Battra, the bat larva kaiju, has arrived

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Those faeries are so tiny, I could pick them up super early in a game of Karamari Damacy. #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

Everyone seems to be taking the existence of a giant ancient moth and tiny faeries in stride

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@RobynGoodfellow I feel like this is juuuuust old enough that they have to be toy planes. #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMothra

So Battra's not a fan of Nest Thermostats then #monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow Stock footage! DRINK! #Monsterdon

Woo hoo! Toy Planes! Toy Planes! It's been too long. #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

Hey, do miniature clone fairies count for Bechdel Test purposes? Asking for #monsterdon

Dude feeling guilty is like...the most depressingly unbelievable line so far.. #Monsterdon

military shots. take a shot. #monsterdon

So here's the big question. Do we get CG or Toy Planes? #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

"...are you humans different than the other humans?"
"other humans?"
"oh no ...."

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There's a lot of things that could go wrong with a Weather-Control-Machine, and I would expect the scientists to be prepared for most of them.

But I don't think it's fair to expect them to anticipate that it might cause the creation of the evil twin of a giant moth.

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#Monsterdon The Flower Faries of the Cosmos give a very… uh… slanted view of history. I WISH we had a climate-control device!

"We hope that humans don't make the same mistakes they did before"

oh, you sweet summer fairies

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"They beat me again and I'll lose faith. Faith in the power of environmental destruction. I'll lose faith in the powers of being a Captain Planet villain." #Monsterdon

Oh. He's gotta be a BLACK Mothra. *sigh*
Wait. An ancient civilization built a Weather Dominator?
#Monsterdon #Godzilla #Battra

Hubba hubba, what a tie on the exec!

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Oh hey! He got his tie back. #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

That was a pointed camera zoom when they agreed that men were destroying the earth's climate #monsterdon

look at that cell phone! THAT'S the treasure. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh, shit! He’s got a mustache!

Yay it's these voice guys! #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMothra

Cosmos? Are they going to murder Godzilla with finger lasers?
#Monsterdon #Godzilla #Battra

I can't tell. Does this movie have any opinions about climate change? #monsterdon

golf course development? listen, i have only rarely wanted some place to GET WRECKED in previous movies. #monsterdon

Exposition montage is the best way to travel in and out of caves

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"What's all this? What's happening to our planet?"

BIG

MOOD

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#monsterdon ooooh- they're the only two antediluvian cosmos still remaining, all caught up now

Time to make an omelette for Ultraman.
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The fairies should have told them that they had to go sit on Mothra's egg until it hatched.

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Do head ornaments count as matching hats? #Monsterdon

OMG FAERIES

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more movies need fairies who show up to explain the backstory tbh

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@CactuarJoe The Exposition Faeries, in the Cave Of Incredible Coincidence. #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

The Earth can be offended? ...Can the Earth also experience other emotions? Anger, happiness, ennui? Can Earth feel a certain listlessness around 4pm on a Sunday? #Monsterdon

Oh, is the weather control machine just part of this dub? #Monsterdon
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Fuckin-A, we have twins!

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#Monsterdon Ooh, “It’s a cave painting, it looks very old.” Meanwhile the actual archeologist goes wide-eyed “Are you sure?!”

Minus ten million points for sexism.

Okay, I feel like I'm getting a lot of backstory right now
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Mothra fairies seem to be wearing polyester with modern dyes now. I'm used to seeing them in like linen.
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The legend of giants moths and flying bugs.
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These fuckin Mothra fairy twins know exactly what they're doing, they're always hiding behind something and waiting for everyone to look before they come out

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Smol Ladies have appeared!

We have Smol Ladies! :blobaww: #Monsterdon

Exposition fairies. #Monsterdon

The Harolds of Mothra. The Harbingers of Mothra. They will destroy you. #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

Yes let's scrape the egg, that makes sense

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Wait I’m sorry, instead of being about actual climate change this is about a Weather Dominator? #Monsterdon
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"...but then something terrible happened"
"what happened?"
"Humans. Humans happened."

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Big Star Wars Christmas Special vibes with these tiny costumed people #monsterdon #godzillavsmothra

#monsterdon No I mean we're the band "The Cosmos"

Too many movies are about getting back together with someone you divorced for a reason.
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we counting this as "mothra summoned" and/or "the legend says" yet? #monsterdon #monsterdonbingo

Yay! The Fae Sisters appear!

