Caterpillar has a skeleton... Okay sure. Moon ecology works different.
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Our colored liquid tech is far SUPERIOR to yours. #monsterdon

Sorry, MOONtn Dew #Monsterdon

At least Cavor has the decency to be horrified by what Bedford did to the Selenites.

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Caterpillar bones!!! ... and skull!!! #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

"TAKE THE HUMANS TO THE VAPING HALL"

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Oh no. They taught the moon natives how to speak in a British accent.
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Mooncow has BONES. A spine, ribs and skull!

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They're in the prototype of the red sun chamber.

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#Monsterdon So that's where the universal translator got to Earth from.

Wow, they harvested the meat from that giant caterpillar rather quickly.
Industrious, these Selenites.....

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This guy thinks that if you shout English word by word you can be understood, just like most USians

The selenites give them one of those word button mats like they're a pair of labradoodles #monsterdon

Suddenly:

Facehuggers

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@lorgonumputz Reminds me of the zoo episode of The Orville

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"It's absolutely imperial" is their version of "wicked awesome."

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Q: How can you tell if your giant, moon caterpillar is a vegetarian?

A: Don’t worry… they’ll TELL you! 🙄

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Of COURSE the first word he tries to teach the alien is “Man”

🙄🙄🙄

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Selenites using Kate's voice to train their human diplomacy AI #monsterdon

Krull had two female characters, which is twice as many as First Men In The Moon

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Moon bugs training their AI #Monsterdon

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wait skeletor alien has an xray machine?

Kate, keep talking. They're trying to calibrate their translator, and continuing to talk will help.

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Oh they've got a voice modulator. #Monsterdon

The Selenites are into boots too

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That x-ray machine has to put out a lot of rads

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Oh. My. Goodness. The x-ray machine animation. 😆

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oh man that X-ray skeleton effect was GREAT

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There's an amazing movie here going on around these two bumbling idiots

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Is it on purpose that the spears the moon creatures use look like cheese knives? Or a I just Brie-eating too much into things

(that was a stretch I realize)

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@Newpa_Hasai 👏

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@flowerpot plot?

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#Monsterdon yay alien zap guns

I didn't think Catterpie could learn headbut!
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okay all this stuff is great

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NOW YOU FUCKED UP #monsterdon

If this were a Toho movie the creature would be attacking them with its powerful strands of silk #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Moon Centipedes in my science fever dream? It’s more common than you think…

This bug is friend-shaped, just not friend-sized.

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Remember, kids, we're dealing with science as understood in 1901 (the date of publication for Wells's book).

Also with Victorian sensibilities, inasmuch as Wells followed them. And what Hollywood didn't change.

Deep breaths. It's entertaining.

#Monsterdon A vegetarian? With those mandibles? Time for some Harryhausen magic to match the delicious soundtrack.

Have faith in Lunar Mothra!
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I'd say the big alien caterpillar knows exactly what you did and wants you Colonial bastards off the Moon!

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@Bluedepth ooooh I sense a conspiracy theory starting

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“Harmless vegetarian”

My man, y’all did a colonialism on the African continent, too. Ever hear of the hippopotamus? #Monsterdon

wow that guy fell like 2 feet lmao
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we are now in the second phase of these kinds of movies: the series of barely-related setpiece scenes #monsterdon

From how easy it is for two earth astronauts to open a giant bulkhead door on the moon with their bare hands (what?), I am forced to conclude that the moon people need more secure door technology.

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fuck yeah

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LOL!! Didn't expect to get your car stolen on the moon, did ya!? #monsterdon

"Assume a spherical space cow"

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Mooncow!

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@paco @Lazarou Well I wouldn't go there, I'd say if you unexpectedly encounter an unknown creature it's reasonable to want something you can use to protect yourself if you have to

Thought to be fair we don't know that they weren't thinking of genocide either

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i'm on #TeamSelenite

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Did they just run into very big water bears?

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@floatybirb I, too, would jump around and get stuck in a giant moon rock. #Monsterdon

Kate, you know you can't hit them with an elephant gun. It only works on elephants.

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So can the Selenites breath vacuum, or do they have suits of their own?

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@paco that's the British Empire for you! #Monsterdon

bro dont use your helmet to block open the door haven't you seen those logic puzzles about the wolf and the chicken and crossing the river on the boat. if you only have one helmet you can only get one guy off the moon #monsterdon

NOW who won't shut the goddamn greenhouse door, old man? #Monsterdon

Ah, yes. I can take off my helmet when I'm inside, even though the door is open because science... fiction!

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@Lazarou When they saw the shadows passing by the first thing he said was that he wished they'd brought the gun. They were thinking genocide all along. #monsterdon

So we've covered historical aspects, British arrive in place they haven't been to before, claim it as their own, and then start killing the locals.

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"Now I'm leaving the oxygen full on."

Oh, that's a great idea.

(I'm having flashbacks to a Kim Stanley Robinson novel, and shuddering.)

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@Vanalope@socel.net probably desecrated some graves too...

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oh nevermind, the only woman in the entire movie just got kidnapped, perfect. #monsterdon

Great matte paintings though

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Oh man, Kate has doomed our heroes to a lingering, suffocating death! You go girl! Excellent work, finally showing good judgment. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "i told her to stay in the car!"

I wonder if this underground Moon set is related to one of the Journey to the Center of the Earth ones.

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oh no! Bedford's British programming has been activated! He has to try and murder an entire species! #monsterdon

Did she leave their asses? HAHAHAHAHA
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Yeah lesson one is never bring the investors on the expedition. #Monsterdon

OMFG, it's Space 1899!

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So he pissed her off by being a deadbeat and a liar. Now he's pissed off the scientist dude by going genocidal on the first aliens he meets. Why is this guy still in the film? #monsterdon

so is the modern expedition going to find any of this shit,

or are the Victorians going to kill the load-bearing boss sometime before the end of the movie?

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The alien bug costumes have little abdomen keisters!

that's colonialism baybeee!

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First Murder in the Mooon.

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If I were approached by a Selenite, I would simply and immediately know how to communicate with it. #monsterdon

Victorian man visits the Moon, immediately starts genociding. #Monsterdon

That's where the saying "Good night, and don't let the moon bugs bite" comes from.

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Vegemen! My kingdom for vegemen!

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"It's a Ray Harryhausen monster" #monsterdon

Finally, aliens

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Well, they're no moon geese, but OK, I guess

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#Monsterdon "what is it?"
"a moon creature... selenite."
"but the size!"

IS IT BIG OR IS IT SMALL? TELL ME THE SIZE

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why would low gravity make you human-in-rubber-suit sized?

Oh baby been waiting an hour to use this one

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okay we got aliens. we got there

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"Oh jolly good. Our first native. Let's go oppress and enslave them in proper British tradition."
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It's Guido! Better shoot first!

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The movie's lost all interest in Kate #monsterdon

OH NO MANTS

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I can't believe I'm saying this, but this piece of garbage is actually entertaining. Kneale knew how to pace a movie. #monsterdon

The scenic farting caves of the moon. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

@jsadow @Bluedepth It's to protect them from Space Kraken #monsterdon

@jonny it's like the bradbury story about the kid locked in the closet for the one sunny day on venus

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Nice reflector, I'm assuming you need to change the light direction to solve the puzzle and get to the Master Sword. #Monsterdon