Poor Dr. Benton has been doing science stuff in a Nova Scotia fine shaft for 11 years ... let the poor guy out once in a while for some Tim Horton's now and again, you tyrants!
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Big questions are what movie this set was actually made for and was it ever made?
Also, strong MIB energies coming out of assistant dude there. "Do you have a better plan?"
@Taweret They couldn't be bothered to have a scene with a cute dog or something...something #Monsterdon
We don't typically measure "loads" in volts.
Also, how many amps can this baby put out at 600 megavolts?
A monster like Magetic Monster has got a great big hole right in the middle of it. It can never kill enough, or eat enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it. #Monsterdon
Canadian top secret power plants are amazing. #monsterdon
"This is preposterous!"
do you realize what movie you're in sir???
#monsterdon
@OldRustBucket You think so? There have been zero so far... #monsterdon
Hey did anybody catch what the maximum output of this machine is? I don't remember if they mentioned it.
@RobynGoodfellow Itβs not cheap to move all that stuff from Germany. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
C'mon, say it. You're going to need to turn it up to eleven!
We might get some nice physical effects here. #Monsterdon
βand if it assimilates it?β well shit I didnβt think about that so Iβm gonna say some vague shit that sounds intimidating #monsterdon
Take EXTREME CARE around the top-level glass condoms. They're IRREPLACEABLE!
Now let's get this element fucked, shall we?
@Taweret even superman managed to have Nuke-you-ler man
Nova Scotia! #monsterdon
Here's where all the money on the movie was spent: On stealing props from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
The Canadians in this visit to Nova Scotia sound awfully British. #Monsterdon
Film censor Will H. Hays is unamused with the eroticism of that jet refueling scene ...
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ok the deltatron set/model looks cool #monsterdon
These are the worst Canadian accents I have ever heard. #monsterdon
This script is 90% tell and 10% show, and the parts it shows aren't the parts we want to see #Monsterdon
There's plenty to do in Nova Scotia: parks, restaurants, kayak symposiums, fossil cliffs, lobster crawls. #Monsterdon
okay I _like_ the tiny train. #monsterdon
Fine, I love the train. I LOVE THE TRAIN
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I wonder if the Deltatron shares any technology with the turboencabulator. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster
"...we're going to make magnetic foie gras"
"How do you plan to use my Deltatron?" You scientists and your pick-up lines. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
the DELTATRON, the MANIAC, and the ELEMENT
βͺ delta tron
what's that power you've got on β«
Can the container at least make some growling noises? #Monsterdon
So the problem is that we have a mine shaft gap?
Superconductive Trivia
The underground magneto-dynamo footage is from German movie "Gold" from 1934.
Apparently, I'm behind everybody else...this really isn't a municipal emergency. At least at the State/Federal level. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon I'm disappointed that they weren't greeted by Mounties upon arriving in Canada.
They probably have to pump air in and out of this hole and they're still smoking inside?
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didn't the beginning of 2012 start with some dudes in a mine? i almost miss that movie right now... #monsterdon
i wonder what the fat zesty baby is up to right now #monsterdon
Canadians Love it when you bring unstable, uncontrollable radioactive explosives to Nova Scotia.
Well, at least they're polite about it.
...Why does the Canadian have an accent? Was Canadian considered Foreign Enough in the 50s? #Monsterdon
Here come the Americans!
I hope they know what they're doing!
(Oh, my sweet Canadian summer child...)
@Taweret maybe we were the real magnetic monsters all along #monsterdon
@Taweret Must be THAT one Italian director! #NeverForget #Monsterdon
"Destination, Nova Scotia. What we do when we get there, no one knows for sure."
70 years later, this is still true. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster
@Taweret Come on, movie! There's still time. You have to have some pipecleaners laying around #Monsterdon
YOU ARE SMOKING IN AN OLD MINE?! #monsterdon
@SnoopJ SCIENCE
Voiceover says there's a chained beast in there but all I see is a chrome can. Booo #Monsterdon
did... canadians speak with a british accent in the 50s??? #monsterdon
The element has been fed, changed, put down for its nap, and is now watching Bluey on its ipad
Wild to realize that an intracontinental flight needs mid-air refueling in this time period
@OldRustBucket "crazy, but also very wealthy"
#Monsterdon #MagneticMonster
"...here are the Americans"
"how can you tell?"
"do you see how they're driving?"
"oh, right!"
there really isn't gonna be a monster, is there?
"We can pad the movie with 10 minutes of in-flight refueling footage if we say they have to move it to Canada" #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
And this is how baby planes are made. #Monsterdon
βThe element is hungryβ is going to stay with me forever. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
I do enjoy a good sci-fi acronym and M.A.N.I.A.C...is ok. #monsterdon
well we just had these aerial refueling shots, those are always cool #monsterdon
@Taweret I wish they hadn't dropped the hardware store plotline #Monsterdon
To its credit, no one in this movie has yet tried to make money off this new element. #Monsterdon
oh god Joel they worked in more Starfighters!
we got that military B-roll #monsterdon
new kid's game, hungry hungry elements #monsterdon
We've just found that lost plane footage of Stanley Kubrick's.
@Taweret that was before its tummy really got a rumblin
If you raise it past the Curie point? (Madam starts calling HR) #Monsterdon
i miss the magnet police. that was the most fun part of the movie
@ryan Thatβs the secret. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
Maybe-- maybe the element just wants to be loved #monsterdon
@SnoopJ Ah I didn't think of subtitles. I dunno, it's also possible I could have misheard.
All we have to do is have Frodo carry the element to Mordor and throw it into the fires of Mt. Doom #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial It's difficult to make it seem like a city has four million inhabitants when you film budget is four thousand dollars. #Monsterdon
@yatsu Perhaps even⦠queer. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
no rocket is powerful enough but we can easily transport it on this plane
i thought i'd seen this but maybe i haven't? i could have sworn my letterboxd log included it but i am mistaken. but parts seem familiar π€ #monsterdon
@ryan @trixter particles? #Monsterdon
wait, they're gonna put it in a plane...again? #monsterdon
This got two sequels.
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The city's population is 4 million? Sure doesn't look like it #Monsterdon
@trixter they got the guys who wave #monsterdon
I do enjoy a good sci-fi acronym and M.A.N.I.A.C...is ok. #monsterdon
Told ya this guy was chill
Well, on the bright side, if the earth goes spinning off of its equilibrium, then at least the Soviets lose the Cold War β¦ Take THAT, Khrushchev!
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I appreciate your enthusiasm, pal, but there's such a thing as over-acting the part.
No captain... *dapperly grips jacket* #monsterdon
"...according to the maniac, we'll need 900,000,000 volts"
Canada to the rescue. #Monsterdon
The mayor is very well informed. #Monsterdon
βHow can we evacuate four million people in five hours?β - a question youβd never hear anyone ask in a Toho movie, they know how to evacuate #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster
Deltatron, what's that power you run on, can you split this evil magnet into parrrrrrrrrts?
i did not expect the Canadian government π bring in the Avro Arrow next #Monsterdon
I think enough mass to make the earth's orbit eccentric kinda implies that the orbital eccentricity is the least of your problem. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster
THE POWER OF CANADA! #monsterdon
@jonny Turns out, if you need two pole pigs, even if it's not strictly legal if your coop knows you'll pay for .... nuthin! #Monsterdon
Sure, shoot all the town's electricity into space on a rocket
(I know, that's not what they meant, still sounds funny)
@CactuarJoe The room size computer printing out on typewriters is pretty much the only semi-realistic bit here I think XD #monsterdon
i mean okay, i'm here for it, but i just-- that's a new one. #monsterdon