@ryan I can’t. The first serving of “The Food of the Gods” ruined my appetite.

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@floatybirb Or the sequel that they did make for this movie.

Give me some 200-foot-tall cows and a flood scene with a million gallons of fresh milk!

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See you next week, nerds
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thanks #Monsterdon 'nother Marjoe flick crossed off, peace y'all, till the next one ✌️

@paco @pineheap I heard FOTG is sold in plastic bags in Canada.

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Well, that was a movie! Having known nothing about this movie before going into it, I assumed the food would be something more sinister, like soylent green.

Thanks, as always, to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, @JoeWynne for the theme drink, @ryan for the stream, and to all of you for making it awesome!

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@brooke yeah they actually went over that and everything

it's bullshit but they did cover it

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How could you make a movie about giant animals so boring? Burt I Gordon found a way. Thanks again to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants and if you see anything bubbling out of the ground DON'T EAT IT. #Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

lol, love how the movie ends with sinister music and frozen on that one child drinking milk....

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Oh no wait its worse, the cows were being milked and now kids in a school are drinking the milk. So we'll get like killer giant children I guess.

Then we get some ominous drums and... credits.

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This is udderly ridiculous

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lol, I want a sequel of giant cows....

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This movie featured far too many scenes of rats being all-too-plausibly shot for my liking. Not a fan.

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So sad that they killed the children inside of those rat costumes

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so we are saved by one detail of how biological scaling would affect buoyancy and swimming behavior, but are threatened by the fact that no other details apply #monsterdon

@jonny Canadian football is mostly played with giant animals so they were recruiting.

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Ha ha ha oh my god the kid

It looks like the dummy alien Jaime Moussan tried to show the Mexican government, it's THAT BAD #Monsterdon

maybe could have spent a little longer on the running water effect, lmao

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wtf

@Lazarou

She died with honour!

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looks like her and the rat died together in battle, a warriors death

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Go on lady, it's your death scene., give it your all!

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Look, the answer is obvious. Just find a bunch of cats and feed them the Food of the Gods.

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Genuinely concerned as to how they're doing the 'rat shots'

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"I want you to make love to me"

wtaf

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Ha, she passed the quicktime event with flying colors, someone get this woman a streaming setup and a copy of Resident Evil 4 :D #Monsterdon

Special effects designer Thomas R. Burman created rat costumes that allowed for the giant rats in the film to be played by child actors, including his own son.

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Rats fucked off into a pastoral documentary. #Monsterdon

I don’t think he’s going to make it to Chicago.

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A fan theory is confirmed by dialog, as the puny humans also think the white rat is the leader.

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As a man who greatly enjoyed “Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century” I find this electrified fence to be … um, scientifically implausible.

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Okay getting a little uncomfortable about how little we know about whether animals were treated well on this set :/

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He died as he lived

Nibbled. #Monsterdon

I for one welcome our new vermin overlords

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fuck that generator, it knew this day was coming #monsterdon

Alright now, it's official. The "rats" are definitely making jaguar noises.

...

Why?

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lol, Marjoe's gone full MacGyver on this island....

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It suddenly occurs to me to wonder why discount-bin Harrison Ford brought his very pregnant wife to a remote wilderness island in an RV.

No. No, I don’t think I want to know.

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These characters are suffering from a terrible case of NOT TELLING EACH OTHER WHAT THEY'RE DOING

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Remaining human characters in this #monsterdon and their motivations:

Main bro (masculine-coded altruism)
Bundled Up Gal (feminine-coded altruism)
Sidekick bro (sidekickness)
Hat Gal (piety)
Not Jack Nicholson (greed)
Pregnant Girl (pregnancy)
Not Harrison Ford (also pregnancy)

EVERYONE STOP *WHINING* AT EACH OTHER, CHRIST #Monsterdon

I feel like Lorna is wearing all that beige very aggressively

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I think i'm going to call this actor "Harrison Fred" #monsterdon

@JoeWynne Your definition of 'unharmed' and the rats may be very different. #monsterdon

All the giant rat scenes in this movie just show us small rats up close, being normal specimens of rodentia, coupled with buckass whacko sound effects like you might hear in the background of a spooky inside roller coaster at a theme park.

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Something tells me that at no point in this movie is anyone ever going to make a decision that is not extremely stupid

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While Bundle Gal bandages up Hat Gal, the two bros hatch a cunning plan to deal with the wasps, by stuffing oily rags up the wasp nest and then lighting it on fire from a safe distance. Because giant wasps store all their ammunition in their wasp nest, this makes the wasp nest explode.

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how do Footballers know how to make a bomb out of fertilizers? Are they in the 'RA?

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Huh. Well, that's it I guess. The rest of the movie is football practice footage. #monsterdon

Eat. Prey. Bugs.

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"The lord healeth the sick, that's in the bible"

Great, lady, but the bible's also full of plagues, which we're really trying to avoid around here. #Monsterdon

Oops! We forgot to give pregnant lady a microphone.

