@paco #monsterdon #invasionofthestarcreatures

Ah, no bingo for me! In related news, I'm gonna go sit quietly in a corner and scrub this from my brain. 😂 Thanks for the camaraderie, Monster people. #Monsterdon

OMG they really tried to make this an hommage to the Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, and now WB LOONEY TUNES WITH A GUY THAT LOOKS LIKE ELMER FUDD, RE-ENACTING THE SCENE WHEN HE FREAKS OUT BECAUSE HE “KILLED” BUGS.

this is why there is no such thing as easy comedy.

comedy is freaking hard.

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Okay, looking at everyone else's posts, I think I enjoyed #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures about 500% more than everyone else doing this #monsterdon

Granted, I didn't actually enjoy it, but most of yall are tooting like refugees fleeing a war zone and quietly bemoaning the loss of your family dog and also several years of your lives.

Mother of hell, I want to delete this from my drive immediately, but I can’t, because I’m going to make my father watch it and explain 1962 to me. #monsterdon

Had to go to the tags to see if this was #monsterdon or #uspol

#monsterdon To repeat @Taweret@octodon.social because the most important part of this evenings entertainment was “You all voted for this.” -- yes. I think we've established that we likely do not truly grasp what voting means. We didn't get it at the start of November, and we still don’t get it, today. We need adults. More adultier adults. :)

Bingo!

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

IT’S THE FIRST TIME A SALAD TOSSED ME

we finally have a joke!

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@rebeld @Taweret@octodon.social I'm glad to be part of a community that found this experience disturbing.

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"At the rate your world is going, it's going to destroy itself in another 200 or 300 years. Well, it would be such a waste to allow a young planet to be destroyed simply because its natives were too stupid to work together."

😬 😬 😬

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@mortaine lol, I sooo wanted the ending of this movie to be the tall ladies beating the crap out of the mediocre white men, but alas...

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They weren't even "star creatures". What a waste of a good title.

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characters in #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures in order of coolness

1. army secretary lady, whom I will call "Sergeant Surprised Pikachu"
2. scarecrow minions
3. space dames (in dom mode)
4. goofy ass weirdo colonel
5. native american village people stereotypes
6. geologist with student loans
7. space dames (in sub mode)
8. all other characters (including the main characters)

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I think I can delete this off my Plex

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Hey, I think the two space ladies talking in the alien language have brought our movie through a successful #bechdel test.

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first peoples don’t deserve any of this

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the music, nor the sound effects, are helping.

if anything, watching bad movies teaches us what we should not do with a script, soundtrack, photography, set building, costume making and, more than anything, acting.

we’ve seen shitty movies with good acting. this is not one of them.

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WHAT IS LOVE
baby don’t hurt me
don’t hurt me
no more

https://youtu.be/HEXWRTEbj1I

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i resent this bad vocal impersonation of Abbot and Costello. they made look easy their very physical, very improvisational comedy.

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@superball in today's #monsterdon we learned that making a parody is a little like juggling burning torches... if you did your job well everyone is happy, but if not, well...

feeling, in a roundabout way that film reminded me why we must fight Fascism because the Fash would love that movie.

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@TerryHancock @lytta I sometimes imagine what a Monsterdon Costume Party would be like. Really, really niche references but achievable....

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THE END, FINALLY! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Chekhov’s looking at everything in this room and just *sweating* #invasionofthestarcreatures #monsterdon

Abbott and Costello were not in their budget

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#monsterdon I'm heartened for all the awful we just witnessed, that I was able to be a positive cheerleader for The Wicker Man.

For future reference, if the movie needs to apologize for being offensive before it starts, it can just go straight to the furnace.

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#monsterdon This entire movie was summed up in Zeppo Marx doing a silent eye roll. That was the entire movie.

Oh, God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space were it not that I watched Invasion of the Star Creatures and can't unwatch it.

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#monsterdon They could have advanced lesbian hollywood by decades, but they just chose not to do that.

#monsterdon This little guys voice needs to stop. Like nails on a chalkboard. I suppose they all could be overwhelmed by squirrels.

you people voted for this

I want that remembered

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"It's quite simple. We have an electrofoffilagraphalohofomatic."

