#monsterdon A flying Saber–tooth turtle that transforms into a spaceship is TOTALLY way better than godzilla.

Air defense gamera hypothesis confirmed.

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"Good shot, Red Two!"

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Is she risking her life for the Meth Child from earlier?

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Gamera pulls Safeguard Gs on launch, apparently.

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I'm curious about the aerodynamics of supersonic, hyperrotatting turtles. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

They are discussing this like it's a board meeting for the phone company #monsterdon

"You think it was created by man??"

"How else could you explain a giant turtle that flies?"

Ok. Fair point. #monsterdon

#monsterdon lol Gamera is a fucking spaceship.

You said it's a rune, but it looks like someone drew a dick to me #monsterdon

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Norse runes are such an interesting find in the Pacific.

@annathepiper sexy, sexy Tokyo #monsterdon

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"Do you think it will attack Tokyo?" -- people who don't know what kind of movie they are in.

Ah yes, the spinning spaceship mutant ninja turtle monster. Of course. So predictable.

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UTO -- Unidentified Terrapin Object #Monsterdon

Well I don't think many of us were expecting that move from the turtle creature, it's gone a bit Neon Genesis again!

Shapes attacking cities!

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those shoulder pads scream 1990s and that haircut yodels Hillary Clinton... yes, her haircut became a thing for a hot minute in the 1990s.

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YEEAAAHHH! take that oil refinery!

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that's better, they've dropped some Science on those things with the flashing lights

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wait! the pterodactyls are metal or made of metal?

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I love their little triangle heads. #monsterdon

Birb PoV!

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Seem to remember Japan using tiny rifles on monsters before and it having no effect, why must they keep pushing with that?
Get the Scientists to invent something, that's how it usually goes for the human characters.

But of course, the Monsters barely notice our antics, metaphor for Nature as they are.

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Japanese McLovin

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#Monsterdon Those buffoons just trashed the archeological find of the century.

I think they're going to need a bigger cage.

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@ottaross The humans always ruin everything

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Wait, does this turtle/island creature have an 'On' switch?

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...Wait, why is the stele covered with what look like norse runes? I'd expect something that looks more like oracle bone script?

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you fools, they're actually apostrophes #monsterdon

That's a whole box full of commas. They won't have any problems with pauses in their sentences going forward.

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Radiation "extremely low", must be totally safe then

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The one place where apostrophes grow naturally. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

lol, dude found a sex toy from the Future
The asses that thing has been up, a story in itself.

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it's the legendary oxford comma! #monsterdon

Nobody likes flash photography.
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She blinded it with science!

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Doggy! no!

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That's about as much a bird as that Quetzlcoatl was a serpent.

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@Taweret When movie scientists encounter giant piles of poop, they have to stick their hands in it.

It's part of being a scientist.

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Inbound atoll?

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yo is that The Stuff? #monsterdon

Big bird would never! #monsterdon

@bunnyhero I wish I knew about that one sooner #monsterdon

every scene is a dance party in the UK dub #monsterdon

Nagamine is going to be our hero's main squeeze in this one?

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That isn't hair on the grey suited man, it's a helmet. For battle

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Oh it’s one of Terry Pratchett’s world turtles, just still baby sized. #monsterdon #gamera

#Monsterdon from an era before a good steadycam was available? And lighting was hard to rig up?

#Monsterdon I kept hearing "asshole" isntead of "atol"

"...your Amazon order of Plutonium has shipped!"

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honestly getting the ps4 to play the BluRay was a whole drama in and of itself

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Going to try “reading” #Gamera and tooting for #Monsterdon… we’ll see how it goes. Serious music to start.

It's always either a ship or a boat in the first scene. #Monsterdon

Tonight on #monsterdon : 🐢 🔥 ‼️

(mute the hashtag if this gets too spammy)

It's going to be a little tougher with subtitles to both toot and follow the story. Will be missing some dialog.

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btw most of the original designs are pointy as hell like Gyaos is to the point of their sharpness becoming a battle element. Here they are filming Gamera vs Viras in 1968. this squid is sharp and impales Gamera at one point. And Guiron is like a shark knife #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Report card for Gamera:

Me: C- was not prepared for assignment

Monster effects: A, monstrous good
Plot: C, all action no reason
Biology: 6.5/10, started strong with not-bird identification but fell on the chromosome.
Acting: B, not bad but a leeetle over the top.
Mythology: All. All the myths. Which make it very hit and myth.
Explosions: A+ very fiery
Power of Love: B, better than Interstellar
Environmental message: YES, WE KNOW.

ok i reviewed this package for joss awhile ago that was a package for separating series of mixed speaker dialogue into discrete speakers and visualizing that so i am gonna rig that up for the next monsterdon because in a lot of movies there are character that just fade away and are never mentioned again or have way more screentime than you expect and i want to see that on a zoomed out scale. lmao i could do that before the movie and you have to guess the character role by speaking timeline #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Rocket Gamera goes sub-orbital. The Gauss do not understand the gravity of the situation.

Also friction. And spin.

