Paul informs me that narrator was the original voice of Boris in Rocky and Bullwinkle.

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"He's got him a wagon, and they call it a woody.
Monolith monsters, here we come"

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#Monsterdon the little town of Matte Painting, California

#Monsterdon a young John Carpenter must have said “God! That sounds awesome!” Dee-daaah!

#Monsterdon Hmmm, the most sinister obsidian ever seen.

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Luckily this music is telling us how we should feel about these scenes

pet rock! free pet rock! keep it! #monsterdon

The soundtrack is ready to bludgeon us into submission. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I really hope that’s water he’s putting in the radiator.

@brooke Oh, the spaceforce and/or department of homeworld security?

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That clean refreshing water seems like foreshadowing #monsterdon

Station wagon envy. Even with the radiator.

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#TheMonolithMonsters

I hope you have a spare draincock, or it's a long walk home. #Monsterdon

The Monolith Monsters, a film in which snobbish film buffs invade the earth from space proclaiming 2001 "Is just the best film ever, man. It's all downhill from here."

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Man our volume control is stuck and this is at a really loud level!

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I'd love to see a movie depict impacts at cosmic velocities accurately, ow well.

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon department of the interior implies the department of the exterior

Wow, nice setting. Very dramatic landscape

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okay those rocks DO look like they're up to something

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Oh, gross, someone had to go to Bakersfield. The true horror of #Monsterdon

Just tuning in to #Monsterdon and that was a GREAT explosion!!! 🤯

@howler0502 #monsterdon
You can’t be too careful.

#monsterdon PISSWORLD.

In good news, the subs from tubi seem to work well with the colorized version...

#Monsterdon dun dun Dunnnn! Piercing! So so deep. Into our atmosphere.

from infinity - and beyond!

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

tldr that entire intro; rocks sometimes fall from the sky #Monsterdon

Making meteors sounds like Immigrants, tsk....

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"From time immemorial..."

Starting off ridiculous.

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(i wish something would bombard us from space right now.)

(i may be more morose than usual, my apologies but then again not.)

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#monsterdon root post. I want this narrator’s delivery.

We have NARRATOR!

And to be specific, Paul Frees. :D

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Paper-mâché Earth is a great start

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Welcome to the desert, where even the tumbleweeds have a better agent than this movie. #monsterdon

Starting #monsterdon on a science lesson, which is always a great sign.

ooo, meteor crater in Arizona #monsterdon

#Monsterdon shout out to meteor crater, arizona

OBJECTS? from OUTER SPACE?

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#Monsterdon Dramatic trumpets! We have not yet begun the rock music.

Let's go #monsterdon

ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@markwyner Negative cleavage!

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(Sorry @markwryner)

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about The Monolith Monsters (1957).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

I just realised this is the first #monsterdon in ages that had ZERO guns. Nobody ever shot anything. I don’t think anyone even had a gun.

I'll use olive oil spray to get popcorn salt to stick to the popcorn and making the microwave. I used to use an air popper but didn't replace it after it burned out, but a collapsible silicone popcorn bowl for the microwave has been a fantastic addition to my kitchen. Occasionally I'll make butter to put on the popcorn but it always makes some of it soggy, the oil spritzer works better.

However, tis the season for Scout Troops to start selling popcorn, and I do love chocolate covered popcorn and cheesy popcorn too 🤤
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@moira Perhaps for the best #monsterdon

oof. i think when i filter out boosts, mastodon filters AFTER the limit. so sometimes when somebody i follow is in a boosty mood (or a few are i.e #monsterdon) my feed will just do a "plz load more" and i'll click it to get 1 toot. and then another. and another.

@RamenCatholic @Crazypedia good luck suing THE COSMOS have you ever tried serving papers to deepest space? it's not easy is what I'm saying

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@annathepiper Really? It takes a teen heartthrob to hit the plunger I guess #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial but not on screen

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@kcarr2015@mstdn.social I think they had a plan to handle the rocks forever, but it would have taken another day or two to get everything together?

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and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

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@Crazypedia SCIENCE!

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I think I mean #paleontologist

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So which character was the one played by Troy Donahue according to imdb? Was it the radio announcer? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Grade report for #MonolithMonsters!

