ah, what a waste of some good zombie opportunities on that knock off Michael J Fox. #monsterdon

aw i can't even make the axe joke

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

I like how the power still on for the apocalypse #monsterdon

wrench kill!

#monsterdon

oh THIS GUY survived the comet? they better eat his ass up for sustenance quick #monsterdon

Oh no! Anyway, Tempest awaits.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Post sex Tempest, who hasn’t been there

#Monsterdon

Egg McMuffins are indeed the pinnacle of breakfast

#Monsterdon

Imagine you survive the apocalypse because you shagged this one guy because you were so bored. And suddenly he's the only human alive in 100 miles... #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

This guy's suspenders over his flannel shirt are a choice. #monsterdon

Darn, apparently projectionist are immune to dusting too.

#monsterdon

Oh thank god he's dead. Jerk boyfriend

#monsterdon

oh i see. everyone turned into red dust. definitely going to think of this movie the next time wildfire smoke makes city skies orange. #monsterdon

Spandex and headbands everywhere #Monsterdon

Except the radio DJ, who hasn’t noticed anything abnormal. #Monsterdon

The comet turned everyone into Tang.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Honestly this looks like the best time to visit LA

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon did they turn into fucking clay?

These Tempest scenes are triggering me. That game was a rush.

#Monsterdon

Everybody turned into Nesquik. #Monsterdon

Everyone you've ever known.........DUST!

#monsterdon

Cleanup on aisle everywhere.

#monsterdon

I wonder if this gamer girl who’s into comics (to the point she’s correcting her boyfriend about Superman, while they’re having sex) hit much differently back in the 80s. #Monsterdon

I think this is all of us right now. #monsterdon

The night after the comet party

#monsterdon

It's gone from an incoming comet to a meteor shower?

#monsterdon

I love this movie. Didn't anticipate y'all watching a movie I like lol

#Monsterdon

She's a woman of principle, she won't sleep with him for $15...just for free. He's okay with this arrangement.

#monsterdon

Oh, red sky. Like what happened all over the west coast in 2020! (Though not the missing people)

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The movie theater should totally have been playing "Day of the Triffids" #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Fuck that robot clown

#monsterdon

"You were born with an asshole, you don't need Chuck!"
Gonna have to remember that one.
#monsterdon

Ok. Reggie and Doris just talked about something not a man, and then we had a fistfight between two named female characters. That's a pretty solid Bechdel pass? (though they were technically talking about her dad). #monsterdon

Heck yes, lead girl knows more about comics than the projectionist jerk #monsterdon

"...you were born with an asshole, Doris, you don't need Chuck"

Buuuuuurn!

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

You were born with an asshole, Doris, so you don't need Chuck!

Fist-fight!!! Wow.

#monsterdon

okay 'you were born with an asshole, you don't need Chuck' is actually good

#monsterdon

@amyfou Same #monsterdon

That conversation escalated quickly #monsterdon

The hairstyles remind me why the ozone hole was endangered at the end of the last century #monsterdon

Also, these are the most believable characters I've seen in any #monsterdon movie.

You will be dust soon lady....dust....

ooff, hardcore punch!

#monsterdon

Did this guy manage to mispronounce Newfoundland twice?

#Monsterdon

Smooth move, Exlax #Monsterdon

I like that the main mystery so far in this movie is who the video game player with the initials DMK is #Monsterdon

Industrial leg warmers #monsterdon

American Journalists: mispronouncing the names of foreign places since at least 1984

#monsterdon

some subtitles I found this week. "(Repeating in Spanish)" for "Tres dimensiones"

#Monsterdon

@Taweret Playing Tempest! Regina should be doing her job but Regina is not a model employee. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The opening credits have a very TV-show vibe. Was this a direct to VHS movie I wonder? It's a familiar title, but I don't think I ever saw it back in the day.

#monsterdon

Tempest!

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Note to the younguns: this is how the 80s ACTUALLY were.

#monsterdon

Arcade games!
#monsterdon

this man is Quite Serious about his deedleebobbers. approve. #monsterdon

Nobody's seen a comet like this since that time all the dinosaurs mysteriously all died on the same day!

Neat! That sounds great.

#monsterdon

Tellin y'all, living thru Halley's Comet in 1986 was both super exciting (everyone was expecting a light show) and an absolute disaster (it wasn't a shower at all...)

#monsterdon

Are they going to show a Tower Records in this montage? #monsterdon

"A girl playing a video game? Anything is possible in the 80s!"

#monsterdon

Serious Narrator is SERIOUS.

#Monsterdon

65 MILLION YEARS GET IT

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

NIGHT OF THE COMET! It's a biopic about tub cleaner? #Monsterdon

root post for #monsterdon

Topical descriptions! Earth passing through the tail feels like a reference to the 1910 apparition of 1/P Halley. And the Alvarez Hypothesis was the hot new thing in the 1980s.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

It's also a Christmas movie! I'm so loving this.

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Wait we are starting "before recorded time"? Good stuff

#Monsterdon

"Since before recorded time..."

cue RIOTORIOUS laughter from me and my partner

#monsterdon

Is it #Monsterdon time again already? I think The Comet caused a time warp!

Follow the hashtag if you want to wax nostalgic about Halley's Comet hysteria of the 1980s...or filter...as you would

OH, the comet killed the dinosaurs, of course

#monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

#monsterdon

GO GO GO!!!

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!!!

@wohali @Taweret NO no no no no. Not that. At least not when I knew him.

It's just weird being "I know that guy?" and it be in a movie.

He's not (or wasn't) terrible he's fine, he's just SUPER bitter and (at the time) was kind of obsessive about it and stuff :/

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@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

[fixes]

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@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

#monsterdon

@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

#monsterdon

https://open.spotify.com/album/0bZYCfKJ7irohejpyLsDSh

#Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@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

#monsterdon

@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

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@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

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@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.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

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

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@diazona you can only fail #monsterdon by not watching the movie