2 health bars

#Monsterdon

just noticed Kaiju Neo’s armor is from Tron

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Also the last twenty minutes of The Temple of Doom, that was unexpected. #Monsterdon

@jonny I'm literally cracking up over this. Good thing I live by myself.

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WE GET IT

YOU SAW THE MATRIX #Monsterdon

you've already had awakening and associated power-up

yes, but what about second awakening and associated power-up?

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Skipped 10 minutes to get dinner started since I didn't realize this was a 2 h movie. Somehow I don't think I missed much "plot".

(the first pass on typing this toot had "pot" instead and really, that might what I'm missing to understand this...)

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I MANAGED TO ESCAPE SOMEHOW

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Temu Stalin, least believable Matrix man ever #Monsterdon

MY DUDE IS A KAIJU NEO

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PUNY KAIJU SCISSORHANDS

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LEAVE LUIGI ALONE!

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🐉 🏢 💥 FINAL TRIVIA 🐲

Continuing the 50 year commemoration...The fallen building Mothra and Gigan start fighting by is the unfortunate Tokyo Tower that was crunched in Mothra (1961). Mothra was in her larval form then. She has really blossomed!

So did I hear that right, the aliens are looking to steal our precious bodily fluids? #Monsterdon

@jonny Maybe this movie will never end we will just asymptotically approach the kaiju limit

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"Damn it!. . . . Wait a minute. . . Ya know what forget it."
#GodzillaFinaWars #Monsterdon

LMAO mitochondrias instead of midiclorians… and to raise us as cows. MOOOOOOOOOO!

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Okay, but mitochondria are a feature of like all Eukaryotes

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"Stop with that nonsense"
"OK"

movie ends

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pew pew pew pew

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the creepy flying kaiju literally catching strays

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What!? Minilla's evolving!

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Hahaaa he did a soccer goalie jump. #monsterdon

Oof, this Beast Wars-looking American Godzilla...

Also this music. 😂

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this movie even has a guy that looks like The Rock before he became a superstar thing. WHAT IN THE CASSANDRA FORETELLING?!?

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what in the whole entire world #monsterdon

I love how Mr. American just speaks English and nobody has any trouble or remarks on this.

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that baddy Xillian is giving me 1990s Beto Cuevas from La Ley. el que sabe, sabe.

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The world only has one hope left...
Godzilla.
One hour in all the pieces have been set, the movie can start... the Final War.
This is the dumbest plan ever. I love this movie so much.
#GodzillaFinaWars #Monsterdon

@jonny It's truly a Monsterpiece.

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M base in their DNA?

Is this rather than AGCT? But M means A or C in standard encoding when ordering sequences. So maybe she means a variable site? I'm so confused.

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Yes, First Officer Exposition, that's what I intend. #Monsterdon

"I was on the Gotengo. I shot that missile."

I spent thirty seconds curling my lip at the camera like an enraged ape. #Monsterdon

Wait, "Release all the monsters", IS THAT NOT WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR THE LAST HOUR

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so fuckers are fighting because even as mutants, machos pendejos cannot help themselves but be total assholes with each other?

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dude got slapped with a motorcycle

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@moira Still an hour left.....#monsterdon

This is why it's important to buy shoes where you can replace the soles

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#monsterdon This film has colors and is not afraid to use them.

Fool! My van also contains multitudes! I mean... Motorcycles!

Motorcycle Dance Battle!!!!

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The edgy intern is in charge of the alien invasion now.
#GodzillaFinaWars #Monsterdon

FOLLOW MY ORDERS

BY MY BEEFY CHIN #Monsterdon

DID SOMEBODY SEE THE MATRIX MOVIES AT ALL?

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holy shit that sound

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LMAO THEY’RE USING INDEPENDENCE DAY’S BACK STORY

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Not gonna lie, I was expecting Brent Spiner in there. #Monsterdon

All we've taught the aliens is they need to impersonate UN members who don't have dogs

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I keep expecting Captain Gordon to say, "Itsa ME, MARIO!"

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Dude you can't seriously be doing a secret lizard people invasion plot in two-thousand and fucking four

You should know better than that. -_-; #Monsterdon

they skipped right past learning conventional weapons don't work on kaiju and went straight into the Unique Command & Conquer Elite Unit energy weapons don't work on kaiju #monsterdon

SHANGHAI MAYHEM is the name of my next cyberpunk band

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Rodan is here! To blow off toupees and scream ACAB at the top of his lungs.
#GodzillaFinaWars #Monsterdon

JFC the misogyny ia cranked up to 11.

remember that when these movies were being made just for the Japanese market, women were never mistreated like this. think of the 1960s movies with the women journalists.

