remember how last weeks movie had interesting stuff going on?

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Wait so all the adults are just sitting there watching the guy tell jokes instead of their kids out racing? #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie It's an octopus. Houston just flubbed his line. Either that or they made major script changes after they filmed that scene. #monsterdon #Tentacles

And the movie's having seizures #monsterdon

#Monsterdon they just got stock footage of a sailing event for that kiddo race right?

Did the coast guard open fire on the boat race? Is that what's happening now?

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putting shelley winters in a sailor's cap now because the producer threatened to call the mafia on the costume department after the last hat #monsterdon

@diazona Chekov's walkie talkie #Monsterdon

We have entered the primitive Powerpoint presentation segment of the movie.
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Brave choice for the director to put a weak stand-up routine over a slide show of doomed kids.

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#monsterdon oh thats fun, weird auntee has a sailor outfit

#Monsterdon Who is this guy? He is not funny. It's like an alien who's been watching Earth trying to do stand-up.

@vansice pretty sure it’s a spaghetti horror movie. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Is this supposed to be a comedy routine? Does the octopus eat clownfish?

Why do these kids all suck as sailors? Or is this the speed-octopus knocking them down?

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I thought Tommy and Joey or whatever their names were, were supposed to be in the same boat. #Monsterdon #tentacles

What this movie needs now is a bathroom stall leading to a sub-basement laboratory

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This is the worst production of Shakespeare in the Park I've ever seen!

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@CactuarJoe i thought shelly winters was telling the sweepstakes anecdote through her walkie talkie #Monsterdon

Is this film trying to make a statement with the back and forth contrast between the laughing oblivious people and the dying people?

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Can we get a single punch line? #Monsterdon

The US Coast Guard ran out of bull-horns apparently

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Lol did this just become a slide show for a second or am I losing my mind

I MUST KNOW the end of this Scottish joke

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And make sure to see me Saturday night at the Comedy Shack! #Monsterdon

[accidentally shoots off own rotor]

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Oh like the chalkboard will help. 🙄

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The sound in my head when the I see the octopus running on the surface:

"VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMM"

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#monsterdon "Yacht Race (Love Theme from TENTACLES)"

They didn’t even write an end to the rambling Scotsman joke!?

At the same time the movie broke down into stills?

What’s happening?

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Boating INTENSIFIES

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“But you fuck one sheep…”

How Scottish jokes always end.

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listen we spent a lot of money on this helicopter tour, really talk it up

john williams will carry this movie, I'm told not to worry

This music makes me think Magnum and T.C. are gonna swoop in with their helicopter.

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the still frames totally work imo #monsterdon

This montage- such festive destruction!

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Are these freeze frames while the guy is telling a Scotsman joke supposed to create tension? #Monsterdon

The infamous Scots man joke from Tentacles.
Um movie did you run out of budget for photography or actors?
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Oh my god this movie is so low budget they've reached the point of using still frames to pad it out

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This joke about the Scotsman #monsterdon

They're racing to a Moody Blues tune #monsterdon

LMAO i thought my stream was buffering with that sequence of stills

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hate when I have to send out an emergency coast guard order to suspend the junior regatta #monsterdon

hate when I have to send out an emergency coast guard order to suspend the junior regatta #monsterdon

mayor of the town shows up wearing an anchor patterned blazer, tells them they can't cancel the yacht race #monsterdon

legitimately good scene out of nowhere #monsterdon

Oh that bright red beacon is bad news when you're trying to hide from a homicidal cephalopod

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#Monsterdon and now fun parade and kiddo boat race prep montage ... the tone of this movie is all over.

What's going on? What's wrong?

Well, you know All those mysterious deaths in the ocean? Well we just realized that MORE deaths might happen!!

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The director just gave up. That thud was the door closing after him as he leaves. #Monsterdon

... wat #monsterdon

Did this just turn into a slide show?
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Coming in hot!

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#Monsterdon Oh. It’s the kind of itty-bitty sailboard thing that makes you lean way out over the water.

The writers wanted something without the delicate subtleties of Jaws, I see.