Amazing. Somebody wrote that line, somebody transcribed it, and she actually managed to deliver the word convincingly. Credit where it's due!

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#monsterdon This film was made to keep a simple family member of a producer busy while the adults do real films.

We meet the colonel, who, because this movie is Funny and also a Comedy, is wearing glasses and a silly mustache, the kind that comes with those glasses with the nose on them that you put on to confound the security state by hiding in plain sight from the AI enabled cameras. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures

#MonsterdonAlert

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I am hereby declaring that tonight's Monsterdon never happened

and no one shall ever speak of it again

under penalty of TORTURE

@bunnyhero I did appreciate the random use of the photon torpedo sound effect at unexpected points in this movie.

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I award #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures 2 out of 5 radioactive scarecrows. It was bad, and extremely cringe, but it was just too silly for me to give a 1 to it.

The best part was the silly scarecrow people and the references to every other 1950s science fiction B movie. The worst part was... well... um... let's say "most of it" and call it a day!

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I was convinced anyway, but after seeing this movie I definitely want the Patriarchy destroyed.

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ty for joining, everyone!

let us never speak of this movie again

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We get an ending sequence as the main characters are awarded some kind of medal for defending the earth from the scarecrow people and the dames from space. The indian village people are there again and the main guy does another Cultural Dance to make the audience uncomfortable. Then the main characters go to their gigantic car to kiss their new wives from space and drive away.

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This is why American elections turn out the way they do. #monsterdon

going back and un-ticking "feminism maybe?" on my bingo card >:|

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I imagine this is how Netflix series cancellation meetings go, more or less. #monsterdon

When I was a child I actually thought booze was magic juice because of depictions like this....then I saw adults drunk and it was not the same...not the same....

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If you look up the phrase "lost the plot" on a dictionary site, you get a link to this movie.

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Those two army guys have a real Pakled energy about them. #monsterdon

The space babes explain that while they are conquering the earth, its really because they mean well, because the people on earth are really stupid and we'll probably just destroy ourselves if we aren't conquered. Which, well... I mean... that's probably right.

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about those weed slaves: they probably got a cease and desist from the manufacturers of Gumby.

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Vegimen 🤣 #monsterdon

The burlap head carrot monsters work for the haughty space babes? What magnificent world building. #monsterdon

@JW YOU MONSTER!

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And that's a wreck THANK GOODNESS

No monsters fucked off into the sea and we lost track of the vege-men about twenty minutes ago so there is nobody left to care about.

"it's The end" INDEED, END CREDITS WITH WEIRD CAPITALIZATION, IT IS

Thank you for hosting, @Taweret@octodon.social! I feel like I just took a vacation from having a brain. Perfect! Thank you for the bingo card, @Cherizilla!

And thank you, dear viewer! See you next week - same bat-time, same bat-hashtag

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#monsterdon We're going with the Bridge Over The River Kwai. Really. Really… REALLY.

WORST. BUGS BUNNY. EVER.

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They're really doubling down on the racism part.

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jfc

guys in brownface.

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There are seventeen minutes of this dripping garbage left to get through. Dig deep, we can do this.

Oh jeez, here comes the racism

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I'm too asexual for this.

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I find myself looking forward to the typical abrupt ending of the #monsterdon feature.

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I also appreciate that the space dames, who are wearing like, one-piece swimsuits with cape collar tails on them, pointy bras and silly belts, also have these little ray guns as side arms, that look like a pistol with a horn on the end of them. Which I really like.

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Okay, so having made the most impactful scientific discovery in the last 10,000 years, which is a radioactive scarecrow from space, the soldiers wander away from it, and then it gets up and chases them, because they thought it was dead but it was actually alive. They shoot it a few times but it can only be hurt by +1 or greater magical weapons. Then the cave soldiers scream, I guess meaning that the scarecrow eats them.

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This is after Dr Strangelove, isn't it? So he's trying to do that colonel from a much, much better film.

This is the Scary Movie of 1962, isn't it?

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what’s weird is that this movie was made in 1962, when Vietnam was the war du jour, not WW2. they’re trying to poke fun at the WW2 monster movies but are failing miserably.

also, the guy cosplaying Groucho Marx just attempted a holocaust joke.

this is getting worser and worser.

