so wait problem solved? i thought that was just to buy them time. aren't all the rocks that didn't run into the lake still back there growing infinitely from some unknown fuel source? #monsterdon

And the Monolith Monster fucks off into the sea-like water... ?

#Monsterdon

sooooooooooooooooo what's the plan for when it rains next #monsterdon

Turns out the real monster is boiling coffee over a Bunsen burner.

#monsterdon

haw haw

#monsterdon

I survived this one, but at what cost?

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon “He said ’Don’t blow up that dam’.” Okay, that was funny.

Wow, an actual denoument. I feel so pampered <3 #Monsterdon

And they all lived happily ever after, except our stoned friends...
#Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our heartfelt thanks to @Taweret and to all those who posted and lurked. And remember, #Monsterdoners: ...the meteor lies dormant in the night - waiting!

Epilogue: Salt water dissolves the alien rock causing it to enter the groundwater and everyone starts growing monoliths out of their chests #Monsterdon

@thatdawnperson I'll accept it.

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

"The Players"
the persons responsible.
#monsterdon

#monsterdon it's? Over?

Honestly that was more denouement than we usually get!

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Thanks to the power of salt, the alien rock candy has been thwarted.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

Other than the floating rocks these are some pretty good effects!

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So, do we know if the salt water renders them completely inert, or will they start growing again the next time they’re wet, once they’ve dried out? #Monsterdon

Me at work this year: "That's what they said about the wheel when someone first thought of it."

Also I am obviously like ten minutes behind somehow 😢

#Monsterdon

Lol, the little scamp

The End

#monsterdon

Not enough group hugs in #Monsterdon imo

Oh gwarsh!

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@raindrops_and_roses Special effects #monsterdon

Well that puts a capstone on another #monsterdon . Thanks everyone for joining - and watch for falling rocks!

Cheers to @Taweret and everyone else for a great evneing.

It's a good thing these are freshwater rocks

#Monsterdon

so the moral of this movie.. is... dont make dams... because the saltwater lakes serve as a buffer against unexpected runaway rock crystal growths #monsterdon

#monsterdon dang I was really routing for the magic space rocks

This ending, who said TV had no impact on the movies?

freeze frame as they all jump in the air, smiling...

#monsterdon

Yay! Miss Barrett is happy anyway, and that's good enough for me.

#monsterdon

I get the impression that some of the rocks are floating off..
#monsterdon

They were falling over before the water, so I don't know how you can tell it's working. #Monsterdon

@amyfou This is America, we'll go with the traditional solution - a lawsuit!

#Monsterdon

@rberlim Shhhh. (I'm on team rock.)
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Release the floodwaters against the meteor monsters! Is a thing I can’t believe I typed.

IT BURNS! IT BURNS! I'M MELTING!

#Monsterdon

@jonny Rushing toward that easy-sounding simple solution! #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Meteor thinking: “I should have picked a town that didn’t have a salt mine. Live and Learn.” #monsterdon

@ramsey

Roger Roger.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@allanb well good for him!

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

RIP tiny buildings #Monsterdon

@Vanalope And Gremlins #monsterdon #monolithmonsters

won't the water flood the city too?
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@jonny yes please

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#monsterdon if the dam blows up that means that Ceaser's Legion won right? I never played that ending to New Vegas

Holy crap, this IS the Hill Valley back lot set used in Back to the Future. Paul just looked it up.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon We give explosion a 5/10. Satisfying aftermath but not visually impacting

Release the stock footage!

#monsterdon

RELEASE THE ORCHESTRA!

#monsterdon

I don't think they should be marking up that wall art with Sharpies #monsterdon

“You forgot to say ‘over.’ Over.” #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I realize it's the 1950s but surely the federal government should be involved by now. More actively than some random department of the interior geologist.

This scene needs some Herzog narration.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Friendly reminder to stay hydrated! #monsterdon

Aaaand now this unrelated shot of a waterfall. #Monsterdon

Go ahead, Godzilla. Destroy the dam. Give the people what they want.

