"All my money is in boots"

Get it? Because I'm A HEEL #Monsterdon

Boer War army boots huh? Sounds legit

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou @diazona @combatwombat Maybe it's nested frame stories all the way down though #monsterdon

That hair was an early mullet #monsterdon

"All my money's in boots."

That's the worst excuse for blowing all your money on drugs I've ever heard.

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All my money is in bitcoin. I'm sure it's gonna go to the moon! #monsterdon

"The basic idea is the important thing! After that it's just slogging away!"

Yeah, actual dialogue and plot isn't important, once you've got a concept everything else is downhill.

>_> >_> >_>

#Monsterdon

@blogdiva I extremely appreciate the visual of the landing spaceship; the descent was dramatic and landing leg pushing into the moon dirt was nifty. #monsterdon

all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy
all work and no play makes Arn a dull boy #Monsterdon

@diazona @combatwombat this film might even have an ending.... #Monsterdon

@combatwombat Yeah this is strangely coherent for #Monsterdon

Am I watching the right film? #monsterdon

He procrastinates in his writing almost as well as me.

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

#Monsterdon I need that hat.

ah so tonight we are on for "moonsterdon" I see, but who's the monster than?
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon

@Lazarou Calendar girls are allowed to do whatever they want #monsterdon

In space, no one can hear the children you kidnapped scream.

#monsterdon

"They're in great danger! We must warn them! - Let me start with a business thing I was involved in nearly 70 years ago..." #monsterdon

This dude is hustling the American lady, isn't he?

#Monsterdon

You know it's 1899 because there is so much green velvet #monsterdon

Is this "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" but with a moon backstory? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👨‍🚀 👨‍🚀 👩‍🚀 🚀 🌔🕷️ 🕷️ 😱

exclnt flashback to more innocent times music

honk honk
#monsterdon

Beware The Cat Women of the Moon!!!! #monsterdon

@Lazarou @diazona "Bee bum" means something different in the old country #monsterdon

This guy is spray-painted with old

#Monsterdon

Look, he’s in shock, he has a blanket #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Dr. Tok met his match in Dr. Tik

TELL THEM TO GET OFF THE MOO!N
MOON'S HAUNTED!
#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

[heart attacks] [dies]

#monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon

Goofy Brit librarian in bad toupee will be the best character in this movie

#monsterdon

Oh damn, where do I go to get THIS nursing home room? This is awesome. #Monsterdon

@diazona @Lazarou Was it in the H. G. Wells story? #monsterdon

Weird thing happens on the moon -> police sirens

Yeah that makes sense

#Monsterdon

That one dusty book is better than Google. Like flip to one page and you have definitive information about everyone who lived in that town in 1899.
#monsterdon

that poster

"Where NOT to park or wait"

i want it

#monsterdon

@Lazarou Or just the invention of the USB noise

#Monsterdon

Apparently 1899-vintage Union Jacks, paper and ink are immune to the unfiltered UV and solar irradiation of the sun.

#monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

"To take the frosting off the UN cake."

Wait, there is cake? Why don't I have a piece? Is it chocolate? With a blue frosting?

#monsterdon

British librarians. All the same, am I right? #Monsterdon

press shows up. *rolls up window* so real. #monsterdon

England! City in the go!

#Monsterdon

Love that there is a scanner to send documents back to earth, but you need to run them to Whitehall via taxi.

#monsterdon

English Imperials: the moon is ours!
#monsterdon

"If the British colonized this place, they must have also taken any artifacts of value!" #monsterdon

If this were star trek, this would just be some people inexplicably sans-pressure suit doing day-for-night in the rocks near Hollywood.

#monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

"Hey guys, if I zip back up real quick, do you think I could whizz on this moon rock?"

#Monsterdon

Man those 60s shoulder pads were something. What is it, 1985? #monsterdon.

The Finger Of Fate is what its called when your finger breaks through the toilet paper.

#monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

"Touched by the finger of fate".

Ick.

