Great VFX and a plodding plot that probably could have had 20-30 minutes cut. Right down the middle for #Monsterdon, it was a lot more fun to watch that with a group.

Have a nice night and see you all next week!

Criminy, the #monsterdon devotion to no denouement at all remains strong. Lava flowing, one sentence of voiceover, the end.

@T3CHT like Vincent Price, he has his priorities! #monsterdon

He died as he lived: absolutely horny for natural phenomena and the violence of nature

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and so they fucked off into the sea

maybe they'll find a plot out there somewhere

but probably not

the creatures and effects were cool tho

ty for joining, everyone!!

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I don't think you tried hard enough to save Nemo frankly......

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Nemo buddy get out!

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As a child I remember being upset at Nemo getting knocked around and dropping his plans, everyone else could have gone to hell

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Reminds me of 'Raise the Titanic' which also had long, interminable underwater scenes

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How did they not name this movie Finding Nemo? #Monsterdon

This is a list of sci-fi movies by decade. I went through this a while back and found a lot of them online for free.

It's a pretty good list to have if you want to watch really great B movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_science_fiction_films
#monsterdon #scifi #bmovies

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Godzilla too!?!??

"This submarine can never go to sea again."

"Why? It got a hole in it?"

"No, it's just..... it's not time yet."

"Time for what?"

"Time to get that sunken ship out of the water!"

"But what about your submarine."

"NO! NO! IT CAN NEVER GO TO SEA AGAIN!"

Seriously, if that submarine goes to sea at any point in this movie, I support everyone murdering Captain Nemo.

IT'S A SUBMARINE AND YOU HAVE EXPLAINED NOTHING ABOUT WHY THAT FANCY ASS PLOT DEVICE CAN'T AT LEAST FLOAT.

#Monsterdon

maybe if you had spent any time looking at or learning about the local giant animals you might have learned how they handle the apparently frequent volcanic eruptions #monsterdon

Concept=:

Stick this thing into this other thing and wait a second, that's how the CIA secretly raised a Russian submarine for real

This movie's tech is prophetic

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@Louisa he's probably also the time traveler alien from journey to the center of the earth

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@Infoseepage Y'know what this movie really needs, a giant octopus

And a giant hat

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It's just not a monsterdon film without some organ or harpsichord music!

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"i've known about you for months now" HOW MUCH TIME HAS PASSED???!

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HOW MANY ERAS ARE IN THIS #monsterdon #mysteriousisland1961

@ramsey if this is lemuria then WHERE are the giant lemurs?

#monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

@moira Clearly, this is Lemuria. #Monsterdon

(impressive) stock footage of a volcano again, I wonder which one it was

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"Nemo had also invented some kind of fabulous counting machine that could rewrite reality, but we don't have time for that storyline"

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Waaaiittt, we're getting some Atlantis in this movie as well?

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I am absolutely cackling at Nemo's plan that somehow MAKING FOOD BIGGER would solve hunger. 😂

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Here, have a glassful of my vintage pee

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"Yes, all the giant animals you devoured, were mine.....so thanks for that. Did you have to eat them ALL?"

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I wish todays supervillains were like Nemo instead of greedy childish idiots

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Stock footage of a volcano

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He's like a human hermit crab.

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Nemo has a neoprene wetsuit because of course he does.

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I was hoping for Peter Graves

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It's Neptune!

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They're there for the booty

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"Maybe the tide came out"

I feel like if you were on an island for very long, you'd have a good feel for tide times?

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Jaunty little pirate hats

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Boiinnng into the water!

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I sure hope Nemo left the door to the Nautilus open like a proper supervillan would

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lol, just accidentally stumbles into Nemo's secret lair.....the luck of these two...

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imagine if this movie had characters with motivations and we knew what those were and it like, drove the action forward

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Oh no an impenetrable prison of.. wax

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

They forgot to wear the beekeeper outfits that (probably) washed up onto the shore. #monsterdon

"Somehow the giant bee is sealing us in this honeycomb!"

It's like they've never seen bees before....

