Man, these guys would be *super dead* like twelve times over without Reiko. This movie should be called REIKO SAVES YOUR ASSES (1967).

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"What should we call the giant praying mantis?"

"How about giant praying mantis"

"GENIUS! I'll tell the boss right away!"

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla I wonder why they don't just hide in the barrel when the spider ambles by... maybe its too hot inside, or they figure that its artificial nature would make it to tempting for a kaiju to just squash.

NOW, IT IS BEGINNING OF A
FANTASTIC STORY!! LET’S MAKE A
JOURNEY TO THE CAVE OF MONSTERS!
GOOD LUCK!
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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla after running away, the puny humans hide in a cave and the Giant Spider tries to get them with one leg, sort of like how you try to pick up a tiny thing you drop behind a couch that your arm just can't fit under.

Anyway, the spider gives up eventually and the puny humans climb out... only to discover Professor Pipes fiddling with a Barrel Phone.

i think the complete absence of a plot is totally excusable because of that red flower shirt tucked into white pants look, it saves every scene #monsterdon

Ok, my mistake it looks like spider has some minor eyes or something

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"Stop burning my silly string, it's highly toxic!"

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla while nothing is happening, I need to remark on just goofy the Godzilla and Baby Godzilla costumes look. The former is Extremely Lumpy and rather bug eyed, and the later is just kind of... doughy? Which I guess is rather baby like? Kind of reminds me of what a turtle might look like without a shell.

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla Hungry Journalist and the One Girl walk past the Giant Spider's house, but the Giant Spider is having a nap so its fine. Even the Hungry Journalist klutzilly rolling some rocks on it doesn't seem to wake it up, so we successfully past the Spider Level and reached the Godzilla Clearing, where Big Godzilla is teaching Little Godzilla how to roar and how to be a Kaiju.

#monsterdon Did Godzilla just threaten to full-hand slap baby godzilla?? I'm having a bit of trouble parsing the body language through the huge rubber suits.

Am I losing it, or did godzilla give minizilla headpats?

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Parent gives validation then falls asleep from the effort.
Figures

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"Tokyo? Well, it's a man-made jungle"

You know, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla we switch to the Obligatory Romance Plot between the One Girl and the Hungry Journalist, who in her defense seems like the nicest of the island schlubs.

Then baby Godzilla comes to visit, so we feed him a fruit, then he falls over out of incompetence and starts wailing until his dad drags him away.

"I got the fever"
Techno music starts

"I GOT DA FEVER!!"

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla after we decide to move all our science toys into the cave so it doesn't melt, we cut to some water burning for unclear reasons and Godzilla Junior teaching himself how to play soccer with a rock until he crashes into Godzilla Senior's tail, which he then tries to balance on.

The Goofy Music tells us that this is funny and that we should laugh.

Godzilla telling off their child for playing "with that human filth"

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#monsterdon quoth @k8eb: "if your tail is moving then you're not really asleep"

Son of Godzilla would go on to star as the lizard baby from V.

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why is there a lake of blood right there tho?

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla we take the One Girl back to meet the poor schlubs staffing the island, and we get her backstory... she's the daughter of an archaeologist who went to this island somehow. Then a Gigantis arrives and starts screaming threateningly at us, preventing us from learning more backstory.

I would kind of like to know what archaeology was going on the island, but I also like Kaiju battles, so I guess I'm fine with either dramatic route here.

#monsterdon Is this canon?

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla the One Girl demonstrates that she would rather encounter a godzilla than a man in the jungle by throwing a knife at Hungry Journalist who has landed in her cave house.

She thinks he might be a girl because he wore a red shirt, which he gives to her to increase her affectation score in the dating simulator version of this movie.

“I’m the Baby (Gotta Love Me)”
DINOSAURS
Album: “Big Songs”
From the hit TV series: Dinosaurs
Walt Disney Records and Television

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@Taweret Me, instinctively: "I can SIIIIIIIING!" #Monsterdon

wow they're sure familiar with the presence of Godzilla, too. Just everyday Japan things I guess. #monsterdon

the behavior of the giant mantises w.r.t this tiny potato baby is making me seriously question my affiliation with team praying mantis #monsterdon

Son of Godzilla has only been alive for a few minutes and he's been abandoned again.
Unfortunate creature

The light hearted music can fuck off

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lol @ Son of Godzilla getting a rock to the face

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lucky Son of Godzilla didn't imprint on the first creatures it saw, shameless parenting there from the big lizard

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Poor baby godzilla, it's not his faulty the Mantis' are so big.

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#monsterdon MIB has to wipe his memory

@Taweret@octodon.social hopefully #monsterdon

heat turns mantises into kaiju

yes, that's science

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OH NO! OUR HUBRIS HAS BROUGHT ABOUT AN UNFATHOMABLE HEATWAVE! What has science done to man??? Man has burned himself once again. But it will not stop him.
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lol, their insane weather control experiment made the human sized mantis' into giants......well done Humanity!

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well, can't let the americans have all the fun irradiating "deserted" islands. #monsterdon

#monsterdon they have their bathrooms clearly labeled at least

What is it with far-eastern nations and weaponized balloons

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla armed with a can of yoohoo and a single slice of white bread, journalist guy equips his camera and starts taking pictures of the Giant Praying Mantis that is I guess pretty humdrum for this radioactive corn farm.

I think the safari boys shot at it instead. Maybe it just wanted to talk, but probably not. Anyway, it ran away because most things don't like being shot at.

#monsterdon Yo, the way normal-sized mantises behave, I would _not_ be in a hurry to approach one that stands taller than a porta-potty. It could tip that thing right over on you.

#monsterdon i'll be more focused on watching the movie than Live texting

i would respond with more alarm to a giant praying mantis but that's just me

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Not the Sonde-Equipping Room!