I searched for "xkcd kaiju" (because why not) and came up with nothing super relevant, but there is this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/78/

I wonder how many hamburgers per day Gamera would eat (if he even likes hamburgers), and how many calories are in a Gjaos

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thank you again @Taweret for one of the highlights of my week! and to everyone who joined in. always fun #monsterdon

@ottaross They kind of talk in each other's vicinity, but not at one another, disappointingly #monsterdon

I can't watch these big billowing columns of flame without feeling anxiety about the atmosphere any more #monsterdon

@Crazypedia It was pretty much textbook, as I understand

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@lytta in this movie it seems like sort of a chivalrous love (neutral derogatory/complimentary) where gamera is distant and will do anything for you except come and support you at your show or when you are having a crappy day. but they spent so much time on the biology and saying that everyone is gay that i do like how they established this sort of distributed system of pure spiritual lesbian love that materializes as a gigantic jet turtle that is the most powerful thing in the world thing, no problems with that. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe
"Okay we REALLY fucked up with the Gjaos bioweapons. We have no way to control them. We gotta build something into Gamera. where we can link to him somehow... oh wait the link works both ways. He feeds off our emotions."
Thank Godzilla for happy accidents.
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@randy_s One turtle to bring them all and in the darkness "tie them up"? I don't know if I'm reading this right. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

#Monsterdon When the world is dark, all is lost, and it seems you have no hope. When the kaiju come in waves, and you can’t see the end. Take heart, don’t lose hope, and grab a comma. Gamera will be there for you.

I really like that everyone's very happy with the "fucking off into the sea" at the end 😂

#Monsterdon #Gamera #GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse

#Monsterdon Appropriately, Gauss nested in radio tower.

This evacuation plan is… not holding up well.

@CactuarJoe i would watch a short anime season about him. every episode, a different, totally off the rails passenger? yeah. #monsterdon

Nod of mutual respect to @Taweret for putting all this together.

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Asagi is Steven Seagal’s daughter and my mind is blown. #Monsterdon

@trixter any bird large enough would absolutely eat people.

As someone with pet turkeys who peck at everything, that's an extra reason that kid's snide "6ft turkey" remark from Jurassic Park was so naive.

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If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched GAMERA, GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE (1995). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

There's a small chain of sushi restaurants in Chicago that was called Godzilla Sushi, but they were threatened with a lawsuit so they changed their name to Gorilla Sushi. Just a little #monsterdon fun fact

i think this is a really fun movie, had some good female characters, great miniatures, weird monsters, was worth watching again. night everyone #Monsterdon

That was fun, and a proper fucking off into the sea at the end! Man, I really need to go to the beach one of these weekends. When I don't have covid. 😬 Thanks to @Taweret and goodnight #Monsterdon!

#monsterdon Gayos got K.O

🦖 #MONSTERDON GOODBYE!

Thank you
@Taweret for making this crazy event come alive
and @cheribaker for the Bingo card, even when you have a commitment

And to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad - no one laid an egg.

After all this - and perhaps a gummie or two - my special viewing companion is totally exhausted.

And Gamera takes out the Big Bad Bird, thanks the Comma Energy Girl for the solid and effs off into the sea

THE END

Quite a bit if collateral damage but better than being overrun with big ugly birds I suppose

Thanks for hosting another great #Monsterdon @Taweret !

Good choice! Very enjoyable #Monsterdon
#GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse

Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

@TerryHancock @apLundell Most turtles don't have to worry about that kind of thing #monsterdon

Gamera knows how to act when you finish a job. A nod of mutual respect, and immediately fuck off into the sea. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

Loving the end credits music #monsterdon

Fire turtle leaving to hang out in the ocean? Sure, why not. This was a fun one.

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the gay chaos pterodactlys were the real heros of the movie if they wanted to destroy the petrochemical plants.

booooooooo #Gamera boooooooo!

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Just enough time before the ritual fucking off into the sea for some legally distinct Jurassic Park scoring

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Well, I'm still not a fan of these Japanese monster flicks. Still, it was a good way to kill a night.

Goodnight y'all.

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse, from 1994, is a straight up monster movie featuring a mysterious atoll, and:
- Turdberg!
- A giant bird! (Hint: it wasn't actually a bird at all! And there were three!)
- Mysterious monolith that crumbles when touched!
- Giant monster fidget spinner!
- Monster cannibals!
- Tower perching Gyaos!
- Giant turtle fireballs!

Aaaaand we have official Fucking Off Into the Sea, and the rightful order has been restored. <3

Cheers all, see you next week!

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"It's a possibility. Don't you think we should prepare for it?"

So let's start building Mecha Godz- uh Gamera! #Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our many thanks to @Taweret, as always, for hosting, and to all the posters and lurkers. And remember, #Monsterdoners: Against the shadow of evil, only Gamera can prevail.

ah, back into the sea, this movie is peak #monsterdon

Gamera has fucked off into the sea TWICE IN ONE MOVIE. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

"His home is the sea."
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Gjaos still shooting lasers with its dying breath

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This heartwarming music at the end, 80s kid's adventure with a not-quite-legally-actionable dose of Jurassic Park.
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Nod of appreciation and mutual respect. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse