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Youโre trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson
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Youโre trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson
Mrs. Kester is as drunk as the Salvation Army bell-ringer at Walmart today.
a lot of interesting denim in this movie so far
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She wants to fuck. #monsterdon
Wow. I have never disliked EVERY human in the movie in under 3 minutes of it starting.
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I feel like I might have heard Alan Hale use the phrase โLittle buddyโ somewhere before. #Monsterdon
Wasn't that Shatner spider movie also based in the Southwest? Guess that's just something we were doing in the '70s. #monsterdon
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Hee-haw!
She wants to know if the spiders will give her a belly rub...
#monsterdon Hey little buddy! I was not prepared for Alan Hale Jr. to rock that out right at the start! Holy moley!
How often do you find roosters in your truck? ๐คจ
I wasn't a fan of the hair, but the shirt is doing it for me. #monsterdon
they had him say 'little buddy'
#monsterdon Katie has already turned her back on me (metaphorically) and on the television (literally).
Little buddy! #monsterdon
Oh sheeiiit
And he's already said "Little Buddy" in the second line of dialog!
This movie is so bad, won't take long for you to be Go Team Spiders #Monsterdon
Anyway, letโs go and giantly invade with the spiders! #Monsterdon
Had to miss last week's monster wrestling feature, but I'm back for the spiders!
Go! Go! Go! Time for black holes and giant spiders - or VW beetles with spider legs tacked on the top, if you can't suspend your disbelief enough.
@JoeWynne @jonny @lytta @diazona @jgamble Two bids even, but I guess you'd have to reach the 75k. Video: https://hachyderm.io/@combatwombat/113641653659397928
Tonights #monsterdon had ~165 participants. That's just $454 each. But what to do with it. I guess Tubi doesn't pay much back for the ads...
@Taweret Some terrific, radiant, humble, thingamajig of a Spider Jesus
Am still kind of amazed that 4k versions of that movie exists and Paul bought one.
I take responsibility for having voted for this movie.
It seems to have many messages, none of them good.
The large spider met a predictably disgusting end.
But at least Barbara Hale, better known as Della Street on Perry Mason got to be an action hero astrophysicist, and survived. Neutron bomblet notwithstanding.
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@diazona @jgamble WHAT WE KNEW ABOUT IT and didn't try and acquire a movie!!?!!?!?!? #monsterdon
@CactuarJoe I was wondering if those two were left alive. The two doctors are alive but are so shaken by the experience they decide to become hermits or something #monsterdon
@superball @floatybirb You do miss things, but I go back and read through the threads later. I find I miss more of the movie than anything. ๐
Here's that remix I promised you (do not listen to this, it is bad) #monsterdon
@unixjunk1e then bark at the moon
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If I was forced to buy this movie, I'd want it on Super-8.
Really? Honk at the spider?
Also, for how Ron-Jeremy-looking NASA guy was, it's remarkable how not horny he was? Like, the least horny of any of the named characters?
Also, not a scientist, but: I wouldn't keep all my chem lab glassware & bunsen burners, etc., right next to all my oscilloscopes. Just me!
@diazona @Brookside Maybe the forward-shot started with the injured crew running away from the spider so they'd've had to cut in late so they decided to run it backwards so everyone would pay attention to that instead of the missing start of the explosion?
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@Zerofactorial I mean, would you? #Monsterdon
I think that sheriff is on a 3 hour shift
An eyeglasses emergency precluded me from finishing this one but I won't forget those giant webs for a long, long time!
@jadebees that's a valid take. I was thinking he was there to add an (optional) Christian framing to the movie. Like it gave you the options of viewing the events from a religious lens with the preacher or a scientific lens with the astrophysicists.
@Cherizilla It started autoplaying for me!
i kind of felt like the revival preacher stuff was meant to be ironic? but the quality of the movie means it wasn't really clear
@jgamble heh, well... if the motivation was really there we definitely could have come up with the money. I dunno that anyone involved in #Monsterdon would really know what to do with film rights though
@floatybirb @jonny One spider to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them?
@RobynGoodfellow It was rescheduled for the following year, and after the invention of the six-legged accordion, giant spiders have dominated the polka charts every year
Kept hoping Dr. Langer would talk to one of the other women for a brief moment, but no #monsterdon #bechdeltest
@lytta His wig fell off, so he had them edit him out.
@ricci Spiderspider, Spiderspider, does whatever a spider spider
yall need to read the IMDB trivia on this shitfest. Amazing. People nearly died.
