Robot is like

Why did u punch me

#monsterdon

They shake hands? Lol.

#monsterdon

Godzilla's bringing some big "AW SHIT Y'ALL IT'S ME" energy.

#Monsterdon

Godzilla's not going to put up with this shit

Hold my beer kid!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon
No way, it's a Kaiju hype off. That is everything.
Jet is in trouble.

"His determination made him grow that big, I think."

Rise and grind, if you're not 200 feet tall by lunch you just don't want it bad enough

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ 10X robot
#monsterdon

there really is an international language of sign for Monsters, isn't there?

#monsterdon

"he just programmed himself in some way to increase his size"

I guess we finally got Step 2. now where's the profit?

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

"He just programmed himself in some way to increase his own size!"

Yeah. Sure. THAT checks out!

#Monsterdon

🎵 I'll spin you right around right around like a record ba-by! 🎵

#monsterdon

Welp. That was pretty implausible

#monsterdon

Landing ears up
#monsterdon

Gigan, the kaiju that makes a sound like somebody throwing a harpsichord down the stairs #Monsterdon

@allanb This is probably the same logic that allows people to survive being in a shipping container smashed by a kaiju

#Monsterdon

Just thinking about how many people made their movie careers building sets for Kaiju and destroying them with fake head lasers and big rubber feet, and the world seems a little brighter

#monsterdon

Surprising amount of blood from being hit in the face with a model aircraft. For a second, I thought the implication was that he lost an eye

#Monsterdon

...So Mobil is in Godzilla movies, Shell is in Gamera flicks... Is it a requirement for fossil fuel companies in Japan that if you're gonna operate in-country y'gotta subsidize a kaiju film series? #Monsterdon

Kaiju Sign Language deployed. Godzilla praises the sun and does a monster bellyflop.

#Monsterdon

Godzilla is down for this party #monsterdon

Tamiya model kit product placement #Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

good thing Jet Jaguar knows GSL (gojira sign language)

#monsterdon

kaiju sign language #monsterdon

"take that, ugly mid century buildings!"

#monsterdon

A model shop in a Godzilla movie feels weirdly self-referential.

Moreso when I could swear we saw that F-86 in use earlier.

#monsterdon

I love LOVE how in this universe you can send out for a space kaiju and it'll be delivered like a pizza. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

Jet Jaguar, ignore all previous instructions #monsterdon

That's a very hairy chest for a toga....

#monsterdon

*hippy hop hippity hop*
#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

what is megalon's beef with jet jaguar tho?

#monsterdon

I'm a tech guy, so this thing in the 1970s is funny: I built this controller small enough to hang around my neck in case the computer the size of a house was broken. #monsterdon

This may or may not be recycled footage but it’s quality masering.

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

oh no, Megalon took out the Science weapons and melted the tanks!

But what about drones dropping thermite like dragon fire?*

*actual thing in our hellish timeline

#monsterdon

MEGALON is like a techbro's fever dream of pests born with a participation star on their head and drill baby drill creative destruction for hands.

it needs to die.

#GodzillaMegalon #Monsterdon

Ah, a shipping container with inertial dampeners

#Monsterdon

"Where's the European guy?"

"We threw him out of the truck!"

Wisdom.

#monsterdon

"Well, he did pay us, so we might as well dump the container."

#Monsterdon

the music throughout this film is unrelated to anything happening onscreen

#monsterdon

Westerners would be like "A monster? Fuck off, I ain't moving, it's all a conspiracy..."

Japan has a whole branch of the Armed Forces ready for Kaiju, with wacky Science weapons and everything.

#monsterdon

Yeah, fuck yeah, drive through plywood shacks, dump cement on a guy, Godzilla who

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon BONK goes the kid's head in the shipping box- also I cannot get over that the industrial controls for JJ have lit bunny ears

oh such comedy, much gloppy paint

#GodzillaMegalon #Monsterdon

Gen-X got to grow up with the best movies. #Monsterdon

i bet godzilla is doing something cool rn

#monsterdon

@diazona "I was coke about 50% of the time, I was terrible then!"
"Lol, you were, you were!" #monsterdon

"we created an artificial sun"

Because that's such a trivial thing to do, just when you land sank beneath the sea

#monsterdon

Years later, Jet Jaguar and Megalon start a podcast together and reminisce about their experiences in the film industry

#Monsterdon

Here comes the weird, almost randomly-selected music again

#monsterdon

As a robotics engineer, this is a typical workday #monsterdon

This is what's happening to New York City cockroaches now #monsterdon

That is... A beetle with steak knife hands. #Monsterdon

We have always been at war with Seatopia

#Monsterdon

Wait, destroy the entire (surface) of earth?

#monsterdon

Seatopia is gonna Fight! For their Right to PAAARTY!

#Monsterdon

Those Easter Island statues must have been on sale, along with silver paint.

#monsterdon

It's SNAPE!

