@apLundell It would honestly not be unreasonable for him to have already had the plate, and to move it from car to car as he uses one.
@JoeWynne I would watch the fuck out of that movie! #monsterdon
🦖#Monsterdon movie ends...overthinking begins
@diazona @simrob oh ya these are all the things that was i was willing to forget about because we regained samantha #monsterdon
@lytta i would wonder about insects or other rapidly breeding animals that could have hatched another generation in the apparently short time that the comet was in effect. plants seem to be fine, and any that have bulbs or otherwise make backups should have no problem #Monsterdon
Positively surprised by a 80s terror/comedy movie that didn't rely on naked boobies. I'm looking at you "Chopping Mall"
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@lytta @ottaross I’m pretty sure that’s why they were dressed up, and she was taking pictures, and the girl is holding a bunny stuffed animal. #Monsterdon
@jonny @simrob Well, yeah, to be fair this is not nearly the level of WTFery that we have seen with some other #Monsterdon movies. It did have clear main characters and they did some interesting things, sure, but there was so much unexplained (at least I thought so) like how the comet connects to anything, or why most people turned into sand, or what the scientists were really trying to do and why they were out at that base in the first place, or who exactly knew what with regard to Samantha's death, or how the kids wound up getting involved, or why they suddenly turned into a conventional family in the end, or so on.
@lytta i am torn about the amount of zombie animals you would expect to see. if the thing was airborne, there really aren't a lot of terrestrial animals that live in isolated air. you'd also either have all the aquatic animals or none of them, depending on if it's an aerosol or a particle that settles in to the ocean. #Monsterdon
@ramsey @ottaross ohhh is that what that was supposed to be? Easter dress up?
(I tend to forget Easter exists) #monsterdon
Honestly i just experience #monsterdon vicariously
@ottaross Even months later, presumably when it’s Easter! #Monsterdon
@lytta Teens are so resilient #monsterdon
@chrisamaphone That 100% tracks and makes me love this movie 1000% more #monsterdon
I'm not convinced the "scientists" were scientists, more likely just mooks working for some billionaire with nutty ideas #monsterdon
The moral of the story is even if you've grown up with an unpleasant situation at home, everything can get better in the space of one night #monsterdon
I’m not gonna lie. I actually liked this film. I really enjoyed it. #Monsterdon
As always, thanks, @Taweret, for hosting, thanks, @cheribaker, for the bingo card, and thanks everyone else for the fun!
And, now, here’s your moment of Zen:
That was a weirdly happy ending for how dark this was getting.
I kinda wish I'd seen it back in the 80s or 90s, but I think maybe I enjoyed it more now than I would have back then.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
I could have done without the random anti-gay slur, but on the flipside, a slur in a joke that's about straight guys being the actual worst is... surprisingly less than horrible for '84.
@jammerb Beat DMK to death for the car, with a wrench, knew DMK wasn't a zombie as well.
The sister is in trouble again!
In other news I still have like a third of a beer left so I'm going to go fishing in Minecraft, good night everyone
@yatsu Hector Chakotay was wiring up the dynamite to the scientist truck while Samantha was inside making sure Regina didn't need help. I LOVED the teamwork in this movie! #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
rob and i have headcanonned regina and hector as ace
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@diazona @simrob ok maybe it was just me but i followed that all the way through on the rails of loving whatever the heck the main characters were up to, usually i don't even know who the main characters are or what anyone is doing #monsterdon
@fabio Humanity has transcended #monsterdon
Oh man #monsterdon is watching Night of the Comet? One of my stupid favorite movies
Is "abrupt rain fixes everything" basically an upside-down fucking off into the sea? #Monsterdon
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This was definitely a DeBartolo Mall quality film.
@Crazypedia wait did they actually say something about dinosaurs? I must have missed that
@simrob so i would call this an "#OffMonsterdon" #monsterdon, a phenomenon where we sometimes will watch movies that are actually good movies and not really even monster movies because they are in the spirit of movies that monsterdon people like, but usually with monsterdon movies we are mostly "baffled by what the fuck is going on" or "there are kaiju destroying the city" or "who even made this and why"
Okay so I missed the first 15 minutes and I'm rewatching that now, and they're linking this to the extinction of the dinosaurs? But it completely dehydrates and calcifies them so there's no bones left just dust? Then explain the fossils
If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:
So they were protected from the comet because of metal roofs, but the scientists were exposed because of a ventilation system?
Next movie on the tubi Auto play is "Cherry 2000". That's not a terrible film.
It's the best Mad Max rip-off about a sex doll that you'll ever watch.
