"Dancing with the Stars" casting call. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids oh no the evil space plants have Regeneration and can resurrect themselves. Do we need fire or silver weapons to kill them?

The Ugly Duckling this is not.
Triffids do not grow into their beauty.
#Monsterdon

i spy Gidgets

#DayOfTheTriffids
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#MonsterdonBingo

@floatybirb Yes, but they are out of the plot because they are too busy looting their neighbors.

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids

What's he going to do with a harpoon? Hasn't he ever heard of a weed-whacker? #monsterdon

@trixter
She already bought a new lab coat for it. #Monsterdon

A series of horrific skits where everyone dies.
"Please fasten your safety belts."
#Monsterdon #DayoftheTriffids

The copilot is clearly the inflatable auto-pilot.

#Monsterdon #TheDayOfTheTriffids

Isn't there a scientist like Vincent Price trying to get to the root of this problem?

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids

Attenborough voice: "A Triffid may hunt many times during the day, and yet only succeed a fraction of them. Thus the balance of life is maintained between plasticky hunter and lantern-jawed prey." #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids also kind of weird how the Aesop for this might be "don't look at meteor showers kids, you might burn out your optic nerves"

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids its weird how the orchestral music goes up to 11 every time a triffid appears on screen.

Good boy, play dead, good boy.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon not the dog!!

#Monsterdon I'm wondering what the connection between the Blinding Meteorites and the Triffids is. I'm guessing that the triffids came from space in the meteorites somehow, but I'm not sure if the blinding is somehow their doing or just an accident that they are exploiting.

My guess is that the triffids are intelligent and the blinding is maybe technological, but I don't know if the movie will go that direction or not.

I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to force people to play "Marco, Polo" with me. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids flirty naval guy removes his HEADBAND OF BLINDNESS to see a blur, which he fixes by adjusting his eyes from Atari Pixel Art Mode to 4K mode. While wandering through an empty SCP of a hospital he encounters a new character, Blind Doctor Man. He is not supposed to be blind, oh no!

#Monsterdon
They lingered far too long on the sign warning about SEA WATER. This means something!

I'm not sure any of this is how meteorites work. #monsterdon

So every piece of zombie media ripped this movie off huh

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#monsterdon Ok, I get the "woke up from a coma" trope... But he was just sleeping, how tf did he sleep through all of that?

Plants aren't known for emoting. It was kind of courageous choosing to feature them as stars of this movie. #Monsterdon

AAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

#DayOfTheTriffids
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No one at the auditions could make a face as scared seeming as that guy. Got him the job!
#Monsterdon

He had it coming, he never respected those plants, anyway.

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If you cook and eat a carnivorous plant are you still a vegetarian?
#Monsterdon

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
this is still freaking me out

#DayOfTheTriffids
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#MonsterdonBingo

Guy Gets Stalked By Alien Muppet Plants With Dripping Water ASMR

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Quite the contrast in personalities. Hollywood understands marriage very well. #Monsterdon

Like you do, tobacco companies with their worldwide skylight marketing campaigns.

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That's what you get for letting vampires steal your meteor deflectors #monsterdon

#monsterdon do the triffids already have their own plaque?

Night at the Arboretum #monsterdon

This is a serious movie. Extremely. Serious.
The music is making that crystal clear.
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And here we go, starting off in a peaceful, verdant forest...

And narrator starts off talking about carnivorous plants. Oh yeah, the poster gave nothing away. The narrator has already tipped their hand.

But fuck yeah, the bombastic scare trumpets for the intro? Classic 60s monster movie.

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@sean That explains a lot. #Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids

oh shit i just realised the meteors and blinding... if they were throwing out stupid amounts of UV, right? i mean big amounts. that'd do a lot of retinal damage if you were staring at them but couldn't see it.

#monsterdon #belatedly

This should have been the backing song when Tom was ... ahem ... a-salt-ing the Triffids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDb1sfTqDw

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Because one film has a poor title doesn't make it all right for all films to do so. Besides it's more like the Night of the Blinding Metors After Which, Triffids #monsterdon

And all the people blinded by meteors lived happily ever after somehow #Monsterdon

@jonny @irenes It's explained in a scene in France that the plants arrived years ago from space but were tiny and inert _until_ the meteor shower that blinded everyone. That's when they got big, stabby and hungry. #Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Day of the Triffids.

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
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2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
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... and you're done.

ALSO! The last lines of the film are like, "We found their weakness, hooray! Now we can destroy them all!"

Bitch, HOW. You cannot mass co-ordinate a worldwide society anymore, it's GONE. You don't have the means to distribute a bucket of seawater to every person in Europe! You'll be lucky to find enough people to FARM, let alone lead an eradication campaign! #Monsterdon

I love how at this point the movie may end but #monsterdon keeps going on for another 20 min or so while everyone catches up with the feed. :-D

Apparently the whole lighthouse thing with Tom and Karen was because they found out that a lot of their footage wasn't usable, so they needed something to "pad out" the film.

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#monsterdon Called it!!!!

Mankind made it this time.
Thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and everyone #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids anyway in conclusion I give this movie a rating of "shrug".

Some of the ideas were neat but the execution seemed a little off. Oh well.

Well, that was a fun movie about stoic Brits and people refusing to burn things with fire. Goodnight #monsterdon!