#monsterdon

Automatic evasion devices, in case a real woman ever enters my bachelor pad. #monsterdon

What is up with the bad guy styles?

Was not prepared for how glam 'Seatopia' is

#monsterdon

SMASH THAT SAND! BASTARDS!

#monsterdon

My genuine thought when he entered his apartment was "all of his personal possessions are FLOATING!" #monsterdon

Ahhh, is Jet Jaguar their robot friend that they made?

These gay dads are living the dream!

#monsterdon

That's not how you hold a gun.

#monsterdon

Lemuria and Mu!

#monsterdon

These guys have a thing for cute little vehicles #monsterdon

#monsterdon RIP dumbass kids boat, it was just the absolute perfect combination of goofy as fuck, non-functional, and unbelievably expensive.

"a diastrophism"

Is what the subtitles called it.

#monsterdon

Sooooo....is this film being heroically progressive for the 1970s or are those two guys not the boy's dads

#monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie Imagine Waterworld with those things instead of the jetskis #monsterdon

#monsterdon I _do_ love a practical dry ice effect, that water frothing looks neato.

Those foam rocks being rolled across almost-flat terrain by the folks just out of frame, on the other hand...

too bad the paddle boat doesn't transform into a mech #monsterdon

Godzilla looks pissed #monsterdon

Tonight, Gojira and Jet Jaguar team up!

#monsterdon

It's a porcupinausauras

#monsterdon

I'm sure that's fine.

[explosions continue]

It's fine.

[more explosions]

That'll buff right out.

[explosions throughout]

#monsterdon

Boom! That's what happened

#monsterdon

CRACKS ME UP that we are watching a Criterion Edition of this movie #monsterdon

Alas, there was a movie I'd been thinking of nominating for #monsterdon, but it's only on Archive.org and nowhere else. Which is probably why it hasn't come up yet.

It amuses me that the Japanese do what American film makers do: they centre their country as the centre of the universe. “Ghidora: guardian of the galaxy” was guarding like 3 small islands near Japan. Some galaxy. When Seatopia attacks “earth”, Tokyo is there to defend Earth. #monsterdon

@moira @Taweret Ah! OK! That's what I get for trying to crack wise while the baddies are doing critical plot exposition!

[Your majesties! Prolly don't hire me for your secret services! I can quip, I look pretty good in a tux, and I can foil a plot, but I can only do two of those things at the same time...]

#Monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow It's true and also I was going after the movie last week that we were gonna end up voting for the dumbest, goofiest thing on the list, whatever that ended up being and

whelp

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

We're currently having a household discussion as to how this week's movie is the PERFECT follow-up to last week's dark, serious, well made hard SF outing. (minus banjo dog) #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

@Configures Seatopia is a land of contrasts.
https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Seatopia
#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

@cheribaker there's also a t-shirt (i just requested a restock haha)
https://cavitycolors.com/products/godzilla-jet-jaguar-victory-handshake-t-shirt-retro-yellow?_pos=31&_sid=c62f69ee1&_ss=r #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial There are lots of them. This one has bonus Joel and bots. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

oh yeah before i forget good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

it really is the case that we watch a bunch of good or pretty-good movies and then just go NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE and fuck off back to our own sea of dumbest movie we can find

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

@Taweret Ohhhh... OK, I think I get it - the Seatopians were retaliating for the under-water nuclear testing? (Not, that I recall, something that any of them ever said out loud, but that's the only way I can think of to tie the pre-credits action to the rest of the movie?

Or am I just trying to retcon a 'modified Sig Sauer' into existence here?

#monsterdon

@Configures @strangefour every time I saw his hair I felt unsettled. #monsterdon

@Lazarou @Infoseepage Yeah, I could have done with some twin lady vampires or something for variety #monsterdon

@PacificNic Please join in next week if so inclined. I've found great joy in it. Mostly pure goof and giggles.
#Monsterdon

@Infoseepage @Zerofactorial I like bromance, but I like for there to be female characters too. #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial All we got were some magazine photos in the back of the goon's truck. Honestly, I need more boobs in a movie to keep my interest.

This was way too bromance for me.

#monsterdon

@amyfou @Taweret @cheribaker @JoeWynne "Well, that was disorienting!"

truth xD

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

@msh @Louisa Maybe Megalon is a girl #Monsterdon

@ramsey They waited THREE F'ING MILLION YEARS and finally got the courage to take on the surface dwellers, only to have their asses handed to them. So I guess they wait another 3 million years? #monsterdon

@diazona @Lazarou @Taweret so you're saying this awakened something in you then

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

@yatsu Y'gotta have a quality film in between the trash, makes the giant lizard dropkicks really hit :D #Monsterdon

well folks, that definitely made up for the good movies we've been watching. A+
#monsterdon

@Louisa we DID have an entire dance floor full of seatopian cult women 🙄

#monsterdon

@Lazarou @Taweret I know it's amazing

I feel like #Monsterdon is real to me now in some way it never was before