obviously when the giant statue comes alive and starts coming after you you just drop the god damn brooch pin and scram #monsterdon

Hera at the helm

She looks seasick

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The beard game is strong in ancient Greece

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Shouldn't he have oven mitts on

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#monsterdon *opening credits roll*

Hmmmm I wonder what the argonauts are doing right now

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oh man this is gonna be good

JSON and the Args

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And Jason blows some Golden Fleece healing action on the chick, but his compatriots who travelled across the planet to be impaled by nasty skeletons aren't worthy of a little Golden Fleece action?

Bad form, Jason.

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DID THEY GET THE FLEECE? what about the rest of the movie!?!?!?!? #monsterdon

They did fuck off into the sea, classic Monsterdon

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SKELETON 1: Argh! I've been run through!

SKELETON 2: Get up you idiot

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Stabs the skeleton in the chest and it goes "OH NO, I'M... fine? I'm actually fine, I'm a skeleton." #Monsterdon

growing the Hydra’s children from her hungry teeth to be and army of bone-headed slaves in a tyrants petty war is very late-stage capitalism and end of the American empire

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Oh yay, it's the dancing skeletons scene.

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Okay but they were introduced to a random plant that also has the power to heal before, I do feel obligated to point that out

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"the children… of the niiiight" line delivered with the same drama as "it's a faaaaaake"

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Jason: I killed yer hydra and stole yer fleece, SUCKAS

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Too good to mock

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HAIL HYDRA!

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fuck me up with this hydra, as usual in harryhausen movie, the final-15 monster shoudl have been the whole movie #monsterdon

Wow, keys on a ring on a hook on the belt. You don't often see traditionalist fantasy jailers like this anymore. #Monsterdon

I wonder what the crites in Critters 4 are up to right now

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1:18 into the film and we get a hint of racial diversity

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yeah i guess that's what you get for having a crew of mercenaries that you chose just because they are the strongest guys without them having any ideological alignment or commitments #monsterdon

never question a captain who never takes a turn rowing and dives overboard to bring an unknown dame on board and tells her our entire mission #monsterdon

BTW the old man in the diaper monokini was doing body positivity before it was cool

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If kaiju films are any indication, this net has a 75% chance of working

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So, are there, like, anti-harpies who deliver the food

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was greek mythology concerned with sin? i didn't think it had like a set of commandments or the concept of sin #monsterdon

very, very nice work on the grabbing-the-cloth bit. AND the food theft. but _particularly_ the cloth pull.

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well now that the statue is dead, waste not want not, go and get your ass equipped with giant anal beads and whatever else was in there. the gods probably smile upon that kind of shit #monsterdon

Bends down like a middle aged person...

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I mean, you guys rowed right to him, what did you think was going to happen

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the metallic, creaky sounds of Thalos moving 👩🏾‍🍳💋

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compared to his early movies, J&TA was not at all stingy about its special effects. from the start it gives us quality monsters.

with that said, Hercules is an ass.

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If the captain of the ship started having conversations with the figurehead of the boat I would start talking mutiny...

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"I will call the vessel.....'The Titantic II'"

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Jason just announces his intention to kill the king to some rando nobleman he rescues from drowning? Oh heck, this kid is going to get canceled. 😖

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That's not Hercules, that's not Lou Ferringo

But at least it's not Kevin Sorbo

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Not the proper Olympics, you can't see their dicks flap around. That's the point...

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Greece lightning!

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Eleven minutes in before the first incomprehensible dance number!

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A tree at the end of the world?

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Thanks y'all again for the great fun watching #monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963.

My son happened to come in, in time to watch the skeleton scene and hear me rant about how great it was. Passing on the classics...

It was a very White ending, in that some raiders from a foreign land were supposed to be the 'heroes' and everything should go well for their heist and to hell with the consequences.

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Really? It just ends suddenly like that? #Monsterdon

Split review

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This is the most dynamic stop motion skeleton fight I have ever seen (complementary)

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What, we're ending it there?

But he's gotta get back through the clashing rocks and all that stuff!? And what about taking down the king. Ugh, these abrupt endings.

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Hera chooses to skip the cutscene

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The most impressive part is the live action actors are just miming and they don't even have a tennis ball on a stick like modern greenscreen actors do. #monsterdon

ONE MINUTE LEFT IN THE MOVIE "oh no i guess that didn't work out. THE END" #monsterdon

Imagine, Jason is doing all this because the dude he is trying to kill told him to go do it to keep him out of his hair. 🤦‍♂️

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MORE SKELETONS, LESS EVERYTHING ELSE

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Aw yeah, this is the stuff :D #Monsterdon

My skeleton makes screams that sound just like that. #monsterdon

"Destroy Them!"
"Kill!"

"Does anyone know the command for these things? I don't have the manual with me...."

