by this time

my lungs

were

aching

aching

aching

aching

for godzilla

#monsterdon #gojira

@plaidtron3000 we expected singing fairies. #Monsterdon

Very few movies have wrung more dramatic tension from a simple Geiger counter sound effect.

#Monsterdon

@sean "Good news! It's a suppository!" #Monsterdon

Eyepatch, for someone who invented an "Oxygen Destroyer", (oxygen being one of those things that people (among other fauna) need to, y'know, /live/, gotta say that it's pretty rich that you're getting cold feet about its use /now/.

#monsterdon

"...here's the pill"
"wait, PILL?"

#Monsterdon #Gojira

oh they put _care_ in that McGuffin, it's very nice #monsterdon

you think Nolan borrowed from Toho? #monsterdon #gojira #oppenheimer

@diazona @davesdogmaggie I mean, what did he think he was inventing if not a weapon, was my point. It’s like building something called a Death Star and only after it’s complete, questioning it’s potential for destruction. #Monsterdon

Serizawa like "I'm gonna go get skeletonized because the government sucks and can't be trusted. Peace out!" #Monsterdon

@h3net I think maybe they just did a lot of filming during the muggy summer in Japan #monsterdon

Serizawa rockin’ the bucket hat FTW

#monsterdon #gojira #godzilla

#Monsterdon nice bucket hat dude, Wanna play hackey sack later?

Pure abject horror. That is all Godzilla is in this movie. A towering living effigy of death.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

My mom: "All these #monsterdonners didn't know this movie was quite this full of misery. First timers, huh?"
#monsterdon #gojira

oh my god he is going to do it. one and done oxygen destroyer. now thats some hero shit #monsterdon

#Monsterdon. I saw the Fringe show. He needs to cut out a chunk of his brain, right?

AND WE'RE BACK TO A PATRIOTISM (or is it a newsreel?) #monsterdon

Jaunty navy music is a little jarring after that scene with the scientist. On purpose I suppose. Nice contrast #Monsterdon

Threnody for Tokyo #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial

I'm not going to yuck someone's yum.

#Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @moira totally! This is some heavy stuff. #Monsterdon

It's becoming more and more clear to me how and why I never actually got around to seeing the original productions of of #gojira, #cabaret, #theproducers, and other "Never Again" anti-war movies/plays/musicals/other art until now as an adult, because I had no idea that's what they were and there sure is a vested interest in that #monsterdon

He's gotta do it. No one here's even heard of Infant Island #monsterdon

get out the marshmallows, baby, i'm roasting my entire life's work. #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie Eyepatch guy? I mean, I was assuming he had a conscience all along, otherwise he wouldn't even be saying these things until (maybe) after he published it and saw it used

#Monsterdon

What other Godzilla movie shows the human cost to this extent? And with a choir background?

Ugh.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

Christopher Nolan missed a big opportunity by calling his movie Oppenheimer. He should have called it “Serizawa”

#monsterdon #gojira #godzilla

can't, won't make fun of the singing. oof. #monsterdon

One of Akihiko Hirata's late roles is a scientist in a basement lab in Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975). In that one he really goes for the wacky mad scientist. It's a little jarring if you've seen this one. #Monsterdon

Godzilla looks very Muppety for a few seconds in the middle of his mass destruction.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

The inventor of antioxidants realizes he's gone too far #monsterdon

They should try singing from their mouths instead

#Gojira
#Monsterdon

Hmm, aren't they the least bit worried about dropping the Oxygen Destroyer on the floor and having it do its thing in the room they're standing in? Or does it only work in water?

#Monsterdon

AND he connects all the dots

#monsterdon #gojira

"as long as i'm alive" serizawa-san, you better not. sir. #monsterdon

"But I'm determined to find a use for the Oxygen Destroyer that will benefit society."

Alright, I'mma stop you right there, eyepatch. Think about that sentence for a minute.

You see the problem, right?

