It's well known that sailboats play dead when they're intimidated. Don't worry. They'll pop back up when they feel safe.

#Monsterdon

Me being a chaos gremlin on #Monsterdon even though I’m not watching tonight

you think this guy has a comedy central special? #monsterdon

The crowd was so enraptured by the horrible jokes, they failed to see the devastation happening right behind them. #Monsterdon

Should have bought them a waterproof walk-in talkie Mom #Monsterdon #tentacles

Mwahaha! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Spouse, of overturned sailboats: “It’s like a fucking naval battle. Posidon’s Slight Inconvenience.”

The bigger question is, can she actually tell Tommy apart from all the other tan blonde whiteboys? #Monsterdon

Okay kids, I'm gonna need you to make an expression like you're scared of an octopus for like, ten seconds, and then clumsily fall off of the boat #monsterdon

I think we're meant to believe that the stand up comic was SO mesmerising that the entire audience stayed captivated watching him and didn't see any of the boats getting sunk.

#monsterdon

That octopus did what the whole of the German fleet could not. #Monsterdon

THEY'RE SAVED!!!!

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

All these kids in tiny boats. It’s like Mike and Ikes for a giant cephalopod #Monsterdon #tentacles

@arrjay didn't stop the sharks in Deep Blue Sea from taking out a chopper. I think The Meg took one too.

#Monsterdon

There must be quite an engine on that octopus, at least 2hp #monsterdon

#Monsterdon
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@ricci Fair point 👍 #TeamOctopus

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#monsterdon I'm trying to piece together the plot throughout this boring movie.

@sean "ground control to skipper Tom" #Monsterdon

I’m guessing this did not benefit Laser sailboat sales.
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Just shrugged off all those deaths- "they just pay me to drive"

#monsterdon

Spoilers: In the end, the octopus is saving all the fish and people from harm, by placing them face first on the sea-floor in suspended animation. He only wants to help.

#monsterdon #tentacles

For crying out loud lady, they're out of range of your cheap radios. That's why nobody else is using them.

#monsterdon

Choices were made. Starting gun freeze frame!
#Monsterdon #Tentacles

RIP those kids. But if I was in a sail boat racing an octopus I would simply not be dragged to my watery death. Guess I'm just built different.
#Monsterdon #Tentacles

#Monsterdon In a better movie, all this screaming back and forth on radios - which we know angers Mr. Octopus - would be some nice tragic irony.

But here we are.

The tension is pulpo-ble. #Monsterdon
I have reached peak pun.

#monsterdon oh I'm finally at the La Jette homage, catching up to everyone else's jokes

tubi put a commercial break between the two syllables of the word "Tommy"

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It's like... it's like... the director tried to do a thing that can be done _really well_, but _completely_ failed to understand the narrative purpose of what they're trying to do, by juxtaposing nothing of any symbolic meaning against the regatta slaughter so it makes absolutely no sense

#monsterdon #Tentacles

i was like this is the most tasteful mass octopus eating i have ever seen bravo but no we are back in plot mush land where nothing is happening #monsterdon

@cheribaker Or motorboating? #StraightUpRedCard #Monsterdon

The laser(?) getting pulled down was cool at least.

#monsterdon #tentacles

#monsterdon Also uncle Sam has the worst fucking joke ever.

Oof, octopus is a litterbug. #Monsterdon

@bk1e I thought I was glitching there for a second #monsterdon #tentacles

kid's covering his face coz he no longer wishes to be seen in this movie. #monsterdon

"Imagine the thing that just happened that we didn't show you" is not good film making. #monsterdon #Tentacles

Harpsichord!

#MonsterCam !

The Big Boat Race!

ATTAC!

This is supposed to be the good part right? It is at least suspence adjacent. Not bad #Monsterdon !

DAYUM. Tentacles made fast work of ALL the sailboats.
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This could have been a few seconds or 10 minutes, I do not know anymore. My mind is mush
#monsterdon

OMG, octopus, just attack already! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon oh no, don't eat another billy

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"You sure there wasn't anybody else?"
"DON'T YOU SAY A FUCKIN' WORD, WE CAN'T AFFORD SCALE TO GIVE YOU A FUCKIN' LINE"

#monsterdon #tentacles

@Taweret how's there still 30 minutes to go!?

