OMG, this dialog!

“Compared to suckers on a tentacle, claws are nothing, Mr. Turner. Nothing.” #Monsterdon

This #Monsterdon is a movie that should be heard and not seen

I mean, I guess it’s better than dialog, right?

#MusicalInterlude #Monsterdon

low key if they pull off this scene it could be incredible they have actually set something up for the first time here #monsterdon

Soemthin pissed-off this octopus

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Ah yes, the ceremonial carrying of the surfboards while we pay homage to Uncle Sam. Well done, Italians. You truly understand the USA.

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#monsterdon yall the race is one the 21! That's only a few days away!

Wait that shot to start the race was a still image. Was the take so bad and they didn't do another one that they had to use a still image?!

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Diving in long linen trousers, expert level

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#monsterdon They should've put an Octopus or god in here.

"I went past legal limits"
"Why?"
"It seemed a good idea at the time"
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"Why me, Sheriff?" "Because you're perfect." "Oh yeah, right."

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This yacht race is a little dinghy #Monsterdon #tentacles

We need Captain Quint. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon one of the extras is wearing a cowboy hat, just waiting for instruction from shelley winters' hat #monsterdon

#monsterdon What is with this MUSIC

Did they even let the composer read the script, or was it just "write some octopus music, you have six days"?

Did they let the composer read the movie *title*??

This yacht race music is like the end credits music for a 70s sitcom about a suburban family trying to hide a giant talking octopus in their basement from the neighbors. And the octopus is a sassy stand-up comedian.

@ColesStreetPothole nah I think you got it

There was also a giant hat and the octopus's harpsichord theme

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Why are a bunch of the sails marked with "laser" huh #monsterdon

@moira this is lethargic budget Alpert. real Alpert is quite a bit better #Monsterdon

THIS is what Jaws was missing! A regatta with cheery music

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I prefer sunfish to be honest, they are simpler
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Everybody counterweighting their boats, that octopus is gonna learn to eat ass real quick. #monsterdon #tentacles

"Yep, we just untie the cleat rope aaaaaand let 'em go. Wave bye bye to aaaaall my problems! Bye boys~!" #Monsterdon

Please, don't let those kids deliver any more lines, okay? #monsterdon

Poor Shelley Winters isn't drunk enough for this awful comedy act

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This is two scenes of just music while people are near boats. The first was kind of atmospheric, this one sounds like game show music.

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I'm unfamiliar with boating. Are we sure these sailboats qualify as yachts? This is the yacht race, right?

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I bet Tentacles is killing people to make the upbeat music stop.
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#monsterdon I like this large group of extras just vibing by the ocean at night

also this is like, some kinda "all is happy and carefree AT THE MALL" music #monsterdon

All of the music in this movie is a lot. Look at all these kids getting ready for what we've established to be a tragic yacht race! Get the horn section going!

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It's a race alright, a race to see how many kids the octopus can snatch off boats to plant in it's garden.

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The fishing season has been bad this year, so will be making a few sacrifices to the octopus good. #Monsterdon

the soundtrack of this movie is another kind of horror allright
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didn’t realize watching two unhinged bud spencer movies would prepare me so well for this week’s #monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON

🐙 TENTACLES TRIVIA TROVE 💎

Almost appeared in #Tentacles:

John Houseman
Yul Brynner
John Wayne (Deemed about to die by the director. He in fact did die soon after the movie.)

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what's going on tho?

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That brass section is really getting into it, now. #Monsterdon

forgot it’s the 70’s we’re all supposed to be really high #Monsterdon

wait what
all that long ass crowd scene just to show sad man smoking a durry
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47 years and 2 days ago.

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BOATS!

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Sorry if I get too far ahead of y'all, I'm hitting that +30 seconds button with abandon at this point #monsterdon #tubitv

Oh laws the tube socks. I can FEEL those.

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WHY THE LONG HOLD ON THE SHOTGUN? #monsterdon #tentacles

someone spent way too much time listening to herb alpert and the tijuana brass

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Am I hearing a whale flute

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The Mastodon comments to this movie are so much better than the dialogue.
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So let me guess, in the climactic scene the sailboat flips over and Shelley Winters has to climb up through it to get rescued? #Monsterdon

@Crazypedia To be fair I do not thing the giant octopus kaiju had a vote in creating those regulations

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@blogdiva Each one an individual. #Monsterdon

Our reporter shouting into the phone while hanging up is fantastic #Monsterdon #Tentacles

And now, a big Musical Number Montage!

