"Love is fleeting, power is eternal"

bit fash

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Okay, I would also accept him shapeshifting into a funnier british comedian. #monsterdon

Not totally shocking that hot young Liam Neeson has 7 or 8 wives. #Monsterdon

He's pretty good at spear throwing for a guy with no depth perception

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Come on, Eileen

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Cyclops is pretty nifty with that spear for having no depth perception, fair play

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Body horror #monsterdon

Very polite of him to wave goodbye one last time #monsterdon

I'll admit to being a sucker for black sclera effects

#monsterdon #krull

When I was a kid, it's 80s movies like this that made me think quicksand was an ever present danger in the world.

#Monsterdon #Krull

If green glowing crevasse persists, consult a geologist. #monsterdon

"And the only future they are permitted to see... is the future of 2025 America. Woe be unto them."

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#Monsterdon you will marry me! A sentient pile of cranberry sauce. The smooth kind, not the atrocity one with the berries still in it.

Interesting #monsterdon

You might think this is Shelob's Lair, but that isn't until later

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you’d think they’re pororrican with all those switchblades

#monsterdon #Krull

Frogger, now with boulders!
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Uncle Owen! Aunt Beru!

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May the glave be with you. #monsterdon

PLEASE HOLD STILL FOR CALL TO ACTION
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"the power of the Glaive..."

*pedantic argument about what a Glaive really is for three hours

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#Monsterdon my name is Ynyr. You’d want a vowel wouldnt you? The Y is a vowel in drag you see. Yes. It’s slumming as a vowel. You’ll weep for the lack of an e, an o, or even a trashy schwa.

Proper 'red wedding' that, as in everyone is dead.

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April is the Krull-est month

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Worst. LARP. Ever.
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I love there's a little alien pilot creature inside the Slayer's heads!

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so, am assuming whomever composed the score to the movie is a nepobaby who paid to make this movie in a vain attempt to one-up John Williams?

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The Slayers freaked me out as a child, unstoppable as they had projectile weapons and the Krullians had only swords, but I hadn't learned of guerrilla warfare or anti-colonial struggle, so...

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@arrjay Compare with Stargate?

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I have a feeling the score and credit sequence is writing checks the film can't cash. #monsterdon

"Just park it anywhere, we're a mountain"

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Stranger Things really missed the opportunity to reference Krull.

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#monsterdon James Horner did the soundtrack for this movie, so be prepared for a lot of brass. Like A LOT a lot.

MOVIE TITLES. IN. SPAAAAAACE! #monsterdon

yeaahhhhh, Two Suns baby!

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GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

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#Monsterdon wow, my ears won't stop ringing after that. So many bells, so much James Horner french horn trilling. Also, did I mention the bells? Time to sit quietly and stare at a wall.

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event.

This week we watched KRULL (1983). It is a paint-by-numbers fantasy story wrapped around a James Horner score and puncutated by some really interesting visual design. Is it good? I dunno. Is it great? Nah. But we had fun watching it.

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

They put everything they had into it. Like, they didn't reject a single idea.

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@paco Maybe it was your destiny. Like you couldn't have survived this movie drunk. #monsterdon

Ask me again what the best #monsterdon was and I won't say Devil Girl From Mars

Colwyn Googling: black fortress directions

#monsterdon #krull1983

So I was checking the calendar to figure out what time the appointment is... and it's Thursday. I was stone Krulled sober for nothing.
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Black Fortress appreciation post

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
- Robert Browning

The director really went for it.

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Okay - it was a bit confused, very derivitive and the effects were not great, but that was amazing.

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problem is The Beast sent the wrong Slayers. #monsterdon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK_is2OIESU

So like kings can shoot fire now I guess.

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@strangefour *monkeys paw curls* https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/exclusive-krull-reboot-jj-abrams.html #monsterdon

That's a wrap!

I'm not sure, but that likely counts as the most expensive film we've watched to date?

And the longest.

Definitely the most James Hornerest.

And the Glaivest.

Certainly the flattest cyclopsic.

Once again, thank you everyone for your joyfully sarcastic tooting along, and @Taweret for hosting.

