@jonny

“…they did the mash, the Godmonster mash
It was a sheep farm smash
It caught on in a flash
They did the Godmonster mash”

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@Zerofactorial @moira I can still see the Godmonster when I close my eyes @_@ #Monsterdon

i love godmonster dance 😌​ #monsterdon

Kind of amazing how they went from "we are going to fake a dog death" to "we are going to break your neck."
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@sng @Taweret @apLundell Racism, the environment, historical conservation, mutant sheep

This movie tries to say A Lot about Many Things and I admire that

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This is your reminder that #manos was responsible for the death of Torgo. DID THIS FILM KILL ANYONE? #monsterdon #godmonster

Seeing the quasi-authentic wild west tourist background in the film makes me slightly envious - I grew up near The American Adventure - a theme park built on the remnants of a disused coal mine in semi-rural Derbyshire.

Complete with a fake wild west street, with staged gun battles and cowboy-themed everything. Imagine a cheap, late '80s British Westworld...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Adventure_Theme_Park

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@lytta She sacrificed so much of her potential just to give us a moment of Bechdel #monsterdon

@rwg Seriously, I gotta formally apologize to Torgo. We didn't know how good we had it. #Monsterdon

I feel like there must be one key element of the filmmakers vision that we missed, one half second piece of dialog or jumpcut, that would bring the movie into brilliant focus, the way the bottom of a glass makes the world briefly make sense. #monsterdon #godmonster

So the moral of this story is... "Fucking white people. Mad as a sack of hammers. Every one of them."
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that really popped off at the end though like, its all sand and trash and yelling and explosion, an eruption of all the tension ive been sitting on for an hour and twenty five fucking minutes just trying to figure out whats going on and A plot and B plot just collide mindlessly and dramatically like a goose into a cyclist, fuck. #Monsterdon

I feel like I've been hit by a cattle prod. #Monsterdon

Upon reflection, I think my favorite part of #godmonsterofindianflats is when they open the empty, silk-lined dog casket after the sham dog funeral and the casket barks. #monsterdon

@catzilla

I mean, the answer to your second question is certainly because they knew a very good dog

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"Coriander why aren't you talking about the monster at all?"

The monster was a non-factor in whatever allegory the movie was trying to communicate and you know it

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The whole thing about nostalgia blinding us to the possibilities of the future and realities of the present IS really interesting to explore in the concept of "old mining town outside Reno just LARPs the Wild West all day every day" but genuinely I don't know what they were DOING with any of it

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Credits: "The citizens of Virginia City as Themselves"

Wow

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In conclusion. #monsterdon #TheGodmonsterOfIndianFlats

@Lazarou Well naturally, we're not godmonsters here #monsterdon

nothing is okay and everything hurts

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the thing i love about this movie is that everybody loved the godmonster except the klansman that they killed #monsterdon

@jonny Seriously! I mean, it's not like the rest of the film was a triumph or anything, but

plot trundles along unsteadily for 80 minutes

then trips and unceremoniously disintegrates.

What? #Monsterdon

I think Trump plagiarized many of his speeches from this movie #monsterdon

god this was bad. would not watch again. jesus christ

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credits? you're showing me credits? what in god's name.

Incredible. what a triumph. the last 25 minutes of that movie were the biggest catastrophe i think i've ever seen onscreen

10 out of 10
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This movie is a fine damn reason to never go to Virginia City, NV. #monsterdon

Thanks @Taweret and the rest of the #Monsterdon crew.

Here's the thing about this movie... It is NOT GOOD. but it's memorable. #monsterdon

I was really hoping for WAY more sheep monster. #monsterdon #TheGodmonsterOfIndianFlats

Another #Monsterdon is in the baaaaaaaa-g!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight we had a western? I think? There was ... a lot:
- Banjos!
- Sheep science!
- Sheep jazz!
- Bonanza Days!
- Not nearly enough Godmonster!
- Blue nights!

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Remind we again, why did we all vote for this movie? #monsterdon

My cat is watching the end of the #monsterdon movie with me. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t make any more sense to either of us!! 🤪

Barnstable like, dude, f you, i'm going to asia. #monsterdon

Rich guy really needs to think about switching to decaf. #monsterdon #TheGodmonsterOfIndianFlats

I bet this was just an after hours project some student made while working on a porn set. It would explain SO much. #Monsterdon

YES YES it's throw the garbage down the hill and explode it time #monsterdon #thegodmonsterofindianflats

Truck rolls down the hill.
Explodes
Sure, why not, makes as much sense as anything else in this movie
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disembodied laughing as the crowd goes wild #Monsterdon

The most exciting zoning meeting ever! #Monsterdon

God monster: (little squeaky voice) "Help me! Help me!"

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#monsterdon What a 2nd Trump term would look like

This movie. #monsterdon

"Let's push our cars into the ravine so we can never leave!"

