Rodan has met his match in Catzilla
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@JenYetAgain@toot.site Rodan is not a rule follower #monsterdon

"in most suicides both shoes are together" absolute solid gold detective work there chief #monsterdon

Weird to know how many amnesia cases are total just off the top of your head #monsterdon

They’ve totally eradicated the Rodans because. Umm.
Just because. But they succeeded (for now). So yay?
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And now the volcano begins to erupt as well. But everything’s fine. Let’s go on vacation.
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🤣🤣 Everyone’s talking at the same time, and it doesn’t matter what any of them are saying. #Monsterdon

@jonny @JenYetAgain current research suggests dinosaurs had feathers, lips, and jet engines #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon YT roulette gave me Godzilla, King of the Monsters.

@JenYetAgain i was under the operating assumption that the rodan were just dinosaurs and all dinosaurs had jets we just didn't know that because we messed up the archaology like with the whole dinosaurs having feathers thing. #monsterdon

thanks all for another great #monsterdon & to @Taweret for organizing!!

if i didn't have to get up in the morning i'd be tempted to watch the original japanese version right now. but i must go to bed #monsterdon

#Monsterdon There was an episode of the 70s Godzilla animated series where he fought a Rodan-like kaiju that lived in a volcano.

@moira Though I would kind of expect a monster that lives in a volcano to be, you know, volcano, proof. #MonsterDon

@JenYetAgain I would like to visit the Gamera store. #Monsterdon

For everyone wondering, the Rodan ate all the giant bugs, that's where they went

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thanks for making my first #monsterdon fun!

No pterodactyls were harmed in the making of this film. #MonsterDon

practical effects are fun to look at even when they're bad and especially when they're good

cgi is boring to look at even when it's good and especially when it's bad

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I'm gonna say it, and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but I'm still gonna say it

Matte paintings and models and forced perspective >>>>>>>> CGI

Any day

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let’s all tactically watch this shit through our binoculars #monsterdon

Gotta remind myself, Godzilla's not coming to save these clowns #monsterdon

Oh, well, now he's standing on the city, that's not very nice, either, but he doesn't seem to be doing it on purpose, he's just large

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I really love how the most threatening thing Rodan does is go too fast

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Oh goody, the ineffectual jets are almost there #monsterdon

"you could make a movie entirely out of stock footage!" ed wood #monsterdon

i love how these ancient pterosaurs appear to be jet-powered #monsterdon

#monsterdon Ah yes, back when jet pilots used hand signals to communicate.

@trixter @CactuarJoe Yes, but also, look up mechanical computers. I'm not trying to be snide, it's amazing what they did mechanically. So much SF from this era actually makes more sense if you know about mechanical computers and how they worked.

(And at one time "computer" was even a job title!)

(This time adding #monsterdon because I'm like... kinda into mechanical computers xD )

wait WHAT explains the insects???? #monsterdon

i think the narrator is the reason for the distinct lack of spinning newspaper exposition #BringBackSpinningNewspapers #monsterdon

"It may have been full grown when it hatched."

That is some wild optimism right there. #Monsterdon

I wish computers still looked like this.

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@unlofl i think it's like a dostoyevskian unreliable narrator #monsterdon

bird love it when you handle their eggs as they hatch.

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"Looks like a bird!" lol perfect Kermit the Frog voice, no notes

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@trixter @Taweret i looked away for a second and a whole different movie was happening #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Hey wave some formic acid under his nose like they did with the little girl in THEM!

Shoot down any UFO! If you see something, say, "It's a UFO, shoot it down!" #Monsterdon

I assume that's Rodan, but why does it have exhaust #monsterdon

I'm adventuring with Team Subtitles tonight #monsterdon

#Monsterdon So does Goro owe you money or what.

i would not mind a sort of donkey kong turn here where they spend the rest of the movie riding rail carts around trying to crash them into the ants #monsterdon

I see the romantic subplot showed up #Monsterdon

"Something pulled him under and drowned him... so the fact we shot him didn't end up being that significant."

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@RobynGoodfellow It's important to get the cheesiest available version! #Monsterdon

@emmah wait he's unconscious in the japanese version what the heck he is dead over here #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Hey this mine has a secret squeaky toy surprise in it!

@RobynGoodfellow
https://archive.org/details/Rodan_201611 #monsterdon

@JenYetAgain yes, the US version is edited very differently #monsterdon

Damn, this Japanese release is much more of creepy, cold open. All we know is that something happened in the mine, people are hurt and one guy was pulled out unconscious. The miners' families are there and in shock. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon for a guy who was “slaughtered like an animal” he’s surprisingly untouched

I'm sorry but dressed like that underground you are *legally obligated* to sing Hi-Ho. #Monsterdon

I need a flashlight helmet. I can’t see a thing here #Monsterdon

go go go!!

