AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids I feel there should be more sighted people left who were just like "fuck it i aint gonna stay up for no meteor shower that's some boring BS" and just went to sleep without getting their eyes burned out.

thank you @Taweret@octodon.social for yet another awesome #Monsterdon and even more thanks to @joewynne for the awesome #MonsterdonBingo card. so much fun was had... with flamethrowers!

BINGO!

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

this is why you don't use Monsanto fertilizer

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

this would be me if this were my day of the triffids

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids this movie needs someone who was naturally blind before the meteor show and just shakes a cane at all the newly blind people telling them to stop complaining.

YOU NEED A FLAMETHROWER FOR GROCK SAKE!!!

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

oh, it took him just seconds to see after massive eye surgery. this is what NHS healthcare gets you.

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

LMAO the guy is lightning cigarette in the hospital after having had his eyes operated on and the nurse actually helped him

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

@Taweret@octodon.social
Now I really want a Muppet rendition of #DayoftheTriffids #Monsterdon

my mans is wearing a trash bag and got pearl necklaced by the triffids

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

Seriously, it's really not THAT hard to kill a plant. The real trick is to prolong their suffering. #Monsterdon

girlfriend only knows how to scream and cry... am disappoint

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

if you really think about it, this is what happens when the English take their gardening too far

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

And they all fucked off into the sea happily ever after. #Monsterdon

🗣️ 📣 I DON'T LIKE THESE FREAKY PLANTS

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

in honor of #DayOfTheTriffids #monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo here's Smashing Pumpkins with TODAY

#DayOfTheTriffids

DAMNIT WOMAN I AM A MARINE BIOLOGIST, NOT A FIREMAN

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

btw... that they escape on an ice cream truck is just... weird.

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

a brush with death gets everybody horny

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

Starvation, fire, pestilence? Sounds like a normal day in 2023 to me. #Monsterdon

40? That's enough for two teams for blind capture the flag. #Monsterdon

there is no sense in getting killed by a plant, indeed

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids damn these airplane guys doing the stiffest upper lip while their airplane runs out of fuel.

"please put us down" hits differently in this movie

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids All these blinded people stumbling around is a good reason to include braille on every sign.

so the doctor who operated on unbandaged dude is now blind? because of the meteorites?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

oh so this is the prequel to Little Shop of Horrors?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

OMG didn't Monty Python use this music in one of their skits?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

is this a British movie? is this the David Attenborough of monster films?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon list of better possible resolutions to #DayOfTheTriffids :

* the horse they took along just eats the triffids
* the triffids discover a phonograph player and are seduced by earth culture and then decide to just hang out and chill and not eat people
* a team of plucky misfits from a previously unseen high school in brazil become the main characters and start fighting the triffids with improvised scythes
* humanity abandons the land and becomes a boat faring species

SEA WATER is no flamethrower but i'll allow it

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids can this scene cut to some other place where someone else is doing a better job recovering from mass blindness and organizing a response to the alien invasion?

Is there like a village in Nigeria somewhere? A small town in Ecuador? A university in Taiwan? A diner in Nebraska? Someone somewhere has gotta have their shit together better.

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids Can rabbits eat the Triffids, maybe? What about cows?

It would be ironic if a cow just ate the evil space plants.

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids needs a necromancer to show up and help fight the triffids, so it can be Plants vs Zombies but we'll root for the zombies for once.

Am I the only one who thinks the little clicking rattling sound the triffids make is kind of cute?
#Monsterdon

so the triffids just blew their wad on them with their pollen

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids I kind of like the scene with the triffid just out for a stroll, creaking a song to itself before it shrugs off several shotgun hits.

I HATE ASMR or whatever the fuck y'all call that almost inaudible freaky noise

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

Mr. Miyagi would know how to handle these overgrown bonsai trees. #Monsterdon

all of England is blind... yeah, well they never saw anything wrong with Prince Andrew or Jimmy Saville, didn't they?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

This is why I'll never work security at a greenhouse. #Monsterdon

starting my #Monsterdon thread for #DayOfTheTriffids , the movie that explains why you should to put alt text on your images.

I too am drawn to sweet syrups. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Pigeons of Fukushima needs to be a thing

Am I feeling a little badass? YES, I AM FEELING A LITTLE BADASS! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids I was gonna chide the grumpy biologist for not knowing that grass types were strong against water damage, but then his plan worked because it was salt water and this movie ignores pokemon logic.

Aliens meets The Silent Place meets Little Shop of Horrors meets Smashing Pumpkins

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

https://youtu.be/xmUZ6nCFNoU

YAAAAAAAAAY! FLAMETHROWER!!!!!!!!!

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

@oliphant@oliphant.social
This is why selecting a good parking space is so important! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids oh shit our planets been colonized by fast-growing carnivorous plants from space. Unfortunately, they are not cute like the floran from #starbound and are immune to our finest weapon, the Shotgun.

It’s an alien autopsy—er, necropsy—I mean, what do they call an autopsy for plants?
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids "everyone is blind everywhere, lets move to spain" is probably the dumbest suggestion in this movie.

oh... are we gonna find out this is her real Little Orphan Susan's mom?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

That one was clearly not the Usain Bolt of the Triffid species. #Monsterdon

I think Tim Burton would do an awesome Day of the Triffids/Edward Scissorhands mash-up. #Monsterdon

This is very similar to my experience at the in-patient lasik center. #Monsterdon #flashbacks

i take it french scotch just hits different

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

Y'know, I think Day of the Triffids actually annoyed me more than any other film we've watched so far, it spite of being an objectively better film than most of them.