#monsterdon

That better not be those German scientists calling me.
#Monsterdon

not Dr Serizawa predicting the next 75 years of human history. #monsterdon

Oxygen of Mass Destruction

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

The new fish shouldn't have to witness such violence.
#Godzilla #gojira #Monsterdon

the fish just like, blurb blurp. |B #monsterdon

Get in the oxygen destroyer Shinji. #Monsterdon #Gojira

@CactuarJoe @Zerofactorial @moira Sigh, I'll get my razorblades. #monsterdon #gojira

We do a little song for the oxygen destroyer #Monsterdon

@SnoopJ ah, yes, I see

#monsterdon

Other #Monsterdon movies have trained me to think we're wrapping up about now, and there's still 20 minutes 😔

@irenes @CactuarJoe Oh I bet, I wish I could understand more of the cultural context

#Monsterdon

the precursor to all those scientists from kamen rider who invent death rays and then they're like "boy i hope nobody uses this for evil"

#Monsterdon

@chirpbirb oh is THAT how they make fish sauce

i never knew

I guess Oxygen Destroyer for Peace finally did pay off

#monsterdon #gojira

"i'm sure he'll forgive you" mm, i don't know that he will, sir. #monsterdon

@moira If this were the kind of film we watched for #monsterdon every week we'd have to seek professional counseling

elaborate way to make fish stew but go off i guess

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

Time to melt some high tension wires down. Go go Godzilla.
#Gojira #Monsterdon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqSETD5_bs

OH GODS NO, the poor fish! DDD:
#Godzilla #gojira #Monsterdon

@jonny And then. See "Atoms for Peace".

#monsterdon #gojira

"but what if your discovery is used as a weapon" and we still made Oppenheimer #monsterdon

A full flashback to the basement lab scene - eyepatch scientist has discovered something on a par with the nuclear bomb. The Oxygen Destroyer! #monsterdon

Her brother's right. Oxygen can really mess with you. #Monsterdon

@moira OMG wat

#Monsterdon

it splits oxygen into..wait..i'm no scientician but ..i don't... huh?
#Monsterdon
#Godzilla
#Gojira

wow! zoom!

#monsterdon #gojira

Fuck your electric fence!
#Gojira #Monsterdon

"It splits oxygen atoms into fluid" Bonkers science cliche: Check! #Monsterdon #Gojira

no! you just don't get it!

it splits OXYGEN atoms into FLUID!

#monsterdon #gojira

what is this oxygen superpower sidequest subplot

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

@davesdogmaggie I was never quite clear on what Godzilla's pronouns are, though I did see an "it" in the subtitles 🤷

#Monsterdon

Oxygen Destroyer is the name of my band

#monsterdon #gojira #godzilla

OOOOH. hence all the increasingly bizarre oxygen weapons we get in subsequent movies! I am getting educated by this movie. #monsterdon

WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FEEEESH!!!!
#Godzilla #Gojira #Monsterdon

hahaha - OXYGEN

#monsterdon

awww. poor fishies.

#Monsterdon
#Godzilla
#Gojira

the unspeakable evil of "oxygen destroyer" can only be pronounced in english #monsterdon

whoah, fish dissolver #monsterdon

@yatsu It's one way to ensure that the fish never have indigestion. #Monsterdon

Anyway, hang on there for a bit Yamane, you have not yet witnessed the true horror but the Oxygen Destroyer will be upon us soon

#Monsterdon

"...I call it, the InstaPot"

#Monsterdon #Gojira

@JoeWynne I wondered if it had something to do with spring reverb. That shit is magical. #Monsterdon

rip 2 da feesh :(

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

@CactuarJoe Yeah this is super weird for #Monsterdon

I like it though

looks like the air force needs to work on their target acquisition systems...

#monsterdon

Look upon my works, ye Tokyo, and despair.

#Monsterdon

See, THIS is what we don't usually get in later Godzilla movies -- the aftermath. Hell, half of them end as soon as the fight's done. #Monsterdon

I guess they didn't want to go for the image of a kamikaze fighter crashing into the monster. That would have been beyond the pale #monsterdon

oo, do we get to find out what happened to the pfisch now! #monsterdon

Gold star for super-sad little girl #Monsterdon

damn, the aftermath *scenes* #monsterdon

OOF #monsterdon #gojira

Everyone refers to Gojira in the masculine, but those hips tell a different story. #Monsterdon

@paco "I SEE YOUR MIGHT WORKS MANKIND, AND I SPIT ON THEM!"

#monsterdon

doomed radioactive four year olds yikes

#monsterdon #gojira

I knew this movie brought the grimdark, but it really brings the grimdark. #monsterdon #gojira

godzilla seems to have fucked off into the ocean for now

#monsterdon #godzilla #gojira

I'm ready for my close up, Mr deMille!

#Monsterdon

The destroyed setpiece is so beautiful #Monsterdon

“Godzilla has fucked off into the sea.” #monsterdon

oh there's the wreckage shot

#Monsterdon

Raytheon CEO: Yeah, so actually I'm thinking we should go for the bigger mansion, this year is looking good...
#monsterdon

@jonny off into the sea, especially (since that's where like 95% of them are going)

#Monsterdon

@strangefour Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should #Monsterdon