Yeah, some quality LASERBLASTING, this is the stuff, oh yeah, right there

#Monsterdon

Appreciate the effort they went to in destroying that fake gas station and police car!

#Monsterdon

Ah blew up the outhouse

but I did not blew up the deput - oh wait I did okay good

#monsterdon #laserblast

At least we consistently have something getting laserblasted every night

#Monsterdon

Wide-tie suit man has a Bill Bixby thing going on. I wonder if they make him mad, will he turn green and rip-open his suit?

#monsterdon

The rest of that lab looked pretty reasonable though, for a fairly messy lab anyway. (Yes I'm snotty about lab organization, but I'll be the first to admit my bench is sometimes worse than that...)

#Monsterdon

okay so he IS five and he's got his trick or treating makeup on now

#Monsterdon

@YsengrinWolf I thought the suit guy found the alien disc in the car wreckage

#Monsterdon

KILL THE COPS DO IT

#monsterdon

It takes me quite a while to calibrate my interthermometer. I can relate. #Monsterdon #laserblast

KILL! KILL!!! KILL!!!!!

#Monsterdon

"thanks mike" your part in this movie is now complete. pick up your paycheck and your apology letter at the front desk. #monsterdon

Ah yes, peering into microscopes, looking at printouts, observing liquids in glassware--some serious science is happening here. No gas chromatography, though. Might have been useful. #monsterdon #laserblast

#Monsterdon It honestly looks like they’re perusing a shoddy inventory manifest.

*insert five minute wordless Science Montage™*

Riveting. You could cut the tension with a scalpel.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon the science doers are doing science

God I love this montage. It's so stupid. #monsterdon

Just when I though this movie couldn't get any slower. Now we have a "guys looking through things montage" #Monsterdon #Laserblast

"Do you mind showing us?"
"I thought you'd never ask!"

#monsterdon

Time for SCIENCE!

#monsterdon #laserblast

science montage is era tight

#Monsterdon

Oh good. An extended lab scene without dialog. Those aren’t boring at all. #Monsterdon

push BOTH buttons

then look at the enlarger!

push some more buttons!

Now look at a liquid in a flask and frown.

#monsterdon

Like it or not, you wake up with a thrid nipple, you should go see a doctor. #monsterdon

Laserblast says ACAB
#Monsterdon #Laserblast

"You need a ride back, Billy?"

"No thanks, if I walk we'll get more filler footage to pad this runtime"

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou He doesn't need to be asked twice #monsterdon

lol, be freaked out, but just let him go, yeah?

#Monsterdon

Maybe doing this film was some kind of community service thing for Roddy McDowall. He was like "There my scene is over that should take care of those speeding tickets" #Monsterdon #Laserblast

"I'm calibrating my interferometer."

No matter what you call it, it's enjoyable.

#Monsterdon

Billy took the doctor out? That seemed unmotivated. Managed a big fireball anyway.

#monsterdon

did they crank this at the wrong speed then have to step-exposure it in the print to fix it? Is that why all the flicker?

JESUS this is a cheap movie

#monsterdon #laserblast

Roddy McDowall. 😔

#Monsterdon #Laserblast1978

For the record, @zzclaybourne and I agreed we would watch a whole movie of the stop-motion alien cops. #monsterdon

Well we certainly wouldn't want an uncalibrated interferometer, would we? #monsterdon

@strangefour the entire budget of the movie went into that, a car crash, explosions, and clay-mation. Worth it. #Monsterdon

@ramsey as if

#Monsterdon

"I'm calibrating my interferometer," is how scientists back then got out of dates, like, "Sorry, I'm washing my hair."

#Monsterdon
#Laserblast

Oh right that's why I always forget Roddy is here. He's barely in 3 minutes of this movie.
#Monsterdon #Laserblast

its cool what they can do with cgi now and everything but it just never matches the charm of a hand made creature effect

#Monsterdon

Actual Roddy McDowall? He'd do anything for a buck!

#monsterdon #laserblast

#Monsterdon

Thanks, doc.
How long before I can take my shirt off?

So the Space Turtles aren't actually *in* this they are just watching this #Monsterdon along with us I guess

"I'm calibrating my interferometer"

whoa, dude, oversharing

#Monsterdon

Okay, WHY BLOW UP THE DAMN DOC #monsterdon

Billy has no reason to do that. At all. Except McDowell faked his own death to get out of this movie.

It's too bad that wasn't Elon Musk driving a cybertruck.

#Monsterdon

Oh! The turtle aliens are participating in #Monsterdon! What's your handle, Grxx'lthor?

