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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 !
@SordidAmok I would have liked it if it worked as satire & I appreciated the idea but it was kind of like three or four different movie ideas mushed together.
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.
Oh huh. Technically the humans in this movie fucked off into the sea after leaving the moon didn't they?
#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon
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!
@rdm @Taweret I dunno if #Monsterdon is really about palate cleansers π
Wells may have been on to something about a relationship between colonialism and spreading disease.
That ending was uh... #monsterdon Abrupt.
Thank you @Taweret and the #Monsterdon crew!
It has been decades since I saw this one, and it was a very fun session. Some great riffing.
I propose Mouse on the Moon as a palate cleanser for next week!
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
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.
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.
It would've been nice not to hate _everybody_ in this movie, honestly.
Other than that it was pretty good!
@Lazarou @Zerofactorial Funnily I just watched the Futurama episode about the common cold yesterday
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!
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.
#monsterdon
And if anyone is curious, all of H.G. Wells is in the public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1013
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
#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon
@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
"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!"
i would love to stay for the encore with commentary but there's no way I'll stay awake long enough!
thanks @ryan for the stream, @joewynne for the trivia, @Cherizilla for the bingo, all of you for the running commentary, and as ever @Taweret for hosting!
So, I think Wells would have us side with Bedford on this, but I'm siding with Cavor.
Jump back to the present, where we find all the Selenites have died. (cough, cough)
Just than one city on the Moon, apparently. Since they had to manufacture oxygen, one might suppose that they didn't start out there - a colony hive, sent out from the homeworld?
@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
@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
:/ :/ :/
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!!!!!!
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,
Really great intro credits!A Flying Oliver typewriter!Anti Gravity Goop! Not Flubber, but close!Bouncy ball space ship! With chickens!Turns out the inside of the moon has breathable air!Moon bugs!Carnivorous moon caterpillars!Death by virus!
OMG. Bedford is almost giddy when he says, "He did have such a terrible cold."
You just genocided an entire civilization, just like the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and you don't even care.
The kindly scientist killed them all by staying, the end
was mister HG just obsessed with the common cold, or like...? did he know something about alien biology that the rest of us don't. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon ah yes the old "creatures with no immunity killed by any ol' germs"
but with a planetary difference they probably simply won't trigger in any way on the xenoorganisms because the biology's incompatible
My headcanon is that Cavor singlehandedly genocided the Selenites so they wouldn't aggressively defend themselves against the British Crown.
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *holds down h key, fucks off into the sea*
AND SO WE DIDN'T NEED TO LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT IMPERIALISM #Monsterdon
earth smallpox even infected their architecture
That was not terrible
And the UN astronauts discover that the Selunites all died of smallpox, the end.
the aliens used the El Dorado ploy to save their city. good for them. #monsterdon
Takes the British to do a colonialism but Americans to really fucking blow the whole thing up
"on Nylon rope" ... strangely specific
literally 90 seconds left in this movie. #monsterdon
speedrunning the last 5 minutes of the film?!?!
the _evidence_ fucked off into the sea
The really tragic thing is that WASN'T the longest flashback in #Monsterdon history.
... and then I acquired all of this bad makeup
Such vandals. Unreliable narrator.
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon
Reminder that the present-day expedition is an international one under the aegis of the UN
If he wants to stay on the Moon, let him, must you control everyone?
@ricci (extended edition)
COME ON SELENITES, KILL THE IMPERIALS! #Monsterdon
Smart moon bugs nothing good can come from the British colonising your celestial body #Monsterdon
We'll take the scenic route back to the ship. Visit the bubbling columns again.
well, I hope the moon folk learned enough about imperialism to be prepared when the americans land in the future π₯΄
#monsterdon
The blinds! What about them? Theyβre hideous!
@ricci enjoy
True English violence would involve stealing all of the spices from the Moon along with planting a flag, wouldn't it?
That was a big explosion. Does that mean we are at war now?
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Luckily the alien leader knows that they're on 'the moon'
I want the alien to make the British scientist defend colonialism, and then in a horrible twist of fate realize he's just convinced the aliens to take earth AND ALL ITS INHABITANTS AAHHHHHH
and there's the man of violence. how convenient!
The Selenite leader lives in his own personal Greenland #monsterdon
"Then if they make war they are defective" They catch on quick. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon
See? Here the aliens are people in costumes. Really weird how they switched back and forth
Did he just βnot all menβ the Selenites? #Monsterdon
Selenite Leader: And tell me... of these waifu pillows...
ok and THAT thing is the final boss from Half-Life.
"Tell me of war."
That's when I would be like "yeahhhh no. You're getting a 3 hour lecture about world cuisines"
The iris can protect they eye... No not like that! Ow #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon
@Lazarou They should have their own Youtube channel, definitely #monsterdon
this tweedy jerk is right in his element here, giving a history lecture to the great alien oz... #monsterdon
#Monsterdon "tell me... of war" oh no this never goes well
remember 5th element?
"Tell you of war? Well.....in my land we do love a good war...."
The tallest alien with the biggest head is clearly the leader. This is the way.
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"Is there much left back there?"
"Just the oxygen cylinders"
Famous last words
Please do not put war in the makefile
I've been trying to think of who this main character reminds me of and I think he's about 50% William Shatner and 50% Thomas Jane.
Kate left the door open AGAIN?!?!
#monsterdon
"We have an iris that protects the eyes" And an _Atmosphere_ #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon
There was some graffiti that said βTHE MOON RULZ NUMBER 1β
Instead of bringing weapons you should have brought books....
i'm in deepest kansas for family reasons and can't currently stream anything, but it sure sounds like i'm missing a quality #monsterdon.
Guess that motion was not so perpetual after all, huh??!
Jodorowsky's Hombres En La Luna
nobody sees the great oz