electic gun? underwater?

#monsterdon

I hope we don't ridiculous in these.
#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

jules verne just wrote this whole refloating the ship subplot because he didn't know about putting that kind of energy towards sending endless nonsensical documents to the patent office #monsterdon

I like that he took the time to draw the ship. #monsterdon

Drinking his urine is a "dance with the devil"

apparently

#monsterdon

I pray only that now that Nemo has entered the story that this plot does not become the unending fanfic about biology that is most of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

I admire the scientism of it and all, but good god

#Monsterdon

why in the everloving fuck are we talking about post-scarcity and the end of warfare when we are stuck on the giant of fucking animals #monsterdon

No volcano remains unexploded in a 60s sci-fi flick #monsterdon

"You see, that volcano is on the verge of eruption"

Oh, you mean that volcano that is clearly not the one on *this* island? Well, that's a stroke of luck.

#Monsterdon

TOLD YOU THE VOLCANO WAS CHEKOV'S VOLCANO!

#Monsterdon

You see because that volcano you never noticed over there [stock footage] blah blah blah

#monsterdon

"Contact with my own species disappoints me"
Same, dude, same.
#Monsterdon

Oh, no. Mount Stock Footage is erupting...

#monsterdon

>"Contact with my own species has always disappointed me."

Big fucking mood there Nemo :big_mood:

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

"My vessel can never take to sea again. She is only a sweet bachelor pad now."

-- Captain Nemo

#Monsterdon

Turns out Captain Nemo has been their mysterious benefactor. #monsterdon

"Contact with my species has always disappointed me"

Same, buddy. Same.

#monsterdon
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Wait this has been going on for *months*?

#Monsterdon

"I've been secretly watching you, firing mystery bullets, watching after you from under the waves. Within my pockets are many, many plot devices."

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Vernecore Ultraman is a thing

Crossover!

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"...I am Captain Nemo. And yes, I do all my shopping at Old Navy."

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

So many languages out there, but they can't have the pirates speaking a real one. 🙄 Nope.

#Monsterdon

WHAT IN THE FUCKING JULES VERNE--

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Heh. "What do you suppose happened?" These guys are AGGRESSIVELY disinterested in the whole "there's someone else on this island" part of the film :P #Monsterdon

Wow that ship sunk really fast.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon only respect for MY pollinators

So an hour into the film we finally have some sort of conflict, and the characters *immediately* start tripping over the guns and shit. #Monsterdon

[BEE GROWLING]

#monsterdon

I guess those cannons are repeaters.

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Is anyone in this island NOT a buffoon? #Monsterdon

What language is that?

#monsterdon

@Lazarou I was joking when I said it was Love Island now I'm not #monsterdon

These are such Spirit Halloween pirate costumes #monsterdon

"...hi, I'm red, this is my brother green, and my other brother green."

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

I do not understand this obsession old-timey people had with putting pipe organs on ships

#Monsterdon

Me: Surely an 1800s submarine would be mostly brass and lacquered wood with iron cladding

This movie: fuck you it's powder-coated steel

#Monsterdon

"C'mon! Let's leave this submarine so we can go build a boat!"

#Monsterdon

Yeah let's swim for it.

Hey you know that giant crab and the giant chicken and the giant bees?

Yeah.

Do you think there's any Giant fish?

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

Arr, yoho me harties, and other piratical sayin's #Monsterdon

@allanb This prequil to "the shape of water" is weird #Monsterdon

they found the hatch! they'll have to play the code numbers on the pipe organ or the island will blow up

#monsterdon

Is that a Dalek on the submarine

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@Taweret@octodon.social well they need to build the Dock first, and then the hydro power station.... #monsterdon

It's a historically-accurate giant enemy crab! Attack for massive damage!

#monsterdon

What could possibly go wrong

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I call this the Deus ex Submachina

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Speaking of Latin, I’m pretty sure Apicius wrote how to use honey to keep giant chicken meat fresh. #Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

....yep, he did. With everything switched on too, just leave the keys in the ignition why not?

#monsterdon

Where was he carrying that matchbox? It's bigger than the shorts he's wearing. #Monsterdon

May I suggest that when you are outside a bee's nest and trying to escape from the bee, into the nest is not the way to go

#Monsterdon

Cough cough, maybe we should poke some air holes

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

Time for pirates!

