Experienced #monsterdon fans know that the first thing to look for when Godzilla first appears is the sides of his head

Nuclear flash and a rapidly clicking geiger counter held against the water? This film is taking the horror far more seriously than its descendants - tapping into some then very recent collective trauma. Properly chilling. #monsterdon

"so, here's my fringe theory on how the fuck godzilla could even exist"

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

Those chubby cheeks tho. #Monsterdon

Fuck yeah, :Godzilla:
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If the professor gets bitten by a radioactive trilobite...
#Gojira #Monsterdon

Yay! Geology lecture!! ❤️#Monsterdon #

Somebody said this already but yeah I'm really liking the tight focus on this one little community. Again, driving home the grimmer, more realistic tone of the film compared to later Godzilla movies. #Monsterdon

OMG the reveal! #Monsterdon

you know you can just let HIM be king of the hill it's okay #monsterdon

The audio presentation of this movie is just so good 🤌

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I know he's supposed to be terrifying, but does anyone else think #Godzilla looks cute?
#gojira #Monsterdon

Gotta have the woman tripping whilst running from The Monster #monsterdon

how far are yall in #Monsterdon ?

Why are we only picking up radioactivity here? Are there any Boy Scouts here? #Monsterdon

Our hero has arrived! (It’s Gojira.) #Monsterdon

Every village needs a multi-purpose dinner-slash-dinosaur-warning bell #Monsterdon

All those small arms…and nobody’s shooting at the monster?

#monsterdon #gojira #godzilla

alright now we just hide here…and make out? #monsterdon

the over the hill perspective shots are so fun

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Feeling a bit cheeky. Might destroy later #Monsterdon

OUR STAR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! #Monsterdon

YYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! #Monsterdon

"....hey tiny peeps how's it hangin?"
<screaming>

#Monsterdon #Gojira

In the mode for trilobite sushi right now #monsterdon

First appearance. Make sure you get his good side. #Monsterdon #Gojira

Very prescient of this little fishing village to have a kaiju bell...

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bastard spotted!!!

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no wait this isn't Jurassic Park #monsterdon

there he issss!!!!

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

WOO! WE HAVE GOJIRA! #spoilers #monsterdon #gojira

Sledgehammer bell guy looks like he has a fun job

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oops, i think i found him. #monsterdon

Why does the perfesser feller think wearing lead-lined gloves is going to protect the rest of him, or the rest of the islanders? #monsterdon

Run for the border!!! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon. It's dangerous. For you., Not for the kindly old proessor.

Get it on, bang a gong, get it on!

#Monsterdon #Gojira

You shouldn't handle that thing that is probably radioactive with bare hands while you crawl around in mud that is absolutely already proven to be radioactive #monsterdon

trilobite sashimi for everyone

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*godzilla bell time

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

it's bell time

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I suppose officials going around with Geiger counters wasn't completely unfamiliar to viewers along Japan's southern coast around then #monsterdon

I never realized #Gojira was established from the beginning as a creature with a history in folklore. I think of it as a sci-fi radiation monster, but this film establishes it as a godlike creature of religious significance first.

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I just caught us dinner! #monsterdon

@bunnyhero Yes, I got to watch the Japanese #Gojira version (less/no Raymond Burr taking over the story) via the limited theatrical run in the 2000s, maybe AFI theater in DC. I don't think the subtitles were as good as this https://archive.org/details/original-godzilla-duology/Godzilla+(1954).mp4 version I'm watching tonight. #Monsterdon

"Anything could happen" -- as if we needed any more ominous foreshadowing

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*in the style of imagen dragons* That well is... radioactive, RADIOACTIVE!
#Godzilla #gojira #Monsterdon

@blogdiva
Yep, really getting the deeply serious, horror vibes. The nuclear flash? The geiger counter against the well? #monsterdon

imagine dragons watching this movie, pointing at the screen: it's RADIOACTIVE

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

the all important insurance investigation? #monsterdon

"Uh... okay everybody drop all your metal and, uh... run."

#monsterdon #gojira

I am deeply impressed by the camera placement and sound effects

I kind of feel bad having nothing but compliments for this movie so far, but not really

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Godzilla disaster ASMR 8 hours #monsterdon

"What could go wrong?"