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10 minutes is not a ton of time to wrap things up, here, but we seem to be fully under way to a sudden ending

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@SRLevine The level of critical thought in this response is just way more than I expected anyone to give me 😂

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Well, that was kind of lame. But at least he didn't kill the hydra by decapitation (unlike SOME Hercules movies I could name >_>) #Monsterdon

Medea looking on like she has money bet on this match

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"We've been in three scenes together, you see, so by Movie Law we're in love now." #Monsterdon

Betrayal! Jason's own crew member! Curse his sudden but inevitable betrayal etc etc

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Jason and the Vaguenauts #Monsterdon

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king: "welcome to colchis -- we're throwing you a big feast to welcome you! we just have one law: don't steal our fleece. why'd you come here anyway?"

jason: "to steal your fleece! i mean _in peace_"

My HS bf and I saw a community theatre production of Medea, not really knowing what we were getting into. He was mortified; I was like, YES, DESTROY HIM EVEN IF YOU DESTROY YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS and I think that might have been the beginning of the end for us. 😅

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Second incomprehensible dance number, 1h16m!

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"We're not pirates.....we're COLONISERS!"

begins stealing precious icons and relics...

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I really, really wish I could’ve been a hand on this set. Nobody has this much fun with papier-mâché, latex, and water anymore

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throw the guy a courtesy wave as you pass by or something man, #monsterdon

i am literally asking because some stories don't have like a narrative arc and that's fine, epics can just be epics and lengthy series of things happening one after another, but it's also a movie and usually movies have plots #monsterdon

Don’t you just hate it when a harpy gets trapped in your Parthenon and you’re trying to shoo-it outside but it just won’t go out the door?

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And that's how we domesticated harpies and how you can buy one in a pet shop to this day. #monsterdon

*Argonauts try to use a huge net to catch the harpies tormeting Phineas*

Whoever directed this scene has absolutely tried to wrestle a cat into a carrier.

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Maybe just build him a house with a door he can lock

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Hercules, ruining it for everyone

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Hercules is upset about the loss of his 'friend' just as Alexander the Great was upset about his 'friend'

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They're ancient greek sailors,...it's one giant polycule on that boat!

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#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 it's like Titanic all over again *sniff*

reverse-reverse abandon ship!
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Does anyone watching know the answer?

Recall the scene of Talos's head initially coming to life and turning towards Hercules. Ray Harryhausen said it was inspired by a *Japanese film*, but he could not remember its name.

Do you know the Japanese film that inspired this scene?

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Put the brooch pin back please, Hercules.

(These creaking metal sound effects are really doing a great job of covering up for the sense of scale that is robbed a little bit by the absence of motion blur from the movement of the bronze Talos statue.)

And this scene definitely looks to have inspired the metal laser giant on the amazon beach in Starcrash!

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Context is Key

Two years prior to tonight's feature, Sergio Leone's The Colossus of Rhodes was released. It famously featured the large statue of Talus.

🤯 So it was wild for audiences to see a couple of years later Talos changed into a living bronze giant. It would become one of Ray Harryhausen's most famous creations.

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"Wait, were we supposed to take stuff? Or NOT take stuff? Geez these details are really hard to remember"

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"Lets go club some goats to death!"

"yayy?"

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Hera closes her eyes at this lacklustre drum playing

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Hylas will be their Science Officer....

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Jason and the Argonauts sounds like a band made up of Jason and all the other guys who failed auditions to join the Argo's crew

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Five shall be the number of the helping. And the number of the helping shall be five. Four shalt thou not help, neither help thou four, excepting that thoust then proceed to five. SIX IS RIGHT OUT.
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"5 times, Mrs. Bueller"

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In the kingdom of the no-sandaled, the one-sandalled man is king

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"Why was I not told the whole prophecy"

Gods are fucking with you, it's what they do. They're bored...

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Red capes seem like bad planning, like how do you tell who has an arterial bleed and who just got their cape wet

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Who wants to smoke a bowl with me

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104 minutes? #monsterdon

GOGOGOGOGOGOGO

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@apLundell skeletons! are always immortal! they are the shape of the body animated by something that is localized to their being but must be outside of it! because unlike other undead, it is plain to see that there is nothing that could serve as the source of their animacy within them. they are a body without a body! #monsterdon

@MichaelKlamerus You can copy and paste this comment to about 98% of Monsterdon movies

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@msh @Taweret I'm choosing to call this a sequel setup

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And that's a wreck! Jason and the Argonauts fuck off into the sea with the golden fleece they stole, and with several fewer crewmates who were murdered by skeletons! Jason and Medea make out! The gods chuckle indulgently! THE END

Thank you for hosting, @Taweret , and thank you to the whole #monsterdon crew for a delightful Sunday evening and a fine return to form. Good choice, and good night!

SKELETONS, SKELETONS, SKELE... *is hooked off stage*