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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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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"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

Every quest needs a giant on their team

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

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Wow. Widow of the Web, that's dark.
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Fun fact: he did his own stunts
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The spider has a LOT of pent up anger.

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These look like pretty normal horses. Are they really going to pull off 1000+ leagues in a day?

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@paco at lot happened to Muttonchops Gandalf in that moment #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon These are the days of our lives doot dee doot dee doo.

OH WE WERE ALL YOUNG. GET OVER IT. #monsterdon

@cs he's a Sex Tourist, it's all a game to him #Monsterdon

“Enter here and die. No, no, I was talking to Kim. No, I was just goofing around, it didn’t have anything to do with anything. I was finishing her remark…”

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bored now

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This is surely the most epic musical theme any hourglass has ever had

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what's this thing buried in webs that looks like a skull?

...oh, it's a skull.

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Spider!!

- Two body segments
- Legs attached to cephalothorax
- Pedipalps and chelicerae
- Realistic eye arrangement

Wow, this was modelled on an actual spider!!

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The Beast castle sets are pretty awesome

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#Monsterdon oh they found a village with other women in the universe

I wanna get "Enter Here And Die" embroidered on my underpants.

#monsterdon #krull

Stop-motion Shelob!

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I've been too busy monitoring my feed to even notice liam neeson until now. #monsterdon

Set design by White H.R. Giger

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#monsterdon The shots of Lissa wandering around this inside of this Black Fortress are very HR Giger meets Labyrinth. Fun set design.

Where's the bathroom? #monsterdon

Moustache used to date the Widow of the Web. When they were young

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I want a trippy alien space castle

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@cd0 One hundred and one Krullmations. 😃
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Liam Neeson's character is a horny devil!
A wife in every village!

(This is what Fantasy was like for the Ladies in the 80s)

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Liam Neesom has done several good movies and a few bad ones, but only one Krull

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#monsterdon Wait, what? Why do they suddenly have horses now? Were they magically dehydrated just-add-water horse pills or something in that burlap sack the quicksand dude was carting around??

The hell... we're only an hour into this? #monsterdon

SPILL IT PROFESSOR EXPOSITION
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I bet the cocaine on this set was primo. #monsterdon

I am become pupper #monsterdon

#Monsterdon also, wouldn’t it have been more useful to prepare the party with the knowledge of the changeling before we lost Grandpa Seer?

The cyclops gives me Lance Henriksen vibes.

#Monsterdon #Krull

This would have been better as a Star Wars film

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She may not kill me, for we once boned down. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon It’s not creepy. Not at all. Want to hang around with a bunch of rag-tag guys, Joey, you ever been to a… Turkish prison?

I like how Freddie Jones character is having the reluctance of having to phone up an old lover about some important work thing

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Well, that was a dramatic death
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@nhgeek Like the animated part, maybe. This isn't quite a good movie, but it's got a lot of cool stuff going on.

#monsterdon #krull

This is starting to vibe like the Star Wars Christmas special #monsterdon

I want to know what was going on with ath illusion and stabby arms bit. It felt almost like a D&D Doppleganger.

#monsterdon #krull