All of this fighting over the Golden Fleece, and I am not hearing a single person asking if there's some sort of flock of Golden Sheep somewhere so that EVERYBODY can have a Golden Fleece...?
Medea looks like Delenn at times. I want to see a remake of this in the Babylon 5 universe.
is Hercules coming back as a Deus ex machina or did he seriously just fuck off halfway through the movie with no payoff
Given the way these folks party I highly doubt they were drugged unwillingly.
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@bstacey he just came outa nowhere
@Violinknitter
It's a Jayne hat!
King Neckbeard and his shirtless hunk retinue arrive at the temple. Medea, who is secretly also the priestess says "Hecate says you should welcome these people" and King Neckbeard is like "cool we'll throw u a party"
And then at the party, King Neckbeard is like "you came for the golden fleece didn't you? fuck you, you can't have it! I'm cancelling this party!"
I recognized Medea; she played Nona in the Star Trek episode A Private Little War.
So Jason is there to pull some wool, have I got that right?
I want that hat
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I have to go with you now. I love you (instantly) and the music is telling me I have to!
@brooke same #Monsterdon
okay
I wonder what the harpies and statues are up to
Back in ancient times we asked the big cool statue Hecate for help now we ask ChatGPT my how we have fallen from grace #Monsterdon
Someone else mentioned how weβre seeing such glorious dad bod, and wow! We really are. I only wish my dad bod was as magnificent.
@kshernandez No, *Hylas* got crushed. Hecastus (this traitor) went overboard in the fight with Jason
We make it to Colchis whose main set is an underground temple to Hecate with...
* a giant statue of a three headed god; at least one head is a cat, maybe another is a goat.
* dancing girls and their Ecstatic Religious Riutuals (TM)
* plenty of columns and shit
sounds like a nice place to hang out. we should throw a party there.
Jailers sleeping in a big cuddle pile. #Monsterdon
Can we get some more Harryhausen monsters now?
So is Colchis the source of gout? Thus colchicine
Damnit. The cops busted their rave. #monsterdon
@gnomon oh me too, me too...
The film here was flared to increase colour saturation, so that as it went through processing, the fading of the saturation wouldn't be as significant and the colour would remain vibrant.
Collect the whole set!
Oh Colchis was a real place. It's over on the Black Sea.
#Monsterdon #jasonandtheargonauts
Title drop! #Monsterdon
@allanb I thought that was just bronze makeup
He said the thing!
They said the thing!
βWelcome to Kolkis. Table or booth?β #Monsterdon
There will be one amongst us from the edge of the world. His name is... Steve!
amazing jacket. A plus
Important Man enters, flanked by Bored Guys
I feel like this movie could've been made into a tight 90 minutes by just cutting the dance numbers. #Monsterdon
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As someone pointed out, that lead dancer really does resemble the green alien lady from Star Trek.
*humming to myself* chicks / who did kicks / don't do kicks no more / they're doing choreography... π΅
Captain Kirk is here, right
Ray talking about attention spans and how TV ads ruined them, and how antiheros ruined heroes and how he'd walked out of the theatre with his wife several times...things he doesn't think audiences want.
Hear hear, Ray. π
Boobs hitched up to her chin by ancient Greek sorcery.
#Monsterdon
Time for the Dream ballet fuck yeah
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Solid Gold Dancers.
If something doesn't have a name, you can just... give it one. You can do that.
Show me your healing flower and also leave me alone with your golden fleece for an hour or two. Trust me. #monsterdon
Neosporin insta-heal!
"I'm ready to see your flower. Oh. Oh you meant. Uh. A literal flower. Okay. Well. This is awkward." #Monsterdon
ah, a time-lapse flower
oh, dear, Lady Medea would really have preferred us to have caught Jason and the Argonauts this time round on #Monsterdon but we messed up. We are not making great decisions tonight, or swift ones! Gosh maybe I should consult an #Oracle.
I mean, Oracle must be cashing in big on this #LLM craze, all those SQL commands flying back and forth...