Well, for a start, someone could ASK THAT QUESTION IN A MONSTER MOVIE AND DAMN US ALL

So there's that. #Monsterdon

Paleontologist who studies dinosaurs thinks this village destroyed by a hurricane might have infact been caused by a giant dinosaur.
I mean he's right, but why was he there at the meeting?
#Gojira #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Passenger Steamer departures. Bands and streamers. Nowadays? Boarding passes. Boring.

@strangefour
The Jeff Goldblum character

#Gojira #Monsterdon

OK i got some subtitles from opensubtitles, retimed them, and uploaded them to @monsterdon 's version for anyone else watching #monsterdon purely based on vibes
https://tube.me.jon-e.net/videos/watch/8c101f3c-7fd0-46e9-acf3-b37fa0f65e6b

again, with the brass band seeing off the boat to find the monster!

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girl: goodbye!!! 👋👋👋
eyepatch sunglasses guy: 😎

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

@liferstate I think the filmmakers and the audioence were still plunged in depression about the traumatic end of WWII less than a decade earlier #monsterdon

i'm not convinced there ARE safe waters in this flick. #monsterdon

Serizawa sighting 👀

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Our one eyed scientist was SO YOUNG in this one. I guess all the regulars were. #Monsterdon #Gojira

The fixing his tie as he talks is a nice touch. #Monsterdon

man watching with an eyepatch I wonder if that will be relevant

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Introducing the palaeontologist professor - who seems well prepared on cryptid lore. (An acquaintance of TetZoo?) #monsterdon

EYEPATCH. #monsterdon

the ocean IS unknowable, after all #monsterdon

@liferstate did you get a chance to see godzilla minus one? #monsterdon

the ocean is a weird fuckin place, that guy is right about that

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

Ah, it was meant to be a full-sized one carrying real people. Well, CGI was pretty young in 1954. #monsterdon

What is Godzilla? Well him just moving wrecks a house. All we see is shadow. A giant looming terrible shadow. Houses and lives are ruined.
But you could just blame it on the storm.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

No man is an island. #Monsterdon

@jepyang i think a lot of things just did not look as good once things moved to colour and it took a lot of time to figure that stuff out #Monsterdon

@bunnyhero That's correct. Until 2004 the orginal version wasn't available in the US. #monsterdon #gojira

"you can tell the house was crushed because of the way it is"

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

Checking in with our monster movie cliches starting here board we have: Ineffective Government meeting. Check. #Monsterdon #Gojira

Back when they held the Diet of Japan in the Palace of the Sun King. #Monsterdon

Can't decide if that helicopter crashed on the beach was supposed to be a model, or just looked like one. #monsterdon

iirc the japanese version wasn't easily available in north america for a long time? i'd only ever watched the US version until the early 2000s when there was a limited theatrical run of the original. maybe someone can jog my memory or fill in the details #monsterdon

#Monsterdon fuuuuuuck, I mean 1954?! The miniatures look so good compared to western monster movies in the 60s

I’m the Americanized version, this incredibly visceral rainstorm would be intercut with Raymond Burr and his friend on a soundstage with a cheap TV rain effect.
#Monsterdon #Gojira

wait is this model work for the wave crashes? this is good stuff! #monsterdon

@rwg We all started streaming the 1954 movie Godzilla (Gojira) at the top of the hour and are tooting our reactions. The film is available for free streaming at TubiTV, Pluto, Plex, or from the Internet Archive. There's still plenty of footage to go so joining in now isn't too late! #monsterdon

well maybe getting out was the right move after all :ms_skull:

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

the miniature props are so goofy looking

look at that widdle toy helicopter getting blown over lol

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water is SO hard to do in miniature, if it looks AT ALL real it's phenomenal work

#monsterdon #gojira

yikes, sorry mr helicopter. #monsterdon

First miniatures of the film, yay!

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That was a really good scared face - more like what you'd actually have on your face! #Monsterdon

I didn't realize these were summer subtitles, some 're here and some 're gone 🤡

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Oh the good old days with human sacrifice. Now we just dance. #Monsterdon

Yeah, don't go outside, it's well known that you're safe from Godzilla while you're inside. >_> <_< #Monsterdon

@strangefour only the finest of stupid cows for dumbbugers

#monsterdon #gojira

they literally told him to not go out

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

HEMKIN' WIMDY #monsterdon

glad they have japanese people doing the ritual dances and junk instead of the racist blackface stuff from some of the later movies

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It is a dark and stormy night…#Monsterdon #godzilla

Well that could be a meme.
Stupid cows. Ruined my Hina-Matsuri.
#Gojira #Monsterdon