WHY DO YOU THINK

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(me leaning over and whispering)
Mothra is a big moth
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"MOTHRA IS COMING!"

and rightly so

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Either Mothra just hatched or that egg is REALLY EXCITED. #Monsterdon #Mothra

MOTHRA now departing from runway 1 to Narita Airport, Tokyo and surrounding areas. Dancers, please extinguish all smoking materials and fasten your seat belts.

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I absolutely love the practical egg hatching effect. #Monsterdon

Even the egg is dancing!

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Let me get this straight: if 2 people that are like 30cm tall get captured, we get a 10-ton, 30m monster to go rescue them?

Overkill, much?
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They aren't slaves. They LIKE living in a bird cage. Wow they speak dubbing. #monsterdon

they don't have a toilet in there....

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How many cameras do you normally have?

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@Binder anything's scientific data if you try hard enough #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Ceremonial Enamel Paint Sacrifices. It will call Merchant Marine tugboat deckhands from all four corners of the world!

l o r g e E G G

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Amazing voice projection by 6" fairies, with no mics!
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@bunnyhero International cooperation FTW

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This is a long musical number for a movie that isn't marketed as a musical.

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"I'm a human being too! A human being that represents the interests of the owning class as your unrelenting boss! Can't you consider that at least as important as your own morals?"
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the teensy twins are very good singresses

Oh no, the natives are doing a sexy group dance to arouse the Mothra!

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EGG

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Now that they’ve been kidnapped by Japanese P. T. Barnum, the twins can now do Broadway musical style numbers

(Hush, I know it’s not very Broadway)

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This song gets stuck in the mind #Monsterdon

Great.

This song is gonna be stuck in my head for days.

It's worse than freaking Ducktales… #Monsterdon

17s left in the 4th quarter and the Bears are tied up with the Rams and my wife is climbing the walls

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@kcarr2015 I like it when Mothra shows up and Mothras all over those guys

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We have a fun spaghetti western from 1970 at #westwed this coming week. Absolutely killer Morricone score. #monsterdon

the egg rolls down towards them and suddenly it's the indiana jones opening gambit

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@SnoopJ
It's Mothra-in time!

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should set this song as my morning alarm
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A hothead businessman gets his way by spending all the money? Would never happein in 2026. :grr:

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Do they sell Mothras at the mosura-ya?

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♫
MO SU RAAA YA
MO SU RAAA
♫

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I saw this as a kid and I think I blocked most of it out

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Back on the island the Russamericans come back and kidnap the tiny ladies again. The natives try to stop them with their drum circle, but the Russamericans overule their objections with submachineguns.

One of the natives goes to a cave and prays at a diorama of some columns, screaming "Mothra" and then some rocks break, but we still don't know what Mothra is yet.

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What in the E.T.?

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Oh, these cackling kidnapper murderer dudes all better die by the end.
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do they wheel out a giant magnifying glass for the audience to see?

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"Let's use their plea for help as our entertainment!"

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mwahahahahaha mwahahahaha

and now is the portion with the evil villains and their guns

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I mean, I guess if you're conducting for #mothra, this is the right way to do it. Flap your wings like a moth near a flame.

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#monsterdon This is a terrible venue to show off the fairies. They could be literal barbie dolls for all the audience can tell.

And we now have music reminiscent of the 10 Commandments as rock crumbles and a Thing is revealed

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we live in the atomic age

are these atomic fairies

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I mean, ya know...

...don't do blackface

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@saucerlost Or, from some angles and facial expressions, Jimmy Fallon.

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#monsterdon Points for quick plastic Barbie prop use.

We really are going full colonialist jerks in this movie, huh? #Monsterdon

Fairies have nothing compared to Bat Child #Monsterdon

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Steal the women, massacre the men. A tale as old as time..

Shiny tiny women holding hands

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God damn it, killing the local population. Like we didn’t already recognize the villian #Monsterdon

whoops, he went and told mom D: #Monsterdon

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Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

Dying Islander: Maybe we should have brought weapons instead of drums #mothra1961 #Monsterdon

#monsterdon There's some shots where the girls are obviously dolls, but they do a good job of not hanging on those shots. They go past quick.

Ah yes, explorers went forth to strange new lands in pursuit of strippers makes total sense #Monsterdon

wakaran. (what a handy word.)

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@saucerlost YES!!!

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Those are some crazy plants. #monsterdon

cave of tiny womanly secrets
no heckbois allowed!
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eh? mosura?

that's right buddy, MO SU RA

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#monsterdon I've always wondered if anyone has ever greeting-bowed so hard they did a Three Stooges bonk gag.

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Pretty sure I haven't seen this before. I'm surprised.

@helianthropy Ainu face? 😬
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Hahaha that’s not what rubbings look like

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Oh no, here comes the kidnapping 😩

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"You're using coconuts!"

"What?"

"You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together!"

"So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercia, through..."

"Where'd you get the coconuts?"

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The thing about this movie is since we can’t understand the twins’ language we have no way to tell if the movie passes the Bechdel test when they’re on screen

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Just wait 50 years and you can publish way less than curiosity

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We are watching the dubbed version, sadly.. our tears might drown the Japanese Norns.

those "natives" all look like surfer dudes

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His utterly sinister expression when calling them specimens. *shudder*
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Good band they have here on Infant Island.

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👯 The Peanuts (singers playing the two fairies) never interacted with the cast due to scheduling complications. They acted in front of a big blue screen in a giant set.

🎎 Actors interacted with dolls during filming while a tape recorder with the Peanuts' lines was played back.

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boo this man! this dishonorable faerie captor! BOO, BOO I SAY

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well WE won't be testing any nuclear weapons, we can't speak for the Americans.

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"What should I do boss"

Y'know it's a shame the meaning of the word "goon" has shifted so unfortunately. That guy was *made* to be a goon. #Monsterdon

This is like the Atari version of the Diva from Fifth Element

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#monsterdon I don't want to make a Richard Gere joke. So I won’t.

STOP HANDLING THE TINY WOMEN! They are not yours!
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doc's got some exploitin' to do

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@diazona I'm sorry, but size does matter. 😃
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Is it Mothra yet? #Monsterdon #Mothra 🪰🎥

This music is interesting. Thought it was a sound effect at first.

Edit: I guess it was an alarm.

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The little "fairies" or "priestesses" were difficult to schedule for shooting because they were already very popular as 'The Peanuts' singing twins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qwpOA2PGg

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ooo, he's got a 1950s Tricorder

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oyasumi! (the only correct reaction to that guy.)

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Computer: Stand down red alert.
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Little women.

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@CactuarJoe i thought it was part of the soundtrack for a bit #Monsterdon

That's not a news expression. That's just misogyny
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"Well, good night" yup, that's me

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*men fantasizing about taking tiny women back home in briefcases*

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I, too, also wonder...

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Hi

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Ah yes. Mold juice. It’s what plants crave. #Monsterdon #mothra

Ok that was neat the twins getting blurry as he looses consciousness.

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Characters in this #Monsterdon so far:

Team Journalism
Rectangular Reporter (now a Redshirt)
Girl Reporter

Team Science Mastery
Cunning Linguist
Radiation Scientist

Team Boat
Original Boat Guys (crashed)
New Boat Guys (in spacesuits)

Team Russamerica
Ambassador Suspicious Weaponry

what team are you, fediverse?

There has definitely been a few bands called Mutations of Mould.

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