Oh. Looks like the magnetic Monster was a weird on? Hmm possible disappointing but funny. Maybe I'll watch it before i fall asleep.
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@xerozohar I'm not convinced. #monsterdon

"Magnetic Monster" was certainly a movie. :blobcat_beret_coffee: #monsterdon

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We never did learn why they shut down the A-Men's facility when the State University imploded.

They said they'd explain that.

@Zerofactorial @diazona @Louisa As someone else pointed out tonight, Lovecraft's "The Color out of Space" is a story about an insubstantial threat. Couple of other authors wrote a novel that was a sequel to it: The Color out of Time. Yes, I know Lovecraft was a hideous racist. That's not what the story is about. #Monsterdon

@floatybirb @forestine Based on my experience I almost feel like it wouldn't really be #Monsterdon if the movie did explain things well enough

@bunnyhero I think that's been in the #monsterdon polls before

@aburka @CactuarJoe I don't know if they have individual names #Monsterdon

@bunnyhero Oh yeah I've got that too xD

I like that one, but I've seen it enough times.

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@aburka @CactuarJoe Could be. A bunch of the kaiju movies don't come close #Monsterdon

aha, found it! it was THE MONOLITH MONSTERS #monsterdon

I liked this #monsterdon film. A sort of disaster movie / science procedural.

Very similar to 'Andromeda Strain'.

honestly the best part of this movie was getting to see setwork and SFX from a better movie but it's really kind of worth it for that to me.

#monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

@Zerofactorial @CactuarJoe oh! I think that's the first since I joined #monsterdon

Gotta check out of #Monsterdon now! What fun!

Thanks To: @cheribaker for the Bingo card (favorite = Attractive Retro Fashion)
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@Taweret for a busy week of hosting duties (always so plugged in)
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The Attractive Commentators, who were able to quickly develop cinematic and social insights from what turns out to be very little. (Conductive reasoning?)

Good night!

@aburka @Zerofactorial No, it was bad. But it was bad in a more enjoyable way, at least. I wouldn't watch it alone, though, y'gotta make fun of it to survive :P #Monsterdon

@wohali @bunnyhero Does Dr. Stewart's wife have her baby in one of the others? #Monsterdon

“Our Earth is a planet.” Holy shit! Why wasn’t I informed! #monsterdon

Thanks for another awesome Monsterdon presentation folks! Here's one last shot of tonight's new art! Until next week!
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@Zerofactorial They put a Spirit Halloween Store mask on a power plant and go to town. #Monsterdon

switching over from #Monsterdon to #Monarch. I’ll get my fixes somehow!

@aburka well said

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@diazona It was a monster movie with no monster, and I'm not entirely convinced there was a movie in there either #monsterdon

anyway good job everybody and thanks @Taweret for hosting as always ^_^

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So did this movie stumble so Godzilla could run? You can see the clear post-war scientific inspiration: terrible, powerful atomic stuff that is unfathomably dangerous to humans because it doesn't alert any of our senses, unlike most other threats

So you want to make a movie about how dangerous it is

But for a movie, you actually do need to focus it into something we can sense, like a big dinosaur/dragon

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@neia yeah but an actual magnetic monopole _would_ make us throw out everything we know about electromagnetism, so that would be fun

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See, MANIAC isn't a sci-fi acronym because it's a real giant computer brain machine? #monsterdon

Not only were there no monsters, the magnets were monopoles. That's like half as much magnet per magnet. Total ripoff.

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@bunnyhero Yep, in the age of ENIAC and ILLIAC and all that ilk #Monsterdon

@apLundell you too could be the next Magnetic Monster! order now! #monsterdon

#monsterdon think the problem with that one was that there wasn't a critter to have rizz so "magnetic monster" felt like false advertising

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@wohali I kind of want to complete the trilogy now but I'm not sure I can take it

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I live 2 miles from this place https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Hill_(Delaware) so I've been the magnetic monster all along

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Y'know, in real life we give major radioactive disasters scary and ominous names like "the demon core" or "the elephant's foot".

But we still don't talk about them like they're literal forces of evil trying to consume us. We just don't conceptualize these things as monstrous, not in that way at at least.

So it feels really weird to get to the end of the movie and he's acting like "yes, we defeated the evil monster!"

Buddy you did not earn that. You buried a spicy rock.

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@apLundell It's from 1953. Clearly you meant LiveJournal. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

@wohali even after looking this up I still don't know if I believe it
#Monsterdon

Anyway, good job everyone, hit the showers. I think we deserve a Godzilla movie next week :P #Monsterdon

I have a story, 1980, McNary hall OSU Blind guy with a cane walks up, Bob (not not his real name) runs up grabs the cane "what are ya blind?" We all stare in horror, "yes" Bob turns red, WTAF BOB?! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon have we done "fiend without a face" yet? feel like you'd all be more into that one

There was a scene with more than one woman in frame, but no named pair spoke to one another #Monsterdon #bechdeltest

I kept waiting for them to tie in electromagnetic radiation and alpha radiation somehow #Monsterdon

truly deserving of the traditional
5/5
"what"
i laughed until i cried, excellent film.
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@diazona @CactuarJoe That's true, a guy stole a cane from a virtually impaired citizen #Monsterdon

And the ending credit music is clearly being played by the band at your local roller rink, circa 1953. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

@CactuarJoe Hey now, that's not fair, one thing happened.

