"What is this symbol repeated here, and here?"
"\"Mothra\"."
*twelve-part xylophone symphony rings out*
*dancing bears begin an intricately choreographed aerial routine*
*rose petals fall from the heavens*
That is the name of the movie!
I seem to remember not liking Mothra the first time I saw it, but I'm definitely enjoying it more on a second watch, and I'm not sure why?
We were the kaiju to the fairies all along
After the guy who was beeped to sleep wakes up in the boat sickbay, he tells the other boat people that he saw some small women and they beeped at him and he fell asleep, then he rolls over and falls asleep again.
So we send another explanation and find the tiny girls, who start making synthwave noises that the cunning linguist translates as "plz dont nuke our island" which is a reasonable thing to ask via synthwave noises.
Wait. That's it. The expedition just went to some island, saw some tiny women, harassed them, then left?
#Monsterdon
#Mothra
That alarm has been going the whole time??
If I saw 'fairies' on a radiation island I'd think I'd only have a few messy days to live...
STOP WITH THE LEWDPOSTING ON MY TIMELINE I'M TRYING TO WATCH MOTHRA /j
"and then they left the island, the end"
Who did we just get a literal Checkov's Gun
dβawwwwwww our tubby hero makes his first appearance. he always reminds me of Russell from Up
Chekhovβs mouse
The juice
If you're stranded on an island, summon a giant headline
*Sees one Martian on TV*
Suddenly they have internal diagrams of their organ and bone structure.
*Sees they have a large head.*
"Clearly they have telepathy."
... Is #monsterdon #marsattacks tonight?! Damnit! The wife and I had an unscheduled-relationship-adjustment-meeting (low-key fight)... We could've been watching #marsattacks with all of #monsterdon instead?!
A few minutes before #Monsterdon began, I closed my eyes for a moment.
A moment later, it was 8:00.
I've had 1 cup of coffee today, I then discovered, to my horror. π±
If you want to know what life will be like once the changing climate wipes out coffee crops, I call it "siesta." π₯±
I've gotten a lot of sleep today. Tonight will surely be special.
this movie has blackjack and hookers!
The Lady did us proud tonight! #Monsterdon #MonMothra #Mothra
Iβm sorry, yβall, I can handle Mothra and women from Mars and Frankenstein vs. Dracula, but I cannot with the nonsense that is #MarsAttacks #Monsterdon
Current status: listening to The Peanuts albums (there are a lot!)
Three BINGOs!!!
#mothra1962
#mothradon
#monsterdon
Mothra is a cuddly kaiju.
Gotta feel the husky guy did most of the work out of the Journalists...
Can't you hear the bells sing in Cologne? You won't hear it on the radio.
Holy shit more Toy Boats! This movie has a veritable flotilla of doomed toy boats.
Because we're fuck all out of ideas we decide to get the clergy to help.
Then we realize that the ringing church bells are kind of like Mothra's song, only not, and than the Infant island natives also like crosses. So we get a plan to um... ring all the bells at once and I guess coordinate the return of the kidnapped faeries with Mothra.
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All the American cars have more fins than a fish
#monsterdon
#mothradon
the toy trucks are just squee
#monsterdon
#mothradon
wow New Kirk Motors sure is taking a beating.
This reminds me of when the people of Hartlepool hung a monkey as a French spy in a panic....
....it was a while ago, don't worry
On top of Nelson being the general bad guy, he had to wrestle a walking cane from an elderly man, then throw it to the ground to continue running, before being shot to death.
Thatβs bad a bad guy he is.
Team Ethics is taking a toy airplane to Russamerica to try to save the day. It is a Panamerican toy airplane, making me wonder if the US is also a country in this universe (I was assuming that it was replaced by Russamerica).
Mothra: *lulled by the sweet sound of ground to air gunfire and church bells, lands on the Mothra symbol painted on an airstrip and has a lil snooze*
Yeah you've earned that, have a good nap
I used to think nobody would be as evil and selfish as a character like Nelson....
PanAm airplane!
Mothra sounds kinda like the Whales in Star Trek IV.
via our Light Bulbs of Radiation we have successfully lit the giant peanut on fire.
#monsterdon I hope 3:00 is soon.
There's kind of a lot of destruction happening.
"Everyone don your anti-radiation sunglasses before we fire the death ray."
