I also love this because isn't California literally doing this soon with a bunch of dams? #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

"And I'll call you Pee Two" "Absolutely not."

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Super looking forward to these dam explosion fx

@bunnyhero this plan looks like it will blow up in their faces #Monsterdon

I keep thinking that police station looks like a great roadside cafe that has the best pie in town.

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I was not expecting to hear my employers name in this movie...

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#Monsterdon *headdesk* they didn't both replicating the solution and seem so confused

Also, I'm legit enjoying the movie. I grew up in the general area spoofed by the fake town, and that makes it extra fun for me. #Monsterdon

Finally! We get to blow some shit up!
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Yes! Destroy infrastructure! Bomb the dam!

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So… blow up the dam, release the water, kill the monoliths, and fuck off into the salty desert flash flood? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon
First guy with a wheel: I'm calling this a wheel
Everyone, according to this movie: that's ridiculous

@Taweret Wheel. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Mmmm salty rock candy #Monsterdon

@ramsey Eh it didn't really stick out to me, a lot of people pronounce "saline" differently

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Monolith Monsters you deserve to be in a much better movie. You are too cool for this 50s flick.
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@socketwench *Shhh*. I hear Asimov had something to do with the screenplay.

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"It's like another laboratory experiment Kathy. In science there are no guarantees"

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Nice process shots overall. Too bad they're wasted on this film.

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Weirdly sedate music all of a sudden. Did they use up all the brass on the opening theme? #Monsterdon

@SRLevine they should have brought in the biologists smdh at these geologists with their unbuffered salines #monsterdon

What happened to all the kids who're supposed to be showing up on bikes? It's been like hours #monsterdon

My timeline is now #monsterdon movie and preparations for an upcoming fascist US government... Wait, always has been?

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This looks like the hoover dam you guys

@SRLevine I just know there's a Mongo DB or some other IT joke lurking here. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@SnoopJ I thought it was just desert but idk

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that's a nice shot with the monoliths approaching the town

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Omg and I also said from the fucking very beginning that this is full of commentary on the federal government, populism etc lmaooooo #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

Riveting box-carrying scenes.

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Nice composite work #monsterdon

Dam it, Janet.

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Guess this was before fast food and everything was over-saturated with salt. Modern Americans wouldn't even be phased by these rocks. #monsterdon

#monsterdon hahahahahaha you can't blow up the dam to save the world from the Ice-9 stony triffid bois, that thing is _private property_

Would putting the rocks on rice work too?! 😆

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snore

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"You can't save everyone's lives, that would involve violating property rights!"

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#Monsterdon "we could use your help, Miss!"
*Proceeds to give her zero relevant task*

Kids these days are already ready to #unionise

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Blow it up! Blow it up! Blow it up!

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"Then we'll dynamite the dam." "Blow it up!?"

No, dynamite it! I was very specific! #Monsterdon

Oh hell yea are we gonna blow up a dam to end this movie?!

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#Monsterdon "our one chance is that maybe it's a combination of all the ingredients" that's... what ingredients means

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Kids, we've gotta take out this dam.

#Monsterdon why would the treatment to save the kid work to hurt the "monster"?

SAVE LA!

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Humanity really is just a kind of salty potato chip filled with coffee when you think about it...

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@yatsu Easier to scale up a single ingredient? #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Candlejack...
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#Monsterdon "freedom of the press is for those who own one"

@blogdiva A NECESSARY DIETARY INGREDIENT

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Call the Morton Salt company #monsterdon

@trixter gotta get the Golgafrinchan meeting minutes, i'm sure those'll tell us. #WrongNovel #monsterdon

This is just rock-on-rock violence. #Monsterdon

you gonna tell me these fucking rocks have been in the SALTY desert but it's table salt that neutralizes them?

aliens were looking for some iodized salt for their cooking.

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Please do not draw on my painting.

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please don't draw on my office decor

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@ryan "salt water sloshing" Love those subtitles catching the *very subtle* difference in sound effects of unsalted water v. salt water! #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

The human bloodstream has the same salt level as the ocean. I think.

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Surely there's no salt in that water it's pulling up out of the sand that once served as the ocean floor of an inland sea. #Monsterdon

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Ah ha! We just need more of this say-line, and we can stop these monoliths for good.

She's also an orphan so maybe that has something to do with it.

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So I guess none of the writers reazlied how much salt is in soil? #monsterdon #monolithmonsters

Wait did they just spend a whole night to recreate seawater? This plot has hit rock bottom

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WHAT DID I SAY IN THE BEGINNING ABOUT SALT #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

#monsterdon holy shit was the throwaway comment about the salt flats and the ocean leaving the desert because it was silly- foreshadowing? I didn't think this movie had a foreshadowing budget...

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We love black rocks yes we do
We love black rocks what about you

Sizzling hot fajiiiitas!

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Mmm, salty jello

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Or if it's just that rocks that grow in water are allergic to salt water I will scream.
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that doesnt look like it works the rock looks fine #Monsterdon

Like slugs! I'm melting! Melting!
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rocks hate salt? but salt am rocks

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Dude is just calmly taking notes.

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CHUG

CHUG

CHUG

CHUG

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So this is how the Minbari grow new cities #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon so… did he say it’s going to look like a petrified fart?

I would say that alien rocks that grow by drinking water is slightly more ridiculous than the wheel

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When my dog is as hard as a piece of granite he actually needs some cold water.

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Yeah wheels are useful but pretty ridiculous just like saline solution TBH #Monsterdon

I'm pretty sure they just grunted when the wheel was thought of.

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All right! Kaiju rocks! Let's call out the military #monsterdon

Okay these giant crystals demolishing barns and houses, that's pretty cool.

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dog if you had a rock hand you could totally just carve out joints and rig up your muscles to some exoskeletal wires and have the dopest mad max hands of all time #monsterdon

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Perhaps the missing ingredient is ... little girl juice?

say

line

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Hey Ice9 would stop the rocks! Put ice9 everywhere!

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"...we better get that lung in here."
"On it!"
"No! The iron lung!"

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#Monsterdon Some very good models and practical effects for the monolith approach!

Reproduce the original effect first to be sure it works before you try and break it down to see if it was only part of the formula that was the key part of it working. Do better science sciencemen!
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The rocks aren't gonna kill this kid... #monsterdon

#Monsterdon “We could use some help!” Yeah, they were about to mix all the chemicals together.

Plot twist:

It's the Protomolecule

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@jonny paper beats rock

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she has been de-negrofied. hallellujah!

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What is glucose db?

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@aprilfollies
The Monolith Monsters?

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"We're relying on you kids because you're expendable" #monsterdon

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Typical chemist:

Oh no. I've tried every one of these ingredients by itself, and not one of them works!

Perhaps it's a ... combination of them?

[anyone who's ever followed a recipe 👀 🙄 ]

Also I like the casual child labor #Monsterdon

Ummm... I'm pretty sure glucose doesn't resemble tar but hey, who needs accuracy. Chemicals! Ingredients! Formula! Science.

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