@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.
#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

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?)

#Monsterdon

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

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

"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

#Monsterdon

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!

#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMagalon

#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...

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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

Japanese Elvis sings us out.

#Monsterdon
#GodzillaVsMagalon

@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.
#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

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.

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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
#monsterdon

This is Kaiju Pro Wrestling at it's finest! #Monsterdon

HOW ARE THERE STILL NEW INSTRUMENTS ENTERING THE SOUNDTRACK

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

Now they're just bullying Megalon.

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

@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!

#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

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

#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

#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.

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

Note that Megalon has slightly better aim than stormtroopers

#Monsterdon

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?

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

I mean yea it looks dangerous but it's all kaijufabe

#Monsterdon

@moira I love the giant muppet eyes. They are just so cute and emotive.

#Monsterdon

You know those structures on kaiju and sentai sets like this where they kinda look like houses but you're actually not sure what that shape is supposed to imply? I call 'em "illegible buildings" #monsterdon

Oh no, they destroyed that apartment block that was literally in the middle of a giant meadow, miles from any other structure! #monsterdon

@Lazarou new sitcom concept

#Monsterdon

Godzilla is never late, he arrives precisely when he means to

#Monsterdon

🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

GODZILLA VS TRIVIA

An Utter Disappointment

😑 This movie had the lowest attendance in Japan of any in the series.
😭 When the elementary school student saw how they changed his contest-winning robot design, he burst into sobs.
😞 Per the SFX Director, the crew had a lack of enthusiasm for the film because Toho execs forced the scenes into a "childish" direction and budgets were reduced. This after the crew put great effort into their work.

#GodzillaVsMegalon

holy shit they cut godzilla #monsterdon

i think godzilla learned that tree move from king kong #monsterdon

I love the bromance between Godzilla and Jet Jaguar. #Monsterdon

Buddies 4 Eva #monsterdon

Godzilla with an uprooted tree BY GAWD!!

#Monsterdon

This just needs a few folded chairs and Mega-Geraldo getting a broken nose.

#monsterdon

Ruuumble in Japan! #monsterdon

Godzilla blood!!!

#monsterdon

Godzilla really just wants to bust a move in this movie. Is he about to start breakdancing?

#Monsterdon

"EAT THE TREE, EAT IT!"

#monsterdon

...Anybody else feeling like this should've been a Gamera movie? #Monsterdon

I was not expecting jaw harp in this soundtrack, but I'm not mad that it's here.

#Monsterdon

jaw harp soundtrack!!!

#monsterdon

The Jew's harp is weird
#monsterdon

i love how incredibly stupid Gigan's design is

#monsterdon

godzilla "jfc gotta show up and save your ass, you goddamn robot amateur"

#monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

BY GAWD! GODZILLA HAS COME OUT OF RETIREMENT TO BE JET JAGUAR'S TAG TEAM PARTNER!
#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

OMG did Megalon just teabag Jet Jaguar

#Monsterdon

Haha the fist pumps as Godzilla enters the scene

"Gojira in the houuuuuse what uuuuuup"

#Monsterdon

Godzilla doesn't like bullies #monsterdon

Godzilla could really use some Rocky theme music here. #Monsterdon

megalon and gigan high-fived! (technically, high-oned) #monsterdon

Hmm we really need a kaiju volleyball league #monsterdon

the worst kind of kaiju is a laughing kaiju #monsterdon

fire cancels Jet Jaguar's levitation abilities - must have exceeded his Curie temperature

#monsterdon

Megalon and Gigan are such idiots.
The Bebop and Rocksteady of kaiju.
Perfect bros. I love them.
#Monsterdon #GodzillaVsMegalon

Did Megalon and Gigan have to use that Kaiju Sign Language to plan things out?

#monsterdon

So why didn't jet jaguar reprogram himself as invincible and omnipotent?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon meanwhile, halfway between here and monster island, Godzilla is still swimming.

It's the Kaiju With Gardening Implement Hands Club #Monsterdon