@brooke Shhhh.... just go with it... It's more fun that way... if we ignore science. #monsterdon

@trixter honestly the model work has been pretty good in general

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I love a velvet lined contraption with brass fittings, steampunk is cool I don't care what anyone says

#Monsterdon

oh dear, they've upset the geese #monsterdon

@Bluedepth I momentarily read that as "moon disorder"

#Monsterdon

Oh hey the same practical effect from Krull. Upside down building blows up.

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His laugh is desperate and maniacal and tragic all at the same time

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Never forget, the geese had a chance to stop this

#Monsterdon

@moira As any inventor will tell you.

#Monsterdon

I love how these Victorian vessels always have lush, padded walls.

#Monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

Jules Verne-ass spaceship

#Monsterdon

This movie is very unrealistic because it depicts callous, unhinged entrepreneurs attempting to exploit space travel for greedy, corrupt purposes.

#Monsterdon

The Romans famously celebrated the geese who warned them when the Gauls had invaded Rome that they were sneaking up on their hold out

#monsterdon

We're going to the moon in ..... a mechanical COVID!

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The masculine urge to use geese as guards #Monsterdon

And then a toad ran them over the end

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wait The Sphere?
#monsterdon

Please, you don't have to explain
#monsterdon

Edward Judd's acting here is proof that William Shatner wasn't actually that weird for the 1960s. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon moon mining scam :(

indeed, there's a lot about this movie that resembles a fruitcake. #monsterdon

no cheeses more exotic than those of the moon

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I'm getting very worried now that this movie is almost 1hr 45m long 😨
#monsterdon

He's gonna pay off all of his boot debt! #Monsterdon #firstmeninthemoon

Nice bit of class exploitation there, classic Britland....

#Monsterdon

THEY'RE going to a pub. WE have to sit here SOBER.

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

Surprised by all the comedy? That was a late addition to the script.

Ray Harryhausen said it was the reason the movie didn't do as well as expected at the box office.

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“I’m a metalworker, not a stoker.”

Love it.

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The best characters in this film are Cavor's workers. I want to just watch them at the pub.

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#monsterdon This is a room I want in my house.

"I hope there's nothing dishonest about it"

"Oh, no, it's just a legal device"

Lady I'm sure you've had a bunch of red flags at this point, but him putting your name on the line for his money to avoid his creditors should be a big NOPE.

#Monsterdon

“You paste it on things?” … “I’d be careful if I were you” #Monsterdon

Just think of how many boots that money can buy!

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fam, you're better off in Boston... #monsterdon

you know what else takes effect when it har—[hit by lightning] #monsterdon

The bright side of most of this being set on Earth is that I can check off "Conveniently breathable air" on the bingo card 🤦

#Monsterdon

IRS on line one
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Wait. Is he using her signature to prevent himself from going out of debt. If things go wrong she's the one at fault...
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I am fairly reeling from the level of whimsical brass in the soundtrack. And whimsical woodwinds. Is this a sci-fi or a folly?? 🤨

#Monsterdon

They've developed a new substance that blocks waves of "me giving a shit"

#Monsterdon

@Violinknitter I mean it is objectively a better movie than Krull.

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Sir you just lost all your money in boots, I do NOT trust your business sense

#Monsterdon

It's the hijinks tuba!

#Monsterdon

please break his neck on the ceiling please please

end this insufferable hell

#monsterdon

it's hot, is what it is

you might want to step back

#Monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai NASA helped them figure out how to hang a chair from the ceiling without anyone getting hurt.

#Monsterdon

I am now discovering most of you are not dealing with ad breaks. #Monsterdon

Thanks for explaining gravity

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He invented Flubber!

#monsterdon
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#Monsterdon *sticks his face into a crucible of molten metal with no eye or nose protection* "what's this?"

I bet there's all kinds of amazing creatures on the moon right now. running around doing cool stuff

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon The orchestra is the audiences emotional crutch. Tell me how to feel muted oboe! Muted oboe is… ignorance…

You mean to say there's no pub in this one? That hardly seems proper. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

I bet neat stuff is happening on the moon right now

#Monsterdon

This is NOT the movie I thought I was getting into tonight.... and I'm weirdly ok with it!

#Monsterdon

The tuba? French horn? lets you know Mr. Cavor is a bad scientist

#Monsterdon

this is the problem with these freaking HG wells and jules verne movies. you either spend 90% of the time on an unrelated british countryside story or 90% of the time wandering around entirely disconnected setpiece scenes and any promising part of the premise was just like 1800's clickbait #monsterdon

If you ask me, there just aren't enough infernal contraptions in film these days. It's a pity.

#Monsterdon

Is this guy going to end up on the moon by ACCIDENT?

Honestly, very H. G. Wells TBH #Monsterdon

It's some of the most important sciencing of all time. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon We want to throw you in solitary confinement and then beat you with a bar of soap in a pillowcase. You’ll get your solitude, all-right. ;)

it seems unlikely a monster is going to suddenly show up in this scene

#Monsterdon

I'm sorry, this is the talk of a mad scientist looking for some guinea pigs. This ain't my first 19th century science fiction rodeo

#Monsterdon

First Men In An English Cottage

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Since I forgot to charge my laptop (it's dead as a dodo), I will this week be trying to imagine what this film is about based solely on your jokes about it.

I'm...already a little weirded out...

#Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88 Just imagine those fellows sitting around listening to all this backstory #monsterdon

People were so very different back then. If some stranger showed up on a bike asking questions, I wouldn't just invite him into my home.

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#Monsterdon

Lionel Jeffries made a career of playing crackpots.

Remember Caractacus Potts's grandfather in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"

Edit: Oops, wrong Potts

Somehow I'm reminded of the beginning of Tarkovsky's Solaris.

#Monsterdon
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@Lazarou @combatwombat OMG do I dare get my hopes up

#Monsterdon

What a capital little house. And canal. And postman on a bicycle. And infernal contraption.

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"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.

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#Monsterdon I need that hat.

you might laugh at this dude renting a cottage so he can write a play, but let me tell you, I've spent the last week away from home and it's the only time in the last several months I've gotten any writing done #Monsterdon

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

Oh shit we've accidentally crossed over into Bedknobs and Broomsticks

#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
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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

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