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...Can these two get eaten already? #Monsterdon

Yes, Not-Jack-Nicholson, please discuss the legal ramifications of who owns the Rock Cum that makes giant killer animals. It's very important that we figure out how to monetize this and ensure that you own it.

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Never bring a shovel to a giant wasp fight
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Giant, transparent wasps. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon That's the coming of the lord! Hahahahah! Spooge. Texas Scum. White Gold!

Effervescent oatmeal..?

(Not even the worst food innovation I've seen this week, to be honest.)

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K not making AAANNNNNYYY comments about the spring of the FOTG

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"I don't see anybody."

She's getting some

GRUB

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#monsterdon Come on baby, sweet-cheeks, love-muffins, sweet-money-cracks... they escalate with the homoromantic phrasing.

Ah, yes, throwing open a fence of unknown purpose without thinking it through. This is well known to have no negative consequences.

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It's the rats that the old woman mentioned in scene 24! #monsterdon

"Good lord save me, save me"

UH, THIS IS GOD

I THOUGHT IT OVER

AND, UH. NO. #Monsterdon

@dogwelder "Clever girl"

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@paco What she does at night for entertainment is stare at the cracks in the ceiling

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MAGGOTS!!!!

I would have burned it all down and run into the woods at that point

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Clearly without their leader the other chickens are nothing but submissive.

Gotta love how this movie really uses that Ferry, it's such a powerful motif....

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@overholt Whelp. That's a wrap. Thanks for coming everyone!

Wait, it's still playing. Why is it still playing?

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So our heroes left the island of giant animals and our story came to a close. #Monsterdon

"I didn't think we'd be goin' back like this."

"Yeah."

*Scintillating* dialogue, Bert. #Monsterdon

those look like rat holes just the same as tom and jerry holes look like mouse holes

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"The poor bastard lost, what more do you want?"

BLOOD, BLOOD AND ENTRAILS #Monsterdon

> "man has fucked up the wilderness"

> proceeds to fuck up wilderness

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Bert... Nobody is fooled when you spell your name B.I. Gordon >_> #Monsterdon

one thing a scientist would know is exactly how much funding it takes to run their lab.

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@moira #monsterdon #WrongFood

I didn't know rats ate nuts. DOZE NUTS lmao gottem

So, another 70’s fright fest. Rats, capitalists, and country bumpkins. Thanks, @Taweret for bringing us all together to vent! Looking for a change of pace for next week. But no rats and no giant babies! #Monsterdon

Kids, this is exactly what it's like to work in a lab.

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"Bobby was one of the sweetest kids you could ever know."

Kid: "I need you to get the f@#! out of my room!"

Wow... So this stuff makes one slightly less nice?

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Oh wow, they really did it. They really made a giant angry toddler...

Wow he is angry...

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And this is why raw milk is a bad idea.

@rebeld I can’t find it now, but someone else posted that they looked up how they did the effect of “shooting” the rats, and it seems they used a squirt gun to shoot fake blood at the rats. Apparently, if it you watch it frame-by-frame, you can see the “blood” striking the rats.

Whether that’s considered cruel or not, I don’t know, but they weren’t physically harmed.

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#monsterdon And that's that! They fuckered off to 3rd grade.... thanks @Taweret for a fun trip!

#monsterdon Cows of unusual size?

Don’t milk stone giants is the lesson here.

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Funny thing, the title in Brazil for this movie is "attack of the atomic beasts"
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@Louisa assumptions have been made

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So they killed all the big rodents and burned em up and effed off back to the mainland.

THE END

Mission Accomplished right? Big flood...dilution is the solution to pollution right? Certainly no other Large Creatures exist right?

HA

This movie is ending where it should've started WE NEED GIANT COWS

And GIANT BABIES

That would've been awesome!

Still had a fun #Monsterdon time thanks for all the big fun @Taweret !

@trixter Bert I. Gordon: I know filmmakers who use metaphor, and they're all cowards. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon so how is it that these rats can't swim? is it just cause they're big?

This movie has some interesting implications about future monsters, but, uh... eh.

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"Jon Cypher" sounds like a name I would use if I were acting in a bad movie and didn't want to be credited

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Awesome ending. Fun time. #monsterdon

Main bro monologues about how bad it would be if some of the food of the gods gets away while we see some floating away into a pond that cows are drinking water from, so we'll get a sequel with killer cows I guess.

Very Gary Larsen.

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But one or two jars made it.

Well, that film was too long and had too many real animal killings. 😠

Thanks @Taweret and #monsterdon gang

so no giant baby but the promise of giant grade school kids

ty for joining, everyone!!!

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#Monsterdon they sure didn't shy away from using male rats

Rat People (Putting Out Fire With Gasoline) #Monsterdon #TheFoodOfTheGods1976