Decent compositing there on the timid tiger.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Hey, thanks for calling me a sexual predator while I watch. #monsterdon

We're still in a negative bechdel space, especially since the robot came out as agender. #monsterdon

This is just what suburban front lawns look like in New Mexico. #monsterdon

The dipshit goes straight for gender... Or possibly he's just wondering if he can fuck it.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

The Cook wants to fuck the robot

The robot is disgusted with the human

Guess where this is going ;)

#Monsterdon

the only Skipper i would take orders from

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

I don't think the Cook would make it into Starfleet with that attitude....

#Monsterdon

that's it baby, they just did 2001: a space odyssey in 10 seconds. that's what you call efficiency. #monsterdon

@moira @Lazarou @littlemiao you see to me all these characters were reduced to "captain", "cookie" and "other guys who also look like the captain to me" #monsterdon

@blogdiva aren't we seeing their rather dull 'monsters from Id' every fucking day?

#Monsterdon #Fascism

His final act was one of stupid destruction. How fitting

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Woo! That was fun.

A classic.

@paco

One of my favorite effects in all sci-fi is this melting metal, lava-like. I still remember it from seeing it as a kid.

#Monsterdon

"All the stored knowledge of the Krell...."

That really sucks though....

Please stop lecturing your island bride Leslie, she needs some time...

#Monsterdon

i'm not a monster, and i'll prove it by attacking you. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🪐 🚫 👽 👩‍🚀 👨‍🚀 😱

Oh no they just pushed those styrofoam trees over

#Monsterdon god I love practical effects

Myst, Riven, I Dream Of Jeanie…

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

those uniforms give 1980s techno band

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

oh no, not doc, now we only have two dozen of exactly the same guy left #monsterdon

"Monsters from the Id" was Freud's original title before going with "The Interpretation of Dreams" #monsterdon

oh man, they mixed animation in this? and of course, this monster was totally referenced in Lord of the Rings

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Alta, you can do so much better than this hunk of wood. Have Robbie make you a Hitachi Magic Wand. #Monsterdon

sudo admit us to the lab

#monsterdon

laser gorilla!!!! laser gorilla!!!!!!! getting all its outlines reddened!!!! #monsterdon

Now THAT's a cool special effect!

#monsterdon

don't cross the streams lads

#Monsterdon

I'll be a little in and out for a bit. I got a peach cobbler right out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla on it, my priorities are not out of whack, and momma didn't raise no chumps.

That's not true. She raised a couple, but I'm not one of them. She told me so!

#Monsterdon

The starship has plaster of paris on board...just in case....

#Monsterdon

This dark and mysterious force should be thwarted by their tall rectangular doors.

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Smoothest bourbon on Altair

#Monsterdon

@tankgrrl And I use it to... look at my daughter. #monsterdon

The Krell did NOT have Capitalism, hence their shit lasted

#Monsterdon

"You may be disappointed Captain"

oooo BURN!

#Monsterdon

Hmm. There's a bit of At the Mountains of Madness in here that I hadn't noticed before.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

#Monsterdon *pew pew pew*

So what he's saying is they were triangle people.

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

uh-oh she got the tingles… but the tiger doesn’t like him… AND HE KILLED THE TIGER!!!

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

#Monsterdon secret door in the study! i always wanted one of those

The earthmen have been on the planet one day and they've already started killing.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Oh no kitty!! 😩

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#Monsterdon "I have had literature, philosophy, mathematics, geology, and bi..."

"biology?"

😏

“I think the best thing that you can do is go to bed” It used to work when she is seven. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon you're deprived of space pay!!!

And now the comic relief scene.
Is Robbie a weed dealer now?
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🙊 FORBIDDEN TRIVIA 🪐

In case you missed the joke...
The cook says he drinks "Ancient Rocket Bourbon". See below for referenced liquor. Also indicates old non-FTL rockets are "ancient."

#ForbiddenPlanet

timestamp to clip robbie the robot stealing the booze please #monsterdon

The scenery will be perfect for "outdoor" murals seen through the windows of my future bunker home.

#Monsterdon

I'm wondering if in this universe, if all of the United Planets astronauts are men, or if they have some kind of sex segregation where different flying saucers have all female crews. Like boy saucers and girl saucers.

#monsterdon

Uh-oh.....'a lady'

The men immediately behave like the cartoons of the time...

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So three of the spacemen take the spacecar to an extremely modernist glass house, where they are greeted by a giant fish statue, and meet the Doctor, who has a goatee, perhaps a Goatee of Evil!?

Anyway, the Doctor is congenial and gives them food, which the robot made for them with its built in food extruder. They then get a demo of this smart house's nice features, like a disintigrator beam, and learn that Robby is programmed to not kill people via a Very Unsafe Gun Demo.