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"Don't even look at me, unless it's essential"

I bet she says that to all the guys

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i am so glad they cast this nickelodeon bully as the voice actor of the very serious mutant soldier guy #monsterdon

not sure if i am watching the right movie, giving 100% red alert 2 fan-edit aired on public access energy so far. into it. #monsterdon

mutant humans and aikido?

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I'm so disoriented, we just start right in the middle of the action?

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Any movie that starts at the south pole is a winner in my book

#Monsterdon

Wow that was a blast! Sometimes ridiculous, but always an energizing blast. Thanks @Taweret for getting us lined up, and to @JoeWynne and @Cherizilla for accessorizing. Looking forward to joining you all next week. #Monsterdon :dancing_lizard:

@trixter @Taweret Right? That was enough plot for the whole rest of the year's films! #Monsterdon

Oh wait, I forgot to rate characters for Godzilla: Final Wars.

The best character was Japanese David Bowie, for being a cybergoth villain who was also made entirely of Ham.

The worst character was... um... huh... um... I dunno, they all seemed pretty fun. I'll go with the EDF's interior decorator. Put up a curtain or a painting somewhere, or a potted plant.

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Listening to it back, I think that guy was "just" speaking Chinese

It looks like his character's name is Captain Li Xiang

I have no idea if or when this was established, but it stood out to me as something I hadn't seen before in a Godzilla flick

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Anyway, I think that concludes my Godzilla: Final Wars thread?

This movie had so much going on I'm still confused by it and also I had hardly any time at all to see what everyone else posted? So I guess I'll go try to do that now? Thank you for reading?

#monsterdon

The end! Go home.
#GodzillaFinaWars #Monsterdon

I give Godzilla: Final War 5 out of 5 floating golf balls of doom, one golf ball for every 100 scenes. I was debating giving it 4.5 floating golf balls of doom, but I'm going to stick to integer ratings, on this account godzilladammit!

I didn't quite like it as much as Godzilla 2000, which was somehow even goofier, but it had similar manic energy. I mildly disliked the more austere tone, but I liked all the lasers and nonsense Kaiju battles.

#monsterdon

This movie has the best ending. Gordon gets a dog as cute as he is.
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@CactuarJoe We are cackling. Had to read that one out loud to @steggy
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I wish there had been even more of this prog sound in the rest of the soundtrack. I dig it.

Stand-out hero for me is still that Mega Drive-ish bass. So good.

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jesus christ #Monsterdon

THE DOG 😂

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My kid pointed out that Son of Godzilla is doing the Titanic thing

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YES! adopt! me! daddy!!!!!! #monsterdon

And Godzilla makes Ghidora fuck off into space.

#Monsterdon

The final entrant into the Kaiju Royal Rumble is here! KAISER GHIDORAH
#GodzillaFinaWars #Monsterdon

that’s Godzilla’s version of a verbal lashing

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The final fight

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While Ghidorah flogs Godzilla with his laser snot, I would like to spend a brief moment to discuss the aesthetics of this movie.

Most of the human structures we see follow a brutalist and minimalist pattern, and their uniforms seem rather fashy and also using a mostly monochrome palette - going from white to silver to black (except for the antarctica bros). I think in a western context the aesthetics of the EDF would be seen as dystopian, but I don't think that's the intent here?

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SAY HELLO TO MY RAY HARRYHAUSEN

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAT

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OH COME

ON

#Monsterdon

SHE TOTAL RECALLED THAT DRILL

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can you fly a drill ship?
fly yes, land no.
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opportunity to evaluate the implications of humans breeding mutants as soldiers to fight godzilla with respect to what counts within the ethical scope of 'humanity': obliterated #monsterdon

DUDES ROCK with that fight scene posed in front of the kaiju fight

hell yea

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whoever this is playing the villian is getting all the points. all of them. none left for anyone else. the way he turned around like, oh. shit. lolol #monsterdon

he morphs into keanu
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Some *very* early 2000s sexism on display here. #Monsterdon

Bro brought a fist to a gunfight

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@CactuarJoe i haven't believed anything for like an hour and a half. #monsterdon

LMAO DON’T MISS THE TRAIN LIKE IN THE MATRIX

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"Drill Stalin with a Samurai Sword" sounds like a stoner's idea...

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is THAT what they called you in college? IS IT? #monsterdon

The alien spacecraft set looks a little bit like it’s from Farscape.

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@trixter what's the point of being evil if you can't look cool as shit while doing it?
#monsterdon

We get it, you saw The Matrix. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I'd like to be excused. My brain is full.

Apparently evolved mutants get +1 on slap attacks. #Monsterdon

@ricci there being an unlimited number of things that happen is the entire plot of this movie so i have no idea how they will end it #monsterdon

Oh, nice. Mewtwo. #Monsterdon