Mothra
Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"Nelson, gone?"

"You know what this means?"

"With those girls gone, it will be impossible to stop that monster now!"

Mothra: *completely stopped, busily building a cocoon, not destroying anything right now*

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I like the implied offscreen plot where the Japanese government is like "fuck kidnapping those faeries is gonna get us attacked by a kaiju" and the Russamerican government is like "but muh showbusiness money" and they're having this huge diplomatic fight that we only see when either nelson gets a phone call or the journalists read a ticker tape.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

One of the science masters has a plan to hide the faeries from Mothra in a magic shoebox. However, before that plan can get into fruition the JSDF has sighted Mothra (in her caterpillar form) approaching Tokyo (of course), so we have to scramble jets to shoot at her.

Bluedepth

The monster will attack Tokyo! Again! We just rebuilt the set! Craaaap. Find the matte painter, we’ll need more GRAY.

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

The blue helmet stripe means medical, the gold helmet stripe means command, the yellow helmet stripe means mustard, the red helmet stripe means ketchup, and no helmet stripe means you die in the second act.

My camera shoots fascists
My camera shoots fascists
Mikal@sfba.social

Nelson's death was such a bummer. So much missed opportunity. Like, obviously, he should've been crushed personally by Mothra! Or maybe he should've given up the girls, but still been squished by Mothra out of spite!

Being bloodlessly shot by some random deputy on some random street? Where is the justice? Such a missed opportunity!

#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I give Mothra 5 out of 5 blackpowder explosions, because I'm feeling generous and it had a lot of toy boats in it. I'm not sure why I didn't like it as much the first time I saw it.

The best characters are the greasy weirdo Nelson and also the giant moth who knocks everything over.

saucerlost

They say no man is an island. I'm fine with that; this island was kinda weird. Thanks again to @Taweret and the employees of the moth!

On to ...

Bluedepth

Welp. that fuckered off injto the sea faster than expected! Thanks everyone!

saucerlost

I remember one time I worked at a KFC and my boss got shot and I had to deal with his suitcase full of tiny women

what a hassle

Paco Hope
Paco Hope
paco@infosec.exchange

@brennen Agreed. I genuinely voted for Godzilla 1998 as the worst of the year. Thinking that nothing else will be that bad.

I even enjoyed The Godmonster of Indian Flats more than Godzilla 1998. And that's SAYING something.
#monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I love how the radio guy casually drops that the Russamerican air force was destroyed off screen by Mothra.

"Whoops we used up all of our budget. hahahhahaha. Better do a narration!"

Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
JoeWynne@mstdn.plus

πŸ¦–#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIAZILLA πŸ¦‹ πŸ™οΈπŸ’₯πŸ›

Columbia Pictures threatened to cancel the entire film if new budget-friendly scenes set in fictional "New Kirk City" were not included.

These scenes were mostly created from library footage from California.

With the additional funds from Columbia Pictures, Mothra became
πŸ¦‹ Toho's most expensive film ever made up until that point
πŸ¦‹ the most expensive film ever made in Japan at the time.

#Mothra1961

saucerlost

The twins represent your fantastical dual boot setup that gave you the grub errors

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

this movie enters its infrastructure destruction phase, as Mothra starts walking over gas stations that explode with a satisfying crunch. The JSDF tries to missile her, to no avail, so then it deploys the toy tanks, each of which has an optional action figure standing in the commander's hatch.

Unconvinced of their ability to launch a successful defense, the civilians very logically being their panicked evacuation.

saucerlost

Love that the kid took that guy out with a haymaker to the breadbasket