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Last French nuke test in south Pacific just two years before this film came out

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so many beepers #godzilla1998 #monsterdon

i think there's an argument that this would be substantially improved if broderick were just outright playing ferris bueller in it.

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@davesdogmaggie @kshernandez he used _blood_. mixed with dirt and who knows what the fuck else, the false positive matrix is off the charts

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one hour to go...

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Oui #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I needed a subtitle

Laughs in French

No one expects the French Foreign Legion
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@peterries He's the French Connection! #Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

I can tell the French secret service have solid tradecraft by the way the outrageously conspicuous camera guy spies casually on them. #Monsterdon

So the French are going to secretly kill the 20 story tall creature demolishing one of the most famous cites on earth. Sure.. that scans. #Monsterdon #Godzilla98 #GINO

*Tosses a map on the table* Ahhhhhhhh the French!! #Godzilla1998 #Godzilla #Monsterdon

@Taweret Cloverfield did it better. And shorter if I remember right.
#Monsterdon #Gino

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Suuuuuure...

(I'm pretty sure it took until, like, the 2000s for any of the communities affected by nuclear testing to even have it be acknowledged that anything happened to them at all. Mostly because liability.)

We're not going to the airport. We're going to the scene of your murder. #monsterdon

shifting the blame for the nuclear testing onto the French is perhaps the biggest insult to everything that the Godzilla franchise represents

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@kshernandez That’s a choice.

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so we're supposed to believe that the *french* are the ones who did nuclear tests that left a bunch of pollution etc?

The french.

Because after the Suez Canal thing, the French decided to structure their affairs so that they could not be instantly deflated by the Americans. #Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

#monsterdon “Your military is pretty much built of knuckle-draggers, so it's not ever going to work. We let them make a mess of things, and then we actually fix it.”

Oh Ferris Bueller, always getting lucky.
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Agent Roaché is just an unusually French shobijin, if you think about it
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"How did you get all these guns and stuff?"

Reno: "I'm a profess-" *someone shoots me* #monsterdon

What Broderick and Reno SHOULD do is go find Professor Langdon because this movie needs Hanks.

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Vive Le France!

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"I'm afraid I can't do that" - til you serve me some cafe zat eez actually not merde tu fuckeah

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"Why aren't you people working WITH the military"

Do you LISTEN to yourself??? #Monsterdon

We know why the French secret service isn't working with the US military. @Taweret covered that with the Suez Crisis discussion earlier this week.

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[wants to contradict.....then nods reluctantly.]

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"...why do you want to find the nest?"
"Omelettes. I am going to make the most amazing omelettes."

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#Monsterdon, why is this giving very strong Little Shop of Horrors vibes?

Oh no! Missed the start of Godzilla 98.
I’m putting on that weird Puff Daddy / Jimmy Page / Tom Morello version of Kashmir.
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Wow she came out to New York? Like the whole city at the same time?
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#Monsterdon I like that bossman spy that does his own taxi driving kidnapping even after being malnourished from that terrible coffee and non-croissant!

The French want to weaponize Godzilla. #Monsterdon

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Weird Bottles

All Anheuser-Busch beer bottles were digitally "erased" because a promotional deal was cancelled late in filming.

#Godzilla1998

This French guy ALSO loves Godzilla. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon You know what this movie needs? More characters and subplots.

More characters means more quality!!!

I think the thing is this movie was written by people who thought everyone watching it would be stupid, so they had to make sure characters just said exactly what they were feeling while explicitly re-stating every plot point in very clear terms. #Monsterdon

I forgot about the French guy kidnapping our biologist guy. #Godzilla #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

Unfortunately Jean Reno is keeping Broderick in this movie, so I gotta hate him.
#Monsterdon #Gino

"Sounds big. What is your policy on worms?"

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DJAC: da jfrench asecret cervice

#Godzilla #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

the "jokes" are the movie's way of saying "please don't judge us for making a Godzilla movie" which

then why did you make a Godzilla movie??

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Terrible characters. Just awful.

@paco

Even her acting is horrible.

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It would be so funny if the driver peeked his head back and it was Godzilla
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Yeaaah, yeaaah, you're that insurance guy, yeah

(suddenly sounding like a 20s gangster)

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@sean When the CGI effects improve. #Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

Oh it's Doctor Insurance #Monsterdon

ah yes, thrill! to the shots of people driving through the rain!