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@floatybirb I think they made it on a Casio keyboard. #Monsterdon

this movie has finally made me realize what if it was harps ichor’d #monsterdon

I do wonder if the soundtrack is available anywhere #monsterdon

The age of streaming has warped my brain enough that I’m parsing these half-second stills as buffering problems. #monsterdon

Ha ha ha, the octopus has a driver-side camera mounted! It's collecting footage for the Mythbusters! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon the wild giant octopus uses Bafflingly Upbeat Harpsichord Music

It's super effective!

#monsterdon the gunshot at the beginning of the race broke the video for a few seconds lmao

@ricci It's something-worthy...

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"...as the octopus, what's my motivation?"
"It's not that kind of movie, kid."

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

The octopus *is* killing people, right? Not just cruising around tipping boats and playing its harpsichord?

#monsterdon #tentacles

oh wait everyone made it? i thought the octopus ate the whole rigatta.... NEVERMIND I THOUGHT THEY DID SOMETHING GOOD #monsterdon

#Monsterdon no one alive has even seen the monster at this point right?? like how do they even know what to kill?

sailboat regatta destroyed by helicopter, no one bothers to watch #monsterdon

And they're all swamping their sailboats, um, why?

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

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🚨 #MONSTERDON LOOKOUT 👀

See if you can find Shelley Winters or John Huston after the 1:15 point in the film.

No one else can. 🤷‍♂️

#Tentacles1977 #Tentacles

@Taweret It's pretty tough sledding #monsterdon

The tension sure is building. Wow, does someone know how to work an editing deck (and a harpsichord).

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so confused. what is happening? #Monsterdon

This skillful juxtaposition of things not happening with the insinuation that things might be happening is oscar-worthy.

#Monsterdon

Oh please, let all these children be eaten.
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Director: and please this time less weird butt footage

Cameraman, pointing the camera at the nearest butt: got it

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I hate this “music .” #Monsterdon

Ma'am, I genuinely am sorry the director thought your moment of nose picking should be immortalized in film. -_- #Monsterdon

Shelley is the prototype helicopter mom. #Monsterdon

Ok, they are in the same boat. #Monsterdon #tentacles

#Monsterdon MR OCTOPUS THINKS YOUR BIG FINBOATS ARE OFFENDING HIS SENSE OF AESTHETICS.

I’m actually digging this boating music. #Monsterdon

"Jaimie, what's going on? Answer your mother."

"Mom, I'm trying to sail a fucking boat here! I don't have a spare hand to talk to you, too"

#monsterdon

@Taweret Such a great movie
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What is happening #monsterdon

I wonder if the freeze frames were in the original movie or used to fill in gaps & damage when transferring to HD.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

I'm loving all these vintage cars in the parking lot

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@floatybirb the boat race scene is a low point in this movie. And that is saying a lot. #Monsterdon

What is this chaos??? I sailed as a kid and never once saw this many kids capsized all at once in a regatta... #monsterdon

lol @ loser mom in the Octopus lottery

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Freeze frame!

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

in the 1970’s they didn’t have a tight 5 they had a loose 20 #monsterdon

Is that Octopus... speedboating? hahahaaaa

#Monsterdon

Okay, scuba diving really IS safer....

#Monsterdon

why the still images tho?

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#monsterdon honestly i bet this lady just had all these outfits ready to go, she has that vibe

okay, if the octopus attack scene had made any sense at all, the fallen boats would be creepy, but instead we got whatever that was. #monsterdon

@Taweret we could use some corn rigs around now, or even barley rigs 😢

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@Louisa They told us to stop those kids. They didn't specify how.

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@WhiskeySailor Heard this in the same voice I hear for Sergeant Colon. I appreciate you. #monsterdon #tentacles

RIDE, DISCO OCTOPUS! #monsterdon

there certainly are some interesting cinematographic notions in this film, like the random freeze-frame photo flashback things or whatever the hell they are #monsterdon

The music is making me root for the octopus. You get 'em! I believe in you! #Monsterdon

i'm sort of in awe, that was actually such an amazing use of sound and confusion and all the parts of it came together in a satisfying way, way out of the rest of this movies league #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe That's what you get for paying attention

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BONUS SEVENTIES MUSTACHE in the clapping crowd on the lawn!

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

@CactuarJoe The Octopus will be directing it’s own scenes today #Monsterdon

I am so very confused by this comedy act #monsterdon

Here we go

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@forestine It's legit impossible to tell one way or the other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Monsterdon