#Monsterdon poverty and scorn because we spent your college fund on this cool underground lair.

We're building another sub to kill everyone inside. Come along! #monsterdon

Itchy-nosey haha c'mon, for real?

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#monsterdon I will cleverly avoid detection by… having my daughter tell them I’m not home!

@MylesRyden It was a good year for Kool-Aid #monsterdon

"...shoot him!"
"But sir, we're standing in a circle..."

Everyone falls down.

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The aliens have perfected the circular firing squad!

#Monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

Tired: Return to work
Wired: WFH
Galaxy Brain: Cave Office
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The "Ocean Exploitation Institute" -- Is that the same as Chevron?

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Technical illustration of Mechagodzilla #Monsterdon

A jaded academic who accepts funding and support from an explicitly evil organization, just to get the work done

Realistic movie

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WTF you have no right to enter into her house like that

#Monsterdon #Mechgodzilla

I'm half expecting moon maidens with purple hair in this lair (deep cut). #monsterdon

Shinji, get in the Mechagodzilla! #monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

#Tubi hitting us with some of the smarmiest ambulance-chaser lawyer ads evah.

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"dad, a guy from interpol is here to ask you about dinosaurs"

best movie ever

#monsterdon

Space Trotsky and Japanese Colonel Sanders are definitely up to no good.

#monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

MUSTACHE!

#Monsterdon #Mechgodzilla #MonsterdonBingo

Of course it wasn't an explosion. Explosions don't leave claw marks.

#Monsterdon

Lol, translating "senpai" as "old buddy" is a choice

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How come Godzilla movies hate submarines so much? If you see a submarine in a Godzilla movie you can pretty much count on it getting exploded like a hotdog in a microwave. #Monsterdon

Yeah yeah, that's enough SCIENCE, time for giant monsters now #monsterdon

Extra points for forward growing beard.

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i like the 70s fashions but 70s cars have nothing on giant 50s cars

#monsterdon

that dude doesn't have a mustache but his unibrow should count as one

#Monsterdon #Mechgodzilla #MonsterdonBingo

Pretty accurate the Aliens turning to the cranks of Humanity as possible traitors

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"I'd like you to look at this. If you see a UFO, you're a sexual deviant. If you see a lawnmower, you're a hard worker. If you see #godzilla you're obsessive."
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There's a lot happening, and they haven't really started working on the story telling yet.

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tiny grainy photos are excellent proof of aliens, well done folks

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#Monsterdon This recap is like those anime my kids watched with Super sayan or whatever, "More powerful than ever before!"

#monsterdon “Godzilla almost met his match.” Oh. The. Tension. Is. Killing. Me.

Mechagodzilla really doesn't have to go this hard

#Monsterdon #Mechgodzilla #MonsterdonBingo

I am starting to question the accuracy of this documentary.

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Space Titanium! It's like regular Titanium only Spacier! #monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

Confused? You won't be after this episode of Soap

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"It would be in our best interest to collect the head"

uh...

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Classic 'Terminator II' setup, "let's find bits of the robot monster and make another one"

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Special effects by... the fine folks at 'Cardboard,Tinfoil and Rubber Suits, Inc #monsterdon

So is this just recap, or will all this fighting be on the quiz?

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#Monsterdon #TerrorOfMechaGodzilla opens with a TOHO logo, followed by Godzilla, followed by a narrator explaining that Godzilla is probably an ancient god and also likes smashing things.

The narrator goes on to explain that all of man's military might has no effect on Godzilla, and we get a montage of various military hardware (fighter jets, tanks, rocket monsters) trying to stop Godzilla, who is unimpressed and continues to stomp his way through cities.

This is a lot of recap. #monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

Rotating head gimmick

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Starting with a little back story info for those who don’t know the big guy. #monsterdon

So......Godzilla has an evil robot brother?

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Came in with a bang, right down to business
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…and we're away with an opening Godzilla monster scene, and a convincing narrator.

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TOHO-LL THE BELLS #Monsterdon

Previously, on Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. #monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

5..4..3..2..1.. GOGO

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Or the evil of banality.

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I’m going to assume that the cyborg was leaking ATF, not blood, when shot in the arm. So she didn’t die, she just became immobile and floppy when she ran out of hydraulic fluid.

She’s not dead, just experiencing locked in syndrome, basically, until someone tops up her hydraulics and fixes the leaks. And y’all left her in a meadow. To suffer in perpetuity. And from the sounds of her screams when shot, in pain

This is the banality of evil

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@aprilfollies @Seanleblanc just follow the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert for updates and polls deciding the week's movie and #monsterdon for the actual event

@lytta Yes, I don't even quite get why Godzilla felt he *had* to be involved in the action at all (though it's a good thing for Japan that he did) #monsterdon

@Lazarou 💯 agree. #Monsterdon

someday i need to finish this sketch i started almost 10 (!!) years ago now of katsura and her pet monsters. i need to make it clear that the monsters are far away in the background—maybe i'll put some buildings in front of them or something #monsterdon

@moira @ottaross Eegah is the greatest giant caveman rock 'n roll movie ever directed by Arch Hall Sr. #Monsterdon