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@aburka Tubi kinda played fast and loose with the facts #Monsterdon

Please tell me they sold fridge magnets to promote this film. I’d still buy one.

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A good time but sadly light on "monster." Just remember don't feed your magnet after midnight!
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@CactuarJoe it wasn't really canada anyway, they were all british. #monsterdon

That was a weird final thought.

He should save stuff like that for his Tumblr. Not deliver it to camera just as he and his wife are about to cross the threshold of their new house.

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#monsterdon that was, uh, one hell of closing musical number

On the plus side, bingo!

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Aww. Isn't she lovely?
Isn't she wonderful?
Isn't she precious?
Less than one minute old
I never thought through love we'd be
Making one as lovely as she
But isn't she lovely made from love?
#Monsterdon

People did irresponsible things with mercury back then? They could've had a big blob of mercury attack a miniature city as the magnetic monster. #monsterdon

@jonny If this flirtatious banter doesn't kill her nothing will #Monsterdon

Also they blew up CANADA and not LOUISVILLE, LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO >:( #Monsterdon

That movie was fucking terrible, and not in a good way at all. I'm ashamed to admit I may have voted for it based only on the title. Kaiju next week please #monsterdon

Thus ends our first monsterfreedon. Or perhaps just don. I'm gonna go with don. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster #justdon

IT really did fuck off into the sea #Monsterdon

Thanks @Taweret and the #Monsterdon gang.

I don't feel like the music over the closing credits bodes well for our lead couple's family life, either! #Monsterdon

Nazi Scientists ... F*** off ...
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@steggy the sequel to this better be "Son of the #MagneticMonster " about the mutated baby. #Monsterdon

The monster was the friends we made along the way. :blobcat_coffee: Goodnight, #Monsterdon!

thanks all for a monsterless #monsterdon and to @Taweret for organizing!

IT STINKS! #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

ok i don't think i had seen this one after all. i was thinking of another 50s b-movie where there wasn't an actual monster but some science stuff instead. wish i could remember what it was called #monsterdon

I think it's safe to say that was #Monsterdon 's Radar Secret Service. A slow, boring movie about Government Men Protecting The Public where nothing happens and we all nearly go mad from the sheer tedium.

@jonny oh the writers thought of that, and put in a really really bad monologue about how love is the opposite of magnetism or something I don't know it was so bad #monsterdon

:bing: How do I feed my magnet? How often do I need to feed my magnet?
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And that's why through one man's sacrifice we have crummy refrigerator magnets today #Monsterdon

@Taweret without love THE MONSTER GROWS

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you're not sure what you're talking about, i'm not sure what you're talking about, it's all good #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

moral of the story:
feeding out of fear = magnet that consumes all the earth's electricity
feeding out of love = rich saucy baby
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"Done through love, it's always a baby." My friend, let me introduce you to queer relationships.
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Welp. That was... definitely a movie. That we just watched.

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Shame on you Curt Siodmark! Bad director! Bad! #Monsterdon

@Taweret Someone had some things to work through? Cheaper than therapy? #Monsterdon

THE MAN FINALLY GOT TO TOUCH GRASS

now he thinks he's some kinda philosopher

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“Jeff…what the FUCK are you talking about” #monsterdon

so... he had a wife so we would know he'd be the one to survive the film? i mean, if he just needed someone to spout the moral of the film at, he had plenty of co-workers. #monsterdon

And we do get back to the wife and they F off into the new cheap house!

#Monsterdon

"...the secret of multiplication"
"what are you talking about?"
"with love, multiplication makes a baby"
"oh ... wow, didn't know that"

#Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

Not gonna get a finishing shot of the Hanrgium regenerating itself on the ocean floor, are we? #Monsterdon

remember to feed your magnets so they don't get hungry and explode

ty for joining, everyone!!

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@Taweret Sequel bait. Next up THE MAGNETIC BABY #monsterdon

Guy has prob been exposed to so much radiation his baby will have 2 heads.

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So the Peanuts adults are the voice announcers at the airport? #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

I think that giant magnet affected this guy's mind.

#monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

@brion It *was* a huge door

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They go inside the house, and the Magnetic Monster emerges from the closet and kills them all! #Monsterdon

Don't worry, they're Non Magnetic cutters so he'll be okay

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There is no loading in the red zone

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okay, completion with a tool drop was actually pretty clever! #monsterdon

Thanks for the stock footage, I guess #Monsterdon

TMI #Monsterdon

"it's gone forever" sounds like ironic foreshadowing. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

ah they got the peanuts adults voice for the airport announcer #monsterdon

@aburka lol

Though to be fair I thought those were the cables holding the giant doors open (or at least that's what we were supposed to think)

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