For a super sonic bird it's having a hell of a time catching up to that prop job. #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

Bad luck they didn't think to put those metal spikes on top of the UN building when they built it #monsterdon

MMMM. Science sammich.
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i love this fucking bird

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ah yes explaining to the general why we don't drop bombs from the nose of the plane, no wonder we've been having trouble with this bird #monsterdon

glad this clock radio got its well deserved close up

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of course! he had to adjust the polarity on the main condenser terminals! #monsterdon

i dont think you're supposed to eat while you're using the microscope

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I can only imagine people who actually understand advanced physics are squirming (or yelling) at this explanation. #Monsterdon

Flashbacks to my parent's pep talks. "Failure..." #Monsterdon

ok I missed most of the movie because a friend came over but i was watching some of it with the sound off and holy fuck that egg assassination #monsterdon

In all seriousness, this movie is an interesting look into how people of the time thought about atomic science: Magic and dangerous.

Much lIke computers in the present day.

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Time is running out...today, tomorrow, a week from now...a million years, no way to tell. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon suddenly having regrets about the eggs Benedict I had for brunch, not stomach related though, it was _amazing_...

on preview: Daddy-O

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Slightly Surreal scene where a giant egg appears and is shot at, then leaks egg juice.

Very Surreal scene where Drunken French Canadian runs awkwardly down a country road, chased by a giant bird. He screams like a goat screaming like a human and then dies.

Slightly Surreal scene where teenagers drive a Beverly Hillbillies Car and act stupid. Then a bird eats them. Or just eats their car and knocks them out.

Mmm drunken teenagers thinks The Giant Claw #monsterdon

oh no, carefree teens

this will not end well

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@blogdiva I bet she has pockets though. She's a woman of substance and preparation. #monsterdon #thegiantclaw

Sally is marriage material #Monsterdon

"I'm from Montana. We shoot giant birds all the time." #Monsterdon

How can those two get in another airplane without immediately kissing each other? #monsterdon

Those are some *excellent* giant bird noises. #Monsterdon

they made the nostrils move but not the wings. what a choice

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Did they just try to nuke it off-screen!? #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

We have Old-Timey Radio Broadcast! #Monsterdon

Ever wonder why the bird...

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#Monsterdon I wonder how many people would drown/suffocate in a single Giant Bird poo...?

"The bird came here to build a nest." Covered by the Migratory Bird Act, can't harm it.
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Gonna guess that the bird came to earth to lay eggs. Its like a pigeon building a nest in a stupid spot.

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw We are gifted with a Very Short beach episode. Followed by pictures of a blurry Skeksi flying over London. And a golf course or somewhere where it causes panic? And a plaza with a fire happening for some reason?

Pretty sure the bird didn't start the fire, unless it was by the power of its antimatter force field.

The nostrils are articulated?! Why? They eyes are too but that makes sense.
This is a really complex puppet for being so ridiculously goofy looking.
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The ~~colour~~feather out of space #monsterdon

"Only one man had seen the bird and lived."
Oh hi again narrator. How have you been?
Wait did the Giant Claw just take a shit in a pool?
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its not guesswork. im just making shit up

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oh wild this must've been back when we were at peace with the balloons

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SCIENCE #monsterdon

What we need is...a giant turkey baster! #Monsterdon

Great Googly Moogly! #Monsterdon

I love the eating the guys on parachutes in mid-air. I'll give this movie that. #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

"I've seen some pretty big chicken hawks back on the farm but man, this baby takes the cake!"

This is why The Giant Claw won the best original screenplay Oscar

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I have no idea if it's true. But I remember hearing years ago that they made the movie first then farmed out the special effects. TO the lowest bidder. So some special effects team in Mexico was having a laugh putting this ridiculous turkey vulture muppet on film.
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Best acting of the movie so far: the poor guy behind them in the next row. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw Still super unclear why the bird wants to eat airplanes; do they taste good? does the bird require a diet rich in aluminum? does the bird just find them threatening and annoying?

is there anything you could compare the size of this bird to? to give us an idea?

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paging Letterkenny

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Ah, the good old days, when you could smoke on planes, and a little gratuitous sexual harassment was all the rage. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw Why do they all say that the bird is as big as a Battleship? Wouldn't someone use a different comparison... why not big as a stadium, or a skyscraper, or the Hindenberg? Are people constantly thinking about battleships for some reason?

My guess is that this is from the alternate universe where the Jane's Fighting Ships miniatures naval battle got super popular, and so everyone is always thinking of what battleship to add to their fleet between swigs of Applejack.

Giant Claw really knows how to ham it up!