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Hi I'm the narrator. I mean I died, but I'm still the narrator.

Deal.
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Well, whatever. That was very stupid and even more enjoyable.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the stream, @Cherizilla for the bingo card, @JoeWynne for the trivia, and all of YOU for your seriously top-tier commentary.

Shout-out to the brass section of the London Symphony Orchestra.

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#Monsterdon Krull is in the can. Thanks @Taweret for a lovely trip!

Patsy Pollock has a LOT to answer for. #monsterdon

Slight Imperial March vibes at "And their son shall rule the galaxy."

#Monsterdon #KRULL

@kcarr2015 I just assumed they flew into Space because Magic? #Monsterdon

Awww, well that was great fun, as Krull always is!

#Monsterdon #Krull

so the sets and practical effects were very nice. and the rest was... the sets and practical effects were very nice

ty for joining, everyone!!

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#Monsterdon And so the Black Castle, which had survived the freezing void of space and the raging heat of reentry, falls to a bit of lighter fluid

Sure. It's every Saturday at Noon ET. @SesameSquirrel and I take turns hosting. #KungFuSat #monsterdon

Building falls up #monsterdon

bowl-cut boy: See, I helped!

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So this demonic beast's weakness is.... fire? #monsterdon

I wanted him to blow out his hand

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#krull1983

"I cast fireball" #monsterdon

#monsterdon *Corwyn strikes a wide stance, confused about why the glaive is not returning to him after having done so at least once or twice in the last couple of minutes*

pssst Corwyn skips leg day, pass it on

#monsterdon One hit?! Surely not. Second health bar?

Colwyn in the end was just a glaive delivery system #monsterdon

You're gonna have to go pull it out of him, Corwyn. Stop being so lazy and get off the couch. IT'S JUST OVER THERE

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but Tha Beast just wanted to be loved... and didn't know how to show it. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Again, pretty cool set design inside the fortress here. That spike pit was pretty ridiculous, but it looked nifty.

Mr. Beast insists on only being filmed with a soft focus lens… like Barbara Walters #monsterdon

he catches the glaive, and it cuts his fingers off #monsterdon

I didn't know lasers richocheted

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@b perhaps that's what was in in Menno's sack? #Monsterdon

good thing their lasers don't work against Large Cats, huh? #monsterdon

Oh yeah, Krull has 2 suns. We forgot to mention that before

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Oh, the "glaive" vaporizes enemies like the secondary fire on Half-Life 2's AR2!

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“Aren’t you a little SHORT for a Slayer?”
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and now we’re on to the evil space c-section

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dude brought a sword to a lasergun fight. #monsterdon

I wish travel were as easy as that castle makes it look

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Every quest needs a giant on their team

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Robbie Coltrane getting a nice death scene there, you can tell he was going places...

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WAIT! didnt Cyclops stay back? why is here goatsing the rock mountain?

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so.. can they cook their meals by hanging them off the side of the horses? #monsterdon

NOOOOOOOOO NOT SPACE ROBBIERICUA COLTRANE

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My husband has fallen asleep on the couch across the room from where I sit watching this movie on my laptop with headphones, affirming my suspicion that after 32 years we have a psychic bond and he's somehow going through this movie with me

#Monsterdon #Krull

E.T.... phone horse! #monsterdon

people making yt videos using free internet music do a better job matching music to scene than this

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Another one bites the Krull

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#Monsterdon the power of Shell. In a horse. Vroom vroom. The oil changes are very hard on the horses.

Good thing the Iron Desert is only 3 acres

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"We had no time."

"We had plenty of time! But you went off and became a dog."

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*Gallivanting Music starts

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The King of Beers
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There's a fire theme here that feels under-explained.

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"Oh, you knew about the fire mares of course? Everyone knows about them!"

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@nev this is my favorite scene so far - the spider is lovely & I really feel the tension of the dude crawling through the web. The score against the spider noise is *chef's kiss.*

...and it just got interrupted by an ad, dammit... #Monsterdon

Wow. Widow of the Web, that's dark.
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