@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*

"Just as King KOng got me interested in music, in trying to trace Max Steiner's score... I became interested in Wagner and the classics, and the picture opened up an entire world to me. So I am so pleased that our pictures opened up a whole new world for them."

Like Ray I hope #monsterdon opened up a whole new world for you - great (!) films and even better company.

Big thanks to @Taweret for organizing our group watches! Also special thanks to @cherizilla for the bingo, @JoeWynne for the trivia, and each and every one of you for the fantastic time we shared together!

♥️ see you next week!

...Wait, that's it? #Monsterdon

Quick, check the guidebook. Can skeletons swim?

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And the Oscar goes to… Ray Harryhausen!

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"Destroy them! Kill! Kill! Kill them all!"

Right, OK, so more of a nec-rofighter, less of a nec-romancer

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you know what fuck it, 5 minutes left, skeletons. let's go. #monsterdon

@moira @SnoopJ the fleece has some utility value as a healing item, so one could characterize the economy of this kingdom as being based on hyperspeculation on healthcare technology #monsterdon

My sister had shag carpet like that fleece when we were kids #monsterdon

Hecate is more interested in cleaning up a dead hydra before it stinks up the place than in listening to you

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"Wait!"

I'm Greek Abraham Lincoln, I can't go onto a balcony! #Monsterdon

use the pointy end

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Why is it so hard to hit the hydra, it's RIGHT THERE #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 it *was* the *bronze* age

The argonauts are mad at Jason for not immediately wanting to attack the city they are visiting (he thinks that would be mean and also dumb), but I immediately wanting to do a shore piracy is very on brand for most mythological Greek heroes.

Anyway, one guy is extra mad we can't do a shore piracy and so we have a swordfight until Jason knocks him off the boat, then we get a swimming scene and then that guy dies.

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This scene has me expecting Shatner to burst in, ripping his own shirt #Monsterdon

"I go another way."

It's ancient Greece, doesn't everyone? #Monsterdon

when swords aren’t enough, a good bitch-slapping will do

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what the hell man i literally just deployed my giant fish man to save your ass and how you're throwing your little guy obelisk necklace overboard and suggesting as king you will promote a secular society less reliant on the gods? #monsterdon

"In time all men will learn to live without them (gods)"

The lack of a sea god popping out of the water to prove doubters wrong....

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*rockslides sink the other boat in the narrow channel*

Boats: 0

Rocks: 1

*very Guy Fieri voice for some reason* you just got ROCKED

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(I'm enjoying this movie a bunch more than Clash of the Titans (1981) that we watched on 2025-06-29 last year, I have to admit.)

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Chips ahoy!

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homies have had the concept of fashion and not wearing only diapers this whole time they just choose to diaper up and get a full body sunburn for fun #monsterdon

No harpies were harmed in the making of this film.

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@jonny we might charitably interpret the film's use of "sin" to mean defiance of the gods, but this is excessively charitable. just bad writing

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Cats would look at that table push and call it excessive

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"You're on thin ice Jason, don't fuck me over again or I will cut you" - Hera

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I never thought I'd see less self-preservation than in Prometheus

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"My goo, my precious hot goo....ohhhh what a world....."

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I... Was... Just... Learning... To love...

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Not my giant ankle plug! My one weakness! #monsterdon

Use a quarter

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This week's #Monsterdon is unexpectedly high brow in a low brow way. I mean way to learn your Greek mythology on a Sunday night!

I just watched Harryhausen’s 1977 film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. The compositing is AMAZING in that one.

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"I wonder why that giant stone monster came to life and tried to kill us all. Did anyone take anything besides food and water? Hercules?" #monsterdon

Hey, remember JUST being told not to take anything. Are you 5 years old? #monsterdon

Hercules smol

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That statue is going to move, isn't it?

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It's going to turn out that Hercules lost his car keys in the sandy beach scene.

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that Hera head has strong body horror and “Virgin Mary in that movie about the Lourdes miracle” vibes and it’s the thing of nightmares.

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"We had sails all along? But the rowing? Why?"

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Bro you're burning through Hera Help points like it's going out of style. #monsterdon

boat knowers of #monsterdon, is that sail what you'd be needing to go to the edge of the earth #monsterdon

See, this level of pettiness is a much more proper depiction of Zeus. This movie gets what Zeus is all about

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*Hermes is a day late and throws the parcel into next doors garden

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"Hey Zeus, sup. I brought you a lil man"

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EMBIGGENING!

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OMG that guy with the big white eyebrows looks like Michael Palin in greek drag

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Why don't they People elect a leader instead of wait for a 'king' to save them?

