For tonight's #monsterdon I have a Comet Old Fashioned:
2oz bourbon whiskey
4 shakes Angostura
1/2 oz. double simple syrup
2 shakes orange bitters
2 cherries on a skewer representing our heroines tonight
1 giant ice cube representing the comet
lfg!!!
@ramsey @lytta @ottaross I think the little girl had the stuffed bunny with her earlier -- Regina rescued it from the bunker and gave it to the little girl in the car outside the bunker. #NightOfTheComet #Monsterdon
@Taweret @apLundell @starkraving666 @lytta fuck me i keep pasting in the tag by reflex but having the wrong thing in the paste buffer
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@Taweret @apLundell @starkraving666 @lytta also dunno - aren't they required to have windows? yeah, bars still, but windows, and ironically that kind of limits the survivor count in them
@Crazypedia Dr. White was trying to fool the other scientist who was staying behind to believe the cheerleader was dead, so she injected her with sodium pentathol instead of something more lethal. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
@Crazypedia Gene pool's gonna be pretty tight with so few survivors. Maybe the part of the world that was in sunlight when the comet passed by will be ok. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
@Crazypedia Yes, that intro voiceover is irreconcilable with our current understanding of dinosaurs. Unless ... the atmosphere was different enough 65 million years ago that the comet rays/infection interacted differently with the dinos and only dusted their flesh, not their bones. Um. Interference from volcanic dust? #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
@Taweret @apLundell it's an expanded turtleverse
so, what's #monsterdon?
@shig Lesson: Air purification is important! If you go into a bunker to survive the comet that will dust people but forget to turn off the air vents, infected air will get in and you'll turn into zombies too, just less quickly than folks who didn't look directly at the comet but didn't bunker themselves as well. #NightOfTheComet #Monsterdon
@Crazypedia @SavahRellcast Oh huh I've never heard that it's good manners to start a thread. I mean, it's not like you can mute a whole thread (as far as I know); people who don't want to see #Monsterdon posts have to mute the hashtag anyway. Some people do start threads but my understanding has been that's for their own personal organization, not ease of muting.
@ramsey @lytta @starkraving666 @apLundell I was just looking up California and yep, Folsom. And here in Washington State it's the same.
@moira It’s lines like “I’m a Cancer” that really reinforce the “through the eyes of a teenager” part. #Monsterdon
@starkraving666 @lytta @apLundell oh well there y'go
wikipedia even has it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California
@SavahRellcast @Crazypedia we have a poll every monday to choose the movie
just follow the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert for the polls, news and updates and #monsterdon for posting during the event itself
Maybe the ending is just Samantha dreaming again. ✌️
I'm being silly...but that scene would actually fit very well with her first dream scene. #monsterdon
@Taweret I think all the zombies eventually turned into red dust too, just slower than those directly exposed, and the rain washed ALL the red dust away. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
i mean arguably the "as seen by a teenager movie" is like 70% "beach blanket bingo but apocalypse" themed
@lytta @Configures Honestly, I think the real purpose of that epilogue scene is to show us DMK, and, for that, it’s pretty good. 🤣 #Monsterdon
@Configures @ramsey the power absolutely wouldn't last that long, but at that point we're being asked to suspend our disbelief i think 😂 #monsterdon
@moira @starkraving666 @apLundell i actually would like to place DMK as the wizard of oz of the film, he was just trying to get to samantha the whole time and architected all the events to that end. why were the scientists out there? DMK fed them some bad information to generate a sense of crisis after the apocalypse so that he could swoop in afterwards and be comparatively desirable to science cult zombies #Monsterdon
@Configures 3-4 days, I could understand, but the movie takes place at Christmastime, and I’m pretty sure they’re dressed up for Easter pictures at the end. #Monsterdon
@lytta @starkraving666 @apLundell me either
the only thing i really know about license plate making is that if you go back far enough in washington state you had to make your own
the local license centre in my old neighbourhood had a bunch from that era, they were all over the place in design and structure and some of them were very cool
@moira This is what I’m talking about. It has layers to it. The writers did a good job, and the cinematography and directing is good. The editing could be better, and I feel pretty sure they wanted to fit it under a certain time, so they reduced some stuff that might have made it even better. #Monsterdon
@ramsey It's only been 3 or 4 days, I think. I know the power wouldn't last long, but maybe it would last that long. #NightOfTheComet #Monsterdon
@starkraving666 @apLundell also possible!