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“Oh, yeah! We’re running a 24/7 militarized surveillance state! Why didn’t I think of that!” #monsterdon

I'm ready for my close up!"
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Apropos of nothing, the remains of birds that get sucked into airplane engines are referred to as "snarge". https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/science/snarge-birds-airplanes.html #Monsterdon

the giant combover! #monsterdon

We get out first clear look at The Giant Claw and woo boy is it a doozy.
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that's a really loud paper map

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This guy got all gold stars on his "connect the dots" schoolwork. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw you know there are more curves that could make that pattern on that map besides a spiral... it could be like a wiggly north-south course or something.

@bunnyhero he's a real Class Act. #monsterdon

Like if you saw the ground rapidly approaching from a great height! Prophecy! #monsterdon

@floatybirb Applejack. As in the kids cereal #monsterdon

No shame Pierre. I have trouble walking down stairs as well. #Monsterdon

it looks like some sort of flying battleship got him

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@neia actually kinda think so, cops used to do that

then it got defunded (from cops) and everything got better

[glares at camera] #monsterdon

@floatybirb I love him but I am not drinking his moonshine. #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

because if there's one thing rural Quebecois are known for, it's their excellent english #monsterdon

@floatybirb It's a miraculous power called "Matchbox Variety Set" :P #Monsterdon

PIlots should really be required to have 20/20 vision. #Monsterdon

The first couple of glimpses of it look like a gigantic fast moving dust bunny with chicken legs #Monsterdon

The score indicates something dramatic is about to happen... #Monsterdon

To be fair, McAfee's scans are never reliable #Monsterdon

@blogdiva Experts in RADAR make BIG MONEY and EAT STEAK! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw I'm guessing that we're supposed to like the electronics guy and hate the major chewing him out?

Also, pretty sure they would not launch all the interceptors for one UFO. Unless they thought it was a spy balloon, or like an #Xcom alien terror ship.

In many other endeavours besides national defense, it's frequently better to be sorry than safe.

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It's hard to tell with that tiny forehead but that test pilot was Exeter in This Island Earth. #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

what if there's no more dialogue it's just all this narrator describing everything

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so... they filmed the whole scene, and then decided it sucked so bad that narration over it was actually better? #monsterdon

So we scrambled the jets we keep a thousand miles away, where it ISN'T snowy! #Monsterdon

Honestly though the narration is giving big Educational Short Film vibes. #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

It starts out like Dragnet but with scientists, airplanes, and a …something in the sky. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw Guessing that the scientist lady with the clipboard is going to be The Pretty Lady for this movie. Or possibly one of two Pretty Ladies.

Also, we get some P-80 jet planes going zoom and vague sexual harassment before we find a UFO. Or rather, narration that we found a UFO?

This is off to a start.

Military Officer: A man makes his own rules.
Woman: So does a three-year-old child until he is spanked.

#Monsterdon Social Commentary
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this is technically both show AND tell, but... #monsterdon

All the folks just reacted like they heard the narrator. LOL!

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So if you’ve not seen The Giant Claw. You will experience a unique movie monster. Yeah let’s say that #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw We begin with a voiceover and the fakest looking globe either. Well, I mean that its a real globe, but looks like a really fake Earth.

Also, we get a hagiography of early warning radars. I feel like early warning radars need more hagiographers.

"time has lost all meaning" dude you have no idea. #monsterdon

We don't have movies with slow zoom on a rotating globe anymore. Sad! #monsterdon

"Time has lost all meaning"--well, I give the movie props for understanding itself right out of the gate. #Monsterdon

"Once the world was big." Okay then! #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

just mashed play on #monsterdon #WeGotMovieSign

@strangefour "Narrator: It was plastic" #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

@Louisa I'd pay good money to see that awful puppet crunch on a parachuting Tim Allen in a Santa outfit. #Monsterdon #TheGiantClaw

@RufusJCooter The camera never pans down. Maybe they did take them off. We can dream. #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial She's... Such a glorious cartoon caricature of a molting Canadian goose. #Monsterdon

@trixter Bird? Snake? Bat? When will monster movies ever get taxonomy correct? #Monsterdon

@nebkor HAH! Yeah I always assumed it was more bird like. #Monsterdon

Also, this song is not about THIS kind of Claw, but it IS called The Claw Is The Law, so I'm posting it anyway

#Monsterdon #TheClawIsTheLaw #HeavyFuckingMetal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3E6CoF7FY

Boom shot Big Bird and it is going into the sea THE END

Honda would be proud of such an.ending. Thanks for another delightful #Monsterdon @Taweret

@strangefour Too exquisite for this world #monsterdon

@coriander We ain't got time for no denouement, we gotta ship this print #monsterdon