ITS NELSON!
#monsterdon
"What did you do with those little girls, Nelsonβ½"
Nelson: *pulls a gun on the crowd, runs for it*
Police: *ventilate Nelson thoroughly*
π¬
Hahah, Mothra, use the automobile to do your destruction for you! Yes!
@SnoopJ βFires and kaiju are the flowers of Edoβ
Are we still calling them βtiny beauties?β
NO ONE: Please tell us more about the Rolisican embassy
lol, Nelson's evil as he saw the fully convincing disguise
while our special effects budget escalates, Nelson is trying to escape in a car, presumably with the kidnapped faeries, but all the panicked civilians and general violence is blocking his escape, so he asks them to turn around so he can escape a different way.
So how does it undergo metamorphosis when there are no naturally occurring radio towers on which to spin its cocoon? #monsterdon
this movie has a floatybirb approved level of explosions.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Mobil Stations Destroyed By Mothra Counter: 000002
evacuation scenes! mah favorite!
"You know what a love letter from me is? A bullet from a fucking gun." Mothra probably. #monsterdon
Tonight on #Monsterdon : the entire life cycle of a moth
#monsterdon The little kid needs a propeller attached to the top of his cap.
Shinji. Get in the big chicken, or Rei is going to have to pilot again.
#Monsterdon #Mothra
Kinda jealous of people watching the Tubi version getting to watch kaiju smashes 7 minutes earlier than I do
It's okay though, it's worth the wait
Obviously Nelson has no problem gagging a child...
this kid starting a famous career as lupin sansei.
YES now this kind of people running around in a blind panic I'm here for
#monsterdon It's the Japanese version of the Hoover Sham!
Day for night? I think that's bingo
@paco there's a youtuber retrofitting a car like this with an electric powertrain
it's diy but it can be done
actually easier in those old boats, there's so much room you don't need for other stuff
Hey, I just realized. The caterpillar is a Juvenile Kaiju, which means I have a #MonsterdonBingo! #Monsterdon
LMAO the audio in this subtitled version has misqueued sections, so the lips move but nothing is said.
Dam. #monsterdon
Oh, I missed that Mothra hasnβt evolved yet and is basically just a giant Caterpie #Monsterdon
it is all Nelson's fault
you can tell the plane is moving by the fact that it's going up and down and the clouds are staying completely still in the background
50s jet planes were so shiny
Energy and radiation shielding do not work like that
#monsterdon Little golden chariot just flies right into a bug light, end of movie. Bzzzzzzap.
I've ascertained the origin of the mysterious organ music
Bingo acquired!
Appreciate how the song is paired with the Mothra attack, well done Film
So the miniature work isn't rotoscoping? It looks more like optical compositing? Whatever it is it's really good for 1961. #monsterdon
Well, I have to give bonus points for giving the kaiju a justification to attack. Although I may also have to deduct a point for making that reason totally weird and a little creepy. #monsterdon
They woke Mothra. She'll be here in a day or so. She has to shower first.
#Monsterdon
#Mothra
I WANT TO GO TO THE MOTHRA RAVE!!!! DAMMIT
reminded of
A large egg the size of a large boulder the size of a small boulder
These fairies are doing a great job of projecting their voices
They must be classically trained
I find it very odd that the captured fairies are taken to perform in a little flying golden car that hovers over a stage, because that makes no sense.
The Mothra song!
If these are Uncontacted People then think of the diseases waiting to meet them π¬
Mothra can lay waste to this city for sure.
Is this the song that summons Mothra? Will Mothra come to their rescue? Will Mothra rip into the theater and wisk them away to safety?
If they sing "O Fortuna", then they summon Yeti instead.
#monsterdon Secret Fairies aren't secret any longer, if you, you know, give them some fanfare and reveal them to everyone. Now they are just plain fairies.
Try to imagine the gritty and realistic remake. It doesnt work. Mothera is an entity composed of whimsy. A defender of the silly. A champion of tiny pop stars. #monsterdon
That definitely looks like trafficking to me. #Monsterdon #Mothra πͺ°π₯
That was a brilliant bit of special effects, opening their golden carriage.
So this one is kind of a double folly of man, use nukes, steal women
fairy trafficking :(
This movie is much odder than I was expecting. Doll sized women and mice. And "natives". Wtf. #monsterdon