they grow so fast

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This movie has already surpassed my tolerance threshold for bird poop .

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Thanks to @Taweret@octodon.social for the coordination of this week's #monsterdon! Fun as usual.

Gotta say, I'm normally happy to read a subtitled movie, but to live-toot it's a bit tough, as you're missing stuff while typing.

I enjoyed hearing the Japanese and picking out phrases I could understand, but probably dubbed is better for #monsterdon uses.

Two female main characters in this 1995 flick, but they didn't really get to do much. Then again, neither did anyone else really!

I guess teenager Asagi's squeeze of her dad's hand was the only action taken by anyone that had any impact in the movie!

Nagamine et al were otherwise mostly spectators, travelling around to watch things. Like state-sponsored tourist/commentators.

She and her boyfriend did get the government to stop harassing the wrong monster I guess. Lobbyists win!

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✅ fucking up of a train
✅ fucking up of a bridge
✅ eating humans out of train like they're sardines

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i did not know you could buy portable TVs that small back in the 1990s. American capitalists suck ass.

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LMAO this totally looks like the Z-grade version of Jurassic Park.

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i knew if i held on to my high waisted jeans from the 1990s long enough they would come back in style. but even the white sneakers were a no-no back then. they just scream DORK!

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this #Gamera song goes hard, LOL

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so Gamera is Jesuschrist but on the petromafia payroll, sporting a turtle shell and elephant tusks.

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i mean... if the gay chaos metal pterodactly is destroying the petromafia's infrastructure, they're the good gays.

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the metal pterodactyls eat their own? like Evangelical Christians??!?!!

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these voice over actors do not spark joy

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Birds do not use XY chromosomes! 😠

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am so dating myself with the Jet Jaguar and Matzinger mentions

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That's great coke the taxi driver is on #monsterdon

fucking Japanese army is always attacking the wrong monster (see also, Pearl Harbor)

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How much is she paying that taxi driver to do that?

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my nuclear boob has been bothering. haven't felt well all day. maybe it'll end up having it's own movie, ready for #Monsterdon. also #fuckCancer

@CactuarJoe "this one time this crazy school girl took me up a mountain to see a monster....hey come back!"

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BIg fireball vs laser showdown finish.

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that girl is gonna end up all fucked up by the way this fight is going.

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GAY + CHAOS = Gyaos

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"Civilisation was destroyed by their own creations"

Oh my, imagine a civilisation doing that, just imagine.....

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Gamera comma > Oxford comma

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wouldn't we all like rocket feet for those awkward social situations?

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was this movie made before or after Jurassic Park? cuz this is giving me big Jurassic Park vibes.

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ANOTHER big room of Important Men, not even a woman serving coffee, too much 'man stuff' going on.

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Ugh, you've just got one monster tranquilized and into a cage, and another monster shows up.

I've had work days like this.

"We're not getting a lunch break today are we?"

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so, Gamera is Godzilla but make it a tortoise with elephant tusks... i guess they needed another monster so the FX department wouldn't get bored?

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Sir, this is a library card #monsterdon

The 90s were very proud to have invented 'night vision' and it shows

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Our main character seems to be shaping up to be Dr. Mayumi Nagamine played by Shinobu Nakayama

She looks about fifteen years old, but I guess in 1994 when they filmed this, she would have been 21yrs old.

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Touch the Monolith, go on......touch it.....

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Another gorgeous monster flick. This was so fucking cool. Took me a few minutes to rewind and find the right frame. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon This movie is the best. It was pretty fun. I loved it.

See you later Donatello!

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"his home is the Sea"

sure is pal, he knows how Monsterdon rolls

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He's fucking off into the Sea, isn't he?

Classic

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do the Japanese actually hire these many women as on-the-ground tv reporters? they probably are doing it on the movie to balance out the amount of useless military guys they hired.

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"Living with Gaos"

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the hero looks like Brock from Pokemon, btw

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"The Prime Minister is not handling the situation well!"

Evergreen statement

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her name is Wasabi?!?!