A) These are stupid, stupid people.

B) They do NOTHING for most of the movie then have the solution fall in their laps in the last 5 minutes.

C) Yeah, 95%+ of humanity is blind, we're still fucked.

D) The Alien Menace could literally have been killed by a kid with a squirt gun.

E) THESE ARE STUPID, STUPID PEOPLE. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids some of the crawling murder plants break into the grumpy biology guy's lighthouse house, leading to a Thrilling Spiral Staircase Chase, another thing I wouldn't have put on a bingo card.

#monsterdon he's very lucky that turning off the generator caused them to lose interest instead of just climbing over the now unelectrified fence

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids let the little girl keep her horse dammit. we can have a horse sidekick. #teamhorse

ice cream truck looks like Shrek on wheels

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

so i take it the convicts are forcing the women to dance with them doesn't mean they wanna dance with them

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

@moira
And there was some stiff competition for that title too. #Monsterdon

This is the time you'd need a well-trained beaver to shear those things off at their kneecaps. #Monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social
Gauze. It’s science. #Monsterdon

<heads out to pharmacy for emergency gauze just in case…>

"Get the hammer and nails. I'm going to make an entertainment center out of them." #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids oh good the very toxic biologist couple is doing an autopsy on the evil space plant. As every X-Com player knows, alien autopsies are necessary to understand the weaknesses of the creepy space invaders.

Hopefully they can quit fighting long enough to do the autopsy and not get eaten by another plant.

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids the Japanese radio guy is actually complaining about an unrelated godzilla attack that is happening at the same time.

No, that landing didn't work. Better try again.
#monsterdon

So far #DayOfTheTriffids hasn't had any toy boats (one of my favorite #Monsterdon tropes), but it does have some real boats which are also pretty cool.

Canada Fires brought to you by Triffids

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

I can't speak French, "une catastrophe"? WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MEAN

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids loving the dude wandering around blind with a teddy bear in one hand.

If the stingray is on the mantle in Act I, it had better go off by Act III.

Classic rule of movies.

#Monsterdon

so the plants ate everybody but him?!? why was the bandaged dude spared?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #DayofTheTriffids
Characters so far:
* flirty naval guy with bandages on his eyes
* grumpy biologist
* sad wife of grumpy biologist
* cop in suit (probably doomed)
* space plants (probably evil)

No actual security guards were harmed in the making of this movie. #Monsterdon

muppet plants!

#monsterdon

are those fireflies or semen?

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

also still thinking about how christine and susan delivered the baby offscreen (because they just know how??) and it just happened to conveniently happen the day before they had to leave #Monsterdon

Thanks for another fun #monsterdon everyone!!!!

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids also I kind of hope the evil space plants were intelligent so we can put them in the same bucket as the aliens from Signs, who invaded a planet covered with liquid that could kill them as a touch, probably as a result of some cursed extraterrestrial reality show challenge.

like they already had found a thing that worked and then they find a second thing that works and they're like 'oh we finally found the thing that works! at long last!'

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids what that was it? we mostly just fart around for most of the movie then solve all the problems off screen, via narration?

I mean at least they figured out how to fight the things within the movie, but then it just... ends?

I think the lesson for the evening is that Naval Hat Guy went all the way from the mean streets of America to Spain on a boat and burned a few plants alive and help the blind so Not A Botanist could sit in a lighthouse and be verbally abusive to his life partner while angrily yelling about stingrays and then threw away his axe and then discovered seawater which--good job. He moved exactly 30m the entire movie and grabbed the hose and "discovered" seawater.

Boo, Not a Botanist, boo.

If only you'd dealt with those stingrays, and gone into the ocean to get some seawater, but no. You left it up to Mr. Naval Hat and he used fire and no one will ever know how many corn men died and were fried and were popped by Mr. Naval Hat.

#Monsterdon thread OUT.

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids maybe the evil lizard aliens from V were just stealing earth's ocean water to fight their own secret war against the triffids from space.

Huh. The ocean fucked off into the monster. That's a twist. #Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids

...Oh come on. Salt water? That's it? SALT WATER? #Monsterdon

Chekov's sea water hose. #Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids Chekhov's Ice Cream Truck has set sail.

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids oh good sound can attract them.

They should do that thing in World War Z where they lured the zombies into a trap with extremely loud music and then kill them. In the book the music was "heavy metal" and the trap was "a modern infantry square" but in this time frame they could just use "this films obnoxiously loud orchestra" for the lure and "fire" for the trap.

#monsterdon FINALLY THEY TRY FIRE!!

LMAO i was so mad when i was giving birth to THING2 because these stupid birth scenes are total lies

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

"Do you perchance have a garden somewhere nearby that can serve as a final climactic setpiece? Oh, no reason, just asking."

#Monsterdon

LMAO they have a horse now; i guess the Saudis are blind too, so there's no petrol to be had

#DayOfTheTriffids
#monsterdon
#MonsterdonBingo

@otheorange_tag #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids 2/3rds through the movie and a drunken party breaks out. it is apparently a non-consensual party. which sucks. always party consensually.

not really sure why they injected this subplot, but okay?