@Taweret K IS FOR KAIJU. THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. #monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

Godzilla doesn't look well #monsterdon

right into the Godzilla with this one #monsterdon

he's going upstream to spawn. #monsterdon

late showa era godzilla kinda looks like cookie monster

#monsterdon

Toy plane! Toy Plane! #monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

launching a #monsterdon thread for #SonOfGodzilla, in which... we get a smaller Godzilla, I guess.

not sure how much I will post this time, but if you don't care about Godzillas, you might want to mute this thread

i'm just finishing it now, but why they were rowing the boat in circles?
#monsterdon

@jonny That whole interview is, itself, like a Godzilla film. It is awful. The questions are dumb. He answers questions with dead end answers that go nowhere. And yet, like a Godzilla film, I keep reading it! #monsterdon

Hello followers! This week's #Monsterdon just ended (it was painful), and you're about to scroll into a big chunk of live posts about #SonofGodzilla. You can mute/filter out the #Monsterdon tag if you don't want to see it.

The chunk of live posts, that is. You might still want to watch the movie. I can't recommend it*, but out of a desire for shared suffering, I won't _not_ recommend it, either.

*Unless you like giant bugs. 10/10 on the giant bugs

ok movie's over, that was the movie of all time etc etc #monsterdon

good thing Goro is such a Godzilla expert #monsterdon

Well, that was the stupidest monster movie I've seen since the last time I watched it.

#monsterdon

what is this, snow made of Ice-9?! #monsterdon

Wait, did I miss something, or is humanity now destined to overpopulate and run out of food because Godzilla and friends messed up the experiments? #Monsterdon

@jonny ......I guess it IS magic water. 😩 #monsterdon

@lytta i think it's either parthenogenesis or sexual reproduction where the pool of blood is one of the parents #monsterdon

@jonny godzillas confirmed for asexual creatures that reproduce via parthenogenesis and have for some reason adopted human gender #Monsterdon

@rye @lytta once they destroy the spider at the end (1:21:50 in my copy), you'll probably want to skip ahead to the final scene on the boat (1:24:26). those three minutes really uh change the emotional tone of the movie #monsterdon

@jonny "A boy without a winkie?! gawd be praised!" #WrongBlackadder #Monsterdon

"why was there a baby godzilla?"
"idk but he is definitely a boy because it would be weird if he was a girl"
https://web.archive.org/web/20200224102038/http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/fukuda.htm

#monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @lytta I feel this is related to, #checksnotes #BouncingBolders #Monsterdon

It's terrible! The baby godzilla and the spiga are fighting! Like mom and dad used to! #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @apLundell Is this like how the military gives things wacky codenames? Seems too multilayered a gag for this kind of movie.

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@lytta The way she was slinging them coconuts though #monsterdon

@apLundell I guess "cryo" got mangled in the process #monsterdon

@brooke agreed, the mantises and spider were both quite good, as were all the models.

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

@Zerofactorial I don't think babies have the arm strength for that. or the hand-eye coordination, really #monsterdon

@lytta It is to be hoped so, in order that she didn't bury her dead mother naked. That's a scene no one's putting in one of these films #monsterdon

Did #monsterdon with the kiddos and they loved it. This is such a cool thing.

Only one thing's certain: no agonizing whether to vote for this one on next week's #monsterdonalert ballot #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial ...I mean. I'm sure her mom had at least one outfit. AT LEAST one #monsterdon

@lytta And where she got that sarong #monsterdon

🦖 Son of #Monsterdon
Good Night 🦖

Thank you @Taweret for the hosting of this ridiculous experiment

and thanks to @cheribaker for the Bingo Card. My favorite "Stomp Attack"

and thanks to @randy_s for the Recommended Cocktail. Enough alcohol to keep Baby 'Zilla warm in the snow.

and also to
the Real Time Film Analysis Squad. There was approximately 74% more analysis than was really necessary for this particular movie.

@CactuarJoe And don't get him started on that whole "Mothra" thing. #monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

@brooke Frozen vegetables preserve nutrients obvs #monsterdon

Seriously, if someone had arranged to bring Mothra on board, some sense would be slapped into some characters hear for sure #monsterdon

Ok but: how would this movie have been different without the horrible baby Godzilla

Godzilla still could have fought all those bugs, they attacked him anyway

Maybe he was drawn to the island by the experiment, so he could fuck it up, that would've been perfectly valid

#Monsterdon

so Reiko thought the red shirt was only for girls, and that's why she stole it from Goro

and seeing her wear it?

Yeah, it definitely fits her better.

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe I think Toho had some very ~interesting~ ideas about what girls would find cute.

#Monsterdon

"Don't worry, tomorrow I'll get you some *good* medicine, from the *other* magic lake. Not the crap I just brought you today."

#monsterdon

The moral of the story is that being a father is a serious job so a guy shouldn't just lay around passed out most of the time. Bad father! #monsterdon #fathersdaylessons

#monsterdon I watch annnnnd Observe.

Anyway, congrats to me for making it all the way through a movie with a giant spider in it.

#Monsterdon

Who are those two naval Westerners in the last shot? What? #monsterdon

okay baby I just threatened to physically abuse you, then stomped on your tail to trick you into using your atomic breath, now I"m just gonna go take a nap, don't try to kill me while I sleep

#monsterdon

Good thing they found a warm coat for Saeko too #monsterdon

@forestine@sunny.garden An abomination. I'm convinced it was saying "Ed...ward..." as a time-bending reference to Nina Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist.

