This movie is the basis for Lost

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so confirmed, these were exiles - "the experiment was a success, that means we can leave" - the people who exiled them didn't think they would actually be able to figure out how to heat, freeze, and irradiate the island, and their persistence in completing the experiment throughout the whole film is because that was the only way they would be able to rejoin society #monsterdon

The only way you can fight a monster spider invasion is with a cropduster, everyone knows that #monsterdon

@Taweret It's not so much a narrative as just a bunch of scenes that happen to be next to each other. #Monsterdon

Spider has this immense reserve of silk far larger than its body

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As Kumonga descends upon a helpless Minilla, it's a good time to re-read Nyffeler & Gibbons' 2022 paper "Spiders feeding on vertebrates is more common and widespread than previously thought, geographically and taxonomically" https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-21-054 (#OpenAccess 🔓)

(it's largely amphibians and reptiles)

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i think the filmmakers really overestimated how invested we would be in the experiment

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me breaking out a fucking abacus and drafting pad to try and figure out how to fit the ecological metaphor of godzilla into whatever the fuck is going on here #monsterdon

@Taweret If I suddenly became a single dad because some preying mantises dug up an egg, I imagine I'd need a nap too.

#monsterdon

SPIGA
automatic
7 jewels
#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

#monsterdon This baby Godzilla is pretty clumsy.

godzilla for real spends most of this movie trying to nap

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They're awfully casual about an experiment that could nuke the island if it goes wrong. #monsterdon

Spider has hit the jackpot. Gonna eat like a king for months. #monsterdon

On the plus side, it muffles his hideous donkey noises. #MONSTERDON

The actor in the Minilla costume is really giving it their all and I feel so bad for them because I do not like this character in spite of that

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If I were trapped by a giant spider, I'd simply lure it into a giant bathtub

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@Taweret @msh They made the decision to replace story with musical cues and they're sticking by it #monsterdon

How much web material can this giant spider vomit up? It seems endless

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godzilla usually like meditates on the bottom of the ocean right, so it's primarily an aquatic reptile, but it seems to come to the surface to reproduce by fucking the red lake in some way, truly a marvel of evolution #monsterdon

@rberlim It is well established in the Godzilla-verse silk comes ONLY from the front door #monsterdon

"We'll be safer over there."

How can you tell?

Less styrofoam on the ceiling. #MONSTERDON

I wonder what the radio brain waves were about. Will we ever get closure on that? Will it matter at all?

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honestly kinda like the spider's eyes, they deserve facets tho'

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"So that's why you didn't come out of the water that day"
"Well also I thought I saw a creep in a tropical shirt with a camera watching me swim."
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@allanb any longwire will do? --Nerd Dad #Monsterdon

kind ironic that this man-cave is run by a lady.
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"I know how to get outside! We FUCK OFF INTO THE OCEAN!" #Monsterdon

DOH forgot the antenna

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C'mon, spider, make up your mind! Are you blocking the cave entrance or are you reaching inside to grab a morsel?

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

Glad to see he's embracing his role as chef.

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The sound effects department must have had a lot of spare balloons sitting around.

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

"So that's the spider."

No, it's a four story KITTEN, genius >_> #MONSTERDON

The big scary arthropods are so cool looking.

And the heroic giant lizards are so unpleasant.

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

I don't like how they made Godzilla's eyes look like huge ping-pong balls #monsterdon

So was the spider this big before or did their experiment make it even larger?
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@apLundell@octodon.social Either that or the spider has eyes on its butt, which is actually more likely.

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Good thing spiders can't climb... uh... #Monsterdon

suddenly I am having the most VISCERAL decades-old memory of what it feels like to touch silly string #monsterdon

#monsterdon (sorry @nev)

"I think we'll be safe up here, everybody knows spiders can't climb"

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A spider with only two eyes, sure

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*greg voice* you have beautiful eyes!

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Trying to imagine this film only with Hank and Bobby Hill's voices.

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That habit he has of rubbing his hands over his lower abdomen when excited.... #Monsterdon

I don't think I'm off base here #Monsterdon

i guess big mantis is immune to smoke ring

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A clapping mantis

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okay so apparently silver iodide causes skin and mucous membrane irritation and is something you really do not want to breathe, much less be cover an entire island in a fine mist of #monsterdon

does the giant mantis play baseball, I want it on my fantasy team

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KUMONGA! KUMONGA! KUMONGA!!!!!!!!!!!! *bangs on table* #Monsterdon

oh that arachnid leg reminded me of one of those things from Halflife

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one of the main characters is grievously wounded and in mortal peril by the giant mantis.

music: "doo da doo da doo da doot doot doot!"

