love love love the godzilla theme

#Monsterdon

Initial soundtrack with some truly monstrous roars - and made with the support of the Japanese coastguard? Always a good sign. #monsterdon

Love the roaring opening!

#Monsterdon #Gojira

Gojira time. #Monsterdon

WE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!!

also we’ve got all the living room lights turned green #monsterdon #gojira

It's Gojira time! #monsterdon thread

WE HAVE BLACK AND WHITE TOHO SIGN! #Monsterdon

It's #monsterdon time again - do mute the hashtag if you'd rather not have the gigantic Gojira rampaging over your timelines and / or 1950s Tokyo, otherwise enjoy the monster fun!

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGGO
#Monsterdon #Gojira

@mobydick Very apt quote since we just finished watching #Gojira (1954) for #Monsterdon

@diazona @vknask @Taweret Oh yes, a very special limited edition #monsterdon #gojira

@moira @vknask @Taweret This is a limited time offer though

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@vknask @diazona @Taweret with the essence of natural strontium-90!

#monsterdon #gojira

Lol we turned the lights back to warm white and everything looks pink after spending 90 min in green light #monsterdon #gojira

Godzilla fucks off into the sea for a nap. But man has entered the water. Man brings death to the Titan of death. Oxygen Destroyer for the city destroyer.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

It has come to my attention that this post may not have been taken in the sarcastic tone it was intended. #Monsterdon

@forestine Yeah, we *never* had any subtlety about Godzilla :P #Monsterdon

@diazona @vknask @Taweret that sparkling radiation really satisfies!

#monsterdon #gojira

@Taweret
I'm reminded of the time I found a copy of When the Wind Blows in the school library.

"Oh, Raymond Briggs! I really liked his Fungus the Bogeyman, the Snowman and the Father Christmas books. This'll be great!"

...

Utterly fantastic book. Guaranteed to give a twelve-year-old ongoing nightmares about nuclear annihilation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics)

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@CactuarJoe American Godzilla movies: USA! USA! #Monsterdon

@moira @vknask @Taweret Can I interest you in some percolated Godzilla coffee though

(okay that feels wrong)

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@h3net @davesdogmaggie Dudes. Relax. It's good to reset to baseline once in a while.

#monsterdon #gojira

@diazona @vknask @Taweret LOOK just because we don't get to have percolated fish coffee after all doesn't mean we can't talk about getting something nice to eat!

#monsterdon #gojira

Godzilla (1954): Nuclear weapons benefit no one and should never have been invented.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991): Nuclear weapons are fine as long as we win in the end. #Monsterdon

@strangefour Publish AND perish! #Monsterdon

@vknask @Taweret Given what we usually watch I wasn't sure "palate cleanser" is quite the right term 😂 but yes

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Without his research Serizawa will never get tenure...
#Gojira #Monsterdon

Since there are a bunch of comparisons going on in the tags, I really enjoyed this video by Accented Cinema comparing Gojira to Shin Godzilla. Spoilers for both movies (the tl;dw is Shin Godzilla doesn't show the human tragedy - I still do love both movies but I think he has some good points)
#Monsterdon
Accented Cinema - Why I Don't Like Shin Godzilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDxmB2D9oDM

...Y'know, I think watching Godzilla (1954) has made me retroactively loathe Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) even more.

Godzilla has a scientist *literally vaporize himself* rather than give Japan a weapon of mass destruction.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah has a person from the future delivering Japan a weapon of mass destruction (in the form of Mecha Ghidorah) for the explicit purpose of guaranteeing future Japanese hegemony.

Man, what the fuck. #Monsterdon

Another #monsterdon in the books! Best one yet, IMO! Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

FYI, if you, like me, dug the score, looks like it can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYUYmdMmWQM

Have a great week, see y'all next Sunday, good lord willing and the kaiju don't stomp me!

@CactuarJoe @sean it’s the next thing In colonoscopy prep #Monsterdon

OK, so next week is Grave Of The Fireflies and then Tokyo Godfathers after that?

#monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie

No! I just got here. If this the new plan, I'm leaving.

#Monsterdon

Politicians will ruin us all.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

We're going to have to go with the 1963 Nutty Professor next time to lift ourselves out of the deep depression this one has instilled. Or something #monsterdon

When I was about 6, I saw Them! and it scared me because the little girl at the beginning? About my age. **#Monsterdon**

So, are we just gonna watch genuinely good films now? WTF? #Monsterdon

again, professor goes staring off into the middle distance, setting up the sequel, this time...

#monsterdon

@blogdiva I'm in camp "very happy it got nominated" because in the US an equivalent film wouldn't've been, because "monster flick"

#monsterdon #gojira

@CactuarJoe The Fonz already jumped over him so really what else is there? #Monsterdon

rip all yalls timelines I will never learn to nest things #Monsterdon

@RufusJCooter

I mean, it WAS their first one. Protocol takes time to accrete. I mean, develop.
#Monsterdon

That was ... utterly brilliant.

Huge thanks to @Taweret for helping me finally get round to watching this film!

(Although, can we possibly have something a little more cheerful next week?)