@bunnyhero @srol I guess there weren't many good movies in 1975, or maybe there were only 50 movies made that year.
Why does the creepy preacher get the last word? What did he have to do with anything?
In other news, it looks like the local tv intro was โSon of Ghoulโ from Akron, Ohio. Canโt find when that show played Giant Spider Invasion, so not sure about the date. #monsterdon
The moral of the story is you might think a movie with William Shatner vs. a bunch of invading spiders is a terrible idea, but that isn't anywhere near as bad as things can get #monsterdon
Out of curiosity, did anyone else watch The Mystery Science Theater version with me?
https://youtu.be/MMm0kLeogwQ?si=0dJpGHNG2eEu0uTH
I loved every single "GO PACKERS" post. That's just paying homage to our roots. #Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion
@jgamble We thought about it
It may be for the best that we didn't
@jonny It might have been one big spider to guard all the little spider eggs?
Yeah, this ending didn't make a lick of sense #monsterdon
You mean you had cops and spiders and no one did the spider-pig song? #iMnotMadJustDisappointed #Monsterdon
@paco should've featured a spider
definitely didn't beat that one godzilla movie with the giant spider. now THAT was a quality spider.
.....too bad that movie was son of godzilla.
@srol whaaaat #monsterdon
@lola I guess the spider could have refused to appear in this movie but otherwise yeah totally
Big thanks to @Taweret for the week's monster flick ... the Giant Spider (singular) did, indeed, invade.
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to #TeamSpider voting to make the dream/nightmare finally happen ๐ท๏ธ #monsterdon
@ricci Too bad the woman who invented Spider-ade didn't live to see her invention take off.
BUG BREACH #monsterdon #helldivers
I love how they took the trouble to paint the knees orange on the giant puppet Fire Leg spider.
aw man. I missed Eight Legged Freaks (1975)
Betty Boob gets the cover shot on Tubi
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@brooke You definitely want to use ranged weapons and keep it from getting any attacks of opportunity.
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y'all were 100% correct that this movie stopped but it did not end but good news they threw in a little more preaching I guess.
Welp, thanks @Taweret for hosting, and @Cherizilla for bingo, and @JoeWynne for trivia and all you delightful #monsterdonians for making it super fun!
Spideys ftw!
Interesting the neither the NASA scientist or the astronomer PhD even considered trying to see where the portal lead to.
Seems like people in their profession would be at least a little curious. #monsterdon
Darn it, the collective power of #Monsterdon could have acquired this movie.
@ramsey well why would we? when life gives you spiders, make, uh, spider, uh, aide
Still behind, some lawman is whipping a big spider with his belt and holster, then WHAT IS HAPPENING ON SCREEN?, CAN NOT MAKE ANYTHING OUT.'
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For a while, #Monsterdon watched actual bangers, movies that were *good movies* in addition to being monster movies. And with good production values and innovative filmmaking!
Well, not this time. ๐ That was absolute garbage.
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Bekenstein is spinning in his grave at this movie.
@jonny It is like Sodom and Gomorrah because they are diamond-fakers and creeps and must be destroyed instead of saved.
Did the spider have anything to do with Dutch's bloody death, directly? It looked as though he just fell down because of the mob frenzy? #monsterdon
๐ค great fun, bye everyone, thanks @ryan for the smooth stream and @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon
@jonny Forget NASA, just the power of a flare gun, apparently. Godโs will has a kill spot. #monsterdon
Thank god for Caltech though. Right? #Monsterdon
@ricci They didn't shower it with neutrons, nor did they choke it with mass.
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That giant space spider corpse is sure oozing a lot of goo.
Go. Packers.
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@diazona @Taweret Right? #Monsterdon
Wait did he kill the Giant Spider with a flare gun? Thatโs it??? #Monsterdon
Well, at least a cop got killed
โIt will happen againโ OMG, donโt let it happen again. That was hideous ๐คฃ#Monsterdon
If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION (1975). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:
@apLundell Yea, that is a head scratcher.
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If you have a gun, maybe don't get in melee range with the dire spider??? #Monsterdon
@catzilla I think its a night scene filmed after dark, instead of night-for-day filters. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon mother queen bee? Maam that is a spider
I've been waiting to watch #TheGiantSpiderInvasion for #Monsterdon for months! Thanks @Taweret for making it possible to see spiders and butts in the same movie!
The end of this movie was like when you're remodeling your home. At some stage the producers just got fed up and said โlet's call it a day and roll the creditsโ. And that was it.
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