travelling to see the solar eclipse last month, I stopped at a cave for sightseeing and they had a disco ball hung up in the entrance, so this movie is basically my biography #monsterdon
Hans: <slips, screams, and falls>
Professor Muttonchops: Welp, guess it's not safe to go down THERE, let's try the next cave over, shall we?
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OK we have reached the Center of the Earth - Movie over!
Iβm gonna imagine music this dramatic next time Iβm up on Skyline Drive. #monsterdon
@Taweret Yeah, I think I prefer the versions where they build a pilotable drill machine. At least with those y'get to sit down. #Monsterdon
jeez just getting to the entrance of the center of the earth looks like more effort than i would want to put in
Hans is an ethpanish Ricaro MontalbΓ‘n. we know he's rugged because his mutton chop is bigger than the professor's
They seem to have hiked over all of the Doctor Who quarry sets. And a few from Middle Earth as well
Man, this is one *over enthusiastic* orchestra. Chill with the horns! #Monsterdon
βGunter, Gleiben, Glauchen, Globenβ
do love Miss Glauben's hat tho. best character in this film so far, that hat. #monsterdon
I do like the lava field scenes.
This man only has room for two things in his heart, mountains and whittl'n.
exciting adventure music! we're adventuring! it's exciting! honest! #monsterdon
@YsengrinWolf There might uniconically be something involving excessive CO2 or the like. Maybe.
π WHERE ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY BEGANπ
Supposing I pay you one sheep a week, with a bonus of two rams on our safe return?
- Prof. Otto Lindenbrock:
When do we leave?
- Hans Belker
BLEETCOIN!
Okay the Calendarman level nonsense about the Julian calendar is amusing.
#Monsterdon #WhenTimeBegan
why are we being introduced to a proud shepherd? I presume the book is a lot of this? This guy better have a magic ring or something......
Oh goody, they're picking up guns. I'm sure those won't be turned on the natives at the first opportunity. #Monsterdon
"Yes! We finally got him a job!...that it sounds like he may not make it back from!" #monsterdon
@kcarr2015 it is dreadfully serious so far #monsterdon
The girl's name is Grauben? I've been hearing Globin
I've also never heard either name before
Also, if my boyfriend spilled my rock collection, I would definitely be showing him the door
@jchaven I haven't seen the 1959 version, and I also prefer it over this one
Now *thats* what I call a museum!
I like that museum, i'll give the location scout props for this
#Monsterdon Schooner!
@gnomon I'm on the Mole People's side. #Monsterdon
kind of a nice period atmosphere to this tbh
Two grown ass adults running around a china shop is a formula for disaster
Thinking back to the little intro before the movie, I must agree: of all the versions of Journey to the Center of the Earth, this is certainly one of them. #Monsterdon
Thank god they brought a scientist along on this adventure.
#monsterdon
#monsterdon This is bringing out the British in me
They'd get a meter into the mountain and be like, "Oh I forgot the food, guess we'll just eat rocks." #Monsterdon
How can I be fifteen minutes into the film and nothing's happened yet? #monsterdon
Have they fucked off into the sea already? #Monsterdon
Yes, these two men who can't figure out the answer to the question "Who between the two of us has our train tickets?" are going to find the secret hidden portal to the hollow Earth. #Monsterdon
Cutty Sark
THAT SHIP! WANT! #Monsterdon
Very fixed on calling it the bowels of the Earth. #Monsterdon
haha these dudes are just totally useless without their woman #monsterdon
I have only seen the 1959 version. So far, I prefer it over this one.
#Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCentreOfTheEarth #JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth
#monsterdon Braty Cindelrella
@apLundell@octodon.social #Monsterdon
In fact, every movie should come equipped with a map just in case.
The thrush will crack a snail on the last light of Durin's Day ...
Toy Boat Toy Boat
Mount Sneffles? Better bring a lot of tissues. #Monsterdon
Why the code though, why the ruse? Is this something we find out later or did I miss that while being in awe of Kenneth's mutton chops
ah, it's like the Da Vinci Code but not as stupid
whose voice is the woman's? it's fucking annoying.