#Monsterdon

sequel for this movie is that a bunch of developers see the rocks as a bunch of cheap building materials and build a bunch of buildings out of it and then it turns out that they are telepathic and can grow through the internet and does all the things that this movie shoulda done #monsterdon

Hopefully the salt beats the moist.

#Monsterdon

Wait until you see the whites of their eyes

They are rocks

Black rocks

The whites of the completely black rocks' eyes

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the lack of 3-letter agency is this movie is shocking

Sure, keep waiting for permission #monsterdon

"You may make a rupture, draw a line of flight, yet there is still a danger that you will reencounter organizations that restratify everything, formations that restore power to a signifier, attributions that reconstitute a subject—anything you like, from Oedipal resurgences to fascist concretions." —Deleuze and Guattari on The Monolith Monsters.

#Monsterdon

I honestly love how this film's monster is just...crystals. Not sentient or intelligent crystals. Not even sent here or engineered by some adversary.

#monsterdon

You're right it's absolutely ridiculous, that's what they said about the wheel when they first thought about it. It's also what this is about giant monoliths marching across the desert crushing everything in their path but here we are today!

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

“The governor still can’t be reached. He’s in his car somewhere.”

Things we don’t even think about these days.

#Monsterdon

@Taweret #Monsterdon #AlienMSR

So this is how they came up with stone washed jeans.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@jonny The audience has already forgotten all about that, too. #Monsterdon

looks through telescope at falling rock pillars

Yup, stilllll rocks.

#monsterdon

Did the rocks get the governor? D:

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#Monsterdon the orchestra is using this scene to warm up

@jonny the censors cut the part where the salt water flowed into the negative cleavage #Monsterdon

hey man nice shot
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Appreciate the distant rumbling while they were chatting in town #monsterdon

@paco Isn't it spelled DYN-O-MITE? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon YES blow the dam

@srol "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day..." #monsterdon

Wait, they all live and work in the desert with questionable dirt roads, and they drive CARS? How did they live without giant SUVs? #monsterdon

“If it’s dull or statistical, I’ve written about it.”

I love the journalist! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌑 🗿 ☄️ 💎 🌵 😱

My mom had a 1954 chevy coupe when we were kids and it wasn't a convertable but the seats worked just like that.

"If it's dull and statistical. I've written about it."
A newspaper man in a town so dull he knows the distance between everything and around town. He has memorized so many useless facts about town because nothing ever happens.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon snack tip!

Feta and goat cheese quesadilla is not that great, very dry.

Anyone have any water?

With the very high reproductive rate and the availability of the agent (water) the world is screwed no matter what they do, right? One little piece of monolith remaining would engulf the planet fast. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Now that's a car I recognize... there's one like it in my neighbors driveway!

#Monsterdon

The soundtrack is still carrying this movie, respect

#Monsterdon

@paco #Monsterdon 100/100. No notes.

@sean no lie one of my greatest live tv calls ever, no lie

"oh my GODS this guy needs to explode" [POW] "OH MY GODS HE EXPLODED"

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Do not confuse those dynamite boxes w Blue Diamond almonds!

#monsterdon

In the musical version, the monoliths have a really catchy villain song right about now #Monsterdon

#monsterdon All or nothing on the explosion. That will determine if this is a good or a crappy ending

#Monsterdon Chekov's salt mine

whatever happened to all the stuff they said about cleavage and silicon and whatnot its like they just totally forgot about the first half of the movie as soon as they discovered water #monsterdon

Careful with that dynamite! Don't be an Arzt!

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon chekov's salt mine

@plaidtron3000 Which subtext are you referring to? Genuinely interested in your take.

#Monsterdon

Ok so 1) the Monolith advance is actually kinda cool!
2) the captions said dramatic music, but all I heard was 10 hour asmr monolith sounds :blobhaj_headphones:

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

I don't like it when movies like this do Dumb Science #monsterdon

This is the true origin of the Salton Sea.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon the subtitles are like a second and a half ahead of the movie it's driving me nuts