#monsterdon

@diazona you too, huh? #Monsterdon

First human to walk on the moon and they're lowering him down by a coat hanger #Monsterdon

Real non-English languages? You're spoiling us, movie

#Monsterdon

"Touched by the finger of fate"

Yeah he's really got both hands in that man's moon now. #Monsterdon

Die Yankee dogs(*rough translation) #monsterdon

The safest place to land that rocket was definitely in a section of the Moon covered in big pointy rocks #Monsterdon

is it just me or is the spaceship making USB connection/disconnection noises

#Monsterdon

@overholt Loved that "landing".
#Monsterdon

An international effort. Nice. Wish we could focus on this today.

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

@ottaross You could try the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/first-men-in-the-moon_202501 or https://miru.miyaku.media/ which is streaming it

#Monsterdon

First Trapeze Artists in the Moon #Monsterdon

"Decontaminate."

I took a shower, sir. #Monsterdon

Is it an escape hatch or an egress hatch or an emergency hatch? There appears to be disagreement.

#monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

is the Russian guy actually speaking Russian!? this movie is already a 10 out of 10 for me, the rest of it could be purest rubbish. #monsterdon

I'm actually very confused, this looks like an actual movie about the moon, did I do a #WrongFrogs

#Monsterdon

"...let's have a look at the environment telemetry"
"Don't threaten me with a good time!"

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon

So far, I gotta say, these are pretty amazing special effects.

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

Why doesn’t the United Nations go to the moon anymore? 🤔

#monsterdon

The obvious water they were using for the landing effect was fun too

#monsterdon

amazing moon landing, i am already into this movie so much. #monsterdon

this is just like kerbal space program

#monsterdon

Nice model work. Is that allowed?
#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon

Music is ecellent. I think I'm being set up for disappointment #monsterdon

Are they licensed to dump their trash like that? #monsterdon

Allow me to join in everyone's amazement at these credits. Gonna have to remember those for the next Mascot Bowl. #Monsterdon

How very nice, they thanked NASA in the credits, I wish we still had a NASA in 2025

#Monsterdon

NASA helped? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

I suspect Wells knew exactly what he meant when he titled his work "in" instead of "on." Get past the preposition and enjoy the movie.

Awesome how NASA was in on this #monsterdon

"the miracle of the screen" #monsterdon

"the miracle of the screen"

not bothering with modesty, are we

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Orchestra is wild and feral! They will not be tamed!

Ooh very 60s credit design

#Monsterdon

amazing credits tho. #monsterdon

HAVE A SCHMEER WITH SCHNEER #Monsterdon

Let's gooooooo!

#Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

#Monsterdon

"War of the Worlds" was published five years before "First Men in the Moon."

Just noting that.

@ramsey @Louisa Wells had Greys in War of the Worlds! They were snacks for Martians.

"Their undeniable preference for men as their source of nourishment is partly explained by the nature of the remains of the victims they had brought with them as provisions from Mars. These creatures, to judge from the shrivelled remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious skeletons (almost like those of the silicious sponges) and feeble musculature, standing about six feet high and having round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets. Two or three of these seem to have been brought in each cylinder, and all were killed before earth was reached. It was just as well for them, for the mere attempt to stand upright upon our planet would have broken every bone in their bodies."

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36/pg36.txt

#Monsterdon

@moira @Taweret There's a stop-motion Selenite look-alike in Flesh Gordon as well.

A lotta folks involved in later movies saw and remembered this one.

#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

@miru There it is, in the commentary by Harryhausen, Cook, and Dalton, one of them referred directly to the "genocide" in the movie. #FirstMenInTheMoon #Monsterdon

@combatwombat hahaha nice one

#Monsterdon

@diazona 😂

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon

They found Mothra's baby pictures - yay!

#monsterdon

@hollie tyty

Halfway through it was, like, the inverse of this

#Monsterdon

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's stop-motion taste of the 60s. Cavorite, exploding greenhouses, attack geese, a con man and the woman he abuses, a mad-but-not-violent scientist, Se;lenites and Mooncows.

And the space faring Cavorite-adorned proto-steampunk dodecahedron. (I know it's not a dodecahedron, I just like saying that)

#Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

@forestine @ohiofi I guess that's why she didn't get to do anything #monsterdon

Explosive decompression life hack: shoot a shotgun at the opened hatch in order to counter the effects 👍

#monsterdon