#monsterdon You don't have to shoot the plant.
The crisis is over.
It's not like it's going to uproot and chase you.
#monsterdon You don't have to shoot the plant.
The crisis is over.
It's not like it's going to uproot and chase you.
I know they're Americans but why do they have guns all the time?
This segment must have been so trippy in theaters to '50s viewers
"Please, doctor Gordon."
Hit me, doc! Light me up! I wanna be seeing Bigfoot and singing Jimi Hendrix by six! #Monsterdon
#monsterdon I wonder why they thought the film needed this framing story.
Just tell the movie from start to finish. You don't need an excuse to do a flashback.
Can't have a '50s sci-fi movie without a goatee in it! But only one.
"Everyone repeat stuff someone else is saying"
"Everyone repeat stuff someone else is saying"
#monsterdon If she's so self conscious about putting on perfume, why do it on the flight deck? Doesn't the ship have a restroom?
#monsterdon "When I call you by name ... you'll know it!"
What does that even mean?
I'd rather be lost in the space woods with a space bear tbh
#monsterdon Flying Coffin? That's a trademark lawsuit from Spirit Airlines right there!
This movie skips any kind of intro and goes to Washington, where some army dudes are chatting with a professor about their magic X-1 rocket that they lost control of and they're trying to land it safely. I guess it went to Mars and now they can't get it back.
I say its a magic rocket because it has like 5-6Gs of acceleration, which implies some super advanced nuclear rocket or something.
@diazona @SnoopJ @anarchademic She does have a few fun expressions if you pause the movie at the right times :D #monsterdon
Are we sure that this is the same movie as the poster?!?!?!?!
She's gonna science the shit out of that jello!
Honestly in the top 10 of fictional women in space.
This public access channel kicks ass
#monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature
@anarchademic Because the #monsterdon tonight was set on Mars but had a Distinct Lack of Devil Girls from Mars and monsterdon collectively has a thing for tall women i guess.
For anybody who did not watch this week's #Monsterdon movie, the above clip is honestly one of the most exciting things in the movie.
#monsterdon That was a fun film.
Not bad at all for its time. It managed to skip a lot of the worst 1950s space movie tropes.
Interesting that the movie mostly sticks to gender stereotypical behavior but also has the girl scientist be a very competent scientist who tells the men how to fix the problems.
The girl decides to help the pilot using the base's science lab, and she concludes that we can kill the amoeba with electricity because its a Water Type Pokemon.
the martian message was "BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"
This counts as "fan" service to the #monsterdon viewers with misophonia. At least it would if the grating sound wasn't so goddamned LOUD
Please button your shirt
#monsterdon
Oh wait I forgot when we were on the lake we saw one of the weird bug guys that made the girl scream earlier sneaking around in the distance. I don't know if the astronauts noticed.
Anyway, the astronauts have decided to electrify the outside of their spaceship to get the space amoeba to go away.
"They're almost impossible to kill. You can cut them in half and both halves would survive."
raise the temperature by two degrees
or do a slightly sub-excellent job of cleaning your petri dishes
"One single cell, without intelligence. Much like you Tom"
Which kaiju is this?
"Did we calculate that the other shore was just over the horizon?"
"Yes, so we should see it momentarily."
They're paddling a single-hull inflatable boat _over the horizon_? Can we get a quick back-of-the-napkin calculation about the distance to the horizon based on the curvature of Mars? I am skeptical of their paddling speed estimates.
The optimism of packing a boat for Mars
I guess the flat area is a lake. It's very still, so still that it seems dead to the Girl. We decide to wave a sensor over it, the sensor looks like a geiger counter but works like a tricorder. We swish our hands in it and determine that it is oily.
The girl says it couldn't sustain life (at least life as we know it), but I mean... they already found life and extremophiles are a thing, so I'd assume there are lake creatures too.
Mars DID have an ocean 3 billion years ago.......and it will AGAIN!
This would all look really shit in normal colour so I approve of the style choice
This looks like 10% of the planets in No Man's Sky, right down to the monsters
love the monster design in this movie, it's the only thing that goes well with the CineMagic silliness
Chekhovβs gun that he named Cleopatra
"i'll take the ants any day" - a person who hasn't participated in #monsterdon
Gonna tell my grandkids this is Mars
@Lazarou because they're americans. we all have guns all the time. all the guns. america is a pile of smoldering guns. #monsterdon
Also, there is like no gravitas to these people being the first humans to step foot on another planet. No Neil Armstrong "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!" instead they just bumble out of the rocket and shoot a plant with a gun.
It's a bright orangey-scarlet on my TV but almost purply fuchsia on Miru
Could you not gesture at your crew member with your sidearm while keeping your finger on the trigger please, that would be great
Oh no, itβs in color. Angry red.
Back in the present, the doctor is like "the girl is blocking out the memory because of trauma, but we could give her drugs and then she could remember, but that would be painful because trauma." then the girl is like "please give me the drugs, we must know so we can save the one guy who is mutating." then they give her the drugs and the flashback resumes.
"Intravenous?"
No, just squirt it over her like frosting. 9_9 #Monsterdon
"I'm going out there!"
"Tom, wait!"