@oliphant you didn't expect saline solution to be the very first thing he tried, did you? #HesNotABotanistDammit #monsterdon

Wow, that movie put me into a vegetative state! I'm going to need an ocean of calamine lotion!

THANK YOU
@Taweret
for working all week to identify our movie and promote it!! What a blast!

See everyone next week, although it will take two days to respond to all the remaining posts from tonight.

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Is this ending where the dumbest part of Signs came from?

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Another vegetable filled #Monsterdon is in the can!

All hail our fearless host, @Taweret!

Tonight we had a deadly veggie tray of thrills:

* Meteor induced blindness.
* Hangry plants!
* Ice Cream truck escape!
* An eternity of time before someone realizes that plants might not like fire.
* Source of a Rocky Horror reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=129&v=GKhPVHoodrU
* A ... ahem ... salty end.

#TheDayOfTheTriffids

the thing about the whole seawater thing that's just that little bit of extra is that your entire endocrine system is trying desperately at all times

DESPERATELY AT ALL TIMES

to maintain the seawater salinity the ocean had when animals left the ocean because THAT'S WHERE ANIMALS INVOLVED so WHY ARE THE PLANTS THAT ARE ALLERGIC TO SEAWATER EATING ANIMALS MADE BASICALLY OF SEAWATER

WHY

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@bunnyhero
Double feature:
Green Slime + The Blob
Which just begs for a sing-along!
#Monsterdon

The Jehovah's Witnesses could learn a thing or two from the Triffids about getting through the door. #Monsterdon

none of that made any sense

#monsterdon

Well we effed them all off to the sea and we were all saved

Mostly we are blind now but that's ok I'm sure we'll live happily ever after THE END

Thanks for another entertaining #Monsterdon @Taweret !

If I had a nickel for every time a bad movie had the alien menace invading a planet which was 70%+ a substance which INSTANTLY KILLED THEM, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. #Monsterdon

And the James Bond theme starts playing?!?
#Monsterdon

i've been waiting for people who were rooting for fire to discover the saltwater reveal #monsterdon

i'm spooooooooooooooooring!

#DayOfTheTriffids
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I don't remember plant types being weak to water #monsterdon

@irenes i missed the first 20 minutes so maybe it was explained then, but that was completely unclear to me, the movie made it seem like they arrived with the meteor that caused the blinding. the whole movie makes about a zillion times more sense, just bioweapons getting revenge #monsterdon

okay but if youre an alien race whose one weakness is saltwater why would you invade a planet that is mostly that?

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#Monsterdon They're melting, melting ... what a world

Of course! These are fresh water Triffids!

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At last, we find the great weakness of all plants, discovered by Not A Botanist.

Apparently they hate salt.

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What? Come on
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@trixter OMG EVEN THIS MOVIE FUCKS OFF INTO THE SEA AT THE END!! #Monsterdon

I can see that
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@plaidtron3000 @otheorange_tag almost immediately after the line was formed there was a schism between those who believed that it should be a computer and those who believe it should just be a sort of slime mold society without clear purpose. it remains unresolved to this day #monsterdon

I guess he got tired of us making fun of his ice cream truck.

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i actually really love that the soundtrack here mirrors the ditty the ice cream truck is playing #monsterdon

plants love ice cream

it is known

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#Monsterdon #DayOfTheTriffids finally some effectiveness. A bunch of triffids slowly zerg rush up to the Impenetrable Fence Defense and then get set on fire. Fossil fuels might be bad for civilization, but are really pretty good at setting things on fire.

(wikipedia tells me there was an attempt at adapting Day of the Triffids in 1956, the script was written by a guy named Albert Broccoli. i mean...) #monsterdon

chekov's ice cream truck

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@otheorange_tag i am mostly in favor of the one long line of blind people reimagining a more just and connected society #monsterdon

FIRE!!! AHAHAHA!! FINALLY FIRE!!
#Monsterdon #DayoftheTriffids

@floatybirb WOLVERINES!!!
#monsterdon

@jonny I'm still rooting for the triffids! although I might be coming around to saving some of these idiots #monsterdon

Me at the end of every D&D quest, just setting fire to as many things as possible before I die

#Monsterdon

@floatybirb Let's be rational. On one side, a horsie. On the other side, free ice cream! You work it out #monsterdon

Took 'em a full eighty one minutes to figure out they should set the fuckers on fire, too >_> #Monsterdon

i think you have to be careful about using the gas truck as a flamethrower near the gas truck! #monsterdon

FINALLY!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

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#Monsterdon Fire! Finally.

Leiningen vs the ants, this is not #monsterdon

welp... this is one border wall i ain't mad about.

#DayOfTheTriffids
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are we going to get a full on army of darkness scene against these thousands of bong tree guys or not #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @bunnyhero @CactuarJoe

The movie deviated greatly from the book, which was actually good. Evidently, they removed any character with common sense, all degreed scientists and anyone who had ever killed a plant.

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The Triffids are assaulting Helm's Deep!

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@phoutz If only there was something that would hurt wood, something that would oxidize them?! #monsterdon

@LK_877 Wait. Are the plants using echolocation to get around? Blind as a Triffid. #Monsterdon

wait! they're already in Spain? no wonder i was confused. that looked like the main plaza in Córdoba or Sevilla

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Yes 12-year-old girls are natural midwives. #monsterdon

first person who was blind before the mass blinding appears at 1h15m of a 1h33m movie #monsterdon

HEY, an ACTUAL blind person! Honestly didn't expect that. #Monsterdon