Monoliths: 0 points for 0 monoliths.
Geology: C- there were some words like feldspar and olivine.
Biology: F- Not even the words “silicon based life forms”
Astronomy, Chemistry, Meteorology, and Physics: 404 not found
Plot: 4/10 stoned writers
Salt solution: 1/10 really?!?
Dialogue: 5/10 Some funny lines but inferior-grade technobabble.
Rocks Falling on Models: 10/10 gneiss cinematography.
Music: did not rock (or match the “action”)

@jonny It was pretty nothing but charitably you could say that when it is clear that Dave and Cathy get together they avoid "mother nature's worst mistake" which is obviously being single and they are rewarded by giant crashing floods and um rock formations.

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Perhaps the Monoliths simply rebranded themselves as Magic Rocks and are still w us today!

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@jonny I assumed they were unexplainium, in the same chemical family as unobtainium, #monsterdon

@diazona @Taweret@octodon.social classic of the genre! #monsterdon

@jonny Independence Day, huh? I'll have to look for those references, I don't remember them.

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AND I'm through!

I managed to catch up a little bit by jumping forward every time they drove somewhere.

You know, that was not so bad on the science. "Considering."

I've seen much worse, anyway.

@msh @Taweret The space rocks are some downstream town's trouble now, that's all they wanted #monsterdon

Big thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's salty flick!

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lol, all those Messenger Children drowned

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and now for a minute of intercut stock water footage, standing around, and monolith's out for a walk?

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iirc this isn't the first monsterdon monster that was weak to salt water lol #monsterdon

Well if the governor said not to defeat the space rocks then I guess we're in big doo doo. Psych! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon is fun, I like it

@brooke Goddammit I forgot to say that part AND I HONESTLY WAS GOING TO

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This concludes #TheMonolithMonster, a sobering reminder to never water your rocks after midnight, especially if they are evil rocks from space. Thanks to @Taweret@octodon.social for another successful #monsterdon

By this logic we would be fighting vampires by turning firehoses filled with blood upon them #monsterdon

@nhgeek We don't need any more of your schist. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe So an American take on the Shin Godzilla formula. I dig it.
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not every story has to be about something else but most stories are about something period #monsterdon

@socketwench
The great grand-daddy of the Andromeda strain.

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#Monsterdon wow they cleaned up that disaster the old fashioned way

DRY CLEAN ONLY #MONSTERDON

Star Trek salt monster is like hold my beer

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This is what happens when your emerald mine is poorly managed #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 MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

#Monsterdon "back to the ol' salt mines"

Thanks again @taweret for ensuring we get to see something fucking off into something else.

I guess.

Until next week! May the deep dish bless you and... uh

Wait. Where did that come from

#monsterdon #monolithmonsters

@Mazzo #Monsterdon “The Monolith Monsters.” Which has a SHOCKING lack of monoliths, I tell you.

#Monsterdon we’re starting to think this may be a model

Why are they all so happy? As I recall, the problem was that it was going to rain again in 2 days. All this did was buy them an extra day or something. When it rains, they're fucked. How is this a happy ending? #monsterdon

Lmao thanks @Taweret and friends for another great #Monsterdon 🪨🗿​

say line #monsterdon

@ramsey It wouldn't be #Monsterdon if they thought ahead

And the monster was fucked off into an artificial salt water sea!
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Aw, the 'don't blow up the dam ...

...unless you're absolutely certain it's gonna be successful!'

joke.

That's how we know it's all gonna be just fine, I guess.

Iron lungs for everyone! It's the only way to be sure. Good night lithophiles!

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@Julie they did cover that, in text.

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@raindrops_and_roses

There's several story beats that touch on property vs lives, profiteering, underfunding government programs, economics, etc.

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That cleanup operation is gonna take at least a few years.

This movie rocked. Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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@Taweret And #TheMonolithMonsters FOI the "dry lake" (filled again by burst dam)! #Monsterdon

Thought I'd check out #Monsterdon a little late only to find out tonight's movie is only a stunning 77 minutes long! 😱

Wait, so if it was a salt flat, wouldn’t any ground water be salty anyway?

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.... and it just ends. Like usual.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon also, like... Dams can open. They don't always need to be blown up