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Crotch Salad

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ah journalism in the 60's, airdropped into a remote island base with no clear angle on a story or visible support or resources #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla We leave the Safari Boys to instead view the Secret UN Generating Facility, where I guess the professor lives. I guess the science experiment is a power generating thing?

Anyway, lots of cool 1950s looking computers in this secret UN science facility, along with things that go beep beep boop boop beep beep. I guess its a sonar for sandworms.

Anyway, the beep boop things start getting interference, which I guess is Godzilla's brainwave or whatever.

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla It turns out Safari boys are Not on Safari, but are actually visiting a giant barrel so they can call it about it on a phone in its door, where everyone keeps their phones.

The barrel looks like a water tower but its probably a supervillain science facility.

Anyway, after calling some cranky professor on our barrel door phone, we complain about the heat and then point guns in weird directions.

"Head Quarters"
Where they keep the heads.

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#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla after the toy airplane interlude, we progress to panning the camera over tropical trees... I guess trees on the mysterious pointy island. Some people in pith helmets are doing a safari on this island. At least I thought they were pith helmets.. they look more like normal hats though.

Also, we get goofy music that I don't know how to classify. I'll call it hifi jazz, even though that's wrong.

#monsterdon I must instantly hunt down the soundtrack so that I can queue up that jaunty island tune on the bathroom Sonos when @k8eb wanders off that-a-way in the third act

y'all holy shit in the original draft godzilla was about to leave the baby godzilla behind https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Son_of_Godzilla#Trivia

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I feel like "freeze the island and everything on it" isn't very good environmental policy in general #monsterdon

"Sherbet Operation"

#monsterdon So, is this a bad translation or a joke?

btw I don't know why I thought they would actually explain how that girl was left alone as a baby and still survived and also learned to speak fluent Japanese #monsterdon

the dialogue says "here's a cop-out that makes it fine" but the music and the entire everything else says that we are watching godzilla and its son die on that mountain #monsterdon

I don't need to tell you how this did on the Bechdel test #monsterdon

@liferstate Oh, THAT's why the story made no sense -- the audience was supposed to be necking by like 20 minutes in, not paying attention. #Monsterdon

That was fun! Great score, fun monster fights, meddling journalist gets invited to join the top secret remote island research team for some reason, & for a change, the humans are the ones who fuck off into the ocean this time.

Thanks everybody for playing along! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! See you next week!

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But luckily, the baby Godzilla died

Goodnight folks!!!!!!!!

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@floatybirb i would put smolzilla at the bottom of the list AND the top
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The “good” monsters froze to death, one giant moth escaped, and the rescued staff were the only ones with fur-lined clothes so the submarine crew had minutes above the surface before needing to submerge

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Per Wikipedia, Toho executives thought SON OF GODZILLA would go over well as a date movie.

I have questions but I don't know what they are.

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At least they finished the experiment. So now we can get rid of waste areas of the Earth; you know, like the South American rainforests.

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#Monsterdon "They'll just hibernate"uh huh. Seriously though now that I have some reference models downloaded I think that last scene of our two very good kaiju would make a great snowglobe. The end

Nice work team, thanks to @Taweret as always for hosting and let's use our votes wisely next time xD

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Is "BWAHBWAH" cute baby talk in Japanese or is it just as bad as it sounds in English

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son of godzilla is just as awful as i remember #monsterdon

God that movie felt like it lasted six hours. @_@ #Monsterdon

Goodbye monster island.
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So ends another #Monsterdon. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to all the posters and lurkers. And remember #Monsterdoners, This isn’t a place for human beings.

* bad movie, check

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The End

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well now that wasn't very good now was it

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explains why the Big G is always so instantly pissed off in all future movies tho. poor guy's avenging his son's murder. #monsterdon

goodnight sweet donkey prince

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#monsterdon they fucked off into the snow

Well, this certainly was one of the Godzilla films of all time. Thanks @Taweret as always for hosting!

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so all kinds of things happened there. wasn't really a plot of any kind

but maybe the snow will... help them? solve world hunger? is that what they were doing?

i don't really know

im pretty sure godzilla and his son died tho. like they tried to brush it off but. yeah, they're not waking up

anyway, ty for joining, everyone!

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So anyway baby godzilla really reminds me of the baby from the Dinosaurs sitcom, and this also seems to end almost the exact same way? was that show inspired by this movie #monsterdon

Mankind was the true kaiju all along...

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#monsterdon Manhattan project gone wrong due to mutant creatures.

Since when is this guy a Godzilla expert? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon c'mon we just got a good fire going we should sit here and enjoy a nice cup of <s>cacao</s>cocoa

Of course, hibernate not die. Thanks for softening the blow

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"They'll just go to sleep until the snow's gone" Yeah, then they'll go to a farm far away where they'll have lots of room to run and play. #monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

oh boo it's just a submarine boooooooo

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@jonny oh my god is THIS why everyone hates this movie so much. oh my GOD #monsterdon

Why didn't I use a rubber??? Godzilla screams into the frozen sky. Whyyyy?.. #Monsterdon

i'm telling you, there's nothing wrong with frozen potatoes

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All of a sudden this is turning into To Build A Fire. But with giant lizards. #Monsterdon

DONT U DARE. MOVIE DONT U FUGGIN DARE #monsterdon

"they'll both be all right I guess"

Big effort there humans, big effort....

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I'm counting it. That's bingo for me.

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warming themselves by the fyger

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"...and that, son, is how you make a spider kebab."

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:blobaww: #Smolzilla finally figured out the nuclear breath thing! #Monsterdon

...baby godzilla better not END THE MOVIE FROZEN i stg #monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social Radioactivity and cold to grow giant winter wheat, I guess?

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