Ok I am really sorry I missed Monsterdon this week, Night of the Comet was one of my favorites when I was teenish…
@lytta Eh, if you want a bleak ending just try picturing what happens two months after the canon ending of the film. There's gotta be like half a dozen people alive between there and Seattle now. #Monsterdon
I feel like this is a movie that was supposed to end with everyone dead, but that was too harsh for audiences. #monsterdon
@simrob It varies for real. Sometimes good, sometimes excellent, sometimes unintentionally hilarious, sometimes oh god why
@floatybirb i was wondering when we would see that in the back of my head bc i remembered your post but was fine with saving the battle cruiser for another movie because the earthly apocalypse was too good #monsterdon
Strange movie, but not in a bad way. Ticks off a lot of boxes for something you can expect from a movie like this, but throws plenty of curveballs.
Have a nice week #Monsterdon people!
Once again, I remind you that WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES. #monsterdon is Democracy Manifest.
Thanks and blame flow equally to @Taweret, the master of this feast. The beneficent power that curates the slate of deplorables that we vote upon each week.
Until next week. As always, of all the movies we watched this week, this has been one of them.
But I guess that would've interrupted the '80s heteronormativity ending. #Monsterdon
@moira Checkov's High Score Table. #monsterdon
@srol she just has a stress rash that the scientists mistook for zombification because their brains were already going spongy
Ten minutes of credits just for all the eighties songs.
Aaand that's a wrap! Thanks to @Taweret for a totally 80's-licious #Monsterdon.
And the rains came and washed away all the remains. #Monsterdon
That was silly. Also I guess they just got better?
that was definitely on track to follow a standard postapocalypse queer found family narrative for awhile but i guess it was the 1980s #monsterdon
"Video Game Consultant" named Lieberman???!!!
The whole transformation into a suburban family was surprisingly sudden
So Samantha isn't turning into a red zombie? Did I miss that getting resolved or is DMK gonna be dinner? #monsterdon
Gamers will inherit the Earth #monsterdon
The hero we didn't know we needed.
So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our heartfelt thanks to @Taweret and all the posters and lurkers, and remember #Monsterdoners: The burden of civilization is on us, okay.
NOW THEY'RE JAYWALKING #monsterdon #nightofthecomet
Apparently not she just actually has hives when she’s nervous like she said!!! #monsterdon
C'mon Sam, Hector's driving, it's his choice of music. #monsterdon
IT'S DMK! KILL HIM REG!!!!! #Monsterdon ☄️
Wait, where'd he get the personalized plate??
#monsterdon he's a Keener.
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#monsterdon wait was that the ending
@jonny They kept telling themselves they were developing a serum. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
ITS FUCKING DMK LETS GOOOOOOO #monsterdon
conflict resolved, boyfriend achieved #monsterdon
...DMK appears to give Sam a boyfriend #monsterdon
okay, this guy's nuts.
#monsterdon
See, this movie is all about found family rather than birth family.
Sure, everyone I've ever known is dead, horribly, but I found these kids, you see. So it's all okay.
"Going to see Santa" is the euphemism of the movie #monsterdon
There were pretty much places in every mall to get family photos taken against backdrops. #monsterdon
Did they really just "we live in a society"
AUTOMATION IS THE SECRET THEME #crosswalk #monsterdon
"the burden of civilization has fallen upon us" certified anarchist movie moment #monsterdon
Finally a little rain to wash away the populace. The environment is looking up.
....oh my god are regina and hector using these kids to play happy family #monsterdon
creepy
Why are the traffic lights still working?
Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!
also, day-um chakotay. okay. #monsterdon
sure ya ok future happens and everyone looks great and there are no problems and we haven't even found any other survivors, you only earned that because we love regina and samantha so much #monsterdon
listen, just because society has collapsed doesn't mean you can get out of wearing itchy suit jackets, kid. #monsterdon
"Hey, if you're gonna throw those guns away, can I have one?"
Ah, a cleansing rain to remove that comet zombie stench. #Monsterdon
her DRESS omg wtf #monsterdon #nightofthecomet
@moira And eventually, thanks to the water cycle, TO THE SEA #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
Doesn't want the kids to see him flip the bird, but he's cool with letting them watch a car full of zomb-people get blown up #monsterdon
All these clothes are going to clog up the storm drains something fierce. #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
Hello Heck Gomez!
Man how many costume changes is he gonna have? He's like a Pink Ranger in old Super Sentai.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
Damn those zombies sneaky. Snuck up on them with the full light from that bonfire across that big open space
Rule, like seventy five of monster movies: There's always one more zombie. #Monsterdon
Hector and his little girly gun save the day
Zombie voice: We have to get them!
okay 54BPM makes sense in that state, but a blood pressure of 150/30? #monsterdon
Think over this! (middle finger)
Yeah, that was hilarious. Hector's nailin' it. In some ways this feels a little ahead of its time even.
Flipping people off in the dark feels like a fairly pointless strategy. #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
dynomite!!!
#monsterdon
"evil jumpsuit nurses on nitrous" has to be, like, a whole subreddit, right?
"She had been exposed" to the comet? or what? #monsterdon