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looking up an MSDS for silver iodide so I can properly joke about this #monsterdon

Not gonna lie... I would have been abandoning the experiment at the "human-sized mantis" stage.

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"we might as well just give up the experiment" and that is just fine because we in the audience have completely forgotten about it due to the presence of the baby potato and how it is doing things #monsterdon

furukawa the only one aware of the full gravity of the movie he's in. (^_^);;; #monsterdon

waiting for the kool-aid kaiju to burst in through the cave wall

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#Monsterdon So…hold on…the red water is water Godzilla has IRRADIATED!? And they’re drinking it?!

Maki, please remember that the webs of Kumonga, the giant spider WE JUST HEARD OF RIGHT THIS SECOND, are vulnerable to heat. Remember it Maki

#Monsterdon

BABY DID A TINY ATOMIC BREATH O #monsterdon

BABY DID A BIG ATOMIC BREATH

okay but the tiny smoke ring of atomic fire breath was adorable

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

So like, kid inherited Godzilla's special powers?

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Out of all the sounds possibly why did they pick a donkey?
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"Even though they are monsters they act as intelligently as us humans"

Man goes nuts with a rifle.

OK, we get it, WE are the real monsters, we get it.

#monsterdon

Father?

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Godzilla's using a generous parental leave policy to assign his job devastating coastal Japanese cities to someone else #monsterdon

@lytta was too distracted by the outfit but i guess that backstory tracks with the transition of "wild woman" to femme-researcher outfit #monsterdon

"fool of a took!" #monsterdon

FOOL OF A TOOK!

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In the English dubbed version this conversation went:
"what is this spider?"
"it's a giant spider."

Thanks. #monsterdon

"What is this spider?" "It's a giant spider." I don't know what he expected tbh #monsterdon

@allanb she's breaking those barrier and I applaud her! #monsterdon

"Stupid idiot, there's nothing special about this island! Not even the giant praying mantis!" #Monsterdon

It's a good thing she has full power in her cave

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@allanb donkey sound > better than actual baby crying sound #monsterdon

Donkey sound, OK

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She's pacified the monster with her mystical hog call. #MONSTERDON

Godzilla: look son, I don't like their type, stay away from them, and stop embarrassing me where the mantisi might see

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It's another film where the one woman does sensible and useful things and all the men flip out and panic and do stupid things. #monsterdon

maybe they made the big G's suit this way so that the potato suit would look good by comparison

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i think i am doing dating all wrong because i rarely if ever playfully chase my dates around trying to capture them #monsterdon

Interesting tricks with scale. Sometimes Godzilla is a person in a suit, sometimes the son is a person in the suit.

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What kind of place is Tokyo?

Apparently a [concrete] jungle

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#monsterdon Cat behavior

thank fuck the potato's grown enough that they can fit a suit actor into a suit now

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

C'mon girl, don't fall for the first parachute reporter you see...

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Yes, let's all shack up with her

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I heard they stitched some orphan child into the 'Son of Godzilla' suit and never let them out of it.

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Wait is the giant mantis actually called GIMANTIS!? #Monsterdon

I just had an image of the Jerry Springer show with Minilla and Godzilla on one of those "Are you the Father‽" episodes
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I’m a boy. I just like wearing girl clothes.

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

"Why don't we move everything into her cave"

Why don't we ask her first?

Oh dear, the Consent issues....

#monsterdon

i liked when baby took the godzilla train like a dang possum

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dangit everyone on my timeline is being very funny about stuff I"m not going to see for another half an hour

but I'd have missed all the funny earlier too

the right solution would have been to start cooking dinner BEFORE #monsterdon I guess but that'd have required actual planning

Those lads should save the bullets for each rather than the mantis.

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To me the presence of an egg implies the participation of a female parent but we never get this explained explicitly #monsterdon

"You can talk!"

Dude's honestly shocked a woman's speaking to him. #MONSTERDON

This island has big 'Man vs Godzilla' vibes for this Ricko lady, hope she holds onto the knife

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Me: Please tell me this movie is all some kid's dream while he's passed out at cram school.

Housemate: .....no, that's....the next one.

Me: Dammit!

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