*starts to analyse with Marxism

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"Do you like my sexy dancing girls? I take them where ever I go..."

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"the rest is Man's work"

typical Zeus...

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She was a ghost the whole time!

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We’re slaughtering children. Are *we* the baddies?!

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lets fucking go..
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"That's the one I picked :) "
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An arctic dinosaur? What like some kind of wooly tyrannosaurus?
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Big thanks to @Taweret for tonight's Harryhausen classic; the skeleton fight still sets the blood to racing.

No smoking (duh), no coffee (duh).
Heavy on the sausage fest. Maybe fewer bald old man titties (I can look in a mirror for that). Poseidon's hairless armpits, up close and personal.
The finest knitted hats/helmets.
Exotic healing flower.
Bronze guardian golem. Wimpy hydra guardian. Screechy harpies. Coordinated skeleton fighters.
And a golden fleece in a dead tree (thought it healed everything).

And, that was only half the story!

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The movie had a large number of anachronisms in it, but I think we were supposed to view it as sort of an out-of-time version of Ancient Greece - like the Ancient Greece that appears in renaissance paintings, or on Xena: Warrior Princess so it seems fine.

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@apLundell They’re usually some of the first monsters you face at level 1 in D&D, so judging by that, Jason and his crew have only just begun their adventure.

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Another wonderful entry in the Saga of Shirtless Men! Thanks again to @Taweret for keeping the stage grease filled and to the #Monsterdon crew for collecting my teeth.

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....................(dies)

I mean, am I really supposed to root for, Jason, the guy trying to steal another people's sacred relic?

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After defeating the skeleton army we get in the rowboat and sail away. Because we used up all of our special effects money the movie has to end now, even though we haven't resolved the prophecy so we get another scene were Zeus and Hera are watching Jason and Medea kiss and they're like "hmmm well thats enough of our Mortals: the Board Game for now, let's finish it later!" and then they turn off their fountain TV and the movie ends.

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There will be part 2 (probably not)

Thanks #Monsterdon folks and @Taweret for hosting!

"Knocking 'em down is easy. It's getting them to stay down that's the problem."
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WHY WOULD YOU PUT YOUR SWORD *DOWN* #Monsterdon

@LuluHelle [screaming in Skeleton]

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#monsterdon what we've been waiting for!
The children of the hydras teeth.
Skelongtons!

You can't kick these things in the bollocks or any of those tricks

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skellington said AAAAAAAA

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Keel zem. Keel zem aul. #Monsterdon

time for the skeleton war :blobfoxhyper2:

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I don't know why you set up a healing flower and then invoke a random fleece power instead

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SKELETONS, SKELETONS, SKELETONS, SKELETONS

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I wish I could summon the Dead against my enemies...

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Put her under the golden weighted blanket! It has the power to smush her with excessive weight! #monsterdon

Wow, that christmas tree tinsel casts Cure 3. #Monsterdon

Jason, no - don't pull the arrow out. First Aid 101.

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Yeah yeah, can't have a woman survive in an action flick 🙄 🙄 #Monsterdon

@SnoopJ @jonny I mean literally what were their representatives doing when we met them? CLEARING A TRADE ROUTE! The necessity of the system is self-evident!

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ooo, I think the Skeletons are coming!

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"Fetch me the hydra's teeth"

*dangerously radioactive hydra teeth

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"Are we the Baddies, our god is a 'Queen of the Darkness'?"

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Stretches of this movie aren’t working for me but anytime there’s a stop motion effect, this movie really sings. Beautiful stuff #Monsterdon

this hydra is a real hissypants

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"Seven headed dragon. Of course. This has not been my month." Jason. #monsterdon

The golden fleece is legit half Christmas tinsel. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 snitches get witches

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⁉️ TRIVIA AND THE ARGOS ⛵🌊

This film killed in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

In the U.S., though, despite its awesomeness, audiences had tired of the sword and sandals epics beloved by Harryhausen. There had been just too many flooding the theaters. It only did middling business.

The ending clearly suggests a sequel was planned, but, no.

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@allanb and yet they are apparently servants/bodyguards 😬

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My Lord....

I believe your beard and hairpiece are reversed

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The beard looks like a bad mall santa's beard. #monsterdon

Way to go, Romulan babe. #Monsterdon

OK, I was wrong. THIS is the time on #Monsterdon when we dance!

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Statue boppin' to it #Monsterdon

"It has no name yet we use it every day in our medicine"

seems unlikely nobody has yet to give it a name...

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Why is this crew so eager to fight?

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Oh hey you have a golden fleece? Can I like... have it? It's a pretty important deliverable for this project. #monsterdon