All that planning and they just wack him with a blackjack? #monsterdon

I was expecting something a bit more fancy.

my kingdom for a single shot that is explicitly in outer space #monsterdon

"An official car, so nobody knows that I'm an enemy of freedom!"

#Monsterdon

@Louisa You can tell it's a wireless phone, because it has a giant wire sticking out of it.
#monsterdon

"Ram that rocket into the station boys.....ram it in....." *smokes heavily

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a second moon ship has hit the station #monsterdon

🎶 everybody was #monsterdon indoor smoking

"the bomb room of the station" huh?

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this font has me hooked on this movie already

A WIRELESS PHONE, what will they think of next

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"Keep those hands on that receiver until you are relieved"

That's what she said #monsterdon #projectmoonbase

i like the futuristic telephones (they added antennae to them) #monsterdon

You think these guys self-identify as "Enemies of freedom"?

I want to see their business cards.

#monsterdon

The future year of NINETEEN SEVENTY!
#Monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

This is soviet station chief transmitting bizarre and impossible spy plans via phone in the clear. Stand by for your orders! #monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

this would be so much better if they were wearing leisure suits

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I was annoyed by the stretched film before, but it makes Roundtree look like a gnome in long shots so it's good :D #Monsterdon

there is not a lot of moon base in the movie about moon bases, so far #monsterdon

Couldn't they have give the soviet spies russian accents like a proper movie? #monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

5 minutes and not a single fucking epaulet. #Monsterdon

Dramatic music as they reveal how many days August and September have. #monsterdon

He is sitting right there! Also I love the calendar, I want it
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YOU'RE TELLING ME HENRY AND BURNS WERE COMMI oh wait

#monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

And now the weather. #monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

Holy shit. The Admiral helped write this screenplay? I don't know if I can do this now.

#Monsterdon

Radio Rendezvous sounds like a call-in dating advice show from the 70s. #Monsterdon

Begun this Star War has.
#Monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

This fella went to the William Shatner school of slow talk.

#Monsterdon #ProjectMoonBase

that's what i'm gonna call any future zoom calls. a radio rendezvous. #Monsterdon

Oh this soundtrack is everything I could hope for in a pre-space age space epic

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"sorry, I was using your computer" *closes porn

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the theremin player is just wiggling like mad #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Quoth @k8eb: "Just so you know, because I looked into it, it's not pronounced 'Colonel Brit-EES', it's 'Colonel Bright-eyes."

very dramatic sitting down at a desk music

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This guy sure knows how to menace!

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Those actually aren't antennas, they're so you can hang your telephone, radio, and weird dictograph machine on any convenient hook

#monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

Free men consolidating the Free World and protecting it from enemies of Freedom. #Monsterdon

I totally expect someone to get a call on a shoe at any moment.

#Monsterdon #ProjectMoonBase

In the future everything will have it's own antenna. #monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

Enemies of Freedom! Oh noes

#Monsterdon

THE Jack Seaman? Wow.
Oh and the other guy.
#Monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

I'm a little busy to follow along with #monsterdon this week, but I'll put the rifftrax version on in the background! 🍿 #ProjectMoonbase

edit, no that is definitely not the same movie...

wow, timeline!
So bold, so violent!
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Theremin, obvs

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let's go motherfuckers

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#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!!

@jonny please clip the general trying to science. #Monsterdon

In conclusion:
#monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

"Col. Briteis, who made the first orbital flight around the Earth four years earlier, is arrogant and distrusting of Major Moore. Moore, in turn had a romantic interest in Briteis when they began in the United States Space Force,[4] but was rejected in favor of Briteis's ambition to be the first person on the Moon."

Clearly we missed all that background! #monsterdon

oh it was a HEINLEIN story. okay. that would explain... some very strange politics #Monsterdon

@diazona i mean, sometimes it was actually at the same things. but not all the time.

#monsterdon
#ProjectMoonBase #UnitedStatesSpaceFrisbee

@CactuarJoe The other thing is, I felt like they could have been building up to a different ending that would have been much better. I believe I'm extra annoyed at it because of that.

(Any other ending, pretty much. It wouldn't be hard. Zombie Wernher could have saved the whole thing singlehandedly.)

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@diazona See also, as I said at they beginning: they tried so hard, and they failed so hard

but not always at the same things

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@Taweret I don't think so? We did It Came From Beneath the Sea. Looking at a brief synopsis, it sounds interesting. I'd have higher hopes for a Bradbury story than a Heinlein one...