#Monsterdon

Since when did the laser have a search light on it?

also: laser count: 12

#monsterdon

No! Not Doctor Mellon!

#monsterdon

This metal chest thing is such a strange detail that iirc goes absolutely nowhere

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon i miss 70s wood paneling

My favorite Roddy McDowell. By a MILE.....#monsterdon

OMG Billy is actually wearing a shirt, buttoned up

#Monsterdon

Now how about this, do you feel this?

<takes out mallet>

#monsterdon

Who did it better? Yeti or Laser Blast? #monsterdon

What's that stamped on the disk? "Drop and run"?

#monsterdon #Laserblast #mst3k

weirdest x-ray ever. By the looks of the doc, Billy is going to me sexually molested.
#monsterdon

"Can I get dressed now, doctor?"

WTF? You haven't wanted to put your shirt on all movie. Now, you want to put it on?

#Monsterdon #Laserblast

I want gloves like those!

#monsterdon

"kid's nuts."

"what nuts?"

"DEEZEN nuts! LMAO gottem" #monsterdon

DO NOT NAME DROP BETTER MOVIES IN YOUR SHITTY MOVIE oh my gods why is Roddy McDowell in this trainwreck?!

#monsterdon #laserblast

#Monsterdon “Be serious!” // “I don’t know how…”

"Someone blew up his car!"
":surprised_pikachu:"
#monsterdon

"Tease Shirt" lmao

#Monsterdon

billy gotta big metal thang between his nipples

#monsterdon

"Somebody blew up Chucks car"

*like the most guilty man on Earth ]

"WHAT?!"

#Monsterdon

So our lead is a low budget Mark Hamill, and this fed guy feels like a low budget Bill Bixby to me.
#Monsterdon #Laserblast

devilgirl.jpg: "My God Billy it's bigger!"

#Monsterdon

dr melon. is this the sort of movie where dr melon is a woman with large breasts? i fear it is. #monsterdon

@jammerb a symbol for him losing his innocence? #monsterdon

Good news--the movie's HALF OVER! #monsterdon

"My God Billy it's bigger!"

hrnnnnnngh...

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

#Monsterdon

HES BUTTONING HIS SHIRT

#monsterdon

I suppose that's the other thing this movie has going for it -- it treats cops with the appropriate gravitas :DisasterGirl:

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon So far, this is kind of also like taking too many tranquilizers. I’m here, just not really witnessing any action. And it’s okay. I guess. Come here plot, anyone seen the plot? *makes kissy noises to draw the plots attention*

I'm scary because I have a suit and a piece of paper that says I'm a Fed. #monsterdon

"Oh, we need a sheriff? Get one from Central Casting!" #monsterdon

@moira but the frogurt is cursed!

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Good police response time around here. The car blew up last night and the cops are checking it out the next morning?

NGL the scenery and the blue license plates keep making me homesick for the 80s summers I spent in California visiting my dad. #Monsterdon

@SRLevine I have a feeling that movies that pass are in fact statistically lousier than the others, but don't have the energy to crunch the numbers #monsterdon

"...how can you eat a hot tamale first thing in the morning?"
"I'm stoned as shit, that's how."

#Monsterdon #Laserblast

every scene with these two cops makes me long for the cops in Beverly Hills Cop. #monsterdon

yo, tamales are great for breakfast #monsterdon

That's right! Because apparently you have to travel in pairs round those parts. #monsterdon

@Lazarou But not much of an emotional payoff compared to what it might have been #monsterdon

That's amazing. He shot the car once, but it exploded SIX times!
#monsterdon

Christ there's more? #Monsterdon #Laserblast

@meanderingok this also applies to tonight's #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👦 🔦 🚀 💥👽 🔦 🚀 💥👾 😱

Wait is laserblastbilly also doppelbilly? Wasn't he the one who was jumping into the convertible?

uggg, these cops again...

#Monsterdon

That's what sexual predators deserve—having their cars blown up!

#Monsterdon #Laserblast

laser blast: 11

exploded car count: 1

#monsterdon

This movie is basically about a drug addict finding an automatic weapon in the desert and being a little shit.
#Monsterdon #Laserblast

At least SOMEONE got lucky at the party. #monsterdon

I had the most marvelous time!

I'll bet!

Is that a bechdel pass??

#monsterdon

Looks like somebody finally ate birthday girl’s cake. If you know what I mean. #Monsterdon

we as a society have decided that we wear shirts. that it's generally nicer for everyone that way

button your goddamn shirt

#Monsterdon

Billy has a face that just screams "not gonna end well". He must've blown them away during casting. #monsterdon

Billy's nipples in dramatic lighting now

#monsterdon