#monsterdon

wow wow. never seen it; always wanted to; what a great speial movie, thanks for hosting @Taweret #Monsterdon bye everyone

GOJIRA lost to Seven Samurai for Best Picture in the Japanese Movie Association awards that year.

#monsterdon #gojira

Absolutely classic in all ways. It's going to take hours to get through all this backscroll. Thanks @Taweret for hosting! #Monsterdon #Gojira

@bunnyhero Yeah, it's pretty jarring too #monsterdon

So now there's no oxygen in the Pacific Ocean. Great #monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, #Gojira, and all the posters and lurkers. And remember #Monsterdoners: Godzilla must have done it.

Thanks @Taweret and the rest of the #Monsterdon gang.

Palaeontologist professor helpfully holds the door open to a sequel.

#monsterdon

That was the Ultimate Effing Off Into the Sea. Thanks for hosting The Original Godzilla @Taweret another great #Monsterdon evening!

Oh no I lost my subtitles somewhere in the last 5 minutes or so

#Monsterdon

Godzilla fucks off into the sea a number of times. But it is not the end. More terror awaits.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

no credits to roll! we already saw those!

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

Six minutes to go, and you can tell it's not going to be like one of those other whiplash inducing Honda endings #monsterdon

"So stop blowing up nuclear weapons, you morons!" #Monsterdon

So, there's no dress code for these "kill the kaiju" missions? Seems pretty unprofessional to me...

#monsterdon

Yamane takes us out on a hell of a bummer note.

As it should be.

#Monsterdon

Nooo poor Godzilla

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Wow that really was amazing I don't know that I ever would've gotten around to watching #gojira if it weren't for #monsterdon.

thank you @Taweret and friends

imagine if godzilla were to raid again

#Monsterdon

How did I get 20 minutes behind? I mean I know I pause for screen caps and scrolling through some chat. But this far behind? I guess subtitles slow me up extra.
And now the horrible aftermath...
#Gojira #Monsterdon

"I hope you two will be happy. Farewell." Serizawa: What a man, what an ethical scientist! Hats off! #Gojira #Monsterdon Another monster movie ends at sea.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

did he cut the line so that they couldnt hear him scream
this is dark as hell
#Monsterdon

do these two get to actually hug or kiss now, or like... no? okay then. #monsterdon

Pour one out for Serizawa. You a real one #Monsterdon

this...really is tragedy #monsterdon

Godzilla skeleton! *Nice.* #Monsterdon

"Victory at last"

😶

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... and eyepatch scientist, after destroying his notes, fully commits to sacrificing himself - and thus destroying all knowledge of how the Oxygen Destroyer operates - through its delivery to Godzilla's seabed lair. #monsterdon

Oh now the planes arrive? Where have yall been? He's already heading back into the water? Oh well I guess it's better than shooting at Godzilla and hitting nothing but buildings in the city. Still ineffective though.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

I'm... still not really sure how all this was supposed to work, but hey, ~science!~

#Monsterdon #Gojira

Pop pop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.
#Monsterdon

@strangefour That's probably monster training 101 now. Always leave something good to destroy in the sequel.

#Monsterdon

Poor guy, got Oxyclean'd right out of existence. #Monsterdon

Godzilla's just chillin' in his crib when these fools come sneaking by #monsterdon

#Monsterdon omg they saved the best roar for last

oxygen destroyer: resolves love triangles fast #monsterdon

tfw all my oxygen getting destroyed #monsterdon

Sayonara, Serizawa-sama 🫡

#Monsterdon

The Oxygen Destroyer looked like someone making a supercritical mass just in reverse. Was public knowledge of nuclear bombs that good in 54? Going to have to look that up. #monsterdon #gojira

those are NOT scrubbing bubbles, are they #monsterdon

sayonara, serizawa-sensei. fare thee well. #monsterdon

I knew eye patch guy wouldn't make it

#monsterdon

Godzilla is getting a bubble bath. #Monsterdon

Serizawa totally looks like an anime nutcase character, probably not by accident #monsterdon

You saw what the little one did to fishes. I don't think your prayers are gonna be really helpful with this larger version.

#Monsterdon

Underwater no one can hear you scream

#monsterdon #gojira #godzilla

Sorry, got distracted looking up the history of SCUBA

#monsterdon #gojira #godzilla

He's just chillin' and Godzilliin' #Monsterdon

look godzilla is just relaxing just build a damn godzilla bridge through the city and it would all be fine #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe this music is really giving Elegy, too. #monsterdon

#Godzilla seems eepy on the bottom of the ocean.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

...Wait, was Gorgo just the last half-hour of Godzilla played backwards? #Monsterdon

Godzilla's just a sleepy lil' guy #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Gojira

🦖The hero takes a long time underwater because he has to get close to Gojira with the Oxygen Destroyer. Why? At this stage of development, the device is a suppository.

i always love the way godzilla looks underwater here. its so surreal and dreamlike

#monsterdon

Also it's wild and yet totally predictable how so many shitlibs #onhere are saying this movie is commentary on ineffective government lmao #monsterdon #gojira