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@Louisa i thought she was at least going to tell him to stop goofing off but she started screaming instead #Monsterdon

IS IT A SQUID OR AN OCTOPUS, PEOPLE? #monsterdon #tentacles

These montages are a little much

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Let's all port boats in this parade! That's FUN!

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Look at this tragic scene, feel the pain and suffering. Got it? Good, Party Time!!! WOOOOOOOO
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The Trojan Tunnel is gonna f*ck us all up in it? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon “I just felt it would be a good ideal to push the legal limit. Save time and money.” Ahh. The Massey Energy School (heh) of Corporate Safety.

WE'VE GOT TO CLOSE THE BEACHES! #Monsterdon

Did anyone do the "who's a good buoy" joke yet? #Monsterdon

literally what does "compared to suckers on a tentacle, claws on a tiger are nothing.... nothing..." mean and why does this guy know that #monsterdon

We got a pool going for the next victim of the giant octopus, $5 a shot. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon we had to pause and just got to the rescue of the boat of 3 and thus watery attack and the pretty didn't want to go have fuun lady is having to swim to the warning buoy and the boat wreck. woah. will she survive? will it matter to the plot?

All teenagers in the 1970s were thirty-something.

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oh, another non-sensical accent. #monsterdon #tentacles

fonda, christ. this doesn't even qualify as phoning it in. it's like this was test footage for blocking and they decided "eh, it'll do" and used it instead.

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What's up with monster movies and parades? We keep getting movies that splice footage from Pasadena Days '74 in, and it's always weird. #Monsterdon

Just tuning into #Tentacles for #Monsterdon and has the whole movie been a cheesy theme music montage, or did I just show up at the wrong . . . ahem . . . right time?

@davesdogmaggie unidentified floating octopi?

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#monsterdon Godamn she's fucked.

I wish the feet sticking out of the water was as creepy for me as it seemed to be for most people, but I was 100% sure it was that horny creep who winked at the bikini girl and slapped her husband's(?) belly just fucking around so she'd think he was dead

But he was dead

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Did David Lynch consult on the musical soundtrack here? #monsterdon

awwww do we HAVE to go back to having dialogue? #monsterdon

I didn't understand, why are all these people just standing around sadly on the shore? Who are they? What are they expecting to see?

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Nice 70s lounge lizard shirt on the slimy scientist guy. #Monsterdon

@cargot_robbie maybe those splashy waves were REALLY big? #monsterdon

Are we sure Peter Fonda is actually an actor?

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whoah, this is definitely fiction. the CEO takes responsibility. #monsterdon

That's North Island navy base in the background
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AUGUST 21st is SOON!

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#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 after a scene where the evil business guy yells at his henchman to keep doing the unethical science experimenting harder, we cut to a pre-yacht race party set to cheerful music, where the Big Hat Lady, her child, her child's friend, and some other people are all assembling tiny boats in the water, set to Extremely Upbeat Music.

#Monsterdon really living for the number for people still openly confounded by Wickerman a week later

Oh good, there's a tiny inflatable boat labelled "RESCUE", that's certainly not a Chekov's gun at all #monsterdon

pretty weak turnout for a parade

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@Taweret it's like none of the dialogue matters or is connected to anything #Monsterdon

#monsterdon daaaang look at all those bellbottom jeans

okay, this scene is also unnecessarily long, but at least it's kind of fun to watch. the whole Mysterious Cult Ritual By The Sea Side thing was just creepy. #monsterdon

Henry Fonda: enforcer of the capitalism.

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So only the actors who have won Oscars are left.

"the normal tests! regular experiments!" #monsterdon

my brain resists following these dialogue scenes

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#Monsterdon Ok, lovely one-shot panning take to actors who actually look distressed by the tragedy.

@ramsey @diazona It seems odd that it was *that* movie with all the nudity and not this one #monsterdon

@Taweret wait just one musical number first!#Monsterdon

So glad to see that there's regulations in place to
*check notes*
prevent giant octopus Kaiju from attacking the city?

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#monsterdon lol she's fell in the water.

This waiting for the UFOs scene is really exciting. #Monsterdon

So now we are all just chilling by the ocean at night to this mellow mood music what is happening I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING #Monsterdon