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

oh god did Godzilla really just do a "You want to cry? I'll give you something to cry about!"

#monsterdon

Haven't seen this one before and had fun watching it with you all
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@strangefour To be fair, he did take a spider stinger to the face #monsterdon

um wat

I guess having missed about half the movie because of video file corruption just wouldn't matter, in classic #Monsterdon fashion. This was some real nonsense.

Thanks for hosting as always @Taweret

Toho wanted to create a baby Godzilla to appeal to the "date crowd" (a genre of films that were very popular among young couples during this time period), with the idea that girls would like a "cute" baby monster.[12]

So, girls, what did you think? #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Like a satisfying "pop" from the body.

#Monsterdon

@Telstar @Taweret Thanks, Taweret and fellow Monsterdonnies #monsterdon

Babyzilla sounds like a dying Taun-Taun

#Monsterdon

Well. Now I've seen the whole.. um.. story? Was there a story in that one? At any rate rubber suits and giant bugs for the win. Thanks @Taweret for hosting! #monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

That was sure something! Thanks, all! #Monsterdon

(Really hoping the Professor wasn't fooling around with Ice Nine.)

I may be an easy mark, because the monsters hugging in the snow got me.

It helped that with Godzilla holding him I couldn’t see that Mac And Me ass suit.

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

until the very end I kept generously thinking 'hey this movie is decently entertaining if you're just killing time with the tv on' 💀 #monsterdon

And so we leave the film with more questions than answers. Was the girl from the island? Are Godzilla and Minilla freezing to death? Why freeze frame on the one shot that makes Godzilla look like he just had a stroke? #Monsterdon

The last frame should be the Roman centurion saying "Truly, that was the Son of Godzilla" #monsterdon

Well, that sure happened alright! Another #Monsterdon in the books - thanks @Taweret and everyone!

I wonder if that final thought about godzilla surviving and being "all right" was in the original script.

It feels like something they tacked on at the last minute. #monsterdon

And as Godzilla and his sweet vulnerable child slowly die of exposure in a vast human-made snowfield, we fuck STRAIGHT off into the sea.

Good night, and Godzilla bless. <3 #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:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

The best thing about watching Son of Godzilla for #monsterdon is that I know it won't come up again. That was... not much.

Snow's over, folks! #monsterdon

Darn. With commercials. It's way behind by now.

#monsterdon

Wait, was that a happy ending or a sad ending?

#Monsterdon

what most people don't know is that was a Snowpiercer prequel #Monsterdon

Everyone's got a high fever all at once. They really shouldn't have made Goro the cook.

#monsterdon

"Once the snow melts"?! How do you know? You're not even the scientist here!

#Monsterdon

Snow covered Godzilla is also a neat visual. That would return decades later. In a train fetish anime?
https://shinkalion.fandom.com/wiki/Snow_Godzilla
#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

Thank you Son of Godzilla, you were short, but pointless. #Monsterdon

...so the next godzilla movie after this is totally justified revenge, right? #monsterdon

I feel like snow won't last long, I mean how much of the plant did they just freeze?
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon How the hell does he know they’ll hibernate??

Hooray! We ruined the planet's climate, that means we'll all be promoted! #monsterdon

This has big "Don't worry kids, Duke will be okay!" energy. #monsterdon

Keep zooming out, and the island is actually inside a snow globe.

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

and then the happy triumphant movie as they zoom out on them freezing to death, what in the world is going on #monsterdon

I don't care what the photographer and scientists say, that was a fucking depressing ending

#monsterdon

Physics has nothing to do with this movie.

#monsterdon

"They'll go to sleep until the snow's gone."

Yeah, don't worry about the frostbite. Or the cryogenic trauma. Or the fact that they're almost certain to remember that it was US who fucked them over in their hour of need.

...So, lunch? #Monsterdon

Miniature submarine! #Monsterdon

the first time the music actually gets serious is when the godzillas are dying and allegedly hibernating in the snow which is how you know it is actually not hibernating #monsterdon

"They'll go to sleep until the snow is gone! And then Nick Fury will invite them to join the Kaiju Avengers!"

#Monsterdon

You guys have heat-ray breath. And you’re just going to let the baby freeze to death?

Get to the sangria pool quick!

#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

As someone from Minnesota, I too want to lay down in the snow and wait for the end to come. #monsterdon

please say real godzilla is showing up

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

Snow covered palm trees is a really cool visual.
#Monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

That is great acting by that ninja turtle thing.
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*watching Minilla struggle in the snow* Humans. It is you who have done this to them. It is US. We are the real monsters. #monsterdon

🎵 in the aaaarms ooooof the angeeeeels #Monsterdon

@lytta this is the worst i hate it i hate it WHY did they do this #monsterdon

If we don't start working on our sexy Santa Baby choreography we'll never be ready in time for the pageant!!!!!!

#Monsterdon

Wait. The movie is on a local TV channel?

That's a cute toy they're allegedly riding in.

#monsterdon

@jonny Jack gets cold. #wrongMovie #monsterdon

I feel this silk weapon is weirdly overpowered vs radioactive breath #monsterdon