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@morganmay That checks! (Hides all refs to college engineer friends...) #monsterdon

@jonny SpaceX Cargo Delivery Service #Monsterdon

@Taweret I guess not but it sounds so familiar

#Monsterdon just be like that I guess

@diazona @msh Well you got some cake, and I didn't so win-win? #monsterdon

Type of guy who writes a hard sci-fi film script with the most accurate physics contemporary special effects can depict, but names a lady reporter character "Polly Prattles"

#monsterdon #ProjectMoonBase #Heinlein

@steggy just said: "Like the real Dr Werhner, I TOO wish I had been knocked out in the first five minutes of this film." #ProjectMoonBase #monsterdon

@Louisa uh I would still be mad

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we haven't done It Came From Outer Space (1953) have we?

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@edenoi You dodged a bullet... a SPACE bullet... #monsterdon

i honestly expected that to be a red scare movie but it wasn't even willing to put in that much effort

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@jonny She's going to remind him to put on a suit? Cause I don't thi... you know what, nevermind, it'll be an iq test for marwrage #monsterdon

@jonny welcome to the ussf sex life experience i guess

#monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

He is unloading the rocket with scary music. The plot is over, isn't it? #Monsterdon

@diazona @jonny I bet the real Dr. Wernher was very glad to have so little to do with this actual movie. #monsterdon

@msh Totally an accident, I'm not that clever (pretends to have done it on purpose) #monsterdon

@Canageek @jonny Yeah that bit was just weird

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@ricci @jonny The guy who got replaced? Dr. Wernher? They said the FBI found him (alive perhaps? Who knows)

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@forestine you mean the ceremony or t... yeah the ceremony?... #monsterdon

@yatsu I'd have him back in a different movie maybe

#monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

@otheorange_tag ummm...in a sense yeah 🤪 #Monsterdon

@yatsu Woah woah woah.. Let's not be hasty here. #monsterdon #ProjectMoonbase

Look at the skyline.
And remember how Poly Anarchims we were used to be.
We're still receiving light from the extinguished stars.

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@jonny Well yeah the last 10 minutes were a real curveball for sure, but other than that I actually thought it made a fair bit of sense. Like, not that everything was explained, but there was a coherent plot, and most of the events of the movie contributed to advancing that plot.

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@apLundell 🤔 #monsterdon

@diazona @jonny I think the *real* Dr. Von German or whatever his name was was just fine thanks since the guy they replaced him with was an evil godless communist who doesn't know where the Dodgers play?

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@ricci @jonny @diazona you know more than me, I was guessing "A Larch" #monsterdon

This whole plot seemed like the writer's softcore fantasy where it's enemies-to-lovers with a woman who's tough and sassy but also needs to be put in her place which she secretly wants and then they can finally have sex but of course they'll need to be married first for Hays Code reasons or something

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sounds like maybe i dodged a bullet on this one #Monsterdon

I do like Birtels spying on the conversation she's be cut out of. #Monsterdon

@ricci @jonny Oh wait yeah, I think he was, good point

I dunno I kind of lost track of all the different people partway through, except Colonel Briteis of course

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Why did you get married? The zero g/ 1/6th g sex was good?! #RedCard #monsterdon

I loved this movie for all the things it did wrong. Perfect fare for #monsterdon. One of the best abrupt endings ever. It’s as if the writer quit and the producer sat down with a bottle of rye and did his best.

Number of weeks since a movie that did not include any scenes in a men's room: 2 #monsterdon

@srol Moon babies!

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I am very <adjective> I took time away from eclipse prep to watch this

...I honestly don't know what <adjective> is

But thanks @Taweret for hosting as always

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#ProjectMoonBase
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Thank you @Taweret for this inspiring work of shorts!

And also, thanks to the Real Time Film Analyst Squad. Excellent work!
Oh, your official car has arrived.

@jonny @diazona I still am not entirely sure whether Roundtree was a bad guy? I think so? #monsterdon

Ok, so he set up his rely strangely and she didn't know so she wasn't able to use it? And he only just woke up from his beating, so he couldn't tell her? #Monsterdon

...And they get married and Madam POTUS wishes them well and they live happily ever after on US Moonbase One!!?

This ending is so effed up it gives Mutant Sheep movie a run for its money!

It was a monsterless #Monsterdon but still delightful I am still laughing thanks @Taweret

Now *I* wanna join Space Force so I can have my own Space Beanie and sexy Space Shorts too!

thanks for hosting @Taweret . interesting weird watch. bye all #Monsterdon

Late to the #monsterdon party did they f-off into the sea .. of tranquillity?! --Dad

A colonel married to her commanding officer strikes me as deeply problematic. #Monsterdon

@strangefour it's either that, or /I/ become a lizard beast with pointy teeth who wants to chew on something. #Monsterdon

Having some whiplash from last week #Monsterdon enjoyment to this weeks

that would have been very good information to share, five hours ago #monsterdon

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 event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info.