Some combination of the music and the guys running around make me feel like I'm watching an Abbot & Costello routine.

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are we board of this movie yet?

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He'll yeet the bear so far it'll end up next to Jimmy Hoffa's body?

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Lmao he just broke a whole damn table with his pecs

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It’s time to mute certain people who don’t use #Monsterdon correctly, for the next 6 hours (because my client doesn’t offer a like, 2-3 hour mute. It’s fine.)

At this point he's a walking Tom of Finland drawing. #Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

This is one of the most annoying and jolly soundtracks we ever had.
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Film please. Pick a name set for the Greco roman gods and stick with it. #Monsterdon

There’s a certain quaintness to the humor of this movie that excuses any flaws.

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*slap* into the water

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*pounds fists on table* Plank Battle! Plank Battle! #Monsterdon

@log
In the '60s and '70s maybe?

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I'm secretly hoping for a wilhelm scream right about now.

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passerby are stunned by how ridiculous this fight is

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It is 1970 and dockworkers and I am waiting for the first anti-union joke.

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The fight choreography is fun. Good times and bystander expressions. #monsterdon

Is the "smashing people with a board" part of the actual mythology? This was in the Lou Ferrigno movie, too.

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I love a good board fight scene..

The governer of California.... #monsterdon

In fact: if "unnecessary confrontation with Hercules" were a square I'd have bingo already just from stacking up five marks on it

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First documented soyface (1969) #monsterdon

Ahnold vill bitchshlapp yoo into the ocean

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It’s no fun if the movie thinks its funny

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Wormy guy has found his true love.

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Danger bazooki! #Monsterdon

@Taweret Smth, smth, nautical rules of salvage, smth.

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It's not a Hercules fight without the greek music.
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It wouldn't be a Hercules movie if he didn't, at some point, grab a very long object and fend people off with it. #Monsterdon

"Hey, we pulled him out of the water, that makes him our slave who can't get off at the first port we come to, as you'd expect from a sea rescue".

Yep, press-ganging unfortunates to work as slave labour checks out for the international shipping industry. Truth in television.

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I think they call that a light warmup. It IS Hercules after all. #Monsterdon

They DO like the tarantellas for this soundtrack...

"20 bucks is 20 bucks." - those guys, probably. #monsterdon

@PurpleJillybeans Is it vexatious?

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These dudes will do anything for a twenty if they'll endure this humiliation. #Monsterdon

Fights not directed by Yuen Woo-ping

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Gritting while holding the board must have been good practise for Total Recall later.

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#monsterdon every scene so far is like, we've established the joke... now let's sit in it for an extra minute or two

Black guy goes down first. Classic.

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Some of Plank's earlier work. Still not quite as wooden as Arnie. #Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

I like that they're trying to human traffic the guy who beat up the entire ship instead of just letting him get the hell out of their lives #monsterdon

Is anyone else hearing Greek Yakkity Sax? #HerculesInNewYork #Monsterdon

Hercules do what Hercules want.
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I guess this movie is going to be full of Hercules kerfuffles, where Arnold shows his strength and might...I mean Hercules.
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Hercules is smacking some men around with....his wood. OH MY! #monsterdon

They're playing that old Greek game, Eat The Board.

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to this movie's credit, it knew what it was doing when it hired Arnold for the lead role.

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I am diggin this soundtrack tbh

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Hercules is bored

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#HerculesInNewYork #Monsterdon Arnie is delivering his lines with a forklift. But it's unintentionally amusing.

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@hollie They all skipped leg day and it showed even to baby Hollie?

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Popey the sailor man!
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That little guy in glasses seems familiar.
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Finally ashore, Hercules went on to found a popular line of PC graphics cards...

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I suspect "Hercules avoids confrontation" on the bingo card is never getting checked off

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To everyone going on about zithers, it's actually a bouzouki.

And yes, it will be used to blow up the monster at the end of the film!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouzouki

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I like how everybody just decided Hercules was working for them. #Monsterdon

can ships just find you at sea and enslave you and hold you prisoner?

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"I'm not a fighter, but $20 is $20."

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"Now get your carcass below"

Get... yours!

Quick on the comeback, our Hercules

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Why do they even care?? #Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

You'd think they'd be just as happy to be rid of a troublemaker who won't work.

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"Sleeves are bullshit" - Hercules, probably

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They pull him out of the water and suddenly he's just supposed to be their sailor? Is that how it works? #Monsterdon #HerculesNYC1970

Where's my CC? I have no clue what this dude just said. #Monsterdon #HerculesinNewYork 💪🏾🎞️ 🍿

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who taught Herc to tie his sweater around his shoulders so preppily in 1969?

@moira surely jonathan winters? candy would have been 18 when this was filmed.

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Shocked they had a shirt that was big enough for him.

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@moira John Candy had a mean slap fight to be fair

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Herc got a nice sailor fit on.
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Hey it's that landmark, proving we're in New York City. That French statue. The Eiffel Thrower or w/e #Monsterdon

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Hollywood Honesty

To get Schwarzenegger the job, his agent told film makers that he had years of stage experience. His agent did not clarify that the stage was for bodybuilding competitions.

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Yeah....Arnie does need a few more acting lessons.

And some voice work.

Oof.

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He’s most disagreeable and he has irritated me

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The white eyeshadow up to the brows is upsetting.

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Ship deck vas hiss enemy.

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I guess they found some clothes that fit him somehow.

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Herc's looking rather sharp in that outfit. #Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

in new york already, that was fast

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That's it? They just give him a job and clothes?
And then he kicks their assess? Will this movie eventually make sense?
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I see that Arnold isn't having to, ahh, stretch much in the acting department. #Monsterdon

Hecules is mildly irritated. You don't want to mildly irritate Hercules.

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As if flexing pecs all day isn't work

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Captain: “Stop that fight!”

slapping noises continue

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You just don’t get male bonding like this today. #Monsterdon

They gave him slacks. He hated them. #Monsterdon

oooh some phoneme certainly escaped arnold there

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Zither player from The Third Man?

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Somehow the ship's crew accepts Hercules' lack of any reasonable explanation for his situation

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@paco
And then sign him on as crew, apparently...

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"You know what, I like the cut of his jib. There's something about the monotone vague inexpressive answers that fills me with confidence in him. Give that man a job brawling."

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Hit 'em Herc! Give him the chair! THROW HIM INTO SPACE

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Foley guys took the night off from meat slapping I guess. #Monsterdon #HerculesNYC1970

[bitchslaps throughout]

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Okay, now the music is just making me feel like I'm in an Olive Garden.

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Ah, good-natured brawling, a Hercules staple. Also the meat slammers. #Monsterdon

Was that a John Candy cameo?

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And they wanted John Candy for _this_ role

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When I was a kid I literally couldn't understand why guys who were muscled that hugely didn't actually fall over, like the physics of their ability to walk upright did not seem intuitive

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