When I think about this movie in the future I will definitely think of Katsura as having been the star character #monsterdon

i think we've seen at least 20 Ishiro Honda films #monsterdon

@Lazarou @kurth Aw yeah, the ol' Irish Fuck Off Into The Ocean

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@diazona @ottaross Oh Gods, What Have I Done etc

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#Monsterdon Hoo boy. How to grade #TerrorOfMechaGodzilla. Let me count the ways…

Special effects: A, despite being very 70s
Aliens: B+, see me after class
Cyborg girlfriend: B, needed more vengeance and hate.
Dr. “Get me tea” Jerkwad Biologist: F. Who brings a biologist to a mecha fight?
Titanosaurus: A+ believable dinosaur
MechGodzilla: C+, looks like shiny car parts
Godzilla: A+ because Godzilla
Love story between hero & cyborg: F- 🤖+🫀 = 💀
Love story between Titan & Mecha: A+++

@moira @ottaross Giant caveman, huh... that sounds like it qualifies as a monster 🤔

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#terrorofmechagodzilla #Monsterdon Where everyone discovers an unknown kink for shiny metal suits.

And lo, as in the beginning, Godzilla rose out of the ocean and fucked us all up, in the end, Godzilla fucked off into the ocean. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Kaiju to the sea, forever and ever, amen.

Many thanks to everyone for joining in, many thanks to @Taweret for hosting, have a great week, see y'all next Sunday!

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Katsura and plucky reporter Yamamoto are the only female characters in this film and don't meet, as far as I can tell, so FAIL #monsterdon

A big thank you to @Taweret for hosting - Kaiju are always fun.

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@jmelesky criterion bluray had cyborg boobs #monsterdon

That was Awesome!!

Til we see you again, Godzilla, this isn’t goodbye, it’s CUL8A!

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Godzilla does the equivalent of walking into the sunset in a Western movie. #Monsterdon

@steter yes, but as a docu_drama_, I'd have to give it a solid B-, maybe even a full B. Some things aren't meant for the public, after all.

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well the Showa era went out with a bang. And many, many, many more baffling explosions. And the suit caught on fire. #Monsterdon

@apLundell #Monsterdon Just tell any scientist you’re cutting their funding.

i love that overstuffed movie! all the fights at the end are pretty fantastic, and the cyborg daughter monster controller tragic plot line gets me right here 🥺 #monsterdon

@apLundell We need a movie with aliens trying to kidnap Colonel Sanders to get KFC's secret recipe. #Monsterdon

... so, just what pronouns are appropriate for Mechagodzilla? I'll admit to defaulting to him in my head, but should one use her as Mechagodzilla has the daughter's brain? Or just use it?

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Someone compose a cyborg funeral haiku. And so another Monsterdon stumbles into the night #monsterdon

Who da fuq is "the great Mugal" I didn't even know this guy had a name lmao

btw shoutout to Titanosaurus's pectorals

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"Oh hey, dude. Didn't see you there, uh, holding your dead girlfriend's corpse. Uh. So. Uh. How's things?" #Monsterdon

There’s that garlicky Godzilla breath again!

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Titanosaur died as he lived

Goofy. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon. Explosions and flailing Kaiju. Alien is immune to bullets, how inconvenient.

Ha! Even better. "You can't kill me!" -- immediately gets irradiated by Godzilla breath :D #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe in all seriousness I kind of have a soft spot for kaiju films where the kaiju turns out to be a person, or at least misunderstood and sympathetic

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Nyahahaha! You can't kill me! And now I'll jump off a cliff to my death! I win! #Monsterdon

godzilla obliterating the UFO's in one two second throwaway shot when that is like an absolutely essential part of the plot where the aliens now can't escape or new aliens that were coming are just dead now instead #monsterdon

Wow, everyone's fucking off into the sea this time!

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goodbye Godzilla! Goodbye Shōwa Era!

Thanks @jonny for the root post to reply to so I don't have to flood the local TL.

And, as always, thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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Ha! That was a blast. I was too busy watching to finish my bingo card. Thanks for hosting, @Taweret!

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"she's going to commit sudoku!" third generation monsterdonner

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Got your nose!
And also, the rest of your head!

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@CactuarJoe I would watch that movie

Revenge of Mecha-Katsura

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I don't like how the aliens just have plain old handguns. They should have guns that shoot hand drawn negative scratches instead #monsterdon

Interpol guy getting lose and overpowering Alien goatee guy is a triumph. Tough break with his girlfriend catching a slug.

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Aaaaand, #monsterdon continues in its trend of having absolutely no denouement at all. Just lasers, explosions, a brief pause to look at a cyborg corpse, and it’s over.

And so the Showa era fucks off into the sea one last time. Great watch everyone. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. There's a lot to unpack in that one. #monsterdon #TerrorOfMechagodzilla

and so Godzilla fucked off into the sea and all was well

except for the thousands of deaths

ty for joining, everyone!!

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Bye bye Goji-chan, have fun fucking off into the sea!

Another #Monsterdon in the books. I'm surprised how coherent the feed was from the middle of the movie forward, I expected true chaos the whole way through from multiple cuts.

And there we have the Traditional Fucking Off Into the Sea, and all is right with the end of the movie!

#Monsterdon

up next, John Carpenter's Mechagodzilla. OBEY

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