OMG THAT WOODEN MAST LADY IS CREEPY! and love the bad creeking wood sound effect. also, fuck creepy Doctor Who in brownface.

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#monsterdon That wasn't terrible! I didn't fall asleep! Huzzah! Thanks @Taweret :)

Well, #Monsterdon crew, that was a stop motion master class. What a blast! Thanks @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for a great end to the weekend.

#monsterdon At the beginning of the film, the adventure started when they found that medallion and went way off course.

I wonder what their original course was. Are people still waiting for them at their original destination?

mariana looks like she came out of an Avon catalog with that makeup of hers.

ok, i said wasnt writing much. i guess i lied.

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) - 2/5

A canonical "not for me" movie that was still bearable

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This ending is some Game of Thrones King Bran energy

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"...and I completely forgot the way to the Fountain of Youth so we don't live for hundreds of years like decadent vampires"

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Ladies and gentlemen, ALEC GUINNESS!

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The Helmet of Plastic Surgery.

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@SnoopJ Yeah these riches seem pretty told.

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so do we at least get the riches or do we just get a hallucinatory image of what it would look like if we did #monsterdon

If you're stabbed in the Fountain of Youth are you invincible?

Apparently not

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Get a bag of flour!
A tin of paint!

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Throw paint on him, Sinbad! It's your only hope!

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#monsterdon Feel like this shield of darkness could be defeated by a splash of mud

congratulations: god is dead and we killed him

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we have been goatsed by that cave… twice if you count the doors.

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Either this is oddly romantic or I've spent too much time at Deviantart

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looking back at this movie era, you can tell that back in the 1970s there was a whole cottage industry of B to Z movies that were obvious working summer vacations for the producers. Star Wars became the most successful of the bunch.

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Koura, who turned water into piss

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This has Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade energy

Tom Baker will choose....poorly..

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Don't try to drink from it, you have to have a tricorder to disable the forcefield. #monsterdon

I really thought Vizier was only gonna have one eye and that was gonna be the thing that wigged out the islanders. But nope, just fugly.

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(damn, this thunderstorm straight up louder than the movie. fingers crossed for my power. 🤞 )

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Oh, he's got his Shenmue amulet assembled

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their hands are also smoking after sliding down that rope like that

OW

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I love these multi-monster movies where #Monsterdon is losing its mind for the Creatures and just when I think it's crested, a new Creature emerges

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DANGIT! am late to #monsterdon but am gonna watch anyways. didn’t know it has the creepy Doctor…

CENTAUR!

AND CYCLOPS!

Two for One!

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(okay, this fight will be interrupted by like quarter sized hail at my place)

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is it IN the statue?

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Kali is like, "...Bitch."

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The Lemurians are gamma-irradiated. Don't make them angry. You wouldn't like them when they're angry.

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tfw the thief kills your homunculus twice

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Ha! Tie up your camel. Okay that was both a solid joke AND a good callback. Sinbad's got my vote.

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"Come on, men, trust in Allah!"

[pants fall down, men burst into laughter]

"…but tie up your camel"

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And a million archeologists cried out and were suddenly silenced. #monsterdon

"Can you repeat that, I wasn't listening...."

"GO NORTH!"

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"Kiiiiirk! Captain Kiiiiirk!"

"No, wrong set."

"Sorry, sorry, my bad."

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"Make sure every man gets wine"

Typical Tom Baker

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Remake of this movie purely from the POV of the homunculi

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I think if a figurehead had ever come alive and attacked the crew of a ship, sales of figureheads on boats would decline in the near future.

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Holding a gigantic bong

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I was just thinking "agh, this actor reminds me of someone so much, let's see who it TOM BAKER HOLY CRAP"

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I'm slow on the uptake so I just realized that Koura is also the Fourth Doctor.

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"Master, would you like some Pedialyte?"

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Boy this magic stuff really takes a lot out of Koura, huh?

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the light of the fire reflecting on the creature, top work!

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You can rely on Tom Baker to emote "jacking into a wooden figurehead and causing a ruckus" , can't you?