#monsterdon

See, they can respect non-binary preferences, even in 1956 movies. It's not hard.

#Monsterdon

Okay now that I have the movie actually running, I'll put my comments under this one, starting with:

That's the best spaceship in any Monsterdon movie so far! The props are GREAT

#Monsterdon #TheForbiddenPlanet

Hey look, a Cybertruck #monsterdon

The flight crew got these net, new unifroms while the kitchen guys are still wearing that cold war crap. #monsterdon

Wow… just imagine using a WIRELESS microphone. The future looks amazing. #monsterdon

Yep, now I know where Dr. Who got all those annoying sounds

#monsterdon

Oh no, did we accidentally pick a good movie? Somebody put _work_ into these costumes and sets, and the focus pulling is suspiciously competent!

#monsterdon

Launching my #monsterdon thread for #ForbiddenPlanet! A movie that is reputed to be Very Good and a Classic and also the Antecedent to a lot of other scifi movies that came later. I think I watched it before, not sure if it left much of an impression on me, so excited to rewatch it and see if it does?

Anyway, monsterdon is the thing where every week we watch a monster movie every week and provide snarky commentary. Feel free to mute the hash tag if that's not your jam.

@littlemiao Yeah, I pretty much just gave up on telling the difference between most of them.

I'm also very bad at telling identically-dressed male characters in 50s movies apart. #monsterdon

@JoeWynne @Taweret @Cherizilla Yes, sharply parted hair was a great choice! #Monsterdon

if i didn't have to work in the morning i'd watch FORBIDDEN WORLD next. alas!

thanks for the fun everyone and as always thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

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@otheorange_tag @Taweret That's such a sweet realization to have when you're that little! :)

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"we brought back a magical robot from a frontier world and it devoured the Solar System, that'll show those fuckers..." - the Cook

#Monsterdon

I'm glad robbie lived though, presumably they can fuck himself and produce an army of Robbie's across the Solar System, turning energy into matter. I'm sure that'll go fine....

#Monsterdon

Robby the Robot stops on Earth just long enough to download himself into a better shell and then just wanders the universe, being the most badass butler/starship navigator several civilizations have ever seen. #monsterdon

The skipper could solve this with one head shot

#monsterdon

My takeaway from this film is... the dress.

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@neonbubble The real monsters are the men who treat Alta that way. #monsterdon

Time to bug out

But is the monster aboard the ship?

#monsterdon

Evacuate?! in our moment of triumph?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon A convenient destroy the planet button.

"solid krell metal" has the same energy as "those chains are made of chrome steel"

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon can't morbius just get therapy

"What man can remember his own dreams?" -- uhhhh, a lot of them??

#Monsterdon

"After a million years of shining sanity. They could hardly have imagined what was killing them."

Quality line.

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

The real monster was “the Id”

I dunno… seems like also the ego

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I'm enjoying how well my ad blockers are working on this #monsterdon

You can really see what the special effects person on loan from Disney was for #monsterdon

@amyfou The mothership connection. Doin it to you in your eardrum.
#monsterdon

Because the victim was crushed, they also suspect the robot, but the cook appears to exonerate the robot by explaining that they were getting drunk last night, so the robot couldn't be a murderbot.

#monsterdon

I love how Mobius is all "shit, it's happening again"

#Monsterdon

Robby apparently just goes and does whatever he wants.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

#monsterdon Robbie even labeled the bottles!!

9200 nuclear reactors

hahahah

just to power his house

who is this guy, Elon Musk?

#monsterdon

damn what a shot!

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She had a pet tiger… so anyway I started blasting’
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"Plastic Educator" sounds like a dildo

#Monsterdon

does this story about Krell count as monologuing?

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Half a million years ago the Krell musicians were WHALES

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Krell's greatest musicians are not fantastic.

The daughter voices surprise that her disney princess powers have been neutralized and she can no longer pet the kitty, because it wants to eat her instead. I guess this is because she kissed a boy, but who knows.

#monsterdon

not...SPACE PAY!

What about the Earth pay though?

#Monsterdon

Dangerous bass drops afoot.

#monsterdon #forbiddenPlanet

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🙊 FORBIDDEN TRIVIA 🪐

This whole on-planet part of the production was completed in a massive set.

#ForbiddenPlanet

[sensuous plunking]

#Monsterdon

Okay, so I missed some more interactions, but now the space daughter is ordering that the robot synthesize her a nice dress with sparkly bits but that shows nothing! So I guess she's decided to flirt with the horny spacemen.

#monsterdon

"My men need pussy, they're entitled to it, stop flaunting it whore!"

Patriarchy in SPAAAACCCEEEEEE

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Alta: boy men sure are stupid.