The rocks are changing. So these are metamorphic rocks.

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Spoiler alert: the attractive couple will survive.

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Rocks killing people? That's just jumping to conclusions and being geologist against minerals.
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Wonder where they got all the obsidian for this movie from #Monsterdon

no thoughts, only rock #monsterdon

a man died, and this dude's gotta hit on the blond. READ the ROOM, PAL

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IS THERE A ROMANTIC SUBPLOT HERE, I AM NOT SURE

Ok, we get it, they're about to knock boots or what have you....

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A pocket ROCKet
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#Monsterdon It's the trouble with tribble rocks.

#Monsterdon The rock is multiplying, which is a lot more biological than I associate with your average igneous.

uhh I like how people are fast to blame it on the rocks on this movie!
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#Monsterdon That rock is alive, man, don't stare. Run!

Why doesn't the rock react to the moisture in skin? In the air?

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have we licked him to find out if he's become a pillar of salt? #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

"You'd have the public in a horrible panic that some disease is running loose." Is that not what's happening? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon The newspaper guy should have something to print! “Local geologist becomes rock star!”

maybe the rock was searching for something

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Aw if only the reporter in the movie was as good as we are as coming up with rock puns

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okay i need to get snacks, nothing better happen while i'm gone #Monsterdon

#monsterdon the expanding rocks reminds me of these:

Welded? But he's meat and bones. #monsterdon

"You'd have the whole town in a panic!"

Yeah, make sure you don't tell anyone there's a problem, that'd keep 'em safe. #Monsterdon

That's not a rock. It's a rock mooonster!
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Do people usually riot over.... autopsies??

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There ya go. That's the 1950s. Kids with no seatbelts in the car, flying at full speed over the level crossing, with factory dumping waste into the environment. We need to get back to our roots... #monsterdon

The SImpsooons~~~
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@ottaross It really does look good. And the geologists are kind of hot! Well, the one left alive, anyhow, but the dead one wasn't bad (before he died). #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

uh oh. the rock is mad now

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YESSSSSS, in the WATER BUCKET, PERFECT #Monsterdon

Ginny can't mind her business *and* infects the town with space rock madness, 2/10 child #monsterdon

@aprilfollies Godzilla is unfailingly chaste, however #monsterdon

We interrupt this rock movie for an annoyingly perceptive child

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Kids love washing rocks. You can't stop them. Name a more classic combination than kids and washing rocks.

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Little girl: "I like Mr Miller"
Teacher: "Well why don't YOU marry him, then, you little trollop."

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Simpson residence

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Nah, they just like to fuck Jenny.

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The orchestra turned on that little girl so fast #Monsterdon

oh no kid picked up the dramatic music object

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Rocks. Not even once.

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Ben got in a fight with a pile of rocks. And lost.
Ben why ya just standing there? Ben? Whut?
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What is going ON with this score? It's ALL over the place.

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The lizards are nice but somehow they've turned into the birds and the bees?

"Okay, explode." #monsterdon

"Lizards don't get married!"

Not since the laws got repealed, no. #Monsterdon

Did she just tell the kids to explode?

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That car... something something Who You Gonna Call?

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Eaten by rocks hungry for geologist meat

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why would you not catch him? you were right there

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Dude you gotta be more careful around statues

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#Monsterdon We see the other geologist, who is not currently buried in a pile of obsidian, discover… his friend is very seriously stoned.

ok i can't tell these guys apart #monsterdon

Ben got stoned.

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Ben's stoned ... but not in the good way.

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Ben got STONED last night #Monsterdon

#monsterdon the clearly labeled props in the lab always kill me in these movies idk why

@steggy they tend to #monsterdon

@Lazarou Two different types of rocks have to talk to each other about something other than the third type of rock?

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#monsterdon this guy's gonna win the science fair for sure

Now it's on fire?
Chemical fire, quick! Smother it!
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thank god there's like a 5 minute montage of this guy driving around and drinking water to skip through, i'm almost back up to speed already #monsterdon

wow it really is a pet rock it's growing and everything #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh no, not DISTILLED WATER

Somehow, they managed to attempt a jump scare with a rock. #Monsterdon

I love the music letting you know something dramatic is about to happen five full seconds in advance.

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oh shit. he fed the rock after midnight

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ominous zoom in on the rock

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wait so the whole ocean just fucked off? #monsterdon

yup, it's rock #Monsterdon

As a geologist, this is the dumbest rock conversation I have ever heard.

And I had a student once on a quiz that said the rock sample was "definitely sedentary"

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Go be a journalist ya wannabe
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@aprilfollies It was only a matter of time until we got here TBH

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Ah, these two gents clearly took Conversational Exposition along with their geology and journalism courses in college.

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First I'll hit it with this hammer. Then I'll get a gun and shoot it. Because that's how we science in the 1950s. #monsterdon

"Lava, maybe?" "No, it's a solid."

Maybe there's some geologicaly-specific use of that term but it sounds like he asked if the guy was holding lava.

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black foreigns found in the desert sure don't belong… neither your gringo ass, yet here you are

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Everyone keeps fondling the rock. (oh, he smashed it, that can't be good)
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The self-determination theory of geographical development. #Monsterdon

(Seriously tho' I did go out to Glass Butte once just to see if I could find anything and actually did find a bunch of volcanic glass that looks like this stuff just... out on the road)

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sussy strata

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#Monsterdon No, a lot of people go to Bakersfield; not weird at all. Oh, you mean the rock!

"Lava? No it's a solid"

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Why do they call it Department of Interior when they’re always outside? #Monsterdon

It's a rock, sir.

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The best parts of this movie are the ones that have the feeling of a really liminal Twilight Zone episode. #Monsterdon

I can't wait for improper coffee preparation and storage to nearly destroy the world.

YOU WILL BE HORRIFIED.

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"...hydrate me, Seymour!"

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We’re almost 6 minutes into the film, and the only dialog we’ve heard is the narrator’s. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon this music is writing checks the action is not cashing

Samuel Clemens!? #Monsterdon

More seriously, that bit with the window is very "we're in the mountains and don't have A/C" I think?

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#monsterdon in case anyone is wondering we already have our first blue and pink pulsating car, although it is showing up as black in some spots. Indiana Geolojones is half pink, half zombie green.

This movie loves its ominous water

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poor fool is already letting the rocks lull him into a false sense of security

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Oh noes! Obsidian of doom!

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Ah yes, now the man from the Department of the Interior... is on the INTERIOR, where he belongs. 😤

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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!