damn, i miss TWA. it was such a good airline.

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lol, was that supposed to be a morgue or somebody's spare bedroom

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It's been classified Top Bcret! A Bee pun already!

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@Zerofactorial From what I can tell, this is the best info on them that exists. They were a series of computers designed to be semi-compatible with IBM's System 360 line, but with a different operating system. They offered some instructions the IBM didn't, but you had to recompile your software. This is probably one of the later version and you can see a mix of visual features found in RCA's Spectra 70 line as well as stuff that is more UNIVAC styling. I'd guess a 70/60 or a 70/61.

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Fun fact: Invasion of the Bee Girls came out the same year as Hellstrom's Hive, a lesser-known Frank Herbert novel that also has a secret underground bee cult whose women kill human men by wearing them out sexually.

Herbert was inspired by an insect satire-documentary called The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971). So my question is, was tonight's movie inspired by Herbert, or was it just a sleazier riff on similar themes? #Monsterdon

Okay, remember everyone, PIRANHA is what you want to vote for next, ALL THE BOOBS AND NONE OF THE BAD STUFF

Also it's hard to make puns on "piranha" so imagine how quiet I'll be

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So, the gay scientist had a secret room behind the bookshelf.

But his only secret was that he was gay.

That's a disappointing waste of a hidden bookshelf door.

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@Lazarou @Taweret Absolutely proponents of the 4B movement.
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@Taweret@octodon.social "Death to the Patriarchy, long live the Beearchy!"

I think.

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Bet you wish you voted for Piranha now, don’t ya?

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so fyi, royal jelly does look kind of milky white like that!

from wikipedia: "Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae and adult queens." "During the process of creating new queens, the workers construct special queen cells. The larvae in these cells are fed with copious amounts of royal jelly. This type of feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs."

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@plaidtron3000 @Taweret@octodon.social with what is coming tomorrow (today?) it couldn't be more apt!
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Patriarchy saves the day

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WHAT A SOUNDTRACK

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#monsterdon Also Sprach Zarathustra... really? Well, the kettle drums I guess... but... it belongs to 2001. Ah well.

"That was the breast movie we've ever seen on #Monsterdon

"You mean the best, right?"

"No."

Getting a bit arty towards the end.....was the dome electrified or what?

That agent just killed about 10 women, somebody should look into that.

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"I still don't understand what motivated them."

You aren't the only one, movie. #monsterdon

20 bee ladies just died, but yeah all I need is to wrap up some paperwork, get on out of here. #monsterdon

#monsterdon I don't know about you, but when some errant gunshots turn _my_ lab into a sparking electrical hazard, my first instinct is to immediately grab for the conductive metal surfaces while making sure I am also thoroughly grounded, it's just a reflex

Oh NOW he has a gun....

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So..... the couple didn't make it through the whole movie

But wait, does the Black soldier live? Did I blink?

WHAT ABOUT THE THIRD REEL RULE

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"You'll be safe, after all You're a woman."

Sure, but you could still be hit by a car. #Monsterdon

there is not a single reveal of a corpse in this movie that did not make me laugh. #monsterdon

so the whole purpose of a Bee Girl is to fuck? all this killing and sketchy science is just for a fuck? didn’t they learn about dildos and RealDolls?!?!?!

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lol @ hot widows at the funeral

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OMG what the hell are they talking about hormones and those gawdamn bees?

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LMAO IT IS UCLA

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Firmly on the side of the Transhuman Bee Ladies

The old world of Men must go

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#monsterdon Katie: "Apparently you step into a cocoon and come out with a full face of makeup!"

It’s a spa! What a twist! #invasionofthebeegirls #monsterdon

"Being the nude beeing process!"

"Geodesic dome ready!"

"Banks of computers blinking, check!"

"Public orgasm, check!"

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first time in the orgasmatron
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#monsterdon That was entomologically unlikely.

#monsterdon She wears sunglasses beacuse the futures so bright... her work… sure…

[SUSPICIOUS BOINGING]
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#monsterdon There really is an awful lot of completely gratuitous nudity in this movie. This Herb/Harris scene could have been dramatically truncated or just played offscreen entirely.

Sensual non-touching

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really uncomfortable watching 70s people have sex....

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We legit need a "science documentary film shown" on the bingo cards some weeks

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#monsterdon Dr. Harris' coffee pot has a _terrible_ pour. That was embarrassing.

WRITER: So what do you think? Are there any scenes that seem completely unnecessary?

EVERYONE THAT WORKED ON THE MOVIE: No

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That dress is certainly a product of it's time

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#monsterdon I appreciate that Agar isn't giving Joe a hard time about being in a relationship with Dr. Murger. I'll be honest, I expected worse.

"Defeat me in combat and I will tell you my tale"

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Yet more sex and S&M, why it's like this film is trying to push sex

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it’s like yesterday when i was sitting by they dorm pay phone, waiting for my mom’s weekly call for chisme.

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#monsterdon He's tuning VOA on Tits of America. Adorable little birds, mostly little fuffs of feathers and tiny little beaks.

the whole town could die and we could not care

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OMG why is mayo lady?!?!?!

