#monsterdon
Q: oh, so the island where Mothra's from is populated by tiny people in a magical-other-lands way, like Gulliver's Travels or the islands Odysseus visited?
A: no, it's inhabited by regular sized people. The twins are the only ones who are tiny.
Q: why?
A: none of your business.
The difference three and a half years can make:
Mothra 1961: Watched on 24 March 2022
119 toots
Godzilla 1998
Watched on 11 January 2026
3728 toots
atsa lotta toots.
see if I was imprisoning fairies I would not allow them to sing their special Kaiju summoning song
btw the english translation of the original story that MOTHRA was adapted from has just recently been published!
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/
6 years into the pandemic, and people still struggle to use masks correctly.
#monsterdon
*larval Mothra proceeds towards Tokyo across land, undeterred and unslowed by aerial bombardment, devouring every wool sweater in her path*
Why can't I get a car that looks like this in 2026? Modern electric powertrain, but exactly this styling. Fins!
forbidden cotton candy trapped huevos
Sir! We've been hacked. Someone is showing PornHub on the main screen.
#monsterdon
"they wouldnβt sing if they weren't happy."
one of the oldest human-trafficker lies in the book
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111559626333338587
SURPRISE FUCKERS!
So the symbolism here is that Jesus is an allegory for Mothra.
#Monsterdon #Mothra
Sadly, after this film became popular, large number of fairies were captured in the wild and sold to parents whose children demanded fairies of their own.
btw am here only for the doctor, aka Akihiko Hirata⦠*growl*
"thank you, and do not ever fuck with our island again"
MY BOSS: Weβre asking that everyone stay after work for a quick meeting.
MY TWIN AND I: Mothra will be here soon to rescue us β¦us.
MY BOSS: It will be a really quick meeting.
MY TWIN AND I: πΆMosura ya! Mosura πΆ
dear movie makers:
bring back special effects with miniatures
thanks,
an old lady that is all about the analog life
in Catholic folklore (itβs not in the bible), JC died for our sins at 3pm. he ressurrected about 44 hours later, around 11 am. thatβs why the main Good Friday and Easter masses are held at very specific hours, so parts of the mass can be timed to the floklore schedule.
the toy military-industrial complex is so adorable
Itβs ten-o-clock, do you know where your giant caterpillar is?
journalism man may be a clown, but he knows how to save babies
the newspaper is mightier than the sword
those wee ladies had to shower under a dewdrop for hours to get that hand stank off them
#Monsterdon
alright, palette has finally been clensed after last week's horror. mothra heals all wounds.
And so Momthra returns home safe and sound. And thank you for joining us for this healing #Monsterdon. As always, before you leave the theater we have on last task:
Was MOTHRA (1962) the WORST MONSTERDON MOVIE of the year?
... and that's a wrap. I'm sure we'll never see Mothra again
this is the weirdest doublemint commercial i've ever seen
They tried to warn you, bro. They told you Mothra was going to wake up and Mothra on your asses. Now look, Mothra is waking up, and she's going to Mothra on your asses. You're cooked, bro.
THEY SAID IT! THEY SAID THE THING! ROLL CREDITS!
can never get over the japanese "savage" guys in blackface
had to look up when Star Trek first came it. it was the year i was born, 1966; so an awesome year.
this movie was most likely the inspiration to most extraterrestrial encounter episodes in the original Star Trek series.
Oh this will be a Chekhov's mouse, won't it
OMG the gringo is speaking in really slow japanese, exaggerating a gringo accent
Omg is that it?
Mothra picks up her two miniature high priestesses and fucks off into the sea! Everyone waves farewell and says sayonara! The news reporter photographer forgot to take pictures of the giant moth and everyone has a laugh about it. Exit on a musical number.
And that's a wreck!!
Thank you for organizing, @Taweret ! I'm so glad I got to watch such a classic movie this way. What a treat!
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If I ever emerge as an adult, I hope to someday show unimaginable ferocity.
Every time they say Nelsonβ¦
Japan has a Tour dβEiffel?!?!? cuz Caterpie seems to be humping one.
They left the outtake where Mothra fell off the tower in the movie. because you have to keep the shot where the actor gets injured in a film. It is tradition.
#Monsterdon #Mothra
This is obviously way better than Matthew Broderick Godzilla
Takashi Shimura is the star of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), which is one of my all-time favorite movies and makes me cry every time I watch it.
The faeries managed to synthwave so hard that they can understand japanese now, which is a life goal for 20% of mastodon.
#monsterdon The dub said "Hard to starboard!" and then the boat turned port.
In English movies and TV, ships only have a Starboard because that's the cooler word.
OMG is it me or did the music the pixies were emoting sounded like a high pitched and faster version of the Close Encounters welcome ships song?