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Worm guy was just kidnapped?

That’s one way to make this movie longer

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1998: The year The Chrysler Building was destroyed twice, in
Godzilla and in
Armageddon

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Oh to be kidnapped by 90s era Jean Reno. *swoon*
#Monsterdon #Gino

@davesdogmaggie I believe he used poo... #monsterdon #Gozilla1998 #WrongGodzilla 🦖🦎

Audrey sucks, like, she's relatable, but she manipulated our boy and then betrayed his trust. Even if her story had really been her own and not robbed by sexual harrasser McGee it still would be fucked. #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon #Godzilla

Why is the cameraman now a cabdriver #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon so is he still taking his stalker shrine with him after that betrayal!?

#monsterdon "What is this, the Virgin Lizard?"

HAHAHAHA GOOD ONE BOSS THAT'S A GOOD ONE YOU'RE THE FUNNIEST MAYOR

This is why you never get into the first cab that stops

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The stolen tapes betrayal subplot is all anybody ever remembers from this film

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Time to return to his one true love.

Worms.

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watch Hank Azaria pit maneuver a NY cabbie, coming up

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i mean, there's a long list of things people never should have done in this movie, honestly stealing top secret tapes was at least ballsy.

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Yeah, how DARE you reveal to the public information that might save lives but which the military is suppressing because they don't wanna look stupid! I thought you were a REPORTER! #Monsterdon

you know when you miss your ex so you leak classified military information

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She's horrible. He's pathetic. Our main characters everybody!
#Monsterdon #Gino

The strings
section is deeply invested in this relationship #Monsterdon

wow we're only 68 minutes into this marathon, are we?

#monsterdon #FakeZilla #Godzilla1998

When's it gonna stop raining?

#Monsterdon #Godzilla

#monsterdon ack shoe ally we settled on "Zilla" going forward, thank you #toho for that retcon.

Women are throwing themselves at the worm scientist and he's completely oblivious
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"Good luck w/ your new career"

Sick burn, worm guy #Monsterdon

this is, if anything, worse writing than i remembered.

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Imagine having to act these lines....

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I'm on the fence about if Cloverfield did this better or not.

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@CactuarJoe two thumbs down #monsterdon

Yeah, we gonna toss you out because some info got leaked after the daikaiju wandered around New York City. InfoSec has to take priority over... whatever it is we brought you in for. #Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

there's lots of ways you can make a Godzilla movie work but you do actually need to pick a lane

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Quit making me feel something for Matthew Broderick.. it feels wrong, somehow.

god this writing is so dumb #Monsterdon

I want the Paleontologist and biologist to get togetherrrrrrr. C'mon kiss already!!! Dx
#Godzilla #Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

you never said it was off the record!

um sorry i was busy girlbossing my way to a promotion that really backfired 💅

#Godzilla #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

I wish they'd given Aldi-brand Sarah Harding a bigger role #Monsterdon

Eat a bucket of dicks, lady "reporter"

#monsterdon #Godzilla1998

Don't leave it to Hicks.That won't end well.

#Monsterdon #WrongHicks

Oh no! It looks like I’m missing a Godzilla #monsterdon
I’ve been working all weekend and I’m still not done 😭

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⁉️ TRIVIAZILLA 🏙️💥🦖

The correct answer for the 30 Minute Poll is

SHERE KHAN from Jungle Book was used to design Godzilla's chin.

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@Taweret movie couldn't decide what to do, so it recorded and flips between both

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So MUCH rain though...

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Their cover is blown. They were keeping such a tight lid on this giant lizard thing up to this point. #Monsterdon

Is there really still another hour of this? Yeesh. #Monsterdon

@cinebox Why not, scale to the buildings looks smaller than panamax (thinking more of the width than the length).

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Do we know who Jean Reno really is yet?

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@chirpbirb That makes sense.

No.

It doesn’t.

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@ramsey #monsterdon

looking for good coffee!

He's finally had enough of shitty American coffee.

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Matt does the slow sad Tigger walk out of the tent T_T #Monsterdon

"Oh well, back to my worms!"

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Is there, a purpose to Hank Azaria's character? Or was he just a rider to Harry Shearer's contract? #monsterdon