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#Monsterdon WOW THAT WAS A DEPRESSING ENDING

I was only kinda able to pay attention to the #Monsterdon #CreatureFeature of the week, but my main take-away was that the early monsters sounded like my old car.

LPT: if you hear that noise from a vehicle, get the serpentine belt checked.

@JenYetAgain OHHHHHHH. The dub really pulled a "Guess that's over" #monsterdon

The day is saved. Thanks to vulcanism.
The ending kind hits harder without all the narration of them choosing to die together.
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@trixter The filmmakers were sitting on a gold mine - they could have shot another fifteen minutes of this part and we would have loved it. "Baby Ro - do do do do" #monsterdon

@JenYetAgain oh shit.i *really* have to watch the original version #monsterdon

Thinking back, I do not believe this film passes the Bechdel Test. Or any kind of scientific test #monsterdon

@Taweret I was thinking that having two versions of the movie with different running times was going to make things too chaotic, but need not have worried. Thanks! #monsterdon

Mount Aso will now be renamed Mount Asshole Giant Birds Nest.
"LOOK AT THE BONES!" Don't remember that from the dub, but I only remmeber like 5 scenes from this movie.
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I just love that one guy trying to cling to a tree and flying away. It's a really basic backscreen shot but it works on me every time.
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@Taweret thanks for hosting! super fun as always #monsterdon

We have finally arrived at the fireworks factor.
Or I have a dozen commercial interruptions after everyone else.
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@Taweret thank you for hosting :) #monsterdon

Camera store is really stupendous.
It is full of Canon and Fujifilm and Olympus.
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@Taweret@octodon.social Thank you!
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So what did the bomb tests have to do with that?

Did I miss something?

Wasn't it the miners who awakened the monsters?

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@jonny I think I'll only watch the dub version if someone assures me it has a kicking dub backing track #monsterdon

Wait a minute, the nuclear tests had absolutely zero to do with anything. Mining was responsible for all the monsters. Literally just a five minute commercial for blowing the shit out of "uninhabited" islands #monsterdon

The moral is that if you find your mine is infested with dangerous cryptids, just block the entrance and claim a business writeoff #monsterdon

I’m over here enjoying my extra ten minutes of non-stop explosions #monsterdon

ok on the dub version the explanation for the bugs goes like this.
"We can't be sure, we can only operate on theories... so i will advance this theory with complete certainty: Rodan were buried by a volcano until atomic bombs fractured the earth's crust and warm air and water got in there, and the warm water caused the egg to hatch, and that also explains the giant insects" and that is the last time they are mentioned. #monsterdon

@apLundell I think the two Rodanim could have made better choices at this juncture #monsterdon

got those good slow-launchin’ missiles #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe That must have cost some real money to pull off, rather than going with some stock footage or something #monsterdon

"I wondered if I could ever hope to die as well"

Look pal, if your idea of a perfect death is to burn in lava, don't let us stop you. Live your dream.

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#Monsterdon Shigeru CC: I wonder if Kiyo is interested in some post-kaiju destruction shagging.

That was fun! Only thing I missed was a good ol' fashioned Sandy Frank opening. Ah well, maybe next time :3 #monsterdon

@KanaMauna Just like wasps! #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial Richard attenborough: And so goes the circle of life of Rodan...
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So morale of the story is burn 🔥 the nest with fire. #monsterdon

HE DOVE UNDER THE WATER!
I knew it! He is the Loch Ness monster!
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I did not expect both of them to get killed by the same method. Figured one would die and the other would go berserk. They could've had another whole 20 minutes and still come in at 90 #monsterdon

Good night, my sweet not-bird children. 😭 And good night, #Monsterdon!

Great job everybody! Thanks again for hosting, Numbers! See you next week! #monsterdon

"He learned too late that man is a feeling creature..." #monsterdon

Great watch! Thanks everyone! #monsterdon #rodan

@whiskeysailor Or maybe a deadpan Ron Howard #monsterdon

@Louisa all i heard was "that explains the giant insects" and i was like NO GO BACK #monsterdon

That movie is definitely better in Japanese

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ty for joining everyone!!

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Should have gotten Herzog to narrate it. Okay, now I want Herzog narrating a Godzilla movie for real
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Rodan will return in "Rodan vs. The World Crime League" #monsterdon #rodan

Y'know for once I think this movie really did need the extra 10 minutes #monsterdon

Good night, sweet prince o7

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"They seemed to welcome the agonies of death" "I DID NOT STOP LYING" #monsterdon