was not expecting Launch Escape System in this movie but I'm happy to have it

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Looks like an early Mercury abort test. Also STOCK FOOTAGE ALERT

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So they're just gonna lose the expensive android pre-Steve Austin expensive experiment in the ocean?

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Let me pull my helmet off so I can really huff that smoke.
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It's nice to see a-- man? person? Alien? Taking such pride in his work. #monsterdon

And now enjoy watching... What I'm gonna say is a badminton shuttlecock tied to a balloon? #Monsterdon

Whoops, I take that back #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon TOM SERVO!

"Use emergency escape equipment!"
astronaut immediately removes his helmet

I don't think that's going to help.

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First thing to do in a smoky cockpit is to remove your helmet #monsterdon

Bat-Boy certainly enjoys his job with Queen Arachnia.

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Activating space sonar!

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“And now—maximum energy!” #Monsterdon

Stock footage of... I should recognize that explosion. I think an Atlas?

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Jon Lovitz hates NASA

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Wait, was the "maximum energy" scene so good that they just put it in here again?

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God, that music is horrible! No wonder women want to leave,

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Something about the way Nadir says "Princess" comes off as condescending #monsterdon

Nadir is the zenith of smugness #Monsterdon

Why does emergency escape equipment require taking your helmet off?

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this is the Dark Eldar army you play as an extreme prude

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So in 65 they had stock footage from which NASA missions exactly?

this explosion pleases Dr. Nadir. #monsterdon

The lines on the screen are not aligning with the other lines on the screen. This means bad things. #Monsterdon

Wait, the emergency procedure is to take out the helmet?
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oh no the same explosion again.

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"yup, we blew up that one real good. REAL good!"

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That light bill gone be high af! "And now... MAXIMUM ENERGY." Again. #monsterdon

If all electrical systems have malfunctioned how is the radio working?

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Signal lost, but the cameras were still running? This isn't like one of those telemetry things

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Cut, Paste
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Oh boy, they played the bit of nosferatu saying "AND NOW....MAXIMUM ENERGY" twice, didn't they?

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Oh, they're cooking the hot dog D: #Monsterdon

i’m pretty sure that’s 100% the same “maximum energy” line read from before #monsterdon

#monsterdon Use emergency escape equipment! As opposed to the normal escape equipment.

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Sir, I don't think you're going to get much energy out of this junker.

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As a princess, I too hang out on the bridge of a small picket ship with a Nosferatu to interdict the locals' exploration attempts.

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Is the princess segment stuck in a time loop? #monsterdon

So far I am rooting for Dr. Nadir

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#Monsterdon Count Orlock here is just super satisfied with his job.

Grand vizier Billy Corgan is stuck in a time loop #monsterdon

"Maximum Energy!" Woo! Bat Boy loves that phrase.

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Did nobody tell Count Orlok that you aren't supposed to look at the camera

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Look! It’s Those Who Must Be Kept!

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This movie was ten years of groove ahead of its time

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Oh no 'malfunctions in every electrical system' 'all systems no-go' --> that's gonna be a nice coy evil chuckle opportunity I'm thinking

~ramming speed~ MAXIMUM ENERGY!! #monsterdon

Where's the drunk cameraman? There's supposed to be a drunk cameraman!

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"We've proven again that science and the mililtary can achieve the impossible."

Except a good film plot, right?

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#Monsterdon That alien princess doesn't mess around. Rocket launch? Yeah, take it down. 4 for 4 so far. They don't even suspect anything other than a malfunction.

It's Bat Boy from the Weekly World News!

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MAXIMUM ENERGY!

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and now… MAXIMUM ENERGY (2)

HAHA, FUCK YES

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More successful than the average SpaceX launch! #Monsterdon

The famous goof scene showing the second hands going backwards. I am satisfied #monsterdon

Bat Boy! #monsterdon

are we sure Dr. Nadir(?) isn't Jeff Goldblum? #monsterdon

"science and the military can accomplish the impossible"

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Much like the rocket, the pilot's brain was built by the lowest bidder. #Monsterdon

Meanwhile, in another movie

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Yay! More Bat Boy!

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As a patchwork cyborg with half a brain and vacuum tube in it's head, I suggest we

{PITCH DOWN THE NOSE 180 DEGREES}

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#Monsterdon Hang on, I need to get some smoke damage!

Oh, Fester Addams is going at it again!
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running a bit fast for a second, aren't ya? #monsterdon

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That's The Way It's Got To Be
Performed by The Poets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zK9-pyzXM

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Frankenstein meets Tommy James and the Shondells

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beautiful atom? more than just the one!

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We skipped ahead to the musical interlude.

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Technobabble is go!

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hahaha what do you mean our popular music will age awkwardly, we're white people in the 1960s

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engage bus station radio systems! #monsterdon

Is that the Zombies or the Guess Who? 😜 #Monsterdon

@littlemiao I have it on "good" authority that neither Frankenstein nor his monster appear in this film, so... 🤷

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That was "That's the Way (It's Got To Be)" by Nasty Nick and the Boys. Cheap Trick is up next! #monsterdon

Roger, Roger #Monsterdon

Honestly I’m captivated by this launch sequence.

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#Monsterdon Is Dr Nadir related to Jeff Goldblum or am I just seeing things?

"Three, two, one, mark. Roger. Whoever."

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This music is groovy as fuck!

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The extremely wooden, military 50s visuals and the proto-groovy 60s music is jarring

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#monsterdon mission control looked something like this decades ago itsefl!

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Crap. I've already lost the plot.

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Okay, I know "newsreel/stock footage with a backing track" is a cheap and lazy way to do a montage, but I don't actually mind it

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if you were wondering why the soundtrack was fucked up in the countdown. well. it was also fucked up in the movie #monsterdon

Yeah 🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM5-zF85LE&list=RD9PM5-zF85LE&start_radio=1 #monsterdon

Every space rocket looks like a male member.

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@JoeWynne it's very lumpy. #monsterdon

I just checked Letterboxd and I've watched this twice? #Monsterdon

They got a neat edition of archive footage
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I am doing the twist right now, tho #Monsterdon

This is where Musk got the idea for XAI. And Grok. And for NeuraLink. And his own brain woes.

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@Lazarou amazing, we could have had android sex bots by now & the entire manosphere would have been neutralized. #Monsterdon

The first few minutes of this one made me wonder if I was having a stroke, bravo #Monsterdon

The antenna on that "simple apparatus" was the solder tip from an old school solder gun.

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TFW you see the crappy ear and head make-up job they gave you in this low budget career ender.

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What’s with this Manson music?

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do the herky jerky

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