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@Taweret Aw, all I got is commercials #monsterdon

"It's Mothra's egg! It belongs to Mothra, you dipshits!" #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMothra

Oh lord. Here we go with the twins >_>; #Monsterdon

Yay, the Mothra fairies!

#Monsterdon #Battra

<<< fairy sighting >>>>

#Monsterdon spiritual event

Hooray! Mothra Girls! #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

#Monsterdon That’s been there since the Great Easter Egg Hunt of 2500 BCE. Don’t open it!

Oh hey, it's the fairy twins!

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hey! the twins! #monsterdon

Epic easter creme egg! #Monsterdon

Look at that! It's the MSG Sphere! #monsterdon

[scrapes off some Mothra eggshell] what could this be!

Let's snort it and see if we get high!

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YAY the fairies! #monsterdon

What could this massive egg shaped thing that's colored like an egg be? #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

Shouldn't it be Larva Island? 🤔 #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMothra

look, it's the giant beach ball we've been searching for, now we can have that absolutely rocking party you've been hoping for, Mr Brings An Alarm Clock To An Indiana Jones Movie. #monsterdon

It's not bee, you idiot, it egg! #monsterdon

That's the biggest dino-sour egg I've ever seen! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon “I thought you said this was a shortcut!”

How many movies has that line been in, I wonder?

#monsterdon That's no dragonball that's a space station

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net That's true of any movie. I was watching Seven Samurai the other day and was like: this could use some more Mothra. Sound of Music? Ought to be Sound of Mothra.

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World's biggest jawbreaker. #Monsterdon #GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth

Whose the infant now?

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Why is "cave behind the waterfall" a wake-up-right-now emergency?

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The dysfunctional couple is the real monster in this movie so far #monsterdon

Boy the sun is just booking ass through the sky today, judging by how fast that plot-important sunbeam is moving

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So ... they need a staff with a gem that will light up a spot on a model of a city ... oh wait, wrong movie.

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#monsterdon okay that took like 15 minutes to figure out how a subtitle file works in mac/VLC, I didn't really miss any important dialog did I? Got in right about the time they had annoying kid voice actor reading the node

Also if SHE is supposed to be the archaeologist why are they asking Rambo McIndypants all the questions!? #Monsterdon

I'm only familiar with this dynamic from Roland Emmerich movies*, isn't there also supposed to be a new husband who sacrifices himself heroically somewhere early in Act 3? #monsterdon #GodzillaVsMothra

*because he does not understand straight people but he is trying

#Monsterdon When the bridge is breaking beneath you is not a good time to be airing your marital disputes.

"Cave paintings. Hard to identify, you can tell by the way they're in a cave and they're paintings." #Monsterdon

"how old is it?"
"tens of thousands of years old"
"wow! really?"
"no idea, just made that up."

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"I don't believe it"
indeed i haven't believed any single thing i've seen yet. #monsterdon

@joewynne I was thinking King Kong but that was a log crossing disaster. #Monsterdon

Looking wistfully at old photos. Which I had on my person. As one does. #Monsterdon

MOTHRA PAINTING SIGHTED FILM IMMEDIATELY IMPROVES #monsterdon

i can see it's a cave painting. thats' not what i meant by 'what is it?' and you damn well know that

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"Let's all stand in there rickety rope bridge at the same time!" - three trained professionals #monsterdon

...he brought an alarm clock with him to the Unknown Monster Island? That's cute. #Monsterdon

"Oh it'll be easier if we go down this river. Yeah coool~~"
Hahahaha. Okay that's a good scene.
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"There's a cave behind the waterfall and Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are in it!" #monsterdon

Monstrous Trivia
#GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth has a lighter tone and stars the monster that polls showed was most popular among women, who made up most of moviegoers: Mothra.

It worked! The film became the most successful Heisei film and brought in profits not seen since the the golden age of the 1960s.

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If they weren't packing a rubber raft maybe the bridge would still be intact #monsterdon

brings an alarm clock to a treasure hunt. i think this guy might be my favorite. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon “Men destroy what took nature thousands of years…”
“Think it will get this bad?”

My guy, that line does NOT age well.