Acastus is definitely alive and plotting somewhere...
Euphemus isn't his real name but his real name is offensive. #Monsterdon
Euphemus, huh... I'm sure *that* name isn't alluding to anything
Euphemusβ him
Jason is, like, the Jackie Chan of ancient Greece
Interesting dialog where Zeus and Hera talk about how if the humans stop believing in them they disappear, which is very Forgotten Realms of them.
#monsterdon Chips Ahoy! We weep in the kitchen at midnight.
The music is doing its best to imply they should be fighting each other with lirpas #Monsterdon
I don't think Jason and Medea were both there at the same time shooting that scene. #monsterdon
The gods are angry with Nashville tonight. (Weβre under a tornado watch.)
Day for slightly dimmer day. #monsterdon
I feel like I should take my shirt off
Better to be hopelessly outnumbered than utterly hopelessly outnumbered π€·
Yes you are pirates, Jason and the Arrrrrrgonauts! #Monsterdon #JasonandtheArgonauts1963
Thank goodness we brought a thousand yards of netting!
Most will remember Nancy Kovack from a ST:TOS episode. They put her in a biker chick outfit. She was married to conductor Zubin Mehta #Monsterdon
βMy name is Jasonβ, an introduction that falls so flat it causes a fade to black #Monsterdon
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#JasonAndTheArgonauts1963
Tho I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job, after killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts!
"'Flowers' is a euphemism for young women, you see."
"What was your ship doing in such dangerous waters?"
Sinking. Try to keep up. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Okay but....how big were these cliffs originally if they lost that much rock? Send a half dozen decoys and you're safe.
You only dived into the water because she's a woman. #monsterdon
So⦠Poseidon showed up, saved them, and then fucked off into the sea?
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Is this Percy Jackson?
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"What's your name?"
Flotsam. #Monsterdon
Poseidon between a rock and a hard place for these ungrateful little dudes #Monsterdon
#monsterdon they're starving and dying of thirst AGAIN? We saw this part!
Well that scene made little sense yet was kinda exciting.
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Poseidon: Watch the crotch with those oars!
Thank you neck Buddha! Thank you!
When Poseidon shows up and holds back the rock walls, and you get a really good whiff of his armpit as you sail under him, you know youβve got the good gods on your side.
#monsterdon Many of you know how hard it is to get a group to all do the correct thing in WoW. Imagine getting a bunch of headstrong, proud athletes to cooperate on a small boat, while on meager rations?
This film loves shirtless men. #Monsterdon
"YOU pull! You got time to drop some rhymes, YOU pull!"
Not really a disguised merman fetish, more of a centrally featured merman fetish.
This was totally not how it worked in the original (Jason uses his wits and releases a bird to test the timing) and we're not even getting a Harryhausen monster out of it so I'm giving a thumbs down to this episode
Smell that armpit baby!
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@blogdiva Whew! LOL #Monsterdon #JasonandtheArgonauts πΏπ₯
By Poseidon's hairy armpit!
I mean, _as water interaction with miniatures go_, this is absolutely as good as you get. I can't think of any I've seen better.
But it's still so much less than the rocks.
it's kinda weird seeing all these hairy dad bods after 2 weeks of ultra caked-out hercules
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Poseidon ex machina or is it Neptune ex machina?
Drummer keep it easy!
Drummer: ba ba ba doubt duba duba boom boom bam !
This was shot at 110fps - 5 times normal - to give the rocks their mass. A special machine was used to make small ripples in the water.
-Ray
Neptune (Poseidon?) is sucking in his gut, so the boat can pass!
HELL YEAH
I mean seriously, these rocks are _amazing_. But then the water.
That was really good, "The gods want their entertainment" and sure enough cut to the gods watching hi-def God tv. #Monsterdon #JasonandtheArgonauts1963
So did we just have an internal 4th wall break??
"The gods want their entertainment."
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Um, if there's no turning back then Jason is going to have a hard time becoming king of his homeland