I WANT YOU

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His last name is actually Voorhees

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🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

🦖It's embarrassing how much I look forward to this time with all of you. You are the Real-Time Film Analysts of my dreams. So many caught the armpit scene. That's a measure of genius somewhere, I'm sure. The rest of my week never compares.

❤️ And thank you @Taweret for hosting this sword and sandal spectacular! It's an all-week job!

🅱️ and thanks @cherizilla for the Bingo card! My favorite: "Greed backfires".

To everyone asking "why is it stopping here": Because it's 1h44 minutes already and they're out of money.

Also denouement are for the weak and the French.

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i saw this movie in an old town theater en Mayagüez with mami and baby bro sometime in the 1970s.

it’s one of my favorites for two reasons:

- the monsters terrified me so much, had nightmares for weeks.

- shortly afterwards Star Wars came out and changed everything and one of the selling points of the movie was that a big chunk of the FX crew had worked or been mentored by Harryhausen.

Ray Harryhausen is still the best.

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I'm pretty sure skeletons are immune to slashing and piercing damage.
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I love the skellies so much they are my new favorite part of this movie

it's not like the VFX earlier in the movie weren't good but BY THE GODS the full power of Harryhausen et al. is something to behold

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see, dumbass, you told the king to his face that you were going on a mission to dethrone him, and then even when you realized the person you told your whole plan to was the king himself, you did nothing to follow up on how that might have compromised your opsec, and now look at you. the kings son was just on your boat the whole time #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 her hair and makeup are remarkably on point for coming out of a shipwreck

Holy shit, this skeleton animation is _so fluid_. Especially (deliberately?) in comparison with the Talos fight from earlier in the film, this feels so much more fluid. There is motion, mass, momentum, all the character eyelines are in the right place even in the middle of the melee. This is world class work. What a scene.

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#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 draw me like one of your Gallic girls

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I have geeked out at the skeleton hoard scene in this movie all my life. Look at the smooth motion, the complex movements, dodging and rolling in multiple levels.

👀 Look at the skeleton's shields. Each has a design based on previous Harryhausen monsters.

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The crew later, drunk at some pub: AND THEN WE SAILED UNDER A GIANT MERMAN'S ARMPIT

Everyone at the pub: Yeah sure guys

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Me, honestly, as a kid looking at pictures of ruins: Why didn't they ever build roofs

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Imagine if you called 911 to report a guy following you with a sword and 911 was like, "Use your wits and look to his ankles"

THANKS FOR NOTHING, EMERGENCY SERVICES

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No, Jason! Don't take advice from a weird dude playing a very small harp! That's a lyre!

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Tonight's #Monsterdon wasn't getting anywhere near a Bechdel test.

Medea proving women are always the collateral damage in war

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and Poseidon fucked off into the sea, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOVIE.

J&TA is breaking so many Monsterdon conventions.

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I don't see how he can possibly have leverage with his lower half being a fin but whatever it's fine what are physics anyway

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let me tell you something, when Thalos moved its head, we all screamed in that movie theater.

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I like how she can close her eyes when the movie gets too ridiculous

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Pissy guys who want to go to war: "We've no time for riddles and symbols, just tell us who to kill"

Oracles everywhere: <rolls eyes>

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116236481422571135

Okay, my timeline is often completely overtaken by a #Monsterdon rewatch that I am not viewing, but it is rare that I know the movie so well I can almost watch it Scene-for-scene through timeline comments.

#JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 has some very classic #harryhausen stop motion, I studied that movie.

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Animation of Dem Bones - By the Numbers

7 skeletons each with
5 appendages
35 things to move for each frame, at least
13 to 14 frames per day for difficult action (half a second of film)
4.5 months approximately to film

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Jason and Medea
Sittin' in a tree
F-L-E-E-C-E

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I bet Hercules is throwing all kinds of stuff into space rn

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The power of purple glitter eyeshadow cannot be denied

DO NOT DENY IT

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RUINS

During filming of tonight's feature, a big scene with the Argo off the coast of Italy was ruined when a replica of the Golden Hind sailed into view. The film 'Sir Francis Drake' (1961) was coincidently filming at the same location. That production's scene was ruined as well.

Tensions were dispelled when producer Charles H. Schneer shouted, "Get that ship out of here! You're in the wrong century!"

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@hollie It's not just the beards. How 'bout them eyebrows?
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