Maybe he already had one and then went to make a bunch more later even. That's also possible.
i also kind of like how the movie is two very different movies for a lot of it, and one is very much a "as seen by a teenager" movie and the other is a "as seen by middle-aged adults" movie until they collide
@diazona you can only fail #monsterdon by not watching the movie
Evidently I failed #Monsterdon tonight 😭
@apLundell Well, we don't really know (and I suppose it doesn't matter for plot purposes), but my best guess is that that one was his actual car but after the apocalypse he "adopted" a bunch of other cars whose owners had been turned to dust. That is, when he says "I have 23" he just means 23 cars, not necessarily 23 new convertibles.
Or he doesn't have any other cars but he's just making something up to impress Samantha, and maybe he realizes it'll be easy to find 23 cars he can claim to own.
@apLundell sometimes when lives explode people hold on to tiny bits of their old lives in strange little ways
this could be one
@moira @diazona @jonny @simrob Yes, that's my understanding of the movie too, all the way through. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
anyway good job team and the real monster was the zombies all along and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^
@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.
@shig The scientists mentioned symptoms including drying out, etc. I don’t know if they specifically mentioned rashes, but it didn’t seem to come out of nowhere when they saw her and thought she had been exposed. #Monsterdon
Danny Mason Keener says "I have 23" cars like that brand new convertible he's driving. That implies he just claimed an abandoned car, right? From a dealership?
So why the vanity plate?
@moira @lytta @diazona @simrob i am imagining all those chemists huffing ether inventing quantum mechanics #monsterdon
@diazona @jonny @moira @simrob I thought they were telling us (via showing and not telling) that the scientists' minds were degrading and that's why they were shifting gears into extra weird useless experiments and treating everything as routine. just like. wheels still turning but they've lost track of so many things they're deeply off the rails and can't tell #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial @lytta hmm... Vincent took up amateur broadcasting post-apocalypse too, didn't he?
@jonny @SRLevine ok so maybe... the radiation made people turn into dust, and then something else was the zombie-making thing? #monsterdon
@jonny @moira @simrob Ah yes see this is the kind of information that would have really helped this movie seem more coherent if I had seen it explained. (To be fair, I definitely missed some things while paying attention to the #Monsterdon feed but I usually don't miss this many pivotal details)
@jonny @diazona @simrob Dr. White at first _also_ thought they could develop a blood-derived antidote from people who weren't turning into zombies, but then found out they didn't have enough time to even hope to make it work.
They initially assumed they had weeks to figure something out, which is bad but workable, and she figured out it was only a couple of days.
@lytta @SRLevine i was wondering if it was electromagnetic or radioactive from the steel building thing, but the scientists said it got in through the air ducts so i assumed it had to be some kind of particle or aerosol #monsterdon
@JoeWynne I would watch the fuck out of that movie! #monsterdon
@moira @diazona @simrob and from what i take it the scientists were slowly realizing that they had been exposed and were collectively agreeing to not talk about it while knowing what they had to do, making it up in real time, which is how they got to harvesting people for blood, which didn't seem to be the original plan. #monsterdon
Okay this is about where I came in, but, she notices the keys in the wrench but not piles of clothing arranged like people on the ground?
@lytta @jonny @simrob I definitely agree that it's not as incoherent as some other #Monsterdon movies we've seen. I guess the thing is, sure, I could understand most of what was happening, but I didn't understand why it was happening.
I like how our 1980s heroine decided it was her duty to keep the light of civilisation burning by wearing a suit with giant shoulder pads.
@lytta Maybe there were other listeners and only the "scientists" called in #monsterdon
@moira @maple never #monsterdon
@maple agreed people trying to over-science this need to take joel robinson's advice and repeat to themselves
it's just a show
i should really just relax xD
@lytta @ramsey @ottaross I thought it had been a wedding #monsterdon
#monsterdon "Yes! The sky is not deep red?"