You can't go outside, we don't have the budget for another set! #Monsterdon
"I'll twitch with you"
Oh it's THAT kinda film huh #Monsterdon
The world-renowned biologist/zoologist is βThe Girl?β Boooo
#Monsterdon
Youre tuned to the exposition channel.
All exposition, all the time.
#monsterdon
I want to call out that the conference room where the army dudes were chatting about the rocket ship had wall decorations included A) a map of the USA, B) the flags of the US and DC (I think) and C) some cool space posters.
As conference rooms go, that's pretty neat.
Would that all meetings ran so swiftly and conclusively!
Send the mysterious interplanetary ship to crash into the Nevada desert, it's your only option.
The areaβs rival clans manipulate them into a fierce battle, bringing chaos to the area. But a righteous female ninja steps up, wanting to stop the destruction and restore the seal. Can she defeat the evil ninjas that stand in her way before Chichibu is completely destroyed by two kaiju?
Two men, tired from work, visit the town of Chichibu to enjoy their favorite hobby - exploring caves. But little do they know, the town has been secretly protected by the descendants of the righteous Shinobi ninja since the Sengoku period. The two unlucky friends accidentally break a spell that awakens two colossal beasts, Jaron and Goura.
WARNING!!! Unhingedness is reaching unprecedented levels!
β β β β β β β β β ββ 107%
Store-brand Godzilla vs Temu Baragon
This end-credit music is quite a choice. Quite a choice, indeed.
Angry Red Planet is not a good movie really, but it is kind of a classic, and I guess good for the time. Iris actually gets to be a character with a personality and she does shit.
The Rat-Bat_Spider is top tier monster design. The RED of the red planet is a col look for the time. Shame the story and other characters are cardboard.
#Monsterdon #TheAngryRedPlanet
Angy Planet
"The Painfully Insightful and Misanthropic Red Planet"
This #monsterdondoublefeature looks like it was filmed on an iPhone. No depth of field?! Actors looking directly into the camera?
more like the "done with your bullshit red planet"
@paco The loud sound effects were a bit much.
#Monsterdon
Okay, real quick, did anyone find a plot?
#Monsterdon
The camera fucks off into space as a disjointed musical number plays for the credits.
That's a wreck, folks. What a stinker!
No #MonsterdonBingo for me this week.
Thanks #monsterdon gang. #MondayActionMovie has a bit of a classic tomorrow at 8 P ET.....Take care. See ya soon.
And now, Dave Ratbatcrab and the MARTIAN SWING BAND #Monsterdon
This one, which looks like macaroni casserole on the table, illustrates the process
Just once I want one of these scenes to go, "Doctor, I think we've figured out how to solve this problem!" "Oh yes?" "Yes! All we have to do is end the film!" *roll credits*
Remember gents, after she's explained the discovery, steal it and right her out of history....
eating his tissues. it's too good for him.
So why was Iris incapable of flying the ship back to Earth?
Did they really send a crew of four people and not train them all to pilot it in an emergency?
@diazona @trixter Talk to your doctor about Plot, before it's too late. #Monsterdon
They kind of bumped off the old professor without really establishing any life-threatening events. The exertion of flipping some switches?
Aw, they hurt the giant bat-puppy!!! He was just rompin' and playin' and they shot him in the eyes! MAN IS THE REAL MONSTER.
Also, the Red Planet is red because it has iron in the sand, not because it has a red filter on everything.
"We've found life, but we're scaredy cats so let's abandon Mars after 2 days" said NO ASTRONAUT EVER JESUS FUCK what are these pussies? I want Iris to bet the coward men up.
#monsterdon #angryredplanet
headcanon: iris actually killed them all, and she's making up this story to cover for it
excuse me I actually mean
Well you've ruined the aspic Tom
the worst thing is, while trying to take out my earbuds I turned the volume to maximum
#monsterdon
This is what all the servers in my garage look like.
Kinda hoping they see Sam's skull through the view port
After watching the radio guy get eaten we close the rocket door and go inside. We open the window and see a jello monster outside. Also, the creature touched the pilot, putting slime on his arm, so he takes off his suit. The girl puts some chemical on his arm. She speculates that the monster is like a giant amoeba, based on... um... fuck... I dunno. its a space amoeba I guess.
MONSTER CHOMP
Sam, you should have let them close the door instead of trying to take one last potshot with your ineffective freeze gun.
Oof, and then they just watched him being digested by the jellyfish?
THEY WATCHED HIM THROUGH THE DOOR THAT THEY LEFT OPENβ½β½
OK, leave these people on Mars, they're a danger to everyone around them.
Blorbfish eats the rocket...
On Mars, everyoneβs a red shirt.
MONSTER LOOM
Looking pretty Lovecraftian there, nicely done.
And our more bipedal three-eyed buddy is back too! Good, good.
*hovercraft/octopus/jellyfish monster eats the inflatable boat*
You could have figured out if there was water and cities if you'd done an orbital survey
Nice eyeball, eyeball. #Monsterdon
Whoops, coffee's ready. #Monsterdon
"Once we abandoned Capitalism, we built glorious cities and homes for everyone!" - the Martians
Y'know, some people got headaches after using the Virtual Boy for as little as 15 minutes.
:/
I think the Mars scenes might look better if they didn't just use red but used some sort of alternate color palette. Maybe a red-green camera instead of just "everything is red."
But I do kind of like the red effect, because its weird and makes the planet look alien.