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OMG just get off the bridge already.

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so i see that there's always a capitalist pig involved in these Toho movies

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OMG am watching the voice over version on archive.org and the voices of the ladies at the bodega were like nails on a chalkboard.

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20th Century people waiting for the TV news to tell them a monster is attacking Tokyo, how quaint.

If this were 2024 they'd already be a conspiracy theory saying it wasn't real, before the first oil refinery went up

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Oh, good. Someone noticed that they're not birds.

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"yeah, let's see how this fucker likes strobe!"

That lady is endangering them all

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Is this before or after Jurassic Parks' "gigantic heap of shit" scene?

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#monsterdon is away!

Ships at sea, looking serious.

this bootlicking little b... stop working for the patriarchy!

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#monsterdon - when Regular Don isn't enough.

"WHY MUST YOU SHARE GAMERA'S SUFFERING?!"

Empathy dude, try it some time.

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i like to think that those are propulsion farts Gamera uses to move at supersonic speed.

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seriously, this stygmata by Kaiju is rather creepy

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"These things are crunchy on the outside, but soft and chewy on the inside."

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"My government is taking the wrong side in this conflict we barely understand" is also an evergreen statement

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that's some weird stygmata right there.

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creepy pyschic girls are creepy

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How long is that freaking foot bridge. Sheeze.

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#monsterdon idk how the Rivalry between Gamera and Gaoys will work out, the humans are fucking up everything.

"Cranes don't eat people"

With the shit you've seen recently, can you be so sure?

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Oh wow, they let the Naturalist lady in. Guess that was progress for the 90s

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I didn't think that was how you pronounced "Orichalcum".

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started late but there's a lot of eating in this movie.

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#Monsterdon who’s got adorable directed energy weapons! You do! Yes you do! What a good little shovel face thing!

That's the biggest teenage mutant ninja turtle I've seen all week.

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"Move the gigantic plastic display sushis into place!"

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Well at least the chimpanzees in 2001 A Space Odyssey didn't trash their monolith. These guys have some explaining to do.

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"Self-Defense forces!" They're going to self defense the crap out of those bird monsters!

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Pose for Insta! #monsterdon

It's not a normal bird... master of understatement for sure

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@yatsu "Science is Thrilling!" #monsterdon

The framing of that odd parrot sculpture suggests it's a major plot point, but it is not

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Dubs being convinced that newspaper headlines and native language titlecards are unimportant are incredibly frustrating.

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lol
"Goto Archipelago"
"RUN"

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Once again the fiction that if something bizarre and wrong threatens the World, the World actually reacts to it right away
The cruellest of 2020 ironies.

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That IS very Seaquest DSV, they're right

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@CactuarJoe why does the Sea hate us so......oh yeah, all that stuff we did #monsterdon

I am definitely down to have the remaining Gamera movies enter the #Monsterdon lineup soon, if they're on a level with this one

#monsterdon Lol Gamera is also a fire element Avatar.

AWESOME choice this week, #monsterdon fans

"Gamera will come again! For as many sequels as we can get funding for!"

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and so Gamera fucked off into the sea as we all hope to one day

ty for joining, everyone!!

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Smash all those monster eggs, make Gamera come again!

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#monsterdon Lol guys, Gamera is a very sensitive turtle.

I LOVE the miniatures in this movie. So damn detailed.
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Me when the tiny model city is being destroyed
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"Ha ha - you didn't expect me to show up underground did you mo-fo"

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i don't know but... if i were feeling an earthquake in the middle of Tokyo, i would leave the building immediately cuz that's when the Kaiju make their appearance.

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Asahi? like the sake?

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Tokyo Tower :(

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What if Gaos has access to a TV? was that statement wise? OPSEC!!

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the cannibal pterodactly laughs at your puny bombs

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they should know about monster's fondness for Landmarks.....oh well, down it goes....

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our hero's cheekbones are very distracting

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awww, 90s cgi missiles! Bless

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Plutonium-239 can be destroyed in an extremely useful way, though (power reactors).

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