1960s bad guys always had acne poked skin
*very Badgers, Badgers voice*
kaiju kaiju kaiju kaiju
kaiju kaiju kaiju kaiju
kaiju kaiju kaiju kaiju
MOTHRA, MOTHRA
Don't count your Mothra's before they've hatched
Solid gaijin acting with stilted Japanese in this flick. As is tradition. And alteast in some productions forced by direction. "Speak you lines slowly and badly, it's what the audience expects."
#Monsterdon #Mothra
Mothra is 100/10, just the best
I hate grub errors
Nelson is DEFINITELY in the Epstein Files
"Brownface" is going to be one of those word cloud hits tomorrow...
"And now! Two normal sized women, very far away!"
You know, they remade Godzilla, they remade King Kong, and they looked right at #Mothra and said "they caught lightning in a bottle with that one, not touching it" #Monsterdon
I do actually know scientists who have had to fight on a scientific expedition
Oceanographers do encounter pirates on the high seas
so, are journalists just clowns with notebooks? today on Toho Debatesβ¦
This concludes my #monsterdon thread for Mothra. Until next time, um... don't kidnap any tiny action figure size people you find everywhere, both because kidnapping is wrong and also because you might trigger a kaiju attack that will destroy like 5000 buildings.
Also remember to follow @Taweret to vote on the next exciting monsterdon poll!
Goodbye fairies. Goodnight Mothra.
Mothra, you have always been and always will be the queen of the monsters.
#Monsterdon #Mothra
That was actually kind of great, and had some good messages for our present moment. #Peace
sayonara, mothra twins! ki wo tsukete ne!
MSR-heavy, you are cleared to land
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the holy jezus mothra landing pad
#monsterdon
#mothradon
Mothra can destroy in passing the bridge that trapped Zilla '98
i love how this american city is like Aryan nation with one filipino guy in the middle of the crowd
Nelson pretending to be a gringo, shoots first and thinks he aint gonna get 2nd amendmented by ammosexuals.
Another #Monsterdon is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight was a return to an old classic, #Mothra from 1961, that included:
Infant Island!Red juice!Smol fairies!Magical summoning song!Giant egg hatch!Chicken stealth!Giant caterpillar!Giant peanut!Giant heat guns!Giant moth!Big wind energy!Big bells!And the tiny beauties lived happily ever after!
@pngwen Have you heard the good news about our lord and savior, Mothra?
you know the bromance is real when you turn to each other and evil laugh with impunity. good for them.
My parents put me in a poorly secured basket and now here I am on #Monsterdon
Fight scene! Bruce Lee got nothin' on these guys!
#monsterdon
I love that Fukuda-san's power really is that he just will not let the story go. I'm truly charmed by the movie giving us press protagonists and making them good at their job (in their own way)
"He's going to ram us!"
*swimming larval Mothra shatters the ocean liner*
Thus all who misgender Mothra
the little freaks do speak in sync, donβt they?
This Mothra song slaps!
@ricci worst part of the mothra movies tbh #monsterdon
They mostly come out at night, *mostly*
I just love this guy's response to the suggestion he ignore his orders.
I am so tired I keep nodding off sitting here, if I fall the rest of you must keep posting
Never work with kids or animals
Ah, I see this movie comes from the "crowd of people gesticulating == action" school of filmmaking
donβt be like me: if you are watching the Japanese with English subtitles version on VLC, turn on subtitles to see them
WTF THATβS A THIN JACK BLACK!!!
@ohiofi don't shame my kink #Monsterdon #PaintTrucks
#Mothra was the Millennium Falcon before it was cool
I can't remember whether it was Tsuburaya or his wife or both who was or were committed Christiansβ¦eventually leading to multiple Ultramen being crucified in one episode.
NO ONE: can we please get several more minutes of paint trucks?
so Mothra is Jesuschrist, but make it kaiju?!?!?
So. Very. Weird. On so many levels.
#monsterdon
lol, Mothra is a Christian? This movie is delightfully wild, you can see where Neon Genesis Evangelion get's it's roots from.
ACAB but thanks I think? But fuck you.
#Monsterdon #Mothra
The Ultra Nationalist message that if you let White People live in your neighbourhood their inevitable schemes will attract Kaiju....
Mothra is mom, Mothra is life
Shooting heat rays at Mothra's cocoon: "She's cooked"
Mothra hatches and flies away with hurricane force winds: "Oh no we're cooked!"
#Monsterdon #Mothra
Ask not for whom the bells tolls. It tolls for Mothra. #monsterdon
EU remake of Mothra where she builds a coccoon against the Eiffel Tower. Thinly veiled America is still the villain.
#Monsterdon #Mothra
oh I forgot about THE POWER OF JESUS in this movie