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What IS this? #Monsterdon

"Make them pay! MAKE THEM ALL PAY!!!"

You're not supposed to say that part out loud

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i am in tears, this scene is amazing. everything is HAPPENING #monsterdon

You may be relieved to hear that the fantastic editing, continuity and sound were all the responsibility of one person. #monsterdon

I don't think that shabby godmonster is going to bring the tourists in folks, and now all the towns people have lost their mines......and they didn't go for the 'Monster Reveal' either....what a terrible presentation.

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#monsterdon This is really about the monster being the insulated, all-white town misled by an unchecked greedy white politician who has manipulated everyone

So the monster is allergic to rope?

I guess this makes more sense than M. Night Shyamalan's Signs

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TIL that you can buy off-the-shelf day-for-night filters from Tiffen or whoever. #Monsterdon #GodMonsterOfIndianFlats

Is this it? I mean, seriously? A financial scam? The monster taken care of by some cowboys?

There BETTER be monster sheep eggs lining the canyon or mines when the credits start

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Nobody gives a good goddamn about the mining lease plot! End! Ennnnnnd! #Monsterdon

@yatsu The filmmakers probably made this daring choice when they realized they could save money by not buying a gavel. #Monsterdon

...So the KKK wins? Pretty much a shutout for White Supremacy, then? #Monsterdon

So, if I understand #monsterdon correctly, in the 1870s a terrifying monster attacked the miners. The miners burnt the beast. And a hundred years later a sheep inhaled a particle of the original beast and a miserable deformed hybrid was born?

Wouldn't it have been better to make a movie about the original 1870 monster?

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I hate to say this, but this movie is very, very, very bad

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@SarraceniaWilds "What's that black leather couch doing in the shot?" #monsterdon #godmonster

Oh dear, the monster costume is actively falling apart #monsterdon

I feel like they wanted to make a western and probably should have just made a western?

That was a pretty good sequence with the large party on horseback, but it's entirely wasted on this movie, just a brief disconnected moment between brief disconnected moments

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"the cold air may have temporary ended his rampage"

Same

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If I were a monster, I too would pause to eat delicious watermelon.

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Scoring some yum-yums? What monster could resist? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Kind of resembles a mastodon

Mr Snuffalapogus has seen some hard times.

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"my god this is becoming a nightmare!"
buddy, it's been a nightmare from the first 10 minutes. :D

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@CactuarJoe LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH. #monsterdon #godmonster

There is no need for panic. Also, I'm declaring martial law.

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"THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR PANIC."

Videodrome will now control all aspects of human life. @_@ #Monsterdon

Is she trying to do interpretive dance at the monster?

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I've been following you all the way from the WHAT #monsterdon

This godmonster inspired the Dark Crystal, clearly.

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Oh you better believe I’m clipping that glory hole line #monsterdon

She's been following him all the way from the What Now? #monsterdon #TheGodmonsterOfIndianFlats

Do you get the sense this director and/or scriptwriter really wanted to tell a story about small town corruption but could only get money for a monster movie? #Monsterdon

I'm aroused.

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So, besides "cross fertilization," what mutated this thing? Phosphorus? Tear gas? Racist mobs?

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One racist down. #Monsterdon

with only 20 minutes to go, the monster is finally in this monster movie and has a kill

at the pace this movie is going, there may be room for a second kill

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Okay monster friend killed a nazi, confirmed good guy

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the social commentary of the klansmen getting what they deserve but only because they tear gassed the godmonster is sort of unclear #monsterdon

Godmonster freeeeeee!

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i'm gonna be honest fellas this movie sucks ass

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Dr Clemens ratting out Barnstable, the coward!
Godmonster is taking notes!

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sure would be a shame if we had a mutant sheep that thrived on teargas #monsterdon

ope the two completely unrelated plots are about to collide by sheer chance #monsterdon

This urban warfare scene needs drones and Eurohouse music

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The crazy literalness of the 70s. "We're giving you exactly 10 seconds, mister! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6..."

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@Zerofactorial @brooke still better than anything an AI could do!

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I am at this point assuming that the godmonster itself is the resolution of all of the *gestures* in this movie

Like, the godmonster is gonna kill the yeehaw squad and ruin the town or something?

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@Lazarou @Zerofactorial @brooke This movie carried only nightmares and traumatic hallucinations. #monsterdon #godmonster

@Lazarou @brooke It is definitely breaking a lot of ground. None of it good #monsterdon

No, bad movie! No lynching! Bad! #Monsterdon

Where the HELL did this getaway car come from?

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It feels like there were two writers who wrote very different movies and they just decided to film both
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@brooke It feels to me like the actor expected Barnstable to be a breakout role for him #monsterdon

okay they're straight up lynching this dude

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#monsterdon Well, this is disturbing