Boom! That's what happened

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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...]

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@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

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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
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@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 ^_^

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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

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@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?

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@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.
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@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.

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

truth xD

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@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

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

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@Lazarou @Taweret I know it's amazing

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

@ramsey They landslided themselves in and are now sulking #monsterdon

@Lazarou it appears we fucked off into the fog this week #Monsterdon

I did really like that Godzilla is basically the bouncer buddy humanity keeps on speed dial, though. #Monsterdon

Vs Megalon could be argued to be the worst Godzilla movie. But I'v seen it too many times for quality to have any meaning anymore. It's a fun dumb wrestling match of a monster movie. With a cute gay couple.
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but godzilla says "eh, good 'nuff, you know where to find me" and fucks back off _towards_ the sea and jet jaguar gets small and goes home with the gay dads and their 80-year-old-voiced son.

oh and jet has a robowedgie most of the film

that about sum it up?

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Okay, you can unmute me now— #Monsterdon is over! 😆

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 GODZILLA VS MEGALON (1973). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

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

Thanks for the distraction from the temperature in my apartment for a while fellow Monsterdoners!

(is that our plural noun? do we have a better one?)

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So what was the deal with Easter Island? And the sand? Was that where the Seatopians were or something? #monsterdon

And absolutely nothing was resolved. That one is so gloriously bananas. Thanks once again and always to @Taweret for hosting! I'm still on hold waiting to see if I can get King Ghidorah delivered with no mushrooms. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

@srol it was one of the Godzilla movies of all time #monsterdon

Jet Jaguar just needs time to process being ghosted #monsterdon

Well, I think we can all agree on one thing. Godzilla was in this movie. #monsterdon

BYE BYE GODZILLA #monsterdon #godzillavsmegalon

Thanks @Taweret

See you next time friends

[song ends]

Yes, subtitles, that it did

Great movie, would watch again

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"The humans spoke to Jet Jaguar in Japanese. Jet Jaguar was only capable of listening in Bewilderment." #monsterdon #GodzillavsMegalon hat tip to #TerryPratchett

@Taweret@octodon.social a vicious childhood trauma he'd rather not revisit right now #monsterdon

Everything about that movie was hilarious and amazing and now I want a punk cover of the Jet Jaguar song. Aesthetic 10/10, Bromance 12/10, Plot 1/10.

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and goodnight, #Monsterdon!!! Punch punch punch!

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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If this were a Hallmark movie, Jet Jaguar and Godzilla would have kissed, and the credits would have rolled immediately. #Monsterdon

No Jet Jaguar watch out you're going to step on them!

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#monsterdon That wasn't a very long movie. And yet, it seemed like a very long movie.

This seems like an appropriate thing to share at this juncture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxV8Bf8ND4

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Outro music!

Punch Punch Punch! 👊

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Jet Jaguar, now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time...

(thx for the screenshot @strangefour !)
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If I hadn't already seen this movie on MST3K, I'd be losing my mind at this song

PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH

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I don't recall any women with speaking roles, unless you count interpretive dance. #monsterdon #GodzillavsMegalon

@forestine yeah same

I don't think we really missed much though

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🎵 jet jagaaa jet jagaaa 🎶

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I'd reckon he'd do it again if there was another movie or TV show or manga or... #Monsterdon

How conVEEEEENient that he'll be brainless until we need to shoot another action scene...

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@Infoseepage Off-camera, Jet Jaguar's crotch light started flashing

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All the monsters effed off. Their work is done now. But what of the shrinkydink robot? #Monsterdon

Japanese Elvis sings us out.

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I wouldn't want that thing in my house
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@flowerpot Or WWE pro wrestling styles were informed by monster choreography. #Monsterdon

They couldn't afford an ocean shot for Godzilla to fuck off into. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

Today. Just for one day. Jet Jaguar got to be like his childhood hero Ultraman.
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Gojira clearly asked for a hug. How could you send him off with a handshake? #monsterdon

"Good fight. Good fight." 🤝 Welp. I laughed so hard I almost cried. #Monsterdon

Okay, the villains fucked off to… stay in the sea.

Time for our boi to do the same after a quality shake.

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YES! HE DID THE THING! HE DID THE TAIL THING!

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nii-chan A to nii-chan B: that could be us, but you playing

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Guess we’ll hear from Seatopia in another 3m years #monsterdon

@trixter It's the clown music, followed immediately by arterial spray. #Monsterdon

Man that is one freakin hard bug to kill
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This is Kaiju Pro Wrestling at it's finest! #Monsterdon

HOW ARE THERE STILL NEW INSTRUMENTS ENTERING THE SOUNDTRACK

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Godzilla is just playing with his food at this point

...or maybe not food, I'd imagine kaiju don't taste very good

Also they seem to be basically indestructible, so, y'know

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Now they're just bullying Megalon.

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Seatopia just going to bury themselves under the ground then? How very Brexit of them

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This just chaos, who is puking energy weapon what at who, who can still fly and who can't, we've got the universal toddler sign for hand washing, this is great

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The runway tail-slide!
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@Kinetograph exactly! Off to the UN we go! #monsterdon

@Lazarou Is Godzilla and Jet Jaguar can work together, there's still hope for humanity! #Monsterdon

Bring on the battle trombones!

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Me thinks the Cockroach Monster and Chicken Monster are doing their victory dance prematurely #Monsterdon

Trapped back-to-back in a ring of fire while your enemies dance and mock you? Haha. I love it. 10/10 no notes. #Monsterdon

Flute music starting up. That means something big’s about to go down. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon This film did not have much budget for writing or music or supporting cast, but credit where it's due, the budget for pyrotechnics must have been enormous.

Jet-Jaguar: "Oh yeah. I can fly" #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

"WTF!? They can fly out of our fiery death trap?"
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#Monsterdon the director: no no it's fine, I'm telling you it doesn't look like you're humping him, it looks like you're choking him. It'll be perfect on screen.

Is anyone gonna mention that JJ and Godzilla are developing a real bromance on screen here? I expect a dozen yaoi fics by morning. #Monsterdon

Man, the DfBSU (department for blowing shit up) is like workin OVERTIME in this film. Not nearly as much model work as a typical Godzilla film and a lot of practical real effects. #monsterdon

@ramsey The robot decided to turn big because it wanted to and the military decided to go prepare for the Terminator uprising.

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Note that Megalon has slightly better aim than stormtroopers

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Spitting grenades is a cool idea. Weird it's not the robot doing that, though #Monsterdon

At some point I want to see a movie hero start the battle with their most powerful weapon, instead of trying their weakest shit right out of the gate. Start with the breath weapon, Godzilla. Don't fuck around. #monsterdon #GodzillavsMegalon

#monsterdon When budgets are low, just blow up everything.

So can Megalon just respawn grenades like a video game boss?

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I think this may be the most slapstick Godzilla movie I've ever seen. And I've seen Destroy All Monsters. #Monsterdon

oh no he's gonna cut the robot's throat

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