When Ferret meets Arcane will they develop an obscure taxonomy?

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You'd think she'd be using code, like "Boss, the cat got one of the steaks. I think there's still a few side dishes out there."

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Hitting it one way won't work. You have to hit it another way!
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Lol at the tire screeching sound IN THE JUNGLE #monsterdon #TheSwampThing

@gblues I thought she could just karate chop it. #monsterdon

or maybe like me, they can't be bothered to
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Jude is the best character in this entire movie.

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that is such a wide car

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"that was quick.

Too quick."

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She has spare change in her pocket for the phone? #Monsterdon

Cars making U-turns is so tense.
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Whoa wierd car maneuvering music, but okay. #Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

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frantic phone call from gov't scientist to her office, gets an operator.

"Give me my next immediate superior!"

Wouldn't you know that person's name? Why does the operator know who you are and who your next immediate superior is? Why 'next immediate'?

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they WANTED to turn the limo directly around in the road.

WANTED TO.

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She has change for the phone booth?

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Someone tell the bad guy Sally Jesse Raphael wants her glasses back.

You know this guy is serious 'cause he has a phone in his car.

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"...turn around!"
"You mean make a fifteen point turn around? Told you this giant car was a terrible idea."

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Will coke boy will survive this?
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My god, she made through that with the dime. #Monsterdon #PayPhones

@springdiesel

Their budget was a little short for the heavies.

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i am fully at Level What on understanding what's going on with swamp limo #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #SwampThing i love how it's clearly a pain in the ass to turn that limo around

#monsterdon Is this the part where the phone booth gets swarmed with leeches?

"I got the last notebook" DOH! #Monsterdon #SwampThing

lol, quite hard to do a 3 point turn in hurry with that car

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“There must be another. A seventh notebook!” #Monsterdon

"Did you manage to save anything?"

"Damn right, I got the entire office stock of gum! Cinnamon AND spearmint! Want some?"

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So we have established that Swamp Thing is not a vegetable

Good job henchmen, great deductions there

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oh she is calling for an exit

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@diazona I imagine they were just lazing on the bottom when some guy shoved Adrienne Barbeau right into them, and you know #monsterdon

So, it looks like Adrienne Barbeau has nipples, just as I suspected. Just as everyone else has nipples. She's just like everyone.

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Oh! rambo people are the evil mask off guy's staff.
I STILL don't understand what their motivation is.
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"it ain't much but we can fix your car"

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This swamp has everything. Mansion, pay phone, gas station. #Monsterdon

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Were those bats? Lots of bats? In the swamp?

I miss the days when public urinals had phones in them.

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Introducing the best character in the film... now!

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Those glasses. Fashion always comes around in cycles. #Monsterdon

She has change for a phone call.. amazing!
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#monsterdon Swamp booth ... now if I can only dial the right IQ..

Well okay Swamp Thing wasn't the first plant monster out for revenge in comics. But he was the first one with a long running series at a major publisher that lasted until today right? Right?
The aren't two things from the swamp from the summer of 1971 are there??
There are.
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Sir, there's a monster outside. #monsterdon

Loving the phone booth in the middle of the jungle #monsterdon #TheSwampThing

he's right about the trouble

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@jonny I know, plus it is just missing too many standard functions.

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What is that box she is standing in?

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#monsterdon Swamp Payphone. Brought to you by AT&T... YOU WILL…

“Some kind of animal or something”

Your powers of description are staggering

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Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven had the explodey plantimal formula in it. #Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

he’s the skinny man’s Oliver Reed

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so this australian/german/french guy has a bunch of attractive women working for him who all apparently spend their time telling him how amazing he is, and instead he's worried about this formula and the seventh notebook. i mean okay, but.

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“he said it was the titular ‘Swamp Thing’?” #monsterdon

#monsterdon Everyone looks harmless with glasses like that on. Clark Kent knew what he was doing.

Ah yes .The real star of the film. Hey Jude. Good to see you. #Monsterdon #SwampThing

These guys supposed to be operatives? In all this mismatched camo? And Faux Rambo?

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#Monsterdon #SwampThing ah finally a phone booth! quick call the operator for an exit

The sound mixing on the Amazon version is a fucking shit show. I need to download a compressor for audio output or something. #monsterdon

I can't decide if this guy wants to work at Fantasy Island or exact revenge on Captain Kirk from these vibes #Monsterdon

So if they had to helicopter in... how did he get his limo in?

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“He said something, about a Thing. In the Swamp, sir” #monsterdon

TYRONE NOOOOOOOOO

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This guy is *moderately* flamboyant, but he needs to be at least a good 75% more flamboyant to deserve to be called "Arcane".

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Bingo! @Cherizilla
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@jsadow incorrect. far too prescriptive. protagonists needing to hunt is far from universal. they are often hunted, ambivalent, or become the antagonists. the only thing that is required after the monster introduction point is that the monster do monster things and everything beyond that is the domain of subgenre #monsterdon

Willie dead #monsterdon

@fabio Ferret is discount Stallone #monsterdon

@cargot_robbie It's the little things

Specifically, the little things being missing that normally lets you know you're really in a #Monsterdon movie, but everything is strange this week I guess

eeeeew clone lady is a butt smoocher
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You know, you are allowed to use the same transition more than once in one movie

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The brightest minds on the planet, and the best they could come up with is "the substance"?

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Who is this notebook guy, and who is the blonde who is fawning over him?

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and here's Not Steve Jobs, preparing to clone THE SWAMP STUFF

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No one seems to care much about Tyrone.

Louis really outacting the script.

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#monsterdon It's lovely not to sleep knowing that I will soon make the substance for myself.. DIALOGUE!!

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I appreciate that the goons are keeping track of the violence for me. The accessibility I never knew to ask for.

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do as the nice clone lady says and sleep you crazed scientist
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Loved the “sasquatch walking in the middle distance” bit. Swamp Thing says “cryptid solidarity”. #monsterdon

fuckin' killed tyrone and didn't even check the body

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@diazona One of the books he found was by Mary Shelley.

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It's swinging Swamp Thinging time!

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You should sleep sir.

I can't. It was all so near. I almost had the lyrics down.

I'm the operator with my pocket... confabulator? Laser razor? Big Gator?

Damn it I am so close!

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A bit of a two stooges moment there. #Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

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Why are these rambos called those things?

RIP, Willie. #monsterdon

the Stupid Swamp Boys are AT IT AGAIN!

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Not Tyrone! #monsterdon #TheSwampThing

Was this film the inspiration for Rambo? minus the swamp of course.
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Own goal! #Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

@jmelesky oh yes of course. i would count foreshadowing as monster introduction, but in those cases you need to take care that the mosnter has enough time to do things and be all cool and stuff before it either destroys everything or is destroyed #monsterdon

Their friendly fire accuracy is amazing. #Monsterdon

Jesus, Danny! #Monsterdon

Shlorp, shlorp, shlorp

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"...come on Danny, not again!"

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@maple Unless you want Ram-bro to win. #monsterdon

I would ditch that Red shirt if I were here.

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@jonny I googled and found this which I don't think Aristotle would have approved of.

https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/gQMgaHxpqFfhK4SLJpL37J/ge24PKYU9aNFcNE6hGVT1a

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I think it's pretty clear at this point that the "Swamp Thing" is not, in fact, the monster in this film...