#monsterdon

Let me guess

Giant Bees

Yep

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Giant honeycomb mean more giant animals to kill and eat

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Just eat the cliff goop, what could go wrong

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He was just a little chicken with a big body

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Lmao I love the giant cooked chicken, what an incredible prop!!!

It would 100% still be raw inside if the outside was only golden brown, but y'know

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They're going to eat well tonight! Chicken Nuggets are back on the menu!

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they've built fences and chicken coops and tables and a working elevator but not a boat

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One of these two seems turned on by the chicken. #monsterdon

Fortunately the ladies brought several changes of clothing and cosmetics.
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Interesting that these upper class English women in the mid-19th century know all about how to milk goats and cook and add "feminine touches" to the cave house, isn't it

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Shipping Spillet and the Aunt and Twink and the Niece

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Cave homesteading

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If this movie was made today, they'd use one of those giant plastic skeletons you can buy at walmart.

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Those caves look entirely too much like an RJ-45 jack next to an RJ-11.

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I dunno, if I saw a load of vines conveniently hanging out of some caves I'd be more wary....

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Wait

The rich English women were going to Marseille

And the soldiers came from the southeastern coast of the US, or at furthest the Gulf of Mexico

But the captain is sure they're all stranded in the Pacific??

#Monsterdon

"how soon may we leave"
well, the movie's not over for like an hour...
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Wait. A bunch of passed out women were washed up on shore....in dresses with low necklines.
Just lounging on the beach.
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I miss the crab monster already.

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Watery tarts washing up on shore is no basis for a form of government! #monsterdon

Goats AND women? This island has everything we need! #monsterdon

@Lazarou I was definitely disappointed by the normalness of the goats

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normal animals need to get the fuck out of here

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GOAT! But average sized

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Very convenient of the island to put a giant pot RIGHT THERE for them to drop the crab into

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Okay so they all ate and now they're back up to full spirits and high energy. I was wrong this is a survival crafting movie

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

They found food.
And food found them.
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yayy! GIANT CRAB!

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The Blue Screening of the group crossing that big branch is cute

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Captain Harding pass out drunk next to the campfire

Seen that a few times on the beach...
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It's a good thing they kept that Confederate alive. Who else would know to pull the go-down rope when they wanted to go down. #monsterdon

...is that a stratovolcano?

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The seagulls went on to star in Birdemic
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If this island has a polar bear and a mechanical smoke cloud then there will be no satisfactory resolution to this saga

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I have a vague recollection of seeing the basket dropping manoeuvre as a child

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I guess this must be a mirror universe where the Earth turns in the other direction

Only way the directions make sense

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oh well done captain, you broke the valve and killed everybody on board the balloon. No biscuits for you

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The captain is going into the giant flappy anus thing to turn a valve.

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it seems like the odds of getting where you want to go in a hot air balloon are basically zero and you'd want to put it down as soon as you possibly could and proceed on foot #monsterdon

Convenient mode of transportation
If you don’t particularly care where you’re going
and you don’t necessarily demand a soft landing.
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I mean, wouldn't you just lie about knowing how to work a balloon just to stay alive?

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Still waiting patiently for the monster to show up
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The Captain's got a real Jim Kirk fighting style, huh #Monsterdon

men cannot control themselves around balloons

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lol, slavers caught out by the old broken step ruse

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@yatsu Great Escape-ing?

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libby military prison, where library apps go after they've Committed Crimes. #monsterdon

Yes, Ray Harryhausen FX!

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that artillery is useless against balloons

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@Newpa_Hasai @jonny Hard to stick a limpet mine on a wooden ship, though. #Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland1961

@Lazarou @Simplicator
Someone posted about not eating slime coming off rocks just because it is sweet, and I immediately remembered Jared Diamond's story about prospector miners in the old west eating pack rat middens (prehistoric congealed rat pee?) and falling deathly ill.
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@Lazarou Some studios paid their writers by the page, and not the resolved plotline - it really shows

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#Monsterdon Honestly this would have made a good Star Trek episode. 😳

@Lazarou
They were fucked over by nature, or geology, or bad timing, or I think the weather. 🤷‍♂️
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@jonny wait but they're mad that there ARE female characters now? #Monsterdon