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This is the point where the theater-going audience suspects they have been ripped-off

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Oh great. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dumb. #monsterdon

I checked the Wiki - the alien slaves are referred to as "seven-foot-tall vegetable-like creatures", so we don't know if "vegmen", "vegimen" or - my choice - "vegemen" is correct.

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@ramsey @Bluedepth I like how it was a genuine good movie but the Monsterdon crowd still had fun. We were SO on the Pagans side, lol!

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@RufusJCooter kinda intrigued what a beatnik battalion would look like but I feel that would be beyond this filmaker's scope...

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just thinking back to the racism and then uncovering MORE racism...because of course what else would Indigenous people be doing but getting drunk? UUUrrrggghhhh, terrible, terrible movie.

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@lytta it was in the spirit of distractions that we ventured on this #monsterdon today...

@RobynGoodfellow baptism of fire these past two weeks #monsterdon

Wow. That sucked.

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oh fuck, I thought we'd seen the last of the racial caricature .....uuurrgggghhhh

Really surprised there wasn't a Queer character they mocked in this to complete the set of bigotries....

Not even a fucking off into the Sea!

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#monsterdon Okay, now to delete it.

Bridge Over The River Kwai deserves better.

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So while the brunette is a domme and wants to control the puny earthmen, the blonde is a sub because she was kissed once and wants to stay on earth now, where all the boys who aren't scarecrows live. The blonde turns traitor and helps the dumb guys capture them instead of them being captured.

We get a scene where the two girls could have kissed each other, but didn't, because the producers of this movie are Cowards.

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Okay the alien chick palming that dude to the floor made me smile #monsterdon

yiiiiiiikes it's a lot of racism

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Okay so the colonel is in the same nerd frat, but the nerd frat has ranks, and the dullard guy has a higher nerd frat rank than the colonel, and nerd frat rank trumps army ranks, so the dullard guy orders the colonel to help defeat the space dames. He leaves in an uncomfortable looking cylindrical space hat, allowing the best character, Army Secretary Girl, to do more acting.

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I had missed that his name is Colonel AWOL

idk I'm here for the military humor, this is good stuff

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The Vegimen could tear these two humans apart like meaty dolls and I would not care.

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Feeling sorry for the Vegimen and also sorry for the people playing the Vegimen.
Many levels

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whoa, BOUNDRIES!

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Dude, she's not interested, you're creepy

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This has a ton of great lines for sampling #monsterdon

OK, Prof. Tanga and Dr. Puna are definitely villains, they just murdered two of our beloved carrot monsters in cold blood for no apparent reason

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i need to know what’s the science behind those bras the space creature babes are wearing. i need a new bra.

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I hoping for Giantess Worship in this movie....

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Prof Puna, short for Punani

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so these guys are supposed to be from Brooklyn because they slept thru all that shooting, right?

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"We would have brought donkeys to carry all this stuff but the Army values the donkeys more"

That would have a been quite a good joke they could have used.

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Continuing the #monsterdon theme that these characters are Dullards and also Clowns, one jumps into a trash can, then is lit on fire by a cigar and is shot into the air. He then squelches his butt fire with water. There is a non-smoking sign in the background. Also, we get another character who recruits them to visit the colonel.

We get a new character, the army girl, who does the funniest thing in this movie so far by putting on a gas mask. #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures

oh, this thing with la manga (waterhose?) is supposed to be funny? so that’s why he was shaking like that and has sharpie eyebrows and a voice like Costello.

oh.

ok.

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@RufusJCooter I was confused by that, my guess was because the girls were from space and were therefore radioactive.

I think the kissing noise in itself was supposed to *be* the punchline?

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@floatybirb the harrowing racial stereotypes and declawing of Amazons did it for me.

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@Zerofactorial @Taweret@octodon.social they'd enjoy it, that's how bad this film is #monsterdon

I felt bad for the people for whom the Bee girls was their first Monsterdon. I feel worse for the newbs tonight. Pat yourselves on the back soldiers you made it through the worst of the worst. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures