@gnomon You always root for the monster, it's just good sense

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#Monsterdon #Matango okay so 90% of this movie is just the boat people getting mad at each other and being dramatic. This is reality TV with writers, and everyone is on a shipwreck.

"did you eat some of those mushroom?"

Hes wearing sunglasses indoors, sweating with a stupid grin?

Of course he had shrooms bro

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#Monsterdon #Matango Back inside the Scientific Sailboat, Gilligan makes some alcohol and drinks it so he can make worse decisions. He then tells Captain Pipes he's gonna go shoot the monster dude they saw, who so far hasn't done anything threatening and might just be looking for a bathroom or a coffee shop or something.

Anyway, Gilligan wanders off into the jungle in another smart decision, the girls do some laundry, making Psychology Boyfriend feel awkward.

#Monsterdon I’m having a little trouble distinguishing which parts are Main Plot and which are shroom-induced hallucinations.

#Monsterdon #Matango Actual Captain tries to repair the HIJMS Venture Capital and tells Captain Pipes to go get some food. In one of many Probably Bad Decisions during this movie, Captain Pipes decides to eat some mushrooms he found. Meanwhile, the girls are outside building a sand castle and one of them hallucinates her mother's voice or something.

Mushroom sighting! #monsterdon

ok going to sleep with the sunglasses on is too good. continuity made a choice and it was Sunglasses ON #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Matango we had one of those flashbacks that was set in one of those swanky mid century bars that hollywood movies like to set scenes in. After not paying attention to that scene, I return to find the ladies wandering the forest and screaming at a Mysterious Dark Shadow!

gets up in the middle of the night
puts my sunglasses on
someone immediately shines a flashlight in my eyes
this is why i win
#monsterdon

Mushroom scat!

#Monsterdon #AttackOfTheMushroomPeople #Matango

checkov's mirror? #Monsterdon #Matango

waiting for the mushroom people #monsterdon

*stares at that gun*

That's a garande, right? I think that solves the boat's owners' identity

#Monsterdon #Matango

@jonny I was going to give them a tiny bit of credit for not running away in a panic but then I realized, yes, it is probably better to run away in panic than to shudder in place in panic

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#Monsterdon further exploring the cursed sailboat, we conclude that it was a Science Sailboat sent to investigate the wonders of radiation. In a suspcious box, we find a large mushroom labelled #Matango (dun dun dun).

Then we open the captain's cabin and find it is full of... different fungus. I really like how all the rooms on the fungus boat have different mold patterns.

#Monsterdon #Matango after deciding that the wrecked ship is probably NOT inhabited by skeletons and or zombies, our party of level 1 aristocrats start crawling around the ship and discover it has suspiciously nice internal fittings. Also, the stair steps are slippery with... fungus! Also, the inside of the ship looks moldy and appropriately decayed for an old shipwreck.

I'd guess the ship is some kind of early 20th century sailboat, maybe a large yacht or strange tramp freighter.

like this ship could not be anymore obviously haunted what are you even doing

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#monsterdon I TAKE IT BACK, FUNGUS AHOY

#Monsterdon #Matango as an aside, I think it might not be the best idea for everybody to go explore the island at once? Like I might leave the actual sailors behind to try and repair the boat or mend its sails, and send the passengers off to explore.

#Monsterdon The birth of a hydraulic empire. You can be hungry for a while, but water? You’ll do wild shit for a drink of water. LOL.

#Monsterdon #Matango While exploring the non-ghostly island, which seems pleasantly forested, the rich chumps and their sailboat drivers find some rocks somebody arranged deliberately. Then we find a trail and decide to follow it, because that's the procedure you follow when your PCs are shipwrecked on an island and you're not sure what the DM wants you to do.

the locations are where this movie really shines

black sand beaches, spooky ships, spooky jungles and everything with a veil of mist over it

honda was a master of aesthetics

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#Monsterdon No compass, so you’re helpless? Allow me to introduce you to “celestial navigation”, required for any *serious* skipper.

It's a ghost ship!

#Monsterdon #AttackOfTheMushroomPeople #Matango

LOL they have a skipper and professor and movie star on this boat #Monsterdon

Will they wash up on an island where an American GI still thinks it's WWII? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Matango While trying to stop their boat from sinking, Literary Gilligan gives the guy I think is the boyfriend (who is a psychiatry) advice on how to pick up women, so a pickup artist is also aboard this doomed venture capital sailboat.

Then psychiatry guy goes below decks to find Captain Pipes trying to mack with his girlfriend, which makes him unhappy. Then they turn the engine off and the boat is knocked over.

#Monsterdon #Matango after singing, our heroes decide to drink beer, where one dude explains that the people on this boat are better than other people for no reason; I guess the passengers are all rich and famous. We learn that Captain Pipes is not the captain, just the guy who bought the boat, for 40 million yen.

The actual captain and a sailor went aboard to complain about their snobby passengers. Then a storm starts pushing the yacht and the famous lady tells the shy lady how cool she is.

#Monsterdon #Matango I think I am going to regret watching the dub of this movie very much.

@lysdexic Imagine if they were singing the Mothra song #Monsterdon

Get your timed mute button ready, it'll be all #monsterdon all the time for like the next 90 minutes!

okay, we've done 19 ishiro honda films by my count. unless im miscounting

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Does #monsterdon always happen at the same time? I think I can make next week. Sounds like a whole lot of fun.

@apLundell #monsterdon Honestly with the pacing of this movie in the middle, "Chemical Closet Ethanol" might have been a good choice for the cocktail. Could name it "The bottle episode"

Before I forget: a Bechdel PASS thanks to the director's decision to include both Mami-san and Akiko-san in this film #monsterdon

... and, why did we have the author hallucinate/dream about being run over by a larger ship before they even *got* to the mushroom isle ... of course, pretty much the whole movie could have been the mushroom-toxin delusions of the sole survivor of the yacht, too, as his brain was being colonized by our mycelium overlords ...

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you guys realize we're watched about twenty ishiro honda films?

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@diazona It's always as seen from your instance. So that's what my instance saw.

My instance follows #monsterdon closely and both feeds and feeds from the monsterdon hashtag relay. We do not do that for superbowl, however. So it's not at all a fair comparison. xD

But I was wondering if other people might check the numbers from their own instances to see how it looked.

@sidd_harth0_5h4h Matango (1963) directed by Ishiro Honda. its the movie we just did for #monsterdon

it's Honda's second best movie after Gojira

@Zerofactorial "Consider joining the Church of Latter-Day Spores!" #Monsterdon

@Taweret I learned a lot on rewatch - thanks for scheduling this on this night #monsterdon

The real question in my mind tonight is whether the #monsterdon hashtag prevailed over any of the #superbowl ones here

@floatybirb I thought the best ones were the friendly, welcoming mushroom people in their pleasant glade #monsterdon

Noting for the record that this movie, Matango, was NOT the all time champion of my personal WTF Did I Just Watch list. That honor is still held by Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.

But this one came really close. ;D

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The moral of the story is stay off of rich guy yachts if you know what's good for you #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @kcarp Yes welcome to the club 🙂

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How does this rifle hold five dozen bullets? #monsterdon

@kcarp This is the normal reaction to the end of a #Monsterdon movie :D

@forestine That would be an ending for American cowards, not filmmakers with integrity. #Monsterdon #Matango

Gonna go roll a spore druid in BG3 now. Super spooky movie, amazing set design and now i want to become a mushroom! Goodnight, #Monsterdon!

I now have confused feelings about mushrooms

Thanks @Taweret I hope you're proud of this

😛

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@Bluedepth It is a letter of intent, as a suicide note #monsterdon

Anyway that flick was a thousand times better than our usual fare if only because we actually got a denouement <3 #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe i read that they shot an alternate ending where he didn't turn into a mushroom #Monsterdon

Today on #Monsterdon we learned that effing off into the sea only works for the monsters.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting this delightful mash-up of Gilligan's Island and The Last of Us!

This movie was really about mans inhumanity to mushrooms. Or something. I'm forming People For The Ethical Treatment Of Neurotoxic Mushroom People.

#monsterdon #matango

it's OUR celium

thanks to @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon! 🍄

This is actually way more of a resolution than we usually get, I'm impressed

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A good twist! I was thinking they were gonna reveal he'd been hallucinating the whole thing. "Whoops, you accidentally shot a bunch of folks you thought were mushrooms!" kinda thing. #Monsterdon

Maybe the real mushrooms are our capitalist world...
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#Monsterdon #Matango Psychology Boyfriend finds Shy Girl eating the mushrooms. Unfortunately for gender balance, we do not see any circus twinks doing a bond intro. Annoyed, Psychology Boyfriend is attacked by mushroom people, who by now look like just bundles of mushrooms with arms and legs.

He then swims off to the boat so he can return to Japan and be hospitalized in a mental institution.

And so, we have reached the end of another #Monsterdon.

What a long strange trip it's been

The mushrooms are just running up the score now #monsterdon

Oh never mind, he's just turning into a mushroom. I hope no one eats him. #monsterdon #matango

WHAT A TWIST! HE ATE THE MUSHROOMS! #Monsterdon

“And then… I ate them!” Dun dun DUUUUNNNNNN! #Monsterdon #Matango

GREAT face reveal. A+. no notes #Monsterdon

if i was really in love with her, i should've eaten her. she was a mushroom, and that's true love...

#Monsterdon #AttackOfTheMushroomPeople #Matango

Our Hero fucks off on a slow boat to Japan. #Monsterdon

"And then the night came, and then the morning, and then the night ca-"

WE KNOW HOW THE DAY/NIGHT CYCLE WORKS DIPSHIT MOVE ON #Monsterdon

And then he fucked off into the sea, the end. #Monsterdon #Matango

resistance is futile against the Rhizome Borg #Monsterdon

great to see how many people in here are Team Mushroom lol #Monsterdon

Is it just me or do these mushroom people laugh the same way as the Killer Klowns From Outer Space?

Hmm... 🤔

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"Do you have time to talk about our Savior? He's a fun guy." #Monsterdon

[maniacal laughing]

#monsterdon

Half my timeline is killed by the mushroom people, the other half is the Super Bowl.

What does it mean?

#monsterdon #sanfrancisco

@Bluedepth They don't have broadband so entertainment out here is limited #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Plot-bearing infinite bullet rifle. #monsterdon #matango

seems like a bad door lock design if you can reach through the door and unlock it #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Matango While all this dumb shit was happening, I guess the Actual Captain, who before had seemed pretty responsible, stole the HIJMS Venture Capital and tried to run off. But the boat was lonely so it came back.

We board the boat to find that the Actual Captain abandoned it and wrote that he and everybody else died on the walls of his sailboat, because he wanted to have a weird suicide I guess.

SHROOM ARM SHROOM ARM #Monsterdon

All of a sudden it's Night of the Living Dead. #Monsterdon

ah, the 60s, when psychoactive mushrooms transported you to jazz clubs and you calmed crying women by slapping them

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"and I died at sea"...So, he was dictating?

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So THEY fucked off into the sea… #Monsterdon #Matango

Now that he's eating the pretty mushrooms does he grow makeup on his face? #monsterdon

@Taweret So me and my buds just ended up watching entirely the wrong movie anyway. There was a space turtle with jets
also: https://archive.org/details/PhantasmagoriaTheater-AttackOfTheMushroomPeople1963147
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#monsterdon lol guy eats some mushrooms and it turns into "The dude gets knocked out" from The Big Lebowsky

I think that mushroom trip stumbled into being the intro to a Bond movie

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@CactuarJoe it's the next raw water-type fad. #monsterdon

not just great visual aesthetics but great use of sound too

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these dudes have some really dime-a-dozen fantasies. doesn't any one of them imagine anything interesting? or is all just scantily clad women in jazz clubs. #boring #monsterdon

This, children, is what was called a "bad trip".

#Monsterdon #AttackOfTheMushroomPeople #Matango

It's really more of Attack of the Mushroom Obsessed People still at this point #monsterdon

If more of this movie was set in the magical mushroom cave I would be enjoying it more
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just really, really great set design #Monsterdon

@lysdexic #Monsterdon Well, they’ve been breathing spores for days…

spooky jungle full of giant mushrooms and inhuman laughter

ofc i want some mushrooms

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