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lol, she has Bee Sight....

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"I have a theory so complex and puzzling....you fucking idiots wouldn't get it"

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The puns just keep a-comin' tonight

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Peckham as the location?

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Absolutely no problem with the Bee Girls killing all these misogynistic men for 'reasons'

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#Monsterdon getting balled

#monsterdon He's a blumpkin apist enthusiast. LOL

"get a close up of her bush, make sure they see it"

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#monsterdon Wait, what's with the random nudity..?

Katie: "nobody makes out with glasses on! They get all smudged up!"

You can tell she's a scientist, because she's wearing glasses.

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Meet cute? More like… BEE cute! #invasionofthebeegirls #monsterdon

OMG it’s still the credits intro

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Please YES never stop the credits, keep them going throughout the movie, never stop transitioning scenes with this music, that is a formula for SUCCESS #monsterdon

When the Bee Girl Prostitutes fuck to they make buzzing sounds?

I think I can see where this movie is going

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#monsterdon Okay, so we have opera singers, 70's ghetto jazz, and kettle drums. This is going to be kitch.

In real life, male bees die during sex because they ejaculate so hard their dick ruptures and breaks off.

Supposedly if you happen to be standing near them while they're mating, you can actually hear a popping noise.

Imagine if tonight's #monsterdon had used REAL bee facts, instead of pulling punches and giving all the dudes heart attacks.

@whknott VOTE FISH '25

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So next time we are all voting for Piranha right?
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@moira @blogdiva It was very unsexy, but I think that was the point.

Like, maybe the entire point is that sex is awkward and gross, and you shouldn't do it.

Or maybe I'm just trying to read something into it that's not there. 🤷‍♂️

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@blogdiva ah she was brilliant. I'd betray this shithole planet for her.

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I don't still don't know if they were aliens or what was going on

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Complicated feelings about this one.

Graphic? Absolutely, this needed a CW for the SA scene. And that car death was seriously unpleasant as well.

"So horny society collectively forgot about it" 70s filmmaking? Yes.

Bad? Well… I don't think so. The production value is pretty high, the acting is not bad at all (but the characters kinda are), and the writing is… present? It's tossing some Themes around sorta-maybe?

Doesn't stick the landing, but I can see a way this *could* have stuck the landing.

Let's go with "provocative"

(Edit: filter above opinion through a personal bias for irrationally liking 70s movies)

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We have watched movies that were on a technical sense way worse and some even barely movies like the Aztec Mummy ones. But this movie is just bad bad bad wrong. Never again.
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I had a blast watching along with #Monsterdon tonight, y'all are extremely funny.

“But I still don’t understand what motivated them” #Monsterdon

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so I never imagine I'd recommend any of our movies to others to view but wow this is definitely NOT one I hope to ever see or hear from again.

Nevertheless, thank you @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for bingo, @JoeWynne for trivia and to all of y'all for the fun. Let's all just bee good to the bees in our lives, Monsterdonians!

if there’s one thing #monsterdon has taught me it’s that anyone who says your story needs a beginning, middle, and end to get your movie made has been proven wrong by history

I bet if the Bee Girls had taken over America in the 70s we wouldn't have Climate Change right now....

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as a lesbian, let me say that this movie almost managed to put me off boobs?

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That film was like 75% sex scene by volume and yet it was deeply, deeply unsexy. Remarkable. #Monsterdon

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Wait, alt-universe check:

The actress playing Julie could've had the lead in West Side Story? 👀

"While Vetri was in high school director Robert Wise considered casting her as Maria in the 1961 film West Side Story, but the studio selected Natalie Wood"

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

The big takeaway is that radiation plus spa treatments turns you part insect, part cougar. It's science #monsterdon

okay well

this is the least enjoyable movie we've ever seen here

if you're reading backwards and thinking about watching this movie, don't, also see reply

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NO WAIT WHAT THE FUCK YOU DO NOT END WITH ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA #monsterdon

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God that was awful.

We asked for it.

Thanks, @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting as always!

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GIVE THAT THEME MUSIC BACK, IT'S TOO GOOD FOR YOU

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@yatsu *man gets hit by car* LOL!

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welp, that stocking moment felt very Pedro Almodovar

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#monsterdon "Come to my office. You'll be safe!"

Come on, subtitle person, that "be" needed a second letter "e", critical missed opportunity.

There is this inexhaustible supply of professors who get seduced and murdered by bee girls, but I don't understand why

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now who's murderballing #monsterdon

this is like watching your parents conceive you via a 'Time Window"

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The walls and the COUCH match?! #Monsterdon

When all the widows show up at the funeral wearing super-sexy mourning dresses, that's pretty sus.

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the blonde scientist woman is going to have to deus ex machina here in these last 10 minutes of the movie, but since she wears sunglasses sometimes, unclear whether or not she will come down on the side of pro or con bee girl #monsterdon

Is this man so gullible that he'd respond to a beautiful topless woman EVEN IF she had evil eyes? Yes

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