@lytta She can go back to the radio station and spin platters any time she likes now too #monsterdon
#monsterdon You don't stay to watch the fire. You just leave. Those poor kids.
Also, what kid was riding their bike at the school at that hour, and why did everyone leave he hatches for their mechanical timers open?
@simrob no, sometimes #Monsterdon goes harder than this but don't worry if this one didn't traumatise you too badly you could handle it again
more movies should be allowed to be goofy #monsterdon
Damn that was sure hell of a light show
@lytta Teens are so resilient #monsterdon
We typed the word God into Netflix and the first thing that came up was Gozilla Minus One.
#monsterdon
Is this true for everyone?
or did the Holy Algorithm just know.
@shig Samantha’s rash was something that normally happens to her. She was in a tool shed (probably one of those metal ones), when the comet passed.
@Zerofactorial yeah this went super well for Sam actually #monsterdon
KEATON not KEENER
i kept trying to make a "facts of life" joke and couldn't get there and it's because the "K" was KEENER and the family was KEATON okay
Pretty sure that whatever that research lab was was a billionaire vanity project the way it was set up and run
Are you here to talk to me about my car's extended warranty? #monsterdon
@shig the olds are scary but will die soon
Sammy should have asked Danny Mason Keener if he went to Taft before getting in #monsterdon
Tonight we established that nothing can stop 80's music, whereas we have not established what the comet had to do with anything
Thanks for hosting @Taweret and thanks everyone for the commentary!
@diazona @jonny @simrob wait really? I found this to be a very coherent movie that I was able to follow pretty much all the way through. Also the 'let's imagine what certain people would do if everyone else was gone' is always a fun fictional scenario #monsterdon
FUCK YOU DMK!
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
DMK, of Tempest game fame!
@fluffy All gussied up in their Sunday best! They made the kid put on a skinny tie!
I realize that I made this point during the last man on earth, but: when the apocalypse comes, I'm putting on my sweat pants, and I'm never tucking in my shirt again, ever.
"Great car."
"Thanks. I have 23 of them."
heh
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
Lmao DMK was set up in the first scenes where she's playing the arcade game 🤣
@Crazypedia
I'm still wondering how the comet came back after hitting the Earth the first time.
#monsterdon
Some interesting sponsors in the end credits. Western Bagel *and* Trader Joe's? Craft services must have been great. #monsterdon
@lytta @simrob that is fair. the magnetic monster comes to mind where there was never a goddamn monster at all #monsterdon
@yatsu I couldn't quite hear what the boy said when Regina was about to take the second shot, "Another ___ mom" or "Great, there are still ___ moms" #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
@north damn. They nailed the ending. DMK!! #Monsterdon
#monsterdon "Turkey crap through a tin horn" -- I don't know what that means. Is this an expression of badassery or just bad?
Danny Mason Keener is DMK! #Monsterdon
@simrob I'll agree with the others about the feed being typical (though it's definitely been picking up more in the last month or so? we're clearing well over 1000 posts I think). Movies are *very* variable in quality, though I have to say usually a bit more obvious from the title what you'll be getting yourself into.
Picture day in the apocalypse.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
and in the end Reg doesn't notice her sister just ran off with her arcade rival #monsterdon
okay, still probably would have prefered DMK = gamer lesbian version, but for a dumb 80s flick, this was absolutely made for me, an apocalypse-enamored 80s kid. A+++ #monsterdon
What motivates the zombies? Is it eating the living or molestation? #monsterdon
Hector loves a costume :)
#Monsterdon #NighOfTheComet
Were there reprehensible things in this movie? Yes
Was I surprised by a competent female protagonist, a sidekick sister who wasn't an airheaded liability, and a Latine man as a love interest and well-rounded person? Also yes
#monsterdon Hector's response to the apocalypse is to dress up. This is great.
Well that was a weird one, folks! Good night!
#monsterdon That scene at the end is great because not only do we have whatever that trope is where every new person repeats some annoying bit (bruh you shouldn't cross against the light) but also, looking back from 40 years in the future we were all just clenched up for a second there expecting Kelli Maroney to get absolutely trucked. #NightOfTheComet (1984)