@brooke That means the harvest will be GREAT this year, right?

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Ah, this brings back fond memories of sailing a Laser. 😎

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I like how this editing makes it look like Shelley's radioing the "funny story" to her kid

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ma'am, jamie is actually steering a boat right now and can't answer your dumb questions. #monsterdon

Wonder why they didn't dub over this actress's Italian accent the way they were doing the others #monsterdon

oh gods brace yourself the director is trying to get arty

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All the racers with their butts hanging off their boats like this... no.

Wait what is the joke overdubbed?

I am so lost.

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notice: the helicopter is radio dispatched, but the octopus cannot FLY. we think. #monsterdon

Smorgasbord #monsterdon

#monsterdon oh shit, guys, it's time for the yacht race! it's the yacht race we've all been waiting for!!! thank god, the yacht race is finally here!!!

Harpsichord!

And the octopus takes a commanding lead in the yacht race

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#monsterdon Guests will stay at the lovely Solana Beach resort and receive a complimentary tour in one of our Solana Beach Tentacle Death Boats! /Cheerful game show music blasts on

Brooding, marine biologist just doesn’t work. #Monsterdon

@sean It's Sir BedAvere explaining how the earth is bawnawnaw shaped, all over again! #Monsterdon

And now we have the inspirational music, so we know Tentacles is going to feed.
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And I was completely unprepared for the extremely jaunty turn to regatta party day. This film is utterly confounding my sense of story beats. #monsterdon

the music makes it seem like something is going on but idk what

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aw yeah DISCO HARPSICHORD, GO! #monsterdon

swinging off the side of a tiny boat like that looks like so much fun if thats what rich people are up to when they go on boats i want in on that #monsterdon

That wasn't even a funny story... What.. why... Don't drink and edit film, folks

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We put top men on the job #Monsterdon

Oh laws almost 35 more minutes of this "movie"? I need... I am not sure what I need. Damn.

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@sean they're like the sanity clause in your contract #monsterdon

wait why did we jump immediately to destroying the octopus #monsterdon

Boat race jazz!!

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Is it a giant octopus or a giant squid god dammit? #Monsterdon

Turner just called it a “giant squid.” Was that on purpose, or was it a mistake?

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#monsterdon nice belt henry fonda, did shelley winters pick it out for you #monsterdon

Octopuses are normally shy girls. But this gal is out for blood.
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"ah only got one thought on mah mind"

"What accent you're going to use next?"

"what accent I'm gonna use next."

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Strangely, hers is the only dialogue in the movie that isn't dubbed.

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ooh, plot point collision #monsterdon

@sean It is pretty good outside of the movie. I hope they don’t chop up the regatta music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90STAvJZbvY #monsterdon #tentacles

Octopus John. Giant Octopus! Not Squid... ahhhh fuck it.. print it. #monsterdon #Tentacles

I'm sure those Radio Shack walkie talkies will work great on the open ocean. #Monsterdon

HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE AREA!

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Wait this is from the 70s were there already commercial lasers then??? what #monsterdon

edit: apparently yes, first commercial lasers were already in the 60s. TIL

John Huston and Shelley Winter? How did I never hear about this movie? I went to the movies in 1977.
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microphones are a thing many filmmakers employ

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I’m at a complete loss. We’ve got a long scene of straight vibes of people just at the shore in the middle of the night. And boats in the background. Very strange contrast to the last sequence which involved octomurder and chaos. #monsterdon

um, did this movie just go power point presentation for a minute or is my copy just bad??? #monsterdon

I don’t like the cut of their jibs. #Monsterdon #tentacles

#Monsterdon And now a really jolly bit of disco-ish music to herald the yacht - sorry, sailboat- race.

These boats look like Sunfish if my mind's not playing tricks on me #monsterdon

AND JUST KEEP LOOPING THE SOUNDTRACK. #monsterdon #tentacles

it's an octopus and IT'S PISSED #monsterdon

It's cheaper to produce if you replace all the motion shots with stills, I guess. #monsterdon #tentacles