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They're sitting INSIDE a giant candle and decide to light it on fire. 😩

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

Yes...let's burn up all the oxygen in the honeycomb cell. #monsterdon

I bet they're sure glad the beehive cells each come stocked with kindling.

#monsterdon
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Oh no! A bee is trying to eat us! Let's hide here where bees store their food! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

The Honeycomb Hideout!

Everybody want to guess how many normal size flowers would be that size would have to visit everyday?

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

The orchestra plays flight of the bumblebee for meeting the bee?

#monsterdon

good public education is how you avoid things like people not knowing that a giant honeycomb is the worst place to hide from a giant bee
#monsterdon

that giant bee animation is magnificent #monsterdon

why would you think the bee couldn't access the honeycomb that it fucking built?

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So far this film's gimmick is about big insects and stuff or little people

#monsterdon

hey this mysterious island has a pod hotel #monsterdon #mysteriousisland1961

Her dress is reasonable for the 1960s, but it feels like something a woman from the 1860s might feel is a bit scandalous, even under these conditions.

But at least she's still got underwear on, of a style that wasnt' invented until mid 20th century.

#monsterdon
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THINGS BEING TOO BIG IS THE ONLY THING THAT IS WEIRD ABOUT THIS ISLAND you are not allowed to be surprised by that anymore #Monsterdon

Okay but honestly if I ended up on a deserted island with America in the shape it is right now I wouldn't be in much of a hurry to leave either.

#monsterdon

Oi, you milked the wrong goat, lass. That there's a man.

#Monsterdon

Um....

What ARE you wearing, young lady?

#Monsterdon

In retrospect the bird looked insufficiently like an emu or moa, I guess.

#monsterdon

@kcarr2015 "Are there any women here?!..." #wrongMovie #Monsterdon

Winner, winner, dire chicken dinner

#monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

"...take that Costco!"

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

Herbet

... Rhymes with Sherbet

#monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social They're quite industrious. Except when it comes to shipbuilding.

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

Wait, this is just Delicious in Dungeon. 🤔

#monsterdon

so a bassoon came along and attacked everybody while i was away, i heard? #monsterdon

Why don't you try hitting it with the rilfe? We can't know for sure it doesn't work until everyone tries it. #monsterdon

Is that supposed to be a moa?

https://www.davidmarinelli.net/blog/moa-extinct-1445-new-zealand-aotearoa/

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Ride that chicken, Elvis! #Monsterdon

Stop motion human figures and animatronics give me the same horrified fascination, I love them and I hate them

#Monsterdon

Ride em, Elvis. Ride!

#monsterdon

I know it’s a giant bird, but it’s giving “feathered dinosaur before we knew dinosaurs were feathered” energy. #monsterdon

Look at him ride that giant cock! What a hero! #Monsterdon

The horn section is having fun at least.

#monsterdon

Winner Winner Chicken dinner for everyone. #monsterdon

So fun fact, it is believed that this is inspired by a glass shot matte that my great uncle did when doing mattes for KING KONG (1933)

I see a lot of influence from Uncle Mario on some of the mattes in this film despite him having not worked on it. So much so I had to go see if he was in the credits or not.

#monsterdon

Giant chicken! YES!!!!!!!!

Food just coming to them. #Monsterdon

I forgive you all your sins, movie, for this. This giant chicken.

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

It's not casso-WISE not to be casso-WARY

#monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

It's a giant chicken!

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BOCO THE CHOCOBO!? #Monsterdon

GIANT CHICKEN IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT #monsterdon

oh my god it's my new fursona #monsterdon #mysteriousisland1961

fucking finally

CHICKEN TIME

#monsterdon

a plot would help so much tho

#monsterdon

I was not expecting Nemo to be known in this story.

#monsterdon

"...he had a kink about war. He hated it"
"I don't think that's what kink means..."
"He just hated war. All the raw dogging."
"Yeah, and I don't think..."

#Monsterdon #MysteriousIsland

"You removed this part! It was the only control we had!" [throws it overboard]

these people make good decisions

#monsterdon