess is an eccentric 19th century guy sort of way.

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And so they all died. The end! #Monsterdon

There is no law on the Moon!
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I like how the cavorite makes a goopy bouncy sound when the professor applies it to the side of his spaceship with a literal paintbrush.

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Daft old codgers smoking pipes and losing their glasses in the rose garden would never have invented the atomic bomb

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“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.

this archivist better be in every scene moving forward #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

Wow, I'm surprised but the quality of these miniatures!!

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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

We are GO for moon! #monsterdon

Also, for those interested, Valentina Tereshkova is still alive. She's 88.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

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@Lazarou @bstacey @Louisa Wow!

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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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🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this laudable lunacy!

and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! I loved the moon stamp! And the prescient 'aliens speak english'.

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: We survived the adventure despite the weird science. See reply for caterpillar explanation ⬇️

May we all remember...

Orb-centric travel is the best kind of travel.

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