Jason and the Argonauts
Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

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!

Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
JoeWynne@mstdn.plus

πŸ¦–#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIA AND THE ARGOS β›΅πŸŒŠ

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.

#JasonAndTheArgonauts1963

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

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.

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

@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

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

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 crew for a delightful Sunday evening and a fine return to form. Good choice, and good night!

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

wohali
wohali
wohali@timeloop.cafe

"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!

β™₯️ see you next week!

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

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

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

nhgeek
nhgeek
nhgeek

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

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

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.

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

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

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

*rockslides sink the other boat in the narrow channel*

Boats: 0

Rocks: 1

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

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

(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.)

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

Yeah you want separate cages for your harpies otherwise they just end up eating each other. How do they not know that?

saucerlost

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

LA Sooner
LA Sooner
MatthewTitus88

"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?"

Ysengrin Blackpaw πŸ”œ AnthrOhio
Ysengrin Blackpaw πŸ”œ AnthrOhio
YsengrinWolf@meow.social

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!

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

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.

saucerlost

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

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

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

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.