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!
@brooke yeah they actually went over that and everything
it's bullshit but they did cover it
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....
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.
This is udderly ridiculous
lol, I want a sequel of giant cows....
Are they going to make love in front of the flaming rat corpse pile?
So sad that they killed the children inside of those rat costumes
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.
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
#Monsterdon π π π π½ π₯ πΏ πΊ π±
wtf
looks like her and the rat died together in battle, a warriors death
Look, the answer is obvious. Just find a bunch of cats and feed them the Food of the Gods.
Genuinely concerned as to how they're doing the 'rat shots'
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.
Rats fucked off into a pastoral documentary. #Monsterdon
I donβt think heβs going to make it to Chicago.
A fan theory is confirmed by dialog, as the puny humans also think the white rat is the leader.
As a man who greatly enjoyed βYeti: Giant of the 20th Centuryβ I find this electrified fence to be β¦ um, scientifically implausible.
Okay getting a little uncomfortable about how little we know about whether animals were treated well on this set :/
He died as he lived
Nibbled. #Monsterdon
I for one welcome our new vermin overlords
fuck that generator, it knew this day was coming #monsterdon
lol, Marjoe's gone full MacGyver on this island....
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 donβt think I want to know.
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
you can see where they've smeared food on the toy camper van to make it interesting to the rat actors
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.
Something tells me that at no point in this movie is anyone ever going to make a decision that is not extremely stupid
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.
how do Footballers know how to make a bomb out of fertilizers? Are they in the 'RA?
Huh. Well, that's it I guess. The rest of the movie is football practice footage. #monsterdon
Eat. Prey. Bugs.
"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.
...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
#monsterdon
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.)
K not making AAANNNNNYYY comments about the spring of the FOTG
#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.
It's the rats that the old woman mentioned in scene 24! #monsterdon
@dogwelder "Clever girl"
@paco What she does at night for entertainment is stare at the cracks in the ceiling
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....
@overholt Whelp. That's a wrap. Thanks for coming everyone!
Wait, it's still playing. Why is it still playing?
So our heroes left the island of giant animals and our story came to a close. #Monsterdon
those look like rat holes just the same as tom and jerry holes look like mouse holes
"The poor bastard lost, what more do you want?"
BLOOD, BLOOD AND ENTRAILS #Monsterdon
Katie: "are they playing on concrete?"
Me: "I think they're playing on low-contrast film stock."
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.
I didn't know rats ate nuts. DOZE NUTS lmao gottem
So, another 70βs 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.
"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?
And this is why raw milk is a bad idea.
@rebeld I canβt find it now, but someone else posted that they looked up how they did the effect of βshootingβ 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 βbloodβ striking the rats.
Whether thatβs considered cruel or not, I donβt know, but they werenβt physically harmed.
#monsterdon And that's that! They fuckered off to 3rd grade.... thanks @Taweret for a fun trip!
#monsterdon Cows of unusual size?
Donβt milk stone giants is the lesson here.
Funny thing, the title in Brazil for this movie is "attack of the atomic beasts"
#monsterdon
@Louisa assumptions have been made
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.
"Jon Cypher" sounds like a name I would use if I were acting in a bad movie and didn't want to be credited
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.
But one or two jars made it.
Well, that film was too long and had too many real animal killings. π
Thanks @Taweret and #monsterdon gang
#Monsterdon they sure didn't shy away from using male rats
Rat People (Putting Out Fire With Gasoline) #Monsterdon #TheFoodOfTheGods1976
#monsterdon
Don't set up for a sequel. Please..
is the protagonist a high school football player??? or is just an adult and plays in some intermural league??? surely the doctor is in their late twenties as a doctor #monsterdon
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