Hopefully we get some exciting scenes of them packing for their journey. #Monsterdon
It's the Rosetta Mimeotype!
if these bozos can't even recognize backwards letters then they are gonna get absolutely shredded by the hyperintelligent magma whales that reside in the earth's molten core #monsterdon
The centre of the Earth!
ON THE MOON! Wait what?
#Monsterdon #WhenTimeBegan
The set-up is boring BORING. Get to the exciting BORING to the centre of the earth. #monsterdon
@apLundell@octodon.social ideally found in seedy bars at spaceports #monsterdon
The lady's not into guys without muttonchops, bucko #monsterdon
boooooooooooo this exposition is BORING get in the damn EARTHS CORE ALREADY #monsterdon
We all know what the core of the Earth is like, but we can't tell what's in between the crust and the core. This makes sense because divinations, one of the pillars of scientific investigation, are most effective at a distance of 6000km and greater.
#Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth
She's not marrying a soldier, she's marrying a bellboy. #Monsterdon
Kenneth More's character could be a guest on GB News with his wacky theories and strong colonialism
I think everybody who would get that reference is asleep.
#monsterdon Geology Domme > Dark Academia
kilometers, miles, leagues... kinda bugs me how this guy keeps changing units of measurement
"...they are not little rocks"
"Then what are they?"
"Desiccated testicles of annoying boys like you."
you could tell me a league was ten miles or forty miles or a hundred miles and i really couldn't argue with you
Checkmark for cigars
Guest starting Arnold Rimmer. #monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth #WhereTimeBegan
"bend over, pick that trash up for me, I want to watch you"
Is everyone in this movie old
i think they are all dubbed, but some of them are clearly speaking english and some are clearly not. what is going on here #monsterdon
how is earrth formed?
No Mow May
...on their faces
Look at these fools, think that the world is "round!" Fools!
#Monsterdon
Quite right! You're bloody well right! And you're bloody right to say it!
This movie's sideburn game is on point. Could hang a lamp from some of these muttonchops. #Monsterdon
i think the pre-show should have been about facial hair, not the history of the movie we're already here to watch. #monsterdon
did not see the dubbing coming #monsterdon
This is fantastic.
I think I'd enjoy a movie just about a rare book seller and the weird people who bring books in to sell.
@ricci I found it quite unsettling #monsterdon
If I'm watching the right movie, there's a lot of nice facial hair around.
#Monsterdon
@blogdiva it's ok, we're running late because the TV is smarter than us. #Monsterdon
yes it starts with a black and white thingy, and then very heavily monotone colorized scenery #monsterdon
What did that old man flash to that child in Hamburg?
this one is FABULOUS #monsterdon
"a tribute to these pioneers" by which we mean, we watched the old films, thought we could do it better, and instead produced This. #monsterdon
This green tint is ... a choice
Am I watching the right movie? Starts with black and white footage of old Jules Verne adaptations? #Monsterdon
"Centre" oooh fancy! #Monsterdon
never show a better movie to start your worse movie
@gnomon If it's true to #monsterdon form, we will reach the center of the earth at about minute 78 of 90. :)
#monsterdon You could take Olson outta the movie and little would change. But if you take out Hans, you have no movie.
Thanks @Taweret and generally everyone doing #monsterdon tonight, for entertaining me for two hours! I especially appreciate the distraction this week on account of shingles π
might fuck around and time travel, gather up a bunch of different versions of myself, build a secret future city in the center of the earth and create a book to lead some yahoos from the 1800s into the center of the earth so they can see some turtles and mushrooms and then leave
@floatybirb There was a lot of blood in that plesiosaur battle! #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth
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And a big thank you to @Taweret for hosting tonight's surreal journey!
I will say that I would have guessed this movie being made a decade or two earlier than it actually was.
@YsengrinWolf this movie, today, is how I learned that Tolkien essentially based the appearance of Tengwar script off of written Old English #monsterdon