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Harryhausen Creature!

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The day for night is… WOOF

But isn't it always?

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"Once before. And we crashed. And most of the other guys died."

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@dpiponi the score is brilliant! very dramatic but not overwrought as was so common of the era

overall I get the sense that this was the work of a team firing on all cylinders, especially since the budget was apparently quite small

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It’s a map!

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Please, enter our stone vagina.

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Every black art. Black macrame. Black watercolors. You name it.

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"Our country is being choked alive by a great evil"

Topical...

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a random website tells me the average film budget in 1978 was about $5M, and Wikipedia points out that this movie coming in just shy of $1M was a small budget for the time

in light of this, I'm pleasantly surprised by how much value they're getting on their money. really effective filmmaking tbh

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the budget was $982,351 dollars (1973 dollars) according to Wikipedia

ETA: that's about $7M today.

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see, this is what happens when you don't set your phone to Boat Mode

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Omg this has a credit not just for continuity but for ASSISTANT continuity as well. This movie is so fuckin continuous you won't even be able to tell one scene from the next.
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New Mandela Effect entry about the color of Columbia's sash

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OMG just as i thought the TinTin factor couldn’t get worse in this movie, they give us green weirdos with every asian symbol imaginable screaming in tongues before a metal Kali busts out a move for the creepy Doctor.

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Meanwhile my cat just carried an ice cube from one end of the house down to my computer room so she could show me how she plays with it.
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the orientalism… it burns

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"Hey. Hey! Hold your camels." -Shaq
Tie up your camels!!
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We go back to the boat, and Sinbad tells the One Girl that he gave up the crown because he is chaotic good and likes freedom and is also free to marry whoever he likes (probably the one girl that we've seen).

Then the drunk guy does a comic relief by accidentally bungee jumping from a mast and we repeat the proverb "trust in allah but tie up your camel!"

then the movie ends.

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@CactuarJoe Hey, with the things I've seen? This is Oscar worthy. #Monsterdon #TheGoldenVoyageofSinbad 🎥🍿

Okay, this one was actually watchable, if a bit slow to get going. Kalimation sequence was very choice. #Monsterdon #Sinbad1973 #GoldenVoyage1973

Yeah I think I'm taking my camel outta here. Good job, people, just one last task as always;

Was THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1974) the WORST #MONSTERDON MOVIE of the year?

"But tie up your camel!" Hahaha they brought it back. 🐪 🐫
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The crew fucks off into the ocean with one last "Trust in Allah (but tie up your camel)"

That was a lot of fun!

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A tie up your camel comedic rule of thirds

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She has a huge wardrobe, and I don’t remember seeing her luggage come aboard.

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PISS FOUNTAIN

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So... are they just gonna leave the Fountain of Youth there without takin a sip?

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What was the point of this voyage again? I forgot

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#monsterdon Ok, I've got my hat, we're done here.

I didn't have a Griffin vs Cyclops Centaur on my bingo card.

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@bryanhowell Lawful Neutral

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RIDE THE MONOTAUR!

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Harryhausen Sinbad!

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Are we clear on which monster is "good" and "evil" in this equation? I don't think i'd invite either out for a drink.

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Help a Gryphon out?!

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Wow man Caroline's tits steal the fucking show

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I regret nothing

…yeah, but what about the casual racism and slavery?

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Boom and now her outfit is different. Oops. Continuity!

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ohhh he wasn't worried about getting his vital life-force drained because the treasure at the end of the mcguffin path was the fountain of youth

huh

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Big "dropped my phone down a ravine" energy

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HAHAHA the chest exploded

incredible stuff

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Cyclops _and_ a centaur?! #monsterdon

This is all very 'Temple Of Doom'

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@crowbriarhexe this whole movie is just a really elaborate alka-seltzer commercial

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"Shall receive in turn....a £50 gift voucher to Argos"

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I've already "tied my camel", does that count?

"I will take this back to the British Museum!"
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Achmed... go now. GET TO THE CHOPPA!

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guy was packing the vial of sunny D #monsterdon